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Orderly Bodies: Dancing London, 1900–1914
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Daniel J. Walkowitz
Published: 26 April 2010
... in 1905. However, Neal's and Sharp's differences had a bearing on the history of the dance movement, most especially in the style and spirit of the dance. In both cases, Sharp would eventually proceed as the dance patriarch. Anglo American identity Burchenal Elizabeth Callery Mrs James Dawson class...
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Thick Histories: Producing Community through Historical Narratives
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Mieka Brand Polanco
Published: 04 July 2014
...This chapter discusses “community” as it is produced and experienced by Union's descendant residents. It considers some of the histories these residents narrate in formal interview settings, alongside those that are shared during informal conversations. In informal settings, residents narrate...
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“Not to Scale” Cartographic Productions of Community
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Mieka Brand Polanco
Published: 04 July 2014
...This chapter explores the expressions and productions of “community” among Union's delegitimized historians. Analyzing a map hand drawn by Ernest Green, an 85-year old resident of the town, it considers how history, space, and race come together to form a sense of community that is unique to those...
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Conclusion: Unfolding Communities: Union Road as a “Uniter of People”?
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Mieka Brand Polanco
Published: 04 July 2014
...This concluding chapter presents a broad perspective of community as a concept in which history, space, and race are constantly “becoming” and where competing meanings are intertwined with and influenced by one another. It emphasizes community as a multilayered and complex experience. In Union...
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From City of Hills to City of Vision: The History of Yonkers, New York
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Jennifer Nugent Duffy
Published: 02 December 2013
... racial inequality. To this end, this chapter narrates several episodes of economic pursuit that shaped the city’s history: unfettered industrial growth in the nineteenth century and the concomitant loss of manufacturing in the decades after World War II, federal and local housing policy, as well...
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The Neighborhoods
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Silvia Domínguez
Published: 20 December 2010
... neighborhood that has integrated various waves of immigrants. The histories of the two neighborhoods are linked to the broader history of Boston. Both neighborhoods sit within a few miles of downtown Boston but are separated from it, bordering the Atlantic Ocean and barricaded by several lanes of federal...
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Introduction: Before Korn: A Century of Jewish Historical Writing about the American Civil War
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Adam Mendelsohn
Published: 28 May 2010
... American Jewish history became an academic field and on how amateur historians developed a consensual understanding of the meaning and importance of the Civil War for Jews. These Jewish historical writings include Isaac Markens's The Hebrews in America (1888) and Simon Wolf's...
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Published: 11 July 2017
...Path-breaking scholarship in women’s history has provided invaluable insight into the contributions of these seven women. Literature scholars have analyzed the theme of sympathy and its derivative, sentimentality, in their speeches and writings. Scholars of rhetoric and communications studies have...
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Constitutional Conservatism and American Conservatism
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Johnathan O’Neill
Published: 17 May 2016
... not with its trajectory since the dawn of Progressivism and the victory of the New Deal. Additionally, conservatives continue routinely to disagree about the meaning of American principles and history, and heatedly to debate issues such as abortion, foreign affairs, and the proper extent of economic regulation...
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Published: 02 February 2010
... not implicate Americans in anything that might deserve blame. Its basic argument is that American history is riddled with patterns of religious violence. Americans are, by all accounts and especially their own, “the most religious people on the planet.”Yet America is brutally violent, as evidenced by its...
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Published: 02 February 2010
...This chapter traces the way in which religious violence has emerged in relationship to constructs of age in American history, especially in the representations of youth in recent American films. After a brief introduction setting the films in the context of larger institutions created to lionize...
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Published: 17 January 2023
... College of Obstetrics and Gynecology Gesell Arnold Kolstad P National Center for Health Statistics Prosser William Women’s history Early feminism Contraception Constitutional persons I fear that by their opinions today the majority of my fellow justices have set our beloved country and this Court...
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Published: 21 February 2023
... Al Sisi Abdel Fattah strikes subaltern groups Supreme Council of the Armed forces SCAF violence Mostaqbal Watan political party National Authority for the Regulation of Non governmental Foreign Organizations Political economy Egyptian political history Authoritarianism In April 2018...
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The Making of Lakeside
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Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell
Published: 23 July 2019
... Black Panther Party Brown v Board Chican@s Sleepy Lagoon Trial politics immigration multicultural neighborhoods street history community social change moral order race/ethnic relations disputes solidarity urban studies Black studies Chicano/Latino studies My community is a good community...
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No Place for the Mom-and-Pops
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Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell
Published: 23 July 2019
... migration immigration United States US corporate sponsorship urban redevelopment police workforce postindustrial city street history pathologization consumer capitalism regulation advocacy We don’t want the Home Depot to get up and leave. —Captain Himura One of the first challenges Captain...
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Introduction
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Soojin Chung
Published: 14 December 2021
...The Introduction provides historical context by placing the East Asian transnational adoption movement in the context of post-war America. It covers the history of American family, anti-Asian racism in America, and U.S. adoption from East Asia. It also gives definitions of key terms...
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Published online: 19 May 2022
Published in print: 14 December 2021
...The Irish Land War (1879–82) represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of property and land ownership were fundamentally challenged. A striking aspect of the Land War was its internationalism...
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The War on Drugs in Afghanistan
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James Bradford
Published: 30 November 2021
... failed. Little has been written about the history of drugs in Afghanistan, nor about how it fits into the broader histories of the global drug trade or of international drug control policies. Unearthing the history of drugs and drug control in Afghanistan reveals how, in the 1970s, more stringent anti...
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To Amsterdam: Migrations Past and Present
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Leo Lucassen
Published: 03 January 2014
... Frits Fortuyn Pim Hirsi Ali Ayaan Rushdie Salman Satanic Verses The Rushdie September 11 2001 Turks in Amsterdam Van Gogh Theo assassination of Freedom Party PVV Lijst Pim Fortuyn LPF Wilders Geert Underclass Amsterdam migration immigration past present Dutch history Indonesia...
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Published: 06 May 2013
...This chapter constructs a historical narrative of genetics that draws on already published histories as well as original research, beginning with the eugenics movement of the progressive era, in which scientistic thinking enabled the belief that biology offered salvation from a range of social ills...