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  • 2000-2004  (5)
  • 1940-1944
  • Berkeley : University of California Press  (5)
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  • 1
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520926578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.5
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1860 ; Industrialisierung ; Klassengesellschaft ; Sprache ; USA
    Abstract: In this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners-and the overseers, foremen, or managers they employed-and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine. Rice presents fascinating discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle.
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  • 2
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520936478
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (237 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.40973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1650-1800 ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Wert ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Ruth Bloch's stellar essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality are brought together in this valuable book, which collects six of her most influential pieces in one place for the first time and includes two new essays. The volume illuminates the overarching theme of her work by addressing a basic historical question: Why did the attitudes toward gender and family relations that we now consider traditional values emerge when they did? Bloch looks deeply into eighteenth-century culture to answer this question, highlighting long-term developments in religion, intellectual history, law, and literature, showing that the eighteenth century was a time of profound transformation for women's roles as wives and mothers, for ideas about sexuality, and for notions of female moral authority. She engages topics from British moral philosophy to colonial laws regarding courtship, and from the popularity of the sentimental novel to the psychology of religious revivalism. Lucid, provocative, and wide-ranging, these eight essays bring a revisionist challenge to both women's studies and cultural studies as they ask us to reconsider the origins of the system of gender relations that has dominated American culture for two hundred years.
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  • 3
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520929869
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (404 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.873
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    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Geschlechtsunterschied ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little attention in contemporary social science literature and immigration research. This book brings together some of the best work in this area, including essays by pioneers who have logged nearly two decades in the field of gender and immigration, and new empirical work by both young scholars and well-established social scientists bringing their substantial talents to this topic for the first time.
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  • 4
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520926967 , 052092696X , 0585465886 , 9780585465883 , 0520228871 , 9780520228870 , 0520228898 , 9780520228894 , 159734690X , 9781597346900 , 1282758934 , 9781282758933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 223 pages) , Illustrations
    DDC: 781.65
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    Keywords: Jazz ; USA
    Abstract: From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities have shaped over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the many ways in which jazz musicians and audiences experience and understand themselves, their music, their communities, and the world at large. Writing as a professional pianist and composer, the author looks at evolving meanings, values, and ideals--as well as the sounds--that musicians, audiences, and critics carry to and from the various activities they call jazz. Among the compelling topics he discusses is the "visuality" of music: the relationship between performance demeanor and musical meaning. Focusing on pianists Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, Ake investigates the ways in which musicians' postures and attitudes influence perceptions of them as profound and serious artists. In another essay, Ake examines the musical values and ideals promulgated by college jazz education programs through a consideration of saxophonist John Coltrane. He also discusses the concept of the jazz "standard" in the 1990s and the differing sense of tradition implied in recent recordings by Wynton Marsalis and Bill Frisell. Jazz cultures shows how jazz history has not consisted simply of a smoothly evolving series of musical styles, but rather an array of individuals and communities engaging with disparate--and oftentimes conflicting--actions, ideals, and attitudes.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-208) and index
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  • 5
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 1417508116 , 0520230582 , 0520936035 , 9780520936034 , 9781417508112 , 1597348635 , 9781597348638 , 9780520230576 , 0520230574 , 9780520230583
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 427 pages , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rethinking American history in a global age
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Rethinking American history in a global age
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    Keywords: Globalization. ; Mondialisation. ; Mondialisation ; Globalization ; Globalization. ; Mondialisation. ; Globalization ; Historiography ; Geschiedschrijving ; Regions & Countries - Americas ; History & Archaeology ; United States - General ; HISTORY ; State & Local ; General ; HISTORY ; United States ; General ; History ; Geschiedenis (vorm) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Globalisierung ; United States Historiography. ; United States History ; Philosophy. ; États-Unis Historiographie. ; États-Unis Histoire ; Philosophie. ; United States Historiography ; United States History ; Philosophy ; États-Unis Historiographie ; États-Unis Histoire ; Philosophie ; United States History ; Philosophy ; United States Historiography ; United States Historiography. ; United States History ; Philosophy. ; États-Unis Historiographie. ; États-Unis Histoire ; Philosophie. ; United States History ; États-Unis Histoire ; Philosophie USA ; United States ; Philosophy ; United States ; Verenigde Staten ; USA ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Globalisierung ; USA ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: Transnationalism and the challenge to national histories / Prasenjit Duara -- Internationalizing international history / Akira Iriye -- Where in the world is America? The history of the United States in the global age / Charles Bright and Michael Geyer -- International at the creation : early modern American history / Karen Ordahl Kupperman -- How the West was one : the African diaspora and the re-mapping of U.S. history / Robin D.G. Kelley -- Time and revolution in African America : temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery / Walter Johnson -- Beyond the view from Euro-America : environment, settler societies, and the internationalization of American history / Ian Tyrrell -- From Euro- and Afro-Atlantic to Pacific migration system : a comparative migration approach to North American history / Dirk Hoerder -- Framing U.S. history : democracy, nationalism, and socialism / Robert Wiebe -- An age of social politics / Daniel T. Rodgers -- The age of global power / Marilyn B. Young -- American empire and cultural imperialism : a view from the receiving end / Rob Kroes -- Do American historical narratives travel? / François Weil -- The modernity of America and the practice of scholarship / Winfried Fluck -- The exhaustion of enclosures : a critique of internationalization / Ron Robin -- The historian's use of the United States and vice versa / David A. Hollinger
    Abstract: In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history
    Description / Table of Contents: Transnationalism and the challenge to national histories / Prasenjit Duara -- Internationalizing international history / Akira Iriye -- Where in the world is America? The history of the United States in the global age / Charles Bright and Michael Geyer -- International at the creation : early modern American history / Karen Ordahl Kupperman -- How the West was one : the African diaspora and the re-mapping of U.S. history / Robin D.G. Kelley -- Time and revolution in African America : temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery / Walter Johnson -- Beyond the view from Euro-America : environment, settler societies, and the internationalization of American history / Ian Tyrrell -- From Euro- and Afro-Atlantic to Pacific migration system : a comparative migration approach to North American history / Dirk Hoerder -- Framing U.S. history : democracy, nationalism, and socialism / Robert Wiebe -- An age of social politics / Daniel T. Rodgers -- The age of global power / Marilyn B. Young -- American empire and cultural imperialism : a view from the receiving end / Rob Kroes -- Do American historical narratives travel? / François Weil -- The modernity of America and the practice of scholarship / Winfried Fluck -- The exhaustion of enclosures : a critique of internationalization / Ron Robin -- The historian's use of the United States and vice versa / David A. Hollinger
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
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