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22 produkter
Do Museums Still Need Objects?
Av Steven Conn
Häftad, 2010
344 kr
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"We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits a …
Americans Against the City
Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century
Av Steven Conn
Häftad, 2016
662 kr
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It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where "big government" first took root in America …
To Promote the General Welfare
The Case for Big Government
Inbunden, 2012
940 kr
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Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation. But the election of Barack Obama has created a backlash rivaled only by the anti-government hysteria that preceded the Civil War. Lost in all the Tea …
To Promote the General Welfare
The Case for Big Government
Av Steven Conn
E-bok, 2012
302 kr
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Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation. But the election of Barack Obama has created a backlash rivaled only by the anti-government hysteria that preceded the Civil War. Lost in all the Tea …
To Promote the General Welfare
The Case for Big Government
Häftad, 2012
451 kr
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Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation. But the election of Barack Obama has created a backlash rivaled only by the anti-government hysteria that preceded the Civil War. Lost in all the Tea …
Americans Against the City
Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century
Av Steven Conn
E-bok, 2014
435 kr
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It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where "big government" first took root in America …
Americans Against the City
Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century
Av Steven Conn
E-bok, 2014
435 kr
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It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where "big government" first took root in America …
To Promote the General Welfare
The Case for Big Government
Av Steven Conn
E-bok, 2012
302 kr
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Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation. But the election of Barack Obama has created a backlash rivaled only by the anti-government hysteria that preceded the Civil War. Lost in all the Tea …
Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926
Av Steven Conn
Häftad, 2000
588 kr
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During the last half of the 19th century, Americans built many of the country's most celebrated museums, such as the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Chicago's Field Museum. This text argues that Americans built these institutions with the …
History's Shadow
Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century
Av Steven Conn
Häftad, 2006
315 kr
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Who were the Native Americans? Where did they come from and how long ago? Did they have a history, and would they have a future? Questions such as these dominated intellectual life in the United States during the nineteenth century. And for many Americans, such questions about the original …
Lies of the Land
Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t
Av Steven Conn
Inbunden, 2023
262 kr
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A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis. It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it the key to understanding America today? Steven Conn …
Lies of the Land
Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn't
Av Steven Conn
Häftad, 2025
182 kr
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A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis. It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it the key to understanding America today? Steven Conn …
Do Museums Still Need Objects?
Av Steven Conn
E-bok, 2010
437 kr
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"We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits a …
Metropolitan Philadelphia
Living with the Presence of the Past
Av Steven Conn
E-bok, 2013
437 kr
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As America's fifth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan region, Philadelphia is tied to its surrounding counties and suburban neighborhoods. It is this vital relationship, suggests Steven Conn, that will make or break greater Philadelphia.The Philadelphia region has witnessed virtually …
Building the Nation
Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape
Av Steven Conn, Max Page
Häftad, 2003
461 kr
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Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how …
Metropolitan Philadelphia
Living with the Presence of the Past
Av Steven Conn
Häftad, 2006
344 kr
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As America's fifth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan region, Philadelphia is tied to its surrounding counties and suburban neighborhoods. It is this vital relationship, suggests Steven Conn, that will make or break greater Philadelphia.The Philadelphia region has witnessed virtually …
Building the Nation
Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape
Av Steven Conn, Max Page
E-bok, 2016
571 kr
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Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how …
Picturing Black History
Photographs and Stories that Changed the World
Av Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
291 kr
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** Nominated for a NAACP Image Award **A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project. “Stunning . . . Provides fresh perspective on historical photographs and snapshots of Black life.” —NEW YORK …
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
The Sad History of American Business Schools
Av Steven Conn
Inbunden, 2019
380 kr
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Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never have. In …
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
The Sad History of American Business Schools
Av Steven Conn
Häftad, 2021
297 kr
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Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never have. In …
Americans Against the City
Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century
Av Steven Conn
Inbunden, 2025
619 kr
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ENGIt is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where ""big government"" first took root in America …
Americans Against the City
Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century
Av Steven Conn
E-bok, 2025
873 kr
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ENGIt is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where big government first took root in America …
