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American Pacific
In 1784, the United States was scarcely more than a strip of seaports, inland towns, and farms along the Atlantic coast--and already the China trade had begun, as the Empress of China sailed into Canton. From this small beginning, an American empire in the Pacific grew until it engulfed Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines, and hundreds of small islands. With World War II, U.S. power advanced further, into China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia--where it was finally halted. Today American influence continues to ebb, as Japanese economic supremacy mounts and Manila forces the U.S. to dismantle its bases. In The American Pacific, Arthur Dudden provides a sweeping account of how the U.S. built (and lost) a vast empire in the ocean off our west coast. Opening with a fascinating account of the early China trade, Dudden provides a region-by-region history of the Pacific basin. What emerges is the story of how American commercial interests evolved into territorial ambitions, with the acquisitions of Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philippines, and finally into far-reaching efforts to project American power onto the shores of mainland Asia. Dudden's vivid narrative teems with the dynamic individuals who shaped events: William Seward, the Senator and Lincoln's Secretary of State who was driven by a vision of American dominion in the Pacific; Kamehameha I, the Hawaiian conqueror who tried to bring his kingdom into the modern world; William Howard Taft, who as the first governor-general of the Philippines built the institutions of American rule; Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of Japan'sattacks on Pearl Harbor and Midway Island; and of course General Douglas MacArthur, whose immensely influential career spanned supreme command of the pre-war Philippine army, the Allied occupation forces in Japan, and the U.N. forces in Korea. Dudden brings the story up to date, reviewing the war in Vietnam, the aftermath of Tiananmen Square, the triumph of the Pacific rim economies, and the tremendous impact of Asian immigration on American society. Since the days when Commodore Perry sailed his black ships to open feudal Japan, the histories of the American republic and the peoples of the Pacific have been closely intertwined. Dudden seamlessly blends developments in domestic politics, military campaigns, commercial trends, and international relations, providing the first comprehensive overview of this critically important region.
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Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States
Whether it's the Vatican addressing its role in the Second World War or the United States atoning for its treatment of native Hawai'ian islanders, apologizing for history has become a standard feature of the international political scene. As Alexis Dudden makes clear, interrogating this process is crucial to understanding the value of the political apology to the state. When governments apologize for past crimes, they take away the substance of apology that victims originally wanted for themselves. They rob victims of the dignity they seek while affording the state a new means with which to legitimize itself. Examining the interplay between political apology and apologetic history, Dudden focuses on the problematic relationship binding Japanese imperialism, South Korean state building, and American power in Asia. She examines this history through diplomatic, cultural, and social considerations in the postwar era and argues that the process of apology has created a knot from which none of these countries can escape without undoing decades of mythmaking.
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Women in the American Theatre
The first time a villain ever tied someone to the railroad tracks, in a nineteenth-century play entitled Under the Gaslight, it was a man who was tied down and a woman who cut him loose. In spite of the era's commonly held assumption that woman's place was in the home, the presence of actresses on stage and the roles that some of them played defied traditional stereotypes of submissive femininity. Around the same time, however, women in the theatre were being reduced to passive sex objects by the new "leg shows" flourishing on the New York stage. This book deals with theatre's two standing offers to women--transformation and objectification--during the period when the American entertainment industry was taking shape and the first women's rights movement emerged. Through a series of vivid biographical sketches of female performers and managers, Faye Dudden provides a provocative discussion of the conflicting messages conveyed by the early theatre about what it meant to be a woman.According to Dudden, theatre in the early republic was predominantly an aural experience and a marginal, fly-by-night operation, and women were able to find opportunities for successful careers as performers and managers. But after 1860, as the theatre was organized by entrepreneurs into a more systematic, profit-seeking enterprise, women's opportunities narrowed. They were increasingly excluded from management, and the commercial popularity of visual spectacles focused attention on their bodies rather than on their acting abilities. Dudden's lively study thus provides new insights into the relations among gender, popular culture, and American capitalism, showing how women became products in the entertainment marketplace even as they sought increased freedom in their everyday world.
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United States of America, Volume 2
The two-volume syllabus of American studies was prepared to help both students and teachers obtain a broader and deeper understanding of North American literature, language, arts, history, and social sciences. Identifying and directing attention to the most significant aspects of these fields and pointing out profitable lines for additional inquiry, it is written in terms broad enough to challenge anyone interested in life and culture in the United States, whether or not he is enrolled in a formal academic program.This second volume covers the history and social sciences of the United States. The outline leads the student into such areas as this country's natural resources, its birth as a nation, the westward movement, the Civil War, and the rise to world power. Business, government and politics, religion, technology, agriculture, education, the character and values of the American nation, and many other related topics are delineated.The syllabus is based directly on the books required for reading for the University of Pennsylvania examination for the Certificate in American Studies. But it does not attempt to parallel or condense the American Civilization curriculum of the University. Instead, the syllabus is intended to have broad usefulness and to serve both as a basic guide for formal instruction at foreign universities or other educational institutions and also as a guide to the reader engaged in individual study.Each section of the syllabus follows closely the arrangement of the required readings and is divided into five parts:Required Readings identifies the books from the reading lists that pertain to each topic.Major Topics provides an outline to show the important factors and subfactors of each topic that will aid the student to understand the topic and broaden his comprehension of the required readings.Discussion Problems presents problems of the kind that demand a sustained probing beneath their surface aspects, and thus require considerable effort before full understanding can be achieved.Study Exercises varies in form from one topic to another, because it is designed to fit the contents of each topic and to stimulate understanding and expression.Additional Readings supplements the lists of required books to show sources for additional information.The syllabus does not in any way take the place of the books themselves. But it does provide a topical organization that will guide and stimulate inquiry, arouse curiosity, and point out important interrelationships. It will be a good companion for anyone engaged in the absorbing study of American civilization.
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Fighting Chance
The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment because it granted the vote to black men but not to women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this?Based on extensive research, Fighting Chance is a major contribution to women's history and to 19th-century political history—a story of how idealists descended to racist betrayal and desperate failure.
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American Humor
The paramount question answered in this absorbing collection of essays is: What's so funny about American humor, and why? What are American humor's characteristics? How have they evolved and displayed themselves? Which characteristics are distinctively, or even uniquely, American? Originally appearing as an issue of the American Quarterly, these essays take a close look at American humor from revolutionary times to the present day, and particularly focus on the neglected trends of the past fifty years. Looking at American comic figures as diverse--and even surprising--as Mark Twain and Richard Nixon, at various vehicles for American humor such as comic strips, radio and television, movies, and standup comedians, and at different genres of humor including political, ethnic, and feminist humor, this book brings a lively new perspective to the study of American culture.
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American Humor
Although American humour has asserted itself from the first century of the nation's independence, often finding new forms through the genius of many of the practitioners, it has received little serious attention from critics or historians. Here, nine eminent essayists examine American humour from revolutionary times to the present day, focusing in particular on the neglected trends of the past fifty years.
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Woodrow Wilson and the World of Today
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Anne Duden: A Revolution of Words
Anne Duden’s reputation as one of the most innovative writers of her generation, established in 1982 with the experimental stories in Übergang, was confirmed in 1985 by Das Judasschaf, a novel interweaving an individual’s anguish with the cultural trauma of the German past. In her acclaimed poem cycles Steinschlag (1993) and Hingegend (1999) Duden pushes the limits of language in densely metaphoric evocations of landscapes and places of political and personal remembrance, mixing lament for ruined nature with grotesque comedy, mystic vision with horror. Duden is a distinguished practitioner of short forms. Her essays display the same intense engagement with the visual arts as informs her narrative texts. Her deep interest in music is echoed in the musicality of short prose poems.This volume presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of approaches to Duden's fiction, poetry and essays by international scholars. Topics include: the ethics and aesthetics of Duden’s engagement with German history; her constructions of female subjectivity; her criticism of western dualistic thinking with its devaluation of the body and exploitation of nature; her position within a modernist tradition with roots in the Romantic Age; the visual arts and poetic influences such as Hölderlin and Celan; the dilemmas of translating Duden’s highly individual style. Three essays on Steinschlag constitute the first systematic reading of this difficult, much praised cycle.
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Schüler Duden
Vielfach gibt der Geschichtsunterricht in der Schule heute nur in einem sogenannten "ersten Durchgang durch die Geschichte" in der Unter- und Mittelstufe einen Uberblick tiber die gesamte historische Entwick- lung von den Anflingen bis in die Gegenwart; danach steht nicht mehr die Vermittlung eines chronologischen Abrisses im Vordergrund, sondern die Einsicht in bestimmte historische Phanomene und Problemfelder. Diese Konzeption hat ihre Berechtigung, setzt aber andererseits eine genaue Kenntnis der historischen Gesamtentwicklung voraus sowie die Fahigkeit, bestimmte Begriffe und Sachverhalte einordnen zu konnen. Der vorliegende Schiilerduden "Die Geschichte" will nun Schiilern, Stu- denten und historisch interessierten Laien ein Nachschlagewerk an die Hand geben, das Wissenslticken schlieBt und schnell und zuverlassig tiber historische Ereignisse und historische FachbegritTe informiert.Bei der Stichwortauswahl und der Bearbeitung der einzelnen Artikel haben die Mitarbeiter, meist jtingere Fachkollegen aus Schule, Hochschule, Archiv, Museum und Erwachsenenbildung, neue Forschungsergebnisse einbezogen und neben der politischen Geschichte auch sHirker sozial- und wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Entwicklungen dargestellt. Dabei wurde vor aHem Wert auf die Einbindung von Einzelereignissen in einen groBe- ren Zusammenhang gelegt. Der Band verfugt tiber ein Personenregister mit Lebensdaten und Angaben zu den einzelnen im Text genannten Personen sowie tiber ein umfangreiches Sachregister, aus dem weitere Stichworte erschlossen werden konnen. Diese Unterstichworter sind im Text kursiv gesetzt. Besitzt ein Stichwort mehrere Bedeutungen, so ist dies durch ein * ge- kennzeichnet. Verweise sind durch einen Pfeil (t) kenntlich gemacht.
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Schülerduden Bedeutungswörterbuch
Die Dudenredaktion hat sich mit diesem Bedeutungsworterbuch die Aufgabe gestellt, ein handliches und in sich geschlossenes Nachschlage- werk fUr SchUler zu schaffen. Es ging darum, die Worter des deutschen Grundwortschatzes (etwa 14000) in ihren Bedeutungen und in ihren Verwendungsweisen darzu- stellen und dabei nach Moglichkeit kein Wort zu verwenden, das in diesem Buche nicht selbst erklart ist. Dariiber hinaus haben wir uns bemiiht, die Bedeutungen so einfach darzustellen, wie es der Gegenstand erlaubt, und die Anwendungsbei- spiele so sprechend wie moglich zu machen. Das Buch soIl allen Schiilern ein Hilfsmittel sein, die Ausdruck und Stil verbessern wollen. DIE DUDENREDAKTION Die Behandlung der Stichworter 1. Aligemeines a) Die Stichworter und die festen Wendungen sind halbfett, die Be- deutungsangaben kUTSiv gedruckt. Grammatische Angaben stehen in spitzen Klammern : 9chtgeben, gibt acht, gab acht, hat achtgegeben (itr.>: aufpassen, achten: auf die Kinder, auf die Koffer gut a. b) ein Stichwort mit verschiedenon Bedeutungen ist je nach dem Grad der Zusammengehorigkeit der einzelnen Bedeutungen durch arabische Ziffern (1.) oder durch kleine Buchstaben a) untergliedert: 9nSpringen, sprang an, hat/ist angesprungen: 1.(itr.> in Ganu kommen: der Motor ist nicht gleich angesprungen. 2. (in der Fiigung> angesprungen kommen: sich springend nahern, herbeieilen: als die Mutter rief, kamen die Kinder aile angesprun- gen. 3. (tr. > a) (an jmdm.) hochspringen: der Bund hat ihn vor Freude angesprungen. b) sichmiteinem Sprung (auf jmdn./etwas) stiirzen; (jmdn.) anfallen: der Tiger hat den Dompteur angesprungen.
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Dudo of St Quentin: History of the Normans
First English translation of key chronicle for study of the rise of the Normans.This is the first English translation of a powerful work of semi-imaginary history which gave the Normans a past, present, and future at the outset of their triumphant century. Completed in or soon after 1015 by a visiting Frenchscholar, it is a study in verse and prose of one family's rise from defeat and exile in the world of the heathen Vikings to an honoured place among the great territorial rulers of France. It recounts two campaigns in England by the founder, Rollo, and a series of stirring political, military and religious events on the Continent, most notably the dreadful murder of Rollo's son William, and the kidnapping, escape and precarious early career of Dudo's firstpatron, Count Richard I. The author's exuberant imagination is matched by his language, so presenting the unwary reader with difficulties, which ERIC CHRISTIANSEN notes and discusses throughout, defining and explaining themany poetic metres and prose embellishments used, and identifying the sources of numerous borrowings; he also re-examines and collates the manuscripts and printed versions of the text, and considers the most recent scholarship inthe field. The late ERIC CHRISTIANSEN was Fellow of New College and University Lecturer at Oxford.
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Pete And Dud: Come Again
The story behind the great comedy double-act The tale of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, one of Britain's finest comedy double-acts, is told looking back from Moore's perspective.Following his Oscar nomination for Arthur, Moore returns home to appear on a primetime chat show. Through flashbacks and sketches the tale of the volatile comedy team is told, beginning at the beginning with Beyond The Fringe.Pete And Dud: Come Again was originally staged at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival, where it was nominated for a Fringe First. This publication coincides with the new two-act version being staged at the Venue, London, from March 2006.'An engrossing tragicomedy about the price of talent and the true cost of laughter' Guardian Guide'The two men are drawn superbly ...But it is the lack of spite, the absence of revisionist vinegar that makes this show so commendable ...An amusing, touching evening.' Daily Mail'A riveting reminder of the humour of Cook and Moore ...A irresistibly funny show full of cracking one-liners' London Theatre Guide
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Remembering Dud Dean
A fictional Maine guide who won many friends and admirers through the pages of Field & Stream magazine in the 1920s and '30s, Dud Dean is very much a product of his creator. Arthur Macdougall was an avid outdoorsman and a minister in Bingham, Maine, a tiny town perched on the reaches of the mighty Kennebec River. The tales in this book were compiled by Macdougall's son, Walter.
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Dud Avocado
'One of the best novels about growing up fast' GUARDIAN 'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' OBSERVER'Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true' EVENING STANDARDThe Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young and she's in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational programme that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realises he's single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted "citizens of the world"; an entanglement with a charming psychopath and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador. But an education like this doesn't come cheap. Will our heroine be forced back to the States to fulfill her destiny as a librarian, or can she keep up her whirlwind Parisian existence?Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
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