Author: Stanford Alumni Association
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The materials consist of videorecordings of lectures from the Europe and America in the Modern Age lecture series sponsored by the Stanford Alumni Association.
Stanford Alumni Association, Europe and America in the Modern Age, Videorecordings
Author: Stanford Alumni Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The materials consist of videorecordings of lectures from the Europe and America in the Modern Age lecture series sponsored by the Stanford Alumni Association.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The materials consist of videorecordings of lectures from the Europe and America in the Modern Age lecture series sponsored by the Stanford Alumni Association.
Stanford
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Video Rating Guide for Libraries
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The New Geography of Jobs
Author: Enrico Moretti
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547750110
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Makes correlations between success and geography, explaining how such rising centers of innovation as San Francisco and Austin are likely to offer influential opportunities and shape the national and global economies in positive or detrimental ways.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547750110
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Makes correlations between success and geography, explaining how such rising centers of innovation as San Francisco and Austin are likely to offer influential opportunities and shape the national and global economies in positive or detrimental ways.
Media Review Digest
Author: C. Edward Wall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audio-visual materials
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audio-visual materials
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
Author: J. P. Daughton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393541029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” but liberal ideals were savaged by a cruelly indifferent administrative state. African workers were forcibly conscripted and separated from their families, and subjected to hellish conditions as they hacked their way through dense tropical foliage—a “forest of no joy”; excavated by hand thousands of tons of earth in order to lay down track; blasted their way through rock to construct tunnels; or risked their lives building bridges over otherwise impassable rivers. In the process, they suffered disease, malnutrition, and rampant physical abuse, likely resulting in at least 20,000 deaths. In the Forest of No Joy captures in vivid detail the experiences of the men, women, and children who toiled on the railroad, and forces a reassessment of the moral relationship between modern industrialized empires and what could be called global humanitarian impulses—the desire to improve the lives of people outside of Europe. Drawing on exhaustive research in French and Congolese archives, a chilling documentary record, and heartbreaking photographic evidence, J.P. Daughton tells the epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad, and in doing so reveals the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393541029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” but liberal ideals were savaged by a cruelly indifferent administrative state. African workers were forcibly conscripted and separated from their families, and subjected to hellish conditions as they hacked their way through dense tropical foliage—a “forest of no joy”; excavated by hand thousands of tons of earth in order to lay down track; blasted their way through rock to construct tunnels; or risked their lives building bridges over otherwise impassable rivers. In the process, they suffered disease, malnutrition, and rampant physical abuse, likely resulting in at least 20,000 deaths. In the Forest of No Joy captures in vivid detail the experiences of the men, women, and children who toiled on the railroad, and forces a reassessment of the moral relationship between modern industrialized empires and what could be called global humanitarian impulses—the desire to improve the lives of people outside of Europe. Drawing on exhaustive research in French and Congolese archives, a chilling documentary record, and heartbreaking photographic evidence, J.P. Daughton tells the epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad, and in doing so reveals the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.
Mother Jones Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Mother Jones is an award-winning national magazine widely respected for its groundbreaking investigative reporting and coverage of sustainability and environmental issues.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Mother Jones is an award-winning national magazine widely respected for its groundbreaking investigative reporting and coverage of sustainability and environmental issues.
Biodesign
Author: Stefanos Zenios
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521517427
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 779
Book Description
Recognize market opportunities, master the design process, and develop business acumen with this 'how-to' guide to medical technology innovation. Outlining a systematic, proven approach for innovation - identify, invent, implement - and integrating medical, engineering, and business challenges with real-world case studies, this book provides a practical guide for students and professionals.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521517427
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 779
Book Description
Recognize market opportunities, master the design process, and develop business acumen with this 'how-to' guide to medical technology innovation. Outlining a systematic, proven approach for innovation - identify, invent, implement - and integrating medical, engineering, and business challenges with real-world case studies, this book provides a practical guide for students and professionals.
Gatecrashers
Author: Katherine Jentleson
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520303423
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
After World War I, artists without formal training “crashed the gates” of major museums in the United States, diversifying the art world across lines of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender. At the center of this fundamental reevaluation of who could be an artist in America were John Kane, Horace Pippin, and Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses. The stories of these three artists not only intertwine with the major critical debates of their period but also prefigure the call for inclusion in representations of American art today. In Gatecrashers, Katherine Jentleson offers a valuable corrective to the history of twentieth-century art by expanding narratives of interwar American modernism and providing an origin story for contemporary fascination with self-taught artists.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520303423
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
After World War I, artists without formal training “crashed the gates” of major museums in the United States, diversifying the art world across lines of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender. At the center of this fundamental reevaluation of who could be an artist in America were John Kane, Horace Pippin, and Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses. The stories of these three artists not only intertwine with the major critical debates of their period but also prefigure the call for inclusion in representations of American art today. In Gatecrashers, Katherine Jentleson offers a valuable corrective to the history of twentieth-century art by expanding narratives of interwar American modernism and providing an origin story for contemporary fascination with self-taught artists.
Anti-Americanism in Europe
Author: Russell A. Berman
Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 0817945121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
"Since September 11, 2001, the attitudes of Europeans toward the United States have grown increasingly more negative. For many in Europe, the terrorist attack on New York City was seen as evidence of how American behavior elicits hostility - and how it would be up to Americans to repent and change their ways. In this revealing look at the deep divide that has emerged, Russell A. Berman explores the various dimensions of contemporary European anti-Americanism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 0817945121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
"Since September 11, 2001, the attitudes of Europeans toward the United States have grown increasingly more negative. For many in Europe, the terrorist attack on New York City was seen as evidence of how American behavior elicits hostility - and how it would be up to Americans to repent and change their ways. In this revealing look at the deep divide that has emerged, Russell A. Berman explores the various dimensions of contemporary European anti-Americanism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved