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The Tweed Family Papers consists primarily of correspondence between Mrs. Richard Tweed and her children, relatives, and friends. Diaries, essays and poetry written by family members, newspaper clippings (photocopies), and financial and legal material are also included, as are a handful of photographs. All related primarily to the life of Mrs. Richard Tweed and her descendants. ; Mrs. Richard Tweed, upon whom the majority of the materials focus, was the sister-in-law of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, who controlled the Democratic political machine at New York City's Tammany Hall during the mid-19th century. He and his associates misappropriated public funds on a large scale, leading to his arrest and imprisonment in 1871. ; The Tweed Family Papers are organized by the following categories: Correspondence, Newspapers, Literary Production, Photographs, Financial Material, Printed Material, Scrapbook Material, Legal Material, and Artifacts. ; Tweed Family Papers, 1836-1932 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas ; Box 1, File 11

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's Introduction -- The Background -- The Springs of Agricultural Productivity -- General -- Advances in Husbandry Technique -- Improvements in Agrarian Organitation -- Contributions to Economic Development -- The Supply of Food and Raw Materials -- The Release of Factors of Production -- Income Effects of Agricultural Change and Development of a Market for Industrial Goods -- Conclusions -- 1 Obstacles to Progress -- 2 Agricultural Progress in Open-Field Oxfordshire -- 3 Agriculture and the Brewing and Distilling Industries in the Eighteenth Century -- 4 Enclosure and Labour Supply in the Industrial Revolution -- 5 The Cost of Parliamentary Enclosure in Warwickshire -- 6 Agriculture and Economic Growth in England, 1660-1750: Agricultural Change -- 7 Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth in England 1700-1760 -- Select Bibliography.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Strange Mothers -- 1 Digital Performance and the Maternal Subject -- 2 The Aesthetics of Interruption -- 3 Uncanny Encounters -- 4 Maternal Immanence and Embodied Transcendence -- 5 Networked Individuals and Maternal Ambivalence -- 6 Distributed Mother -- Bibliography -- Index.