Constructing the Eighties
Author: Walter Grünzweig
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9783823350231
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Author: Walter Grünzweig
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9783823350231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bradford Martin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 142995342X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and ‘70s and embrace the resurgent conservative wave. But a closer look reveals that a sizable swath of Americans strongly disapproved of Reagan's policies throughout his presidency. With a weakened Democratic Party scurrying for the political center, many expressed their dissatisfaction outside electoral politics. Unlike the civil rights and Vietnam era protesters, activists of the 1980s often found themselves on the defensive, struggling to preserve the hard-won victories of the previous era. Their successes, then, were not in ushering in a new era of progressive reforms but in effecting change in areas from professional life to popular culture, while beating back an even more forceful political shift to the right. Martin paints an indelible portrait of these and other influential, but often overlooked, movements: from on-the-ground efforts to constrain the administration's aggressive Latin American policy and stave off a possible Nicaraguan war, to mock shanties constructed on college campuses to shed light on corporate America's role in supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa. The result is a clearer, richer perspective on a turbulent decade in American life.
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 736
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 944
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Author: Hans Werner
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Published: 2013-05-15
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0887554385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life. John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was named Hans and grew up in a German-speaking Mennonite community in Siberia. As a young man in Stalinist Russia, he became Ivan and fought as a Red Army soldier in the Second World War. Captured by Germans, he was resettled in occupied Poland where he became Johann, was naturalized and drafted into Hitler’s German army where he served until captured and placed in an American POW camp. He was eventually released and then immigrated to Canada where he became John. The Constructed Mennonite is a unique account of a life shaped by Stalinism, Nazism, migration, famine, and war. It investigates the tenuous spaces where individual experiences inform and become public history; it studies the ways in which memory shapes identity, and reveals how context and audience shape autobiographical narratives.
Author: Hilde Therese Remøy
Publisher: IOS Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1607505207
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Published: 1972
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. Bezelga
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-03-09
Total Pages: 1798
ISBN-13: 1135828687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.