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by Andrew J. Kirkendall
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964), the building of nations (in newly independent African countries in the 1970s), and the construction of a revolutionary order (Nicaragua in 1980)....
Proudly We Can Be Africans
Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social...
Receiving Erin's Children
Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems. In this innovative work of comparative urban history, Matthew Gallman looks at how two cities,...
Before Head Start
The Iowa Station and America's Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the child welfare movement that had originated as a moral reform effort in the Progressive era evolved into the science of child development. In Before Head Start, Hamilton Cravens chronicles this transformation, both on the national level and from the perspective...
Who Controls Public Lands?
Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policies, 1870-1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this historical and comparative study, Christopher McGrory Klyza explores why land-management policies in mining, forestry, and grazing have followed different paths and explains why public-lands policy in general has remained virtually static over time. According to Klyza, understanding the different...
Thank God They're on Our Side
The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921-1965
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Despite its avowed commitment to liberalism and democracy internationally, the United States has frequently chosen to back repressive or authoritarian regimes in parts of the world. In this comprehensive examination of American support of right-wing dictatorships, David Schmitz challenges the contention...
Shifting Gears
Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms, from automobiles and harvesting machines to bridges and skyscrapers. The most casual onlooker to...
Sound States
Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and twentieth-century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact disc, aims to 'turn up the volume' on printed works and rethink the way we read, hear, and talk about literary texts composed after telephones,...
A History of the Oratorio
Vol. 1: The Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Italy, Vienna, Paris
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911. This volume is the first of a four-volume comprehensive study that offers a new synthesis of what is known to date about the oratorio.
Volume...
A Communion of Shadows
Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
When the revolutionary technology of photography erupted in American culture in 1839, it swiftly became, in the day's parlance, a "mania." This richly illustrated book positions vernacular photography at the center of the study of nineteenth-century American religious life. As an empirical...
The Metamorphoses of Apuleius
On Making an Ass of Oneself
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book examines the comic and philosophical aspects of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the ancient Roman novel also known as The Golden Ass. The tales that comprise the novel, long known for their bawdiness and wit, describe the adventures of Lucius, a man who is transformed into an ass. Carl Schlam argues...
A History of the Oratorio
Vol. 3: the Oratorio in the Classical Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smither's monumental History of the Oratorio, continuing his synthesis and critical appraisal of the oratorio. His comprehensive study surpasses in scope and treatment all previous works on the subject. A fourth and final volume, on the...
To Lead the Free World
American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
In this cultural history of the origins of the Cold War, John Fousek argues boldly that American nationalism provided the ideological glue for the broad public consensus that supported U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War era. From the late 1940s through the late 1980s, the United States waged cold...
How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy
Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Focusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices in American municipal government gave business groups political legitimacy at the local level as well as unanticipated influence over federal politics.
Los Angeles's struggles...