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In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society the competing visions of capitalists reformers and immigrants turned the urban landscape into a testing ground for American values Neither a natural progression nor an inevitable outcome the ideal of home ownership emerged from the struggles of industrializing cities Garb skillfully narrates these struggles showing how the American infatuation with home ownership left the nations cities sharply divided along class and racial lines Based on research of real estate markets housing and health reform and ordinary homeownersAfrican American and white affluent and working classCity of American Dreams provides a richly detailed picture of life in one of Americas great urban centers Garb shows that the pursuit of a singlefamily house set on a tidy yard commonly seen as the very essence of the American dream resulted from clashes of interests and decades of struggle
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Although he died at the age of thirtytwo Randolph Bourne 18861918 left a body of writing on politics culture and literature that made him one of the most influential public intellectuals of the twentieth century and a hero of the American left The twentyeight essays of this volumeamong them War and the Intellectuals the analysis of the warfare state that made Bourne the foremost critic of American entry into World War 1 and TransNational America his manifesto for cultural pluralism in Americashow Bourne at his most passionate and incisive as they trace his search for the true wellsprings of nationalism and American culture
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The Communist Party of the United States of America was founded amid the wave of international revolutionary struggles inspired by the Russian Revolution with the express goal of leading US workers in the struggle against capitalism Despite these intentions the first years of its existence were plagued by sectarianism infighting and an obsession over the need for an underground organization It was only through the intervention of the Communist International Comintern that the party was pushed to Americanize come out from the underground and focus on the struggles for Black liberation This unique contribution documents the positive contribution of the Comintern in its early revolutionary years and its decline under Stalin
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The impact of the Irish famine of 18451852 was unparalleled in both political and psychological terms The effects of faminerelated mortality and emigration were devastating in the field of literature no less than in other areas In this incisive new study Melissa Fegan explores the famines legacy to literature tracing it in the work of contemporary writers and their successors down to 1919 Dr Fegan examines both fiction and nonfiction including journalism travelnarratives and the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope She argues that an examination of famine literature that simply categorizes it as minor or views it only as a silence or an absence misses the very real contribution that it makes to our understanding of the period This is an important contribution to the study of Irish history and literature sharply illuminating contemporary Irish mentalities
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At a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos it was reported that a ghost was haunting the deliberations of the assembled global elite that of the renowned social scientist and economic historian Karl Polanyi In his classic work The Great Transformation Polanyi documented the impact of the rise of market society on western civilization and captured better than anyone else the destructive effects of the economic political and social crisis of the 1930s Today in the throes of another Great Recession Polanyis work has gained a new significance To understand the profound challenges faced by our democracies today we need to revisit history and revisit his work In this new collection of unpublished texts lectures draft essays and reports written between 1919 and 1958 Polanyi examines the collapse of the liberal economic order and the demise of democracies in the interwar years He takes up again the fundamental question that preoccupied him throughout his work the place of the economy in society and aims to show how we might return to an economy anchored in society and its cultural religious and political institutions For anyone concerned about the danger to democracy and social life posed by the unleashing of capital from regulatory control and the dominance of the neoliberal ideologies of market fundamentalism this important new volume by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century is a mustread
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At a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos it was reported that a ghost was haunting the deliberations of the assembled global elite that of the renowned social scientist and economic historian Karl Polanyi In his classic work The Great Transformation Polanyi documented the impact of the rise of market society on western civilization and captured better than anyone else the destructive effects of the economic political and social crisis of the 1930s Today in the throes of another Great Recession Polanyis work has gained a new significance To understand the profound challenges faced by our democracies today we need to revisit history and revisit his work In this new collection of unpublished texts lectures draft essays and reports written between 1919 and 1958 Polanyi examines the collapse of the liberal economic order and the demise of democracies in the interwar years He takes up again the fundamental question that preoccupied him throughout his work the place of the economy in society and aims to show how we might return to an economy anchored in society and its cultural religious and political institutions For anyone concerned about the danger to democracy and social life posed by the unleashing of capital from regulatory control and the dominance of the neoliberal ideologies of market fundamentalism this important new volume by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century is a mustread
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During the period in which these essays were written Woolf published Night and Day and Jacobs Room contributed widely to British and American periodicals and progressed from straight reviewing to more extended critical essays Excellently edited the essays reconfirm Woolfs major importance as a twentiethcentury writer Library Journal Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie Index
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Excerpt from The Georgia Historical Quarterly Vol 3 March 1919War telegrams memorial days and patriotic women are not the only reminders of martial days then and now There are other reminders when war news is coming and our streets are full of soldiers and I want this afternoon to tell your readers whom I do not know something about the war notes sounding in Columbus before and in 1861About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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During the Great War eight battalions of the regiment went on active service and another seven including 1st Garrison Battalion served at home No less than 32000 men passed through the ranks of the regiment of whom some 6000 died fortyeight battle honours were awarded and one VC Appendices contain separate rolls of honour of officers and other ranks with names grouped alphabetically by ranks all ranks list of honours and awards and foreign awards and separate lists of Mention in Despatches The 1st 6th 7th and 8th Battalions served on the Western Front the 2nd Battalion in Macedonia with 28th Division following ten months in France and Belgium the 14th in India and Aden 15th in India and Mesopotamia and finally the 10th Battalion formed in Egypt in Feb 1917 from two converted Kent yeomanry regiments fought in Palestine and on the Western Front with 74th Yeomanry DivisionApart from one chapter describing the raising of wartime battalions and the initial disposition of the two TF battalions and one on their affiliated regiment the Queens Own Rifles of Canada the chapters of this history each cover welldefined periods of the war in the various theatres in which the parts played by all battalions involved are recorded The groundwork or skeleton is based on battalion brigade or divisional war diaries fleshed out by personal narratives and diaries provided by men who had fought and survived Where possible the names of the officers who became casualties in any action are given in the text after the record of the battle but only the number in the case of other ranks Again wherever possible the recipients of honours all ranks have been named in the account as news of their decorations reached their battalion A good history
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The impact of the Irish famine of 18451852 was unparalleled in both political and psychological terms The effects of faminerelated mortality and emigration were devastating in the field of literature no less than in other areas In this incisive new study Melissa Fegan explores the famines legacy to literature tracing it in the work of contemporary writers and their successors down to 1919 Dr Fegan examines both fiction and nonfiction including journalism travelnarratives and the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope She argues that an examination of famine literature that simply categorizes it as minor or views it only as a silence or an absence misses the very real contribution that it makes to our understanding of the period This is an important contribution to the study of Irish history and literature sharply illuminating contemporary Irish mentalities
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At a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos it was reported that a ghost was haunting the deliberations of the assembled global elite that of the renowned social scientist and economic historian Karl Polanyi In his classic work The Great Transformation Polanyi documented the impact of the rise of market society on western civilization and captured better than anyone else the destructive effects of the economic political and social crisis of the 1930s Today in the throes of another Great Recession Polanyis work has gained a new significance To understand the profound challenges faced by our democracies today we need to revisit history and revisit his work In this new collection of unpublished texts lectures draft essays and reports written between 1919 and 1958 Polanyi examines the collapse of the liberal economic order and the demise of democracies in the interwar years He takes up again the fundamental question that preoccupied him throughout his work the place of the economy in society and aims to show how we might return to an economy anchored in society and its cultural religious and political institutions For anyone concerned about the danger to democracy and social life posed by the unleashing of capital from regulatory control and the dominance of the neoliberal ideologies of market fundamentalism this important new volume by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century is a mustread
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Internationally recognized as a pioneer of abstract art the founder of NeoPlasticism and the ideological father of the De Stijl movement Piet Mondrian 18721944 created both paintings and writings that embodied the spirit of modernismMondrian saw himself as an archModernist with uncompromisingly strong ideas about what art was to be about in the next century He viewed abstraction as the ideal artistic and spiritual direction and argued this cause in his most important text Natural Reality and Abstract Reality Written in Holland at the outset of 1919 and completed in Paris in July of that year Mondrians Trialogue carefully presents the artists ideas through the voices of A Layman A Naturalist Painter and An AbstractReal Painter Abstraction contains Mondrian proposes the essence of what art of all the ages sought to express relationship harmony repose life force the universal In the Trialogue Mondrian demonstrates the basis of his new art form in visible realityThis volume also contains Mondrians two urban sketches entitled Les Grands Boulevards and Little Restaurant Palm Sunday which form ideal literary complements to the Trialogue
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During the period in which these essays were written Woolf published Night and Day and Jacobs Room contributed widely to British and American periodicals and progressed from straight reviewing to more extended critical essays Excellently edited the essays reconfirm Woolfs major importance as a twentiethcentury writer Library Journal Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie Index
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Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was a leading proponent of the Marburg school of neoKantianism The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirers discovery of the symbolic nature of human existencethat our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive power of word and image that it is in and through the symbolic cultural systems of language art myth religion science and technology that human life realizes itself and attains not only its form its visibility but also its reality Thought and being are set in opposition and united in genuine correspondence by the symbolic strife between them that Cassirer calls Auseinandersetzung which determines the ethical relationship of the self to the other
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Internationally recognized as a pioneer of abstract art the founder of NeoPlasticism and the ideological father of the De Stijl movement Piet Mondrian 18721944 created both paintings and writings that embodied the spirit of modernism Mondrian saw himself as an archModernist with uncompromisingly strong ideas about what art was to be about in the next century He viewed abstraction as the ideal artistic and spiritual direction and argued this cause in his most important text Natural Reality and Abstract Reality Written in Holland at the outset of 1919 and completed in Paris in July of that year Mondrians Trialogue carefully presents the artists ideas through the voices of A Layman A Naturalist Painter and An AbstractReal Painter Abstraction contains Mondrian proposes the essence of what art of all the ages sought to express relationship harmony repose life force the universal In the Trialogue Mondrian demonstrates the basis of his new art form in visible reality This volume also contains Mondrians two urban sketches entitled Les Grands Boulevards and Little Restaurant Palm Sunday which form ideal literary complements to the Trialogue
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Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was a leading proponent of the Marburg school of neoKantianism The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirers discovery of the symbolic nature of human existencethat our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive power of word and image that it is in and through the symbolic cultural systems of language art myth religion science and technology that human life realizes itself and attains not only its form its visibility but also its reality Thought and being are set in opposition and united in genuine correspondence by the symbolic strife between them that Cassirer calls Auseinandersetzung which determines the ethical relationship of the self to the other
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