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1 online resource (xiv, 451 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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SUNY series, an American region |
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SUNY series, an American region.
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| Contents |
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 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 |
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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 -- 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-421) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Economic development -- New York (State) -- Poughkeepsie -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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Economic development.
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Economic history.
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Social conditions.
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| SUBJECT |
Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) -- History
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Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions
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Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
New York (State) -- Poughkeepsie.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Griffen, Clyde, 1929-
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| LC no. |
2008042638 |
| ISBN |
9781438426365 |
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1438426364 |
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