Village Studies Africa Middle East And North Africa Asia Excluding India Pacific Islands Latin America West Indies And The Caribbean L95o L975

Author : University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies. Village Studies Programme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies. Village Studies Programme
Publisher : Cassell Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780720107975
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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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 University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies. Village Studies Programme and published by Cassell Academic. This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Vann Woodward Sterling Professor of History Yale University (Emeritus)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199874328
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Richard F. Kuisel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520918412
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Paul Addison
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446424219
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Ian McLaine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000458377
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Henry Pelling
Publisher : London : A. and C. Black
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Frank A. Ninkovich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521232418
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Marcus Cunliffe
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Stuart Anderson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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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.