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  • Remaking the Rust Belt

    The Postindustrial Transformation of North America

    by Tracy Neumann ...
    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    Cities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth century, but by the 1970s, their economic and political might had been significantly diminished by newly industrializing regions in the Global South. This was not simply a North American phenomenon—the precipitous decline of mature steel centers like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Hamilton, Ontario, ... Read more

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  • Remaking the Rust Belt

    The Postindustrial Transformation of North America

    by Tracy Neumann ...
    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    Cities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth century, but by the 1970s, their economic and political might had been significantly diminished by newly industrializing regions in the Global South. This was not simply a North American phenomenon—the precipitous decline of mature steel centers like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Hamilton, Ontario, ... Read more

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  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 28 No. 2, 2017

    Series Book 28 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    The importance of decisions regarding the allocation of jurisdiction over Indigenous affairs in federal states can only be understood well when studied transnationally and comparatively. Historians of Canada appear never to have considered the significance of the fact that the British North America Act (1867) gave the Canadian federal government exclusive jurisdiction over Indian affairs, even ... Read more

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  • A Fair Country

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  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

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