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Book January 1965 Economic Report of the President

Download or read book January 1965 Economic Report of the President written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California Crucible

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Bell
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2011-12-30
  • ISBN : 081220624X
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book California Crucible written by Jonathan Bell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the three decades following World War II, the Golden State was not only the fastest-growing state in the Union but also the site of significant political change. From the late 1940s through the mid-1970s, a generation of liberal activists transformed the political landscape of California, ending Republican dominance of state politics and eventually setting the tone for the Democratic Party nationwide. In California Crucible, Jonathan Bell chronicles this dramatic story of postwar liberalism—from early grassroots organizing and the election of Pat Brown as governor in 1958 to the civil rights campaigns of the 1960s and the campaigns against the New Right in the 1970s. As Bell argues, the emergent "California liberalism" was a distinctly post-New Deal phenomenon that drew on the ambitious ideals of the New Deal but adapted them to a diverse population. The result was a broad coalition that sought to extend social democracy to marginalized groups—such as gay rights and civil rights organizations—that had not been well served by the Democratic Party in earlier decades. In building this coalition, liberal activists forged an ideology capable of bringing Latino farm workers, African American civil rights activists, and wealthy suburban homemakers into a shared political project. By exploring California Democrats' largely successful attempts to link economic rights to civil rights and serve the needs of diverse groups, Bell challenges common assumptions about the rise of the New Right and the decline of American liberalism in the postwar era. As Bell shows, by the end of the 1970s California had become the spiritual home of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party as much as that of the Reagan Revolution.

Book So Far and No Further

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  • Author : Jrt Wood
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2012-05
  • ISBN : 1466934085
  • Pages : 541 pages

Download or read book So Far and No Further written by Jrt Wood and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'So Far and No Further!' Rhodesia's Bid for Independence during the Retreat from Empire 1959-1965 Ian Smith's unilateral declaration of independence for Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) on 11 November 1965 was seen by many as the act of a rebellious white minority seeking to preserve their privileged position in defiance of Britain's determination to shed her Empire and introduce rule by the African majority as soon as possible. However, the drama of UDI has long overshadowed and oversimplified the complexities of the preceding years. In this account of that time, based on sole access to the hitherto closed papers of Ian Douglas Smith and Sir Roy Welensky, as well as extensive research at London's Public Record Office, and in government and private collections elsewhere, Dr J.R.T. Wood chronicles the collision course on which Britain and Rhodesia were set after 1959, complementing his study of the fate of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in his definitive 'The Welensky Papers: A History of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1953-1963'. Britain, Wood shows, was intent on shedding her Empire as quickly as possible against a backdrop of the Cold War and the rise of Chinese- and Soviet-sponsored African nationalism. She delivered some 600 one man, one vote constitutions to her fledgling nations and had no intention of granting Rhodesia independence on different terms. Unlike Britain's other African possessions, however, Rhodesia had enjoyed self-governance since 1923. The largely white Rhodesian electorate, wary of the consequences of premature and ill-prepared majority rule, sought instead dominion status akin to that of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Their intention was gradually to pave the way for majority rule: since 1923, Rhodesia's electoral qualifications had excluded race. It was always understood that the African majority would acquire power; the concern was the speed and smoothness of that acquisition. Culminating in those dramatic days of November 1965 when Ian Smith concluded in the face of resolute British stonewalling that he had no alternative but UDI, this unique account is the first in a series which chronicles the course of events that ultimately led to Robert Mugabe's accession to power in 1980, and all that entailed.

Book Chemicals

Download or read book Chemicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Made in U S A

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  • Author : Sidra Stich
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1987-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520057562
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Made in U S A written by Sidra Stich and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made in U.S.A. takes a new look at American art of the 1950s and 1960s and shows us how American it was. This is a provocative study of those artists who appropriated everyday images form the world of mass media and suburban living and forced their viewers into a sometimes witty, sometimes bittersweet, confrontation with the realities of living in late twentieth-century America.

Book Revolutionary Diplomacy

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  • Author : J. D. Armstrong
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-06-21
  • ISBN : 0520378458
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Revolutionary Diplomacy written by J. D. Armstrong and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction: The principal question that is posed in this study is, what has been the influence of Mao’s united front doctrine on China’s foreign policy? A related but secondary question is also considered: In what ways, if any, has China's participation in the international system caused Peking to revise its conception of a united front in world politics? Insofar as Mao's thoughts about united fronts are part of the total array of theories and operational principles that make up the Chinese communist “ideology,” this essay considers one aspect of the relationship between ideology and foreign policy. Since this question has long been the subject of a mostly inconclusive and often circular academic debate, [Armstrong states his] reasons for returning to it here. The first is that the problem is no less important because it admits of no easy solution. Indeed, with the breakdown in the twentieth century of even the limited consensus over norms and values that permitted a great power concert to exist for part of the nineteenth, the question is clearly one of major significance in contemporary international relations. Since China has become in many ways a symbol of the postwar ideological challenge to the established order in world politics, the question is particularly relevant in a study of China’s foreign policy. Finally, by combining a strictly limited focus of enquiry with a systematic approach to the problem it may be possible to overcome some of the analytical difficulties that surround the larger issue of the relation of ideas to social practice. 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 1977.

Book W  Stanford Reid

Download or read book W Stanford Reid written by A. Donald MacLeod and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MacLeod's in-depth analysis examines how an observant Christian academic, unapologetically Calvinist, openly articulated his faith in a secular environment and helped convince evangelicals to abandon their ghettoizing anti-intellectualism. His discussion of Reid's international networking serves as a reminder of the way in which Canadian evangelicalism was influenced by and in turn influenced the United States, where Reid's influence was appreciable, both as a trustee of Westminster Seminary for thirty-seven years and as editor at large of the nascent "Christianity Today." "W. Stanford Reid" is a poignant, in-depth investigation of the life of a man whose career spanned academia and church.

Book Shomei Tomatsu

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  • Author : Leo Rubinfien
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300106046
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Shomei Tomatsu written by Leo Rubinfien and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retrospective on the career of Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu, whose work has chronicled the changing face of Japan from the 1950s until the present. Included are essays on all aspects of the life & career of the artist, as well as excerpts from Tomatsu's own writings.

Book The Berkshire News

Download or read book The Berkshire News written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dame in the Kimono

Download or read book The Dame in the Kimono written by Leonard J. Leff and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This excellent, lively study examines the ‘raucous debate’ sparked by the Code over the morals and ideals of American movies.” —Publishers Weekly The new edition of this seminal work takes the story of the Production Code and motion picture censorship into the present, including the creation of the PG-13 and NC-17 ratings in the 1990s. Starting in the early 1930s, the Production Code Director, Joe Breen, and his successor, Geoff Shurlock, understood that American motion pictures needed enough rope—enough sex, and violence, and tang—to lasso an audience, and not enough to strangle the industry. To explore the history and implementation of the Motion Picture Production Code, this book uses 11 movies: Dead End, GoneWith the Wind, The Outlaw, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Bicycle Thief, Detective Story, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Moon Is Blue, The French Line, Lolita, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The authors combine a lively style with provocative insights and a wealth of anecdotes to show how the code helped shape American screen content for nearly 50 years. “A readable, intimate account of the rise to near-tyrannical power, and the fall to well-deserved ignominy, of the old Production Code Administration.” —Atlantic Monthly “A valuable insight into our own innocence and naiveté.” —The New York Times Book Review “The triumph of Leff and Simmons’s fine work is that they have reminded us of how fatuous and inimical a code of conduct can be: how tempting it is as a theoretical answer, and how intrinsically flawed it is as a working solution.” —The Times of London

Book Ham Radio

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 712 pages

Download or read book Ham Radio written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1396 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book Human Factors Engineering Bibliographic Series

Download or read book Human Factors Engineering Bibliographic Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book For the Soul of Mankind

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  • Author : Melvyn P. Leffler
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2007-09-18
  • ISBN : 9780809097173
  • Pages : 620 pages

Download or read book For the Soul of Mankind written by Melvyn P. Leffler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the struggle between the U.S. and Soviet Union following World War II illuminates how Reagan, Bush, and Gorbachev finally extricated themselves from the policies and mindsets of the Cold War, a task in which their predecessors had failed.

Book The Best Transportation System in the World

Download or read book The Best Transportation System in the World written by Mark H. Rose and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the role of government in organizing the nation's transportation industries. As the authors show, over the course of the twentieth century transportation in the United States was as much a product of hard-fought politics, lobbying, and litigation as it was a naturally evolving system of engineering and available technology.

Book United States Army Combat Forces Journal

Download or read book United States Army Combat Forces Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Independent Offices Appropriations for 1967

Download or read book Independent Offices Appropriations for 1967 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: