America Through A British Lens

Author : James D. Stone
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476625560

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America Through a British Lens by James D. Stone Pdf

 As the British watched their empire crumble and the United States became the dominant world power, many British films warned of the dangers posed by American culture. Americans were frequently portrayed as disconcertingly ambitious, reckless and irreverent. Yet the same films that depicted the U.S. as an agent of chaos also suggested Britons might do well to embrace American-style energy and egalitarianism. Movies like Love Actually, The Quatermass Xperiment, 28 Weeks Later, Local Hero and Alfred Hitchcock’s Secret Agent have delved into the storied “special relationship” between the U.S. and U.K. These films and many more examined in this first book-length study of British movies about America, reveal much about British attitudes regarding power, gender, class, sexuality and emotion.

Author : Claudia Nelson,Rebecca Morris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317065975

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Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature by Claudia Nelson,Rebecca Morris Pdf

Bringing together children’s literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of a field characterized by active but also distinctive scholarship in two countries with very different rhetorical traditions. The volume’s five sections highlight the differences between and overlapping concerns of Chinese and American scholars, as they examine children’s literature with respect to cultural metaphors and motifs, historical movements, authorship, didacticism, important themes, and the current status of and future directions for literature and criticism. Wide-ranging and admirably ambitious in its encouragement of communication between scholars from two major nations, Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children’s Literature serves as a model for examining how and why children’s literature, more than many literary forms, circulates internationally.

Author : Jon Butler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674006676

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Becoming America by Jon Butler Pdf

Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural: America three hundred years ago -- and today. Here are Britain's mainland American colonies after 1680, in the process of becoming the first modern society -- a society the earliest colonists never imagined, a "new order of the ages" that anticipated the American Revolution. Jon Butler's panoramic view of the colonies in this epoch transforms our customary picture of prerevolutionary America; it reveals a strikingly "modern" character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history. Stressing the middle and late decades (the hitherto "dark ages") of the American colonial experience, and emphasizing the importance of the middle and southern colonies as well as New England, Becoming America shows us transformations before 1776 among an unusually diverse assortment of peoples. Here is a polyglot population of English, Indians, Africans, Scots, Germans, Swiss, Swedes, and French; a society of small colonial cities with enormous urban complexities; an economy of prosperous farmers thrust into international market economies; peoples of immense wealth, a burgeoning middle class, and incredible poverty. Butler depicts settlers pursuing sophisticated provincial politics that ultimately sparked revolution and a new nation; developing new patterns in production, consumption, crafts, and trades that remade commerce at home and abroad; and fashioning a society remarkably pluralistic in religion, whose tolerance nonetheless did not extend to Africans or Indians. Here was a society that turned protest into revolution and remade itself many times during the next centuries -- asociety that, for ninety years before 1776, was becoming America.

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Military supplies
ISBN : UOM:39015024213657

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America's Munitions 1917-1918 by United States. War Department Pdf

Author : Darcie Rives-East
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030169008

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Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television by Darcie Rives-East Pdf

This interdisciplinary study examines how state surveillance has preoccupied British and American television series in the twenty years since 9/11. Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television illuminates how the U.S. and U.K., bound by an historical, cultural, and television partnership, have broadcast numerous programs centred on three state surveillance apparatuses tasked with protecting us from terrorism and criminal activity: the prison, the police, and the national intelligence agency. Drawing from a range of case studies, such as Sherlock, Orange is the New Black and The Night Manager, this book discusses how television allows viewers, writers, and producers to articulate fears about an increased erosion of privacy and civil liberties following 9/11, while simultaneously expressing a desire for a preventative mechanism that can stop such events occurring in the future. However, these concerns and desires are not new; encompassing surveillance narratives both past and present, this book demonstrates how television today builds on earlier narratives about panoptic power to construct our present understanding of government surveillance.

Author : Leonard G. Schifrin
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Contact lens industry
ISBN : 9781428923652

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The contact lens industry : structure, competition, and public policy by Leonard G. Schifrin Pdf

Author : Francis W. Halsey
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781616400965

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The Literary Digest History of the World War by Francis W. Halsey Pdf

The quantity of journalism produced during World War I was unlike anything the then-budding mass media had ever seen. Correspondents at the front were dispatching voluminous reports on a daily basis, and though much of it was subject to censorship, it all eventually became available. It remains the most extraordinary firsthand look at the war that we have. Published immediately after the cessation of hostilities and compiled from those original journalistic sources-American, British, French, German, and others-this is an astonishing contemporary perspective on the Great War. This replica of the first 1919 edition includes all the original maps, photos, and illustrations, lending an even greater immediacy to readers a century later. Volume X features personal sketches by war leaders, the formulation of postwar treaties, a chronology of the war, and the index for all 10 volumes. American journalist and historian FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY (1851-1919) was literary editor of The New York Times from 1892 through 1896. He wrote and lectured extensively on history; his works include, as editor, the two-volume Great Epochs in American History Described by Famous Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt (1912), and, as writer, the 10-volume Seeing Europe with Famous Authors (1914).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:098432762

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National Lithographer by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Food and Drug Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Medical instruments and apparatus
ISBN : MINN:319510028724974

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Preamble Compilation by United States. Food and Drug Administration Pdf

Author : Frank Prochaska
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199640614

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Eminent Victorians on American Democracy by Frank Prochaska Pdf

Surveys a wide range of nineteenth-century British opinion on the United States, significant to them not only because it was the world's most advanced democracy, but also because it was a political experiment that was seen to anticipate the future of Britain.

Author : Claire Priest
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691241722

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Credit Nation by Claire Priest Pdf

How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the republic. In this major new history of early America, Claire Priest describes how the British Parliament departed from the customary ways that English law protected land and inheritance, enacting laws for the colonies that privileged creditors by defining land and slaves as commodities available to satisfy debts. Colonial governments, in turn, created local legal institutions that enabled people to further leverage their assets to obtain credit. Priest shows how loans backed with slaves as property fueled slavery from the colonial era through the Civil War, and that increased access to credit was key to the explosive growth of capitalism in nineteenth-century America. Credit Nation presents a new vision of American economic history, one where credit markets and liquidity were prioritized from the outset, where property rights and slaves became commodities for creditors' claims, and where legal institutions played a critical role in the Stamp Act crisis and other political episodes of the founding period.

Author : Allan Nevins
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : British
ISBN : UOM:39015008591326

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America Through British Eyes by Allan Nevins Pdf

Author : Sam Willis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393248838

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The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution by Sam Willis Pdf

A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth? The American Revolution involved a naval war of immense scope and variety, including no fewer than twenty-two navies fighting on five oceans—to say nothing of rivers and lakes. In no other war were so many large-scale fleet battles fought, one of which was the most strategically significant naval battle in all of British, French, and American history. Simultaneous naval campaigns were fought in the English Channel, the North and Mid-Atlantic, the Mediterranean, off South Africa, in the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the North Sea and, of course, off the eastern seaboard of America. Not until the Second World War would any nation actively fight in so many different theaters. In The Struggle for Sea Power, Sam Willis traces every key military event in the path to American independence from a naval perspective, and he also brings this important viewpoint to bear on economic, political, and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the Revolution. In doing so Willis offers valuable new insights into American, British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian history. This unique account of the American Revolution gives us a new understanding of the influence of sea power upon history, of the American path to independence, and of the rise and fall of the British Empire.

Author : Khurana
Publisher : Elsevier India
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8131211320

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Theory And Practice Of Optics And Refraction by Khurana Pdf

Approx. 460 pages

Author : John Batchelor
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995-02-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486283127

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North American Lighthouses Coloring Book by John Batchelor Pdf

Detailed drawings re-create 36 famous lighthouses of the United States and Canada, including those in Cape Hatteras, Montauk Point, Cape Cod, West Quoddy Head, Tybee Island, and other places along the shorelines of North America. Captions accompanying these accurately rendered illustrations provide valuable background information on location, height, and date of construction of each lighthouse.