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Book The Pattern of Sino American Crises

Download or read book The Pattern of Sino American Crises written by J.H. Kalicki and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975-04-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1975, is a study of Sino-American crises in the 1950s.

Book Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance

Download or read book Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance written by Mark Dyreson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace. In so doing China treads the path blazed by the United States. For more than a century the U.S. has used the Olympic Games to construct national identity, create communal memory, and craft patriotic mythology. From opening parades where the American team refuses to dip its flag in order to signal American exceptionalism to the closing ceremonies where the U.S. media trumpet that their team owes its medals not to superior athleticism but to the nation’s peerless social and political systems, Olympic Games have served as sites to bolster American nationalism. More than any other nation, the United States has politicized its Olympic participation. In the process a host of myths about American superiority in global encounters has emerged through the Olympics. In memorializing and mythologizing their Olympic teams Americans have revealed the contours of the racial, gender, and class dynamics that animate their peculiar nationhood. These essays explore the history of expressions of American national identity in Olympic arenas. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord

Download or read book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord written by Joseph Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Porcelain  1770 1920

Download or read book American Porcelain 1770 1920 written by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1989 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the United States of America Under the Constitution

Download or read book History of the United States of America Under the Constitution written by James Schouler and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patriots or Traitors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stacey Bieler
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-12-18
  • ISBN : 1317478347
  • Pages : 545 pages

Download or read book Patriots or Traitors written by Stacey Bieler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title sxplores the love-hate relationship between the USA and China through the experience of Chinese students caught between the two countries. The book sheds light on China's ambivelance towards the Western influence, and the use of educational and cultural exhanges as a political device.

Book History of the United States of America  1817 1831

Download or read book History of the United States of America 1817 1831 written by James Schouler and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patriots and Cosmopolitans

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  • Author : John Fabian Witt
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674045289
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Patriots and Cosmopolitans written by John Fabian Witt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the founding era to Reconstruction, from the making of the modern state to its post-New Deal limits, John Fabian Witt illuminates the legal and constitutional foundations of American nationhood through the stories of five patriots and critics. In their own way, each of these individuals came up against the power of American national institutions to shape the directions of legal change.

Book Mapping the Cold War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Timothy Barney
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2015-04-13
  • ISBN : 1469618559
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Mapping the Cold War written by Timothy Barney and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, and other conventions of maps prescribed and constrained the means by which foreign policy elites, popular audiences, and social activists navigated conflicts between North and South, East and West. Maps also influenced how identities were formed in a world both shrunk by advancing technologies and marked by expanding and shifting geopolitical alliances and fissures. Pointing to the necessity of how politics and values were "spatialized" in recent U.S. history, Barney argues that Cold War–era maps themselves had rhetorical lives that began with their conception and production and played out in their circulation within foreign policy circles and popular media. Reflecting on the ramifications of spatial power during the period, Mapping the Cold War ultimately demonstrates that even in the twenty-first century, American visions of the world--and the maps that account for them--are inescapably rooted in the anxieties of that earlier era.

Book History of the United States of America

Download or read book History of the United States of America written by James Schouler and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Swear like a Sailor

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  • Author : Paul A. Gilje
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2016-02-15
  • ISBN : 131648310X
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book To Swear like a Sailor written by Paul A. Gilje and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime things. Instead, sailor swearing, indeed all swearing in this period, was connected to larger developments. This book traces the interaction between the maritime and mainstream world in the United States while examining cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, images, and material goods. To Swear Like a Sailor offers insight into the character of Jack Tar - the common seaman - and into the early republic. It illuminates the cultural connections between Great Britain and the United States and the appearance of a distinct American national identity. The book explores the emergence of sentimental notions about the common man - through the guise of the sailor - appearing on stage, in song, in literature, and in images.

Book Global Giant

Download or read book Global Giant written by E. Paus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains essays from outsourcing experts that explore the current state China. The essays cover everything from China's rapidly increasing demand for imported energy to global warming to the question of whether China is or is not rapidly becoming a world class power in military, economic, and 'soft power' terms.

Book U S  Security Cooperation with Africa

Download or read book U S Security Cooperation with Africa written by Robert J. Griffiths and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Africa’s strategic importance has increased over the past decade and a half, United States security cooperation with the continent has expanded. The most visible dimension of this increased engagement was the establishment of the U.S. Military Command for Africa (AFRICOM). Some critics are skeptical of AFRICOM’s purpose and see the militarization of U.S. Africa policy while others question its effectiveness. Recognizing the link between development and security, AFRICOM represents a departure from the traditional organization of military commands because of its holistic approach and the involvement of the Department of State as well as other U.S. government stakeholders. Nevertheless, AFRICOM’s effort to combine security and development faces formidable conceptual and operational challenges in trying to ensure both American and African security interests. The human security perspective’s emphasis on issues that go beyond traditional state-centered security to include protecting individuals from threats of hunger, disease, crime, environmental degradation, and political repression as well as focusing on social and economic justice is an important component of security policy. At the same time, the threat of violent extremism heavily influences U.S. security cooperation with Africa. In this examination of the context of U.S.-African security relations, Robert J. Griffiths outlines the nature of the African state, traces the contours of African conflict, surveys the post-independence history of U.S. involvement on the continent, and discusses policy organization and implementation and the impact of U.S. experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan on the U.S.-Africa security relationship. Africa’s continuing geostrategic significance, the influence of China and other emerging markets in the region, and America’s other global engagements, especially in light of U.S. fiscal realities, demonstrate the complexity of U.S.-African security cooperation.

Book American Economist and Tariff League Bulletin

Download or read book American Economist and Tariff League Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advertising Diversity

Download or read book Advertising Diversity written by Shalini Shankar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Advertising Diversity Shalini Shankar explores how racial and ethnic differences are created and commodified through advertisements, marketing, and public relations. Drawing from periods of fieldwork she conducted over four years at Asian American ad agencies in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, Shankar illustrates the day-to-day process of creating and producing broadcast and internet advertisements. She examines the adaptation of general market brand identities for Asian American audiences, the ways ad executives make Asian cultural and linguistic concepts accessible to their clients, and the differences between casting Asian Americans in ads for general and multicultural markets. Shankar argues that as a form of racialized communication, advertising shapes the political and social status of Asian Americans, transforming them from "model minorities" to "model consumers." Asian Americans became visible in the twenty-first century United States through a process Shankar calls "racial naturalization." Once seen as foreign, their framing as model consumers has legitimized their presence in the American popular culture landscape. By making the category of Asian American suitable for consumption, ad agencies shape and refine the population they aim to represent.

Book Texas flags

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  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9781603443692
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Texas flags written by and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: