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Framing Boosterism: The California Historical Society Showcases Los Angeles and San Francisco by Adamson, Michael R.

“…Boomtowns: How Photography Shaped Los Angeles and San Francisco, Selections from the California Historical Society Collection is reviewed…”
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The Role of the Independent: Ralph B. Lloyd and the Development of California's Coastal Oil Region, 1900-1940 by Adamson, Michael R.

“…Independents, or nonintegrated companies, played a significant role in finding and producing crude oil in California, just as they had in Texas. They were able…”
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Oil Booms and Boosterism: Local Elites, Outside Companies, and the Growth of Ventura, California by Adamson, Michael R.

“…This article examines the intersection of oil industry interests and the growth strategy of local elites in the wake of Ventura, California's oil boom of the…”
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Oil Development and the Accomplishment of Place by Adamson, Michael R.

“…Comments on an article by Harvey Molotch, William Freudenburg, and Krista E.Paulsen (2000) in which they analyze how the sociodemographically similar…”
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"Must We Overlook All Impairment of Our Interests?" Debating the Foreign Aid Role of the Export-Import Bank, 1934–41 by ADAMSON, MICHAEL R.

“…Pres Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Export-Import Bank (Exim) as an export facility to overcome obstacles to trade. Throughout the Cold War,…”
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Framing Boosterism by Adamson, Michael R.

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The Makings of a Fine Prosperity: Thomas M. Storke, the Santa Barbara News-Press, and the Campaign to Approve the Cachuma Project by Adamson, Michael R.

“…This article considers the qualitative growth strategy that newspaper editor Thomas M. Storke promoted for the city of Santa Barbara, California,duringthe…”
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The Failure of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council Experiment, 1934–1940 by Adamson, Michael R.

“…This article explores the contentious U.S. State Department–Foreign Bondholders Protective Council relationship in the context of interwar foreign economic…”
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Ambassadorial Roles and Foreign Policy: Elbridge Durbrow, Frederick Nolting, and the U.S. Commitment to Diem's Vietnam, 1957-61 by Adamson, Michael R.

“…This study examines the roles played by Elbridge Durbrow and Frederick Nolting, U.S. ambassadors to South Vietnam from 1957 to 1961 and 1961 to 1963,…”
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Delusions of Development: The Eisenhower Administration and the Foreign Aid Program in Vietnam, 1955-1960 by Adamson, Michael R

“…Adamson argues that government-to-government foreign assistance programs cannot be sensitive to local cultural and historical conditions. US foreign assistance…”
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William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows. By Robert E. Bonner. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xxii + 318 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 978–0–806–13829–9 by Adamson, Michael R.

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Comment: oil development and the accomplishment of place by Adamson, Michael R

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Biographies by Adamson, Michael R

“…William F. Ballhaus Jr. distinguished himself among the many researchers who created the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) at the NASA Ames Research…”
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Biographies by Adamson, Michael R

“…Harvard Lomax was a pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics. His research, spanning a 50-year career from 1944 to 1994, secured the leadership…”
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Oil Development and the Accomplishment of Place by Adamson, Michael R.

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Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht. The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 277 pp. ISBN 0-8014-8473-1, $24.95 (paper) by Adamson, Michael R.

“…The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century, by Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht, is reviewed…”
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Keeping it safe by Adamson, Michael R

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The Lure of gold by Adamson, Michael R

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Lee Scamehorn. High Altitude Energy: A History of Fossil Fuels in Colorado. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. xvi + 232 pp. ISBN 0-87081-661-6, $27.50 by Adamson, Michael R.

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Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council Joseph A. Pratt William H. Becker William M. McClenahan, Jr by Adamson, Michael R.

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