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Inventing A Nation
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Author : Gore Vidal
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Inventing A Nation written by Gore Vidal and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with History categories.
This New York Times bestseller offers “an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all” (New York Review of Books). In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal’s splendid prose, in ways we have not up to now—their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate. The author of Burr and Lincoln, one of the master stylists of American literature and most acute observers of American life, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of these formidable men
Re Inventing Japan
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Author : Tessa Morris-Suzuki
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-03-04
Re Inventing Japan written by Tessa Morris-Suzuki and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan.
Summary Of Gore Vidal S Inventing A Nation
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Author : Milkyway Media
language : en
Publisher: Milkyway Media
Release Date : 2022-04-20
Summary Of Gore Vidal S Inventing A Nation written by Milkyway Media and has been published by Milkyway Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-20 with History categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 George Washington was the president of a company that was developing the navigability of the Potomac River. He was offered valuable shares in the company for himself and his heirs, but he only accepted if he could give whatever dividends that came his way to charities. #2 The United States was formed in 1776, but was not fully formed until 1789. Until then, the thirteen former British colonies were held uneasily together by the Articles of Confederation. The question was by whom and to what end the powers of the Confederation would be qualified. #3 In 1786, the rickety Confederation was appalled when Massachusetts was revolutionized by one Captain Daniel Shays, a revolutionary hero whom Lafayette had presented with an expensive sword. But by September of 1786, Shays was obliged to sell the sword. #4 In 1787, Washington was officially notified that Congress had named the second Monday in May for a convention to meet in Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation. However, Congress only agreed to the Annapolis Convention’s proposal that there be a meeting of delegates from all the States at Philadelphia in May to take into consideration the Trade and Commerce of the United States.
Russia
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Author : Vera Tolz
language : en
Publisher: Hodder Education
Release Date : 2001
Russia written by Vera Tolz and has been published by Hodder Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Tracing the development of Russian national consciousness from the time of the reforms of Peter the Great, to Russia's current post-imperial identity crisis, this text looks at nationalism both as an ideology and a movement.
Network Nation
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Author : Richard R. John
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-05
Network Nation written by Richard R. John and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with Business & Economics categories.
The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not only by technological imperatives and economic incentives but also by political decision making at the federal, state, and municipal levels. In the decades between the Civil War and the First World War, Western Union and the Bell System emerged as the dominant providers for the telegraph and telephone. Both operated networks that were products not only of technology and economics but also of a distinctive political economy. Western Union arose in an antimonopolistic political economy that glorified equal rights and vilified special privilege. The Bell System flourished in a progressive political economy that idealized public utility and disparaged unnecessary waste. The popularization of the telegraph and the telephone was opposed by business lobbies that were intent on perpetuating specialty services. In fact, it wasnÕt until 1900 that the civic ideal of mass access trumped the elitist ideal of exclusivity in shaping the commercialization of the telephone. The telegraph did not become widely accessible until 1910, sixty-five years after the first fee-for-service telegraph line opened in 1845. Network Nation places the history of telecommunications within the broader context of American politics, business, and discourse. This engrossing and provocative book persuades us of the critical role of political economy in the development of new technologies and their implementation.
Summary Of Gore Vidal S Inventing A Nation
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-03-13T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Gore Vidal S Inventing A Nation written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-13T22:59:00Z with History categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 George Washington was the president of a company that was developing the navigability of the Potomac River. He was offered valuable shares in the company for himself and his heirs, but he only accepted if he could give whatever dividends that came his way to charities. #2 The United States was formed in 1776, but was not fully formed until 1789. Until then, the thirteen former British colonies were held uneasily together by the Articles of Confederation. The question was by whom and to what end the powers of the Confederation would be qualified. #3 In 1786, the rickety Confederation was appalled when Massachusetts was revolutionized by one Captain Daniel Shays, a revolutionary hero whom Lafayette had presented with an expensive sword. But by September of 1786, Shays was obliged to sell the sword. #4 In 1787, Washington was officially notified that Congress had named the second Monday in May for a convention to meet in Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation. However, Congress only agreed to the Annapolis Convention’s proposal that there be a meeting of delegates from all the States at Philadelphia in May to take into consideration the Trade and Commerce of the United States.
Inventing Iraq
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Author : Toby Dodge
language : en
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Release Date : 2003
Inventing Iraq written by Toby Dodge and has been published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Between 1920 and 1932, Great Britain endeavored unsuccessfully to create a modern democratic state in the region that became known as Iraq. The unwieldy patchwork state it fashioned embodied the imperatives of Whitehall while running roughshod over the political sensibilities of the region's inhabitants. When Britain grew weary of holding together its fractious creation, it hastened Iraq toward independence. Democracy was quickly dispensed with by a series of coups, culminating in 1968 with the Ba'ath Party's siezure of power. Britain's failure, Dodge contends, forms the crucial historical backdrop against which the Bush administration's removal of Saddam Hussein and its aftermath must be understood.
Malaysia
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Author : Cheah Boon Kheng
language : en
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Release Date : 2002
Malaysia written by Cheah Boon Kheng and has been published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Focuses on Malaysia's four Prime Ministers as nation-builders, observing that each one of them when he became Prime Minister was transformed from being the head of the Malay party, UMNO, to that of the leader of a multi-ethnic nation. Each began his political career as an exclusivist Malay nationalist but became an inclusivist.
Founding Gods Inventing Nations
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Author : William F. McCants
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2012
Founding Gods Inventing Nations written by William F. McCants and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast range of primary sources, some of which are translated here for the first time, and focusing on the dynamic influence of the Greek, Roman, and Arab conquests of the Near East, William McCants looks at the ways the conquerors and those they conquered reshaped their myths of civilization's origins in response to the social and political consequences of empire. The Greek and Roman conquests brought with them a learned culture that competed with that of native elites. The conquering Arabs, in contrast, had no learned culture, which led to three hundred years of Muslim competition over the cultural orientation of Islam, a contest reflected in the culture myths of that time. What we know today as Islamic culture is the product of this contest, whose protagonists drew heavily on the lore of non-Arab and pagan antiquity. McCants argues that authors in all three periods did not write about civilization's origins solely out of pure antiquarian interest--they also sought to address the social and political tensions of the day. The strategies they employed and the postcolonial dilemmas they confronted provide invaluable context for understanding how authors today use myth and history to locate themselves in the confusing aftermath of empire.
China
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Author : Henrietta Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2001-08-31
China written by Henrietta Harrison and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-31 with History categories.
With Chinese nationalism a vital ingredient of both the domestic politics of the People's Republic of China and its international relations, this book explores how China came to be a nation, arguing that from early times China had all the features of a nation state- a common language, culture, and bureaucracy- and that China as it exists today was invented through the construction of a modern state. The book describes the attitudes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Chinese towards identity and ethnicity and how these factors affected the structure of the state. The Chinese efforts to build a modern nation state that could resist the Western imperial powers are also documented as are the efforts in the twentieth century to spread nationalism from the cities into rural China. The book argues that China has not been an exception to the process of the invention of nations. Instead, its differences arise from the complexities of the relationship between nationalism and imperialism. Moreover, the role of imperialism was not limited to Western empires: the Manchu Qing empire played quite as significant a role in the construction of the modern Chinese nation state as did imported European ideologies.