Автор: Stefan Rinke Название: Latin America and the First World War ISBN: 1107566061 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107566064 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 45600.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Latin America and the First World War employs a transnational lens to offer a comprehensive study of the subcontinent during World War I. Using a sweeping range of textual and visual sources, this book breaks new ground and adds a fresh dimension to the historiography of the Great War, of Latin America, and of international relations.
Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.
The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the global North to the global South -- the view of technology as "imported magic." They describe not only alternate pathways for innovation, invention, and discovery but also how ideas and technologies circulate in Latin American contexts and transnationally. The contributors' explorations of these issues, and their examination of specific Latin American experiences with science and technology, offer a broader, more nuanced understanding of how science, technology, politics, and power interact in the past and present.
The essays in this book use methods from history and the social sciences to investigate forms of local creation and use of technologies; the circulation of ideas, people, and artifacts in local and global networks; and hybrid technologies and forms of knowledge production. They address such topics as the work of female forensic geneticists in Colombia; the pioneering Argentinean use of fingerprinting technology in the late nineteenth century; the design, use, and meaning of the XO Laptops created and distributed by the One Laptop per Child Program; and the development of nuclear energy in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile.
Contributors Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Morgan G. Ames, Javiera Barandiaran, Joao Biehl, Anita Say Chan, Amy Cox Hall, Henrique Cukierman, Ana Delgado, Rafael Dias, Adriana Diaz del Castillo H., Mariano Fressoli, Jonathan Hagood, Christina Holmes, Matthieu Hubert, Noela Invernizzi, Michael Lemon, Ivan da Costa Marques, Gisela Mateos, Eden Medina, Maria Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Hugo Palmarola, Tania Perez-Bustos, Julia Rodriguez, Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Edna Suarez Diaz, Hernan Thomas, Manuel Tironi, Dominique Vinck
Автор: McPherson Alan Название: Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the ISBN: 1118954009 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118954003 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 20050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions and interventions in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day.
Автор: Chen Yong Название: Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America ISBN: 0231168926 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231168922 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An epic tale of globalized cultural exchange by means of our first "fast food."
Автор: Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia Название: Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture ISBN: 0199251908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199251902 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 58080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Why and how has the business corporation come to exert such a powerful influence on American society? The essays here take up this question, offering a fresh perspective on the ways in which the business corporation has assumed an enduring place in the modern capitalist economy.
Автор: Harper Kristine C. Название: Make It Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America ISBN: 022643723X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226437231 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. 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.
Автор: Balmer Randall Herbert Название: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey Into the Evangelical Subculture in America, 25th Anniversary Edition ISBN: 0199360464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199360468 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 30090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From Oregon to Florida, Randall Balmer offers an immensely readable tour of the highways and byways of American evangelicalism. We visit a revival meeting in Florida, an Indian reservation in the Dakotas, a trade show for Christian booksellers, and a fundamentalist Bible camp in the Adirondacks.
Автор: Brownlee Название: Federal Taxation in America ISBN: 1107099765 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107099760 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 90810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides an inviting, compact and comprehensive history of American taxation that assists in understanding contemporary tax issues. It also offers scholars, graduate students and advanced undergraduates in history, political science, sociology, economics and law an interdisciplinary interpretation of that history.
Автор: Gienapp, William E. Название: Abraham lincoln and civil war america ISBN: 0195151003 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195151008 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 55960.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America is a short biography aimed at a general audience, but because of its short length, it will also be suitable for use on college courses in American history. The biography will concentrate on Lincoln`s years as president, with particular emphasis upon his role in determining the course and outcome of the Civil War.
Автор: Conway Christopher Название: Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: A Cultural History ISBN: 082652060X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826520609 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 27720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: A Cultural History provides a panoramic and accessible introduction to the era in which Latin America took its first steps into the Modern Age. Including colorful characters like circus clowns, prostitutes, bullfighters, street puppeteers, and bestselling authors, this book maps vivid and often surprising combinations of the new and the old, the high and the low, and the political and the cultural. Christopher Conway shows that beneath the diversity of the New World there was a deeper structure of shared patterns of cultural creation and meaning. Whether it be the ways that people of refinement from different countries used the same rules of etiquette, or how commoners shared their stories through the same types of songs, Conway creates a multidisciplinary framework for understanding the culture of an entire hemisphere. The book opens with key themes that will help students and scholars understand the century, such as the civilization and barbarism binary, urbanism, the divide between conservatives and liberals, and transculturation. In the chapters that follow, Conway weaves transnational trends together with brief case studies and compelling snapshots that help us understand the period. How much did books and photographs cost in the nineteenth century? What was the dominant style in painting? What kinds of ballroom dancing were popular? Richly illustrated with striking photographs and lithographs, this is a book that invites the reader to rediscover a past age that is not quite past, still resonating into the present.
Автор: Sohi Seema Название: Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America ISBN: 0199376255 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199376254 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Echoes of Mutiny explores how the challenges of Indian migrants to racial exclusion in the United States and Canada and British supremacy at home provoked a global inter-imperial collaboration between U.S. and British officials to repress those deemed a threat to the racial and imperial world order.
Автор: Dudden Faye E. Название: Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America ISBN: 0199376433 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199376438 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 37480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment for granting black men the right to vote but not women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this? In a lively narrative of insider politics, betrayal, deception, and personal conflict,
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