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Book Village Studies Data Analysis and Bibliography  Africa  Middle East and North Africa  Asia  excluding India   Pacific Islands  Latin America  West Indies and the Caribbean  1950 1975

Download or read book Village Studies Data Analysis and Bibliography Africa Middle East and North Africa Asia excluding India Pacific Islands Latin America West Indies and the Caribbean 1950 1975 written by Village Studies Programme (Institute of Development Studies (Brighton, England)) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Village Studies  Africa  Middle East and North Africa  Asia  Excluding India   Pacific Islands  Latin America  West Indies and the Caribbean l95O l975

Download or read book Village Studies Africa Middle East and North Africa Asia Excluding India Pacific Islands Latin America West Indies and the Caribbean l95O l975 written by University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies. Village Studies Programme and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Points of View

Download or read book Points of View written by Stuart Pratt Sherman and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NCAA AAU Dispute

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 630 pages

Download or read book NCAA AAU Dispute written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Old World s New World

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  • Author : C. Vann Woodward Sterling Professor of History Yale University (Emeritus)
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1992-01-02
  • ISBN : 0199874328
  • Pages : 171 pages

Download or read book The Old World s New World written by C. Vann Woodward Sterling Professor of History Yale University (Emeritus) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992-01-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No history of the European imagination, and no understanding of America's meaning, would be complete without a record of the ideas, fantasies, and misconceptions the Old World has formed about the New. Europe's fascination with America forms a contradictory pattern of hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares, yearnings and forebodings. America and Americans--according to one of their more indulgent European critics--have long been considered "a fairlyland of happy lunatics and lovable monsters." In The Old World's New World, award-winning historian C. Vann Woodward has written a brilliant study of how Europeans have seen and discussed America over the last two centuries. Woodward shows how the character and the image of America in European writings often depended more upon Old World politics and ideology than upon New World realities. America has been seen both as human happiness resulting from the elimination of monarchy, aristocracy, and priesthood, and as social chaos and human misery caused by their removal. It was proof that democracy was the best form of government, or that mankind was incapable of self government. America was regularly used both as an inspiration for revolutionaries and as a stern warning against radicals of all kinds. Americans have been seen as uniformly materialistic, hot in pursuit of dollars: "Such unity of purpose," wrote Mrs. Trollope, "can, I believe, be found nowhere else except, perhaps, in an ants' nest." And they have been admired for their industry--one young Russian Communist visited New York in 1925 and wrote that America is "where the 'future,' at least in terms of industrialization, is being realized." Decade after decade, America has been hailed for its youth, and lambasted for its immaturity. It has been looked to as a model of liberty, and attacked for maintaining the tyranny of the majority. But always it has been a metaphor for the possibilities of human society--possibilities both bright and foreboding. After a year of heady talk of a "New World Order," of American victory in the Cold War, of a new American Century, The Old World's New World provides a thoughtful and sobering perspective on how America has been seen in centuries past. C. Vann Woodward is one of America's foremost living historians. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Parkman prizes--and he has served as president of the American Historical Association as well as the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association. With this new book, he further enhances his reputation while making his vast learning accessible to a general audience.

Book Seducing the French

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  • Author : Richard F. Kuisel
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1993-04-20
  • ISBN : 9780520918412
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Seducing the French written by Richard F. Kuisel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-04-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In analyzing early French resistance and then the gradual adaptation to all things American that evolved by the mid-1980s, he offers an intriguing study of national identity and the protection of cultural boundaries. The French have historically struggled against Americanization in order to safeguard "Frenchness." What would happen to the French way of life if gaining American prosperity brought vulgar materialism and social conformity? A clash between American consumerism and French civilisation seemed inevitable. Cold War anti-Communism, the Marshall Plan, the Coca-Cola controversy, and de Gaulle's efforts to curb American investment illustrate ways that anti-Americanization was played out. Kuisel also raises issues that extend beyond France, including the economic, social, and cultural effects of the Americanized consumer society that have become a global phenomenon. Kuisel's lively account reaches across French society to include politicians, businessmen, trade unionists, Parisian intelligentsia, and ordinary citizens. The result reveals much about the French—and about Americans. As Euro Disney welcomes travellers to its Parisian fantasyland, and with French recently declared the official language of France (to defend it from the encroachments of English), Kuisel's book is especially relevant.

Book The Road To 1945

Download or read book The Road To 1945 written by Paul Addison and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road to 1945 is a rigorously researched study of the crucial moment when political parties put aside their differences to unite under Churchill and focus on the task of war. But the war years witnessed a radical shift in political power - dramatically expressed in Labour's decisive electoral victory in 1945. In his acclaimed study, Paul Addison reconstructs and interprets the five-year wartime coalition, and traces this sea-change from its roots in the thirties, to the powerful spirit of post-war rebuilding. The Road to 1945 is an imaginative, brilliantly written and landmark work, underpinned by a powerful and expertly researched argument.

Book Ministry of Morale

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  • Author : Ian McLaine
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2021-11-21
  • ISBN : 1000458377
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Ministry of Morale written by Ian McLaine and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1979, is an analysis of the wartime Ministry of Information, responsible for the maintenance of public morale. How was it that British morale remained high, yet the department responsible was so bad? This book examines the domestic work of the Ministry and offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of both government and people during the war. It answers key questions: How did a government department assess and set about maintaining morale? How did it handle the social and political questions associated with morale – post-war social reform, press freedom and censorship, the nature of the Soviet regime? How sound in fact was civilian morale, on the basis of the secret Wartime Intelligence reports then available? One of the most fascinating aspects of this book is the Ministry’s constant internal debate on how its responsibilities should best be carried out. It is a key work of research on the political, psychological and mass communications problems facing a society at war.

Book The British Communist Party

Download or read book The British Communist Party written by Henry Pelling and published by London : A. and C. Black. This book was released on 1975 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diplomacy of Ideas

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  • Author : Frank A. Ninkovich
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN : 9780521232418
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Diplomacy of Ideas written by Frank A. Ninkovich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interpretive history of the uses of cultural relations in U.S. foreign policy. Analyzes the links between fundamental foreign policy outlooks and American institutional structures. Shows how the U.S. made the transition from foreign policy passivity in the 1930s to global activism in the 1950s.

Book In Search of America

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  • Author : Marcus Cunliffe
  • Publisher : Praeger
  • Release : 1991-04-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book In Search of America written by Marcus Cunliffe and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991-04-30 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide ranging selection of essays by a renowned English scholar explores American history, literature, and culture. Many aspects and periods of American history, life, and thought are examined: military, political, biographical, comparative, and more. The text is scholarly, yet readable. The essays cover the young nation, George Washington, European attitudes toward the United States and vice versa, anti-Americanism, and American writers. This work is invaluable as supplemental reading for courses in American history, American literature, and American studies. In Search of America devotes an entire section to the early problems of the young nation in achieving intellectual and artistic, as well as political, independence. Military, biographical, and other aspects of George Washington provide thought-provoking material. The temperament and talent of American writers, including Stephen Crane, Henry Adams, and Willa Cather are considered.

Book Britain and the Cinema in the Second World War

Download or read book Britain and the Cinema in the Second World War written by P. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-07-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays which appear in this book for the most part originated as papers delivered at a conference on Britain and the cinema in the Second World War held in London in May 1985.

Book Race and Rapprochement

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  • Author : Stuart Anderson
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Race and Rapprochement written by Stuart Anderson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the historical roots of Anglo-Saxonism in Britain and America, showing how the theory of Anglo-Saxonism was developed, and demonstrates the extent to which political leaders allowed Anglo-Saxonist ideas to influence their diplomacy.

Book The Rise and Fall of Anti Americanism

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Anti Americanism written by Denis Lacorne and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peaceful Air Warfare

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  • Author : Alan P. Dobson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Peaceful Air Warfare written by Alan P. Dobson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first full-length examination of civil aviation diplomacy between the United States and Britain in the period from 1919 to 1990, Dobson demonstrates the influence the two countries had in developing the character of the world's civil aviation system. Basing his research on both American and British archives, and on interviews and correspondence with officials and politicians, Dobson builds a detailed picture of the political, strategic, and economic factors behind the long running "peaceful air warfare" between Britain and the United States.

Book America and the British Left

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  • Author : Henry Mathison Pelling
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781014352316
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book America and the British Left written by Henry Mathison Pelling and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book John Bull and the Bear

Download or read book John Bull and the Bear written by Philip Michael Hett Bell and published by Edward Arnold. This book was released on 1990 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: