Book Review: Inventing Flight: The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors, Comparative Port History of Rotterdam and Antwerp, 1880–2000, How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County, American Women and Flight since 1940, The New York Susquehanna & Western Railroad, Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture, Aircraft, Canal Boatmen's Missions, Ten Turtles to Tucumcari: A Personal History of the Railway Express Agency, Norfolk Carrier: Memories of a Family Haulage Business: Barker & Sons, Wells next the Sea, a Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 I, The Mid-Atlantic States, Histoire des routes et des transports en Europe: Des chemins de Saint-Jacques à l'âge d'or des diligences, Paris, Capital of Modernity, The Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain: Essays in Honour of Jack Simmons, The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-146
Author(s):  
Christian Gelzer ◽  
Adrian Jarvis ◽  
John K. Walton ◽  
Janet R. Daly Bednarek ◽  
Colin Divall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Mass Transportation ◽  
Kings County ◽  
Car Culture ◽  
Coney Island ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

The Architecture of Jewish Identity: The Neo-Islamic Central Synagogue of New York

2004 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Bush
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Cultural Identification ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

In this essay, I study the neo-Islamic Central Synagogue in New York (1872) as the expression of a complex web of cultural identification and differentiation on the part of the Jewish community for which it was constructed. I examine the shift uptown away from immigrant origins, poverty, and Orthodoxy in relation to ambivalence toward Reform Judaism, which had embraced the neo-Islamic architectural style in both the United States and Europe. The tensions inherent in situating the congregation within the larger Jewish world were complicated by the position of the community with respect to its Christian neighbors. The contradiction between the community's initial calls for architectural modesty and the ostentation of the building designed by Henry Fernbach manifest, in the vocabulary of the cultural analysis of W. E. B. DuBois, a "double-consciousness." I have used two interwoven methods in interpreting this material: archival research and comparative study establish the impact of patronage and the originality of the architect; a culturalstudies approach investigates intentions and reception through analysis of journalistic coverage of the late nineteenth century, related to the history of the congregation and the wider Jewish community during this period.

scholarly journals Vendo de perto o bicho na toca: expondo o impostor neoliberal na educação

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Tania Ramalho
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Capacity ◽  
University Professor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Banking Education ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Conventional Behavior ◽  
The Impact

Com uma breve descrição do contexto da história da educação na sociedade estadunidense, o texto oferece uma narrativa das experiências de uma professora universitária brasileira no seu trabalho direto com professores numa escola primária pública no estado de New York, na presente fase neoliberal. Práticas e tecnologias perversas são utilizadas, refl etindo o impacto de quase quarenta anos da racionalidade monocultural do neoliberalismo implantada na educação. Para os professores, a obediência se torna necessidade e virtude para salvar o emprego. Seu comportamento convencional esvazia a possibilidade de comprometimento da escola com o desenvolvimento holístico dos alunos. O ensino se torna ainda mais bancário, alienado. Só com consciência do que nos pode esperar baseado neste modelo hegemônico o Brasil e a América Latina conseguirão construir um futuro emancipador, não-retrógado, mais coletivo, igualitário, inclusivo, democrático representativo da vox populi. É uma contribuição para o fortalecimento da capacidade política de fomentar políticas educacionais que garantam a continuação da educação pública, gratuita emancipadora.Palavras-chave: Educação estadunidense. Neoliberalismo. Ensino bancário Watching the beast in the lair: exposing the neoliberal impostor in educationABSTRACTWith a brief description of the context of the history of education in the United States of America, the text off ers a narrative of the experiences of a Brazilian university professor in her direct work with teachers in a public elementary school in the state of New York, at this neoliberal stage. Perverse practices and technologies are used, refl ecting the impact of almost 40 years of neoliberalism’s monocultural rationality implanted in education. For teachers, obedience becomes a necessity and a virtue to save employment. Conventional behavior empties the possibility of the school to be committed to the holistic development of students. Teaching becomes even more modelled after banking, alienating. Only with the awareness of what can be expected based on this hegemonic model will Brazil and Latin America be able to build an emancipated and non-retrograde future that is more collective, egalitarian, inclusive, and democratically representative of the vox populi. This narrative is a contribution to the strengthening of the political capacity to foster educational policies that guarantee the continuation of free and emancipatory public education.Keywords: American education. Neoliberalism. Banking education Vendo de cerca el bicho en la cueva: exponiendo el impostor neoliberal en la educaciónRESUMENCon una breve descripción del contexto de la historia de la educación en la sociedad estadounidense, el texto brinda una narrativa de las experiencias de una profesora universitaria brasileña en su trabajo directo con profesores en una escuela primaria pública en el estado de New York, en la presente fase neoliberal. Prácticas y tecnologías perversas son utilizadas, refl ejando el impacto de casi cuarenta años de la racionalidad monocultural del neoliberalismo implementada en la educación. Para los profesores, la obediencia se convierte en necesidad y virtud para salvar el empleo. Su comportamiento convencional vacía la posibilidad de comprometimiento de la escuela con el desarrollo holístico de los alumnos. La enseñanza se hace aún más bancaria, alienada. Solo con conciencia del que nos puede esperar basado en este modelo hegemónico el Brasil y Latinoamérica conseguirán construir un futuro emancipador, no retrógrado, más colectivo, igualitario, inclusivo, democrático representativo de la vox populi. Es una contribución para el fortalecimiento de la capacidad política de fomentar políticas educacionales que garantizan la continuación de la educación pública, gratuita emancipadora.Palabras clave: Educación en EE.UU. Neoliberalismo. Enseñanza bancaria.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-95
Author(s):  
James Hantula ◽  
Ronald E. Butchart ◽  
Louis Y. Van Dyke ◽  
Juan Ramón García ◽  
George Kirchmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
World War I ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
State University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Harold C. Livesay. Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1978. Pp. x, 195. Paper, $8.95. Review by Frank J. Rader of SUNY Empire State College. Leroy Ostransky. Jazz City: The Impact of our Cities on the Development of Jazz. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc, Inc., 1978. Pp. 274. Cloth, $10.95; paper, $5.95. Review by Barbara L. Yolleck of Columbia University and Rutgers University. Melvyn Dubofsky, Athan Theoharis, and Daniel M. Smith. The United States in the Twentieth Century. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978. Pp. xiv, 545. Paper, $13.95. Review by Eckard V. Toy, Jr. of the University of Oregon. Jack Bass and Walter DeVries. The Transformation of Southern Politics: Social Change and Political Consequence Since 1945. New York: Meridian, 1976. Pp. xi, 531. Paper, $5.95. Review by James L. Forsythe of Fort Hays State University. Allan R. Millett, ed. A Short History of the Vietnam War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. Pp. xx, 169. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $3.95. Review by Frank Burdick of SUNY College at Cortland. Barbara Mayer Wertheimer. We Were There: The Story of Working Women in America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. Pp. xii, 427. Paper, $6.95. Review by Sandra C. Taylor of the University of Utah. Patricia Branca. Women in Europe Since 1750. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. Pp. 223. Cloth, $17.95. Review by Dana Greene of St. Mary's College of Maryland. Michael Anderson. The Family and Industrialization in Western Europe. The Forum Series. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1978. Pp. 16. $1.45; Daniel R. Browner. Russia and the West: The Origins of the Russian Revolution. The Forum Series. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1975. Pp. 16. $1.45; David F. Trask. Woodrow Wilson and World War I. The Forum Series. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1975. Pp. 16. $1.45; Michael Adas. European Imperialism in Asia. The Forum Series. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1974. Pp. 16. $1.45. Review by Bullitt Lowry of North Texas State University. Deno J. Geanakoplos. Medieval Western Civilization and the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds. Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Co., 1979. Pp. xii, 513. Cloth, $12.95. Review by Delno C. West of Northern Arizona University. Edward Crankshaw. The Shadow of the Winter Palace: The Drift to Revolution, 1825-1917. New York: Penguin Books, 1978. Pp. 509. Paper, $3.95. Review by George Kirchmann of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Samuel H. Mayo. A History of Mexico: From Pre-Columbia to Present. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978. Pp. xi, 454. Paper, $9.95. Review by Juan Ramón García of the University of Michigan-Flint. By What Standard? A Response to Ronald E. Butchart by Louis Y. Van Dyke- Response by Ronald E. Butchart. Textbooks and the New York Times American History Examination. Review by James Hantula of the University of Northern Iowa.

Thomas Hooker—Puritanism and Democratic Citizenship

1963 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sydney E. Ahlstrom
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
George Bancroft

In a special advertising supplement to the New York Times (May 6, 1962) the State of Connecticut sponsored an old claim: “The world's first written constitution, creating government by consent of the governed, appeared in Connecticut in 1639.” The diverse implications of this venerable assertion and their relation to the Rev. Thomas Hooker are the subject of the present essay. Intimations that Hooker deserved remembrance as a champion of liberty date at least to William Hubbard's General History of New England, written in the 1670's. But full-blown theories came after 1776, and especially after Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull's discovery in 1860 of a remarkable notebook of sermon notes taken down in cipher between April, 1638, and April, 1641, by Henry Wolcott, Jr. of Windsor. Herein was found an outline of Hooker's now famous sermon to the Connecticut Court on May 31, 1638, as that body began its historic deliberations on a “Frame of Government.” George Bancroft would reflect the impact of this find in the revised edition of his widely read History of the United States. He saw in Hooker's pronouncements the “seed” whence flowered the “first of the series of written American constitutions.” Paraphrasing Ezekiel Roger's epitaph, Bancroft refers to Hooker as “the one rich pearl with which Europe more than repaid America for the treasures from her coast.” John Fiske in his work on The Beginnings of New England (1889) would claim even more stridently that Thomas Hooker “deserves more than any other man to be called the father [of American democracy].” George Leon Walker accepted Fiske's judgment and subtitled his biography “Preacher, Founder, Democrat.”

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