Culture of Clearance
Author | : Francesca Russello Ammon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Francesca Russello Ammon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Francesca Russello Ammon |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300220545 |
Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, an ambitious system of interstate highways, and extensive urban renewal development, wrecking companies demolished buildings while earthmoving contractors leveled land at an unprecedented pace and scale. In this pioneering history, Francesca Russello Ammon explores how postwar America came to equate this destruction with progress. The bulldozer functioned as both the means and the metaphor for this work. As the machine transformed from a wartime weapon into an instrument of postwar planning, it helped realize a landscape-altering “culture of clearance.” In the hands of the military, planners, politicians, engineers, construction workers, and even children’s book authors, the bulldozer became an American icon. Yet social and environmental injustices emerged as clearance projects continued unabated. This awareness spurred environmental, preservationist, and citizen participation efforts that have helped to slow, though not entirely stop, the momentum of the postwar bulldozer.
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Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780634058332 |
(Book). Step behind the wheels of steel and into the world of professional DJs. The World of DJs and the Turntable Culture is the only book that clearly and thoroughly teaches the tools, technologies and techniques of contemporary DJing. It also goes further, exploring the culture, history and aesthetics of hip-hop, dance music and turntablism. Souvignier traces the turntable's evolution from consumer playback device into a professional musical instrument, right up to the latest CD scratching decks. He also traces the evolution of the DJ from selector and record announcer to producer/performer. This book features exclusive interviews with GrandWizzard Theodore (the inventor of scratching) and other superstars including DJ QBert, Rob Swift (X-ecutioners), Armand Van Helden and mash-up maven The Freelance Hellraiser. The wide ranging topics covered include a mechanical history of turntables and a DJ technology roundup; Alan Freed, Dick Clark and payola; John Cage's Cartridge Music; Grandmaster Flash; Jamaican sound systems; the rise and fall of disco; house, techno and garage music; a dictionary of scratches; and developing DJ skills. The World of DJs and the Turntable Culture includes hands-on chapters that explain the basic tools DJs use, teaches the fundamental techniques, and explores the creative possibilities for DJs. There is a special focus on state-of-the-art gear, spotlighting the most exciting, cutting-edge features.
Author | : Chris J. Dalglish |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2006-04-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0306479400 |
My interest in the archaeology of the Scottish Highlands began long before I had any formal training in the subject. Growing up on the eastern fringes of the southern Highlands, close to Loch Lomond, it was not hard stumble across ruined buildings, old field boundaries, and other traces of everyday life in the past. This is especially true if you spend much time, as I have done, climbing the nearby mountains and walking and driving through the various glens that give access into the Highlands. At the time, I had no real understanding of these remains, simply accepting them as being built and old. After studying archaeology for a few years at the University of Glasgow, itself only a short commute from the area where I grew up, I became acutely aware that I still had no real understanding of these - miliar, yet enigmatic, buildings and fields. This and a growing interest in Scotland’s historical archaeology drove me to take several courses on the subject of rural settlement studies. These courses allowed me to place what I now knew to be houses, barns, mills, shieling (transhumance) settlements, rig-and-furrow cultivation, and other related remains in history. Overwhelmingly, they seemed to date from the period of the last 300 years. I also began to understand how they all worked together as component parts of daily rural life in the past.
Author | : Todd S. Ing |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 1008 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9814289752 |
This book describes the past, present and future of dialysis and dialysis-related renal replacement therapies so that the reader can acquire a firm grasp of the medical management of acute and chronic renal failure. By becoming thoroughly conversant with the past and present of dialysis, a health care professional will be in a much better position to provide the best standard of care to patients suffering from renal failure. As the book highlights the unsolved operational obstacles in the field of renal replacement therapies, future innovators may be inspired to develop novel solutions to tackle these problems. This remarkable work is a must-read not just for health care providers in the dialysis industry, but for patients, dialysis equipment manufacturers as well as pharmaceutical companies.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Arts and society |
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Author | : Abigail Brooks |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2005-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9047417089 |
This volume brings together theoretical meditations and empirical studies of the intersection of culture, power and history in social life. Contributors bring a diversity of critical sociological perspectives and subject matters to this important edited book.
Author | : United States. National Park Service. Cultural Resources Management Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Cultural property |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Polynesian Society (N.Z.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1024 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Polynesia |
ISBN | : |
Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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