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The Iron Road in the Prairie State: The Story of Illinois Railroading
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Product Description: In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation’s railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts of capital and labor...read more
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9780253019066 | Indiana Univ Pr, January 20, 2016, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads.

Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness
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Product Description: A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the United States, marriage followed by the deaths of her husband and four children from yellow fever, and the destruction of her dressmaking business in the great Chicago fire of 1871--forged the stalwart labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones into a force to be reckoned with...read more
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9780826348104 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, March 15, 2010, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the United States, marriage followed by the deaths of her husband and four children from yellow fever, and the destruction of her dressmaking business in the great Chicago fire of 1871--forged the stalwart labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones into a force to be reckoned with.

British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914
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Product Description: The first monograph on this topic since 1961, this book provides an innovative interpretation of the Friendly Societies in Britain from the perspectives on social, gender and political history. It establishes the central role of the Friendly Societies in the political activism of British workers, changing understandings of masculinity and femininity, the ritualised expression of social tensions and the origins of the welfare state...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780333990315 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 3, 2003, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: The first monograph on this topic since 1961, this book provides an innovative interpretation of the Friendly Societies in Britain from the perspectives on social, gender and political history.

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