The construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this lively and provocative social history, Michael E. Donoghue positions the Panama Canal Zone as an imperial borderland where U.S. power, culture, and ideology were projected and contested. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, Donoghue details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Panamanians responded to U.S. occupation with proclamations, protests, and everyday forms of resistance and acquiescence. Although U.S. "Zonians" and military personnel stigmatized Panamanians as racial inferiors, they also sought them out for service labor, contraband, sexual pleasure, and marriage. The Canal Zone, he concludes, reproduced classic colonial hierarchies of race, national identity, and gender, establishing a model for other U.S. bases and imperial outposts around the globe.
The construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this lively and provocative social history, Michael E. Donoghue positions the Panama Canal Zone as an imperial borderland where U.S. power, culture, and ideology were projected and contested. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, Donoghue details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Panamanians responded to U.S. occupation with proclamations, protests, and everyday forms of resistance and acquiescence. Although U.S. "Zonians" and military personnel stigmatized Panamanians as racial inferiors, they also sought them out for service labor, contraband, sexual pleasure, and marriage. The Canal Zone, he concludes, reproduced classic colonial hierarchies of race, national identity, and gender, establishing a model for other U.S. bases and imperial outposts around the globe.
Описание: Boston has always been known for its stiff character. So how did this great New England city become home to one of the largest and most notorious adult entertainment districts in the nation? In this expertly crafted history, veteran reporter Stephanie Schorow teases out the issues that created this controversial neighborhood, giving voice to the players who sought to tame or profit from the sleaze snaking its way through Boston. At turns comic and tragic, Schorow introduces us to the politicians, exotic dancers, and wise guys, and residents brought together by the adult entertainment district-a five-acre neighborhood the city engineered to contain the very porno plague it wanted to eliminate. (Meet the nun-turned-attorney who advocated for the First Amendment rights of adult bookstores, a dancer called "the thinking man's stripper," and Boston's unofficial city censor.) For these people and thousands of others, the Combat Zone is more than a memory-it was a life-altering adventure.
Описание: In writing about Boston Chinatown`s long history, Michael Liu, a lifelong activist and scholar of the community, charts its journey and efforts for survival - from its emergence during a time of immigration and deep xenophobia to recent efforts to keep commercial developers at bay.
Автор: Hinderaker Eric Название: Boston`s Massacre ISBN: 0674237382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674237384 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 4002.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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George Washington Prize Finalist Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati Prize
"Fascinating... Hinderaker's meticulous research shows that the Boston Massacre was contested from the beginning... Its] meanings have plenty to tell us about America's identity, past and present." --Wall Street Journal
On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most famous and least understood incidents in American history. Eric Hinderaker revisits this dramatic confrontation, examining in forensic detail the facts of that fateful night, the competing narratives that molded public perceptions at the time, and the long campaign to transform the tragedy into a touchstone of American identity.
"Hinderaker brilliantly unpacks the creation of competing narratives around a traumatic and confusing episode of violence. With deft insight, careful research, and lucid writing, he shows how the bloodshed in one Boston street became pivotal to making and remembering a revolution that created a nation." --Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions
"Seldom does a book appear that compels its readers to rethink a signal event in American history. It's even rarer...to accomplish so formidable a feat in prose of sparkling clarity and grace. Boston's Massacre is a gem." --Fred Anderson, author of Crucible of War
Автор: Lisicky Michael J. Название: Filene`s: Boston`s Great Specialty Store ISBN: 1531661815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531661816 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4413.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Earls Alan R. Название: Greater Boston`s Blizzard of 1978 ISBN: 1531635008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531635008 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4413.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: If you take Boston`s Blue Line to its northern end, you`ll reach the Wonderland stop. Few realize that a twenty-three-acre amusement park once sat nearby - the largest in New England. As told here, the story of the park`s creation and wild, but brief, success is full of larger-than-life characters who hoped to thrill attendees and rake in profits.
Автор: Miller Melvin B. Название: Boston`s Banner Years: 1965-2015: A Saga of Black Success ISBN: 1480862525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781480862524 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3447.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Traces the Boston`s cycling history, chronicling the activities of environmental and social justice activists, stories of women breaking into male-dominated professions by becoming bike messengers and mechanics, and challenges faced by African American cyclists.
Автор: Miller Melvin B. Название: Boston`s Banner Years: 1965-2015: A Saga of Black Success ISBN: 1480862517 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781480862517 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 5925.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Elder Andrew, Fox Jeremy C. Название: Boston`s Orange Line ISBN: 1531672299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531672294 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4413.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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