Confronting Decline, Koistinen

Название: Confronting modernity in fin-de-siecle france
ISBN: 0230220991 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230220997
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volume explores how historians have come to view this period in light of new theoretical developments since the 1980s.

Автор: Kochavi
Название: Confronting Captivity
ISBN: 1469614820 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469614823
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: How was it possible that almost all of the nearly 300,000 British and American troops who fell into German hands during World War II survived captivity in German POW camps and returned home almost as soon as the war ended? In Confronting Captivity, Arieh J. Kochavi offers a behind-the-scenes look at the living conditions in Nazi camps and traces the actions the British and American governments took--and didn't take--to ensure the safety of their captured soldiers. Concern in London and Washington about the safety of these POWs was mitigated by the recognition that the Nazi leadership tended to adhere to the Geneva Convention when it came to British and U.S. prisoners. Following the invasion of Normandy, however, Allied apprehension over the safety of POWs turned into anxiety for their very lives. Yet Britain and the United States took the calculated risk of counting on a swift conclusion to the war as the Soviets approached Germany from the east. Ultimately, Kochavi argues, it was more likely that the lives of British and American POWs were spared because of their race rather than any actions their governments took on their behalf.

Автор: Brogi
Название: Confronting America
ISBN: 1469622114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469622118
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Описание: Throughout the Cold War, the United States encountered unexpected challenges from Italy and France, two countries with the strongest, and determinedly most anti-American, Communist Parties in Western Europe. Based primarily on new evidence from communist archives in France and Italy, as well as research archives in the United States, Alessandro Brogi's original study reveals how the United States was forced by political opposition within these two core Western countries to reassess its own anticommunist strategies, its image, and the general meaning of American liberal capitalist culture and ideology.Brogi shows that the resistance to Americanization was a critical test for the French and Italian communists' own legitimacy and existence. Their anti-Americanism was mostly dogmatic and driven by the Soviet Union, but it was also, at crucial times, subtle and ambivalent, nurturing fascination with the American culture of dissent. The staunchly anticommunist United States, Brogi argues, found a successful balance to fighting the communist threat in France and Italy by employing diplomacy and fostering instances of mild dissent in both countries. Ultimately, both the French and Italian communists failed to adapt to the forces of modernization that stemmed both from indigenous factors and from American influence. Confronting America illuminates the political, diplomatic, economic, and cultural conflicts behind the U.S.-communist confrontation.

Автор: Jewell Richard B.
Название: Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures
ISBN: 0520289676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520289673
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Completing the two-part history of the RKO film studio, which began with RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born, this second volume charts the studio`s fortunes, which peaked during World War II, declined in the postwar period, and finally collapsed in the 1950s. It chronicles the period from 1942 to the company`s demise in 1957.

Автор: Lim Elvin
Название: The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush
ISBN: 019989809X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199898091
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In The Anti-Intellectual Presidency, Elvin Lim draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents' ability to communicate with the public. Lim argues that the ever-increasing
pressure for presidents to manage public opinion and perception has created a pathology of vacuous rhetoric and imagery where gesture and appearance matter more than accomplishment and fact. Lim tracks the campaign to simplify presidential discourse through presidential and speechwriting decisions
made from the Truman to the present administration, explaining how and why presidents have embraced anti-intellectualism and vague platitudes as a public relations strategy. Lim sees this anti-intellectual stance as a deliberate choice rather than a reflection of presidents' intellectual
limitations. Only the smart, he suggests, know how to dumb down. The result, he shows, is a dangerous debasement of our political discourse and a quality of rhetoric which has been described, charitably, as a linguistic struggle and, perhaps more accurately, as dogs barking idiotically through
endless nights. Sharply written and incisively argued, The Anti-Intellectual Presidency sheds new light on the murky depths of presidential oratory, illuminating both the causes and consequences of this substantive impoverishment.

Автор: Bloodworth Jeffrey
Название: Losing the Center: The Decline of American Liberalism, 1968--1992
ISBN: 0813142296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813142296
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Описание: Many Americans consider John F. Kennedy`s presidency to represent the apex of American liberalism. Kennedy`s "Vital Center" blueprint united middle-class and working-class Democrats and promoted freedom abroad while recognizing the limits of American power. Liberalism thrived in the early 1960s, but its heyday was short-lived.In L osing the Center, Jeffrey Bloodworth demonstrates how and why the once-dominant ideology began its steep decline, exploring its failures through the biographies of some of the Democratic Party`s most important leaders, including Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Henry "Scoop" Jackson, Bella Abzug, Harold Ford Sr., and Jimmy Carter. By illuminating historical events through the stories of the people at the center of the action, Bloodworth sheds new light on topics such as feminism, the environment, the liberal abandonment of the working class, and civil rights legislation.This meticulously researched study authoritatively argues that liberalism`s demise was prompted not by a "Republican revolution" or the mistakes of a few prominent politicians, but instead by decades of ideological incoherence and political ineptitude among liberals. Bloodworth demonstrates that Democrats caused their own party`s decline by failing to realize that their policies contradicted the priorities of mainstream voters, who were more concerned about social issues than economic ones. With its unique biographical approach and masterful use of archival materials, this detailed and accessible book promises to stand as one of the definitive texts on the state of American liberalism in the second half of the twentieth century.

Автор: Mawby Spencer
Название: Transformation and Decline of the British Empire
ISBN: 1137387505 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137387509
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Описание: Spencer Mawby offers a fresh perspective on the current literature and historiographical debates surrounding the end of the British Empire. Adopting a thematic approach, Mawby analyses the nature of anti-colonialism, domestic arguments regarding the empire, security and intelligence, relations between capital and labour and the movement of people.

Название: Edwardian England and the Idea of Racial Decline
ISBN: 1137373407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137373403
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Описание: Emerging from a long and exhausting conflict against the Boers in South Africa, Edwardians are often perceived as rocked by a profound set of doubts about the future of the British Empire. Drawing upon a wide range of popular sources, this study considers the level of middle-class engagement with such strains of pessimistic thought.

Автор: Whisler, Timothy
Название: The British Motor Industry, 1954-94: A Case Study in Industrial Decline
ISBN: 0198290748 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198290742
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Why are there now no major car manufacturers in Britain? Timothy Whisler considers this and the surrounding issues, making valuable comparisons with overseas manufacturers operating both in the UK and abroad. This book covers the issues of product development, quality, design, and range.

Автор: Jewell Richard B.
Название: Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures
ISBN: 0520289668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520289666
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Completing the detailed two-part history of the RKO film studio, which began with RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born, this second volume charts the studio`s fortunes, which peaked during World War II, declined in the postwar period, and finally collapsed in the 1950s. It chronicles the period from 1942 to the company`s demise in 1957.