Wall To Wall America

Author : Karal Ann Marling
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816636730
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wall-to-wall America written by Karal Ann Marling and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the back cover of the book, quoted in part:"The America Karal Ann Marling (the author) refers to is small-town America during the depression era; in particular those communities that were portrayed in the 1000-odd murals that appeared in post offices around the country under the auspices of the Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts. She goes far beyond an investigation of the murals as art, and 'Wall to Wall America' becomes an intelligent, often irreverent, discussion of popular taste and culture during the depression decade. "

Author : Karal Ann Marling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816611164
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wall-to-wall America written by Karal Ann Marling and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karal Ann Marling
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816636730
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wall-to-wall America written by Karal Ann Marling and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the back cover of the book, quoted in part:"The America Karal Ann Marling (the author) refers to is small-town America during the depression era; in particular those communities that were portrayed in the 1000-odd murals that appeared in post offices around the country under the auspices of the Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts. She goes far beyond an investigation of the murals as art, and 'Wall to Wall America' becomes an intelligent, often irreverent, discussion of popular taste and culture during the depression decade. "

Author : Peter Andreas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742501782
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wall Around the West written by Peter Andreas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As economic and military walls have come down in the post-Cold War era, states have rapidly built new barriers to prevent a perceived invasion of undesirables. This work examines the practice, politics, and consequences of building these walls.

Author : Greg Grandin
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250179815
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of the Myth written by Greg Grandin and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE A new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall. Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States’ belief in itself as an exceptional nation – democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, America hasa new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history – from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. For centuries, he shows, America’s constant expansion – fighting wars and opening markets – served as a “gate of escape,” helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that the country’s problems, from racism to inequality, were never confronted directly. And now, the combined catastrophe of the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut, bringing political passions that had long been directed elsewhere back home. It is this new reality, Grandin says, that explains the rise of reactionary populism and racist nationalism, the extreme anger and polarization that catapulted Trump to the presidency. The border wall may or may not be built, but it will survive as a rallying point, an allegorical tombstone marking the end of American exceptionalism.

Author : David Hewitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781697445916
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Wall of America written by David Hewitt and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How America built the Wall? "The Great Wall of America" by David A. Hewitt is an urgent and compelling novelette. Hewitt paints a nightmarish yet plausible scenario of what could happen if workers from migrant caravans were pressed into forced servitude, building a wall at the southern Mexican-American border. The Southern Border Wall: originally a public-works project to employ America's down-and-out, fiscal necessity has transformed it into a string of forced-labor camps for prisoners, refugees, and undocumented immigrants. In this tale of a dark and not-so-distant future, when Asaad, one of a four-person work crew, is injured by brutal captors, his crewmembers, led by the resourceful Rafa, must make a grim decision. Will they abandon their comrade to almost-certain death? Or stand together and attempt a perhaps-suicidal escape, hemmed in by razorwire, armed guards with dogs, the unforgiving desert, and the towering Wall? Interview with David A. Hewitt: This book includes a must-read interview with David A. Hewitt by Salik Shah, the founding editor and publisher of Mithila Review. "The Great Wall of America" first appeared in Issue 11 of Mithila Review, the journal of international science fiction & fantasy (2019).

Author : Cristina Pérez-Arranz
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 164889240X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wall to Wall: Law as Culture in Latin America and Spain written by Cristina Pérez-Arranz and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Wall to Wall: Law as Culture in Latin America and Spain' comprises interventions from a wide array of scholars based in the US, Spain, and Latin America, exploring the encounter of Hispanophone cultures and the law. Its contributors delineate a fraught relationship of complicity, negotiation, and outright confrontation covering five centuries and a truly global landscape, from Inquisitorial processes at the onset of the Spanish Empire to last-ditch plans to preserve it in the 19th century Philippines, to the challenges to contemporary articulations of the nation-state in Catalonia. Beyond single, specialized time-period and national cultures, 'Wall to Wall' embraces and showcases the heterogeneity of the field, covering both well-known territory (Argentina, Mexico, Spain) and often-neglected cultures (Venezuela, Philippines, and indigenous communities in the Yucatan area), as well as problems that cannot be narrowed down to the nation-state (exile, independence processes, non-state laws, translation of foreign cultures). Contributors include: Aurélie Vialette, Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza, Daniela Dorfman, María Fernanda Lander, Gloria Elizabeth Chacón, Iván Trujillo, Benjamin Easton, Pauline de Tholozany, Lauren G.J. Reynolds, Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas, and Gabriela Balcarce. The chapters included foreground the conceptual diversity of the field, in dialogue with issues in literary and visual culture, (post-)colonialism, race, nationalism, gender, and class. Not only do they place vernacular objects in dialogue with current international concepts and methods, but these essays also aim to advance an autonomous conceptual and theoretical work-based approach. Its chapters aspire to enter a global discussion around the state-centered aspiration to shape culture and the many literary and cultural practices that escape it; researchers of those issues and Latin American and Iberian studies will find new venues to rethink their global archive.

Author : Craig McGregor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780207129544
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up Against the Wall, America written by Craig McGregor and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas M. Disch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wall of America written by Thomas M. Disch and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White man -- Wall of America -- Ringtime -- Owl and the pussycat -- Canned goods -- Abduction of Bunny Steiner, or, A shameless lie -- Jour de Fete -- Voices of the kill -- Nights in the gardens of the Kerhonkson prison for the aged and infirm -- Family of the post-apocalypse -- In praise of older women -- Painting eggplants -- Three chronicles of Xglotl and Rwang -- In Xanadu -- Torah! Torah! Torah!: Three Bible tales for the third millennium -- One night, or, Scheherazade's bare minimum -- Knight at the opera -- Man who read a book -- First annual performance art festival at the Slaughter Rock Battlefield.

Author : J. K. Rowling
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542311984
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harry Potter and the Walls of America written by J. K. Rowling and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Potter and his friends went on a trip to the land of the free, home of the brave, AMERICA. But as they're enjoying their vacation there, the Orange-man suddenly became the president. And he erected a huge wall around the entire border so that no one can come and go. Moreover as this is the land of the Muggles, the magic won't work here. Can Harry and his friends escape the wall and come back to his home? Will he be able to liberate the people there too, WITHOUT magic? And it seems they're not the only ones who're from the magic world, the Orange-man knows about them too. And in a hidden secret archive in the Capitol Hill, they found a parchment which says the founding fathers already knew about this Orange-man. But who's this mysterious Orange-man? Is he the new dark lord? Harry finds himself drawn deep inside a mystical world he never knew existed before.