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The Administration of the Civil Service in Massachusetts

With Special Reference to State Control of City Civil Service

George C. S. Benson

Harvard University Press

There is a tendency to view civil service as a panacea for personnel problems and to consider administrative centralization as a highroad to efficiency and economy. Such enthusiasms, Mr. Benson holds, would probably be better directed by a clear-sighted study of actual conditions. He therefore describes and analyzes the experience of Massachusetts during fifty-five years of personnel reform. Since the Massachusetts civil service law contains two unique features, the effects of which are fully investigated, this book is of more than local interest. It should prove valuable to political scientists, legislators, and administrators throughout the country who, in the quest for more effective personnel machinery, are interested in the success or failure of various experiments.

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Africans on the Land

Economic Problems of African Agricultural Development in Southern, Central, and East Africa, with Special Reference to Southern Rhodesia

Montague Yudelman

Harvard University Press

American Business Corporations until 1860

With Special Reference to Massachusetts

Edwin Merrick Dodd

Harvard University Press

Aspects of Land Grant College Education

With Special Reference to the University of Minnesota

Palmer Johnson

University of Minnesota Press, 1934

Aspects of Land Grant College Education was first published in 1934. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The author here presents a wealth of data pertaining to a group of land grant colleges and universities having more or less similar objectives, in a form that enable the reader to compare the policies of one institution with those of others in the group. The volume is based on official records in the United States office of education, particularly the data collected in the course of its recent survey of land grant institutions, and on additional data assembled by the author himself. The opening chapters, which deal with the financial problems of land grant institutions, include a comparative study of the fiscal policies of five large universities — California, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The author then proceeds to an analysis of the libraries of fourteen comparable institutions. One chapter deals with faculty personnel of the University of Minnesota, and the remainder of the book with students — their “migrations” from their home states, the carious types of higher educational institutions they enter, their social and economic characteristics, and their educational history. Also included are extensive tabulations of the occupational destinations and economic status of alumni.

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English Rule in Gascony, 1199-1259

With Special Reference to the Towns

Frank Burr Marsh, Ph.D.

University of Michigan Press, 1912

This volume is a brief history of sixty years of English rule in Gascony, the southwestern region of present-day France. Marsh’s particular concern is how the various towns of the region were affected by decades of political upheavals. Beginning with the controversy over John’s ascension to the throne following the death of his brother, Richard I, Marsh shows how difficulties at the local level contributed to and resulted from the larger instabilities of the time. He also considers the alliances and factions among Gascony’s small towns as they met with a succession of English kings. The book concludes with the treaty between Henry II and Louis IX, ceding control of the region to France. An appendix lists the mayors of Bordeaux during this period.

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Formative Mesoamerican Exchange Networks with Special Reference to the Valley of Oaxaca

Jane W. Pires-Ferreira

University of Michigan Press, 2019

For this volume, archaeologist Jane W. Pires-Ferreira analyzed artifacts from the Valley of Oaxaca in order to understand more about prehistoric trade patterns in the region. Using her analyses, she was able to describe obsidian exchange networks, iron ore mirror exchange networks, and shell exchange networks in Early and Middle Formative Mesoamerica.

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Human Capital

A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, 3rd Edition

Gary S. Becker

University of Chicago Press, 1993

Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination, marriage, family relations, and education. Becker's research on human capital was considered by the Nobel committee to be his most noteworthy contribution to economics.

This expanded edition includes four new chapters, covering recent ideas about human capital, fertility and economic growth, the division of labor, economic considerations within the family, and inequality in earnings.

"Critics have charged that Mr. Becker's style of thinking reduces humans to economic entities. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mr. Becker gives people credit for having the power to reason and seek out their own best destiny."—Wall Street Journal

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Interregional Competition in Agriculture

With Special Reference to Dairy Farming in the Lake States and New England

Ronald L. Mighell and John D. Black

Harvard University Press

Agricultural planning, individual or national, depends on an understanding of competition in farm products between one region of the United States and another. The agriculture of different parts of the United States competes constantly with that of other parts—as, for example, the early competition in cotton between the northern frontier and southern growers, later between the southwest frontier and the Old South, and recently between California and the South. There is equally strong competition between potato-growing regions. It is this inter-regional competition in a country with no trade barriers which two outstanding economists analyze in this book.

They present the results of a concrete study of one outstanding example: competition in dairy production between the Northeastern States and the Lake States of the central Midwest for the New England market for fluid milk and cream. Six selected sample areas were analyzed carefully in each region in 1935–36 and predictions were made about future production and marketing of dairy products in each of these areas. Ten years later these areas were surveyed and the production changes compared with the predictions.

The authors’ conclusions about the conditions under which New England will be able to continue to compete with the lake states for the New England market are significant in themselves. Even more important, however, is the development of a method of analysis which can be widely employed to furnish the information which is needed to guide future developments in the agriculture of the United States or in any other country. This study is therefore an important contribution to the theory of interregional and international trade.

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The Legal Status of Church-State Relationships in the United States

With Special Reference to the Public Schools

Alvin Johnson

University of Minnesota Press, 1934

The Legal Status of Church-State Relationships in the United States was first published in 1934. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

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Native African Medicine

With Special Reference to Its Practice in the Mano Tribe of Liberia

George Way Harley

Harvard University Press

Slums and Housing

History, Conditions, Policy—With Special Reference to New York City

James Ford

Harvard University Press

Unique in that for the first time it puts the problem of housing in the perspective of history, economics, sociology, and political science, this volume deals in a broad way with the origin of slums and with devices for social control and prevention through legislation and constructive measures. The first two sections consider the history of housing in New York City and contemporary conditions; later sections discuss the means of bringing the causative factors of slums under social control, the prevention of future slums, the elimination of present slums, the rebuilding of slum areas, and the bearing of federal legislation and practice upon local housing policy. Although the illustrative material is largely drawn from New York City, references are made to housing in all parts of the world wherever pertinent. A most valuable feature is the lengthy appendix by I. N. Phelps Stokes, which deals with the development of tenement house plans in New York City, analyzes the many architectural competition programmes for tenement houses between 1879 and 1934, and copes in an original manner with the contemporary problem of block and sub-block units.

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The Soybean Industry

With Special Reference to the Competitive Position of the Minnesota Producer and Processor

Ray A. Goldberg

University of Minnesota Press, 1952

The Soybean Industry was first published in 1952. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The rapid development of the soybean industry in the United States is reflected in the growth of the industry in Minnesota, a state that now ranks sixth in total production. This state was one of the last to develop a soybean crop, but in the decade from 1940 to 1950 the dollar value of its crop rose from $76,000 to $37,000,000.

Because the industry is a new and important one on the agricultural front, producers and processors in the industry, as well as members of the grain trade and agricultural economists, are faced with the problem of ascertaining the probably future trends of the industry. This study provides a factual basis for the industry's future planning in Minnesota and in other major soybean-producing and processing states.

Since the total picture of supply and demand and the operation of the industry within a single state are interrelated and interdependent, the study describes the elements of production, utilization, and processing on international, national, and state levels. These factors are then correlated with significant aspects of transportation, storage, commodity markets, and price formulation for an analysis of the competitive position of the industry in Minnesota. In conclusion, the future of the industry as a whole as well as specifically in Minnesota is estimated.

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Spenser's Proverb Lore

With Special Reference to His Use of the Sententiae of Leonard Culman and Publilius Syrus

Charles G. Smith

Harvard University Press, 1970