Author: Frederick MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
The Chamber of Commerce Handbook for San Francisco
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-book
Author: The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: J. Scott-KeltiePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270476
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1531
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Bulletin
Author: Pan American UnionALA Bulletin
Author: American Library AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Year Book on Commercial Arbitration in the United States, 1927
Author: American Arbitration AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration and award
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Rewriting White
Author: Todd VogelPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813558352
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
What did it mean for people of color in nineteenth-century America to speak or write "white"? More specifically, how many and what kinds of meaning could such "white" writing carry? In ReWriting White, Todd Vogel looks at how America has racialized language and aesthetic achievement. To make his point, he showcases the surprisingly complex interactions between four nineteenth-century writers of color and the "standard white English" they adapted for their own moral, political, and social ends. The African American, Native American, and Chinese American writers Vogel discusses delivered their messages in a manner that simultaneously demonstrated their command of the dominant discourse of their times-using styles and addressing forums considered above their station-and fashioned a subversive meaning in the very act of that demonstration. The close readings and meticulous archival research in ReWriting White upend our conventional expectations, enrich our understanding of the dynamics of hegemony and cultural struggle, and contribute to the efforts of other cutting-edge contemporary scholars to chip away at the walls of racial segregation that have for too long defined and defaced the landscape of American literary and cultural studies.
Doing the Town
Author: Catherine CocksPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520926493
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Tourists and travelers in the early nineteenth century saw American cities as ugly spaces, lacking the art and history that attracted thousands to the great cities of Europe. By the turn of the century, however, city touring became popular in the United States, and the era saw the rise of elegant hotels, packaged tours, and train travel to cities for vacations that would entertain and edify. This fascinating cultural history, studded with vivid details bringing the experience of Victorian-era travel alive, explores the beginnings of urban tourism, and sets the phenomenon within a larger cultural transformation that encompassed fundamental changes in urban life and national identity. Focusing mainly on New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, Catherine Cocks describes what it was like to ride on Pullman cars, stay in the grand hotels, and take in the sights of the cities. Her evocative narrative draws on innovative readings of sources such as guidebooks, travel accounts, tourist magazines, and the journalism of the era. Exploring the full cultural context in which city touring became popular, Cocks ties together many themes in urban and cultural history for the first time, such as the relationships among class, gender, leisure, and the uses and perceptions of urban space. Offering especially lively reading, Doing the Town provides a memorable journey into the experience of the new urban tourist at the same time as it makes a sophisticated contribution to our understanding of the urban and cultural development of the United States.
Motor Age
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
Clubbing Together
Author: Tanja BueltmannPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781387435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Clubbing Together offers the first global study of Scottish ethnic associationalism, exploring transnationally the evolution and role of Scottish clubs and societies.