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Americana
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Author : Bhu Srinivasan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-09-26
Americana written by Bhu Srinivasan and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-26 with History categories.
An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalism NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a four-hundred-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things -- the inventions, techniques, and industries that drove American history forward: from the telegraph, the railroad, guns, radio, and banking to flight, suburbia, and sneakers, culminating with the Internet and mobile technology at the turn of the twenty-first century. The result is a thrilling alternative history of modern America that reframes events, trends, and people we thought we knew through the prism of the value that, for better or for worse, this nation holds dearest: capitalism. In a winning, accessible style, Bhu Srinivasan boldly takes on four centuries of American enterprise, revealing the unexpected connections that link them. We learn how Andrew Carnegie's early job as a telegraph messenger boy paved the way for his leadership of the steel empire that would make him one of the nation's richest men; how the gunmaker Remington reinvented itself in the postwar years to sell typewriters; how the inner workings of the Mafia mirrored the trend of consolidation and regulation in more traditional business; and how a 1950s infrastructure bill triggered a series of events that produced one of America's most enduring brands: KFC. Reliving the heady early days of Silicon Valley, we are reminded that the start-up is an idea as old as America itself. Entertaining, eye-opening, and sweeping in its reach, Americana is an exhilarating new work of narrative history.
Americana
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Author : Don DeLillo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Americana written by Don DeLillo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with American fiction categories.
Left Americana
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Author : Paul Le Blanc
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2017-03-27
Left Americana written by Paul Le Blanc and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-27 with History categories.
From the Marxist-tinged anarchism of the Haymarket martyrs to the Occupy Wall Street movement, these essays give a vibrant sense of the central role of the Left in social movements and struggles of the past and present, and highlights some of the amazing individuals, whose unstoppable energies generated remarkable transformations. Left Americana considers both the limitations and successes of Christian socialists, Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, and the "New Left" activists of the sixties and seventies in creating profound social and political change. Paul Le Blanc is a professor of History at La Roche College and author of Choice Award–winning book A Freedom Budget for All Americans.
Bibliotheca Americana
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Author : Joseph Sabin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with America categories.
Bibliotheca Americana
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Author : John Russell Bartlett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
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Bibliotheca Americana
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Author : Alfred Russell Smith
language : en
Publisher: London : [s.n.]
Release Date : 1874
Bibliotheca Americana written by Alfred Russell Smith and has been published by London : [s.n.] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with America categories.
Encyclop Dia Americana
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Author : Francis Lieber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1832
Encyclop Dia Americana written by Francis Lieber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1832 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
Soviet Americana
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Author : Sergei Zhuk
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-08
Soviet Americana written by Sergei Zhuk and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-08 with History categories.
The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US. To shed light onto this important, yet under-studied, academic community, Sergei Zhuk here explores the personal histories of prominent Soviet Americanists, considering the myriad cultural influences - from John Wayne's bravado in the film Stagecoach to Miles Davis - that shaped their identities, careers and academic interests. Zhuk's compelling account draws on a wide range of understudied archival documents, periodicals, letters and diaries as well as more than 100 exclusive interviews with prominent Americanists to take the reader from the post-war origins of American studies, via the extremes of the Cold War, thaw and perestroika, to Putin's Russia. Soviet Americana is a comprehensive insight into shifting attitudes towards the US throughout the twentieth century and an essential resource for all Soviet and Cold War historians.
Flax Americana
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Author : Joshua MacFadyen
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2018-10-10
Flax Americana written by Joshua MacFadyen and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-10 with History categories.
Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint – critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over fibre and when increased urbanization demanded expanded paint markets. Flax Americana re-examines the changing relationships between farmers, urban consumers, and the land through a narrative of Canada's first and most important industrial crop. Initially a specialty crop grown by Mennonites and other communities on contracts for small-town mill complexes, flax became big business in the late nineteenth century as multinational linseed oil companies quickly displaced rural mills. Flax cultivation spread across the northern plains and prairies, particularly along the edges of dryland settlement, and then into similar ecosystems in South America's Pampas. Joshua MacFadyen's detailed examination of archival records reveals the complexity of a global commodity and its impact on the eastern Great Lakes and northern Great Plains. He demonstrates how international networks of scientists, businesses, and regulators attempted to predict and control the crop's frontier geography, how evolving consumer concerns about product quality and safety shaped the market and its regulations, and how the nature of each region encouraged some forms of business and limited others. The northern flax industry emerged because of border-crossing communities. By following the plant across countries and over time Flax Americana sheds new light on the ways that commodities, frontiers, and industrial capitalism shaped the modern world.
Encyclopaedia Americana
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Author : Francis Lieber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1846
Encyclopaedia Americana written by Francis Lieber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1846 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.