Search Results - "frontier"

Buffalo Bill in Bologna the Americanization of the world, 1869-1922 / by Rydell, Robert W.

Table of Contents: “…American mass culture takes form -- Harbingers of mass culture : world's fairs -- The expanding frontiers of American mass culture -- The Americanization of the world? …”
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Buffalo Bill in Bologna the Americanization of the world, 1869-1922 / by Rydell, Robert W.

Table of Contents: “…American mass culture takes form -- Harbingers of mass culture : world's fairs -- The expanding frontiers of American mass culture -- The Americanization of the world? …”
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Serving their country American Indian politics and patriotism in the twentieth century / by Rosier, Paul C.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: An empire for liberty -- Westward the course of empire -- The defense of the reservation -- World War II battlegrounds -- The Cold War on the Indian frontier -- Nation building at home and abroad -- The last Indian war -- Epilogue: Indian Country in the twenty-first century.…”
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Wild Sardinia indigeneity and the global dreamtimes of environmentalism / by Heatherington, Tracey

Table of Contents: “…Ecology, alterity, and resistance -- Envisioning the supramonte -- Intimate landscapes -- Dark frontier -- Seeing like a state, seeing like an ENGO -- Walking in Via Gramsci -- Sin, shame, and sheep -- Beyond ethnographic refusal -- Hope and mischief in the global dreamtime.…”
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Serving their country American Indian politics and patriotism in the twentieth century / by Rosier, Paul C.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: An empire for liberty -- Westward the course of empire -- The defense of the reservation -- World War II battlegrounds -- The Cold War on the Indian frontier -- Nation building at home and abroad -- The last Indian war -- Epilogue: Indian Country in the twenty-first century.…”
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Wild Sardinia indigeneity and the global dreamtimes of environmentalism / by Heatherington, Tracey

Table of Contents: “…Ecology, alterity, and resistance -- Envisioning the supramonte -- Intimate landscapes -- Dark frontier -- Seeing like a state, seeing like an ENGO -- Walking in Via Gramsci -- Sin, shame, and sheep -- Beyond ethnographic refusal -- Hope and mischief in the global dreamtime.…”
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Principles and applications of spatial hearing Miyagi-Zao Royal Hotel, Zao, Japan, 11 - 13 November 2009 /

Table of Contents: “…section 1. Exploring new frontiers in sound localizations -- section 2. Measuring and modeling the head-related transfer function -- section 3. …”
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Principles and applications of spatial hearing Miyagi-Zao Royal Hotel, Zao, Japan, 11 - 13 November 2009 /

Table of Contents: “…section 1. Exploring new frontiers in sound localizations -- section 2. Measuring and modeling the head-related transfer function -- section 3. …”
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Traveling women narrative visions of early America / by Imbarrato, Susan Clair

Table of Contents: “…The language of travel : the practical and the picturesque -- Ordinary travel : public houses and travel conditions -- Writing into the Ohio frontier : genteel expectations and rustic realities -- Literary crossroads : travel narrative, poetry, and novel -- Capturing experience : travel narrative and letter, a comparative view.…”
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Fine & dandy the life and work of Kay Swift / by Ohl, Vicki, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude -- Professional and personal choices -- Highbrow/lowbrow in New York City -- Fine and dandy -- Stagestruck : the ballet to Radio City -- Gershwin obsession -- New frontiers -- She'll have Manhattan -- Challenges -- The show won't fold in Philadelphia -- Keep on keepin' on -- Finale.…”
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Jewish communities on the Ohio River a history / by Shevitz, Amy Hill, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…On the Frontier -- From Europe to the Ohio River Valley -- Finding and founding communities -- Religious conflicts and congruity -- A Judaism for the middle class -- The community within a community -- Maintaining community -- The East European immigration and the reconfiguration of community -- Communities at maturity -- The demise of community.…”
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Vintage Moquegua history, wine, and archaeology on a colonial Peruvian periphery / by Rice, Prudence M.

Table of Contents: “…Concluding synthesis : on the frontier of a periphery of an empire.…”
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Monitoring movements in development aid : recursive partnerships and infrastructures / by Jensen, Casper Bruun

Table of Contents: “…Infrastructures and development aid: fields, fractals and frictions -- Recursions: partnerships, infrastructure, ethnography -- Inventive frontiers: aid infrastructures and their users -- Development loop: technological politics for transparency -- Weedy infrastructure: monitoring environmental partnerships -- Wormholes: loops of audit and learning -- Monitoring movements.…”
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Jewish communities on the Ohio River a history / by Shevitz, Amy Hill, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…On the Frontier -- From Europe to the Ohio River Valley -- Finding and founding communities -- Religious conflicts and congruity -- A Judaism for the middle class -- The community within a community -- Maintaining community -- The East European immigration and the reconfiguration of community -- Communities at maturity -- The demise of community.…”
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Vintage Moquegua history, wine, and archaeology on a colonial Peruvian periphery / by Rice, Prudence M.

Table of Contents: “…Concluding synthesis : on the frontier of a periphery of an empire.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Monitoring movements in development aid : recursive partnerships and infrastructures / by Jensen, Casper Bruun

Table of Contents: “…Infrastructures and development aid: fields, fractals and frictions -- Recursions: partnerships, infrastructure, ethnography -- Inventive frontiers: aid infrastructures and their users -- Development loop: technological politics for transparency -- Weedy infrastructure: monitoring environmental partnerships -- Wormholes: loops of audit and learning -- Monitoring movements.…”
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Empire's Garden : Assam and the Making of India / by Sharma, Jayeeta

Table of Contents: “…Nature's jungle, empire's garden -- Borderlands, rice eaters, and tea growers -- Migrants in the garden : expanding the frontier -- Old lords and "improving" regimes -- Bringing progress, restoring culture -- Language and literature : framing identity -- Contesting publics : raced communities and gendered history.…”
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Traveling women narrative visions of early America / by Imbarrato, Susan Clair

Table of Contents: “…The language of travel : the practical and the picturesque -- Ordinary travel : public houses and travel conditions -- Writing into the Ohio frontier : genteel expectations and rustic realities -- Literary crossroads : travel narrative, poetry, and novel -- Capturing experience : travel narrative and letter, a comparative view.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Fine & dandy the life and work of Kay Swift / by Ohl, Vicki, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude -- Professional and personal choices -- Highbrow/lowbrow in New York City -- Fine and dandy -- Stagestruck : the ballet to Radio City -- Gershwin obsession -- New frontiers -- She'll have Manhattan -- Challenges -- The show won't fold in Philadelphia -- Keep on keepin' on -- Finale.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Empire's Garden : Assam and the Making of India / by Sharma, Jayeeta

Table of Contents: “…Nature's jungle, empire's garden -- Borderlands, rice eaters, and tea growers -- Migrants in the garden : expanding the frontier -- Old lords and "improving" regimes -- Bringing progress, restoring culture -- Language and literature : framing identity -- Contesting publics : raced communities and gendered history.…”
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