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Covering figures, events, policies, and organizations, this comprehensive reference tool enhances readers' appreciation of the role economics has played in U.S. history since 1776.

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Five appendixes complete this carefully constructed study, each focusing on a topic of major relevance in understanding the subject, such as a description of the population of South Vietnam, the minority groups of South Vietnam, a glossary of slang expressions and acronyms, a selected bibliography of the Vietnam War, and a chronology.

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Others cover historical events, legislation, economic terms, labor unions, corporations, interest groups, elections, and economic institutions.

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Individual demands for equality and civil rights are central themes in U.S. history and American Indian people are no exception. This encyclopedia clarifies the complicated history of individual rights, water rights, land rights, and other issues in American Indian civil rights.

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An encyclopaedia of the economic, political and social developments of the Industrial Revolution in the USA from 1750 to 1920. More than 200 entries cover individuals, significant technologies, inventions, court cases, companies, political institutions, economic events, and legislation.

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Its major focus is the Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, German, Belgian, and Italian empires during the past 500 years.

The Dictionary offers brief descriptive essays on a variety of topics--colonies, prominent individuals, legislation, treaties, conferences, wars, revolutions, and technologies.

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The Dictionary presents more than 700 short essays on people--George Herman Babe Ruth, Warren Gamaliel Harding, and Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle; legislation--Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, the Revenue Acts of 1921, 1924, and 1926, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act of 1932;

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Few eras in U.S. history have begun with more optimistic promise and ended in more pessimistic despair than the 1960s. Ten years later American power abroad seemed wasted in the jungles of Indochina, and critics at home cast doubt on whether the U.S. was really the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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This text presents an encyclopaedic overview of the 1970s, including entries on the prominent people, significant events, issues and controversies of the decade, and entries on the film, music and culture of the era that challenged the core of traditional American convictions.

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Today when most Americans think of the Great Depression, they imagine desperate hoboes riding the rails in search of work, unemployed men selling pencils to indifferent crowds, bootleggers hustling illegal booze to secrecy-shrouded speakeasies, FDR smiling, or Judy Garland skipping along the yellow brick road.

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Two appendixes provide a chronology of Spanish imperialism and a list of the individuals who presided over the viceroyalties of New Granada, New Spain, Peru, and Rio de la Plata.

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Intended for AP-focused American history high school students, this book supplies a complete quick reference source and study aide on the Great Depression and New Deal in America, covering the key themes, events, people, legislation, economics, and policies.

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At a juncture in history when much interest and attention is focused on Central and South American political, ecological, social, and environmental concerns, this dictionary fills a major gap in reference materials relating to Amerindian tribes.

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This concise guide zooms in on the period of American history known as the Industrial Revolution, from its earliest beginnings in the mid-18th century to just after the First World War.

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An assessment of research on the Vietnam War over the last 17 years. Contributors evaluate significant literature, films and TV programmes. Research covered includes personal narratives and oral histories, fiction and non-fiction, military strategy and operations, and Indochinese histories.