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"The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' lives"--Page [2] of cover.

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Explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, this book moves past stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance.

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Traces both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. This work shows that racial inequities in both New Deal and Great Society liberalism precipitated local struggles over land, jobs, taxes, and race within postwar metropolitan development.

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Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War. This dramatic reversal gave rise to intense political and cultural battles, pitting refugee advocates against determined opponents who at times successfully slowed admissions

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This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political hi

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Focusing on world-historical events of empire, revolution, war, and peace, this work shows how American reformers invented a new politics built around progressive internationalism. It retrieves the progressive tradition in American politics and makes it available to contemporary debates.

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What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valley," but few have succeeded. This book examines why high-tech developmen

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Demonstrates that the creation of a civil defense program produced dilemmas about the degree to which civilian society should be militarized to defend itself against threats. This book uncovers responses to the militarization of daily life and reveals how government planners and ordinary people negotiated their way at the dawn of the atomic age.

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Interprets postwar civil rights as a Cold War feature. This book argues that the Cold War helped facilitate key social reforms, including desegregation. It discusses the way the Cold War figures into civil rights history.

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Examines the emergence of private, work-based benefits; the uniquely American pursuit of "social insurance"; the influence of race and gender on the health care debate; and the confrontation between reformers and powerful economic and health interests.

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Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors. How did this happen The first book to follow the history

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By examining the Cold War court-martial, this book opens a window on conflicts that divided America at the time, such as the competing demands of work and family and the tension between individual rights and social conformity. Using military justice records, it demonstrates the criminal consequences of the military's violent mission.

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A study of how class and race have intersected in American society - above all, in the 'making' and remaking of the American working class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book examines how European immigrants became American and 'white' in the crucible of the industrial workplace and the ethnic and working-class neighbourhood.

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The New Deal placed security at the center of American political and economic life by establishing an explicit partnership between the state, economy, and citizens. This history of the American reliance on employment-based benefits examines the interwoven politics of social provision and labor relations from the 1910s to the 1960s.

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Traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in US immigration policy - a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.

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In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. This work shows how Mississippi leaders strategically accommodated themselves to the demands of civil-rights activists and the federal government seeking to end Jim Crow, and in so doing contributed to a vibrant conservative countermovement.

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In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. This book paints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930s to the postwar era.