This American Moment

Author : Caron E. Gentry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190901271

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This American Moment by Caron E. Gentry Pdf

According to this book, the United States is currently in a moment of crisis, fomented by anxieties around race and gender politics. Unlike fear, which is usually focused on a particular object, anxiety is indeterminate and uncertain. It is also the emotion that led to the election and continued support of President Trump. But Caron Gentry says that we can deal with this anxiety in a productive way. To do so, she turns to Reinhold Niebuhr, whose philosophy of Christian realism has been an abiding influence on foreign policy since the Cold War. According to Niebuhr "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." Anxiety is central to Niebuhr's ideas: an emotion that is abiding because we lack control over the circumstances of our lives. In turn, anxiety prompts a desire for unity, but also an intolerance for difference. Niebuhr suggests that anxiety can be dealt with destructively or creatively, and that power must be balanced to prevent destructive action. Gentry is critical of Niebuhr, saying that he gives in to destructive tendencies in humans by elevating power above other, more creative solutions. In This American Moment, she offers feminist Christian realism as an alternate approach to anxiety in international politics. Gentry's feminist Christian realism differentiates itself from Niebuhr's Christian realism by re-engaging the importance of love and relationships over power. It suggests that we can arrive at creative solutions to anxiety through a conversation about the imago dei and the inherent commitments to community borne of one's relationship with God, including the recognition of obligation in the face of vulnerability. Throughout Gentry applies her ideas to the problems of police brutality, women's reproductive health, and the rise in fascist politics.

Author : M. G. Montpelier
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483454436

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This American Moment:Thoughts on the American Condition by M. G. Montpelier Pdf

THIS AMERICAN MOMENT is a commentary on the frustration, challenges, and uncertainty of a people suffering - a people struggling day-to-day to survive economic agenda of America's Subsistence Trickle-Down Society. "Today I bear witness to the duplicity, iniquity, and pretension of this American Moment; /Today I face the frustration, uncertainty, and despair of a people living 'in quiet desperation;' /Today I endure the ordeal, misery, and distress of a proud industrious people; /Today I struggle to survive the betrayal, corruption, and desolation of Deregulation, Free Trade, and the Robber Barons of this American Moment; /Today I know this day is my every day for all my tomorrows." M.G. Montpelier M.G. Montpelier is a Catholic, Eagle Scout, teacher, genealogist, and retired Federal officer. He is a native of Rouses Point, New York; a graduate of Paul Smith's College and the State University of New York at Plattsburgh; and in retirement enjoys riding the rails of the world's classic rail journeys.

Author : Paul Levine,Harry Papasotiriou
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0230251447

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America since 1945 by Paul Levine,Harry Papasotiriou Pdf

The period from 1945 to the present day may not constitute an American century, but it can be seen as the American Moment: the time when, for good or ill, the United States became the predominant political, military, economic and cultural power in the world. This revised and updated new edition introduces the historic and tumultuous developments in American politics, foreign policy, society and culture during this period. It includes coverage of key recent events, such as the: - 2008 election of Barack Obama - global recession - protracted war in Iraq and Afghanistan - rise of the internet - transformation of American Society and Culture - challenges of new immigration and multi-culturalism - changing global status of the US in the new millennium. Examining the American Moment in a global context, the authors emphasise the interaction between politics, society and culture. America Since 1945 encourages an awareness of how central currents in art, literature, film, theatre, intellectual history and media have developed alongside an understanding of political, economic and social change.

Author : David W. Levy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015035011058

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The Debate Over Vietnam by David W. Levy Pdf

"Levy's prose is eminently readable, his focus always clear, the connections between major points always apparent, and his tempo just right." -- American Studies International

Author : Charles Kuralt
Publisher : Touchstone Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0684863448

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Charles Kuralt's American Moments by Charles Kuralt Pdf

A collection of essays by television reporter Charles Kuralt that profile the people, places, and ideas that define the national spirit.

Author : Steven Mintz
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0801850819

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Moralists and Modernizers by Steven Mintz Pdf

Moralists and Modernizers tells the fascinating story of America's first age of reform, combining incisive portraits of leading reformers and movements with perceptive analyses of religion, politics, and society.

Author : George Lipsitz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816639493

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American Studies in a Moment of Danger by George Lipsitz Pdf

The America that seems to be disappearing before our very eyes is, George Lipsitz argues, actually the cumulative creation of yesterday's struggles over identity, culture, and power. At a critical moment, this book offers a richly textured historical perspective on where our notions of national knowledge have come from and where they may lead. Showing how American studies has been shaped by the social movements of the 1930s, 1960s, and 1980s, Lipsitz identifies the ways in which the globalization of commerce and culture are producing radically new understandings of politics, performance, consumption, knowledge, and nostalgia. Book jacket.

Author : David J. Goldberg
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0801860040

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Discontented America by David J. Goldberg Pdf

"In a class by itself. Goldberg provides an engaging, nicely written narrative and draws upon a variety of secondary and primary sources to create an outstanding historical synthesis." -- Ohio Historian

Author : Rework America
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393285147

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America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age by Rework America Pdf

It is time for a new conversation. Amid the biggest economic transformation in a century, the challenge of our time is to make sure that all Americans benefit from the wave of digital revolutions around the world that have permeated and upended modern life. Yet today's economic arguments seem stuck. We need a new vision of a hopeful future and a new action agenda. So many Americans are uncertain about the future. How can there be so many paths to opportunity with so few people traveling them? As a nation, we have to understand what is required to help Americans succeed now, and how to prepare our country for what comes next. We have been here before. A hundred years ago, America experienced the greatest economic transformation and technological revolution in its history. The transformation of the past twenty years—as the world has moved through the information era into the digital age—has turned our life and work upside down once again. It is a time of tremendous change but also of tremendous possibility. Rework America is a group of American leaders who know from experience the challenges we face—and the potential solutions. In America's Moment they suggest a practical agenda for an exciting future. It is illustrated by people who are already showing the way and includes actions Americans can take today in their own communities: preparing people to succeed, using the reach of the Internet and data to innovate jobs and to reach new markets all over the world, using technology to match employers and workers, and transitioning to a "no-collar" working world— neither blue collar nor white collar. Set against the history of how Americans succeeded once before in remaking their country, America's Moment is about the future. It describes how the same forces of change—technology and a networked world—can become tools that can open opportunity to everyone.

Author : Aram Goudsouzian
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469651101

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The Men and the Moment by Aram Goudsouzian Pdf

The presidential election of 1968 forever changed American politics. In this character-driven narrative history, Aram Goudsouzian portrays the key transformations that played out over that dramatic year. It was the last "Old Politics" campaign, where political machines and party bosses determined the major nominees, even as the "New Politics" of grassroots participation powered primary elections. It was an election that showed how candidates from both the Left and Right could seize on "hot-button" issues to alter the larger political dynamic. It showcased the power of television to "package" politicians and political ideas, and it played out against an extraordinary dramatic global tableau of chaos and conflict. More than anything else, it was a moment decided by a contest of political personalities, as a group of men battled for the presidency, with momentous implications for the nation's future. Well-paced, accessible, and engagingly written, Goudsouzian's book chronicles anew the characters and events of the 1968 campaign as an essential moment in American history, one with clear resonance in our contemporary political moment.

Author : James H. Cassedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015020805290

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Medicine in America by James H. Cassedy Pdf

"Well written, with a very useful bibliographical essay and index, this book can be recommended for medical and general readers alike."--Guenter B. Risse, M.D., Ph.D., Journal of the American Medical Association. "The best brief history of health care in America since Richard H. Shryock's classic survey appeared over thirty years ago."--Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Author : Geoffrey Thurley
Publisher : London : Edward Arnold
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015019387805

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The American Moment by Geoffrey Thurley Pdf

Author : Laurent A. Lambert,Moosa Elayah
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031299124

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The Post-American Middle East by Laurent A. Lambert,Moosa Elayah Pdf

After two decades of War on Terror, it is particularly important, for both academic and policy purposes, to clearly understand why the US formidable mobilization of means and might has transformed into a such a blatant geostrategic defeat of the US and its allies in the broad Middle East. This is all the more paradoxical that the WOT achieved a series of tactical victories – such as the toppling of hostile regimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya; the crippling of the national economies of enemy states by sanctions; the successful targeted killing of lead terrorist Usama Bin Laden, ISIS cult leaders Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and his successor, etc. So, why have these tactical victories not led to what was supposed to become, according to the US government, a ‘Greater Middle East’? With most authors being from or living in the Middle East, this book is unique as it brings perspectives and answers from the region. This is crucially important as we are entering, we argue, the era of a Post-American Middle East. Chapters 1 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com

Author : William C. Berman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0801858720

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America's Right Turn by William C. Berman Pdf

Historian William Berman examines the political, cultural, and economic contexts in which Republican conservatives operated and explores the crisis of the liberal welfare state against the background of presidential politics. In this new edition, Berman discusses the initial failure of the Clinton administration to establish a viable political alternative to the GOP.

Author : William J. Reese
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421401034

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America's Public Schools by William J. Reese Pdf

In this update to his landmark publication, William J. Reese offers a comprehensive examination of the trends, theories, and practices that have shaped America’s public schools over the last two centuries. Reese approaches this subject along two main lines of inquiry—education as a means for reforming society and ongoing reform within the schools themselves. He explores the roots of contemporary educational policies and places modern battles over curriculum, pedagogy, race relations, and academic standards in historical perspective. A thoroughly revised epilogue outlines the significant challenges to public school education within the last five years. Reese analyzes the shortcomings of “No Child Left Behind” and the continued disjuncture between actual school performance and the expectations of government officials. He discusses the intrusive role of corporations, economic models for enticing better teacher performance, the continued impact of conservatism, and the growth of home schooling and charter schools. Informed by a breadth of historical scholarship and based squarely on primary sources, this volume remains the standard text for future teachers and scholars of education.