Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred YearsD. C. Heath, 1975 - 558 pages |
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... nearly 10 million had lost their lives , and 22 million had been wounded . Taken together , German , Russian , and French battle casualties accounted for half of the dead . Although France had fewer total losses than either Germany or ...
... nearly 10 million had lost their lives , and 22 million had been wounded . Taken together , German , Russian , and French battle casualties accounted for half of the dead . Although France had fewer total losses than either Germany or ...
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... nearly 200,000 miles of a Federal - aid primary sys- tem had been completed . Expansion of the automobile industry was an important factor in the eco- nomic prosperity associated with the twenties . At the beginning of the dec- ade ...
... nearly 200,000 miles of a Federal - aid primary sys- tem had been completed . Expansion of the automobile industry was an important factor in the eco- nomic prosperity associated with the twenties . At the beginning of the dec- ade ...
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... nearly 400,000 , half again as great an increase as among the foreign born . The 1920s increase was even more marked : by 1930 nearly two million Negroes lived in the Northeast , most of them in urban areas . More than 90 per cent of ...
... nearly 400,000 , half again as great an increase as among the foreign born . The 1920s increase was even more marked : by 1930 nearly two million Negroes lived in the Northeast , most of them in urban areas . More than 90 per cent of ...
Contents
Times and Tensions of a Developing Industrial Society | 3 |
MAPS | 21 |
American Society at the End of an Era | 34 |
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| Title | Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred Years |
| Author | Paul W. Glad |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1975 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2006 |
| ISBN | 0669904074, 9780669904079 |
| Length | 558 pages |
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