Author: Florence LemkowitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Mexico 1988
Author: Florence LemkowitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Oceanography 1988
Author: Agustín Ayala-CastañaresPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceanography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Artifacts from American Fashion
Author: Heather Vaughan LeePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Clothing and fashion accessories can serve as valuable primary sources for learning about our history. This unique book examines daily life in 20th-century America through the lens of fashion and clothing. This collection explores fashion artifacts from daily life to shed light on key aspects of the social life and culture of Americans in the 20th century. Artifacts from American Fashion covers forty-five essential articles of fashion or accessories, chosen to illuminate significant areas of daily life and history, including Politics, World Events, and War; Transportation and Technology; Home and Work Life; Art and Entertainment; Health, Sport, and Leisure; and Alternative Cultures, Youth, Ethnic, Queer, and Counter Culture. Through these artifacts, readers can follow the major events, social movements, cultural shifts, and technological developments that shaped our daily life in the U.S. A World War I soldier's helmet opens a vista onto the horrors of trench warfare during World War I, while the dress of a typical 1920's "flapper" speaks volumes about America women's changing role during Prohibition and the Jazz Age. Similarly, a homemade feedsack dress illuminates the world of the Great Depression, while the bikini ushers us into the Atomic Age. Here, such artificacts tell the story of twentieth-century daily life in America.
Waterstone's Guide to Books
Author: Waterstone & CoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780951258989
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
Democratizing Mexico
Author: Jorge I. DomínguezPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801860935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In this groundbreaking study of Mexican public opinion and elections, Jorge Dominguez and James McCann examine the attitudes and behaviors of Mexican voters from the 1950s to the 1990s and find evidence of both support for and increasing independence from the nation's ruling party. They make extensive use of polls conducted during the 1988, 1991, and 1994 national elections and draw from in-depth interviews with leading political figures, including major presidential candidates. Although the 1994 presidential election showed that Mexican citizens are making their opinions known and felt at the polls, Dominguez and McCann argue that Mexico cannot be considered a democracy as long as party elites fail to ensure truly free and fair elections. Democratizing Mexico makes it clear, however, that Mexican citizens are ready for democratic politics.
Where the Sky Is Born
Author: Karen RossPublisher: Jeanine Kitchel
ISBN: 0974483907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The journey of Jeanine Kitchel and her husband as they traveled to the Yucatan in 1985 and a decade later, left their Silicon Valley jobs to pursue a relaxed lifestyle in Puerto Morelos, a small fishing village on the Quintana Roo Coast south of Cancun.
Boosting Competitiveness Through Decentralization
Author: Aylin TopalPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317173236
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Decentralization is accepted as one of the defining features of the third wave of democratic transitions in Latin America and commonly understood as an index and an agent of democratization. This rather optimistic perspective is inherent in the literature which is dominated by two theories. The liberal-individualist approach, especially as advocated by the World Bank, promotes decentralization policies on the premise of their efficiency, equity, and responsiveness to local demands. Similarly, the statist approach claims that decentralization can be the route to greater accountability, transparency and participation in governance; they add that this path should be guided by political elites and institutions. These dominant views nevertheless understate the extent to which certain decentralization policies have been implemented in lockstep with neoliberalization. This book examines the relationship between global economic processes and decentralization. It argues that through decentralization policies, the imperatives of neoliberal rules of competitiveness have been diffused into local governments and economies, generating different local development models. Whether decentralization produces democratic opening at the local level is contingent on how the local economy is integrated into global economic processes, and which social and economic groups are empowered, and disempowered, in that transition.
Chinese Ceramics in Colonial Mexico (Lacm)
Author: George KuwayamaPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780875871790
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Dist. by the University of Hawaii Press.
Treaties in Force
Author: United States. Department of State. Office of the Legal AdviserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drafts
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Author: