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Wide-Open Town: Kansas City in the Pendergast Era

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Availability:In StockContributor:Diane Mutti Burke (Editor), Jason Roe (Editor), John Herron (Editor)Publish date:2018-11-29Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KansasISBN-13:9780700627066ISBN-10:700627065UPC:9780700627066Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, SociologyBook Topic:State & Local, Urban, 20th CenturySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC6KQ1XH1H

Wide-Open Town: Kansas City in the Pendergast Era

Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But a closer look tells a different story, one with roots in the city-- complicated and colorful past. The decades between World Wars I and II were a time of intense political, social, and economic change--for Kansas City, as for the nation as a whole. In exploring this city at the literal and cultural...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KansasISBN-13:9780700627066ISBN-10:700627065UPC:9780700627066Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, SociologyBook Topic:State & Local, Urban, 20th CenturySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC6KQ1XH1H
Mutti Burke, Diane: - Diane Mutti Burke is professor and chair of history and director of the Center for Midwestern Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She is the coeditor of Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border, also from Kansas.

Jason Roe is digital history specialist at the Kansas City Public Library.

John Herron is professor of history and...

Publisher: University Press of Kansas

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