Kansas City America S Crossroads

Author : Diane Mutti Burke,John P. Herron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132262507

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Kansas City, America's Crossroads by Diane Mutti Burke,John P. Herron Pdf

The fourteen articles in this anthology, previously published in the Missouri Historical Review, examine multiple facets of Kansas City's history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning with events prior to the settlement of the area, the essays describe important episodes in the social, economic, racial, and political life of Kansas City. Boss Tom Pendergast, conflict between incoming Mormons and earlier settlers, and a young female teacher's experience in the 1840s all figure into this rich history of the Kansas City area.

Author : LaDene Morton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781626199149

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The Country Club District of Kansas City by LaDene Morton Pdf

ONE OF THE GRAND EXPERIMENTS OF AMERICAN URBAN PLANNING lies tucked within the heart of Kansas City. J.C. Nichols prized the Country Club District as his life's work, and the scope of his vision required fifty years of careful development. Begun in 1905 and extending over a swath of six thousand acres, the project attracted national attention to a city still forging its identity. While the district is home to many of Kansas City's most exclusive residential areas and commercial properties, its boundaries remain unmarked and its story largely unknown. Follow LaDene Morton along the well-appointed boulevards of this model community's rich legacy.

Author : Andrea L. Broomfield
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781442232891

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Kansas City by Andrea L. Broomfield Pdf

While some cities owe their existence to lumber or oil, turpentine or steel, Kansas City owes its existence to food. From its earliest days, Kansas City was in the business of provisioning pioneers and traders headed west, and later with provisioning the nation with meat and wheat. Throughout its history, thousands of Kansas Citians have also made their living providing meals and hospitality to travelers passing through on their way elsewhere, be it by way of a steamboat, Conestoga wagon, train, automobile, or airplane. As Kansas City’s adopted son, Fred Harvey sagely noted, “Travel follows good food routes,” and Kansas City’s identity as a food city is largely based on that fact. Kansas City: A Food Biography explores in fascinating detail how a frontier town on the edge of wilderness grew into a major metropolis, one famous for not only great cuisine but for a crossroads hospitality that continues to define it. Kansas City: A Food Biography also explores how politics, race, culture, gender, immigration, and art have forged the city’s most iconic dishes, from chili and steak to fried chicken and barbecue. In lively detail, Andrea Broomfield brings the Kansas City food scene to life.

Author : K. David Hanzlick
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826274144

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Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality by K. David Hanzlick Pdf

David Hanzlick traces the rise and evolution of women’s activism in a rapidly growing, Midwestern border city, one deeply scarred by the Civil War and struggling to determine its meaning. Over the course of 70 years, women in Kansas City emerged from the domestic sphere by forming and working in female-led organizations to provide charitable relief, reform society’s ills, and ultimately claim space for themselves as full participants in the American polity. Focusing on the social construction of gender, class, and race, and the influence of political philosophy in shaping responses to poverty, Hanzlick also considers the ways in which city politics shaped the interactions of local activist women with national women’s groups and male-led organizations.

Author : Ron Young
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625647658

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Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam, and the Middle East by Ron Young Pdf

Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam, and the Middle East is the personal, yet profoundly political first-person account of one man's unique interracial and interfaith leadership roles over five decades in movements for civil rights, against the Vietnam War, and for Arab-Israeli-Palestinian peace. Ron Young's story, told with honesty, humility, and humor, gives an insider view of key events in these movements and personalizes a significant strain of modern American history not often afforded sufficient attention in either the textbooks or the mainstream press. This book is an important read for anyone interested in these issues and movements. It should be recommended reading for students in colleges and high schools.

Author : Russell M. Lawson,Benjamin A. Lawson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1972 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216134985

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Race and Ethnicity in America [4 volumes] by Russell M. Lawson,Benjamin A. Lawson Pdf

Divided into four volumes, Race and Ethnicity in America provides a complete overview of the history of racial and ethnic relations in America, from pre-contact to the present. The five hundred years since Europeans made contact with the indigenous peoples of America have been dominated by racial and ethnic tensions. During the colonial period, from 1500 to 1776, slavery and servitude of whites, blacks, and Indians formed the foundation for race and ethnic relations. After the American Revolution, slavery, labor inequalities, and immigration led to racial and ethnic tensions; after the Civil War, labor inequalities, immigration, and the fight for civil rights dominated America's racial and ethnic experience. From the 1960s to the present, the unfulfilled promise of civil rights for all ethnic and racial groups in America has been the most important sociopolitical issue in America. Race and Ethnicity in America tells this story of the fight for equality in America. The first volume spans pre-contact to the American Revolution; the second, the American Revolution to the Civil War; the third, Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement; and the fourth, the Civil Rights Movement to the present. All volumes explore the culture, society, labor, war and politics, and cultural expressions of racial and ethnic groups.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1514 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Geology
ISBN : MINN:31951000862023Z

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Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Kansas
ISBN : UCSD:31822037775087

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Kansas History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Felicia Hardison Londré
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780826265852

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The Enchanted Years of the Stage by Felicia Hardison Londré Pdf

"Drawing on the recollections of renowned theater critic David Austin Latchaw and on newspaper archives of the era, Londre chronicles the "first golden age" of Kansas City theater, from the opening of the Coates Opera House in 1870 through the gradual decline of touring productions after World War I"--Provided by publisher.

Author : John George Staack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Bench-marks
ISBN : UIUC:30112105069139

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Spirit Leveling in Missouri, 1896-1938 by John George Staack Pdf

Author : Greg Olson
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826274878

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Indigenous Missourians by Greg Olson Pdf

The history of Indigenous people in present-day Missouri is far more nuanced, complex, and vibrant than the often-told tragic stories of conflict with white settlers and forced Indian removal would lead us to believe. In this path-breaking narrative, Greg Olson presents the Show Me State’s Indigenous past as one spanning twelve millennia of Native presence, resilience, and evolution. While previous Missouri histories have tended to include Indigenous people only during periods when they constituted a threat to the state’s white settlement, Olson shows us the continuous presence of Native people that includes the present day. Beginning thousands of years before the state of Missouri existed, Olson recounts how centuries of inventiveness and adaptability enabled Native people to create innovations in pottery, agriculture, architecture, weaponry, and intertribal diplomacy. Olson also shows how the resilience of Indigenous people like the Osages allowed them to thrive as fur traders, even as settler colonialists waged an all-out policy of cultural genocide against them. Though the state of Missouri claimed to have forced Indigenous people from its borders after the 1830s, Olson uses U.S. Census records and government rolls from the allotment period to show that thousands remained. In the end, he argues that, with a current population of 27,000 Indigenous people, Missouri remains very much a part of Indian Country, and that Indigenous history is Missouri history.

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCR:31210001940459

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U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf

Author : David Riesman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351486095

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The American City by David Riesman Pdf

This set of readings presents useful insights into urbanization and provides a fresh perspective on American cities and their inhabitants. Advancing the premise that it is not possible to understand how people live in cities without understanding how they think of them, the editor presents historical and contemporary materials that illustrate vividly the variety of ways in which Americans have viewed their cities, and urbanization in general.This book sheds light on what the city is and does by analyzing what its citizens think it should be and do. Its lively, readable selections include contributions from businessmen, ministers, journalists, reporters, city planners, and reformers, as well as sociologists. Strauss shows that Americans' views of cities have been profoundly influenced by their history of continental expansion, successive waves of immigration, massive industrialization and similar objective developments. He points out that certain perspectives or themes?relations of social classes within the city, of country to city, of small city to big city, of city to region, etc.?persist regardless of the social or historical perspective of the writer.The author's comprehensive introduction and his introductions to each section of the book delineate the thematic structure of the readings and guide the reader toward the insights and principles illuminated in the different sections. A fruitful contribution to courses in urban sociology, the book is a useful addition to the libraries of sociologists, political scientists, planners, and city officials who wish to understand more fully the contemporary urban milieu.

Author : Richard Stewart Kirkendall
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : 0826215602

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A History of Missouri by Richard Stewart Kirkendall Pdf

This interpretation of Missouri's history from the end of World War I until the return of Harry Truman to the state after his presidency describes the turbulent political, economic, and social changes experienced by Missouri's people during those years.

Author : Darlene Clark Hine,Jacqueline McLeod
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0253214505

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Crossing Boundaries by Darlene Clark Hine,Jacqueline McLeod Pdf

The essays assembled in Crossing Boundaries reflect the international dimensions, commonalities, and discontinuities in the histories of diasporan communities of colour. People of African descent in the New World (the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean) share a common set of experiences: domination and resistance, slavery and emancipation, the pursuit of freedom, and struggle against racism. No unitary explanation can capture the varied experiences of black people in diaspora. Knowledge of individual societies is illuminated by the study and comparison of other cultural histories. This volume, growing out of the Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora Symposium held at Michigan State University, elaborates the profound relationship between curriculum and pedagogy.Crossing Boundaries embraces the challenge to probe differences embedded in Black ethnicities and helps to discover and to weave into a new understanding the threads of experience, culture, and identity across diasporas. Contributors includ Thomas Holt, George Fredrickson, Jack P. Green, David Barry Gaspar, Earl Lewis, Elliott Skinner, Frederick Cooper, Allison Blakely, Kim Butler, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn.