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Silver, Discontent, and Conspiracy: The Ideology of the Western Republican Revolt of 1890-1901
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Lou began to bluster, as he always did when he talked politics as mentioned in this paper "We gave Wall Street a scare in ninety-six, all right, and we're fixing another to hand them. The West is going to make itself heard." Carl laughed.Abstract:
"Well, what do folks in New York think of William Jennings Bryan?" Lou began to bluster, as he always did when he talked politics. "We gave Wall Street a scare in ninety-six, all right, and we're fixing another to hand them. Silver wasn't the only issue," he nodded mysteriously. "There's a good many things got to be changed. The West is going to make itself heard." Carl laughed. "But, surely, it did do that, if nothing else."Iread more
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Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow
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Place, Imaginary, Identity: Place Ethnography in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
TL;DR: Place ethnography as discussed by the authors is a methodological framework that blends ethnographic and historic research with a range of disciplinary techniques in order to study place, where place is defined as a describable location characterized by a shifting confluence of historical, material, political, cultural, economic, built, sensed and imagined qualities.
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The 'Conspiracy' of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation, 1846–1896
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The Union Party and the 1936 presidential election
TL;DR: The role of the Union Party in the 1936 presidential election has been explored in this article, which suggests that the party emerged from a wide base of popular political opposition to the New Deal.
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Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States.
TL;DR: Sundquist as discussed by the authors traces the processes by which basic transformations of the country's two-party system occur, and fashions a theory as to the why and how of party realignment, then applies it to current and recent developments.
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A Monetary History of the United States
Milton Friedman,Anna J. Schwartz +1 more
TL;DR: The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly achievement as discussed by the authors, and the treatment of innumerable issues, large and small, have been brought to bear on the solution of complex and subtle economic issues.
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Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States
TL;DR: Sundquist traces the processes by which basic transformations of the country's two-party system occur from the historical case studies, then applies it to current and recent developments, through the first two years of the Reagan presidency and the midterm election of 1982.
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Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History
TL;DR: A Nobel Prize laureate in economics made clear once and for all that no one is immune to the effects of monetary economics, both its theory and practices as discussed by the authors. And he demonstrated through historical episodes the mischief that can result from misunderstanding the monetary system.