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Main Street to mainframes : landscape and social change in Poughkeepsie /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, N.Y. :
Excelsior Editions,
©2009.
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| Colección: | SUNY series, an American region.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Main street to MAINFRAMES
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I. Before 1900
- 1. The Valley Setting
- 2. Poughkeepsie Grows from Village to City
- 3. Improvements and Conflicts in the Late Nineteenth Century
- PART II. A Diversified Industrial Economy and Society
- 4. The Cityscape at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- 5. A New Wave of Immigrants Changes the Citizenry
- 6. Municipal Reform and Urban Planning
- 7. Changes to the Space Economy Between the Wars
- 8. Business and Labor in the 1920s and 1930s
- 9. Depression in FDR�s Home CountyPART III. IBM Remakes the Region as Its Largest Employer
- 10. Technological Revolution Transforms the Region: IBM
- 11. IBM Triumphs with the 360 Mainframe Computer
- 12. The Quest for Inner-City Revitalization: Urban Renewal
- 13. Social Planning:The Model Cities Experiment
- 14. Issues and Causes of the 1960s
- 15. Change in Higher Education in the Valley
- 16. IBM Downsizes, but the Valley Recovers
- PART IV. Postindustrial Poughkeepsie and the Valley
- 17. The Nonprofit Sector Grows in Importance
- 18. Main Street Struggles to Return Amid Suburban Sprawl19. Civic Identity and Social Change in the 1990s
- 20. City and Region at the End of the Twentieth Century
- 21. Main Street and theTwenty-first Century Cultural Landscape
- EPILOGUE: Main Street Revisited
- Notes
- Annotated Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index
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