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Book Review: Company Men: White-Collar Life And Corporate Cultures In Los Angeles, 1892-1941, Lynn Dumenil
Book Review: Company Men: White-Collar Life And Corporate Cultures In Los Angeles, 1892-1941, Lynn Dumenil
Lynn Dumenil
No abstract provided.
Review: Richard Bosworth, The Italian Dictatorship, Marla Stone
Review: Richard Bosworth, The Italian Dictatorship, Marla Stone
Marla Stone
No abstract provided.
A Changing Bridge For Changing Times: The History Of The West Boston Bridge, 1793-1907, Dale H. Freeman
A Changing Bridge For Changing Times: The History Of The West Boston Bridge, 1793-1907, Dale H. Freeman
Dale H. Freeman
Master of Arts Thesis, June 2000: This thesis examines the construction in 1793 of the West Boston Bridge, the first bridge to span the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge, and its successors at the same location in 1854 and then 1907 (the Longfellow Bridge). It is a study of the impact of these bridges on the commercial development and urban settlement patterns of both Cambridge and Boston, and it sets the construction of each bridge in the historical context of the period in which each was built. The thesis utilizes a variety of primary sources drawn from the Cambridge …
Albert B. Cleage, Jr., Cynthia Taylor
Albert B. Cleage, Jr., Cynthia Taylor
Cynthia Taylor
Scotland, Michael Graham
Scotland, Michael Graham
Michael F. Graham
This beautifully illustrated book is the most ambitious one-volume survey of the Reformation yet. A timely and much-needed account, it looks at every aspect of the Reformation world and considers new historical research which has led to the expansion of the subject both thematically and geographically. The strength of The Reformation World is its breadth and originality, with material drawn from many different countries, including archival material only recently made available to scholars in central Europe.
"Nothing Done!”: The Poet In Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture, Jill Anderson
"Nothing Done!”: The Poet In Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture, Jill Anderson
Jill E. Anderson
In this dissertation, I argue that early nineteenth-century American poets’ and readers’ interpretations of Romanticism shaped their understanding of the role poetry and its producers could play in a developing national culture. By examining the public careers and private sentiments of four male poets — William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jones Very — I analyze how each reconciled poetic vocation with the moral and economic obligations associated with the attainment of manhood. I locate these poets and their critics within specific historical discourses of aesthetic reception and production, focusing on the tensions and overlaps between …
Chinese American Literature Since The 1850s, Xiao-Huang Yin
Chinese American Literature Since The 1850s, Xiao-Huang Yin
Xiao-huang Yin
Chinese American Literature since the 1850s traces the origins and development of the extensive and largely neglected body of literature written in English and in Chinese, assessing its themes and style and placing it in a broad social and historical context. This volume, shows how change and continuity in the Chinese American experience are reflected in the writings of immigrants from China and their descendants.
‘Los Angeles Is Not The City It Could Have Been:’ Cultural Representation, Traffic, And Urban Modernity In Jazz Age America., Jeremiah Axelrod
‘Los Angeles Is Not The City It Could Have Been:’ Cultural Representation, Traffic, And Urban Modernity In Jazz Age America., Jeremiah Axelrod
Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod
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James Reeb, Cynthia Taylor
James Reeb, Cynthia Taylor
Cynthia Taylor