Author: Jeff Wallenfeldt
Publisher: Rosen Education Service
ISBN: 9781615308293
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In the years following the Civil War, the United States experienced periods of great prosperity and peace as well as privation and conflict, as the country laid claim to increasing prominence on the world stage. These absorbing volumes provide readers with a panoramic view of the U.S. from the end of the Civil War through the present day, featuring excerpts from historical documents that highlight many social, cultural, and political events that have defined each era. * Easy-to-follow narrative that contextualizes primary source excerpts * Full/expanded versions of each primary source document * Detailed sidebars highlight relevant concepts
Author: Jeff Wallenfeldt
Publisher: Rosen Education Service
ISBN: 9781615308101
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Languages : en
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A nation's history does not exist in a vacuum. Rather, it is the culmination of events that have shaped the lives of many individuals and societies--and is, in turn, influenced by these same factors. These volumes trace the history of the United States from its discovery through the Civil War and the Reconstruction period that followed. Along the way, readers are treated to a sampling of integral documents and personal accounts that provide an insider's view to seminal episodes in the country's past. * Easy-to-follow narrative that contextualizes primary source excerpts * Full/expanded versions of each primary source document * Glossaries explain key terms and concepts
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ISBN: 9781615308620
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Languages : en
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Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271047201
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The news media have given us potent demonstrations of the ambiguity of ostensibly truthful representations of public events. Jordana Mendelson uses this ambiguity as a framework for the study of Spanish visual culture from 1929 to 1939--a decade marked, on the one hand, by dictatorship, civil war, and Franco's rise to power and, on the other, by a surge in the production of documentaries of various types, from films and photographs to international exhibitions. Mendelson begins with an examination of El Pueblo Español, a model Spanish village featured at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. She then discusses Buñuel's and Dalí's documentary films, relating them not only to French Surrealism but also to issues of rural tradition in the formation of regional and national identities. Her highly original book concludes with a discussion of the 1937 Spanish Pavilion, where Picasso's famed painting of the Fascist bombing of a Basque town--Guernica--was exhibited along with monumental photomurals by Josep Renau. Based upon years of archival research, Mendelson's book opens a new perspective on the cultural politics of a turbulent era in modern Spain. It explores the little-known yet rich intersection between avant-garde artists and government institutions. It shows as well the surprising extent to which Spanish modernity was fashioned through dialogue between the seemingly opposed fields of urban and rural, fine art, and mass culture.
Author: Erin O'Connor
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN: 9780132085083
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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'Documenting Latin America' focuses on the central themes of race, gender, and politics. Documentary sources provide readers with the tools to develop a broad understanding of the course of Latin American social, cultural, and political history.
Author: Gladys Q. Ramey
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: National Archives (U.S.)
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: Marta Caminero-Santangelo
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813063361
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Looking at the work of Junot Díaz, Cristina García, Julia Alvarez, and other Latino/a authors who are U.S. citizens, Marta Caminero-Santangelo examines how writers are increasingly expressing their solidarity with undocumented immigrants. Through storytelling, these writers create community and a sense of peoplehood that includes non-citizen Latino/as. This volume also foregrounds the narratives of unauthorized migrants themselves, showing how their stories are emerging into the public sphere. Immigration and citizenship are multifaceted issues, and the voices are myriad. They challenge common interpretations of "illegal" immigration, explore inevitable traumas and ethical dilemmas, protest their own silencing in immigration debates, and even capitalize on the topic for the commercial market. Yet these texts all seek to affect political discourse by advancing the possibility of empathy across lines of ethnicity and citizenship status. As border enforcement strategies escalate along with political rhetoric, detentions, and deaths, these counternarratives are more significant than ever before, and their perspectives cannot be ignored. What we are witnessing, argues Caminero-Santangelo, is a mass mobilization of stories. This growing body of literature is critical to understanding not only the Latino/a immigrant experience but also alternative visions of nation and belonging.
Author: The National Archives
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198042272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United States. The entry for each document includes a short introduction, a facsimile, and a transcript of the document. Backmatter includes further reading, credits, and index. The book is part of the much larger Our Documents initiative sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), National History Day, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the USA Freedom Corps.
Author: Leah Bendavid-Val
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791348360
Category : Documentary photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Includes photography from Maggie Steber, Alan Chin, Andrew Lichtenstein, Donna Ferrato, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Stanley Greene, Danny Wilcox Frazier, David Burnett, Darcy Padilla, Lucian Perkins.
