Twentieth-Century America, Tallack

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
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Цена: 31680.00 T
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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: Canaday Margot
Название: The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 0691149933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691149936
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 23230.00 T
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Описание: Shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. This title looks at three key arenas of government control - immigration, the military, and welfare.

Автор: Schulman Bruce J.
Название: Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America
ISBN: 0199845417 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199845415
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Цена: 29030.00 T
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Описание: In this volume, a group of distinguished historians revisit and revise many of the chestnuts of American political history. Blurring the boundaries between political, cultural, and economic history, the contributors raise penetrating questions and challenge readers` understanding of the broader narrative of twentieth-century U.S. history.

Автор: Boyle Eric W.
Название: Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 031338567X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780313385674
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Цена: 49500.00 T
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Описание: This timely volume illustrates how and why the fight against quackery in modern America has largely failed, laying the blame on an unlikely confluence of scientific advances, regulatory reforms, changes in the medical profession, and the politics of consumption.

Автор: Bethel Leonard L.
Название: La Citadelle: Layle Lane and Social Activism in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 0761864741 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780761864745
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 144070.00 T
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Описание: Layle Lane was an educator, social activist, and political leader. She played a major role in the March on Washington Movement. She became an innovative groundbreaker in New York City and Pennsylvania where she enacted social transformations and educational camps for inner city boys.

Название: Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 1137496649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137496645
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 23280.00 T
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Описание: By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.

Автор: Zuba Jesse
Название: The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America
ISBN: 0691164479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691164472
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 47520.00 T
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Описание: "We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique

Название: Travel 20th Century (Bibliotheca Universalis)
ISBN: 3836553961 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836553964
Издательство: Taschen
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Цена: 14170.00 T
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Описание: Over the course of the twentieth century, travel experienced an unprecedented boom. As ocean liners broke speed records, aerodynamic trains roared down tracks, and stylish boat-plane clippers evolved into jumbo jets, travel transformed from a cushioned journey of the elite into a convenient pastime for the general public. With the mass production of automobiles, invention of airplanes, freeways and motels, America led the wanderlust phenomenon. With nearly 400 vintage print advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection, this book documents the exponential expansion of American tourism, through the domestic and global, exclusive and popular, exotic and standardized adventure. With an introduction, decade-by-decade analysis, and an illustrated timeline, rediscover the thrilling energy of this new age of mobility in which Americans climbed aboard locomotives or ships, jets or Greyhound buses to explore distant lands, or to see whole new sides to their own country.

Название: Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 0230115071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230115071
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 74530.00 T
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Описание: By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.

Автор: Katz
Название: Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America
ISBN: 1137433329 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137433329
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 71730.00 T
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Описание: Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada.