PDF-(EBOOK)-Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture

This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award It chronicles Americas transformation beginning in 1880 into a nation of consumers devoted to a cult of comfort bodily wellbeing and endless acquisition 24 pages of photos. 1814-1914. Capitalism. Feudalism Economics. Under feudalism, land was overwhelmingly the main means of production. . Land . was owned by feudal lords, and a large number of peasants bound to the land worked it in small farms. . Protestant Reformation. Led by Martin Luther. Excommunicated by Catholic Church. Heads of state determined “state” religion . Lutherans. Germany, Scandinavia. Catholics. Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Ireland, Germany, Poland. By Liam, Robbie, and Kristen. Political Factors - Instability. Kings lost power. Charlemagne crowned king by Pope. Church is more powerful than state. If this wasn’t accepted it would be considered an insult. Medieval Europe. The Origins of Feudalism. After the Fall of Rome, new powers emerged to take their place (i.e. The Franks, Visigoths etc.). However, the new empires were unable to withstand the constant pressure of war, invasion. Creating our YSU. 1. Culture of Community. Office of the President. Division of. Multicultural. Affairs. CoC. RISE Committees. cartoon. 2. Associate Vice President. Responsibilities. CDO/AVP’s Role. By . Wezley,Bronson,Bianca,Furkan. and Samantha. . Ancient Egypt . Agriculture. Behind these kings and queens were pawns, behind these temples, palaces and pyramids were the workers of the cities and the peasants of the fields of Ancient Egypt Agriculture. . After the . Spanish. brought horses to New Mexico, the . Native American. way of life changed. Horses, and later guns allowed them to . travel. farther and . hunt. more efficiently.. The . buffalo. Japan. AP World History. The Rise of Japan. Tokugawa – 250 years of peace. Shogun, daimyo, samurai kept stability. Alternate attendance in Edo. Strict/detailed rules of behavior of society to keep order. Two inventions that improved farming in the Middle Ages were the horse collar and the horseshoe.. Answer: True. Serfs were not required to provide labor services for the manor.. Answer: False. Peasants legally bound to the land.. Medieval Europe True or False? Two inventions that improved farming in the Middle Ages were the horse collar and the horseshoe. Answer: True Serfs were not required to provide labor services for the manor. + Overview + Heads-Up:. + Second Article Summary is Due Today!. + Please submit a hardcopy. + Tips: be specific in artifact selection (not a product category); use citations; avoid generalizations . La supériorité militaire de l\'Occident, depuis l\'Antiquité, semble reposer sur une conception particulière de la guerre et de la mort. Car l\'issue d\'une guerre ne dépend pas toujours du nombre de combattants, de la connaissance du terrain, ou même de la stratégie des chefs militaires. A l\'analyse tactique ou géopolitique, Victor Davis Hanson oppose une théorie quelque peu iconoclaste : la victoire, sur le champ de bataille, tient à la cristallisation de valeurs économiques, politiques et culturelles. Ce sont l\'individualisme, la démocratie, le rationalisme et l\'esprit d\'entreprise qui firent plier, en maints endroits du monde, les armées ennemies. Ce fut encore l\'Occident qui accoucha des conceptions les plus radicales et tes plus meurtrières de la guerre : la guerre juste ou la guerre d\'anéantissement, par exemple. A travers le récit de neuf batailles décisives (Salamine, 480 avant J.-C. Gaugamèles, 331 avant J.-C. Cannes, 216 avant J.-C. Poitiers, 732 Tenochtitlan, 1520-1521 Lépante, 1571 Rorke\'s Drift, 1879 Midway, 1942 et Tet, 1968), Victor Davis Hanson explore les multiples facettes d\'une suprématie guerrière inégalée. Profondément polémique, cette histoire de la supériorité occidentale permet de lire en filigrane son envers le plus sombre : le cannibalisme politique et religieux des Européens au fil des siècles. How did the United States become committed to the warplane as an instrument of national policy? What forces influenced America\'s decision to rely on indiscriminate destruction to implement its will? This book is the first in-depth history of the rise of American strategic bombing. With impressive sweep and vigor, Michael S. Sherry explores the aspirations and illusions that led Americans to embrace air power before World War II, the ideas, techniques, and organizations that guided air attacks during the war, and the devastating effects of American and British conventional bombing. His book is a major contribution to American military, intellectual, and political history.Sherry investigates the growing appeal of air power in America from the turn of the century to the end of World War II. he demonstrates that the airplane became at the same time the embodiment of the fantasy of flight, a celebration of American technical genius and might, and a promise of escape from the protracted destruction suffered by land armies. Then, because what America thought about air power is only half the story, Sherry reconstructs in compelling detail what bombing actually did, focusing on the campaign of firebombing against Japanese cities during World War II that preceded the atomic bomb and rivaled it in destructive fury. Sherry explores why Americans employed against Japan the techniques of city bombing they had usually resisted in Europe and, in the process, examines the insidious role of racism in American policy. He shows how the bureaucratization of this war, by which the bombing campaign against Japan was directed from offices in Washington D.C., affected the decision process, And he assesses the roles and personalities of such controversial policymakers as Roosevelt, LeMay, Arnold, and Truman.Sherry\'s book traces the origins of a dangerous illusion in American thought about bombing and mass destruction: that the bombing of cities would be so horrific that nations would not dare let it occur, or long tolerate it if restraint broke down. This illusion, says Sherry, persists today and it has sanctioned the growth of nuclear arsenal, crippled efforts to contain the nuclear buildup, and immensely deepened the modern nuclear peril. How did the United States become committed to the warplane as an instrument of national policy? What forces influenced America\'s decision to rely on indiscriminate destruction to implement its will? This book is the first in-depth history of the rise of American strategic bombing. With impressive sweep and vigor, Michael S. Sherry explores the aspirations and illusions that led Americans to embrace air power before World War II, the ideas, techniques, and organizations that guided air attacks during the war, and the devastating effects of American and British conventional bombing. His book is a major contribution to American military, intellectual, and political history.Sherry investigates the growing appeal of air power in America from the turn of the century to the end of World War II. he demonstrates that the airplane became at the same time the embodiment of the fantasy of flight, a celebration of American technical genius and might, and a promise of escape from the protracted destruction suffered by land armies. Then, because what America thought about air power is only half the story, Sherry reconstructs in compelling detail what bombing actually did, focusing on the campaign of firebombing against Japanese cities during World War II that preceded the atomic bomb and rivaled it in destructive fury. Sherry explores why Americans employed against Japan the techniques of city bombing they had usually resisted in Europe and, in the process, examines the insidious role of racism in American policy. He shows how the bureaucratization of this war, by which the bombing campaign against Japan was directed from offices in Washington D.C., affected the decision process, And he assesses the roles and personalities of such controversial policymakers as Roosevelt, LeMay, Arnold, and Truman.Sherry\'s book traces the origins of a dangerous illusion in American thought about bombing and mass destruction: that the bombing of cities would be so horrific that nations would not dare let it occur, or long tolerate it if restraint broke down. This illusion, says Sherry, persists today and it has sanctioned the growth of nuclear arsenal, crippled efforts to contain the nuclear buildup, and immensely deepened the modern nuclear peril.