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Nebraska And Rural Electrification Through 1940, Roberta K. Barndt
Nebraska And Rural Electrification Through 1940, Roberta K. Barndt
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Since Nebraska is primarily an agricultural state, the struggle to bring electricity to its rural areas played an important role in the long-standing battle to decrease the disparity between living standards in rural and urban America. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, telephones and automobiles lessened rural isolation while increased utilization of tractors and other technological innovations rendered farm labor less tedious. Nevertheless, without electricity, the one modern innovation that more than any other brought comfort and convenience within the reach of the urban masses, living and working conditions on the farm remained comparatively primitive. Farm families …
The Second Chinese Banking Consortium: The Open Door And Finance Diplomacy, Pauline Selenke Pesek
The Second Chinese Banking Consortium: The Open Door And Finance Diplomacy, Pauline Selenke Pesek
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This thesis is an attempt to analyze the events of the Second Chinese Banking Consortium, signed in 1920, and the relationship of this event to America's China policy, generally referred to as the Open Door Policy. The Consortium demostrates how the Open Door Policy developed as a part of American foreign policy, and how the State Department hoped to use American capitial as the right arm or a tool of American diplomacy in China.
The American Military And The Congress, 1775-1789: Civil-Military Relationships, George J. Shuflata
The American Military And The Congress, 1775-1789: Civil-Military Relationships, George J. Shuflata
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In any discussion of military-state relationships relative to the formation of the first American army and government, one must consider the fact that Americans feared the military due to their pre-revolutionary experience. As colonists they forumlated their own ideas on what the American military should be. The militia concept appeared to fill their needs. Forced into a war for which they were totally unprepared, they gradually formed a government and the military force that would produce a victory. However, the road to that victory was paved with frustrations, both military and governmental.