Isabelle De Le Court
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197266748
- eISBN:
- 9780191938146
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266748.003.0007
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
This chapter explores the cultural position of two women artists, Saloua Raouda Choucair (1916–2017) and Etel Adnan (b.1925) in the second half of the 20th century in Lebanon. The strong presence of ...
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This chapter explores the cultural position of two women artists, Saloua Raouda Choucair (1916–2017) and Etel Adnan (b.1925) in the second half of the 20th century in Lebanon. The strong presence of abstraction in their work calls for a reflection on materiality and abstraction, and on form and anti–form. Choucair and Adnan pioneered new ways of seeing, of thinking about art and its physical relationship to it through abstract aesthetics. Born in Lebanon, they have become significant artists who trained and lived abroad, while always keeping strong links to Lebanon. Their oeuvres present a reflection on the conflicted Western and Islamic heritage in Lebanon and in the Middle East at large. Although abstraction is no clear representation of female subjectivity, the use of abstraction as lived experience in Choucair’s and Adnan’s works serve to explore gender in Lebanon as a subjective and social context.Less
This chapter explores the cultural position of two women artists, Saloua Raouda Choucair (1916–2017) and Etel Adnan (b.1925) in the second half of the 20th century in Lebanon. The strong presence of abstraction in their work calls for a reflection on materiality and abstraction, and on form and anti–form. Choucair and Adnan pioneered new ways of seeing, of thinking about art and its physical relationship to it through abstract aesthetics. Born in Lebanon, they have become significant artists who trained and lived abroad, while always keeping strong links to Lebanon. Their oeuvres present a reflection on the conflicted Western and Islamic heritage in Lebanon and in the Middle East at large. Although abstraction is no clear representation of female subjectivity, the use of abstraction as lived experience in Choucair’s and Adnan’s works serve to explore gender in Lebanon as a subjective and social context.
A. H. Halsey
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199266609
- eISBN:
- 9780191601019
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199266603.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
A dozen sociologists attended LSE in the aftermath of the Second World War. They were the first generation of professional sociologist in Britain. This chapter offers an account of their origins, the ...
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A dozen sociologists attended LSE in the aftermath of the Second World War. They were the first generation of professional sociologist in Britain. This chapter offers an account of their origins, the subject they learnt, the influence of Glass and Shils on them, their anti‐Marxist but left‐wing orientation, their suspicion of functionalism, and their contribution of a sociological description of British society—its demography, class structure, ethnic composition, religion, industry, and crime.Less
A dozen sociologists attended LSE in the aftermath of the Second World War. They were the first generation of professional sociologist in Britain. This chapter offers an account of their origins, the subject they learnt, the influence of Glass and Shils on them, their anti‐Marxist but left‐wing orientation, their suspicion of functionalism, and their contribution of a sociological description of British society—its demography, class structure, ethnic composition, religion, industry, and crime.
Helena Waddy
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195371277
- eISBN:
- 9780199777341
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195371277.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
A local resistance group named after a rare Alpine bird opens Chapter Eight. Oberammergau’s forestry chief led this effort at peaceful surrender to the occupying Americans who brought a harsh postwar ...
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A local resistance group named after a rare Alpine bird opens Chapter Eight. Oberammergau’s forestry chief led this effort at peaceful surrender to the occupying Americans who brought a harsh postwar environment to a village population swollen by refugees from Germany’s lost eastern provinces and expelled ethnic Germans. All adults were subject to denazification procedures that attempted to sort out the guilty from the innocent, although most local Nazis were lightly punished as fellow travelers. The denazified villagers included Raimund Lang, who returned as mayor after a controversial local election. Village-level democracy had resumed early in 1946 while, gradually, regional and state-level democratic structures revived in their turn. Once the Federal Republic was established in 1949, Lang could lead preparations for a 1950 Passion Play season. The community had seemingly returned to normal life but the reprieve was short-lived; the shadow of their Nazi past would not disappear.Less
A local resistance group named after a rare Alpine bird opens Chapter Eight. Oberammergau’s forestry chief led this effort at peaceful surrender to the occupying Americans who brought a harsh postwar environment to a village population swollen by refugees from Germany’s lost eastern provinces and expelled ethnic Germans. All adults were subject to denazification procedures that attempted to sort out the guilty from the innocent, although most local Nazis were lightly punished as fellow travelers. The denazified villagers included Raimund Lang, who returned as mayor after a controversial local election. Village-level democracy had resumed early in 1946 while, gradually, regional and state-level democratic structures revived in their turn. Once the Federal Republic was established in 1949, Lang could lead preparations for a 1950 Passion Play season. The community had seemingly returned to normal life but the reprieve was short-lived; the shadow of their Nazi past would not disappear.
Steven Casey
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195306927
- eISBN:
- 9780199867936
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306927.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
In the middle of September 1950, MacArthur's dramatic victory at Inchon transformed the Korean War. This chapter explores the problems thrown up by this victory. In the battlefield theater, the ...
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In the middle of September 1950, MacArthur's dramatic victory at Inchon transformed the Korean War. This chapter explores the problems thrown up by this victory. In the battlefield theater, the military received scant respite from correspondents, who complained that MacArthur had made it excessively difficult to cover the Inchon campaign. In Washington, the government's efforts to sustain domestic support for a prolonged mobilization campaign appeared threatened by the public's natural tendency to lapse into complacency the minute an international crisis had passed. And in the midterm election campaign, Truman and the Democrats found it surprisingly difficult to exploit the successful turn of events in Korea, not least because the administration's decision to cross the 38th parallel threatened to bring China into the war.Less
In the middle of September 1950, MacArthur's dramatic victory at Inchon transformed the Korean War. This chapter explores the problems thrown up by this victory. In the battlefield theater, the military received scant respite from correspondents, who complained that MacArthur had made it excessively difficult to cover the Inchon campaign. In Washington, the government's efforts to sustain domestic support for a prolonged mobilization campaign appeared threatened by the public's natural tendency to lapse into complacency the minute an international crisis had passed. And in the midterm election campaign, Truman and the Democrats found it surprisingly difficult to exploit the successful turn of events in Korea, not least because the administration's decision to cross the 38th parallel threatened to bring China into the war.
John Baylis
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198280125
- eISBN:
- 9780191684357
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198280125.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
A variety of quandaries are discussed in this part of the book, especially concerning the consolidation of strategic plans situated in the mobile international location. Examples of these concerns ...
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A variety of quandaries are discussed in this part of the book, especially concerning the consolidation of strategic plans situated in the mobile international location. Examples of these concerns are as follows: the 1950 Global Strategy Paper, which accentuates on the purpose of nuclear-related efforts to shield the nation against its opponents; the equivocal statements regarding weapon systems and the Continental commitment; and Britain's dependence on the United States or on Anglo–American relations in connection to the country's goal of achieving an autonomous deterrent. Even so, it is asserted that involvement of the different divisions of the government and sufficient international control were the key elements in the defence planning of the British administration.Less
A variety of quandaries are discussed in this part of the book, especially concerning the consolidation of strategic plans situated in the mobile international location. Examples of these concerns are as follows: the 1950 Global Strategy Paper, which accentuates on the purpose of nuclear-related efforts to shield the nation against its opponents; the equivocal statements regarding weapon systems and the Continental commitment; and Britain's dependence on the United States or on Anglo–American relations in connection to the country's goal of achieving an autonomous deterrent. Even so, it is asserted that involvement of the different divisions of the government and sufficient international control were the key elements in the defence planning of the British administration.
Larry Blomstedt
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813166117
- eISBN:
- 9780813166391
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813166117.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter delves into how Congress and the Truman administration managed the first phase of the war, defined as from the beginning of the conflict until China’s entry. One theme is Truman’s ...
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This chapter delves into how Congress and the Truman administration managed the first phase of the war, defined as from the beginning of the conflict until China’s entry. One theme is Truman’s struggle to maintain a bipartisan foreign policy in spite of the efforts of the Taft wing of the Republican Party, which tried to use the conflict to its political advantage in the 1950 midterm elections. Another theme is how the president’s own party contributed to his headaches as much as the opposition GOP did. Despite the partisan Senate vote on the Tydings Committee report, initial military setbacks for UN forces, the political ambitions of Senators Taft and McCarthy, and Truman’s shortcomings as a seller of the war, public support for the Korean intervention remained strong. The chapter also examines the administration’s fateful decision, in the context of McCarthyism, to change the scope of the war by authorizing UN forces to advance north of the thirty-eighth parallel. An analysis of the effects of McCarthy’s red-baiting in the 1950 elections brings the chapter to a close.Less
This chapter delves into how Congress and the Truman administration managed the first phase of the war, defined as from the beginning of the conflict until China’s entry. One theme is Truman’s struggle to maintain a bipartisan foreign policy in spite of the efforts of the Taft wing of the Republican Party, which tried to use the conflict to its political advantage in the 1950 midterm elections. Another theme is how the president’s own party contributed to his headaches as much as the opposition GOP did. Despite the partisan Senate vote on the Tydings Committee report, initial military setbacks for UN forces, the political ambitions of Senators Taft and McCarthy, and Truman’s shortcomings as a seller of the war, public support for the Korean intervention remained strong. The chapter also examines the administration’s fateful decision, in the context of McCarthyism, to change the scope of the war by authorizing UN forces to advance north of the thirty-eighth parallel. An analysis of the effects of McCarthy’s red-baiting in the 1950 elections brings the chapter to a close.
Charles R. Shrader
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813165752
- eISBN:
- 9780813165950
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813165752.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Military History
In Chapter 9, the author describes the first logistical campaign of the First Indochina War, which encompassed the struggles of both the French and the Viet Minh to build the combat and support ...
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In Chapter 9, the author describes the first logistical campaign of the First Indochina War, which encompassed the struggles of both the French and the Viet Minh to build the combat and support forces needed to carry out their respective strategies. The operations during the period (LEA in 1947 and the battle of Route Coloniale 4 in 1950) are described as foreshadowings of the battles to come.Less
In Chapter 9, the author describes the first logistical campaign of the First Indochina War, which encompassed the struggles of both the French and the Viet Minh to build the combat and support forces needed to carry out their respective strategies. The operations during the period (LEA in 1947 and the battle of Route Coloniale 4 in 1950) are described as foreshadowings of the battles to come.
B.L. Shankar and Valerian Rodrigues
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198067726
- eISBN:
- 9780199080434
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198067726.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Indian Politics
The choice of a parliamentary form of government around which Indian democracy came to thrive is the outcome of a complex process of intellectual churning. Parliamentary institutions were not an ...
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The choice of a parliamentary form of government around which Indian democracy came to thrive is the outcome of a complex process of intellectual churning. Parliamentary institutions were not an evolutionary complex in India and the reasons that leaders advanced for their choice of such institutions was not an attachment to colonial legacies either. Elections are the principal mechanisms of sustaining and regenerating these institutions. What prompted India to opt for parliamentary democracy in spite of it being closely tied up with the colonial regime? How did the mode of election in a deeply diverse and inegalitarian polity affect the institution of parliamentary government over time? These are some of the issues that are examined in detail in this chapter. This chapter also highlights the nexus between the electoral processes in India and the Parliament on the one hand, and political parties and the Parliament on the other.Less
The choice of a parliamentary form of government around which Indian democracy came to thrive is the outcome of a complex process of intellectual churning. Parliamentary institutions were not an evolutionary complex in India and the reasons that leaders advanced for their choice of such institutions was not an attachment to colonial legacies either. Elections are the principal mechanisms of sustaining and regenerating these institutions. What prompted India to opt for parliamentary democracy in spite of it being closely tied up with the colonial regime? How did the mode of election in a deeply diverse and inegalitarian polity affect the institution of parliamentary government over time? These are some of the issues that are examined in detail in this chapter. This chapter also highlights the nexus between the electoral processes in India and the Parliament on the one hand, and political parties and the Parliament on the other.
Rosella Cappella Zielinski
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781501702495
- eISBN:
- 9781501705960
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501702495.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Security Studies
This chapter focuses on the financing of the Korean War and its within-case variation. Korean War finance can be divided into two periods, from June 1950 to mid-1951 and from mid-1951 to the end of ...
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This chapter focuses on the financing of the Korean War and its within-case variation. Korean War finance can be divided into two periods, from June 1950 to mid-1951 and from mid-1951 to the end of the war. During the first period, both the fear of inflation and support for the war effort were high. As a result, the Revenue Act of 1950, eliminating an excise tax reduction and increasing both corporate and individual income taxes, and the Excess Profit Tax Law of 1950 were swiftly signed into law. During the second period of Korean War finance, however, the political-economic landscape changed, and President Truman was only able to get half of what he requested in terms of revenue, as reflected in the Revenue Act of 1951.Less
This chapter focuses on the financing of the Korean War and its within-case variation. Korean War finance can be divided into two periods, from June 1950 to mid-1951 and from mid-1951 to the end of the war. During the first period, both the fear of inflation and support for the war effort were high. As a result, the Revenue Act of 1950, eliminating an excise tax reduction and increasing both corporate and individual income taxes, and the Excess Profit Tax Law of 1950 were swiftly signed into law. During the second period of Korean War finance, however, the political-economic landscape changed, and President Truman was only able to get half of what he requested in terms of revenue, as reflected in the Revenue Act of 1951.
Ed Bates
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199694495
- eISBN:
- 9780191729782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199694495.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter addresses the background to the creation of the ECHR. From before the drafting within the Council of Europe, the chapter examines the actual drafting of the Convention by the ...
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This chapter addresses the background to the creation of the ECHR. From before the drafting within the Council of Europe, the chapter examines the actual drafting of the Convention by the Consultative Assembly and the Member States of the Council. The chapter comments on how the Convention was perceived in 1950, when it was opened for signature, and the form that the original supervisory machinery took at that stage. The emphasis then was placed on the (now defunct) European Commission of Human Rights; the Court was an optional institution and there was no certainty that it would even be established.Less
This chapter addresses the background to the creation of the ECHR. From before the drafting within the Council of Europe, the chapter examines the actual drafting of the Convention by the Consultative Assembly and the Member States of the Council. The chapter comments on how the Convention was perceived in 1950, when it was opened for signature, and the form that the original supervisory machinery took at that stage. The emphasis then was placed on the (now defunct) European Commission of Human Rights; the Court was an optional institution and there was no certainty that it would even be established.
Michael E. Meeker
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225268
- eISBN:
- 9780520929128
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225268.003.0010
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Middle Eastern Cultural Anthropology
This chapter takes a look at the resurgence of a regional social oligarchy after the first free and direct elections in 1950, and tries to explain how the move from a one-party to a multi-party ...
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This chapter takes a look at the resurgence of a regional social oligarchy after the first free and direct elections in 1950, and tries to explain how the move from a one-party to a multi-party regime enlivened both the district networks and the coastal coalitions. This development shows how the behavioral foundations of the old state society stayed in place during the first twenty years of the Turkish Republic despite the revolution in public culture.Less
This chapter takes a look at the resurgence of a regional social oligarchy after the first free and direct elections in 1950, and tries to explain how the move from a one-party to a multi-party regime enlivened both the district networks and the coastal coalitions. This development shows how the behavioral foundations of the old state society stayed in place during the first twenty years of the Turkish Republic despite the revolution in public culture.
Amy Hill Shevitz
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813124308
- eISBN:
- 9780813134932
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813124308.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter discusses the slow demise of the Jewish community during the latter half of the twentieth century. It was during this time when the United States was undergoing a remarkable revival of ...
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This chapter discusses the slow demise of the Jewish community during the latter half of the twentieth century. It was during this time when the United States was undergoing a remarkable revival of popular interest in religion as a result of several reasons. One of these was the desire to “nest” and create security in a postwar world. At the same time, the demographic base of small-town Jewish communities was eroding, and after 1950, the Ohio River Valley began to lose its population.Less
This chapter discusses the slow demise of the Jewish community during the latter half of the twentieth century. It was during this time when the United States was undergoing a remarkable revival of popular interest in religion as a result of several reasons. One of these was the desire to “nest” and create security in a postwar world. At the same time, the demographic base of small-town Jewish communities was eroding, and after 1950, the Ohio River Valley began to lose its population.
Ralph Crane, Jane Stafford, and Mark Williams (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- June 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780199609932
- eISBN:
- 9780191869761
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199609932.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature, Prose (inc. letters, diaries)
Volume Nine of this series traces the development of the ‘world novel’, that is, English-language novels written throughout the world, beyond Britain, Ireland, and the United States. Focusing on the ...
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Volume Nine of this series traces the development of the ‘world novel’, that is, English-language novels written throughout the world, beyond Britain, Ireland, and the United States. Focusing on the period up to 1950, the volume contains survey chapters and chapters on major writers, as well as chapters on book history, publishing, and the critical contexts of the work discussed. The text covers periods from renaissance literary imaginings of exotic parts of the world like Oceania, through fiction embodying the ideology and conventions of empire, to the emergence of settler nationalist and Indigenous movements and, finally, the assimilations of modernism at the beginnings of the post-imperial world order. The book, then, contains chapters on the development of the non-metropolitan novel throughout the British world from the eighteenth to the mid twentieth centuries. This is the period of empire and resistance to empire, of settler confidence giving way to doubt, and of the rise of indigenous and post-colonial nationalisms that would shape the world after World War II.Less
Volume Nine of this series traces the development of the ‘world novel’, that is, English-language novels written throughout the world, beyond Britain, Ireland, and the United States. Focusing on the period up to 1950, the volume contains survey chapters and chapters on major writers, as well as chapters on book history, publishing, and the critical contexts of the work discussed. The text covers periods from renaissance literary imaginings of exotic parts of the world like Oceania, through fiction embodying the ideology and conventions of empire, to the emergence of settler nationalist and Indigenous movements and, finally, the assimilations of modernism at the beginnings of the post-imperial world order. The book, then, contains chapters on the development of the non-metropolitan novel throughout the British world from the eighteenth to the mid twentieth centuries. This is the period of empire and resistance to empire, of settler confidence giving way to doubt, and of the rise of indigenous and post-colonial nationalisms that would shape the world after World War II.
Matt Cole
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719082535
- eISBN:
- 9781781702024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719082535.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This chapter focuses on Richard Wainwright's constituency in Colne Valley. It discusses the history, composition, and character of Colne Valley and explains that Wainwright chose his constituency ...
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This chapter focuses on Richard Wainwright's constituency in Colne Valley. It discusses the history, composition, and character of Colne Valley and explains that Wainwright chose his constituency much as it chose him, and both sides of the relationship were strengthened by it. It highlights Wainwright's ability to present himself to the constituency as a native candidate, even though he never lived within its boundaries. This chapter also discusses Wainwright's failed candidacy for the constituency of Pudsey in the General Election of 1950.Less
This chapter focuses on Richard Wainwright's constituency in Colne Valley. It discusses the history, composition, and character of Colne Valley and explains that Wainwright chose his constituency much as it chose him, and both sides of the relationship were strengthened by it. It highlights Wainwright's ability to present himself to the constituency as a native candidate, even though he never lived within its boundaries. This chapter also discusses Wainwright's failed candidacy for the constituency of Pudsey in the General Election of 1950.
Kathryn C. Statler
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813124407
- eISBN:
- 9780813134772
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813124407.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This introductory chapter discusses the American intervention in Vietnam, which began with an alliance known as the Franco-American alliance. It looks at the events that led to the formation of this ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the American intervention in Vietnam, which began with an alliance known as the Franco-American alliance. It looks at the events that led to the formation of this alliance, especially the 1954 Geneva Conference, which represented both an end to the French military fight and a beginning to the American commitment to Vietnam. It is important to note that it was in 1950 when the first steps toward significant American involvement began.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the American intervention in Vietnam, which began with an alliance known as the Franco-American alliance. It looks at the events that led to the formation of this alliance, especially the 1954 Geneva Conference, which represented both an end to the French military fight and a beginning to the American commitment to Vietnam. It is important to note that it was in 1950 when the first steps toward significant American involvement began.
Sarah E. Ruble
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835814
- eISBN:
- 9781469601601
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807837429_ruble.6
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter focuses on American evangelicals and the affirmation of their normativity. It begins by discussing a brief historical background of the evangelicals and the impact of Cold War in their ...
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This chapter focuses on American evangelicals and the affirmation of their normativity. It begins by discussing a brief historical background of the evangelicals and the impact of Cold War in their missionary work. The chapter then discusses the critique, challenge, and limits of acceptable evangelical dissent during the late 1950s and the 1960s, with a particular focus on Elisabeth Elliot's critiques of missionary attitudes and tactics. It also discusses evangelical reflections on American missionaries in Christianity Today and in Free Methodist publications during the last three decades of the twentieth century.Less
This chapter focuses on American evangelicals and the affirmation of their normativity. It begins by discussing a brief historical background of the evangelicals and the impact of Cold War in their missionary work. The chapter then discusses the critique, challenge, and limits of acceptable evangelical dissent during the late 1950s and the 1960s, with a particular focus on Elisabeth Elliot's critiques of missionary attitudes and tactics. It also discusses evangelical reflections on American missionaries in Christianity Today and in Free Methodist publications during the last three decades of the twentieth century.
Michael Bowen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834855
- eISBN:
- 9781469602752
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807869192_bowen.10
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter discusses the 1950 election results, which did nothing to quell Republican factionalism as both Taft and Dewey saw the outcomes as further justification for their electoral strategies. ...
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This chapter discusses the 1950 election results, which did nothing to quell Republican factionalism as both Taft and Dewey saw the outcomes as further justification for their electoral strategies. As the GOP made preparations for the 1952 presidential campaign, the national political climate remained fairly static. The Korean conflict continued in stalemate, while McCarthy's crusade grew more aggressive and maintained high levels of public support. The economic picture looked to be one of ever-increasing prosperity with inflation weighing lightly on the minds of the voters. Inside the Republican organization, however, the mood transformed dramatically with rumors that General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the architect of D-Day, would seek the nomination. “Ike” regularly voted as a Republican, but since military code prevented him from making public political statements while on active duty, his party affiliation was largely unknown.Less
This chapter discusses the 1950 election results, which did nothing to quell Republican factionalism as both Taft and Dewey saw the outcomes as further justification for their electoral strategies. As the GOP made preparations for the 1952 presidential campaign, the national political climate remained fairly static. The Korean conflict continued in stalemate, while McCarthy's crusade grew more aggressive and maintained high levels of public support. The economic picture looked to be one of ever-increasing prosperity with inflation weighing lightly on the minds of the voters. Inside the Republican organization, however, the mood transformed dramatically with rumors that General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the architect of D-Day, would seek the nomination. “Ike” regularly voted as a Republican, but since military code prevented him from making public political statements while on active duty, his party affiliation was largely unknown.
Rob Christensen
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469651040
- eISBN:
- 9781469651064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Kerr Scott shocked the political world by appointing Frank Porter Graham, the president of the University of North Carolina and the South’s leading liberal to a U.S. Senate vacancy. But Graham was ...
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Kerr Scott shocked the political world by appointing Frank Porter Graham, the president of the University of North Carolina and the South’s leading liberal to a U.S. Senate vacancy. But Graham was unable to hold the seat, defeated in a red-baiting and race baiting campaign. The 1950 Senate campaign unsettled Scott, which caused him to retreat on the race issue and damaged him politically.Less
Kerr Scott shocked the political world by appointing Frank Porter Graham, the president of the University of North Carolina and the South’s leading liberal to a U.S. Senate vacancy. But Graham was unable to hold the seat, defeated in a red-baiting and race baiting campaign. The 1950 Senate campaign unsettled Scott, which caused him to retreat on the race issue and damaged him politically.
Silvia Bermúdez
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620252
- eISBN:
- 9781789623857
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620252.003.0028
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This essay takes as point of departure the well-known expression “Africa begins in the Pyrenees,” to evaluate the ways in which two postcolonial authors from Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Zamora ...
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This essay takes as point of departure the well-known expression “Africa begins in the Pyrenees,” to evaluate the ways in which two postcolonial authors from Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Zamora Loboch (1948) and Donato Ndongo Bidyogo (1950) express the double consciousness that molds the writing of those living in exile in Spain, displaced by brutal dictatorships. Particular attention is paid to the transatlantic cartographies delineated by Donato Ndongo’s El metro (2007) [The subway], as it dramatizes the negotiation of Africanness in the city of Madrid, an emblem of present-day Fortress Europe. In Francisco Zamora’s case, the essay Cómo ser negro y no morir en Aravaca (1994) [How to be Black and not die in Aravaca] and his 2009 novel Conspiración en el Green (el informe Abayak [Conspiracy in the green (The Abayak report)] demarcate the transatlantic cartographies questioning Spanish social and cultural practices that legitimize violence against Blacks.Less
This essay takes as point of departure the well-known expression “Africa begins in the Pyrenees,” to evaluate the ways in which two postcolonial authors from Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Zamora Loboch (1948) and Donato Ndongo Bidyogo (1950) express the double consciousness that molds the writing of those living in exile in Spain, displaced by brutal dictatorships. Particular attention is paid to the transatlantic cartographies delineated by Donato Ndongo’s El metro (2007) [The subway], as it dramatizes the negotiation of Africanness in the city of Madrid, an emblem of present-day Fortress Europe. In Francisco Zamora’s case, the essay Cómo ser negro y no morir en Aravaca (1994) [How to be Black and not die in Aravaca] and his 2009 novel Conspiración en el Green (el informe Abayak [Conspiracy in the green (The Abayak report)] demarcate the transatlantic cartographies questioning Spanish social and cultural practices that legitimize violence against Blacks.
A.G. Noorani
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195678291
- eISBN:
- 9780199080588
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195678291.003.0031
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
This chapter discusses the case of three members of the 1994 Rajya Sabha who were found to be not 'ordinarily residents' in their constituencies. Union Minister of State for Law and Justice H. R. ...
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This chapter discusses the case of three members of the 1994 Rajya Sabha who were found to be not 'ordinarily residents' in their constituencies. Union Minister of State for Law and Justice H. R. Bhardwaj was found to be an elector for both Haryana and Madhya Pradesh (where he was elected). Minister for External Affairs Dinesh Singh filed an application for registration as a voter in village Dhankot of the Gurgaon assembly constituency after only renting a room and without having any intention of becoming ordinarily resident at the place. Tourism Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's was included in the electoral roll of Lashkar assembly constituency in Gwalior district while he was a Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat. This chapter also explains the relevant provisions of the Representation of the People Act 1950 and the Representation of the People Act 1951.Less
This chapter discusses the case of three members of the 1994 Rajya Sabha who were found to be not 'ordinarily residents' in their constituencies. Union Minister of State for Law and Justice H. R. Bhardwaj was found to be an elector for both Haryana and Madhya Pradesh (where he was elected). Minister for External Affairs Dinesh Singh filed an application for registration as a voter in village Dhankot of the Gurgaon assembly constituency after only renting a room and without having any intention of becoming ordinarily resident at the place. Tourism Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's was included in the electoral roll of Lashkar assembly constituency in Gwalior district while he was a Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat. This chapter also explains the relevant provisions of the Representation of the People Act 1950 and the Representation of the People Act 1951.
