"Since 1993, various international donors have poured money into a People-to-People (P2P) diplomacy programme in Palestine. This grassroots initiative - still funded by prominent external donors today - seeks to foster public engagement through contact and therefore remove deepl…
"Since 1993, various international donors have poured money into a People-to-People (P2P) diplomacy programme in Palestine. This grassroots initiative - still funded by prominent external donors today - seeks to foster public engagement through contact and therefore remove deepl…
The wreckage of intentions: projects in British culture, 1660-1730
by Alff, David
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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called "projects"--A catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future--that Daniel Defoe dubbed his era a "Projecting Age." These ideas spanned a wide variety …
The wreckage of intentions: projects in British culture, 1660-1730
by Alff, David
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The Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive account of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century projects--concrete yet incomplete efforts to advance British society during a period defined by revolutions in finance and agriculture, the rise of experimental science, and the esta…
"The Smithsonian Institution's River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program were the most ambitious archaeological projects ever undertaken in the United States. Administered by the National Park Service from 1945-1969, the programs had profound effects …