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Author : Michael Adas,American Historical Association
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439902714
Probing the paradoxes of "the long twentieth century"--Unprecedented human opportunity and deprivation to the rise of the United States as a hegemon
Author : Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher : LibreDigital
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0470998520
An authoritative survey of the most important topics and themes of 20th-century American history and historiography. Each essay synthesizes the current state of contemporary American scholarship, covering topics such as foreign policy, religion, labour, ethnicity, law, the military and the media.
Author : Bruce J. Schulman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199323968
The twentieth century has been popularly seen as "the American Century," a long period in which the United States had amassed the economic resources, the political and military strength, and the moral prestige to assume global leadership. By century's end, the trajectory of American politics, the sense of ever waxing federal power, and the nation's place in the world seemed less assured. Americans of many stripes came to contest the standard narratives of nation building and international hegemony charted by generations of historians. In this volume, a group of distinguished U.S. historians confronts the teleological view of the inexorable transformation of the United States into a modern nation. The contributors analyze a host of ways in which local places were drawn into a wider polity and culture, while at the same time revealing how national and international structures and ideas created new kinds of local movements and local energies. Rather than seeing the century as a series of conflicts between liberalism and conservatism, they illustrate the ways in which each of these political forces shaped its efforts over the other's cumulative achievements, accommodating to shifts in government, social mores, and popular culture. They demonstrate that international connections have transformed domestic life in myriad ways and, in turn, that the American presence in the world has been shaped by its distinctive domestic political culture. Finally, they break down boundaries between the public and private sectors, showcasing the government's role in private life and how private organizations influenced national politics. Revisiting and revising many of the chestnuts of American political history, this volume challenges received wisdom about the twentieth-century American experience.
Author : Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000567700
Essays on 20th Century Latin American Art provides a broad synthesis of the subject through short chapters illustrated with reproductions of iconic works by artists who have made significant contributions to art and society. Designed as a teaching tool for non-art historians, the book's purpose is to introduce these important artists within a new scholarly context and recognize their accomplishments with those of others beyond the Americas and the Caribbean. The publication provides an in-depth analysis of topics such as political issues in Latin American art and art and popular culture, introducing views on artists and art-related issues that have rarely been addressed. Organized both regionally and thematically, it takes a unique approach to the exploration of art in the Americas, beginning with discussions of Modernism and Abstraction, followed by a chapter on art and politics from the 1960s to the 1980s. The author covers Spanish-speaking Central America and the Caribbean, regions not usually addressed in Latin American art history surveys. The chapter on Carnival as an expression of popular culture is a particularly valuable addition. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American history, culture, art, international relations, gender studies, and sociology, as well as Caribbean studies.
Author : Raymond Aron
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780786748563
In this collection of essays written over a period of almost forty years, Raymond Aron explores the rise of nationalism in Europe through the two world wars and the subsequent disintegration of her empires. With a richness of detail and sweeping breadth of historical examples, he chronicles and analyzes the history of the opposite ideological extremes of Fascism and Marxism and their descent into totalitarianism via secular religiosity. Aron also examines French imperialism through the examples of Algeria and Indochina, as well as America's role as an "imperial republic" during and after World War II. Aron was never orthodox in his ideology; neither his republican political penchants nor his dialectical intellectual orientation ever gained the upper hand over his devotion to empirical reality. The result here is an intellectual history that seems less concerned about where it falls on the political spectrum than about getting it right.
Author : Pauline Fairclough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317005797
When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as a number of the chapters in this volume demonstrate, there is a complex relationship both between art music and politicised mass culture, and between entertainment and propaganda. Nationality, self/other, power and ideology are the dominant themes of this book, whilst key topics include: music in totalitarian regimes; music as propaganda; music and national identity; émigré communities and composers; music's role in shaping identities of 'self' and 'other' and music as both resistance to and instrument of oppression. Taking the contributions together it becomes clear that shared experiences such as war, dictatorship, colonialism, exile and emigration produced different, yet clearly inter-related musical consequences.
Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American essays
ISBN : 0880642513
This collection of the best essays written in the English language during the past one hundred years includes many that have become landmarks defining their time: Norman Mailer's The White Negro, Tom Wolfe's These Radical Chic Evenings, James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, and Gore Vidal's The Holy Family. Others are in a lighter vein, like James Thurber's lampoon of Salvador Dali's Secret Life or Max Beerbohm's reflections on Laughter. There are Philip Roth on baseball and A. P. Herbert on bathrooms; Mary McCarthy's My Confession, on her Communist sympathies; and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-up. Each reader will have his or her own favorites: Eudora Welty capturing the precise moment at which she grew up, or Arthur Koestler debunking the effects of magic mushrooms. And each essay has stood the test of time, like Hannah Arendt's The Concentration Camps, Edmund Wilson's now classic The Wound and the Bow, and Paul Fussell on World War II.
Author : Frank W. Thackeray,John E. Findling
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313290756
The aftershocks of the volatile 20th century will be felt for generations to come. In order to understand the current and future direction of the world, it is imperative to reflect on this century's seminal events and their lasting impact. Designed for students, this unique resource offers detailed descriptions and expert analysis of the 20th century's most important events: World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Rise of Fascism, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, the Chinese Revolution, the end of Colonialism and the Rise of the Third World, European unification, and the collapse of the Soviet union. Each of the events is dealt with in a separate chapter. An introductory essay presenting the facts about each event precedes an interpretive essay by a recognized authority on the event. Exploring beyond the traditional textbook treatment of history, these interpretive essays consider the immediate and far-reaching ramifications of each event. Through this innovative approach, students will be inspired to further analyze these events not only from a historical perspective, but also in the context of the world in which they live today. In order to make complex history easily understandable, the ]ntroductory essay for each event provides factual background in a clear, concise, chronological manner. Written for a general readership, the interpretive essays assess each event in terms of its political, economic, sociocultural, and international/diplomatic impact. Some essays validate the norm, while others challenge conventional wisdom; all reflect the most recent scholarship concerning each event. Each interpretive essay is followed by an annotated bibliography that identifies the most important and most recent scholarship about the respective events. A photo of each event offers a visual component to the narrative. The volume contains four useful appendices: a glossary of names, events, organizations, treaties, and terms; a timeline of important events in 20th-century world history; the population of selected countries; and a list of states achieving independence since 1945. This work is perfect for the high school, community college, and undergraduate library reference shelf, as well as supplementary reading in social studies and world history courses.
Author : Harold Dwight Lasswell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1969-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226723990
Harold Lasswell is one of America's most distinguished political scientists, a man whose work has had enormous impact both in the United States and abroad upon not only his own field but also those of sociology, psychology and psychiatry, economics, law, anthropology, and communications. This collection of essays is the first full-scale effort to deal with the voluminous writings of Lasswell and explore his at once charming and baffling personality which is perhaps inseparable from the inventiveness, unconventionality, and unusual scope of his work. The authors of these essays, many of whom are former students or collaborators, view their subject from a variety of perspectives. What emerges is a full assessment of Lasswell's many-faceted contribution to the social scholarship of his time.
Author : Peter Catterall
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : A-level examinations
ISBN : 0435319345
In this title, over 20 essays tackle the most common exam questions and show the standard required for an A grade at A-level. The essays address key issues, show students the necessary skills and techniques of essay writing, and describe how to select essay content.
Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English essays
ISBN : 0140255214
Whether highly personal, polemical, philosophical or playful, the essays in this fascinating collection capture their times with wit, urgency, erudition and insight. Decade by decade, the greatest British and American writers span the twentieth century, including Orwell's 'England Your England', Nancy Mitford on the upper classes, Fitzgerald's 'Crack Up', James Baldwin's harrowing 'Notes of a Native Son', Martin Amis on US politics, Tom Wolfe on 'radical chic' and Julian Barnes on the Thatcher years.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American essays
ISBN : OCLC:1147992956
Author : Judith Boyce DeMark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : New Mexico
ISBN : OCLC:44964787
Author : Wayne Urban
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135641696
A comprehensive treatment of the defining issues (race, class, reform) regarding education in this century of the American South. The approaches range from broad based historical comparisons to analyses of select case studies.
Author : Dick Richardson,Professor Glyn A Stone,Glyn Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134859856
Some of the most formidable names in international history focus on the themes: the League of Nations and collective security, problems in British foreign policy, and European/international security in the interwar years.
