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P.J. Marshall: The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire, Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2001 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0-521-00254-0
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Up to World War II and beyond, the British ruled over a vast empire. Modern western attitudes towards the imperial past tend either towards nostalgia for British power or revulsion at what seem to be the abuses of that power. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire adopts neither of these approaches. It aims to create historical understanding about the British empire on the assumption that such understanding is important for any informed appreciation of the modern world. Through striking illustration and a text written by leading experts, this book examines the experience of colonialism in North America, India, Africa, Australia, and the Caribbean, as well as the impact of the empire on Britain itself. Emphasis is placed on social and cultural history, including slavery, trade, religion, art, and the movement of ideas. How did the British rule their empire? Who benefited economically from the empire? And who lost? Contents Introduction: the world shaped by empire P. J. Marshall; Part I. The History of Empire: 1. The British empire at the end of the eighteenth century P. J. Marshall; 2. 1783-1870: an expanding empire P. J. Marshall; 3. 1870-1918: the empire under threat P. J. Marshall; 4. 1918 to the 1960s: keeping afloat P. J. Marshall; Part II. The Life of the Empire: 5. For richer, for poorer? David Fieldhouse; 6. Power, authority, and freedom A. J. Stockwell; 7. Empires in the mind Andrew Porter; 8. Imperial towns and cities Thomas R. Metcalf; 9. British emigration and new identities Ged Martin and Benjamin E. Kline; 10. The diaspora of the Africans and the Asians P. J. Marshall; 11. Art and the empire John M. Mackenzie; Part III. The Imperial Experience: 12. Imperial Britain P. J. Marshall; 13. Australia K. S. Inglis; 14. Africa Toyin Falola; 15. British rule in India: an assessment Tapan Raychaudhuri; Conclusion: Empire in retrospect P. J. Marshall; Reference Guide: British imperial territories from 1783; Further reading; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Index. Printed Pages: 400 with 80 half-tones, 120 colour plates and 12 maps. Paperback

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Bischof, Günter; Stiefel, Dieter: Images of the Marshall Plan in Europe Films, Photographs, Exhibits, Posters, STUDIENVERLAG, November 2009 ISBN: 3706548267
The European Recovery Program (ERP = Marshall Plan) is considered the most successful foreign aid program in American history. It played a crucial role in helping to rebuild Western Europe after World War II, reintegrate West Germany into the West, maintain American interest in Europe's future, contain communism, and launch American consumer democracy and improving the standard of in Europe. It also finalized the progressing division of Europe into a democratic/capitalist West and communist East. This volume focuses on selling the Marshall Plan both to skeptical Americans and Europeans in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The Economic Cooperation Administration in Paris administered the distribution of American Marshall aid. It also directed the propaganda effort: 250 films were produced (newsreels, documentaries, feature and productivity films); traveling exhibits were organized that by train were shown all over Europe and by ship on Greek islands; and busses traveled to the remotest Austrian Alpine valleys to show films about how ERP-aid increased Austrian economic productivity.Every project financed by Marshall aid was documented in photos and films. In West Germany, Marshall Plan films and exhibits also aimed at reeducating and re-orienting the population after Nazism towards democracy and material plenty. In Oslo, the largest department store featured a display of desirable American consumer products. All American goods shipped to Europe came with the logo For European Recovery - Supplied by the United States of America. The American wanted the European public to know that it was American help that improved their material well-being. These essays by an international group of scholars make it clear that the Marshall Plan's top-of-the-art multi-media campaign can also be seen as one of the most successful PR-campaigns in history. Marshall Plan propaganda created the myth of the Marshall Plan as the model economic reconstruction program.A richly documented and finely textured study of how soft power 'sold' the Marshall Plan, in both post-war Europe and the U.S., at the time and later, in historical memory.Hugh Wilford, California State University

NEUBUCH! 2009. 236 p. 250 mm x 164 mm x 29 mm

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McLuhan, Marshall: Die magischen Kanäle, "Understanding Media" [von Marshall McLuhan]; Frankfurt, Fischer Bücherei 1970.
Über dieses Buch: "In den Jahrhunderten der Mechanisierung hatten wir unseren Körper in den Raum hinaus ausgeweitet. Heute, nach mehr als einem Jahrhundert der Technik der Elektrizität, haben wir sogar das Zentralnervensystem zu einem weltumspannenden Netz ausgeweitet und damit, soweit es unseren Planeten betrifft, Raum und Zeit aufgehoben." (Marshall McLuhan). Die elektronischen Medien überziehen die gesamte Erde mit einem Netz aus Information und Kommunikation. Aktion und Reaktion, Nachricht und Antwort fallen zusammen: keine >Frage< des öffentlichen oder privaten Lebens bleibt ohne >Antwort<. Ist das die Verheißung eines neuen Menschheits-Glücks - oder ein lebensgefährlicher Traum? Der Autor: Herbert Marshall McLuhan, geboren in Edmonton, Alberta/Canada, studierte zunächst Ingenieurwesen, dann Englische Literatur und Philosophie an der Manitoba Universität. Von 1959 bis 1960 war Marshall McLuhan Direktor der Media-Planung bei der National Association of Educational Broadcasters und beim U. S. Office of Education. 1963 erhielt er vom Präsidenten der Universität Toronto den Auftrag, ein Forschungszentrum zum Studium der psychischen und gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Technologie und der Medien aufzubauen. 1967 wurde er auf den Lehrstuhl für Humanwissenschaften an der Fordham Universität, New York, berufen. / Band leicht gebräunt. Sonst guter Zustand. -
McLuhan, Marshall: Die magischen Kanäle, "Understanding Media" [von Marshall McLuhan], Soziologie, soziologisch, sociology Gesellschaftslehre

ungekürzte Ausgabe, 343 Seiten, Kl. 8° (18 x 11 cm), Orig.-Kartoneinband.

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Skeat, Rev. Walter W [editor]: Series B, Reprinted Glossaries, I. North of England Words; from 'a tour to the caves,' by J. H.; 1781, II. Provincialisms of East Yorkshire; by Mr Marshall; 1788, III. Provincialisms of East Norfolk; by Mr Marshall; 1787, IV. Provincialisms of the Vale of Gloucester; by Mr Marshall; 1789, V. Provincialisms of the Midland Counties ; by Mr Marshall; 1790, VI. Provincialisms of West Devonshire; by Mr Marshall; 1796, VII. A glossary of words used in the West Riding of Yorkshire, by Dr Willan, 1811, , London Published for the English Dialect Society by N. Trubner & Co. , 1873
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Skeat, Rev. Walter W [editor], Series B, Reprinted Glossaries, I. North of England Words; from 'a tour to the caves,' by J. H.; 1781, II. Provincialisms of East Yorkshire; by Mr Marshall; 1788, III. Provincialisms of East Norfolk; by Mr Marshall; 1787, IV. Provincialisms of the Vale of Gloucester; by Mr Marshall; 1789, V. Provincialisms of the Midland Counties ; by Mr Marshall; 1790, VI. Provincialisms of West Devonshire; by Mr Marshall; 1796, VII. A glossary of words used in the West Riding of Yorkshire, by Dr Willan, 1811

, vi, 112 pages including index at rear First Edition Octavo Hardback , lacks covers and backstrip, ex-library labels and stamps at front, pages clean and in good condition, serviceable copy , disbound, held by card pasted to spine, marbled edges

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