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Rosenbloom, Joshua L. "Occupational Differences in Labor Market Integration: The United States in 1890." Journal of Economic History 51, no. 2 (June 1991): 427–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700039048.

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When labor markets are subject to large demand or supply shocks, as was the case in the late nineteenth-century United States, geographic wage differentials may not be an accurate index of market integration. This article uses a conceptually more appealing measure—the elasticity of local labor supply—to compare the integration of urban labor markets for a variety of occupations in 1890. According to this measure, markets, for unskilled labor and skilled metal-working trades appear relatively well integrated in comparison to those for the skilled building trades.
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Drake, James D. "A Divide to Heal the Union." Pacific Historical Review 84, no. 4 (November 1, 2015): 409–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2015.84.4.409.

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This article traces the process by which people in the United States embraced the Continental Divide as a geographic feature of North America in the late 1860s. Building on recent work in environmental history, Civil War memory, geography, and the history of nationalism, the essay explains how accurate mapping alone did not reveal the Continental Divide. Instead, the divide’s conceptualization also depended on Americans’ history of thinking about the Rockies as a political boundary, southern secession, and the building of the transcontinental railroad. Many Americans found in that railroad’s construction solace for a nation recovering from the Civil War, and they cast themselves as conquering nature to unite the nation. Railroad boosters and passengers consecrated the Continental Divide as a symbol of national unity and an icon of obstacles overcome. In a nation trying to overcome its sectional division between North and South, aspirations for reunification formed a foundation for emphasizing the continent’s most prominent feature that separates East and West.
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Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe. "Building intellectual bridges: from African studies and African American studies to Africana studies in the United States." Afrika Focus 24, no. 2 (February 25, 2011): 9–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-02402003.

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The study of Africa and its peoples in the United States has a complex history. It has involved the study of both an external and internal other, of social realities in Africa and the condition of people• of African descent in the United States. This paper traces and examines the complex intellectual, institutional, and ideological histories and intersections of African studies and African American studies. It argues that the two fields were founded by African American scholar activists as part of a Pan-African project before their divergence in the historically white universities after World War II in the maelstrom of decolonization in Africa and civil rights struggles in the United States. However, from the late 1980s and 1990s, the two fields began to converge, a process captured in the development of what has been called Africana studies. The factors behind this are attributed to both demographic shifts in American society and the academy including increased African migrations in general and of African academics in particular fleeing structural adjustment programs that devastated African universities, as well as the emergence of new scholarly paradigms especially the field of diaspora studies. The paper concludes with an examination of the likely impact of the Obama era on Africana studies.
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Mikesell, Stephen. "Ernest Leslie Ransome." California History 96, no. 3 (2019): 77–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2019.96.3.77.

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Ernest L. Ransome is a famous but often misunderstood 19th century California engineer and builder. Architectural historians and engineering professionals see him as a central figure in developing reinforced concrete as a usable building material decades before its use became prevalent. He is most commonly recognized as building the first reinforced concrete bridge, San Francisco's Alvord Lake Bridge, which was built in 1890 and is still in use. Historical accounts of his work, however, are based chiefly upon secondary sources and are sometimes incorrect or misleading. This article clarifies Ransome's true role in concrete building in California and debunks misinformation about the famous Alvord Lake Bridge. It traces his career in the United States (he emigrated to California in 1870 at the age of 26), first as a manufacturer of imitation stone and later as a builder of increasingly large and complex buildings and structures. It discusses his work on a series of iconic Northern California buildings and structures: the 1888 Bourn Winery (now the Culinary Institute of America school in St. Helena); the 1890 Torpedo Building, still standing on the Oakland side of Yerba Buena Island; the 1890 Alvord Lake Bridge and its near twin the Conservatory Bridge, both still in use in Golden Gate Park; the 1891 Art Museum, now being used as the Canter Center on the Stanford University campus. It also discusses Ransome's partnership with Sidney Cushing, a railroad magnate in Marin County for whom the Cushing Amphitheater on Mt. Tamalpais was named, and Francis Marion “Borax” Smith, who built the borax industry in Death Valley and who founded and owned the Key System transit in the East Bay. The article concludes with observations about Ransome's true place in the history of concrete engineering in the United States and concrete construction in California.
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Bachman, Robert E., and David R. Bonneville. "The Seismic Provisions of the 1997 Uniform Building Code." Earthquake Spectra 16, no. 1 (February 2000): 85–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/1.1586084.

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Currently the most widely accepted code regulations in the United States for seismic design of structures and nonstructural components are those found in the Uniform Building Code ( UBC). The UBC seismic requirements were significantly revised in the 1997 edition. Among the issues addressed in the UBC revisions are near-source effects and ground acceleration dependent soil site amplification factors for both short- and long-period structures. Also, the design force levels in the 1997 UBC are based on strength design rather than allowable stress design, as had been used previously. Other significant changes include introduction of a redundancy/reliability factor, a more realistic consideration of story drift and deformation compatibility, and new equations for equivalent static forces for both structural and nonstructural components. This paper traces the recent history of the code development and describes the major elements of the 1997 UBC seismic provisions.
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Wooding, John, Charles Levenstein, and Beth Rosenberg. "The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union: Refining Strategies for Labor." International Journal of Health Services 27, no. 1 (January 1997): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/wp4b-txhu-f5u7-96ge.

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In a period of declining union membership and severe economic and environmental crisis it is important that labor unions rethink their traditional roles and organizational goals. Responding to some of these problems and reflecting a history of innovative and progressive unionism, the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union (OCAW) has sought to address occupational and environmental health problems within the context of a political struggle. This study suggests that by joining with the environmental movement and community activists, by pursuing a strategy of coalition building, and by developing an initiative to build and advocate for a new political party, OCAW provides a model for reinvigorating trade unionism in the United States.
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Mäkinen, Teemu. "Opposing the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in the U.S. Congress: Ideological analysis of Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee Hearings." American Studies in Scandinavia 51, no. 2 (September 26, 2019): 49–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v51i2.5974.

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The United States Senate voted to ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia in 2010 by 74-26, all 26 voting against being Republicans. The change in the voting outcome compared to the 95-0 result in the 2003 SORT vote was dramatic. Using inductive frame analysis, this article analyzes committee hearings in the Senate Foreign Relations and the Armed Services committees in order to identify competing narratives defining individual senators’ positions on the ratification of the New START. Building on conceptual framework introduced by Walter Russel Mead (2002), it distinguishes four schools of thought: Jacksonian, Hamiltonian, Jeffersonian, and Wilsonian. The argumentation used in the hearings is deconstructed in order to understand the increase in opposition to the traditionally bipartisan nuclear arms control regime. The results reveal a factionalism in the Republican Party. The argumentationin opposition to ratification traces back to the Jacksonian school, whereas argumentation supporting the ratification traces back to Hamiltonian, Jeffersonian and Wilsonian traditions. According to opposition, the Obama administration was pursuing its idealistic goal of a world-without-nuclear-weapons and its misguided Russia reset policy by any means necessary – most importantly by compromising with Russia on U.S. European-based missile defense.
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Mountz, A., and J. Loyd. "Transnational productions of remoteness: building onshore and offshore carceral regimes across borders." Geographica Helvetica 69, no. 5 (December 22, 2014): 389–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-69-389-2014.

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Abstract. This article examines transnational framings of domestic carceral landscapes to better understand the relationship between offshore and onshore enforcement and detention regimes. US detention on mainland territory and interception and detention in the Caribbean serves as a case study. While the US domestic carceral regime is a subject of intense political debate, research, and activism, it is not often analyzed in relation to the development and expansion of an offshore "buffer zone" to intercept and detain migrants and asylum seekers. Yet the US federal government has also used offshore interception and detention as a way of controlling migration and mobility to its shores. This article traces a Cold War history of offshore US interception and detention of migrants from and in the Caribbean. We discuss how racialized crises related to Cuban and Haitian migrations by sea led to the expansion of an intertwined offshore and onshore carceral regime. Tracing these carceral geographies offers a more transnational understanding of contemporary domestic landscapes of detention of foreign nationals in the United States. It advances the argument that the conditions of remoteness ascribed frequently to US detention sites must be understood in more transnational perspective.
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Bértola, Luis, and Gabriel Porcile. "Convergence, trade and industrial policy: Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay in the international economy, 1900–1980." Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 24, no. 1 (2006): 37–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s021261090000046x.

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AbstractThis paper discusses the economic performance of three Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay) from a comparative perspective, using as a benchmark a group of four developed countries (France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States). The focus is on the relative performance within the region and between the Latin American countries and the developed countries in the period 1900–1980. The paper argues that Argentina and Uruguay benefited from a privileged position in international markets at the beginning of the 20th century and this allowed them to converge. However, they failed to adjust to the major long-run change in the pattern of world trade brought about by World War I and the Great Depression, which implied a persistent decline of their export markets. On the other hand, Brazil, after having been much less successful until 1930, grew at higher rates thereafter based on rapid structural change and the building up of competitive advantages in new industrial sectors. The more vigorous Brazilian policy for industrialization and export diversification may explain why Brazil succeeded in changing its pattern of specialization, while Argentina and Uruguay were locked in to the old pattern. A typology of convergence regimes is suggested based on the growth experience of these countries.
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von Bülow, Marisa. "Networks of Trade Protest in the Americas: Toward a New Labor Internationalism?" Latin American Politics and Society 51, no. 2 (2009): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-2456.2009.00046.x.

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AbstractIn the mid-1990s, for the first time in the history of the Americas, truly hemispherewide collaboration among labor organizations became possible. Yet this new political opportunity structure has not brought actors together in an undisputed new labor internationalism. This article focuses on two key sources of contention among labor organizations in the context of free trade mobilizations between 1990 and 2004: the discussions about coalition building with other civil society actors and the debates about including a social clause in trade agreements. It argues that transnational collective action occurs parallel to the continued relevance of national-level claims and targets, and that this simultaneity represents a real source of challenges, for scholars and labor organizations alike. Based on social network data and qualitative interviews in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and the United States, the article analyzes the actions taken by labor organizations, and how these changed through time.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Building trades – United States – History"

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Brookover, Robert. "The resurgence of traditional building trades in the United States." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1231400.

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The last quarter of the twentieth century has seen a dramatic growth of interest in the preservation of historic structures. With this has developed the need to bring back many trades that had declined after World War II. Within the past twenty to thirty years these traditional building trades, which are so vitally needed to accurately restore, recreate, preserve, and adaptively reuse these structures, have become a valuable component of the preservation infrastructure. I have elected to study the careers and historically significant work of tradespersons in two selected regions of the United States, in order to illustrate the resurgence of the traditional building trades on a national level. The focus of this work centers on the careers of a group of craftsmen, from their early beginnings in the trades, to their current status as having earned an identity as a professional in their field. Themes appear from the various stages of their careers. These themes are evaluated through different literature published on this subject and through the formation of trade schools and organizations.
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Laird, Matthew R. "The price of empire: Anglo-French rivalry for the Great Lakes fur trades, 1700-1760." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623876.

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As the English and French grappled for North American hegemony in the first half of the eighteenth century, trade with the Indian groups of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley transcended mere financial calculations and assumed a broader imperial significance. to the native peoples who exchanged their peltry for European manufactured goods, trade was the material manifestation of mutual obligation, political dialogue, and military alliance. If the contest for empire inevitably became a battle for the hearts and minds of potential Indian allies, the spoils of victory were most visibly reckoned in furs and skins.;Yet, despite the outspoken criticism of William J. Eccles, historians of Anglo-French trade rivalry continue to embrace the dubious claims of Cadwallader Colden and other eighteenth-century American imperialists that Canadian traders could not compete on level economic ground with their New York and Pennsylvania counterparts. Allegedly beset with shoddy and costly French goods, a jealous monopoly company that greedily fixed the price of furs and skins, and the levies and restrictions of a militaristic state, Canadians were deemed unable to match the success of their Anglo-American competitors, who conversely reaped the benefits of cheap and superior trade merchandise in a commerce largely free of meddling monopolists and obtrusive officials.;A rigorous cross-border comparison of trade-good costs, transportation charges, and peltry prices deflates this hoary myth of Anglo-American economic superiority. With few exceptions, French-Canadian fur traders supplied goods of equal or better quality at rates of exchange competitive with their New York and Pennsylvania rivals. Purely economic considerations, however, never determined success in the trade. as frustrated Anglo-American officials readily admitted, the cohesive and scrupulously-managed French-Canadian trade network proved aptly suited to winning and maintaining Indian friendship and alliance, while unregulated and unscrupulous American traders perennially poisoned Anglo-Indian relations. The persistence of characteristically Canadian commercial practices and Indian trade loyalties despite the 1760 conquest of New France is, perhaps, the most compelling measure of French-Canadian preeminence in the eighteenth-century contest for North American trade and empire.
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Cook, Elizabeth. "Art, Mystery, and Occupation: Building Culture in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626629.

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Southwick, Sally Jo. "Building on a borrowed past: History, place, and identity in Pipestone, Minnesota." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284014.

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This dissertation focuses on Pipestone, Minnesota, which provides an important example of the process of creating and localizing national identity. Founded in 1874, the town derived its name from the nearby pipestone quarries, a traditional excavation site for regional tribes. In the early nineteenth century George Catlin's artistic representations made the area famous and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetic interpretations of tribal mythology offered a romantic Indian past that appealed to industrializing America. This study proposes that the town's founders accepted the popular perceptions of the quarries' significance to the tribes--particularly the symbol of the "peacepipe" and its source in sacred ground--and actively employed related tribal imagery to create local identity and to promote the town on state and national levels. Emphasis on the quarries as unique and central to America's Indian heritage helped Pipestone attract railroad lines, a federal Indian boarding school in the 1890s, and a national monument in the 1930s to protect the quarries and to attract tourists. This dissertation traces the development of Pipestone from Catlin's early influential images of the quarries and tribes to the first productions of the town's annual "Song of Hiawatha" pageant in the 1940s and 1950s. Since the town's inception its residents continuously adapted their conceptions of the quarries' Indian heritage in order to generate a usable past. This study analyzes the ways in which they used tribal and landscape imagery to encourage town growth, investment, tourism, and the legitimizing presence of the federal government, making Pipestone a nationally-known place and a self-professed "real American" town. Archival sources examined include local and regional newspapers, memoirs, town business, state, and railroad promotional literature, federal institutional documents, state histories, and publications by the county historical society. These sources provide evidence of how the town's residents produced and maintained Pipestone's image and how this local process illustrates Americans' search for historical identity.
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Hellier, Cathleene Betz. "Private Land Development in Williamsburg, 1699-1748: Building a Community." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625487.

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Moore, Tomas I. "Army television advertising : recruiting and image-building in the era of the AVF." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1408.

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Coombs, John C. "Building "the machine": The development of slavery and slave society in early colonial Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623434.

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Historians have, of course, long been aware of the importance of Virginia's seventeenth-century conversion from white to black labor. But while scholars have devoted considerable effort to explaining why this pivotal transition occurred, a detailed analysis of how it happened does not exist, nor by extension have scholars ever fully considered the repercussions of what one might call the "process of conversion.";Although Virginia's black population remained small throughout much of the seventeenth century, it was heavily concentrated on the estates of a relatively small circle of wealthy planters. By the middle decades of the century some members of the gentry had acquired sizable quantities of slaves. as early as the 1660s, when the typical Chesapeake planter still only employed servants, on many elite plantations blacks made up nearly half of the workforce, and in some cases were numerous enough to comprise a considerable majority.;The gentry's early turn to slavery had a profound effect on the development of the plantation "machine." From a socio-economic perspective, it was instrumental in facilitating the rise of Virginia's great families. The founding members of these dynasties arrived in the colony with wealth and social status. But it was their remarkable success in building up their holdings in land and slaves that distanced them from their peers and that proved decisive in securing the lasting predominance of their descendants.;Yet because of their limited access to the transatlantic slave trade, even the wealthiest Virginians initially found it difficult to procure slaves and for decades elite-owned labor forces remained racially mixed. Early African immigrants consequently faced enormous pressure to conform to the behavioral norms of the dominant Anglo-American society, giving the cultural compromises that they ultimately reached with each other an assimilationist bent. as the founding generations relinquished community leadership to their native-born children and grandchildren, African-American society in the colony acquired an anglicized veneer that continued to persist and shape life in slave quarters even after the advent of large direct deliveries in the early eighteenth century.
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Stevenson, Kaylan Michelle. ""Her Correspondence is Dangerous": Women in the Fashion Trades Negotiating the Opportunities and Challenges of Doing Business in the Chesapeake, 1766-75." W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626731.

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Trim, Henry. "The making of Stephen Decatur: A study of heroism and myth building in America." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27736.

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This thesis seeks to show how heroes are created, the role hero-making plays in the creation of national identity and how the mythology constructed around heroes affects historical memory, by examining the heroic narrative constructed around Commodore Stephen Decatur, United States Navy. Stephen Decatur became a hero during the first Barbary War in 1805, his abrupt rise to heroism was occasioned by a mix of luck, drama, partisan politics and nationalism. After his death, Decatur received very complimentary attention from nineteenth century biographers anxious to present Americans with national heroes. In the twentieth and twenty-first century Decatur remained popular, especially with American reengagement in the Middle East and the "War on Terror." Recent biographies of Decatur are of interest as they reveal the continuities and changes in the American heroic ideal over time, and how the momentum of a narrative can deeply shape our understanding of the past.
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Roeber, Catharine Christie Dann. "Building and Planting: The Material World, Memory, and the Making of William Penn's Pennsylvania, 1681--1726." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623350.

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The process of creating the colony of Pennsylvania began with the granting of a charter by King Charles II to William Penn in 1681. However the formation of Pennsylvania was not limited to the words of this or other official documents. Many people formed the province through both everyday actions and extraordinary events. and importantly, people involved in the Pennsyvlania project employed both material "toolkits" and language about the material world to stake a place for the new territory within the Americas, Britain, and the world in the seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries.;This dissertation examines how William Penn and his contemporaries used the material world and language about it to promote the province of Pennsylvania. In particular, Penn's use of the built environment and landscapes, foods and other natural resources, and maps and natural philosophy are examined as case studies for the intersection between material life and ideology in forming a new geographic and political entity.;Previous scholarship has often examined William Penn through the lens of politics and religion, resulting in a view of the founder as removed from material interests. But examination fo Penn's own words and documents relating to his life suggests that he not only held a deep interest and involvement with material concerns, he viewed management of the material world as central to his religious, political, and social goals for the province of Pennsylvania and more broadly in his life.;In part, scholarship on the material world of William Penn and early Pennsylvania has been obscured by the fact that almost immediately following the death of Penn, people created a stereotyped figure of him representing idealistic political, social, and religious goals (although this was defined in many different ways and used to promote a host of competing causes). Even later imagery depicting Penn promotes this cartoon-like image rather than the complex and often controversial figure he was in reality. In addition, emphasis on scholarship after the mid-eighteenth century with particular focus on the American Revolution obscures a critical interpretation of the earliest period of settlement in Pennsylvania.;The process of remembering William Penn and early Pennsylvania (or forgetting that history) continues today through management of historic and cultural resources, as well as physical remembrances in the form of public monuments, parks, and visual representations. Creating and remembering Pennsylvania and its founders has always been, and continues to be a series of negotiations through words, images, and the material world.
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Books on the topic "Building trades – United States – History"

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Skilled hands, strong spirits: A century of building trades history. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 2005.

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Palladino, Grace. Skilled hands, strong spirits: A century of building trades history. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.

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Tsipis, Yanni Kosta. Building Route 128. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2005.

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Building a housewife's paradise: Gender, politics, and American grocery stores in the twentieth century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

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The republic in print: Print culture in the age of U.S. nation building, 1770-1870. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

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Building a better Chinese collection for the Library of Congress: Selected writings. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012.

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Sumichrast, Michael. Opportunities in building construction careers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008.

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1914-, Faherty William Barnaby, and Benson Charles D, eds. Gateway to the moon: Building the Kennedy Space Center launch complex. 2nd ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.

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Treasury Historical Association (Washington, D.C.), ed. Fortress of finance: The United States Treasury building. Washington, DC: Treasury Historical Association, 2010.

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Bain, David Haward. Empire express: Building the first transcontinental railroad. New York: Viking, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Building trades – United States – History"

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Jenkins, Philip. "Revolution and Nation Building, 1765–1825." In A History of the United States, 33–68. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57355-1_2.

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Jenkins, Philip. "Revolution and Nation Building, 1765–1825." In A History of the United States, 40–83. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-36244-4_2.

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Jenkins, Philip. "Revolution and Nation Building, 1765–1825." In A History of the United States, 43–89. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25657-0_2.

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Gross, Robert A. "Building a National Literature: The United States 1800-1890." In A Companion to the History of the Book, 315–28. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470690949.ch23.

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Faden, Lisa Y. "Globalization and History Education: The United States and Canada." In Nation-Building and History Education in a Global Culture, 51–65. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9729-0_4.

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Eisenmann, Linda. "Building the New Scholarship of Women’s Higher Educational History, 1965–1985." In Women’s Higher Education in the United States, 255–76. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59084-8_12.

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Winfree, Paul. "Building a Visible Government." In A History (and Future) of the Budget Process in the United States, 77–108. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30959-6_4.

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Patterson, Thomas C. "Nation-building on the edge of empires, 1600–1877." In A Social History of Anthropology in the United States, 8–30. Second edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003087878-1.

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Zhang, Fan. "A Brief History of Modern Zen Buddhism in the United States." In Building and Negotiating Religious Identities in a Zen Buddhist Temple, 17–38. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8863-7_2.

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Dickter, David N., and Daniel C. Robinson. "A History of Interprofessional Education and Assessment at WesternU." In Building a Patient-Centered Interprofessional Education Program, 286–310. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3066-5.ch014.

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This chapter traces the early history and progress of a pioneering interprofessional practice and education (IPE) program at Western University of Health Sciences (WesternU), whose growth and development can be viewed in the context of the broader IPE field, that of a nascent movement within the United States to recognize and facilitate collaborative, patient-centered healthcare. This chapter provides some of the background and details from the early design years at WesternU. The IPE movement in the U.S. worked with general principles and broad conceptual outcomes such as safety and quality but it took time to delineate more specific guidelines and practices. Over the years, frameworks and standards for education, practice, and outcomes assessment have developed that have helped to guide the program. Similarly, WesternU has developed and refined its education and assessment methods over time.
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Conference papers on the topic "Building trades – United States – History"

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Mertz, Greg, Robert Spears, and Thomas Houston. "The Effects of Discretization Errors on the High Frequency Content of In-Structure Response Spectra." In ASME 2016 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2016-63679.

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The next generation ground motion prediction equations predict significant high frequency seismic input for rock sites in the Central Eastern United States (CEUS). This high frequency motion is transmitted to basemat supported components and may be transmitted to components supported on elevated slabs. The existing ASCE 4 analysis requirements were initially developed based on seismic motions having lower frequencies, typical of ground motions in the Western United States (WUS). The adequacy of the existing ASCE 4 analysis requirements are examined using high frequency CEUS spectral shapes and the potential error inherent in using the existing approach to computing in structure response spectra is quantified. Modifications to reduce potential error in the existing ASCE 4 criteria are proposed. In structure response spectra are typically generated for a subsystem given the time history response of a building region. The building time history response is based on analyses that use either modal time history superposition, direct integration or complex frequency response analysis of the building and supporting soil. Input to the building analyses consist of either real or synthetic discretized ground motion records. The discretized ground motion records are often based on recorded ground motion seeds and are often limited to a 0.005 second time step. Thus the time step of the seed record often limits the frequency content of the problem. Both the building analyses and in structure response spectra subsystem analysis may interpolate the discretized ground motion records to obtain stable results. This interpolation generates errors that are propagated through the analyses used to calculate in structure response spectra. These errors may result in extraneous high frequency content in the in structure response spectra. Errors are quantified by comparison of time history parameters, Fourier components and in structure response spectra.
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Hernandez, Susan D., and Mary E. Clark. "Building Capacity and Public Involvement Among Native American Communities." In ASME 2001 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2001-1251.

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Abstract The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) supports a number of local community initiatives to encourage public involvement in decisions regarding environmental waste management and remediation. Native American tribal communities, in most cases, operate as sovereign nations, and thus have jurisdiction over environmental management on their lands. This paper provides examples of initiatives addressing Native American concerns about past radioactive waste management practices — one addresses uranium mining wastes in the Western United States and the other, environmental contamination in Alaska. These two projects involve the community in radioactive waste management decision-making by encouraging them to articulate their concerns and observations; soliciting their recommended solutions; and facilitating leadership within the community by involving local tribal governments, individuals, scientists and educators in the project. Frequently, a community organization, such as a local college or Native American organization, is selected to manage the project due to their cultural knowledge and acceptance within the community. It should be noted that U.S. EPA, consistent with Federal requirements, respects Indian tribal self-government and supports tribal sovereignty and self-determination. For this reason, in the projects and initiatives described in the presentation, the U.S. EPA is involved at the behest and approval of Native American tribal governments and community organizations. Objectives of the activities described in this presentation are to equip Native American communities with the skills and resources to assess and resolve environmental problems on their lands. Some of the key outcomes of these projects include: • Training teachers of Navajo Indian students to provide lessons about radiation and uranium mining in their communities. Teachers will use problem-based education, which allows students to connect the subject of learning with real-world issues and concerns of their community. Teachers are encouraged to utilize members of the community and to conduct field trips to make the material as relevant to the students. • Creating an interactive database that combines scientific and technical data from peer-reviewed literature along with complementary Native American community environmental observations. • Developing educational materials that meet the national science standards for education and also incorporate Native American culture, language, and history. The use of both Native American and Western (Euro-American) educational concepts serve to reinforce learning and support cultural identity. The two projects adopt approaches that are tailored to encourage the participation of, and leadership from, Native American communities to guide environmental waste management and remediation on their lands. These initiatives are consistent with the government-to-government relationship between Native American tribes and the U.S. government and support the principle that tribes are empowered to exercise their own decision-making authority with respect to their lands.
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Vandenbergh, Alex. "Terra Cotta Flat Arches: A Historic Modern-Day Challenge." In IABSE Congress, New York, New York 2019: The Evolving Metropolis. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/newyork.2019.2542.

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<p>At the turn of the 20th century, terra cotta flat arches (TCFA’s) were a popular floor system in steel framed buildings for industrial and office construction in the United States. These arches were lighter but just as fireproof as standard brick arches, and were designed empirically using proprietary allowable load tables, which were based mostly on load testing.</p><p>In the 21st century, the proprietary nature of the TCFA makes evaluating these systems problematic for the modern engineer, architect, and contractor. Renovations of buildings with TCFA floor assemblies typically will have new penetrations as well as altered loading conditions from its original construction.</p><p>It is important for all parties involved in the design and construction process of a renovation to understand the history, mechanisms, and limitations of TCFAs in order to have a successful renovation from both a design and a cost perspective. Conversely, renovating a building without the proper knowledge or experience with the existing materials can lead to change orders, time overruns, and most importantly life safety risks.</p><p>This paper is a summary of a presentation given by the same author to the Association for Preservation Technology (APT) conference in September, 2018. A more in-depth paper by the same author and colleagues Derek Trelstad and Rebecca Buntrock will appear as an article in the APT Bulletin in 2019.</p>
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Moreschi, Luis M., Qin Pan, Shen Wang, and Sanjeev R. Malushte. "Generation of In-Structure Response Spectra for Nuclear Power Plants Subjected to High-Frequency Ground Motion." In 2012 20th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering and the ASME 2012 Power Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone20-power2012-54250.

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The purpose of seismic qualification of Structures, Systems and Components (SSCs) in nuclear power plants is to ensure that their intended safety function will not be compromised during and after a postulated earthquake event. The seismic performance of the equipment is generally evaluated using In-Structure Response Spectra (ISRS) at equipment-support locations as an input motion. Traditionally, these ISRS are generated based on design ground spectra prescribed by either U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulatory Guide 1.60 or other design spectral shapes, which normally consider the frequencies content up to 33Hz. However, it has been recently recognized that probabilistic hazard-based site specific ground motion response spectra (GMRS) for Central and Eastern United States (CEUS) hard rock sites contains significant energy in the high frequency range, far beyond 33Hz. Since the motion at equipment support locations is highly affected by the dynamic characteristics of the soil or rock surrounding the building foundations and those of the structure itself, the adequacy of dynamic modeling and analysis techniques for determining the ISRS is critical to seismic qualification of safety-related equipment. This paper provides examples on dynamic modeling and analysis techniques required to accurately capture the structural responses for purposes of calculating ISRS throughout the frequency range of interest, including the high frequency responses typically expected at the CEUS sites. The discussion includes the selection of finite element mesh size, and sensitivity analysis performed to demonstrate that the propagation of these high frequencies through the different levels of the structure is properly captured. Other analytical considerations, such as the selection of time step size, for conducting time-history analysis, are also presented.
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