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Political culture
Political CulturePolitical culture and socializationThe content of political culturesThe future of a theory of political cultureBIBLIOGRAPHYPolitical culture is the set of attitudes, beliefs, and sentiments which give order and meaning to a political process and which provide the underlying... Read more |
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Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte 1927– Singer, actor, activist At a Glance… Voice Captivated First Audience Career Soared With Calypso Dedicated to Humanitarian Causes Social Activism Continued Protested Through Music Selected discography Sources It has been said that in the life and work of... Read more |
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Charles Austin Beard
Charles Austin Beard 1874-1948, American historian, b. near Knightstown, Ind. A year at Oxford as a graduate student gave him an interest in English local government, and after further study at Cornell and Columbia universities he wrote, for his doctoral dissertation at Columbia, The Office of... Read more |
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United States Civil War
C IVILW AR, U.S. Between the years 1861 and 1865, the United States engaged in a civil war, one of the most significant military confrontations in the young republic's life. The conflict dramatically altered the course of American society, eradicating the... Read more |
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Harold Joseph Laski
Harold Joseph Laski , 1893-1950, British political scientist, economist, author, and lecturer. A graduate of New College, Oxford, he taught at McGill Univ. (1914-16) and Harvard (1916-20). In 1920 he joined the faculty of the London School of Economics and in 1926 became professor of political... Read more |
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Neoconservatism
NEOCONSERVATISM NEOCONSERVATISM was primarily an intellectual movement of Cold War liberal Democrats and democratic socialists who moved rightward during the 1970s and 1980s. The term was apparently coined in 1976 by an opponent, the socialist Michael Harrington. By and large, neoconservatives... Read more |
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Anti-Catholicism
ANTI-CATHOLICISM ANTI-CATHOLICISM. Bigotry against Roman Catholics, as well as the ideas that have rationalized such bigotry, have long been elements in North American politics and popular culture. Like racism and anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism is a fluid, international phenomenon buttressed by... Read more |
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Cecil Day Lewis
Cecil Day Lewis The British poet, essayist, and detective story writer Cecil Day Lewis (1904-1972) regarded himself as a voice of revolution, both poetic and political, taking as a necessary starting point the "certainty of new life." Born on April 27, 1904, in Ballin togher, Ireland, C. Day... Read more |
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Biology of Aging
BIOLOGY OF AGING The phenomenon of aging means quite different things to different people. Most gerontologists would agree that aging is a process, or set of processes, of gradual development and then decline that characterize the life span of an organism. Beyond that, there is very little... Read more |
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Tammany
Tammany or Tammany Hall, popular name for the Democratic political machine in Manhattan. Origins After the American Revolution several patriotic societies sprang up to promote various political causes and economic interests. Among these were the Tammany societies, founded in New York,... Read more |
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AFTER THE BOOM COMES INSIGHT.(Show)
...Chapman "Beyond the Boom: New Voices On American Life, Culture and Politics." Edited...conservatives, "Beyond the Boom...on modern politics ... |
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Musings of A Privileged Generation
BEYOND THE BOOM New Voices on American Life, Culture & Politics Edited by Terry Teachout...votes and thinks and lives." They are for the...the evidence of ... |
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Tracing the rise of urban music; Joburg's music scene is a melting pot of...
...many more new clubs, coffeehouses...fire-eater voice in full form...captured the new urban aristocracy...music and culture of French...mall city life that beguiles...a bit more boom. Their audience...troubled by ... |
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Classics lost and found
...please keen new readers...its times. Beyond the Anglosphere...history and culture in the company...defining voices, such as...has found new ways to re...outstanding new translations...the mini-boom in ... |
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Catholic Georgetown mecca for Islamic study.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)
...studies and politics in terms...a leading voice for a more...impact. "Americans have to realize...is in the New Testament." An Italian-American Catholic...stretches way beyond its seventh...Anwar Sadat, ... |
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In Timber Country: Working People's Stories of Environmental Conflict and...
...of rural life. It took...political life. After about...always been a boom-and-bust...gave rural life a breadth...favor rich new arrivals...about their lives and work...support of both culture and ... |
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Rethinking C.L.R. James.
...and welcome boom in James...years of his life, has worked...known to a new generation...James's voice is represented...in party politics and aligned...Webb, an American model and...theories on American ... |
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Special Delivery: The Letters of C.L.R. James to Constance Webb, 1939-1948.
...and welcome boom in James...years of his life, has worked...known to a new generation...James's voice is represented...in party politics and aligned...Webb, an American model and...theories on American ... |
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Past Literary Movements Create Bridges for Others to Follow
...since that boom, known as...of African American Studies at...experiences and culture. In fact...first African American to receive...1960s to go beyond depicting...for African Americans," Hart...arena of ... |
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