The Changing Frontier

Author : Adam B. Jaffe,Benjamin F. Jones
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226286723

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The Changing Frontier by Adam B. Jaffe,Benjamin F. Jones Pdf

In 1945, Vannevar Bush, founder of Raytheon and one-time engineering dean at MIT, delivered a report to the president of the United States that argued for the importance of public support for science, and the importance of science for the future of the nation. The report, Science: The Endless Frontier, set America on a path toward strong and well-funded institutions of science, creating an intellectual architecture that still defines scientific endeavor today. In The Changing Frontier, Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin Jones bring together a group of prominent scholars to consider the changes in science and innovation in the ensuing decades. The contributors take on such topics as changes in the organization of scientific research, the geography of innovation, modes of entrepreneurship, and the structure of research institutions and linkages between science and innovation. An important analysis of where science stands today, The Changing Frontier will be invaluable to practitioners and policy makers alike.

Author : George Winter,Christian F. Feest,Russell David Edmunds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015032744412

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Indians and a Changing Frontier by George Winter,Christian F. Feest,Russell David Edmunds Pdf

Author : Nancy Reagin
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609387907

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Re-living the American Frontier by Nancy Reagin Pdf

Who owns the West? -- Buffalo Bill and Karl May : the origins of German Western fandom -- A wall runs through it : western fans in the two Germanies -- Little houses on the prairie -- "And then the American Indians came over" : fan responses to indigenous resurgence and political change -- Indians into Confederates : historical fiction fans, reenactors, and living history.

Author : Adam B. Jaffe,Benjamin F. Jones
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226286860

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The Changing Frontier by Adam B. Jaffe,Benjamin F. Jones Pdf

In 1945, Vannevar Bush, founder of Raytheon and one-time engineering dean at MIT, delivered a report to the president of the United States that argued for the importance of public support for science, and the importance of science for the future of the nation. The report, Science: The Endless Frontier, set America on a path toward strong and well-funded institutions of science, creating an intellectual architecture that still defines scientific endeavor today. In The Changing Frontier, Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin Jones bring together a group of prominent scholars to consider the changes in science and innovation in the ensuing decades. The contributors take on such topics as changes in the organization of scientific research, the geography of innovation, modes of entrepreneurship, and the structure of research institutions and linkages between science and innovation. An important analysis of where science stands today, The Changing Frontier will be invaluable to practitioners and policy makers alike.

Author : Andrés Reséndez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0521543193

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Changing National Identities at the Frontier by Andrés Reséndez Pdf

This book explores how the diverse and fiercely independent peoples of Texas and New Mexico came to think of themselves as members of one particular national community or another in the years leading up to the Mexican-American War. Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and crucial identity decisions against the backdrop of two structural transformations taking place in the region during the first half of the 19th century and often pulling in opposite directions.

Author : Cynthia Culver Prescott
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0816525439

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Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier by Cynthia Culver Prescott Pdf

"Prescott traces long-term ideological changes, arguing that favorable farming conditions enabled Oregon families to progress from accepting flexible frontier roles to participating in a national consumer culture in only one generation. As settlers' children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation's emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John F. Richards
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0520230752

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The Unending Frontier by John F. Richards Pdf

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Author : Carl Abbott
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0816515700

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The Metropolitan Frontier by Carl Abbott Pdf

Honolulu to Houston and from Fargo to Fairbanks to show how Western cities organize the region's vast spaces and connect them to the even larger sphere of the world economy. His survey moves from economic change to social and political response, examining the initial boom of the 1940s, the process of change in the following decades, and the ultimate impact of Western cities on their environments, on the Western regional character, and on national identity. Today, a.

Author : Lee L. Bean,Geraldine P. Mineau,Douglas L. Anderton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520377660

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Fertility Change on the American Frontier by Lee L. Bean,Geraldine P. Mineau,Douglas L. Anderton Pdf

With findings that challenge conventional wisdom, Fertility Change on the American Frontier will interest demographers, sociologists, and historians. Examining the marriage and childbearing behavior of one predominantly L.D.S. (Mormon) population, the book calls into question traditional concepts and methods used to study high fertility populations. Mormons were responsible for the settlement, colonization, and development of one of America's last western frontiers. Availability of detailed information on marriage and childbearing, in a large file of approximately 185,000 family records, makes it possible to study the processes of the decline in fertility more extensively than has ever been done before in a major historical demographic study. The authors examine family formation among cohorts of women born between 1800 and 1899 and contrast two competing explanations of fertility change among Western societies: an adaptation argument versus an innovation argument. They demonstrate that the process of increasing fertility limitation beginning in the later part of the nineteenth century involves more than simply stopping childbearing after a given family size has been achieved. It reflects the adoption of a pattern of child spacing indicating a commitment to family limitation early in the marriage cycle. Clearly we must reexamine earlier studies which assumed that high-fertility populations were not interested in or aware of the possibilities of fertility control. Fertility control can no longer be treated as an innovation of Western industrial societies or as an innovation introduced through national family planning programs. We see that among the Utah frontier population marriage and childbearing represented a rational adaptation to a set of rapidly changing social and economic conditions. Without adequate technologies for family limitation, this population was nevertheless successful in reducing family size quickly and dramatically, once the presumed opportunities of the frontier disappeared. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Author : Ben Marsh
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820343402

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Georgia's Frontier Women by Ben Marsh Pdf

Ranging from Georgia's founding in the 1730s until the American Revolution in the 1770s, Georgia's Frontier Women explores women's changing roles amid the developing demographic, economic, and social circumstances of the colony's settling. Georgia was launched as a unique experiment on the borderlands of the British Atlantic world. Its female population was far more diverse than any in nearby colonies at comparable times in their formation. Ben Marsh tells a complex story of narrowing opportunities for Georgia's women as the colony evolved from uncertainty toward stability in the face of sporadic warfare, changes in government, land speculation, and the arrival of slaves and immigrants in growing numbers. Marsh looks at the experiences of white, black, and Native American women-old and young, married and single, working in and out of the home. Mary Musgrove, who played a crucial role in mediating colonist-Creek relations, and Marie Camuse, a leading figure in Georgia's early silk industry, are among the figures whose life stories Marsh draws on to illustrate how some frontier women broke down economic barriers and wielded authority in exceptional ways. Marsh also looks at how basic assumptions about courtship, marriage, and family varied over time. To early settlers, for example, the search for stability could take them across race, class, or community lines in search of a suitable partner. This would change as emerging elites enforced the regulation of traditional social norms and as white relationships with blacks and Native Americans became more exploitive and adversarial. Many of the qualities that earlier had distinguished Georgia from other southern colonies faded away.

Author : James L. A. Webb
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0299143341

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Desert Frontier by James L. A. Webb Pdf

Documents the increasing aridity of the transitional zone between the full desert of the Sahara and the open grassland of western Africa, the border moving 200-300 kilometers south during a brief two and half centuries; and the political and economic changes as pastoral nomads of the desert edge followed the shift south, and the agricultural communities in their way had to abandon their villages or face subjugation. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Lois Labrianidis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429627149

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The Moving Frontier by Lois Labrianidis Pdf

Originally published in 1992 and based on two theoretical approaches: the Global Commodity Chain and the Global Production Network, this book investigates the multitude of processes, as well as diverse consequences of global integration upon industries, regions, enterprises and employees. In doing so, it draws from the experience of Western and Eastern and South-eastern Europe. These European cases are complemented with evidence from Kenya, Thailand as well as US, China, India and Mexico. The book explores multiple causes of decentralization, arguing beyond the pursuit of cheap and adaptable labour. It goes on to argue that the effects of delocalization within Europe, unlike those in the rest of the developed world, are less negative than usually portrayed. It concludes by putting forward recommendations for best future practice of successful adjustment strategies and examines how these might be adopted elsewhere in the world.

Author : David M. Wrobel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521192019

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America's West by David M. Wrobel Pdf

This book examines the regional history of the American West in relation to the rest of the United States, emphasizing cultural and political history.

Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547004660

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The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner Pdf

The Frontier in American History is a collection of works related to the history of American colonization of Wild West. Turner expresses his views on how the idea of the frontier shaped the American being and characteristics. He writes how the frontier drove American history and why America is what it is today. Turner reflects on the past to illustrate his point by noting human fascination with the frontier and how expansion to the American West changed people's views on their culture. _x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ The Significance of the Frontier in American History_x000D_ The First Official Frontier of the Massachusetts Bay_x000D_ The Old West_x000D_ The Middle West_x000D_ The Ohio Valley in American History_x000D_ The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History_x000D_ The Problem of the West_x000D_ Dominant Forces in Western Life_x000D_ Contributions of the West to American Democracy_x000D_ Pioneer Ideals and the State University_x000D_ The West and American Ideals_x000D_ Social Forces in American History_x000D_ Middle Western Pioneer Democracy

Author : Diane Shaw
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421429311

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City Building on the Eastern Frontier by Diane Shaw Pdf

America's westward expansion involved more than pushing the frontier across the Mississippi toward the Pacific; it also consisted of urbanizing undeveloped regions of the colonial states. In 1810, New York's future governor DeWitt Clinton marveled that the "rage for erecting villages is a perfect mania." The development of Rochester and Syracuse illuminates the national experience of internal economic and cultural colonization during the first half of the nineteenth century. Architectural historian Diane Shaw examines the ways in which these new cities were shaped by a variety of constituents—founders, merchants, politicians, and settlers—as opportunities to extend the commercial and social benefits of the market economy and a merchant culture to America's interior. At the same time, she analyzes how these priorities resulted in a new approach to urban planning. According to Shaw, city founders and residents deliberately arranged urban space into three segmented districts—commercial, industrial, and civic—to promote a self-fulfilling vision of a profitable and urbane city. Shaw uncovers a distinctly new model of urbanization that challenges previous paradigms of the physical and social construction of nineteenth-century cities. Within two generations, the new cities of Rochester and Syracuse were sorted at multiple scales, including not only the functional definition of districts, but also the refinement of building types and styles, the stratification of building interiors by floor, and even the coding of public space by class, gender, and race. Shaw's groundbreaking model of early nineteenth-century urban design and spatial culture is a major contribution to the interdisciplinary study of the American city.