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Author: Edward Twitchell Hall
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthropologist recounts his experiences as a young man working on Arizona's Navajo and Hopi reservations, 1933-1937.
Author: Bill Emmott
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2017-04-27
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1782832998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by closing borders, hoarding wealth and solidifying power. We have seen it at various times in Japan, France and Italy and now it is infecting much of Europe and America, as the vote for Brexit in the UK has vividly shown. This insularity, together with increased inequality of income and wealth, threatens the future role of the West as a font of stability, prosperity and security. Part of the problem is that the principles of liberal democracy upon which the success of the West has been built have been suborned, with special interest groups such as bankers accruing too much power and too great a share of the economic cake. So how is this threat to be countered? States such as Sweden in the 1990s, California at different times or Britain under Thatcher all halted stagnation by clearing away the powers of interest groups and restoring their societies' ability to evolve. To survive, the West needs to be porous, open and flexible. From reinventing welfare systems to redefining the working age, from reimagining education to embracing automation, Emmott lays out the changes the West must make to revive itself in the moment and avoid a deathly rigid future.
Author: Juliet Gardiner
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 882
ISBN-13: 0007314531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJ.B. Priestley famously described the 'three Englands' he saw in the 1930s; old England, 19th-century England and the new, post-war England. In this book Juliet Gardiner provides a fresh perspective on that restless, uncertain, ambitious decade, bringing the complex experience of 1930s Britain alive.
Author: David Sievert Lavender
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1977-01-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780803258556
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The country in which I grew up-the rugged areas of southwestern Colorado-was changing rapidly in the 1930s. I sensed that something unique in the nation's experience was ending, and I tried to capture a segment of the passing on paper-the breakup of the great cattle ranches and mines and the last efforts of the old-timers to hang on in the face of declining profits and increasing mechanization they themselves could not afford."-David Lavender
Author: Rita Barnard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-01-27
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521450348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the response of American leftist writers from the 1930s to the rise of mass culture, and to the continued propagation of the values of consumerism during the Depression. It traces in the work of Kenneth Fearing and Nathaniel West certain theoretical positions associated with the Frankfurt school (especially Walter Benjamin) and with contemporary theorists of postmodernism.
Author: Berenice Abbott
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-07-02
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 048631880X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly 100 classic images by noted photographer: Rockefeller Center on the rise, Bowery restaurants, dramatic views of the City's bridges, Washington Square, old movie houses, rows of old tenements, and many other landmarks.
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-16
Total Pages: 155
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Patricia Trenton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780520202030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich compendium of Western art by women, this book also contains essays which examine the many economic, social, and political forces that have shaped the art over years of pivotal change. The women profiled played an important role in gaining the acceptance of women as men's peers in artistic communities. Their independent spirit resonates in studios and galleries throughout the country today. Photos.
Author: Dee Brown
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2012-10-23
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 1453274146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal). First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians between 1860 and 1890. He tells of the many tribes and their renowned chiefs—from Geronimo to Red Cloud, Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse—who struggled to combat the destruction of their people and culture. Forcefully written and meticulously researched, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee inspired a generation to take a second look at how the West was won. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Author: Julene Bair
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780922811458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on one woman's connections to her family and the land -- farm life in Kansas.
