Author: Cunningham GeikiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Pulp Empire
Author: Paul S. HirschPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226829464
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and ’50s, comic books were some of the most popular—and most unfiltered—entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to Americans of all ages until a 1954 Senate investigation led to a censorship code that nearly destroyed the industry. But this was far from the first time the US government actively involved itself with comics—it was simply the most dramatic manifestation of a long, strange relationship between high-level policy makers and a medium that even artists and writers often dismissed as a creative sewer. In Pulp Empire, Paul S. Hirsch uncovers the gripping untold story of how the US government both attacked and appropriated comic books to help wage World War II and the Cold War, promote official—and clandestine—foreign policy and deflect global critiques of American racism. As Hirsch details, during World War II—and the concurrent golden age of comic books—government agencies worked directly with comic book publishers to stoke hatred for the Axis powers while simultaneously attempting to dispel racial tensions at home. Later, as the Cold War defense industry ballooned—and as comic book sales reached historic heights—the government again turned to the medium, this time trying to win hearts and minds in the decolonizing world through cartoon propaganda. Hirsch’s groundbreaking research weaves together a wealth of previously classified material, including secret wartime records, official legislative documents, and caches of personal papers. His book explores the uneasy contradiction of how comics were both vital expressions of American freedom and unsettling glimpses into the national id—scourged and repressed on the one hand and deployed as official propaganda on the other. Pulp Empire is a riveting illumination of underexplored chapters in the histories of comic books, foreign policy, and race.
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Author: Cunningham GeikieThe Life and Words of Christ
Author: Cunningham GeikieThe School World
Author: The Life and Words of Christ, Revised Edition
Author: Cunningham GeikeUnited Empire
Author: The Life and Words of Christ
Author: Cunningham GeikeEmpire of the Battlelord
Author: Bradley C. HawthornePublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438972407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The BattleLord would never truly understand the combination of genetics and cosmic circumstances that had thrust him through the Veil that separates the Light from the Dark Matter Universe. His biological being is subsumed by symbiotic infections, restoring his youth and vitality, repairing a lifetime of damage to his body, rendering him impervious to all but the most horrific of wounds. Discovered by the Dough Boys, his physical makeup is further enhanced by the inclusion of shields, weapons, and data organization devices. These strange beings seek to create a tool from the only being known to be capable of crossing the barrier between the Universes. By utilizing his unique capabilities, he lives entire lifetimes on varied worlds and places throughout the natural universe. With loving guidance from the peoples of these worlds, he acquires the moral convictions that have since guided his every action. Driven to know the why of it all, he confronts the Maker, a being, entity, or machine that has existed since the very beginning of time. Agreeing to accept the Maker's unconditional offer of ultimate knowledge, the BattleLord becomes subjected to a total reformation. He is rebuilt, atom by atom, to form a being that is no longer truly a product of either the Light Matter or the Dark, but a unique combination of both. Armed with the boon of immortality, The BattleLord explores new worlds to ensure the continuation of sentient life throughout the cosmos.
The Roman Empire
Author: Frederick William BussellPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584770821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 959
Book Description
Patterns of Empire
Author: Julian GoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139503391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Patterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns of Empire shows how the policies, practices, forms and historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British, leading up to the present climate of economic decline, treacherous intervention in the Middle East and overextended imperial confidence. A critical exercise in revisionist history and comparative social science, this book also offers a challenging theory of empire that recognizes the agency of non-Western peoples, the impact of global fields and the limits of imperial power.