Anglo American Crossroads

Author : Genevieve Carpio
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520298828

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Collisions at the Crossroads by Genevieve Carpio Pdf

There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads, maintaining control over place and mobility, labor and race. In Collisions at the Crossroads, Genevieve Carpio argues that mobility, both permission to move freely and prohibitions on movement, helped shape racial formation in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles and the Inland Empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining policies and forces as different as historical societies, Indian boarding schools, bicycle ordinances, immigration policy, incarceration, traffic checkpoints, and Route 66 heritage, she shows how local authorities constructed a racial hierarchy by allowing some people to move freely while placing limits on the mobility of others. Highlighting the ways people of color have negotiated their place within these systems, Carpio reveals a compelling and perceptive analysis of spatial mobility through physical movement and residence.

Author : Mark Clapson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441141491

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Anglo-American Crossroads by Mark Clapson Pdf

A critical and original evaluation of American influences on urban reconstruction and regeneration in post-war Britain.

Author : Greg Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : East Asia
ISBN : OCLC:953294676

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Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933-1939 by Greg Kennedy Pdf

Author : Mark Clapson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1472575326

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Anglo-American Crossroads by Mark Clapson Pdf

The postwar British city was been shaped by many international forces during the last century, but American influences on British urban research and urban planning have been particularly significant. Beginning with debates about reconstruction during the Second World War, Anglo-American Crossroads explores how Americanisation influenced key approaches to town planning, from reconstruction after 1945 to the New Urbanism of the 1990s. Clapson pays particular attention to the relationship between urban sociological research and planning issues since the 1950s. He also addresses the ways in which American developers and planners of new communities looked to the British new towns and garden city movement for inspiration. Using a wide range of sources, from American Foundation Archives to town planning materials and urban sociologies, Anglo-American Crossroads shows that although some things went wrong in translation from the USA to Britain, there were also some important successes within a transatlantic dialogue that was more nuanced than a one-dimensional process of American hegemony.

Author : Fraser J. Harbutt,Fraser J.. Harbutt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521856775

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Yalta 1945 by Fraser J. Harbutt,Fraser J.. Harbutt Pdf

This book examines Allied diplomacy from 1941 to 1946, challenging Americocentric views and highlighting the significance of Europe's diplomatic role. Harbutt argues that the Yalta conference of February 1945 was a pivotal moment that signaled a shift from a pre-existing "Europe/America" framework to the "East/West" conception that led to the Cold War.

Author : Kornel Chang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520951549

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Pacific Connections by Kornel Chang Pdf

In the late nineteenth century the borderlands between the United States, the British Empire in Canada, and the Asia-Pacific Rim emerged as a crossroads of the Pacific world. In Pacific Connections, Kornel Chang tells the dramatic stories of the laborers, merchants, smugglers, and activists who crossed these borders into the twentieth century, and the American and British empire-builders who countered them by hardening racial and national lines. But even as settler societies attempted to control the processes of imperial integration, their project fractured under its contradictions. Migrant workers and radical activists pursued a transnational politics through the very networks that made empire possible. Charting the U.S.-Canadian borderlands from above and below, Chang reveals the messiness of imperial formation and the struggles it spawned from multiple locations and through different actors across the Pacific world. Pacific Connections is the winner of the Outstanding Book in History award from the Association for Asian American Studies and is a finalist for the John Hope Franklin Book Prize from the American Studies Association.

Author : Lauren Pikó
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429816178

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Milton Keynes in British Culture by Lauren Pikó Pdf

The new town of Milton Keynes was designated in 1967 with a bold, flexible social vision to impose "no fixed conception of how people ought to live." Despite this progressive social vision, and its low density, flexible, green urban design, the town has been consistently represented in British media, political rhetoric and popular culture negatively. as a fundamentally sterile, paternalistic, concrete imposition on the landscape, as a "joke", and even as "Los Angeles in Buckinghamshire". How did these meanings develop at such odds from residents' and planners' experiences? Why have these meanings proved so resilient? Milton Keynes in British Culture traces the representations of Milton Keynes in British national media, political rhetoric and popular culture in detail from 1967 to 1992, demonstrating how the town's founding principles came to be understood as symbolic of the worst excesses of a postwar state planning system which was falling from favour. Combining approaches from urban planning history, cultural history and cultural studies, political economy and heritage studies, the book maps the ways in which Milton Keynes' newness formed an existential challenge to ideals of English landscapes as receptacles of tradition and closed, fixed national identities. Far from being a marginal, "foreign" and atypical town, the book demonstrates how the changing political fortunes of state urban planned spaces were a key site of conflict around ideas of how the British state should function, how its landscapes should look, and who they should be for.

Author : Timothy J. Shannon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0801488184

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Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire by Timothy J. Shannon Pdf

On the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending collapse of Indian trade and diplomacy in the northern colonies, a problem exacerbated by uncooperative, resistant colonial governments. In the first book on the subject in more than forty-five years, Timothy J. Shannon definitively rewrites the historical record on the Albany Congress. Challenging the received wisdom that has equated the Congress and the plan of colonial union it produced with the origins of American independence, Shannon demonstrates conclusively the Congress's importance in the wider context of Britain's eighteenth-century Atlantic empire. In the process, the author poses a formidable challenge to the Iroquois Influence Thesis. The Six Nations, he writes, had nothing to do with the drafting of the Albany Plan, which borrowed its model of constitutional union not from the Iroquois but from the colonial delegates' British cousins. Far from serving as a dress rehearsal for the Constitutional Convention, the Albany Congress marked, for colonists and Iroquois alike, a passage from an independent, commercial pattern of intercultural relations to a hierarchical, bureaucratic imperialism wielded by a distant authority.

Author : Samuel Truett,Elliott Young
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0822333899

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Continental Crossroads by Samuel Truett,Elliott Young Pdf

Focuses on the modern Mexican-American borderlands, where a boundary line seems to separate two dissimilar cultures and economies.

Author : Charles J. Baserap
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-28
Category : Political culture
ISBN : 0982800762

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An American at the Crossroads by Charles J. Baserap Pdf

Baserap, who served in the U.S. Secret Service at the White House and Foreign Missions Branches and currently works at the Pentagon, strips away partisan arguments of issues like the Patriot Act and the War on Terror to show that somewhere between Right and Left lies a common ground that is essential for winning the War on Terror.

Author : Françoise N. Hamlin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807835494

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Crossroads at Clarksdale by Françoise N. Hamlin Pdf

Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town ov

Author : Rosemary Wakeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226346038

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Practicing Utopia by Rosemary Wakeman Pdf

The typical town springs up around a natural resource such as a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbour or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with 'new towns, ' which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often intended to break from the tendencies of past development. New towns aren't a new thing but these utopian developments saw a resurgence in the 20th century. Rosemary Wakeman gives us a sweeping view of the new town movement as a global phenomenon, from Tapiola in Finland to Islamabad in Pakistan, Cergy-Pontoise in France to Irvine in California.

Author : Guy Ortolano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108482660

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Thatcher's Progress by Guy Ortolano Pdf

Horizons -- Planning -- Architecture -- Community -- Consulting -- Housing.

Author : Carrie Gibson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230766181

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Empire's Crossroads by Carrie Gibson Pdf

In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson offers readers a vivid, authoritative and action-packed history of the Caribbean. For Gibson, everything was created in the West Indies: the Europe of today, its financial foundations built with sugar money: the factories and mills built as a result of the work of slaves thousands of miles away; the idea of true equality as espoused in Saint Domingue in the 1790s; the slow progress to independence; and even globalization and migration, with the ships passing to and fro taking people and goods in all possible directions, hundreds of years before the term 'globalization' was coined. From Cuba to Haiti, from Dominica to Martinique, from Jamaica to Trinidad, the story of the Caribbean is not simply the story of slaves and masters - but of fortune-seekers and pirates, scientists and servants, travellers and tourists. It is not only a story of imperial expansion - European and American - but of global connections, and also of life as it is lived in the islands, both in the past and today.

Author : Diane Mutti Burke,John P. Herron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132262507

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Kansas City, America's Crossroads by Diane Mutti Burke,John P. Herron Pdf

The fourteen articles in this anthology, previously published in the Missouri Historical Review, examine multiple facets of Kansas City's history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning with events prior to the settlement of the area, the essays describe important episodes in the social, economic, racial, and political life of Kansas City. Boss Tom Pendergast, conflict between incoming Mormons and earlier settlers, and a young female teacher's experience in the 1840s all figure into this rich history of the Kansas City area.