The visible hand :, Chandler, Alfred D.

Автор: Michael Osman
Название: Modernism`s Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America
ISBN: 1517900972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517900977
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States What is the origin of “room temperature”? When did food become considered fresh or not fresh? Why do we think management makes things more efficient? The answers to these questions share a history with architecture and regulation at the turn of the twentieth century. This pioneering technological and architectural history of environmental control systems during the Gilded Age begins with the premise that regulation-of temperature, the economy, even the freshness of food-can be found in the guts of buildings. From cold storage and scientific laboratories to factories, these infrastructures first organized life in a way we now call “modern.”Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival resources, Michael Osman examines the increasing role of environmental technologies in building design from the late nineteenth century. He shows how architects appropriated and subsumed the work of engineers as thermostats, air handlers, and refrigeration proliferated. He argues that this change was closely connected to broader cultural and economic trends in management and the regulation of risk. The transformation shaped the evolution of architectural modernism and the development of the building as a machine. Rather than assume the preexisting natural order of things, participants in regulation-including architects, scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, economists, government employees, and domestic reformers-became entangled in managing the errors, crises, and risks stemming from the nation’s unprecedented growth.Modernism’s Visible Hand not only broadens our conception of how industrial capitalism shaped the built environment but is also vital to understanding the role of design in dealing with ecological crises today. 

Автор: Craven
Название: Visible and Invisible Whiteness
ISBN: 3319767763 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319767765
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Visible and Invisible Whiteness examines the complicity between Classical Hollywood narratives or genres and representations of white supremacy in the cinema.

Автор: Jamal Amaney, Naber Nadine
Название: Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects
ISBN: 0815631774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815631774
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: What is the relationship between US imperialism in Arab homelands and anti-Arab racism in the lives of Arab Americans? What is the significance of whiteness studies to Arab American studies? This book locates September 11 as a turning point in the history of Arab American engagements with race, multiculturalism, and Americanization.

Автор: Albena Bakratcheva
Название: Visibility beyond the Visible: The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism
ISBN: 9042035560 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789042035560
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: Visibility beyond the Visible. The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism is the first study to entirely deal with the poetics of American Transcendentalism. The author takes it for granted that the major New England transcendentalists were writers of utmost literary significance and so focuses thoroughly on their extremely rich and many-sided poetic discourse. The book’s inevitable European perspective only enhances its preoccupation with the Americanness of the New England Transcendentalists, thus making it emphasize, in all the aspects of its concern, the uniqueness of the interrelation between place-sense and artistry which the transcendentalists’ writings offer. Because most of these writings hold iconic stature as American masterpieces, both scholars and lay readers will welcome Visibility beyond the Visible. The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism as opening novel horizons for greater insights, deeper understandings, and further exploration of the poetic complexities of Emerson’s, Thoreau’s, M. Fuller’s, and their co-thinkers’ work.

Автор: Ross A. Brooks
Название: The Visible Confederacy: Images and Objects in the Civil War South
ISBN: 0807171964 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807171967
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Описание: The Visible Confederacy is a comprehensive analysis of the commercially and government-generated visual and material culture of the Confederate States of America. While historians have mainly studied Confederate identity through printed texts, this book shows that Confederates also built and shared a sense of who they were through other media: theatrical performances, military clothing, manufactured goods, and an assortment of other material. Examining previously understudied and often unpublished visual and documentary sources, Ross A. Brooks provides new perspectives on Confederates' sense of identity and ideas about race, gender, and independence, as well as how those conceptions united and divided them. Brooks's work complements the historiography surrounding the Confederate nation by revealing how imagery and objects offer new windows on southern society and a richer understanding of Confederate citizens. Brooks builds substantially upon previous studies of the iconology and iconography of Confederate imagery and material culture by adding a broader range of government and commercially generated images and objects. He examines not only popular or high art and government-produced imagery, but also lowbrow art, transitory theatrical productions, and ephemeral artifacts generated by southerners. Collectively, these materials provide a variety of lenses through which to explore and assay the various priorities, ideological fault lines, and worldviews of Confederate citizens. Brooks's study is one of the first extensive academic works to use imagery and objects as the basis for studying the Confederate South. His work provides fresh avenues for examining Confederate ideas about race, slavery, gender, independence, and the war, and it offers insight into the intentions and factors that contributed to the creation of Confederate nationalism. The Visible Confederacy furthers our understanding of what the Confederacy was, what Confederates fought for, and why their vision has persisted in memory and imagination for so long beyond the Confederacy's existence. Visual and material culture captured not only the tensions, but also the illusions and delusions that Confederates shared.

Автор: Jeffrey B. Leak
Название: Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas
ISBN: 0820351466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820351469
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Описание: Henry Dumas (1934-1968) was a writer who did not live to see most of his fiction and poetry in print. A son of Sweet Home, Arkansas, and Harlem, he devoted himself to the creation of a black literary cosmos, one in which black literature and culture were windows into the human condition. Jeffrey B. Leak offers a full examination of both Dumas`s life and his creative development.

Автор: Brown, Julie K.
Название: Making Culture Visible
ISBN: 1138386561 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138386563
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: First published in 2001. Making Culture Visible provides a fresh focus on the history of nineteenth-century photography. The narrative moves from a close focus on several selected events between 1847 and 1900. The evolution of the increasingly complex social function of photography is clearly demonstrated.

Автор: Cortada, James W.
Название: The Digital hand
ISBN: 019516587X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195165876
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The Digital Hand, Volume 2 is an historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media, and entertainment sectors over the past half century. It is part of a sweeping three-volume description of how management in some forty industries embraced the computer and changed the American economy.

Автор: Cortada, James W.
Название: The digital hand.
ISBN: 0195165888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195165883
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In `The Digital Hand`, James W. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computing`s role in 16 industries, accounting for nearly half of the US economy.

Автор: Hand Scott, Pooler Diane
Название: Fun Pier: 1957 to Adventure Pier
ISBN: 1531650961 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531650964
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Автор: Mutari Ellen, Figart Deborah M.
Название: Just One More Hand: Life in the Casino Economy
ISBN: 1442236671 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442236677
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Where jobs in the casino industry once paid well, market saturation is making it harder for workers to make it on their salaries. Through examining this shift, the contributors discuss how this could reflect similar changes for workers in different industries.

Автор: Carol Reardon
Название: With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other: The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North
ISBN: 1469642301 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469642307
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Описание: When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine Henri Jomini's Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardon shows, Jomini's work was only one voice in what ultimately became a lively and contentious national discourse about how the North should conduct war at a time when warfare itself was rapidly changing. She argues that the absence of a strong intellectual foundation for the conduct of war at its start-or, indeed, any consensus on the need for such a foundation-ultimately contributed to the length and cost of the conflict.
Reardon examines the great profusion of new or newly translated military texts of the Civil War years, intended to fill that intellectual void, and draws as well on the views of the soldiers and civilians who turned to them in the search for a winning strategy. In examining how debates over principles of military thought entered into the question of qualifications of officers entrusted to command the armies of Northern citizen soldiers, she explores the limitations of nineteenth-century military thought in dealing with the human elements of combat.