Author: David Vine
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1627791698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
American military bases encircle the globe; from Italy to the Indian Ocean, from Japan to Honduras. The far-reaching story of the perils of the U. S. military bases and what these bases say about America today.
Base Nation
Author: David Vine
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1627791698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
American military bases encircle the globe; from Italy to the Indian Ocean, from Japan to Honduras. The far-reaching story of the perils of the U. S. military bases and what these bases say about America today.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1627791698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
American military bases encircle the globe; from Italy to the Indian Ocean, from Japan to Honduras. The far-reaching story of the perils of the U. S. military bases and what these bases say about America today.
Base Towns
Author: Claudia Junghyun Kim
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197665292
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
When do we see social movements mobilize against the American military overseas, and what explains their varying intensity? Despite increasing interest in the vast network of U.S. military bases on foreign soil, it is still not well understood why some host communities resist the bases in their backyards, while others remain compliant. In Base Towns, Claudia Junghyun Kim addresses this puzzle by investigating the contentious politics surrounding twenty U.S. military bases across Korea and Japan. In particular, she looks at municipalities hosting these bases and differing levels of community acceptance and resistance over time. Drawing on fieldwork interviews, participant observation, and protest event data from 2000-2015, Kim shows that activists occasionally manage to join hands with the otherwise politically inactive local populations when they deliberately subordinate their radical movement goals to more immediate, mundane demands that form the basis of everyday local grievances. Specifically, the activists in base towns successfully build broad anti-base movements when they take advantage of quotidian disruption, adopt culturally resonant movement frames, and ally with local political elites. These activist strategies, however, sometimes end up reinforcing the widely presumed inevitability of the American presence. In examining activist actions, strategies, and dilemmas, this book sheds light on marginalized actors in domestic and international politics--far removed from elite decision-making processes that shape interstate base politics and yet living with their consequences--who sometimes manage to complicate the operations of America's military behemoth.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197665292
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
When do we see social movements mobilize against the American military overseas, and what explains their varying intensity? Despite increasing interest in the vast network of U.S. military bases on foreign soil, it is still not well understood why some host communities resist the bases in their backyards, while others remain compliant. In Base Towns, Claudia Junghyun Kim addresses this puzzle by investigating the contentious politics surrounding twenty U.S. military bases across Korea and Japan. In particular, she looks at municipalities hosting these bases and differing levels of community acceptance and resistance over time. Drawing on fieldwork interviews, participant observation, and protest event data from 2000-2015, Kim shows that activists occasionally manage to join hands with the otherwise politically inactive local populations when they deliberately subordinate their radical movement goals to more immediate, mundane demands that form the basis of everyday local grievances. Specifically, the activists in base towns successfully build broad anti-base movements when they take advantage of quotidian disruption, adopt culturally resonant movement frames, and ally with local political elites. These activist strategies, however, sometimes end up reinforcing the widely presumed inevitability of the American presence. In examining activist actions, strategies, and dilemmas, this book sheds light on marginalized actors in domestic and international politics--far removed from elite decision-making processes that shape interstate base politics and yet living with their consequences--who sometimes manage to complicate the operations of America's military behemoth.
Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930. Population
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occupations
Languages : en
Pages : 1382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occupations
Languages : en
Pages : 1382
Book Description
The Cattle Towns
Author: Robert R. Dykstra
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803265615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
"Excellent . . . readable and persuasive. . . . One of the most refreshing and rewarding approaches to be applied to western history topics in many years."-American Historical Review
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803265615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
"Excellent . . . readable and persuasive. . . . One of the most refreshing and rewarding approaches to be applied to western history topics in many years."-American Historical Review
Population
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occupations
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occupations
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930. Outlying Territories and Possessions. Number and Distribution of Inhabitants. Composition and Characteristics of the Population. Occupations, Unemployment and Agriculture
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Project Clear
Author: Leo Bogart
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412832137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Clear was the code name for the research that led to the official desegregation of the U.S. Army at the time of the Korean War. This volume represents the two major troop opinion surveys that were the heart of the project, the first examining the performance of black troops in the Korean campaign, and the second, the problems encountered by black soldiers stationed in the continental United States. Although Project Clear dealt with a unique series of events and with a situation that existed for only a few transitional years, its findings were obvious: racial integration "worked." Recent years have witnessed renewed expression of racial tension and conflict. This study includes observations applicable to problems still unsolved and to situations yet to be encountered. Apart from such an intimation of future applicability, there is a drama to be found in the transformation of an institution as large and conservative as the army. For the social scientist, there is a particular interest in this example of how large-scale social research, conducted with tremendous speed and under great pressure, can be applied effectively to influence national policy. Leo Bogart is internationally known as a public opinion specialist and mass media executive. His books include Preserving the Press, Press and the Public, Premises for Propaganda, The Age of Television, and Polls and the Awareness of Public Opinion, published by Transaction.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412832137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Clear was the code name for the research that led to the official desegregation of the U.S. Army at the time of the Korean War. This volume represents the two major troop opinion surveys that were the heart of the project, the first examining the performance of black troops in the Korean campaign, and the second, the problems encountered by black soldiers stationed in the continental United States. Although Project Clear dealt with a unique series of events and with a situation that existed for only a few transitional years, its findings were obvious: racial integration "worked." Recent years have witnessed renewed expression of racial tension and conflict. This study includes observations applicable to problems still unsolved and to situations yet to be encountered. Apart from such an intimation of future applicability, there is a drama to be found in the transformation of an institution as large and conservative as the army. For the social scientist, there is a particular interest in this example of how large-scale social research, conducted with tremendous speed and under great pressure, can be applied effectively to influence national policy. Leo Bogart is internationally known as a public opinion specialist and mass media executive. His books include Preserving the Press, Press and the Public, Premises for Propaganda, The Age of Television, and Polls and the Awareness of Public Opinion, published by Transaction.
U.S. Army on the Mexican Border: A Historical Perspective
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437923038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
This occasional paper is a concise overview of the history of the US Army's involvement along the Mexican border and offers a fundamental understanding of problems associated with such a mission. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the historic themes addressed disapproving public reaction, Mexican governmental instability, and insufficient US military personnel to effectively secure the expansive boundary are still prevalent today.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437923038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
This occasional paper is a concise overview of the history of the US Army's involvement along the Mexican border and offers a fundamental understanding of problems associated with such a mission. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the historic themes addressed disapproving public reaction, Mexican governmental instability, and insufficient US military personnel to effectively secure the expansive boundary are still prevalent today.
Fifteenth Census of the United States : 1930: Population. Number and distribution of inhabitants
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description