Author: Alice O’Connor
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: century, social, twentieth, history, society, america, politics, poor, knowledge, science, policy, poverty
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2002-08-12
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0691102554
ISBN-13: 9780691102559
Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. Poverty Knowledge gives the first comprehensive historical account of the thinking behind these very different views of "the poverty problem," in a century-spanning inquiry into the politics, institutions, ideologies, and social science that shaped poverty research and policy. Alice O’Connor chronicles a transformation in the stu
Author: Meg Jacobs
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: america, century, politics, twentieth, society, citizenship, economic, pocketbook
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-11-22
List price: $61.00
ISBN-10: 0691086648
ISBN-13: 9780691086644
"How much does it cost?" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation’s shoppers, not its statesmen. But, as Pocketbook Politics dramatically shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that very consumer concern. In this groundbreaking study, Meg Jacobs demonstrates how pocketbook politics provided the engine for American political conflict throughout the twentieth century. From Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon, national politics turned on public anger over the high cost of living. Beginning with the explosion of p
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: reader, century, twentieth, art
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-02-10
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0300101449
ISBN-13: 9780300101447
This reader, a companion to The Open University’s four-volume Art of the Twentieth Century series, offers a variety of writings by art historians and art theorists. The writings were originally published as freestanding essays or chapters in books, and they reflect the diversity of art historical interpretations and theoretical approaches to twentieth-century art. Accessible to the general reader, this book may be read independently or to supplement the materials explored in the four course texts. The volume includes a general introduction as well as a brief introduction to each piece, o
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: century, twentieth, art, modernism, varieties
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2004-07-11
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0300102968
ISBN-13: 9780300102963
This book, the third in the Art of the Twentieth Century series, considers works of art produced in Europe and the United States between the 1930s and the 1960s.Arranged in four main parts, this abundantly illustrated book begins by examining aspects of the European avant-garde from the 1930s to the aftermath of the Second World War. The second part focuses on the emergence of Abstract Expressionism in the U.S., in particular the work of Jackson Pollock and important critics. Part three looks at autonomous high modernism of the early to mid-1960s and the contemporary, related modernist theor
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Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: century, twentieth, disasters, economic
Number of Pages: 361
Published: 2007-05-07
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 184064589X
ISBN-13: 9781840645897
’Here is a book to warm the cockles of George Santayana’s heart. Can policy makers and, especially, economists learn from their mistakes? If they can, then they should start by reading Oliver and Aldcroft’s gripping collection of the great economic policy mistakes of the twentieth century.’- Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley, USHow do we define an economic disaster? A difficult question. Most centuries would claim that they have had their share of disasters, but the twentieth century certainly seems to have been more prone to them tha
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Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Keywords: century, twentieth, depressions
Number of Pages: 475
Published: 2007-07-02
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0978936000
ISBN-13: 9780978936006
The worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s was a watershed for both economic thought and economic policymaking. It led to the belief that market economies are inherently unstable and to the revolutionary work of John Maynard Keynes. Its impact on popular economic wisdom is still apparent today. Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century, which uses a common framework to study sixteen depressions from the interwar period in Europe and America, as well as from more recent times in Japan and Latin America, challenges the Keynesian theory of depressions. It develops and uses a methodology for stu
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: century, twentieth, history, oxford
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-10-12
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 0192803786
ISBN-13: 9780192803788
In 1900 Queen Victoria still ruled over the British Empire, the imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over Russia. The cinema was in its infancy, with radio and television still to be developed. The earliest cars were on the road, but air travel was yet to come. Before antibiotics and effective vaccines against many common diseases, death rates were high. Over the course of the twentieth century, the human population of the world tripled, space travel left the realms of science fiction and became reality, two cataclysmic world wars and a host of other conflicts were fought,
