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| The power of place: Race, political economy, and identity in the postwar metropolis RO Self, TJ Sugrue A Companion to Post-1945 America, 20-43, 2002 | 25 | 2002 |
| America's History JA Henretta, E Hinderaker, R Edwards, RO Self Bedford/St. Martins, 2018 | 23 | 2018 |
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| Intimate states: Gender, sexuality, and governance in modern US history M Canaday, NF Cott, RO Self University of Chicago Press, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| City lights: Urban history in the West RO Self A Companion to the American West, 412-441, 2004 | 10 | 2004 |
| Writing landscapes of class, power, and racial division: The problem of (sub) urban space and place in postwar America R Self Journal of Urban History 27 (2), 237-250, 2001 | 10 | 2001 |
| Prelude to the tax revolt RO Self The new suburban history, 144-60, 2006 | 9 | 2006 |
| California’s industrial garden: Oakland and the east bay in the age of deindustrialization R Self Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization, Cornell University …, 2003 | 9 | 2003 |
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