1.510 resultater (0,40744 sekunder)

Vis alle filtre

Mærke

Vis alle

Butik

Pris (EUR)

Nulstil filter

Produkter
Fra
Butikker

Cold War Mandarin - Seth Jacobs - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Cold War Mandarin - Seth Jacobs - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the U.S. financed his tyranny. In this new book, Seth Jacobs traces the history of American support for Diem from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese soldiers on the outskirts of Saigon in 1963. Drawing on recent scholarship and newly available primary sources, Cold War Mandarin explores how Diem became America''s bastion against a communist South Vietnam, and why the Kennedy and Eisenhower administrations kept his regime afloat. Finally, Jacobs examines the brilliantly organized public-relations campaign by Saigon''s Buddhists that persuaded Washington to collude in the overthrow—and assassination—of its longtime ally. In this clear and succinct analysis, Jacobs details the "Diem experiment," and makes it clear how America''s policy of "sink or swim with Ngo Dinh Diem" ultimately drew the country into the longest war in its history.

DKK 927.00
1

Defining the Renaissance 'Virtuosa' - Fredrika H. Jacobs - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Defining the Renaissance 'Virtuosa' - Fredrika H. Jacobs - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Defining the Renaissance "Virtuosa" considers the language of art in relationship to the issues of gender difference through an examination of art criticism written between 1550 and 1800 on approximately forty women artists who were active in Renaissance Italy. Fredrika Jacobs demonstrates how these theoretical writings defined women artists, by linking artistic creation and biological procreation. Jacobs'' study shows how deeply the biases of these early critics have inflected both subsequent reception of these Renaissance virtuose, as well as modern scholarship.

DKK 1004.00
1

The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots - John Swanson Jacobs - Bog - The University of Chicago Press - Plusbog.dk

The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots - John Swanson Jacobs - Bog - The University of Chicago Press - Plusbog.dk

Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This comprehensive edition includes Jacobs's narrative in full alongside a full-length biography. For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost narrative, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, is a startling and revolutionary discovery. A document like this—written by an ex-slave and ex-American, in language charged with all that can be said about America outside America, untampered with and unedited by white abolitionists—has never been seen before. A radical abolitionist, sailor, and miner, John Jacobs has a life story that is as global as it is American. Born into slavery, by 1855, he had fled both the South and the United States altogether, becoming a stateless citizen of the world and its waters. That year, he published his life story in an Australian newspaper, far from American power and its threats. Unsentimental and unapologetic, Jacobs radically denounced slavery and the state, calling out politicians and slaveowners by their names, critiquing America’s founding documents, and indicting all citizens who maintained the racist and intolerable status quo. Reproduced in full, this narrative—which entwines with that of his sister and with the life of their friend Frederick Douglass—here opens new horizons for how we understand slavery, race, and migration, and all that they entailed in nineteenth-century America and the world at large. The second half of the book contains a full-length, nine-generation biography of Jacobs and his family by literary historian Jonathan Schroeder. This new guide to the world of John Jacobs will transform our sense of it—and of the forces and prejudices built into the American project. To truly reckon with the lives of John Jacobs is to see with new clarity that in 1776, America embarked on two experiments at once: one in democracy, the other in tyranny.

DKK 980.00
1

Screwing the System and Making it Work - Mark D. Jacobs - Bog - The University of Chicago Press - Plusbog.dk

Screwing the System and Making it Work - Mark D. Jacobs - Bog - The University of Chicago Press - Plusbog.dk

Who is responsible for juvenile delinquency? Mark D. Jacobs uses ethnographic, statistical, and literary methods to uncover the many levels of disorganization in American juvenile justice. By analyzing the continuities betwen normal casework and exceptional cases, he reveals that probation officers must commonly contrive informal measures to circumvent a system which routinely obstructs the delivery of services to their clients. Jacobs defines the concept of the "no-fault society" to describe the larger context of societal disorder and interpersonal manipulation that the juvenile justice system at once reflects and exacerbates.

DKK 951.00
1

America's Miracle Man in Vietnam - Seth Jacobs - Bog - Duke University Press - Plusbog.dk

America's Miracle Man in Vietnam - Seth Jacobs - Bog - Duke University Press - Plusbog.dk

America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar era: America’s commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem experiment is usually ascribed to U.S. anticommunism and an absence of other candidates for South Vietnam’s highest office. Challenging those explanations, Seth Jacobs utilizes religion and race as categories of analysis to argue that the alliance with Diem cannot be understood apart from America’s mid-century religious revival and policymakers’ perceptions of Asians. Jacobs contends that Diem’s Catholicism and the extent to which he violated American notions of “Oriental” passivity and moral laxity made him a more attractive ally to Washington than many non-Christian South Vietnamese with greater administrative experience and popular support. A diplomatic and cultural history, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam draws on government archives, presidential libraries, private papers, novels, newspapers, magazines, movies, and television and radio broadcasts. Jacobs shows in detail how, in the 1950s, U.S. policymakers conceived of Cold War anticommunism as a crusade in which Americans needed to combine with fellow Judeo-Christians against an adversary dangerous as much for its atheism as for its military might. He describes how racist assumptions that Asians were culturally unready for democratic self-government predisposed Americans to excuse Diem’s dictatorship as necessary in “the Orient.” By focusing attention on the role of American religious and racial ideologies, Jacobs makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the disastrous commitment of the United States to “sink or swim with Ngo Dinh Diem.”

DKK 850.00
1

The Eye's Mind - Karen Jacobs - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Eye's Mind - Karen Jacobs - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Eye''s Mind significantly alters our understanding of modernist literature by showing how changing visual discourses, techniques, and technologies affected the novels of that period. In readings that bring philosophies of vision into dialogue with photography and film as well as the methods of observation used by the social sciences, Karen Jacobs identifies distinctly modernist kinds of observers and visual relationships. This important reconception of modernism draws upon American, British, and French literary and extra-literary materials from the period 1900-1955. These texts share a sense of crisis about vision''s capacity for violence and its inability to deliver reliable knowledge. Jacobs looks closely at the ways in which historical understandings of race and gender inflected visual relations in the modernist novel. She shows how modernist writers, increasingly aware of the body behind the neutral lens of the observer, used diverse strategies to displace embodiment onto those "others" historically perceived as cultural bodies in order to reimagine for themselves or their characters a "purified" gaze. The Eye''s Mind addresses works by such high modernists as Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, and (more distantly) Ralph Ellison and Maurice Blanchot, as well as those by Henry James, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nathanael West which have been tentatively placed in the modernist canon although they forgo the full-blown experimental techniques often seen as synonymous with literary modernism. Jacobs reframes fundamental debates about modernist aesthetic practices by demonstrating how much those practices are indebted to the changing visual cultures of the twentieth century.

DKK 959.00
1

The Lives of a Roman Neighborhood - Paul Jacobs - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Lives of a Roman Neighborhood - Paul Jacobs - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this book, Paul Jacobs traces the history of a neighborhood situated in the heart of Rome over twenty-five centuries. Here, he considers how topography and location influenced its long urban development. During antiquity, the forty-plus acre, flood-prone site on the Tiber''s edge was transformed from a meadow near a crossroads into the imperial Circus Flaminius, with its temples, colonnades, and a massive theater. Later, it evolved into a bustling medieval and early modern residential and commercial district known as the Sant''Angelo rione. Subsequently, the neighborhood enclosed Rome''s Ghetto. Today, it features an archaeological park and tourist venues, and it is still the heart of Rome''s Jewish community. Jacobs'' study explores the impact of physical alterations on the memory of lost topographical features. He also posits how earlier development may be imprinted upon the landscape, or preserved to influence future changes.

DKK 773.00
1

The Dynamics of Local Housing Policy - Keith Jacobs - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Dynamics of Local Housing Policy - Keith Jacobs - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

First published in 1999, this study features Keith Jacobs examining housing practice through a detailed analysis of processes that surround a large-scale housing regeneration initiative in the London Borough of Hackney. It forms part of a series incorporating a wide range of approaches to urban and regional studies, with an emphasis on original research linking theory and practice. The series is of interest to those working in planning, geography, economics, sociology, public administration and political science.

DKK 993.00
1

Fed Power - Lawrence Jacobs - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Fed Power - Lawrence Jacobs - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

An eye-opening analysis of the Federal Reserve''s massive and unwarranted power in American life and how it favors the financial sector over everyone else.The Federal Reserve, created more than a century ago, is the most powerful central bank in the world. The Fed''s power, which derives from its ability to alter the money supply and move interest rates, weighs heavily not only on the US economy, but on the world economy as well. Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King''s Fed Power is the first sustained synthesis of the Fed''s political role--especially the way in which it uses its power to benefit some interest groups and not others--since the 2008 financial crisis. In this fully updated and revised second edition, Fed Power addresses new developments during Trump''s presidency--particularly the Fed''s massive and unprecedented injection of liquidity into the US economy following the COVID epidemic-and offers fresh insights on the Fed''s outsized role in picking winners and losers in the American economy. King and Jacobs conclude with bold proposals to reform America''s financial management to prevent future crises and to restore democratic accountability. A powerful critique of how the Federal Reserve governs the American economy, Fed Power will be essential reading for anyone interested in the role that the Fed''s policies have played in increasing economic and racial inequality across both the Obama and Trump presidencies and the new directions pursued by the Biden administration and progressive activists.

DKK 922.00
1