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The Once And Future Budapest – Book Review, Harry Ritter
The Once And Future Budapest – Book Review, Harry Ritter
History Faculty and Staff Publications
Robert Nemes has written a concise and useful overview of the expansion, mod ernization, and ethnic transformation of Budapest in the classic era of nineteenth century nationalism and liberalism, from the French Revolutionary era to the eve of World War I. The author tells the story of the rise of a metropolis imagined as a "national" (i. e., Magyar) capital city, in place of the older, prenationalist and socially corporatist seventeenth- and eighteenth-century towns of Ofen (Buda), ?buda, and Pest, which were largely German Sprachinseln straddling the Danube on the Hungarian plain.
Review Of: Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods In Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, Kevin Allen Leonard
Review Of: Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods In Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, Kevin Allen Leonard
History Faculty and Staff Publications
A number of geographers and historians have observed that an unusually diverse mix of people populated many Los Angeles neighborhoods prior to World War II. Few scholars, however, have explored how the diversity of these neighborhoods affected the history of Los Angeles and the experiences of its residents. Mark Wild’s Street Meeting departs from earlier studies that have focused on a single ethnic group. Wild explores how African American, immigrant, and working-class Anglo residents negotiated the multiethnic environments in which they lived. He also explains how local elected officials and middle-class social reformers responded to the growing diversity of these …
Review Of: One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles To Separate Church And State, And The Founders On God And Government, Johann N. Neem
Review Of: One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles To Separate Church And State, And The Founders On God And Government, Johann N. Neem
History Faculty and Staff Publications
Mark D. McGarvie's One Nation Under Law is the most innovative recent study of church-state relations in the early republic. McGarvie argues that the separation of church and state resulted from the contract clause of the Constitution, not the First Amendment, and that the separation of church and state was the original intent of the Constitution's Framers. The Framers sought to reconstruct American society along liberal lines, replacing both colonial Christian communitarianism and classical republicanism with a radical new society.
Review Of: Popular Culture In The Age Of White Flight: Fear And Fantasy In Suburban Los Angeles, By Eric Avila, Kevin Allen Leonard
Review Of: Popular Culture In The Age Of White Flight: Fear And Fantasy In Suburban Los Angeles, By Eric Avila, Kevin Allen Leonard
History Faculty and Staff Publications
Eric Avila's ambitious and engaging Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight argues that a "new 'new mass culture'" emerged in the United States in the years following the Second World War. The "new mass culture" of the nineteenth century reflected the development of modern, industrial cities; this "new 'new mass culture"' mirrored the development of a new, post-industrial, suburban society. In this new culture, cities represented sites of decay and danger occupied by dark-skinned criminals. Suburbs, on the other hand, represented sites of order and safety inhabited by homogeneous groups of "white" people. As this new culture replaced …
Survival First: The Role Of Switzerland In The Second World War, Tommy Lingbloom
Survival First: The Role Of Switzerland In The Second World War, Tommy Lingbloom
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
The storied survival of Switzerland in the face of fascism during the Second World War has long been an inspiring topic to historians. But with the reemergence of issues surrounding Swiss banking and economic practices during the war, the question of how a nation with an overwhelming ethnic German population surrounded by the Axis Powers could maintain its independence has become highly contentious. Oftentimes the most simplistic of explanations are offered to explain this paradox, but these analyses are very one-sided and tend to overlook the broad scope of strategy employed by the Swiss to guarantee their continued autonomy. The …
The Chinese Government’S Role In Controlling The Yellow River During The 19th Century, Eri Higashi
The Chinese Government’S Role In Controlling The Yellow River During The 19th Century, Eri Higashi
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
A short while, not even a day, is all that is necessary to destroy hundreds of villages, kill thousands of people, and cause great suffering for millions of others. Little effort is required of any single person in accomplishing such a harrowing feat. This is because such unintentional damage is largely due to natural forces, specifically floods. One might get the impression from the introduction above that such drastic flooding occurs often. In fact, flooding is a prevalent occurrence throughout China’s history. To the extent described above, however, there have been more than a few. This is not to say …
Ethical Concerns For Archivists, Randall C. Jimerson
Ethical Concerns For Archivists, Randall C. Jimerson
History Faculty and Staff Publications
Archivists serve many constituencies and often find themselves mediating conflicting interests among records creators, donors, researchers, and their own institutions.
A 'Haven Of Benignity': Conflict And Cooperation Between Eighteenth-Century Savannah Jews, Mark I. Greenberg
A 'Haven Of Benignity': Conflict And Cooperation Between Eighteenth-Century Savannah Jews, Mark I. Greenberg
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
University Of South Florida: The First Fifty Years, 1956-2006, Mark I. Greenberg
University Of South Florida: The First Fifty Years, 1956-2006, Mark I. Greenberg
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
No abstract provided.