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Author : Johan Huizinga
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book America; a Dutch Historian's Vision, from Afar and Near written by Johan Huizinga and published by New York : Harper & Row. This book was released on 1972 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Krabbendam
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438430133
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations written by Hans Krabbendam and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the United States.
Author : Nicolas Barreyre
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520279271
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Historians Across Borders written by Nicolas Barreyre and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stimulating and highly original study of the writing of American history, twenty-four scholars from eleven European countries explore the impact of writing history from abroad. Six distinguished scholars from around the world add their commentaries. Arguing that historical writing is conditioned, crucially, by the place from which it is written, this volume identifies the formative impact of a wide variety of institutional and cultural factors that are commonly overlooked. Examining how American history is written from Europe, the contributors shed light on how history is written in the United States and, indeed, on the way history is written anywhere. The innovative perspectives included in Historians across Borders are designed to reinvigorate American historiography as the rise of global and transnational history is creating a critical need to understand the impact of place on the writing and teaching of history. This book is designed for students in historiography, global and transnational history, and related courses in the United States and abroad, for US historians, and for anyone interested in how historians work.
Author : Hartmut Lehmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558334
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (583 download)
Download or read book An Interrupted Past written by Hartmut Lehmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in An Interrupted Past describe the fate of those German-speaking historians who fled from Nazi Europe to the United States. Their story is set into several contexts: the traditional relationship between German and American historiography, the evolution of the German historical profession in the twentieth century, the onset of Nazi persecution after 1933, the special situation in Austria, and the difficulty of settling the refugees in their new homeland. In addition to articles on prominent scholars, there are accounts of the group as a whole, including information on more than ninety individuals, and of their family lives. An Interrupted Past is set in one of the darkest periods in human history, a time of political catastrophe and personal suffering. Yet the lives recorded here also illustrate people's capacity to survive, adjust, and create under difficult circumstances.
Author : Stephen Mennell
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745632092
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The American Civilizing Process written by Stephen Mennell and published by Polity. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of ‘civilization’. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of American development, from the first settlers to the American Empire. He takes a novel approach, analysing the USA’s experience in the light of Norbert Elias’s theory of civilizing (and decivilizing) processes. Drawing comparisons between the USA and other countries of the world, the topics discussed include: American manners and lifestyles Violence in American society The impact of markets on American social character American expansion, from the frontier to empire The ‘curse of the American Dream’ and increasing inequality The religiosity of American life Mennell shows how the long-term experience of Americans has been of growing more and more powerful in relation to their neighbours. This has had all-pervasive effects on the way they see themselves, their perception of the rest of the world, and how the rest of the world sees them. Mennell’s compelling and provocative account will appeal to anyone concerned about America's role in the world today, including students and scholars of American politics and society.
Author : Anton Wagner
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606067559
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Los Angeles written by Anton Wagner and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Anton Wagner’s groundbreaking 1935 book that launched the study of Los Angeles as an urban metropolis is available in English. No book on the emergence of Los Angeles, today a metropolis of more than four million people, has been more influential or elusive than this volume by Anton Wagner. Originally published in German in 1935 as Los Angeles: Werden, Leben und Gestalt der Zweimillionenstadt in Südkalifornien, it is one of the earliest geographical investigations of a city understood as a series of layered landscapes. Wagner demonstrated that despite its geographical disadvantages, Los Angeles grew rapidly into a dominant urban region, bolstered by agriculture, real estate development, transportation infrastructure, tourism, the oil and automobile industries, and the film business. Although widely reviewed upon its initial publication, his book was largely forgotten until reintroduced by architectural historian Reyner Banham in his 1971 classic Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. This definitive translation is annotated by Edward Dimendberg and preceded by his substantial introduction, which traces Wagner's biography and intellectual formation in 1930s Germany and contextualizes his work among that of other geographers. It is an essential work for students, scholars, and curious readers interested in urban geography and the rise of Los Angeles as a global metropolis.
Author : Glenn C. Altschuler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501744984
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Andrew D. White written by Glenn C. Altschuler and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length biography of Andrew D. White, prominent historian, Republican politician, diplomat, and the first president of Cornell University. A fully rounded portrait, it follows White's career from his youth in Syracuse to his death, at the age of eighty-five, in Ithaca.
Author : Arnold Lewis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252023057
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book An Early Encounter with Tomorrow written by Arnold Lewis and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago in the late nineteenth century was the wonder city of the Western world, its famous Loop the laboratory in which to study innovative commercial architecture. There, Old World assumptions were overthrown by New World realities, as the past was discounted, the present glorified, and the future eagerly anticipated.
Author : Mel van Elteren
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078642785X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Americanism and Americanization written by Mel van Elteren and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the current state of foreign affairs, the terms "Americanism" and "Americanization" sometimes take on an unexpected--and an unflattering--connotation. Americanism essentially involves values, beliefs, ideals, goods and practices in local settings outside the United States that are in some way related or attributed to American influence. While the validity of this influence may be under scrutiny, it requires a detailed historical--and sometimes cultural--analysis to understand all the dynamics and implications of Americanization. A variety of factors contributes to this influence, including the preoccupation and reception of the relevant culture itself. For instance, many European countries have at times demonstrated a preoccupation with all things American which was not necessarily swayed by any action of America itself. The overall actualization of Americanization, however, encompasses a number of societal dimensions, including power differentials in the exchange processes concerned. Informed by a history of relevant developments since the early nineteenth century, this volume presents an in-depth critical analysis of the Americanization process. Beginning with a survey of early European preoccupations with things American, the book goes on to discuss European concerns regarding American influence after World War II. The work then looks at Americanism and its influence within the United States itself, especially regarding developments during the New Deal and beyond. The primary goal of the analysis is the construction of an interpretative framework, allowing for a more balanced approach to the study of Americanism abroad. Written from a critical, social-emancipatory perspective, the author's approach blends economic, military, social, political, cultural and psychological dimensions as well as an examination of the ways in which these areas interact. Finally, Americanism is examined as part of a U.S.-style corporate globalization at the current juncture. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Michał Rozbicki
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813934563
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (345 download)
Download or read book The Complete Colonial Gentleman written by Michał Rozbicki and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria De Grazia
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674260120
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Irresistible Empire written by Victoria De Grazia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe’s bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in Irresistible Empire, Victoria de Grazia’s brilliant account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today. De Grazia describes how, as America’s market empire advanced with confidence through Europe, spreading consumer-oriented capitalism, all alternative strategies fell before it—first the bourgeois lifestyle, then the Third Reich’s command consumption, and finally the grand experiment of Soviet-style socialist planning. Tracing the peculiar alliance that arrayed New World salesmanship, statecraft, and standardized goods against the Old World’s values of status, craft, and good taste, Victoria de Grazia follows the United States’ market-driven imperialism through a vivid series of cross-Atlantic incursions by the great inventions of American consumer society. We see Rotarians from Duluth in the company of the high bourgeoisie of Dresden; working-class spectators in ramshackle French theaters conversing with Garbo and Bogart; Stetson-hatted entrepreneurs from Kansas in the midst of fussy Milanese shoppers; and, against the backdrop of Rome’s Spanish Steps and Paris’s Opera Comique, Fast Food in a showdown with advocates for Slow Food. Demonstrating the intricacies of America’s advance, de Grazia offers an intimate and historical dimension to debates over America’s exercise of soft power and the process known as Americanization. She raises provocative questions about the quality of the good life, democracy, and peace that issue from the vaunted victory of mass consumer culture.
Author : Carol Sicherman
Publisher : New Acdemia+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0985569883
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Rude Awakenings written by Carol Sicherman and published by New Acdemia+ORM. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a man navigating an era of upheaval, persecution, and suspicion: “A must read for students of 20th-century political and intellectual history.” —Robert Cohen, Professor of History and Social Studies Education, New York University Drawing on family papers, wide-ranging interviews, FBI files, American and German newspapers, a wide array of published sources, and her own memories, Carol Sicherman traces Harry Marks’s German American heritage, his education both formal and informal, his marriage to a fellow Communist from a poor Russian family, his rocky start as an academic, his anguish when confronted by his Communist past, and his ultimate creation of a satisfying career. Her sleuthing encompasses as well the paths to safety taken by his German friends as they found sanctuary around the world—in Russia, England, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, Palestine, Brazil, the United States, and Canada. “Of particular interest is Carol Sicherman's carefully researched description of the anti-Semitic atmosphere that Jewish students encountered at Harvard in the twenties and thirties, as well as the experience of a young American thrown into the turmoil accompanying the collapse of Germany's democracy and the appeal of Communism as an alternative to Nazism.” —Curt F. Beck, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Connecticut
Author : P. O'Brien
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230617808
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book European Perceptions of Islam and America from Saladin to George W. Bush written by P. O'Brien and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers European perceptions of their rivals throughout history from the Islamic civilization between the first Crusade in 1095 and the final Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683 to the United States of America from independence in 1776 until the present and investigates Europe's capacity to lead the world.
Author : C.E. Harline
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401127220
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe written by C.E. Harline and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Rowen has always insisted that historians don't need biographers. Outside "a small circle of family, friends and students," what matters most is not the individual but his or her work.' Thus the main purpose of the present volume is to highlight Professor Rowen's contributions to the political history of early modem Europe. Part I includes assessment of his work by others, while Parts ll-V contain examples of his best articles, papers, and reviews, some published here for the first time, most previously hard-to-get. These essays not only add substantively to our understanding of early modem politics, but treat both implicitly and explicitly the historian's task per se. Hence, this is not biography, much less "innocuous laudation" or hagiography, which Herb would not forgive. Yet it is only fitting that someone who lays so much stress on the human side of History should by way of introduction have something said about his person as well as his work.
Author : Christian Fleck
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1849660506
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book A Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences written by Christian Fleck and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. From the beginning of the twentieth century, scientific and social scientific research has been characterised by intellectual exchange between Europe and the US. The establishment of the Third Reich ensured that, from the German speaking world, at least, this became a one-way traffic. In this book Christian Fleck explores the invention of empirical social research, which by 1950 had become the binding norm of international scholarship, and he analyses the contribution of German refugee social scientists to its establishment. The major names are here, from Adorno and Horkheimer to Hirshman and Lazarsfeld, but at the heart of the book is a unique collective biography based on original data from more than 800 German-speaking social scientists. Published in German in 2008 to great acclaim, Fleck's important study of the transatlantic enrichment of the social sciences is now available in a revised English-language edition.
Author : Rob Kroes
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611687306
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Prison Area, Independence Valley written by Rob Kroes and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2015 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major voice in transnational American studies addresses politics and culture in post-9/11 America
Author : Barbara Groseclose
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271046899
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Internationalizing the History of American Art written by Barbara Groseclose and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays presenting international perspectives on the narratives and the practices grounding the scholarly study of American art"--Provided by publisher.
