A groundbreaking journey tracing America's forgotten path to global power--and how its legacies shape our world today--told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine.
The book is far more extraordinary than even the life of Smedley Butler... a compelling and insightful meditation on the trauma people still feel as a result of Butler's career and the American ambitions it represented. --The Washington Post
Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, "The Fighting Quaker" went--serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantбnamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war, imperialism, and big business, declaring: "I was a racketeer for capitalism. Award-winning author Jonathan Myerson Katz traveled across the world--from China to Guantбnamo, the mountains of Haiti to the Panama Canal--and pored over the personal letters of Butler, his fellow Marines, and his Quaker family on Philadelphia's Main Line. Along the way, Katz shows how the consequences of the Marines' actions are still very much alive: talking politics with a Sandinista commander in Nicaragua, getting a martial arts lesson from a devotee of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and getting cast as a P.O.W. extra in a Filipino movie about their American War. Tracing a path from the first wave of U.S. overseas expansionism to the rise of fascism in the 1930s to the crises of democracy in our own time, Gangsters of Capitalism tells an urgent story about a formative era most Americans have never learned about, but that the rest of the world cannot forget.
Автор: Katz Jonathan Название: Developing Mathematical Thinkers: A Guide to Rethinking the Mathematics Classroom ISBN: 1475810563 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781475810561 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 98560.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Well-loved by children and teachers the world over, Kid`s Box is bursting with bright ideas to inspire you and your pupils. Perfect for general use, the course also fully covers the syllabus of the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) tests, preparing your students for success at Starters, Movers and Flyers. This pack of flashcards presents the target vocabulary for each unit of the Class Book.
Автор: Jonathan Miles Название: The Nine Lives of Otto Katz ISBN: 0553820184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553820188 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14950.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: `Spies should be glamorous - James Bond in a Savile Row suit rather than Harry Palmer in a grubby mac .
Автор: Katz Jonathan Название: Developing Mathematical Thinkers: A Guide to Rethinking the Mathematics Classroom ISBN: 1475810571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781475810578 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 50690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Well-loved by children and teachers the world over, Kid`s Box is bursting with bright ideas to inspire you and your pupils. Perfect for general use, the course also fully covers the syllabus of the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) tests, preparing your students for success at Starters, Movers and Flyers. This pack of flashcards presents the target vocabulary for each unit of the Class Book.
Автор: Katz Jonathan D., Ward David C. Название: Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture ISBN: 1588342999 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781588342997 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 27590.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
An entirely new interpretation of modern American portraiture based on the history of sexual difference. Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, companion volume to an exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, traces the defining presence of same-sex desire in American portraiture through a seductive selection of more than 140 full-color illustrations, drawings, and portraits from leading American artists. Arcing from the turn of the twentieth century, through the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement in 1969, the tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, and to the present, Hide/Seek openly considers what has long been suppressed or tacitly ignored, even by the most progressive sectors of our society: the influence of gay and lesbian artists in creating American modernism. Hide/Seek shows how questions of gender and sexual identity dramatically shaped the artistic practices of influential American artists such as Thomas Eakins, Romaine Brooks, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andrew Wyeth, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, and many more--in addition to artists of more recent works such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, and Cass Bird. The authors argue that despite the late-nineteenth-century definition and legal codification of the "homosexual," in reality, questions of sexuality always remained fluid and continually redefined by artists concerned with the act of portrayal. In particular, gay and lesbian artists--of but not fully in the society they portrayed--occupied a position of influential marginality, from which vantage point they crafted innovative and revolutionary ways of painting portraits. Their resistance to society's attempt to proscribe them forced them to develop new visual vocabularies by which to code, disguise, and thereby express their subjects' identities--and also their own. Bringing together for the first time new scholarship in the history of American sexuality and new research in American portraiture, Hide/Seek charts the heretofore hidden impact of gay and lesbian artists on American art and portraiture and creates the basis for the necessary reassessment of the careers of major American artists--both gay and straight--as well as of portraiture itself.
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