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With a fresh approach to regional interpretation, this book examines the development of Texas as a human area, from the simple outline of the Spanish colony to the complex patterns of the modern state. Dividing Texas history into four major periods, the author examines patterns of settlementand development, and population characteristics and conflicts, during theSpanish-Mexican era, the years of the Republic and early statehood, the Post-Civil War...
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Since the 1970s, China has been experiencing the world's largest internal migration. In this program, we look at what internal migration is and why China is experiencing a dramatic population shift from rural to urban centers. Population statistics and graphs are provided to help students understand the significance of this event. The hukou system of household registration, criticized for creating wide ranging social injustices and a "floating population"...
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"Whether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia's vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of migration. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch tell the stories of Russians on the move, capturing the rich variety of their experiences by distinguishing among categories of migrants-settlers,...
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The ties of nature: The planter family in the seaboard -- In search of manly independence: The migration decision -- A new world: Journey and settlement -- A little more of this world's goods: Family, kinship, and economics -- To live like fighting cocks: Independence, sex roles, and slavery.
10) The southern diaspora: how the great migrations of Black and White Southerners transformed America
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"Between 1900 and the 1970s, 20 million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora reshaped America by "southernizing" communities and transforming important cultural and political institutions."
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This program follows the first leg of the journey along the Trail, from Independence, Missouri, to Fort Laramie, in what is now Wyoming. In addition to explaining landmarks along this route, the program covers the problems of camping in the wilderness, the perils of accidents, and encounters with Native American tribespeople.
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In the first half of the 19th century, Americans pushed westward across the Appalachians, the Mississippi River, and the Rocky Mountains, en route to the Pacific Ocean. The frontier experience shaped the American character. At the same time, land hunger, gold fever, and the pursuit of "Manifest Destiny" resulted in the removal of many American Indian nations, acquisition of vast swaths of Mexico through the Mexican-American War, and a painful debate...
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"One of the "50 most powerful women in the world" (The Times), best-selling author Rosabeth Moss Kanter tackles America's most urgent domestic issue. America is stuck: just look at our crumbling roads and bridges, mismanaged railways, old-fashioned and easily overloaded air traffic control system, and perpetual lack of political will to do anything about it all. In contrast, take a trip around the world. Whiz through the "Chunnel" connecting England...
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"Every year over 200 million peasants flock to China's urban centers, providing a profusion of cheap labor that helps fuel the country's staggering economic growth. Award-winning journalist Michelle Dammon Loyalka follows the trials and triumphs of eight such migrants--including a vegetable vendor, an itinerant knife sharpener, a free-spirited recycler, and a cash-strapped mother--offering an inside look at the pain, self-sacrifice, and uncertainty...
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"What were the causes that motivated [about 5 million] Black southerners to immigrate to the North? What was the impact upon the land they left and upon the communities they chose for their new homes? Perhaps no pattern of migration has changed America's socioeconomic structure more than this mass exodus of African-Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Because of this exodus, the South lost not only a huge percentage of its inhabitants...
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With the publication of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath in 1939, the plight of California's Okies was publicized across the nation. More than any other state, California had always welcomed new arrivals. Late in the 1930s, however, its usually good temper towards migrants exploded. Why was such hostility focused on these newcomers from Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, and Arkansas and not on all migrants? Weren't they old-stock, white Protestants like...
20) The final steps
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The journey is finished in this program as it reaches Willamette Valley, Oregon. In addition to covering important sites en route, the program discusses the role of the British, the experiences of the 49ers on the Oregon Trail, and conflict with Native Americans in the later years of the Trail.
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