america, inc. who owns and operates the united states
Author : Jerry S. Cohen
Publisher : IICA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Big business
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Author : Jerry S. Cohen
Publisher : IICA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Big business
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Author : Morton Mintz
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Morton Mintz
Publisher :
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Linda Weiss
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 2014-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801471125
For more than half a century, the United States has led the world in developing major technologies that drive the modern economy and underpin its prosperity. Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, programs, and hybrid arrangements that has developed around the institution of permanent defense preparedness and the pursuit of technological supremacy. In America Inc.? she examines how that complex emerged and how it has evolved in response to changing geopolitical threats and domestic political constraints, from the Cold War period to the post-9/11 era. Weiss focuses on state-funded venture capital funds, new forms of technology procurement by defense and security-related agencies, and innovation in robotics, nanotechnology, and renewable energy since the 1980s. Weiss argues that the national security state has been the crucible for breakthrough innovations, a catalyst for entrepreneurship and the formation of new firms, and a collaborative network coordinator for private-sector initiatives. Her book appraises persistent myths about the military-commercial relationship at the core of the National Security State. Weiss also discusses the implications for understanding U.S. capitalism, the American state, and the future of American primacy as financialized corporations curtail investment in manufacturing and innovation.
Author : Morton Mintz
Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
Page : pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 1973-02
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ISBN : 9780440504320
Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 006207962X
“Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging.” —Tom Brokaw Simon Winchester, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A. from its beginnings. How did America become “one nation, indivisible”? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators, such as Lewis and Clark and the leaders of the Great Surveys; the builders of the first transcontinental telegraph and the powerful civil engineer behind the Interstate Highway System. He treks vast swaths of territory, from Pittsburgh to Portland, Rochester to San Francisco, Seattle to Anchorage, introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today’s United States. Throughout, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree. Featuring 32 illustrations throughout the text, The Men Who United the States is a fresh look at the way in which the most powerful nation on earth came together.
Author : Andro Linklater
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0452284597
In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.
Author : Doug Mack
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0393247619
“To truly understand the United States, one must understand The Not-Quite States of America.” —Mark Stein, best-selling author of How the States Got Their Shapes Everyone knows that America is 50 states and… some other stuff. The U.S. territories—American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—and their 4 million people are little known and often forgotten, so Doug Mack set out on a 30,000-mile journey to learn about them. How did they come to be part of the United States? What are they like today? And why aren’t they states? Deeply researched and richly reported, The Not-Quite States of America is an entertaining and unprecedented account of the territories’ crucial yet overlooked place in the American story.
Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher :
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 24,10 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Telecommunication
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Pacific Coast
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