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| Author | : Lauren Hirshberg |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2022-03-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520963857 |
Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous Marshallese within Kwajalein Atoll mirrors the segregation and spatial politics of the mainland US as local and global iterations of US empire took hold. Tracing how Marshall Islanders navigated US military control over their lands, Suburban Empire reveals that Cold War–era suburbanization was perfectly congruent with US colonization, military testing, and nuclear fallout. The structures of suburban segregation cloaked the destructive history of control and militarism under a veil of small-town innocence.
| Author | : Karen Tongson |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0814769675 |
What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the region humorists have referred to as Lesser Los Angeles-a global prototype for sprawl-Karen Tongson weaves through suburbia's nowherespaces to survey our spatial imaginaries: the aesthetic, creative and popular materials of the new suburbia.
| Author | : Richardson Dilworth |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2005-02-28 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780674015319 |
Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation—the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and form separate political entities. The process has important and deleterious consequences for a range of urban issues, including the weakening of public finance and school integration. The explanation centers on the independent effect of urban infrastructure, specifically sewers, roads, waterworks, gas, and electricity networks. The book argues that the development of such infrastructure in the late nineteenth century not only permitted cities to expand by annexing adjacent municipalities, but also further enhanced the ability of these suburban entities to remain or break away and form independent municipalities. The process was crucial in creating a proliferation of municipalities within metropolitan regions. The book thus shows that the roots of the urban crisis can be found in the interplay between technology, politics, and public works in the American city.
| Author | : Andrew Friedman |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2013-08-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520956680 |
The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In this covert capital, the suburban landscape provided a cover for the workings of U.S. imperial power, which shaped domestic suburban life. The Pentagon and the CIA built two of the largest office buildings in the country there during and after the war that anchored a new imperial culture and social world. As the U.S. expanded its power abroad by developing roads, embassies, and villages, its subjects also arrived in the covert capital as real estate agents, homeowners, builders, and landscapers who constructed spaces and living monuments that both nurtured and critiqued postwar U.S. foreign policy. Tracing the relationships among American agents and the migrants from Vietnam, El Salvador, Iran, and elsewhere who settled in the southwestern suburbs of D.C., Friedman tells the story of a place that recasts ideas about U.S. immigration, citizenship, nationalism, global interconnection, and ethical responsibility from the post-WW2 period to the present. Opening a new window onto the intertwined history of the American suburbs and U.S. foreign policy, Covert Capital will also give readers a broad interdisciplinary and often surprising understanding of how U.S. domestic and global histories intersect in many contexts and at many scales. American Crossroads, 37
| Author | : Todd Kuchta |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2010-03-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813929253 |
In the first book to consider British suburban literature from the vantage point of imperial and postcolonial studies, Todd Kuchta argues that suburban identity is tied to the empire's rise and fall. Like the semi-detached house, which joins separate dwellings under one roof, suburbia and empire were geographically distinct but imaginatively linked. Yet just as the "semi" conceals two homes behind a single façade, suburbia's apparent uniformity masks its defining oppositions--between country and city, "civilization" and "savagery," master and slave.
| Author | : Daniel L. Duke |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2012-02-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0791482987 |
Despite the fact that more than one-half of the students in the United States are educated in suburban schools, relatively little is known about the development of suburban school systems. Education Empire chronicles the evolution of Virginia's Fairfax County public schools, the twelfth largest school system in the country and arguably one of the very best. The book focuses on how Fairfax has addressed a variety of challenges, beginning with explosive enrollment growth in the 1950s and continuing with desegregation, enrollment decline, economic uncertainty, demands for special programs, and intense politicization. Today, Fairfax, like many suburbs across the country, looks increasingly like an urban school system, with rising poverty, large numbers of recent immigrants, and constant pressure from an assortment of special interest groups. While many school systems facing similar developments have experienced a drop in performance, Fairfax students continue to raise their achievement. Daniel L. Duke reveals the keys to Fairfax's remarkable track record.
| Author | : Wilhelmina F. Jashemski |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 656 |
| Release | : 2017-12-28 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1108327036 |
In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. This study, therefore, includes for the first time, archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence about ancient Roman gardens across the entire Roman Empire from Britain to Arabia. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various types of gardens are examined, from how Romans actually created their gardens to the experience of gardens as revealed in literature and art. Demonstrating the central role and value of gardens in Roman civilization, Jashemski and a distinguished, international team of contributors have created a landmark reference work that will serve as the foundation for future scholarship on this topic. An accompanying digital catalogue will be made available at: www.gardensoftheromanempire.org.
| Author | : Robert A. Beauregard |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2006-08-25 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 145290913X |
In the decades after World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world and a superpower whose dominance was symbolized by the American suburbs. Spurred by the decline of its industrial cities and by mass suburbanization, people imagined a new national identity—one that emphasized consumerism, social mobility, and a suburban lifestyle. The urbanity of the city was lost. In When America Became Suburban, Robert A. Beauregard examines this historic intersection of urban decline, mass suburbanization, domestic prosperity, and U.S. global aspirations as it unfolded from 1945 to the mid-1970s. Suburban expansion and the subsequent emergence of sprawling Sunbelt cities transformed every aspect of American society. Assessing the global implications of America’s suburban way of life as evidence of the superiority of capitalist democracy, Beauregard traces how the suburban ideology enabled America to distinguish itself from both the Communist bloc and Western Europe, thereby deepening its claim of exceptionalism on the world-historical stage. Placing the decline of America’s industrial cities and the rise of vast suburban housing and retail spaces into a cultural, political, and global context, Beauregard illuminates how these phenomena contributed to a changing notion of America’s identity at home and abroad. When America Became Suburban brings to light the profound implications of de-urbanization: from the siphoning of investments from the cities and the effect on the quality of life for those left behind to a profound shift in national identity. Robert A. Beauregard is a professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities and editor of Economic Restructuring and Political Response and Atop the Urban Hierarchy.
| Author | : Jeffry M. Diefendorf |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
| Author | : Marcus Kasabian De Storm |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 712 |
| Release | : 2015-10-14 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781517339210 |
From 1979 to 1990 the British government had acquired a truce with Russia on its strategic targeting of its I.C.B.M's, this spelling the end of "The Cold War" and so beginning the founding stones of the domino trail that would lead the way to a whole new decade ahead. But deep in the background of all these world events and political concessions there stands a more darker plan manifesting within the ranks of 'The Law Lords', better known between The Secret Societies as the infamous "Baker's Dozen"; 13 men who control the Nation's public people, while they, the Lords themselves succumb to those 'Four Houses' of great power: The MoD, Police, Civil Services and Justice. As one 'Secret Order' to the next lock horns in the battle for global supremacy, only one with hope of uniting them all and bring balance within The Orders' stands in their way.When Lord Terrence O'Neill dies through ill health, his son Master Xander O'Neill is put in line to become the next Lord of The House, though this is no normal House. At the young man of seventeen is not seen in the eyes of the Law as old enough to lead his own 'Order', he is challenged for power and title. As the Global Order's start to weaken, crack and fall through catastrophic events they bring upon themselves protecting him as others hunt to kill the Master, his journey is accompanied by friends and enemies alike; those who stay close assist him in many fetes and challenges, as those who are distant lay down their web of deceit, betrayal, loathing and lust for the chance to destroy the young man's soul - by destroying the Family O'Neill name.From Yorkshire to London, to Scotland and Amsterdam, Xander fends for himself while discovering that he is more valuable to "The Orders'" dead than alive. Knowing this his Aunt, Lady Melissa James-Cartwright assigns him the protection of CPS Officers who are previous employees of "The Agency", an intricate asset of The Home Office. And, as they each play their role in the Power Game; each being the descendant of a Noble, while each having their value and position defined by what they are: Ace of Clubs to The King of Diamonds - The House of Cards. Officially known as "The Jack of Diamonds", not only will Xander be taking his place at Cacciatori Svegliarsi Villa - "Hunter's Wake Manor" - but become a Lord, as well as becoming one step closer to the one true power in which to change the whole world "The Harpsen"; he who holds "The Harpsen" control's "The Four Corners".(c) 2015 MKDS All rights reserved
