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The French Riviera: A History ranges from the Terra Amata in Nice,
occupied from 380,000 years ago and one of the oldest inhabited
prehistoric sites in the world, through to settlement by Greeks,
Romans, Franks, Ostrogoths and Visigoths, wars and revolutions, to
the establishment of the Silicon Valley of France in
Sophia-Antipolis in 1974. Michael Nelson shows the surprisingly
cosmopolitan nature of the area in the early middle ages, such as
the story of the finishing school run by Frankish kings in the 7th
century where Siagrius, the ruler of the region, had studied and
where the son of King Edwin of Northumbria in England was also
sent. The Riviera was part of Provence in France for much of its
history and was often a microcosm of France itself, with many
dynastic struggles and horrific blood-letting. Colour maps and
plates illustrate The French Riviera: A History, and it is also
full of fascinating anecdotes. Examples include the loan of a
guillotine by Nice to Grasse in the French Revolution (Nice had no
victims and Grasse had thirty) and the occasion when Jean Moulin,
the leader of the French Resistance in World War II, invited the
Germans to the opening of an art gallery in Nice which he was using
as a front. In the nineteenth and twentieth century the British and
Americans led tourism, and the Riviera was described by Somerset
Maugham as 'a sunny place for shady people'. The French Riviera: A
History is a fascinating look back over the Riviera's rich history.
Perfect to dip into, or follow the whole historical journey in one
sitting, it will make the perfect addition to any history buff's
bookcase.
The American legal system is experiencing a period of extreme
stress, if not crisis, as it seems to be losing its legitimacy with
at least some segments of its constituency. Nowhere is this
legitimacy deficit more apparent than in a portion of the African
American community in the U.S., as incidents of police killing
black suspects - whether legally justified or not - have become
almost routine. However, this legitimacy deficit has largely been
documented through anecdotal evidence and a steady drumbeat of
journalistic reports, not rigorous scientific research. This book
offers an all-inclusive account of how and why African Americans
differ in their willingness to ascribe legitimacy to legal
institutions, as well as in their willingness to accept the policy
decisions those institutions promulgate. Based on two
nationally-representative samples of African Americans, this book
ties together four dominant theories of public opinion: Legitimacy
Theory, Social Identity Theory, theories of adulthood political
socialization and learning through experience, and information
processing theories. The findings reveal a gaping chasm in legal
legitimacy between black and white Americans. More importantly,
black people themselves differ in their perceptions of legal
legitimacy. Group identities and experiences with legal authorities
play a crucial role in shaping whether and how black people extend
legitimacy to the legal institutions that so much affect them. This
book is one of the most comprehensive analyses produced to date of
legal legitimacy within the American black community, with many
surprising and counter-intuitive results.
Following the election of Donald Trump, the office of the U.S.
president has come under scrutiny like never before. Featuring
penetrating insights from high-profile presidential scholars, The
Presidency provides the deep historical and constitutional context
needed to put the Trump era into its proper perspective.Identifying
key points at which the constitutional presidency could have
evolved in different ways from the nation's founding days to the
present, these scholars examine presidential decisions that
determined the direction of the nation and the world.
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of
daily life inside one of America's oldest and largest prisons,
demonstrating how this archive of the state is now being used to
teach visual literacy and process the experience of incarceration.
In 2011, Nigel Poor-artist, educator, and cocreator of the
acclaimed podcast Ear Hustle-began teaching a history of
photography class through the Prison University Project at San
Quentin State Prison. Neither books nor cameras were allowed into
the facility, so an unorthodox course with a range of
inventivemapping exercises ensued: students crafted "verbal
photographs" of memories for which they had no visual
documentation, and annotated iconic images from different artists.
After the first semester, Poor says, "one student told me he could
now see fascination everywhere in San Quentin." When Poor received
access to thousands of negatives in the prison's archive, made by
corrections officers of a former era, these images of San Quentin's
everyday occurrences soon became launchpads for her students' keen
observations. From the banal to the brutal, to distinct moments of
respite, the pictures in this archive gave those who were involved
in the project the opportunity to share their stories and
reflections on incarceration.
The one-stop reference on all aspects of the U.S. presidency, The
Presidency A to Z, Fifth Edition is an authoritative and accessible
volume providing all the basic information readers need to
understand the executive branch. This new and extensively revised
fifth edition features important new entries on Barack Obama,
Michelle Obama, John McCain, Guantanamo Bay, and War in
Afghanistan. It also includes updated entries on Campaign Finance,
Iraq War, Presidents' relationship with Congress, and many more.
More 300 comprehensive, easy-to-read entries offer quick
information and in-depth background on how the executive branch has
responded to the challenges facing the nation. Readers will find: *
Biographies of every president and many others important to the
office * Explanations of broader concepts and powers relating to
the presidency * Complete election coverage and analysis *
Discussions of relations with Congress, the Supreme Court, the
bureaucracy, political parties, the media, interest groups, and the
public * Exploration of the policies of each president and their
impact on U.S. and world history
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Led by Cole Porter in the 1920s, Americans demonstrated that the
best season to visit the French Riviera was not the winter, as had
been the practice, but the summer. With this shift, Americans
became the dominant shapers of tourism on the Riviera in the 20th
century, yet the American achievement in revolutionizing the
economy of the South of France is largely unsung. This insightful
history details the American influence on the Riviera and the
contributions of several individuals. It pays particular attention
to such writers and artists as Edith Wharton, Gerald Murphy, Henry
Clews, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, whose work drew
energy from their stays in the Riviera and in turn helped to cement
an idyllic image of the Riviera in the American popular
consciousness.
The Elections of 2020 is a timely, comprehensive, scholarly, and
engagingly written account of the 2020 elections. It features
essays by an all-star team of political scientists in the immediate
aftermath of the 2020 general election, chronicling every stage of
the presidential race as well as the coterminous congressional
elections, paying additional attention to the role of the media and
campaign finance in the process. Broad in coverage and bolstered by
tables and figures presenting exit polls and voting results in the
primaries, caucuses, and the general election, these essays discuss
the consequences of these elections for the presidency, Congress,
and the larger political system.
Richard E. Neustadt Award To look at the partisan polarization that
paralyzes Washington today is to see what first took shape with the
presidential election of 1968. This book explains why. Urban riots
and the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King,
Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the politics of outrage and race-all
pointed to a reordering of party coalitions, of groups and regions,
a hardening and widening of an ideological divide-and to the
historical importance of the 1968 election as a watershed event.
Resilient America captures this extraordinary time in all its
drama-the personalities, the politics, the parties, the events and
the circumstances, from the shadow of 1964 through the primaries to
the general election that pitted Richard Nixon against Hubert
Humphrey, with George Wallace and Eugene McCarthy as the
interlopers. Where most accounts of this pivotal year-and the
decade that followed-emphasize the coming apart of the nation, this
book focuses on the fact that because of measures taken after the
election the country actually held together. An esteemed scholar of
the American presidency, Michael Nelson turns our attention to how,
in spite of increasing (and increasingly vehement) differences, the
parties of the time managed to make divided government work.
Conventional political processes-peaceful demonstrations,
congressional legislation, executive initiatives, Supreme Court
decisions, party reforms, and presidential politics-were flexible
enough to absorb most of the dissent that tore America deeply in
1968 and might otherwise have torn it apart. This fraught time, as
Nelson's work clearly demonstrates, produced unity as well as
results well worth noting in our current predicament.
The American legal system is experiencing a period of extreme
stress, if not crisis, as it seems to be losing its legitimacy with
at least some segments of its constituency. Nowhere is this
legitimacy deficit more apparent than in a portion of the African
American community in the U.S., as incidents of police killing
black suspects - whether legally justified or not - have become
almost routine. However, this legitimacy deficit has largely been
documented through anecdotal evidence and a steady drumbeat of
journalistic reports, not rigorous scientific research. This book
offers an all-inclusive account of how and why African Americans
differ in their willingness to ascribe legitimacy to legal
institutions, as well as in their willingness to accept the policy
decisions those institutions promulgate. Based on two
nationally-representative samples of African Americans, this book
ties together four dominant theories of public opinion: Legitimacy
Theory, Social Identity Theory, theories of adulthood political
socialization and learning through experience, and information
processing theories. The findings reveal a gaping chasm in legal
legitimacy between black and white Americans. More importantly,
black people themselves differ in their perceptions of legal
legitimacy. Group identities and experiences with legal authorities
play a crucial role in shaping whether and how black people extend
legitimacy to the legal institutions that so much affect them. This
book is one of the most comprehensive analyses produced to date of
legal legitimacy within the American black community, with many
surprising and counter-intuitive results.
Getting students away from spouting opinions about highly-charged
partisan issues, Debating Reform, Fourth Edition looks at key
questions about reforming political institutions, with contributed
pieces written by top scholars specifically for the volume. Each
pro or con essay considers a concrete proposal for reforming the
political system. By focusing on institutions, rather than liberal
or conservative public policies, students tend to leave behind
ideology and grapple with claims and evidence to draw their own
conclusions and build their own arguments. Students will explore
how institutions work in their American government text, but this
reader helps them to understand how they can be made to work
better.
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