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2 books match the query '1830 - 1945'
Shadows Over Sunnyside
An Arkansas Plantation in Transition, 1830-1945Jeannie M. Whayne
University of Arkansas Press, 1993
This remarkable collection of essays addresses social, historical, cultural, and labor issues as they affect a Southern plantation. The heart of the book is an examination of a "great experiment" to import Italian laborers to Sunnyside Plantation. From the crucible of tensions that this experiment produced, the reader obtains a concrete understanding of the implications of U.S. immigration policy, of changing labor relations following Reconstruction, and of a minority culture's introduction into the Delta.
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Women in the United States, 1830-1945
S.J. Kleinberg
Rutgers University Press, 1999
This work investigates women's economic, social, political and cultural history, encompassing all ethnic and racial groups and religions. It provides a general introduction to the history of women in industrializing America. Both a history of women and a history of the United States, its chronology is shaped by economic stages and political events.
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