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Johnstown Industry
(Hardcover)
Joshua M Penrod; Foreword by President Johnstown Area H Burkert -
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R687
Discovery Miles 6 870
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Studies that connect the Spanish 17th and 20th centuries usually do
so through a conservative lens, assuming that the blunt imperialism
of the early modern age, endlessly glorified by Franco's
dictatorship, was a constant in the Spanish imaginary. This book,
by contrast, recuperates the thriving, humanistic vision of the
Golden Age celebrated by Spanish progressive thinkers, writers, and
artists in the decades prior to 1939 and the Francoist Regime. The
hybrid, modern stance of the country in the 1920s and early 1930s
would uniquely incorporate the literary and political legacies of
the Spanish Renaissance into the ambitious design of a forward,
democratic future. In exploring the complex understanding of the
multifaceted event that is modernity, the life story and literary
opus of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) acquires a new
significance, given the weight of the author in the poetic and
political endeavors of those Spanish left-wing reformists who
believed they could shape a new Spanish society. By recovering
their progressive dream, buried for almost a century, of incipient
and full Spanish modernities, Ana Maria G. Laguna establishes a
more balanced understanding of both the modern and early modern
periods and casts doubt on the idea of a persistent conservatism in
Golden Age literature and studies. This book ultimately serves as a
vigorous defense of the canonical as well as the neglected critical
traditions that promoted Cervantes's humanism in the 20th century.
The book tells the untold story of the Conservative Party's
involvement in terms of stance and policy in the destruction of
selective state education from 1945 up to the present day. Close
consideration is paid to their attitudes and prejudices towards
education, both in power and in opposition. Legh examines the
Party's responses to the pressure for comprehensive schooling and
egalitarianism from the Labour Party and the British left. In doing
so, Legh defies current historiography to demonstrate that the
Party were not passive actors in the advancement of comprehensive
schooling. The lively narrative is moved along by the author's
critical examination of the Education Ministers throughout this
period: Florence Horsbrugh and David Eccles serving under Churchill
and Eden and also Quintin Hogg and Geoffrey Lloyd under Macmillan,
as well as Edward Boyle and Margaret Thatcher under Edward Heath.
Legh's detailed research utilises a range of government documents,
personal papers, parliamentary debates and newspapers to provide
this crucial re-assessment of the Conservative Party and selective
education, and in doing so questions over-simplistic
generalisations about wholescale support for selective education
policy. It reveals instead questioning, compromises and
disagreements within the Party and its political and ideological
allies. The result is a stimulating revival of existing scholarship
which will be of interest to scholars of British education and
politics.
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore
& Ohio line--the first American railroad--in the 1830s sparked
a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the
speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and
built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was
bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything
from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to
waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted
economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to
world-power status.
Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to
a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American
lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the
United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000
miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all
built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The
railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred
years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile,
the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the
nation started to forget them.
In "The Great Railroad Revolution," renowned railroad expert
Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the
fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the
time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its
often-overlooked rail heritage.
Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the state's
long-standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black-white binary.
Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be
other than legally Black, given centuries of love and marriage
across color lines. How indigenous peoples of Virginia resisted
erasure and built their identities as Native Americans is the
powerful story this book tells. Spanning a century of fraught
history, Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia describes the
critical strategic work that tidewater Virginia Indians,
descendants of the seventeenth-century Algonquian Powhatan
chiefdom, undertook to sustain their Native identity in the face of
deep racial hostility from segregationist officials, politicians,
and institutions. Like other Southeastern Native groups living
under Jim Crow regimes, tidewater Native groups and individuals
fortified their communities by founding tribal organizations,
churches, and schools; they displayed their Indianness in public
performances; and they enlisted whites, including well-known
ethnographers, to help them argue for their Native distinctness.
Describing an arduous campaign marked by ingenuity, conviction, and
perseverance, Laura J. Feller shows how these tidewater Native
people drew on their shared histories as descendants of Powhatan
peoples, and how they strengthened their bonds through living and
marrying within clusters of Native Virginians, both on and off
reservation lands. She also finds that, by at times excluding
African Americans from Indian organizations and Native families,
Virginian Indians themselves reinforced racial segregation while
they built their own communities. Even as it paved the way to
tribal recognition in Virginia, the tidewater Natives' sustained
efforts chronicled in this book demonstrate the fluidity,
instability, and persistent destructive power of the construction
of race in America.
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The Frightened Physicists
(Hardcover)
Jim Sargent; Edited by Amy Smith; Cover design or artwork by Fiona Jayde
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