Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 451 p)
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ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1438426135
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9781438426365
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9781438426136
Series Statement:
SUNY series, an American region
Content:
Intro -- 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 County -- PART 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 Sprawl -- 19. 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-421) and index
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""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""
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""9. Depression in FDR�s Home County""""PART 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""
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""18. Main Street Struggles to Return Amid Suburban Sprawl""""19. 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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781438426136
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Main Street to mainframes
Language:
English
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