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Traces the economic, political, and social evolution of New York State’s fourth largest city during the twentieth century.

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This book analyzes important social, political, and economic matters from pre-colonial to postcolonial Nigeria. Issues discussed include contemporary problems of poverty, unemployment, leadership and governance crises, entrepreneurship, urbanization, and the…

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Only women and inferior men are difficult to deal with. - Confucius Two thousand years after Confucius, the contributors to this book ask if Chinese women have succeeded in changing…