The Americas In The Modern Age

Author : Lester D. Langley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300107684

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The Americas in the Modern Age by Lester D. Langley Pdf

In this wide-ranging book, historian Lester D. Langley offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the modern Western hemisphere since the mid-nineteenth century. He evaluates the dynamics of hemispheric history, commencing with the articulation of the ?two Americas” (Theodore Roosevelt's America and the contrasting America described by Cuban revolutionary, essayist, and poet José Martí) and culminating with recent controversial efforts to forge a united hemisphere. Tracing the interactions and influences among the nations of South, Central, and North America, including Canada, Langley departs from other accounts of the past 150 years. He argues that the seedtime for today's Americas was not the Cold War but the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He also contends that it is not what the countries and people of the Americas have in common that binds them; instead, their cultural, political, and economic conflicts tie them together. Comprehensive and balanced, this history of the nations of the Americas offers new insights into both the past and the future of inter-American relations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : America
ISBN : 0300148526

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The Americas in the Modern Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Snow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451645576

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I Invented the Modern Age by Richard Snow Pdf

An account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T, the machine that defined twentieth-century America.

Author : Lester D. Langley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300077262

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The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 by Lester D. Langley Pdf

Langley examines the political and social tensions reverberating throughout British, French, and Spanish America, pointing out the characteristics that distinguished each unpheaval from the others: the impact of place or location on the course of revolution; the dynamics of race and color as well as class; the relation between leaders and followers; the strength of counterrevolutionary movements; and, especially, the way that militarization of society during war affected the new governments in the postrevolutionary era. Langley argues that an understanding of the legacy of the revolutionary age sheds tremendous light on the political condition of the Americas today: virtually every modern political issue - the relationship of the state to the individual, the effectiveness of government, the liberal promise for progress, and the persistence of color as a critical dynamic in social policy - was central to the earlier period.

Author : Carl Abbott
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132258281

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Urban America in the Modern Age by Carl Abbott Pdf

Since the appearance of Urban America in the Modern Age in 1987, the study of American cities has flourished. In this long-awaited second edition, Carl Abbott draws on the recent works of historians who have explored issues of urban growth, municipal politics, immigration and ethnicity, “suburbanization,” and environmental change. The fascination with growth and change in the nation’s metropolitan areas spans a wide range of scholarly fields, and the new edition also benefits from scholarship in disciplines closely related to urban history, including geography, political science, sociology, and urban planning. Featuring an entirely new chapter covering the years since 1980 and a bank of interesting photographs, the second edition of Urban America in the Modern Age further explores and fine-tunes the themes and topics central to its predecessor—the physical form of metropolitan areas, their sources of growth and mix of ethnic and racial groups, the shaping of and responses to public policy, and ideas of community planning. Regionally balanced—with examples from New York, Boston, and Chicago, as well as Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, San Antonio, Miami, Charlotte, Washington, Detroit, and Cleveland—the second edition of Urban America in the Modern Age makes ideal supplementary reading for courses in Urban History, twentieth-century America, as well as the second half of the U.S. survey.

Author : Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349604685

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America in the Modern World by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd Pdf

The past few years have witnessed changes which will be of lasting significance in international affairs. The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, for example, are fundamental not only for those societies but also in their implications for the rest of the world. They signal the passing of the international order that has governed the post war era. Since the United States was the principal architect of that order, its passing will have fundamental implications for America's role in the modern world. It has been suggested that this transformation will reduce the US to the status of an ordinary country, indeed that the signs of decline are already everywhere apparent. In this book, the author argues to the contrary that the emerging new world order offers great opportunities to the US to maintain its status as the leading power in the world.

Author : Stephen Burman
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0312019718

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America in the Modern World by Stephen Burman Pdf

The past few years have witnessed changes which will be of lasting significance in international affairs. The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, for example, are fundamental not only for those societies but also in their implications for the rest of the world. They signal the passing of the international order that has governed the post war era. Since the United States was the principal architect of that order, its passing will have fundamental implications for America's role in the modern world. It has been suggested that this transformation will reduce the US to the status of an ordinary country, indeed that the signs of decline are already everywhere apparent. In this book, the author argues to the contrary that the emerging new world order offers great opportunities to the US to maintain its status as the leading power in the world.

Author : Marc Rotenberg,Jeramie Scott,Julia Horwitz
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781620971086

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Privacy in the Modern Age by Marc Rotenberg,Jeramie Scott,Julia Horwitz Pdf

The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls; Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats; Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes; Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information; our medical records are available for sale to strangers; our children are fingerprinted and their every test score saved for posterity; and small robots patrol our schoolyards and drones may soon fill our skies. The contributors to this anthology don't simply describe these problems or warn about the loss of privacy—they propose solutions. They look closely at business practices, public policy, and technology design, and ask, “Should this continue? Is there a better approach?” They take seriously the dictum of Thomas Edison: “What one creates with his hand, he should control with his head.” It's a new approach to the privacy debate, one that assumes privacy is worth protecting, that there are solutions to be found, and that the future is not yet known. This volume will be an essential reference for policy makers and researchers, journalists and scholars, and others looking for answers to one of the biggest challenges of our modern day. The premise is clear: there's a problem—let's find a solution.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UVA:X000239758

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History of Latin American Civilization: The modern age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hans Blumenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262521059

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The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by Hans Blumenberg Pdf

In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an internal logic that ultimately expresses human choices and is legitimized by human self-assertion, by man's responsibility for his own fate.

Author : William Howard Sir Russell
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547585169

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The Civil War in America. Fuller's Modern Age, August 1861 by William Howard Sir Russell Pdf

"The Civil War in America. Fuller's Modern Age, August 1861" by William Howard Sir Russell. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Denis William Brogan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1980-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313222542

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America in the Modern World by Denis William Brogan Pdf

Author : C. A. Bayly
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0631187995

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The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 by C. A. Bayly Pdf

This book is a thematic history of the world from 1780, the pivotal year of the revolutionary age, to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. It brings together historical data and arguments from different societies in order to show how interconnected the world was, even before the onset of modern globalization. "The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 demonstrates how events in Asia, Africa, and South America, from the decline of the eighteenth-century Islamic empires to the anti-European Boxer rebellion of 1900 in China, had a direct impact on European and American history. Conversely, it sketches the "ripple effects" of crises such as the European revolutions and the American Civil War. The book also considers the great themes of the nineteenth-century world: the rise of the modern state, industrialization, liberalism, and the progress of world religions. Engaging and original, this book both challenges and complements the dominant regional and national approaches traditionally adopted by historians.

Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : America
ISBN : NYPL:33433082126578

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Bibliotheca Americana by Joseph Sabin Pdf

Author : Dennis J. Stanford,Bruce A. Bradley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520949676

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Across Atlantic Ice by Dennis J. Stanford,Bruce A. Bradley Pdf

Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional—and often subjective—approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.