Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America,
Название: Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America ISBN: 1137496649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137496645 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 3825 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.
Описание: The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang`s presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art.
Описание: Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenomena, and biological behavior are being watched with interest by all, regardless of political or scientific persuasion. But between the late nineteenth century--when the United States first funded an attempt to "shock" rain out of clouds--and the late 1940s, rainmaking (as it had been known) became weather control. And then things got out of control. In Make It Rain, Kristine C. Harper tells the long and somewhat ludicrous history of state-funded attempts to manage, manipulate, and deploy the weather in America. Harper shows that governments from the federal to the local became helplessly captivated by the idea that weather control could promote agriculture, health, industrial output, and economic growth at home, or even be used as a military weapon and diplomatic tool abroad. Clear fog for landing aircraft? There's a project for that. Gentle rain for strawberries? Let's do it Enhanced snowpacks for hydroelectric utilities? Check. The heyday of these weather control programs came during the Cold War, as the atmosphere came to be seen as something to be defended, weaponized, and manipulated. Yet Harper demonstrates that today there are clear implications for our attempts to solve the problems of climate change.
Описание: "We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique
Автор: Cardenas Название: An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America ISBN: 0333913043 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333913048 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 26020 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text explores the impact on Latin America of the transformation of the international economy that took place in the half century or so that preceded the world depression of the 1930s. It shows the interplay of economics with political and social structures had varied effects on policy making.
Автор: Cardenas Название: An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America ISBN: 0333633423 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333633427 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 26020 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the 1990s, "protection", "import substitution" and "intervention" became dirty words, part of the "leyenda negra" of Latin American growth in the postwar period. This book looks at the years when the postwar "style of development" ceased to play a main role in the economic evolution of the area.
Описание: Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada.
Автор: Thorp Название: An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America ISBN: 0333633415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333633410 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20662 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume looks at the puzzle of Latin America`s rapid recovery from the collapse in world markets and capital flows in the late 1920s. It shows how the safety valves which made recovery possible in the 1930s were not available 50 years later, and documents the impact on the role of the state.
Josephine Roche (1886-1976) was a progressive activist, New Deal policymaker, and businesswoman. As a pro-labor and feminist member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, she shaped the founding legislation of the U.S. welfare state and generated the national conversation about health-care policy that Americans are still having today. In this gripping biography, Robyn Muncy offers Roche's persistent progressivism as evidence for surprising continuities among the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Great Society.
Muncy explains that Roche became the second-highest-ranking woman in the New Deal government after running a Colorado coal company in partnership with coal miners themselves. Once in office, Roche developed a national health plan that was stymied by World War II but enacted piecemeal during the postwar period, culminating in Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s. By then, Roche directed the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund, an initiative aimed at bolstering the labor movement, advancing managed health care, and reorganizing medicine to facilitate national health insurance, one of Roche's unrealized dreams.
In Relentless Reformer, Muncy uses Roche's dramatic life story--from her stint as Denver's first policewoman in 1912 to her fight against a murderous labor union official in 1972--as a unique vantage point from which to examine the challenges that women have faced in public life and to reassess the meaning and trajectory of progressive reform.
Описание: Shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. This title looks at three key arenas of government control - immigration, the military, and welfare.
Описание: Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged answer to an enduring question for charismatic Christianities: how do women lead churches? By examining the ministries of two famous (and infamous) Pentecostal revivali
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