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From Defense to Development?

International Perspectives on Realizing the Peace Dividend

By: Sean M. DiGiovanna,Ann Markusen

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From Defense to Development?

International Perspectives on Realizing the Peace Dividend

By: Sean M. DiGiovanna,Ann Markusen

This impressive book tracks the progress of twelve countries on five continents in moving resources from defense to civilian activity in the 1990's. Based on intensive field research, thanks to its truly international array of contributors, the book addresses each country with an impressive standard of scholarship. This accessible book is written i

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Routledge

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1134351437

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The Rise of the Gunbelt

The Military Remapping of Industrial America

By: Ann R. Markusen

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The Rise of the Gunbelt

The Military Remapping of Industrial America

By: Ann R. Markusen

Index and bibliographical references included.

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358

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195066480

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9780195066487

Local Glories

Opera Houses on Main Street, Where Art and Community Meet

By: Ann Satterthwaite

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Local Glories

Opera Houses on Main Street, Where Art and Community Meet

By: Ann Satterthwaite

To most people, the term "opera house" conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men in the gilded interiors of opulent buildings like the Met in New York or La Scala in Milan. However, the opera house in the United States has a far more varied-and far more interesting-history than that stereotype implies. In Local Glories, Ann Satterthwaite explores the creative, social, and communal roles of the thousands of opera houses that flourished in small towns across the country. By 1900, opera houses were everywhere: on second floors over hardware stores, in grand independent buildings, in the back rooms of New England town halls, and even in the bowels of a Mississippi department store. With travel made easier by the newly expanded rail lines, Sarah Bernhardt, Mark Twain, and John Philip Sousa entertained thousands of townspeople, as did countless actors, theater and opera companies, innumerable minor league magicians, circuses, and lecturers, and even 500 troupes that performed nothing but Uncle Tom's Cabin. Often the town's only large space for public assembly, the local opera house served as a place for local activities such as school graduations, recitations, sports, town meetings, elections, political rallies, and even social dances and roller skating parties. Considered local landmarks, often in distinctive architect-designed buildings, they aroused considerable pride and reinforced town identity. By considering states with distinctly different histories--principally Maine, Nebraska, Vermont, New York, and Colorado--Satterthwaite describes the diversity of opera houses, programs, audiences, buildings, promoters, and supporters--and their hopes, dreams, and ambitions. In the twentieth century, radio and movies, and later television and changing tastes made these opera houses seem obsolete. Some were demolished, while others languished for decades until stalwart revivers discovered them again in the 1970s. The resuscitation of these opera houses today, an example of historic preservation and creative reuse, reflects the timeless quest for cultural inspiration and for local engagement to counter the anonymity of the larger world. These "local glories" are where art and community meet, forging connections and making communities today, just as they did in the nineteenth century.

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Oxford University Press

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0199392552

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Reforming Suburbia

The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands

By: Ann Forsyth

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Reforming Suburbia

The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands

By: Ann Forsyth

The "new community" movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing. It inspired the construction of innovative communities that were designed to counter suburbia's cultural conformity, social isolation, ugliness, and environmental problems. This richly documented book examines the results of those experiments in three of the most successful new communities: Irvine Ranch in Southern California, Columbia in Maryland, and The Woodlands in the suburbs of Houston, Texas. Based on new research and interviews with developers, designers, and residents, Ann Forsyth traces the evolution, the successes, and the shortcomings of these experiments in urban innovation. Where they succeeded, in areas such as community identity and open space preservation, they provide support for current "smart growth" proposals. Where they did not, in areas such as housing affordability and transportation choices, they offer important insights for today's planners, designers, developers, civic leaders, and others interested in incorporating new forms of development into their designs.

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Univ of California Press

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0520420918

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9780520420915

The Farmworkers' Journey

By: Ann Lopez

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The Farmworkers' Journey

By: Ann Lopez

Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Over the course of ten years, Ann Aurelia López conducted a series of intimate interviews with farmworkers and their families along the migrant circuit. She deftly weaves their voices together with up-to-date research to portray a world hidden from most Americans—a world of inescapable poverty that has worsened considerably since NAFTA was implemented in 1994. In fact, today it has become nearly impossible for rural communities in Mexico to continue to farm the land sustainably, leaving few survival options except the perilous border crossing to the United States. The Farmworkers' Journey brings together for the first time the many facets of this issue into a comprehensive and accessible narrative: how corporate agribusiness operates, how binational institutions and laws promote the subjugation of Mexican farmworkers, how migration affects family life, how genetically modified corn strains pouring into Mexico from the United States are affecting farmers, how migrants face exploitation from employers, and more. A must-read for all Americans, The Farmworkers' Journey traces the human consequences of our policy decisions.

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Univ of California Press

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0520940571

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9780520940574

Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada

By: John T. Pierce,Ann Dale

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Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada

By: John T. Pierce,Ann Dale

What is a sustainable community? The pressing need to answer this simple question is what prompted John Pierce and Ann Dale to gather the essays in this volume. Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada is a timely synthesis of work on how Canadian communities can achieve sustainable development. It bridges the gap between theory and praxis and brings together academics, policy makers, and community activists, all of whom have argued for increased local participation in sustainable community development. Communities have become the weak link in efforts to refashion relations between the environment and the economy. The goal of this book is not simply to describe problems but also to suggest answers, not simply to offer theory but also to promote action, so that Canadian communities can better achieve sustainable development.

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322

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UBC Press

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0774842059

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9780774842051

Cultural Entrepreneurship

A New Agenda for the Study of Entrepreneurial Processes and Possibilities

By: Michael Lounsbury,Mary Ann Glynn

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Cultural Entrepreneurship

A New Agenda for the Study of Entrepreneurial Processes and Possibilities

By: Michael Lounsbury,Mary Ann Glynn

This Element provides an overview of cultural entrepreneurship scholarship and seeks to lay the foundation for a broader and more integrative research agenda at the interface of organization theory and entrepreneurship. Its scholarly agenda includes a range of phenomena from the legitimation of new ventures, to the construction of novel or alternative organizational or collective identities, and, at even more macro levels, to the emergence of new entrepreneurial possibilities and market categories. Michael Lounsbury and Mary Ann Glynn develop novel theoretical arguments and discuss the implications for mainstream entrepreneurship research, focusing on the study of entrepreneurial processes and possibilities.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108335020

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9781108335027

Missing Links in Labour Geography

By: Ann Cecilie Bergene,Sylvi B. Endresen

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Missing Links in Labour Geography

By: Ann Cecilie Bergene,Sylvi B. Endresen

Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined and illustrated via a wide range of case studies from the 'global north' and 'global south' in order to develop a better and fuller appreciation of labour market processes in developed and developing countries.

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273

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Routledge

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1317095553

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Commerce by a Frozen Sea

Native Americans and the European Fur Trade

By: Ann M. Carlos,Frank D. Lewis

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Commerce by a Frozen Sea

Native Americans and the European Fur Trade

By: Ann M. Carlos,Frank D. Lewis

Commerce by a Frozen Sea is a cross-cultural study of a century of contact between North American native peoples and Europeans. During the eighteenth century, the natives of the Hudson Bay lowlands and their European trading partners were brought together by an increasingly popular trade in furs, destined for the hat and fur markets of Europe. Native Americans were the sole trappers of furs, which they traded to English and French merchants. The trade gave Native Americans access to new European technologies that were integrated into Indian lifeways. What emerges from this detailed exploration is a story of two equal partners involved in a mutually beneficial trade. Drawing on more than seventy years of trade records from the archives of the Hudson's Bay Company, economic historians Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis critique and confront many of the myths commonly held about the nature and impact of commercial trade. Extensively documented are the ways in which natives transformed the trading environment and determined the range of goods offered to them. Natives were effective bargainers who demanded practical items such as firearms, kettles, and blankets as well as luxuries like cloth, jewelry, and tobacco—goods similar to those purchased by Europeans. Surprisingly little alcohol was traded. Indeed, Commerce by a Frozen Sea shows that natives were industrious people who achieved a standard of living above that of most workers in Europe. Although they later fell behind, the eighteenth century was, for Native Americans, a golden age.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812204824

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9780812204827

Linking Industry and Ecology

A Question of Design

By: Ann Dale,James Tansey

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Linking Industry and Ecology

A Question of Design

By: Ann Dale,James Tansey

The contributors to this volume draw on their experience in a variety of disciplines to explore the origins, promise, and relevance of the emerging field of industrial ecology. They situate industrial ecology within the broader range of environmental management strategies and concepts, from the practices of pollution prevention through life cycle management, to the more fundamental shift toward dematerialization and ecological design. Their work not only affirms what has been learned to date in this nascent field but also provides new insight by demonstrating that technologies are socially and politically embedded. This book makes a compelling argument for the need to think ecologically to develop innovative and competitive industrial policy.

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0774857218

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Globalization Development and Social Justice

A propositional political approach

By: Ann El Khoury

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Globalization Development and Social Justice

A propositional political approach

By: Ann El Khoury

Are there existing alternatives to corporate globalization? What are the prospects for and commonalities between communities and movements such as Occupy, the World Social Forum and alternative economies? Globalization Development and Social Justice advances the proposition that another globalization is not only possible, but already exists. It demonstrates that there are multiple pathways towards development with social justice and argues that enabling propositional agency, rather than oppositional agency such as resistance, is a more effective alternative to neoliberal globalization. El Khoury develops a theory of infraglobalization that emphasizes creative constitution, not just contestation, of global and local processes. The book features case studies and examples of diverse economic practice and innovative emergent political forms from the Global South and North. These case studies are located in the informal social economy and community development, as well as everyday practices, from prefigurative politics to community cooperatives and participatory planning. This book makes an important contribution to debates about the prospects for, and practices of, a transformative grassroots globalization, and to critical debates about globalization and development strategies. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, globalization, social movement studies, political and economic geography, sociology, anthropology and development studies.

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285

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Routledge

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1317504798

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Decade of Disaster

By: Ann Larabee

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Decade of Disaster

By: Ann Larabee

Gives voice to a diverse cast of disaster participants, including Bhopal widows, people with AIDS, Chernobyl tourists, NASA administrators, international nuclear power authorities, and corporate spokespeople.

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212

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University of Illinois Press

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0252068203

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9780252068201

Dismantling The Cold War Economy

By: Ann R. Markusen

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Dismantling The Cold War Economy

By: Ann R. Markusen

A comprehensive reassessment of the military-industrial complex. Based on extensive interviews with defence industry executives, Pentagon officials and community and union leaders, this book shows in detail how Cold War technologies have distorted and drained the economy.

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Basic Books

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0465016650

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Book's by Ann Markusen

From Defense to Development?

From Defense to Development?

The Rise of the Gunbelt

The Rise of the Gunbelt

Local Glories

Local Glories

Reforming Suburbia

Reforming Suburbia

The Farmworkers' Journey

The Farmworkers' Journey

Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada

Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada

Cultural Entrepreneurship

Cultural Entrepreneurship

Missing Links in Labour Geography

Missing Links in Labour Geography

Commerce by a Frozen Sea

Commerce by a Frozen Sea

Linking Industry and Ecology

Linking Industry and Ecology

Globalization Development and Social Justice

Globalization Development and Social Justice

Decade of Disaster

Decade of Disaster

Dismantling The Cold War Economy

Dismantling The Cold War Economy

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