Gateway State: Hawai`i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire, Miller-Davenport Sarah

Автор: Xiaohui Liu
Название: Foodscapes of Chinese America: The Transformation of Chinese Culinary Culture in the U.S. since 1965
ISBN: 3631671008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631671009
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: This book explores the transformation of Chinese food in the U.S. after 1965 from a cultural perspective. The author asks how Chinese food reflects the racial relation between the Chinese community and the mainstream white society and investigates the symbolic meanings as well as the cultural functions of Chinese food in America. She argues that food is not only a symbol that mirrors social relations, but also an agent which causes social and cultural change. A particular geographic focus of this book is California.

Автор: William S. Walker
Название: A Living Exhibition: The Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal Museum
ISBN: 1625340257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625340252
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Since its founding in 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," the Smithsonian Institution has been an important feature of the American cultural landscape. In A Living Exhibition, William S. Walker examines the tangled history of cultural exhibition at the Smithsonian from its early years to the chartering of the National Museum of the American Indian in 1989.

Автор: Brooke John L.
Название: There is a north: fugitive slaves, political crisis, and cultural transformation in the coming of the civil war
ISBN: 1625344473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625344472
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The first book to explore how cultural action - including minstrelsy, theatre, and popular literature - transformed public opinion and political structures. Taking the North`s rallying cry as his title, John Brooke shows how the course of history was forever changed.

Автор: Hawkins John P.
Название: Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala: Cultural Collapse and Christian Pentecostal Revitalization
ISBN: 0826362257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826362254
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Mayas, and indeed all Guatemalans, are currently experiencing the collapse of their way of life. This collapse is disrupting ideologies, symbols, life practices, and social structures that have undergirded their society for almost five hundred years, and it is causing rapid and massive religious transformation among the K'iche' Maya living in highland western Guatemala. Many Maya are converting to Christian Pentecostal faiths in which adherents and leaders become bodily agitated during worship.

Drawing on over fifty years of research and data collected by field-school students, Hawkins argues that two factors-cultural collapse and systematic social and economic exclusion--explain the recent religious transformation of Maya Guatemala and the style and emotional intensity through which that transformation is expressed. Guatemala serves as a window on religious change around the world, and Hawkins examines the rapid pentecostalization of Christianity not only within Guatemala but also throughout the global South. The ""pentecostal wail,"" as he describes it, is ultimately an acknowledgment of the angst and insecurity of contemporary Maya.

Автор: Simone Delerme
Название: Latino Orlando: Suburban Transformation and Racial Conflict
ISBN: 0813066255 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813066257
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Latino Orlando portrays the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants who have come to the Orlando metropolitan area from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and other Latin American countries. While much research on immigration focuses on urban destinations, Simone Delerme delves into a middle- and upper-class suburban context, highlighting the profound demographic and cultural transformation of an overlooked immigrant hub.

Автор: Xianglin Xu
Название: Social Transformation and State Governance in China: Theory, Path, and Policy Process
ISBN: 9811540209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811540202
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This volume is a selection of Chinese political scholar Xianglin Xu`s published works spanning nearly 20 years of research that explore and discuss the socio-economic transition in China under state political reform.

Автор: Karen F. Anderson-Cordova
Название: Surviving Spanish Conquest: Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
ISBN: 0817319468 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780817319465
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the US. The majority of these women were black. This examines the phenomenon of the lynching of women, which was a much more rare experience than the lynching of men. Of particular importance in this examination is the role of race in lynching, particularly the increase in the number of black lynchings as the century progressed.

Автор: Blanca Tovias
Название: Colonialism on the Prairies: Blackfoot Settlement & Cultural Transformation, 1870-1920
ISBN: 184519540X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845195403
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: This book spans a century in the history of the Blackfoot First Nations of present-day Montana and Alberta. It maps out specific ways in which Blackfoot culture persisted amid the drastic transformations of colonisation, with its concomitant forced assimilation in both Canada and the United States. It portrays the strategies and tactics adopted by the Blackfoot in order to navigate political, cultural and social change during the hard transition from traditional life-ways to life on reserves and reservations. Cultural continuity is the thread that binds the four case studies presented, encompassing Blackfoot sacred beliefs and ritual; dress practices; the transmission of knowledge; and the relationship between oral stories and contemporary fiction. Blackfoot voices emerge forcefully from the extensive array of primary and secondary sources consulted, resulting in an inclusive history wherein Blackfoot and non-Blackfoot scholarship enter into dialogue. Blanca Tovias combines historical research with literary criticism, a strategy that is justified by the interrelationship between Blackfoot history and the stories from their oral tradition. Chapters devoted to examining cultural continuity discuss the ways in which oral stories continue to inspire contemporary Native American fiction. This interdisciplinary study is a celebration of Blackfoot culture and knowledge that seeks to revalourise the past by documenting Blackfoot resistance and persistence across a wide spectrum of cultural practice. The volume is essential reading for all scholars working in the fields of Native American studies, colonial and postcolonial history, ethnology and literature.

Автор: John L. Brooke
Название: There Is a North: Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War
ISBN: 1625344465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625344465
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The first book to explore how cultural action - including minstrelsy, theatre, and popular literature - transformed public opinion and political structures. Taking the North`s rallying cry as his title, John Brooke shows how the course of history was forever changed.

Автор: Whayne Jeannie
Название: Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South
ISBN: 0807164011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807164013
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner in the Arkansas delta to recount the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth century through World War II.After his father's death in 1870, Robert E. ""Lee"" Wilson inherited 400 acres of land in Mississippi County, Arkansas. Over his lifetime, he transformed that inheritance into a 50,000-acre lumber operation and cotton plantation. Early on, Wilson saw an opportunity in the swampy local terrain, which sold for as little as fifty cents an acre, to satisfy an expanding national market for Arkansas forest reserves. He also led the fundamental transformation of the landscape, involving the drainage of tens of thousands of acres of land, in order to create the vast agricultural empire he envisioned.A consummate manager, Wilson employed the tenancy and sharecropping system to his advantage while earning a reputation for fair treatment of laborers, a reputation, Whayne suggests, not entirely deserved. He cultivated a cadre of relatives and employees from whom he expected absolute devotion. Leveraging every asset during his life and often deeply in debt, Wilson saved his company from bankruptcy several times, leaving it to the next generation to successfully steer the business through the challenges of the 1930s and World War II.Delta Empire traces the transition from the labor-intensive sharecropping and tenancy system to the capital-intensive neo-plantations of the post-World War II era to the portfolio plantation model. Through Wilson's story Whayne provides a compelling case study of strategic innovation and the changing economy of the South in the late nineteenth century.

Автор: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Название: Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America
ISBN: 1439902143 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781439902141
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: How the interests of Seattle and Japanese immigrants were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II

Автор: Hart Justin
Название: Empire of Ideas: The Origins of Public Diplomacy and the Transformation of U. S. Foreign Policy
ISBN: 0197532926 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780197532928
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Empire of Ideas examines the origins of the U. S. government`s programs in public diplomacy and how the nation`s image in the world became an essential component of U. S. foreign policy.