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Author |
: Lauren Hirshberg |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2022-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520289154 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520289153 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Suburban Empire by : Lauren Hirshberg
Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous Marshallese within Kwajalein Atoll mirrors the segregation and spatial politics of the mainland US as local and global iterations of US empire took hold. Tracing how Marshall Islanders navigated US military control over their lands, Suburban Empire reveals that Cold War–era suburbanization was perfectly congruent with US colonization, military testing, and nuclear fallout. The structures of suburban segregation cloaked the destructive history of control and militarism under a veil of small-town innocence.
Author |
: Lauren Hirshberg |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2022-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520963856 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520963857 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Suburban Empire by : Lauren Hirshberg
Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous Marshallese within Kwajalein Atoll mirrors the segregation and spatial politics of the mainland US as local and global iterations of US empire took hold. Tracing how Marshall Islanders navigated US military control over their lands, Suburban Empire reveals that Cold War–era suburbanization was perfectly congruent with US colonization, military testing, and nuclear fallout. The structures of suburban segregation cloaked the destructive history of control and militarism under a veil of small-town innocence.
Author |
: Karen Tongson |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814769676 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814769675 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Relocations by : Karen Tongson
What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the region humorists have referred to as Lesser Los Angeles-a global prototype for sprawl-Karen Tongson weaves through suburbia's nowherespaces to survey our spatial imaginaries: the aesthetic, creative and popular materials of the new suburbia.
Author |
: Andrew Friedman |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 428 |
Release |
: 2013-08-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520956681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520956680 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Covert Capital by : Andrew Friedman
The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In this covert capital, the suburban landscape provided a cover for the workings of U.S. imperial power, which shaped domestic suburban life. The Pentagon and the CIA built two of the largest office buildings in the country there during and after the war that anchored a new imperial culture and social world. As the U.S. expanded its power abroad by developing roads, embassies, and villages, its subjects also arrived in the covert capital as real estate agents, homeowners, builders, and landscapers who constructed spaces and living monuments that both nurtured and critiqued postwar U.S. foreign policy. Tracing the relationships among American agents and the migrants from Vietnam, El Salvador, Iran, and elsewhere who settled in the southwestern suburbs of D.C., Friedman tells the story of a place that recasts ideas about U.S. immigration, citizenship, nationalism, global interconnection, and ethical responsibility from the post-WW2 period to the present. Opening a new window onto the intertwined history of the American suburbs and U.S. foreign policy, Covert Capital will also give readers a broad interdisciplinary and often surprising understanding of how U.S. domestic and global histories intersect in many contexts and at many scales. American Crossroads, 37
Author |
: Kenneth T. Jackson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 1987-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199840342 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199840342 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crabgrass Frontier by : Kenneth T. Jackson
This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of the U.S. and compares American residential patterns with those of Japan and Europe. In conclusion, Jackson offers a controversial prediction: that the future of residential deconcentration will be very different from its past in both the U.S. and Europe.
Author |
: Richardson Dilworth |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2005-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674015312 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674015319 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy by : Richardson Dilworth
Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation—the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and form separate political entities. The process has important and deleterious consequences for a range of urban issues, including the weakening of public finance and school integration. The explanation centers on the independent effect of urban infrastructure, specifically sewers, roads, waterworks, gas, and electricity networks. The book argues that the development of such infrastructure in the late nineteenth century not only permitted cities to expand by annexing adjacent municipalities, but also further enhanced the ability of these suburban entities to remain or break away and form independent municipalities. The process was crucial in creating a proliferation of municipalities within metropolitan regions. The book thus shows that the roots of the urban crisis can be found in the interplay between technology, politics, and public works in the American city.
Author |
: Daniel L. Duke |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2012-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780791482988 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0791482987 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Education Empire by : Daniel L. Duke
Despite the fact that more than one-half of the students in the United States are educated in suburban schools, relatively little is known about the development of suburban school systems. Education Empire chronicles the evolution of Virginia's Fairfax County public schools, the twelfth largest school system in the country and arguably one of the very best. The book focuses on how Fairfax has addressed a variety of challenges, beginning with explosive enrollment growth in the 1950s and continuing with desegregation, enrollment decline, economic uncertainty, demands for special programs, and intense politicization. Today, Fairfax, like many suburbs across the country, looks increasingly like an urban school system, with rising poverty, large numbers of recent immigrants, and constant pressure from an assortment of special interest groups. While many school systems facing similar developments have experienced a drop in performance, Fairfax students continue to raise their achievement. Daniel L. Duke reveals the keys to Fairfax's remarkable track record.
Author |
: Todd Kuchta |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2010-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813929255 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813929253 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Semi-Detached Empire by : Todd Kuchta
In the first book to consider British suburban literature from the vantage point of imperial and postcolonial studies, Todd Kuchta argues that suburban identity is tied to the empire's rise and fall. Like the semi-detached house, which joins separate dwellings under one roof, suburbia and empire were geographically distinct but imaginatively linked. Yet just as the "semi" conceals two homes behind a single façade, suburbia's apparent uniformity masks its defining oppositions--between country and city, "civilization" and "savagery," master and slave.
Author |
: Mark L. Gillem |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 373 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452912882 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452912882 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis America Town by : Mark L. Gillem
Covers the land development and architectural policies and practices that the US military follows worldwide in planning, building, and expanding installations of untold extent in 140 countries.
Author |
: Jeffry M. Diefendorf |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822958767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822958765 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis City, Country, Empire by : Jeffry M. Diefendorf
A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.