In Faith in Freedom, Andrew R. Polk argues that the American civil religion so many have identified as indigenous to the founding ideology was, in fact, the result of a strategic campaign of religious propaganda. Far from being the natural result of the nation's religious underpinning or the later spiritual machinations of conservative Protestants, American civil religion and the resultant "Christian nationalism" of today were crafted by secular elites in the middle of the twentieth century. Polk's genealogy of the national motto, "In God We Trust," revises the very meaning of the contemporary American nation.
Polk shows how Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, working with politicians, advertising executives, and military public relations experts, exploited denominational religious affiliations and beliefs in order to unite Americans during the Second World War and, then, the early Cold War. Armed opposition to the Soviet Union was coupled with militant support for free economic markets, local control of education and housing, and liberties of speech and worship. These preferences were cultivated by state actors so as to support a set of right-wing positions including anti-communism, the Jim Crow status quo, and limited taxation and regulation.
Faith in Freedom is a pioneering work of American religious history. By assessing the ideas, policies, and actions of three US Presidents and their White House staff, Polk sheds light on the origins of the ideological, religious, and partisan divides that describe the American polity today.
Автор: Ken Carlberg; Robert Desourdis; James Polk; Ian Br Название: Preferential Emergency Communications ISBN: 1402075227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781402075223 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 19559.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Describes systems and protocols that have been deployed as private networks for use by government agencies like the US Department of Defense. This book also describes systems that have been deployed over the public switched telephone network. It offers insights on trying to support emergency communications over TCP/IP networks and the Internet.
Автор: Horn Huston Название: Leonidas Polk: Warrior Bishop of the Confederacy ISBN: 0700627502 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700627509 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6653.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Leonidas Polk was one of the more notable, yet controversial, generals of the US Civil War. Recognising his indispensable familiarity with the Mississippi Valley, Confederate president Jefferson Davis commissioned his elevation to a high military position regardless of his lack of prior combat experience.
Автор: Thomas Tom, Polk James K. Название: State of the Union Addresses of James K. Polk ISBN: 1497448336 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781497448339 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1414.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection arose out of a 2019 conference to commemorate the completion of the fourteen- volume Correspondence of James K. Polk. Its scholarship - which pays tribute to the Polk Project itself, as well as to the controversial nature of the Polk legacy - will result in a significant reinterpretation of the eleventh US president.
Автор: Mark R. Cheathem Название: Who Is James K. Polk?: The Presidential Election of 1844 ISBN: 0700635734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700635733 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4764.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The question Americans asked in 1844 was, “Who the hell is James K. Polk?”
Polk, of course, was not unknown, but was a highly unlikely presidential candidate given the availability of better-known options. Among the Democrats, this included Martin Van Buren, John C. Calhoun, and James Buchanan. Among the Whigs, Henry Clay was the clear frontrunner. Complicating the election were three other candidates: President John Tyler, a man without a party; Joseph Smith, the self-described prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the first presidential candidate to be assassinated; and James G. Birney, head of the antislavery Liberty ticket. On top of this remarkable cast of characters, the stakes of the election were high as the United States was undergoing a tumultuous political transition.
James K. Polk’s ascension to the White House over more notable politicians was a pivotal moment in propelling the United States towards civil war, and the 1844 election expanded the vigorous campaigning that had been growing since 1824. In Who is James K. Polk?, Mark R. Cheathem examines the transition from traditional political issues, such as banking and tariffs, to newer ones, like immigration and slavery. The book also captures the Whig and Democratic parties at a mature stage of competition and provides detailed descriptions of campaign tactics used by the candidates, including rallies, music, and political cartoons.
Cheathem has written the definitive account of this important election in this volume for the esteemed American Presidential Elections series.
Описание: In light of impending global climate and financial crises, it is imperative to analyze models for positive social change that are focused on building community resiliency and sustainability. This book explores the communication processes of the Transition Movement, a community-led global social movement, as it was adapted in a local context.
Описание: From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish-Cuban-American War under the War Department's belief that Southern blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. Later, in World Wars I and II, black troops were stigmatized as members of a contagious "venereal race," and were subjected to experimental medical treatments meant to curtail their sexual desires. By turns feared as contagious, and at other times valued for their immunity, black men and women played an important part in the U.S. military's conscription of racial, gender, and sexual difference, even as they exercised their embattled agency at home and abroad.
By following the scientific, medical, and cultural history of African American enlistment through the archive of American militarism, this book traces the black subjects and agents of empire as they came into contact with a world globalized by warfare.
Автор: Patrick A. Polk, Randal Johnson, Roberto Conduru, Название: Ax? Bahia: The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis ISBN: 0990762653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780990762652 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6270.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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Ax? Bahia examines the unique cultural role played by Salvador, the coastal capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. An internationally renowned center of Afro-Brazilian culture, Salvador has been a vibrant and important hub of African-inspired artistic practices in Latin America since the 1940s. This volume represents the most comprehensive investigation in the United States of Bahian arts to date and features essays by eighteen international scholars. While adding to popular understandings of core expressions of African heritage, such as the religion Candombl?, the essays explore in depth the complexities of race and cultural affiliation in Brazil and the provocative ways in which artists have experienced and responded creatively to prevailing realities of Afro-Brazilian identity in Bahia. Lavishly illustrated, the book features works by artists ranging from modernists, among them M?rio Cravo Neto, Rubem Valentim, and Pierre Verger, to contemporary artists Rommulo Vieira Conceicao, Caetano Dias, Helen Salomao, Ayrson Her?clito, and others—including a stunning array of sculpture, painting, photography, video, and installation art. The exhibition was part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative.
Автор: Correll Timothy Corrigan, Polk Patrick Arthur Название: Muffler Men ISBN: 1578062993 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781578062997 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 4514.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From Walla Walla to Daytona quirky mannikins constructed from discarded automobile mufflers are popping up across America. This colourful book documents the widespread appeal of muffler men as a form of occupational art that enriches the workplace, the local environment, and now the art gallery.
Автор: Reeves Jesse Siddall Название: American Diplomacy Under Tyler and Polk ISBN: 1289340528 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781289340520 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4518.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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