Anglo American Crossroads

Author : Genevieve Carpio
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520298829
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collisions at the Crossroads written by Genevieve Carpio and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads, maintaining control over place and mobility, labor and race. In Collisions at the Crossroads, Genevieve Carpio argues that mobility, both permission to move freely and prohibitions on movement, helped shape racial formation in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles and the Inland Empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining policies and forces as different as historical societies, Indian boarding schools, bicycle ordinances, immigration policy, incarceration, traffic checkpoints, and Route 66 heritage, she shows how local authorities constructed a racial hierarchy by allowing some people to move freely while placing limits on the mobility of others. Highlighting the ways people of color have negotiated their place within these systems, Carpio reveals a compelling and perceptive analysis of spatial mobility through physical movement and residence.

Author : Mark Clapson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441141499
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-American Crossroads written by Mark Clapson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical and original evaluation of American influences on urban reconstruction and regeneration in post-war Britain.

Author : Mark Clapson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441174745
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-American Crossroads written by Mark Clapson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postwar British city was been shaped by many international forces during the last century, but American influences on British urban research and urban planning have been particularly significant. Beginning with debates about reconstruction during the Second World War, Anglo-American Crossroads explores how Americanisation influenced key approaches to town planning, from reconstruction after 1945 to the New Urbanism of the 1990s. Clapson pays particular attention to the relationship between urban sociological research and planning issues since the 1950s. He also addresses the ways in which American developers and planners of new communities looked to the British new towns and garden city movement for inspiration. Using a wide range of sources, from American Foundation Archives to town planning materials and urban sociologies, Anglo-American Crossroads shows that although some things went wrong in translation from the USA to Britain, there were also some important successes within a transatlantic dialogue that was more nuanced than a one-dimensional process of American hegemony.

Author : Françoise N. Hamlin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835498
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossroads at Clarksdale written by Françoise N. Hamlin and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town ov

Author : Greg Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East 1933-1939 written by Greg Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy J. Shannon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801488184
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire written by Timothy J. Shannon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending collapse of Indian trade and diplomacy in the northern colonies, a problem exacerbated by uncooperative, resistant colonial governments. In the first book on the subject in more than forty-five years, Timothy J. Shannon definitively rewrites the historical record on the Albany Congress. Challenging the received wisdom that has equated the Congress and the plan of colonial union it produced with the origins of American independence, Shannon demonstrates conclusively the Congress's importance in the wider context of Britain's eighteenth-century Atlantic empire. In the process, the author poses a formidable challenge to the Iroquois Influence Thesis. The Six Nations, he writes, had nothing to do with the drafting of the Albany Plan, which borrowed its model of constitutional union not from the Iroquois but from the colonial delegates' British cousins. Far from serving as a dress rehearsal for the Constitutional Convention, the Albany Congress marked, for colonists and Iroquois alike, a passage from an independent, commercial pattern of intercultural relations to a hierarchical, bureaucratic imperialism wielded by a distant authority.

Author : Charles J. Baserap
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982800768
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American at the Crossroads written by Charles J. Baserap and published by . This book was released on 2010-08-28 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baserap, who served in the U.S. Secret Service at the White House and Foreign Missions Branches and currently works at the Pentagon, strips away partisan arguments of issues like the Patriot Act and the War on Terror to show that somewhere between Right and Left lies a common ground that is essential for winning the War on Terror.

Author : Samuel Truett
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822333890
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continental Crossroads written by Samuel Truett and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the modern Mexican-American borderlands, where a boundary line seems to separate two dissimilar cultures and economies.

Author : Kornel Chang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520951549
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Connections written by Kornel Chang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century the borderlands between the United States, the British Empire in Canada, and the Asia-Pacific Rim emerged as a crossroads of the Pacific world. In Pacific Connections, Kornel Chang tells the dramatic stories of the laborers, merchants, smugglers, and activists who crossed these borders into the twentieth century, and the American and British empire-builders who countered them by hardening racial and national lines. But even as settler societies attempted to control the processes of imperial integration, their project fractured under its contradictions. Migrant workers and radical activists pursued a transnational politics through the very networks that made empire possible. Charting the U.S.-Canadian borderlands from above and below, Chang reveals the messiness of imperial formation and the struggles it spawned from multiple locations and through different actors across the Pacific world. Pacific Connections is the winner of the Outstanding Book in History award from the Association for Asian American Studies and is a finalist for the John Hope Franklin Book Prize from the American Studies Association.

Author : Fraser J. Harbutt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521856779
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yalta 1945 written by Fraser J. Harbutt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Allied diplomacy from 1941 to 1946, challenging Americocentric views and highlighting the significance of Europe's diplomatic role. Harbutt argues that the Yalta conference of February 1945 was a pivotal moment that signaled a shift from a pre-existing "Europe/America" framework to the "East/West" conception that led to the Cold War.