The Exurbanites
Author : Auguste C. Spectorsky
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Country life
ISBN :
Author : Auguste C. Spectorsky
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Country life
ISBN :
Author : Auguste C. Spectorsky
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Country life
ISBN :
Author : Jane Schneider
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 1995-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520085824
Explores the full range of Eric R. Wolf's methods and concepts and pays tribute to his work in anthropology and history.
Author : James Gilbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 2005-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226293246
While the 1950s have been popularly portrayed-on television and in the movies and literature-as a conformist and conservative age, the decade is better understood as a revolutionary time for politics, economy, mass media, and family life. Magazines, films, newspapers, and television of the day scrutinized every aspect of this changing society, paying special attention to the lifestyles of the middle-class men and their families who were moving to the suburbs newly springing up outside American cities. Much of this attention focused on issues of masculinity, both to enforce accepted ideas and to understand serious departures from the norm. Neither a period of "male crisis" nor yet a time of free experimentation, the decade was marked by contradiction and a wide spectrum of role models. This was, in short, the age of Tennessee Williams as well as John Wayne. In Men in the Middle, James Gilbert uncovers a fascinating and extensive body of literature that confronts the problems and possibilities of expressing masculinity in the 1950s. Drawing on the biographies of men who explored manhood either in their writings or in their public personas, Gilbert examines the stories of several of the most important figures of the day-revivalist Billy Graham, playwright Tennessee Williams, sociologist David Riesman, sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, Playboy literary editor Auguste Comte Spectorsky, and TV-sitcom dad Ozzie Nelson-and allows us to see beyond the inherited stereotypes of the time. Each of these stories, in Gilbert's hands, adds crucial dimensions to our understanding of masculinity the 1950s. No longer will this era be seen solely in terms of the conformist man in the gray flannel suit or the Marlboro Man.
Author : Kenneth B. Beesley
Publisher : Rural Development Institute
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Land use, Rural
ISBN : 1895397820
Author : Jan E. Dizard
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 1999-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0814718795
Firearms have long been at the core of US national narratives. From the Puritans' embrace of such weapons to beat back the "devilish Indian" to a guilty delight in the illegal exploits of Dirty Harry, Americans have relied on the gun to right wrongs, both real and imagined.
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Timothy P. Duane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520212466
Timothy P. Duane documents the impact of rapid population growth on the culture, economy, and ecology of the Sierra Nevada since the late 1960s. He also recommends innovative policies for mitigating the negative effects of future population growth in this spectacular but threatened region, as well as throughout the rural West.
Author : Briton Hadden
Publisher :
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Current events
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Author : Michael Buxton
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 148630897X
Peri-urban landscapes are some of the world’s most vulnerable areas. Although they are often thought of simply as land awaiting development, these landscapes retain important natural resources and make valuable contributions to agriculture, water use, biodiversity conservation, landscape preservation and human well-being. Billions of people use them and enjoy their natural values. Their continuing loss threatens to alter our relationships with nature and have a negative impact on the environment. The Future of the Fringe first explores the history of peri-urban areas, international peri-urban policy and practice, and related concepts. It analyses internationally relevant issues such as green belts and urban growth boundaries, regional policy, land supply and price, and the concepts of liveability, attractiveness, well-being and rural amenity. It then examines a range of Australian peri-urban issues, as an extended case study. The book argues for a precautionary approach so that we retain the greatest number of options to adapt during rapid and unprecedented change.