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  • 1
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    Socialist fun : youth, consumption, and state-sponsored popular culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970 (2016)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822981251 , 0822981254
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tsipursky, Gleb Socialist fun
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    DDC: 305.2350947080904
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    Keywords: Socialism Social aspects ; History ; Soviet Union ; Consumption (Economics) History ; Soviet Union ; Popular culture History ; Soviet Union ; Cold War Social aspects ; Soviet Union ; Youth Societies and clubs ; History ; Soviet Union ; Youth Government policy ; History ; Soviet Union ; Youth Social life and customs ; Soviet Union ; Socialism Social aspects ; History ; Consumption (Economics) History ; Popular culture History ; Cold War Social aspects ; Youth Societies and clubs ; History ; Youth Government policy ; History ; Youth Social life and customs ; Consumption (Economics) History ; Popular culture History ; Cold War Social aspects ; Youth Societies and clubs ; History ; Youth Government policy ; History ; Youth Social life and customs ; Socialism Social aspects ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; General ; Consumption (Economics) ; International relations ; Manners and customs ; Popular culture ; Social aspects ; Youth ; Government policy ; Youth ; Social life and customs ; Youth ; Societies and clubs ; Child & Youth Development ; Social Welfare & Social Work ; Social Sciences ; HISTORY ; Europe ; Russia & the Former Soviet Union ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; History ; Soviet Union Relations ; Western countries ; Western countries Relations ; Soviet Union ; Soviet Union Social life and customs ; 1917-1970 ; Soviet Union Relations ; Western countries Relations ; Soviet Union Social life and customs 1917-1970 ; Soviet Union Relations ; Western countries Relations ; Soviet Union Social life and customs 1917-1970 ; Soviet Union ; Western countries ; Electronic books ; Sowjetunion ; Jugendkultur ; Massenkultur ; Jugend ; Geschichte 1945-1970
    Abstract: "Most narratives depict Soviet Cold War cultural activities and youth groups as drab and dreary, militant and politicized. In this study Gleb Tsipursky challenges these stereotypes in a revealing portrayal of Soviet youth and state-sponsored popular culture. The primary local venues for Soviet culture were the tens of thousands of klubs where young people found entertainment, leisure, social life, and romance. Here sports, dance, film, theater, music, lectures, and political meetings became vehicles to disseminate a socialist version of modernity. The Soviet way of life was dutifully presented and perceived as the most progressive and advanced, in an attempt to stave off Western influences. In effect, socialist fun became very serious business. As Tsipursky shows, however, Western culture did infiltrate these activities, particularly at local levels, where participants and organizers deceptively cloaked their offerings to appeal to their own audiences. Thus, Soviet modernity evolved as a complex and multivalent ideological device. Tsipursky provides a fresh and original examination of the Kremlin's paramount effort to shape young lives, consumption, popular culture, and to build an emotional community--all against the backdrop of Cold War struggles to win hearts and minds both at home and abroad"--
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Ideology, Enlightenment, and Entertainment : State-Sponsored Popular Culture, 1917-1946 -- Chapter 2. Ideological Reconstruction in the Cultural Recreation Network, 1947-1953 -- Chapter 3. Ideology and Consumption : Jazz and Western Dancing in the Cultural Network, 1948-1953 -- Chapter 4. State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Early Thaw, 1953-1956 -- Chapter 5. Youth Initiative and the 1956 Youth Club Movement -- Chapter 6. The 1957 International Youth Festival and the Backlash -- Chapter 7. A Reformist Revival : Grassroots Club Activities and Youth Cafes, 1958-1964 -- Chapter 8. Ambiguity and Backlash : State-Sponsored Popular Culture, 1965-1970
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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  • 2
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    City on fire : technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 (2016)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822981466 , 0822981467
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: History of the urban environment
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    DDC: 306.097253
    Keywords: Social medicine History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Science Social aspects ; History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Urban ecology (Sociology) History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Social change History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; City and town life History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Fire prevention History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Fires Social aspects ; History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Science Social aspects ; History ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; Urban ecology (Sociology) History ; Social change History ; City and town life History ; Fire prevention History ; Fires Social aspects ; History ; Social medicine History ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; Urban ecology (Sociology) History ; Social change History ; City and town life History ; Fire prevention History ; Fires Social aspects ; History ; Science Social aspects ; History ; Social medicine History ; HISTORY ; General ; City and town life ; Economic history ; Fire prevention ; Fires ; Social aspects ; Science ; Social aspects ; Social change ; Social conditions ; Social medicine ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Urban ecology (Sociology) ; HISTORY ; Latin America ; Mexico ; History ; Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions ; Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions ; Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions ; Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions ; Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Electronic book ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: "By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk of fire while also breeding a culture of fear. Through an array of archival sources, Anna Rose Alexander argues that fire became a catalyst for social change, as residents mobilized to confront the problem. Advances in engineering and medicine soon fostered the rise of distinct fields of fire-related expertise while conversely, the rise of fire-profiteering industries allowed entrepreneurs to capitalize on crisis. City on Fire demonstrates that both public and private engagements with fire risk highlight the inequalities that characterized Mexican society at the turn of the twentieth century"--
    Abstract: "City on Fire is a chronicle of progress and danger, that integrates urban environmental history with histories of technology, science, and medicine to reveal how Mexico City changed in response to the growing threat of fire in the urban center"--
    Abstract: Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernity and Its Accidents; Chapter One. Fighting Fire, Fighting Fear; Chapter Two. Science of Regulation; Chapter Three. Controlling the Flames-The Fire Brigade; Chapter Four. Engineering Safety; Chapter Five. Inventing Protection; Chapter Six. Insuring Progress; Chapter Seven. Healing the Hazardous City; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-218). - Print version record
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    Old age, new science : gerontologists and their biosocial visions, 1900-1960 (2016)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822981367 , 082298136X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Park, Hyung Wook Old age, new science
    DDC: 305.2609730904
    Keywords: Aging Social aspects ; History ; 20th century ; Social gerontology History ; 20th century ; Gerontology History ; 20th century ; Social gerontology History 20th century ; Gerontology History 20th century ; Aging Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Social gerontology History 20th century ; Gerontology History 20th century ; Aging Social aspects 20th century ; History ; MEDICAL ; Geriatrics ; SCIENCE ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Aging ; Social aspects ; Gerontology ; Social gerontology ; Gerontology ; Social Welfare & Social Work ; Social Sciences ; History ; Electronic book ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: "This book focuses on the "biosocial visions" shared by early gerontologists in American and British science and culture from the early to mid-twentieth century who believed the phenomenon of aging was not just biological, but social in nature. Advancements in the life sciences, together with shifting perspectives on the state and future of the elderly in society, informed how gerontologists interacted with seniors, and how they defined successful aging. Park shows how these visions shaped popular discourses on aging, directly influenced the institutionalization of gerontology, and also reflected the class, gender, and race biases of their founders"--
    Abstract: "Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens age sixty-five and older more than doubled--a phenomenon owed largely to innovations in medicine and public health. At the same time, the Great Depression was a major tipping point for age discrimination and poverty in the West: seniors were living longer and retiring earlier, but without adequate means to support themselves and their families. The economic disaster of the 1930s alerted scientists, who were actively researching the processes of aging, to the profound social implications of their work--and by the end of the 1950s, the field of gerontology emerged. Old Age, New Science explores how a group of American and British life scientists contributed to gerontology's development as a multidisciplinary field. It examines the foundational "biosocial visions" they shared, a byproduct of both their research and the social problems they encountered. Hyung Wook Park shows how these visions shaped popular discourses on aging, directly influenced the institutionalization of gerontology, and also reflected the class, gender, and race biases of their founders"--
    Abstract: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Envisioning Age in Experimental and Social Contexts; Chapter 2. A Biosocial Vision and Textbooks in Starting a Multidisciplinary Science; Chapter 3. Projecting Visions and Cultivating a Science in American Society; Chapter 4. Calories, Aging, and Building a Biosocial Research Program; Chapter 5. Senescence, Science, and Society in Great Britain; Chapter 6. Growing Old and Biomedicine in the National Institutes of Health; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-327) and index. - Print version record
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    The vigorous core of our nationality : race and regional identity in northeastern Brazil (2011)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822977704 , 0822977702
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 315 p. :) , maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Blake, Stanley E Vigorous core of our nationality : race and regional identity in northeastern Brazil
    DDC: 305.8009813
    Keywords: Group identity Brazil, Northeast ; Regionalism Brazil, Northeast ; National characteristics, Brazilian ; Group identity ; Regionalism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; General ; Civilization ; Group identity ; National characteristics, Brazilian ; Race relations ; Regionalism ; Social conditions ; Brazil, Northeast Social conditions ; 20th century ; Brazil, Northeast Social conditions ; 19th century ; Brazil, Northeast Race relations ; Brazil, Northeast Civilization ; Brazil, Northeast ; Brazil, Northeast Social conditions 19th century ; Brazil, Northeast Race relations ; Brazil, Northeast Civilization ; Brazil, Northeast Social conditions 20th century ; Northeast Brazil ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction : nordeste and nation -- The nineteenth-century origins of the nordestino, 1850-1870 -- Racial science in Pernambuco, 1870-1910 -- The medicalization of nordestinos, 1910-1925 -- Social hygiene : the science of reform, 1925-1940 -- Mental hygiene : the science of character, 1925-1940 -- Inventing the homem do nordeste : race, region, and the state, 1925-1940.
    Abstract: The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos in northeastern Brazil during a crucial historical period. Beginning with the abolition of slavery and ending with the demise of the Estado Novo under Getúlio Vargas, Stanley E. Blake offers original perspectives on the paradoxical concept of the nordestino and the importance of these debates to the process of state and nation building. Since colonial times, the Northeast has been an agricultural region based primarily on sugar production. The area's
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