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Set the night on fire : L.A. in the sixties
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ISBN: 9781784780227 Year: 2020 Publisher: London Verso

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Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade’s political and social earthquake. L.A. was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation—and home to the Chicano walkouts and Moratorium, as well as birthplace of ‘Asian America’ as a political identity, base of the antiwar movement, and of course, centre of California counterculture.Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research, scores of interviews with principal figures of the 1960s movements, and personal histories (both Davis and Wiener are native Los Angelenos). Following on from Davis’s award-winning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a fascinating historical corrective, delivered in scintillating and fiercely elegant prose.


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Brussel 1900 : samengesteld door J. van Schoor
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ISBN: 9022307883 9789022307885 Year: 1981 Publisher: Antwerpen Manteau

Modernism and the ideology of history : literature, politics, and the past
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ISBN: 0521814995 0521120934 1107125944 0511120680 0511065019 0511058683 051130482X 0511485352 1280161353 1139148230 051107347X 9780511065019 9780521814997 9780511073472 9780511120688 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Louise Williams explores the nature of historical memory in the work of five major Modernists: Yeats, Pound, Hulme, Ford and Lawrence. These Modernists, Williams argues, started their careers with historical assumptions derived from the nineteenth century. But their views on the universal structure of history, on the abandonment of progress and the adoption of a cyclical sense of the past, were the result of important conflicts and changes within the Modernist period. Williams focuses on the period immediately before World War I, and shows in detail how Modernism developed and why it is considered a unique intellectual movement. She also revisits the theory that the Edwardian age was a difficult period of transition to the modern world. Finally, she illuminates the contribution of non-Western culture to the literature and thought of the period. This wide-ranging and inter-disciplinary study is essential reading for literary and cultural historians of the modernist period.


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Een geruisloze doorbraak : de geschiedenis van architectuur en stedebouw tijdens de bezetting en de wederopbouw van Nederland.
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ISBN: 9072469909 9789072469908 Year: 1995 Publisher: Rotterdam NAi


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A blessing in disguise : war and town planning in Europe 1940-1945
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ISBN: 9783869222950 3869222956 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin : DOM Publishers,


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Cold War confrontations : US exhibitions and their role in the cultural Cold War
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ISBN: 9783037781234 3037781238 Year: 2008 Publisher: Baden : Lars Müller,


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Architecture and the welfare state
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ISBN: 9780415725392 9780415725408 0415725399 0415725402 1315766922 9781315766928 1317661893 9781317661894 9781317661887 Year: 2015 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge

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In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare state programmes - housing, schools, new towns, cultural and leisure centres – involved not just construction but a new approach to architectural design, in which the welfare objectives of these state-funded programmes were delineated and debated. The impact on architects and architectural design was profound and far-reaching, with welfare state projects moving centre-stage in architectural discourse not just in Europe but worldwide.This is the first book to explore the architecture of the welfare state in Western Europe from an international perspective. With chapters covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, the book explores the complex role played by architecture in the formation and development of the welfare state in both theory and practice.

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