De sabres et d'utopies: visions d'Amérique latine
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Published to accompany the exhibition held at Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 10 February - 6 May 2001, and then touring the United States.
The inspiration for this book comes from the words of Adam Smith: 'Consumption is the sole end of and purpose of all production ... ' This book concentrates, in that spirit, on people rather on things; it describes the overall income and wealth of Britain, its growth, and how th…
1900: Zukunftsvisionen der Großmächte
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The purpose of this study was to begin placing Rudolf Forst’s solo harp works into the broader context of twentieth-century harp literature. A secondary purpose was to shed light on the body of lesser-known works written by American composers between 1900 and 1980. Through a sty…
The Exodus is most commonly associated with the black experience in America because its narratives of freedom and movement resonate with both Emancipation and the Great Migration. The use of the Exodus narrative to understand historical and political changes reverses Noah’s curs…
A devotion to an open and progressive interpretation of human rights and the law secured Judge Ronald N. Davies’ legacy as an unintended, yet influential activist for advancing civil rights and of the twentieth century. His views helped change the definition and meaning of judic…
All history is media history, and all politics are media politics. This dissertation provides an analytical frame for seeing and studying the people, ideas, political movements, and social arrangements that populate history as both solid forms and fluid processes; that is, as be…
For American and British women, the definition of being healthy changed in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Previously, there had been a resigned acceptance of the fact that a woman’s reproductive capacity often relegated her to a lifetime of suffering and ill hea…
The journal América (Mexico City, 1940-1960) was founded as a leftist monthly focused on politically uniting Latin American and exiled Spanish youth and, by the end of its print life, was a semifrequent literary anthology sponsored by the Mexican government’s Secretaria de Educa…
Overpopulation caught the attention of scientists, popular science authors, and science fiction creators alike in the second half of the twentieth century. Overpopulation embodied the disaster that would finally bring about the end of the world as they knew it. Concerns varied b…