Voices of the Nation, Levander

Автор: Hill Emita Brady, Munch Janet Butler
Название: Bronx Faces and Voices: Sixteen Stories of Courage and Community
ISBN: 0896728889 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780896728882
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century

In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx itself: elected officials, religious leaders, and activists who were determined to preserve the beauty of their parks and stability of their community. They had the courage to stay and fight against drug dealers, absent and indifferent landlords, banks that red-lined entire neighborhoods, and a voracious media that made of the Bronx an international symbol of urban disaster. Some are no longer alive. But each of the sixteen played a positive role in a pivotal time, and they all deserve to be remembered and to have their voices heard.
Portraits in this volume by noted photographers Georgeen Comerford and Walter Rosenblum document the Bronx "faces" in their beauty and diversity: young and old, witnesses to the history they lived and created.

Автор: Sarat
Название: Dissenting Voices in American Society
ISBN: 110743873X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107438736
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book explores the status of dissent in the work and lives of judges, lawyers, and citizens, and in our institutions and culture. It examines the forms of dissent that institutions make possible and those that are discouraged or domesticated.

Автор: Roorda Rhonda M.
Название: In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption
ISBN: 0231172206 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231172202
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Forthright accounts of the diverse experiences of black men and women who have been involved in transracial adoption professionally or personally.

Автор: Springer Melanie J.
Название: How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000
ISBN: 022611421X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226114217
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. But are expansive institutional efforts like mailin registration, longer poll hours, and "no-excuse" absentee voting uniformly effective in improving voter turnout across states? This book deals with this topic.

Автор: Damousi
Название: Colonial Voices
ISBN: 1107673372 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107673373
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This innovative study of the relationship between language and empire explores the role of language in the greater `civilising` project of the British Empire through the dissemination and reception of, and challenge to, British English in Australia during the period from the 1840s to the 1940s.

Автор: Patterson Robert Porter
Название: Arming the Nation for War: Mobilization, Supply, and the American War Effort in World War II
ISBN: 1572338725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781572338722
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A decorated World War I veteran, Federal Judge Robert P. Patterson knew all too well the needs of soldiers on the battlefield. He was thus dismayed by America’s lack of military preparedness when a second great war engulfed Europe in 1939–40. With the international crisis worsening, Patterson even resumed military training—as a forty-nine-year old private—before being named assistant secretary of war in July 1940. That appointment set the stage for Patterson’s central role in the country’s massive mobilization and supply effort which helped the Allies win World War II.In Arming the Nation for War, a previously unpublished account long buried among the late author’s papers and originally marked confidential, Patterson describes the vast challenges the United States faced as it had to equip, in a desperately short time, a fighting force capable of confronting a formidable enemy. Brimming with data and detail, the book also abounds with deep insights into the myriad problems encountered on the domestic mobilization front—including the sometimes divergent interests of wartime planners and industrial leaders—along with the logistical difficulties of supplying far-flung theaters of war with everything from ships, planes, and tanks to food and medicine. Determined to remind his contemporaries of how narrow the Allied margin of victory was and that the war’s lessons not be forgotten, Patterson clearly intended the manuscript (which he wrote between 1945 and ’47, when he was President Truman’s secretary of war) to contribute to the postwar debates on the future of the military establishment. That passage of the National Security Act of 1947, to which Patterson was a key contributor, answered many of his concerns may explain why he never published the book during his lifetime.A unique document offering an insider’s view of a watershed historical moment, Patterson’s text is complemented by editor Brian Waddell’s extensive introduction and notes. In addition, Robert M. Morgenthau, former Manhattan district attorney and a protégé of Patterson’s for four years prior to the latter’s death in a 1952 plane crash, offers a heartfelt remembrance of a man the New York Herald-Tribune called “an example of the public-spirited citizen.”

Автор: Blair
Название: Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation
ISBN: 0521107601 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521107600
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This 1996 book argues that Henry James`s work exemplifies the complex role literature plays in the formation of broadly racial, national and cultural identities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Blair delineates the complexity of his engagement with emergent cultural rituals through which American values are being forged.

Автор: Staub
Название: Voices of Persuasion
ISBN: 0521111943 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521111942
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Staub recasts 1930s cultural history, demonstrating the seldom-discussed multicultural diversity of those genres so characteristic of the period: ethnography, documentary, journalism and polemical fiction.

Автор: Svartvik
Название: English - One Tongue, Many Voices
ISBN: 1403918295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403918291
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 107130.00 T
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Описание: Tells the story of the English language in three ways. This book traces the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago. It shows the geographical spread of the language in its increasing diversity. It argues that, in spite of the amazing variety and plurality of English, it remains a single language.

Автор: Roorda Rhonda M.
Название: In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption
ISBN: 0231172214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231172219
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Forthright accounts of the diverse experiences of black men and women who have been involved in transracial adoption professionally or personally.

Автор: Neely Jr.
Название: Lincoln And The Triumph Of The Nation
ISBN: 1469621843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469621845
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Описание: The Civil War placed the US Constitution under unprecedented strain. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines the US Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confederate Constitution, and the ways the documents shaped the struggle for national survival.

Автор: Centeno
Название: State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain
ISBN: 1107454395 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107454392
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The chapters tell how these countries went about constructing systems of authority that could manage their territories, support economic development, provide basic services, and promote a sense of national community.