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summary pdf Dallas , summary chapter 2 Dallas , sparknotes Dallas , Dallas 6d2c4f1 In This Innovative History, Patricia Evridge Hill Explores The Building Of Dallas In The Years Before Business Interests Rose To Such Prominence To And Discovers That Many Groups Contributed To The Development Of The Modern City In Particular, She Looks At The Activities Of Organized Labor, Women S Groups, Racial Minorities, Populist And Socialist Radicals, And Progressive Reformers All Of Whom Competed And Compromised With Local Business Leaders In The Decades Before The Great Depression This Research Challenges The Popular View That Business Interests Have Always Run Dallas And Offers A Historically Accurate Picture Of The City S Development The Legacy Of Pluralism That Hill Uncovers Shows That Dallas Can Accommodate Dissent And Conflict As It Moves Toward A Inclusive Public Life Dallas Will Be Fascinating And Important Reading For All Texans, As Well As For All Students Of Urban Development
- Paperback
- 272 pages
- Dallas
- Patricia Evridge Hill
- English
- 09 November 2017 Patricia Evridge Hill
- 0292731043
Hill s book is a deeply insightful and scholarly rescue operation Dallas history of progressive reformers, labor activists, and socialists has all but been forgotten This study tells their remarkable story and explains how a unified and organized group of elites displaced and in some cases, destroyed them to make Dallas a city of and for business Essential reading for anyone interested in Dallas, local histories of labor, or how power is consolidated and used.