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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Yakes, Daniel J. "Common Men and Uncommon Wealth," University of Kansas, January 1990. Advisor: David Katzman (2, 11, 21)
This dissertation is a case study of two communities in Michigan: the city of Muskegon and the nearby village of Whitehall for the period from 1850 through 1900. It tests several theories (by scholars such as Frederick Jackson Turner, Stanley Elkins and Eric McDitrick, Michael katz, Stephan Thernstrom, Robert Michels, and Herbert Gutman) concerning the distribution of wealth, status, and power and the changes that occur over time due to such influences as the frontier, industrialization and urbanization. the dissertation makes extensive use of federal and state manuscript census returns, tax assessment rolls, local and state public documents, and the R.G. Dun credit reports.
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