Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015895100
Douglas Airview
Anonim
Douglas Airview
Douglas Airview Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Douglas Airview book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Proud to Be an Okie
Peter La Chapelle
Author : Peter La Chapelle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520940000
Proud to Be an Okie by Peter La Chapelle Pdf
Proud to Be an Okie brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s to the early 1970s. The first work to fully illuminate the political and cultural aspects of this intriguing story, the book takes us from Woody Guthrie's radical hillbilly show on Depression-era radio to Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee" in the late 1960s. It explores how these migrant musicians and their audiences came to gain a sense of identity through music and mass media, to embrace the New Deal, and to celebrate African American and Mexican American musical influences before turning toward a more conservative outlook. What emerges is a clear picture of how important Southern California was to country music and how country music helped shape the politics and culture of Southern California and of the nation.
From Coveralls to Zoot Suits
Elizabeth R. Escobedo
Author : Elizabeth R. Escobedo
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469602066
From Coveralls to Zoot Suits by Elizabeth R. Escobedo Pdf
During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shifts and the war challenged Americans to rethink notions of race. At this extraordinary historical moment, Mexican American women found new means to exercise control over their lives in the home, workplace, and nation. In From Coveralls to Zoot Suits, Elizabeth R. Escobedo explores how, as war workers and volunteers, dance hostesses and zoot suiters, respectable young ladies and rebellious daughters, these young women used wartime conditions to serve the United States in its time of need and to pursue their own desires. But even after the war, as Escobedo shows, Mexican American women had to continue challenging workplace inequities and confronting family and communal resistance to their broadening public presence. Highlighting seldom heard voices of the "Greatest Generation," Escobedo examines these contradictions within Mexican families and their communities, exploring the impact of youth culture, outside employment, and family relations on the lives of women whose home-front experiences and everyday life choices would fundamentally alter the history of a generation.
100 Years of Magazine Covers
Steve Taylor
Author : Steve Taylor
Publisher : Black Dog Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Magazine covers
ISBN : 9781904772422
100 Years of Magazine Covers by Steve Taylor Pdf
Showcasing a vast range of titles, from fashion to reportage, and high-end design to counter-cultural fanzines, this collection offers an insight not only into the work of the most influential art directors, publishers and designers of the last century, but into the way that we perceive and represent ourselves and the culture in which we live; our interests, concerns, and aspirations.
Arming America Through the Centuries
Benjamin Franklin Cooling
Author : Benjamin Franklin Cooling
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781621905868
Arming America Through the Centuries by Benjamin Franklin Cooling Pdf
"This book examines the roots of the military industrial complex (MIC) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the MIC's full flowering in the wake of the Cold War, and how America's current MIC evolved after the events of 9/11 and throughout the War on Terror. Specifically, Cooling argues that the MIC has transformed into a problematic demand for absolute security that is neither practicable nor financially sound. While emphasizing many aspects of Eisenhower's broad conception of the MIC, and Eisenhower's own warning at the close of World War II, Cooling's synthesis provides historical perspective on American industry as a matter of national security, on the rise of outsourcing practices, and on the changing nature of modern warfare"--
American Aviation Daily
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013184853
American Aviation Daily by Anonim Pdf
Rosie the Riveter in Long Beach
Gerrie Schipske
Author : Gerrie Schipske
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738558141
Rosie the Riveter in Long Beach by Gerrie Schipske Pdf
During World War II, an unprecedented number of women took jobs at aircraft plants, shipyards, munitions factories, and other concerns across the nation to produce material essential to winning the war. Affectionately and collectively called aRosie the Rivetera after a popular 1943 song, thousands of these women came to the U.S. Armyafinanced Douglas Aircraft Plant in Long Beach, the largest wartime plane manufacturer, to help produce an astonishing number of the aircraft used in the war. They riveted, welded, assembled, and installed, doing man-sized jobs, making attack bombers, other war birds, and cargo transports. They trained at Long Beach City Schools and worked 8- and 10-hour shifts in a windowless, bomb-proof plant. Their children attended Long Beach Day Nursery, and their households ran on rations and victory gardens. When the men came home after the war ended, most of these resilient women lost their jobs.
World War II and the American Dream
Margaret Crawford
Author : Margaret Crawford
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262510839
World War II and the American Dream by Margaret Crawford Pdf
with essays by Peter S. Reed, Robert Friedel, Margaret Crawford, Greg Hise, Joel Davidson, and Michael Sorkin Among the legacies of World War II was a massive building program on a scale that America had not seen before and has not seen since. The war effort created thousands of factories, homes, even entire cities throughout the country. Many of these structures still stand, the physical evidence of an unprecedented ability to harness the power and resources of a people. The complex legacy of this most notable period in our nation's history is discussed from a different perspective by each contributor. Peter S. Reed, Associate Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, details the rise of modern architecture during the war -- housing designs that used the latest ideas in prefabricated construction methods, lightweight materials, innovative technologies, and a corporate and institutional aesthetic that helped popularize modernism as the appropriate image of American industrial might and corporate success. Robert Friedel, Professor of History at the University of Maryland, documents the development of new materials, especially plastics, and discusses techniques for employing traditional materials in novel ways. Margaret Crawford, Chair of the History and Theory of Architecture Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, explores the struggle of women and blacks for public housing. Greg Hise, Assistant Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Southern California, considers how the construction of large-scale residential communities near defense plants prefigured postwar suburbia. Joel Davidson, historian of the "World War II and the American Dream" exhibition, analyzes the impact of the war's building program on the postwar military-industrial complex. Finally, Michael Sorkin, architect and writer, explores the migration of certain values and aesthetics from the necessities of war to the choices of peace. Among these are images of speed, camouflage, ruin, totalization, and flight. Copublished with The National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
Magnetic Los Angeles
Greg Hise
Author : Greg Hise
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801862558
Magnetic Los Angeles by Greg Hise Pdf
Suburban development is often considered synonymous with enhanced personal mobility, single-family housing, and life cycle homogeneity. According to this view, individual suburbs are residence-only enclaves, isolated commuter-sheds for a managerial and mercantile elite. Magnetic Los Angeles challenges this common vision of the expanding, twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of dispersion without planning, lacking any discernable order.
Aero Digest
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015080111589
Aero Digest by Anonim Pdf
American Aviation
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1506 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015024343355
American Aviation by Anonim Pdf
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128906414
Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015076107328
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf
Sea-Quences
Al A. Adams
Author : Al A. Adams
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781413470024
Sea-Quences by Al A. Adams Pdf
The three stories of Captain Adams' first book, Sea-Quences, are diversified in nature and offer something for everyone. The first heart-pounding adventure takes place on the Atlantic in a gale force on board the beautiful N. G. Hereshoff yacht, Vayu. The original commission was to deliver the yacht to the West Coast by way of the Panama Canal and Mother Nature changed the plan. The second adventure was the same type of commissioned delivery-East Coast departure and San Diego destination, also by way of the Panama Canal. This story is a wonderful cruising adventure with lots of descriptive geography and history along the way. Of course there is excitement thrown in by way of very close calls that can happen when out to sea! The final story is filled with fun and humor, and not without excitement, on a weekend charter sail to Santa Catalina Island. Al Adams has many stories - one would acquire quite a few stories while sailing for so many miles and visiting so many places. Seeing the world in Al Adams' fashion is very fulfilling. It is lucky for us that Al's storytelling is so complete that by reading the stories, you can believe you must have been aboard. Al's second book, Sea-Quences and Beyond, will be available soon and will be chock full of breath-taking, breath-holding, exciting stories. Don't miss it!
U.S. Air Services
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : CORNELL:31924004964114