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  • 2015-2019  (4)
  • 1975-1979
  • Project Muse  (4)
  • Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press  (4)
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  • 1
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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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  • 2
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    Slave emancipation and transformations in Brazilian political citizenship (2016)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822981381 , 0822981386
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: Pitt Latin American series
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    DDC: 306.3620981
    Keywords: Political participation History ; Brazil ; Blacks Political activity ; History ; Brazil ; Social movements History ; Brazil ; Antislavery movements Brazil ; Slavery Brazil ; Political participation History ; Blacks Political activity ; History ; Social movements History ; Antislavery movements ; Slavery ; Political participation History ; Blacks Political activity ; History ; Social movements History ; Antislavery movements ; Slavery ; HISTORY ; Latin America ; South America ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; HISTORY ; General ; Antislavery movements ; Blacks ; Political activity ; Political participation ; Race relations ; Slavery ; Social movements ; History ; Brazil Race relations ; Brazil ; Brazil Race relations ; Brazil Race relations ; Brazil ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: "Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the abolition debates in Pernambuco transformed the practices of political citizenship and marked the first instance of a mass national political mobilization. In addition, he presents new findings on the scope and scale of the opposing abolitionist and sugar planters' mobilizations in the Brazilian northeast. The book highlights the extensive interactions between enslaved and free people in the construction of abolitionism, and reveals how Brazil's first social movement reinvented discourses about race and nation, leading to the passage of the abolition law in 1888. It also documents the previously ignored counter-mobilizations led by the landed elite, who saw the rise of abolitionism as a political contestation and threat to their livelihood. Overall, this study illuminates how disputes over control of emancipation also entailed disputes over the boundaries of the political arena and connects the history of abolition to the history of Brazilian democracy. It offers fresh perspectives on Brazilian political history and on Brazil's place within comparative discussions on slavery and emancipation"--
    Abstract: "Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the abolition debates in Pernambuco transformed the practices of political citizenship and marked the first instance of a mass national political mobilization. In addition, he presents new findings on the scope and scale of the opposing abolitionist and sugar planters' mobilizations in the Brazilian northeast. The book highlights the extensive interactions between enslaved and free people in the construction of abolitionism, and reveals how Brazil's first social movement reinvented discourses about race and nation, leading to the passage of the abolition law in 1888. It also documents the previously ignored counter-mobilizations led by the landed elite, who saw the rise of abolitionism as a political contestation and threat to their livelihood. Overall, this study illuminates how disputes over control of emancipation also entailed disputes over the boundaries of the political arena and connects the history of abolition to the history of Brazilian democracy. It offers fresh perspectives on Brazilian political history and on Brazil's place within comparative discussions on slavery and emancipation"--
    Abstract: Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography; Introduction; Chapter 1. "Death to Slavery": Sparking the Abolition Debate; Chapter 2. "While the Cry for Emancipation Still Echoes": The Political Effects of the 1871 Law; Chapter 3. "We Need to Put into Action the Liberal Ideas We Speak Of": A Thwarted Attempt to Free Recife; Chapter 4. The "Disorderliness of the Intransigent Abolitionists": An Abolitionist Parade, New Associativism, and Elections; Chapter 5. "March on over the Thorns That Lie in Your Path": Reaction and Counterreaction in the Cotegipe Era
    Abstract: Chapter 6. "Celebrations of Freedom": Abolition and the Changing Debates over CitizenshipConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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  • 3
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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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  • 4
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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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    NQ 8294
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    KK 1020
    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
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