We Were Pretty Darn Good: A History of Rural Education in America, Steve Grineski

Автор: Randall Bennett Woods
Название: The Roosevelt Foreign-Policy Establishment and the "Good Neighbor: The United States and Argentina, 1941-1945
ISBN: 070063181X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700631810
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Good Neighbor Policy was tested to the breaking point by Argentina-U.S. relations during World War II. In part, its durability had depended both upon the willingness of all American republics to join with the United States in resisting attempts by extrahemispheric sources to intervene in New World affairs and upon continuity within the United States foreign-policy establishment. During World War II, neither prerequisite was satisfied, Argentina chose to pursue a neutralist course, and the Latin American policy of the United States became the subject of a bitter bureaucratic struggle within the Roosevelt administration. Consequently, the principles of nonintervention and noninterference, together with “absolute respect for the sovereignty of all states,” ceased to be the guideposts of Washington’s hemispheric policy.

In this study, Randall Bennett Woods argues persuasively that Washington’s response to Argentine neutrality was based more on internal differences—individual rivalries and power struggles between competing bureaucratic empires—than on external issues or economic motives. He explains how bureaucratic infighting within the U.S. government, entirely irrelevant to the issues involved, shaped important national policy toward Argentina.

Using agency memoranda, State Department records, notes on conversations and interviews, memoirs, and personal archives of the participants, Woods looks closely at the rivalries that swayed the course of Argentine-American relations. He describes the personal motives and goals of men such as Sumner Welles, Cordell Hull, Henry Morgenthau, Harry Dexter White, Henry A. Wallace, and Milo Perkins. He delineates various cliques within the State Department, including the contending groups of Welles Latin Americanists and Hull internationalists—and describes the power struggles between the State Department, the Treasury Department, the Board of Economic Welfare, the Caribbean Defense Command, and other agencies.

Of special interest to students of contemporary history will be Woods’s discussion of the careers and views of Juan Peron and Nelson Rockefeller—for American policy contributed in no small way to Peron’s rise, and Rockefeller was the man chiefly responsible for the U.S. rapprochement with Argentina in 1944–45. Woods also gives special attention to the impact of the Wilsonian tradition—especially its contradictions—on policy formation. The last chapter, dealing with Argentina’s admission to the U.N., sheds some light on the origins of the Cold War.

Wood’s investigation of the Argentine problem makes a significant contribution toward the understanding of U.S.-Latin American relations in the era of the Good Neighbor Policy, and provides new insights into the evolution of hemispheric policy as a whole during World War II. It reflects the growing emphasis on bureaucratic politics as a principal determinant of U.S. diplomacy.

Автор: Lowe Kevin M.
Название: Baptized with the Soil: Christian Agrarians and the Crusade for Rural America
ISBN: 0190249455 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190249458
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In Baptized with the Soil Kevin M. Lowe offers a history of ecumenical Protestant agrarianism in the United States. He describes how mainline Protestants defended family farms and rural life against industrialization and promote agrarian values.

Автор: Clyford L Lewis, Eric M Jackson
Название: Rural America: Aspects, Outlooks and Development -- Volume 4
ISBN: 162948766X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781629487663
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: In the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, the Congress required that the Commission report on rural Medicare beneficiaries access to care, rural providers quality of care, special rural Medicare payments, and the adequacy of Medicare payments to rural providers. In addition to the findings presented on each of the four topics, this book presents a set of principles designed to guide expectations and policies with respect to rural access, quality, and payments for all sectors. This book also discusses multi-enterprising farm households and the importance of their alternative business ventures in the rural economy. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers the greatest number of rural development programs and has the highest average of program funds going directly to rural counties (approximately 50%). An overview of the USDA rural development programs is provided in this book.

Автор: Ollie R Carpenter, Dirk E Weaver
Название: Rural America: Development Policies & Programs
ISBN: 1619429454 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781619429451
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: Rural areas are home to about 50 million Americans and are an essential part of the overall economy. This book surveys the current state of rural America and describes the Obama Administrations policies for strengthening the rural economy. This book also provides an overview of the various programs administered by the four USDA agencies, their authorising legislation, program objectives, eligibility criteria, and FY2005-FY2011 funding for each program.

Автор: Diana R. Gordon
Название: Village of Immigrants: Latinos in an Emerging America
ISBN: 0813575907 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813575902
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Greenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, has become an exemplar of a little-noted national trend - immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural population growth nationally. In Village of Immigrants Diana R. Gordon illustrates how small-town America has been revitalized by the arrival of these immigrants.

Автор: Russo Gus, Moses Harry
Название: Where Were You?: America Remembers the JFK Assassination
ISBN: 1493036920 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493036929
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: November 22, 1963. A policeman's wife was fetching their sick child from school. A young shoe store manager had no idea what lay in wait for him that day.

A future president was tending to his farm. A future vice president was standing on the steps of his college library. A Georgetown student was looking forward to playing the piano for the president when he returned to Washington, DC, that evening.

A future movie star was attending his second-grade art class. Then the news rang out across airwaves, through telephone lines, and by word of mouth, plunging the country into shock and sorrow. It's hard to imagine how the last fifty years would have unfolded if President John F.

Kennedy had lived. Would Vietnam have dragged on until 1974? Would Nixon have come into power? It's difficult to say-but, combining evocative archival images with the unique, first-person stories of those who lived through it, Where Were You? says what the history books can't and offers a fresh look at what was, what is, and what might have been since that fateful day. In the two-hour NBC documentary event that this volume accompanies, special correspondent Tom Brokaw interviewed people close to the tragedy as well as former heads of state, politicians, authors, journalists, performers, musicians, and more.

He asked them five simple questions, starting with: Where were you? Together, their words paint a rich and moving picture of a hopeful nation torn asunder by grief. It will remind those who lived it of a pivotal moment in American history, and it bears witness for all who follow.

Автор: Sadlier Darlene J.
Название: Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II
ISBN: 0292756852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292756854
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Cultural diplomacy—“winning hearts and minds” through positive portrayals of the American way of life—is a key element in U.S. foreign policy, although it often takes a backseat to displays of military might. Americans All provides an in-depth, fine-grained study of a particularly successful instance of cultural diplomacy—the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA), a government agency established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 and headed by Nelson A. Rockefeller that worked to promote hemispheric solidarity and combat Axis infiltration and domination by bolstering inter-American cultural ties.

Darlene J. Sadlier explores how the CIAA used film, radio, the press, and various educational and high-art activities to convince people in the United States of the importance of good neighbor relations with Latin America, while also persuading Latin Americans that the United States recognized and appreciated the importance of our southern neighbors. She examines the CIAA’s working relationship with Hollywood’s Motion Picture Society of the Americas; its network and radio productions in North and South America; its sponsoring of Walt Disney, Orson Welles, John Ford, Gregg Toland, and many others who traveled between the United States and Latin America; and its close ties to the newly created Museum of Modern Art, which organized traveling art and photographic exhibits and produced hundreds of 16mm educational films for inter-American audiences; and its influence on the work of scores of artists, libraries, book publishers, and newspapers, as well as public schools, universities, and private organizations.

Автор: Trueba, Henry T.
Название: Healing Multicultural America
ISBN: 1032363452 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032363455
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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