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The Machine Has a Soul
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

The Machine Has a Soul

Introduction: The Machine with a Soul -- 1. The Good Adventure: Fascist Squads in a War-Weary World -- 2. Mystic in a Morning Coat: Americans' Mussolini in the 1920s -- 3. The Dream Machine: The Fascist State in an Era of Democratic Disillusionment -- 4. Man as the Measure of All Things: Sympathizing with Fascism in the Early Depression Years -- 5. The Garden of Fascism: Beauty, Transcendence, and Peace in an Era of Uncertainty -- Conclusion: Searching for Soul under the Sign of the Machine.

For the Many
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 584

For the Many

A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroad For the Many presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and the world toward justice and greater equality for all. Reclaiming social democracy as one of the central threads of American feminism, Dorothy Sue Cobble offers a bold rewriting of twentieth-century feminist history and documents how forces, peoples, and ideas worldwide shaped American politics. Cobble follows egalitarian women’s activism from the explosion of democracy movements before World War I to the establishment of the New Deal, through the uph...

From Farm to Firm
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

From Farm to Firm

The process of rural-urban transformation presents both opportunities and challenges for development. If managed effectively, it can result in growth that benefits everyone; if managed poorly, it can lead to stark welfare disparities and entire regions cut off from the advantages of agglomeration economies. The importance of rural-urban transition has been confirmed by two consecutive World Development Reports: WDR 2008 Agriculture for Development; and WDR 2009 Reshaping Economic Geography. Focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, this book picks up where the WDRs left off, investigating the influence of country conditions and policies on the pace, pattern, and consequences of rural-ur...

The Age of Reconstruction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

The Age of Reconstruction

A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas The Age of Reconstruction looks beyond post–Civil War America to tell the story of how Union victory and Lincoln’s assassination set off a dramatic international reaction that drove European empires out of the Americas, hastened the end of slavery in Latin America, and ignited a host of democratic reforms in Europe. In this international history of Reconstruction, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, France withdrew from Mexico, Russia sold Alaska to the United States, and Brita...

Moving Out of Poverty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 580

Moving Out of Poverty

There is no peace with hunger. Only promises and promises and no fulfillment. If there is no job, there is no peace. If there is nothing to cook in the pot, there is no peace. - Oscar, a 57-year-old man, El Gorri n, Colombia They want to construct their houses near the road, and they cannot do that if they do not have peace with their enemies. So peace and the road have developed a symbiotic relation. One cannot live without the other. . . . - A community leader from a conflict-affected community on the island of Mindanao, Philippines Most conflict studies focus on the national level, but this volume focuses on the community level. It explores how communities experience and recover from viol...

Genealogical and personal history of Beaver County, Pennsylvania
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 743

Genealogical and personal history of Beaver County, Pennsylvania

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Political Institutions and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Political Institutions and Development

Political Institutions and Development challenges the cliché that 'good institutions' are essential for sustainable socio-economic development by focusing on the need to adapt potential solutions to local conditions.

UK FISHING VESSELS 2015
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

UK FISHING VESSELS 2015

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-10-05
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

An alphabetical listing of all UK fishing boats with cross-check indexes for fishing codes, port of registration, year and place built and overall length.

Rule by Aesthetics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Rule by Aesthetics

Rule by Aesthetics draws on extensive fieldwork in Delhi's slums, courtrooms and state offices to shed fresh light on the violent underpinnings of contemporary city making. Presenting a new theory of urban power, Ghertner shows how aesthetic codes replaced conventional city planning tools in Delhi's millennial slum clearance drive.

Dollars and Dominion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Dollars and Dominion

"A history of the globalization of US banking in the early twentieth century"--