Nicholas P. Money
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195189711
- eISBN:
- 9780199790265
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189711.003.0003
- Subject:
- Biology, Microbiology
This chapter describes the history and continuing impact of the rust fungus, Hemileia vastatrix, on coffee crops. In the 19th century, this pathogen wiped-out coffee crops in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and ...
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This chapter describes the history and continuing impact of the rust fungus, Hemileia vastatrix, on coffee crops. In the 19th century, this pathogen wiped-out coffee crops in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and transformed the country into a tea-producing island. The scientist Harry Marshall Ward played a key role in the story of coffee rust, and was posted to Ceylon in 1880 to identify the cause of the epidemic. Coffee rust remains an exceedingly important agricultural problem in the developing world. A diversity of stories about the biology and sociology of this fungal disease of international importance is presented.Less
This chapter describes the history and continuing impact of the rust fungus, Hemileia vastatrix, on coffee crops. In the 19th century, this pathogen wiped-out coffee crops in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and transformed the country into a tea-producing island. The scientist Harry Marshall Ward played a key role in the story of coffee rust, and was posted to Ceylon in 1880 to identify the cause of the epidemic. Coffee rust remains an exceedingly important agricultural problem in the developing world. A diversity of stories about the biology and sociology of this fungal disease of international importance is presented.
Nicholas P. Money
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195189711
- eISBN:
- 9780199790265
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189711.003.0008
- Subject:
- Biology, Microbiology
This chapter explores the future of the ongoing competition between humans and fungi for control of the biosphere. The emerging diseases of white pine blister rust, sudden oak death, jarrah dieback, ...
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This chapter explores the future of the ongoing competition between humans and fungi for control of the biosphere. The emerging diseases of white pine blister rust, sudden oak death, jarrah dieback, soybean rust, and rice blast offer useful perspectives on the planet’s rotten present and rotten future. The use of fungi as agents of agricultural and biological warfare is also featured. The global impact of fungal disease is highlighted, with the idea that a fungal super-pathogen of Cretaceous plants may have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs.Less
This chapter explores the future of the ongoing competition between humans and fungi for control of the biosphere. The emerging diseases of white pine blister rust, sudden oak death, jarrah dieback, soybean rust, and rice blast offer useful perspectives on the planet’s rotten present and rotten future. The use of fungi as agents of agricultural and biological warfare is also featured. The global impact of fungal disease is highlighted, with the idea that a fungal super-pathogen of Cretaceous plants may have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Nicholas P. Money
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195189711
- eISBN:
- 9780199790265
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189711.003.0006
- Subject:
- Biology, Microbiology
This chapter discusses fungal diseases of staple cereal crops and their historical and contemporary effects upon agriculture and civilization. Two thousand years ago, the Romans tried to combat wheat ...
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This chapter discusses fungal diseases of staple cereal crops and their historical and contemporary effects upon agriculture and civilization. Two thousand years ago, the Romans tried to combat wheat diseases by placating their mildew god called Robigus. The scientific study of plant diseases began in the 1750s with experiments on stinking bunt of wheat by the French investigator Mathieu Tillet. Revolutionary work on the same disease by Bénédict Prévost in the early 19th century was followed by the innovative research of Anton de Bary on the rust life cycle. Modern work on fungal evolution, plant breeding, and fungicide development is also considered in this chapter.Less
This chapter discusses fungal diseases of staple cereal crops and their historical and contemporary effects upon agriculture and civilization. Two thousand years ago, the Romans tried to combat wheat diseases by placating their mildew god called Robigus. The scientific study of plant diseases began in the 1750s with experiments on stinking bunt of wheat by the French investigator Mathieu Tillet. Revolutionary work on the same disease by Bénédict Prévost in the early 19th century was followed by the innovative research of Anton de Bary on the rust life cycle. Modern work on fungal evolution, plant breeding, and fungicide development is also considered in this chapter.
Nicholas P. Money
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195154573
- eISBN:
- 9780199790272
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195154573.003.0009
- Subject:
- Biology, Microbiology
This chapter discusses the plant diseases caused by fungi. Fungi cause more plant diseases than all other enemies combined. Since the beginning of agriculture, livelihoods and lives have been lost to ...
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This chapter discusses the plant diseases caused by fungi. Fungi cause more plant diseases than all other enemies combined. Since the beginning of agriculture, livelihoods and lives have been lost to rusts, smuts, bunts, mildews, potato blight, and rice blast. Of particular significance in this discussion is a pestilence called coffee rust that ravages an indispensable coffee crop in South America. Fungi also spoil food after it has been harvested, rotting fruits and vegetables during storage, transport, and in the recesses of refrigerators.Less
This chapter discusses the plant diseases caused by fungi. Fungi cause more plant diseases than all other enemies combined. Since the beginning of agriculture, livelihoods and lives have been lost to rusts, smuts, bunts, mildews, potato blight, and rice blast. Of particular significance in this discussion is a pestilence called coffee rust that ravages an indispensable coffee crop in South America. Fungi also spoil food after it has been harvested, rotting fruits and vegetables during storage, transport, and in the recesses of refrigerators.
Danny McKenzie
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604731309
- eISBN:
- 9781604733402
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604731309.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This chapter describes Jack Reed’s 1956 speech before an all-black audience at Rust College, a Methodist college in the north Mississippi town of Holly Springs. Reed spoke about his faith and the ...
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This chapter describes Jack Reed’s 1956 speech before an all-black audience at Rust College, a Methodist college in the north Mississippi town of Holly Springs. Reed spoke about his faith and the issue of integration, and concluded with some positive words about the state of Mississippi’s economy and how its improvement would benefit its black citizens.Less
This chapter describes Jack Reed’s 1956 speech before an all-black audience at Rust College, a Methodist college in the north Mississippi town of Holly Springs. Reed spoke about his faith and the issue of integration, and concluded with some positive words about the state of Mississippi’s economy and how its improvement would benefit its black citizens.
Susan Dewey
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520266902
- eISBN:
- 9780520948310
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520266902.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated “rust belt” of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, the book shows how these women negotiate their lives as ...
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This book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated “rust belt” of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, the book shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Neither disparaging nor romanticizing the book's subjects, this text investigates the complicated dynamic of performance, resilience, economic need, and emotional vulnerability that comprises the life of a stripper. An accessibly written text that uses academic theories and methods to make sense of feminized labor, this book shows that sex work is part of the learned process by which some women come to believe that their self-esteem, material worth, and possibilities for life improvement are invested in their bodies.Less
This book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated “rust belt” of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, the book shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Neither disparaging nor romanticizing the book's subjects, this text investigates the complicated dynamic of performance, resilience, economic need, and emotional vulnerability that comprises the life of a stripper. An accessibly written text that uses academic theories and methods to make sense of feminized labor, this book shows that sex work is part of the learned process by which some women come to believe that their self-esteem, material worth, and possibilities for life improvement are invested in their bodies.
E. C. Pielou
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801477409
- eISBN:
- 9780801463037
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801477409.003.0008
- Subject:
- Biology, Plant Sciences and Forestry
This chapter discusses the wood-destroying fungi that cause wood to rot, decompose, or decay. These fungi are vital in the maintenance of living, growing forests. Without them, dead woody debris, ...
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This chapter discusses the wood-destroying fungi that cause wood to rot, decompose, or decay. These fungi are vital in the maintenance of living, growing forests. Without them, dead woody debris, fallen trees, logs, branches, and twigs would accumulate on the forest floor year after year without end. Decay fungi are an entirely different set of fungus species than those forming mycorrhizae. The fruiting body of most decay fungi is known as a conk or shelf fungus. A conk grows on the surface of its tree host, and its hyphae grow directly into the tree's tissues without touching the soil. Most of the decay fungi are polypores (family Polyporaceae), whose spores are liberated through numerous fine pores on the lower surface of the cap or shelf. Red-belted (also known as red-banded) polypore (Fomitopsis pinicola) attacks the majority of conifers. The fungus attacks dead trees, producing reddish brown, rotted wood that is divided first into neat cubes, which later crumble. Other conifer parasites are rust fungi and a genus of parasitic flowering plants called dwarf mistletoes.Less
This chapter discusses the wood-destroying fungi that cause wood to rot, decompose, or decay. These fungi are vital in the maintenance of living, growing forests. Without them, dead woody debris, fallen trees, logs, branches, and twigs would accumulate on the forest floor year after year without end. Decay fungi are an entirely different set of fungus species than those forming mycorrhizae. The fruiting body of most decay fungi is known as a conk or shelf fungus. A conk grows on the surface of its tree host, and its hyphae grow directly into the tree's tissues without touching the soil. Most of the decay fungi are polypores (family Polyporaceae), whose spores are liberated through numerous fine pores on the lower surface of the cap or shelf. Red-belted (also known as red-banded) polypore (Fomitopsis pinicola) attacks the majority of conifers. The fungus attacks dead trees, producing reddish brown, rotted wood that is divided first into neat cubes, which later crumble. Other conifer parasites are rust fungi and a genus of parasitic flowering plants called dwarf mistletoes.
Marilyn A. Lewis, Davide A. Secci, Christian Hengstermann, John H. Lewis, and Benjamin Williams
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198807025
- eISBN:
- 9780191844812
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198807025.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s Latin academic text entitled The Messiah Promised in the Holy Scripture Came a Long Time Ago. Here Rust talks about how he considered ...
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This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s Latin academic text entitled The Messiah Promised in the Holy Scripture Came a Long Time Ago. Here Rust talks about how he considered demonstrating that ‘Jesus himself was the promised Messiah, since it is an accepted fact among liberal and judicious men that the stubborn incredulity of the Jews and their sworn hatred towards God’s Christ cannot be justified by any means’. Rust explains how he has defended his arguments from the Holy Scriptures from all the objections raised by the Jews. In conclusion, he declares that ‘The Messiah promised in the Holy Scripture came a long time ago’.Less
This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s Latin academic text entitled The Messiah Promised in the Holy Scripture Came a Long Time Ago. Here Rust talks about how he considered demonstrating that ‘Jesus himself was the promised Messiah, since it is an accepted fact among liberal and judicious men that the stubborn incredulity of the Jews and their sworn hatred towards God’s Christ cannot be justified by any means’. Rust explains how he has defended his arguments from the Holy Scriptures from all the objections raised by the Jews. In conclusion, he declares that ‘The Messiah promised in the Holy Scripture came a long time ago’.
Bruce D. Epperson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226067537
- eISBN:
- 9780226067674
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226067674.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter begins with the story of Brian Rust, who died in his sleep at the age of eighty-eight on January 5, 2011. Rust was one of the world's foremost jazz record collectors. By the time he ...
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This chapter begins with the story of Brian Rust, who died in his sleep at the age of eighty-eight on January 5, 2011. Rust was one of the world's foremost jazz record collectors. By the time he turned twenty, his research into the background and origins of rare and obscure recordings was so encyclopedic that he had already become known within the politically fractious, jealous, and mutually suspicious community of jazz music collectors as the “Sage of Edgware.” It was Rust who first visualized the discography's potential as a platform for research. The chapter also discusses the meaning of “discography” and defines a typology of the editing approaches that comprehensive discographers used over the years to limit the size and scope of their works.Less
This chapter begins with the story of Brian Rust, who died in his sleep at the age of eighty-eight on January 5, 2011. Rust was one of the world's foremost jazz record collectors. By the time he turned twenty, his research into the background and origins of rare and obscure recordings was so encyclopedic that he had already become known within the politically fractious, jealous, and mutually suspicious community of jazz music collectors as the “Sage of Edgware.” It was Rust who first visualized the discography's potential as a platform for research. The chapter also discusses the meaning of “discography” and defines a typology of the editing approaches that comprehensive discographers used over the years to limit the size and scope of their works.
Bruce D. Epperson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226067537
- eISBN:
- 9780226067674
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226067674.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter describes notable discographies and discographers from 1961–70. These include Brian Rust's publication of his long-awaited Jazz Records, A-Z, 1897–1931; the first volume of Jørgen ...
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This chapter describes notable discographies and discographers from 1961–70. These include Brian Rust's publication of his long-awaited Jazz Records, A-Z, 1897–1931; the first volume of Jørgen Grunnet Jepsen's Jazz Records, 1942–196X; John Godrich and Robert Dixon's Blues and Gospel Records, 1902–1942; and Leadbitter and Slaven's Blues Records, 1943–1966.Less
This chapter describes notable discographies and discographers from 1961–70. These include Brian Rust's publication of his long-awaited Jazz Records, A-Z, 1897–1931; the first volume of Jørgen Grunnet Jepsen's Jazz Records, 1942–196X; John Godrich and Robert Dixon's Blues and Gospel Records, 1902–1942; and Leadbitter and Slaven's Blues Records, 1943–1966.
Bruce D. Epperson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226067537
- eISBN:
- 9780226067674
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226067674.003.0008
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter describes notable discographies and discographers from 1979 onwards. These include the fourth edition of Brian Rust's Jazz Records, A-Z; the twenty-sixth and final volume of Tom Lord's ...
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This chapter describes notable discographies and discographers from 1979 onwards. These include the fourth edition of Brian Rust's Jazz Records, A-Z; the twenty-sixth and final volume of Tom Lord's The Jazz Discography; the Internet's expansion of new alternatives to Lord's all-encompassing general discography; and do-it-yourself discography.Less
This chapter describes notable discographies and discographers from 1979 onwards. These include the fourth edition of Brian Rust's Jazz Records, A-Z; the twenty-sixth and final volume of Tom Lord's The Jazz Discography; the Internet's expansion of new alternatives to Lord's all-encompassing general discography; and do-it-yourself discography.
Andrew R. Highsmith
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226050058
- eISBN:
- 9780226251080
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226251080.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
In 1997, executives from the General Motors Corporation (GM) announced plans to shutter a massive complex of automobile factories in the Rust Belt city of Flint, Michigan. Shortly after the plants ...
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In 1997, executives from the General Motors Corporation (GM) announced plans to shutter a massive complex of automobile factories in the Rust Belt city of Flint, Michigan. Shortly after the plants closed, company officials placed signs around the facility that read, “Demolition Means Progress.” The signs suggested that the struggling city of Flint—GM’s birthplace and onetime manufacturing hub—could not move forward to civic greatness until the old plants met the wrecking ball. More than just a corporate slogan, GM’s phrase encapsulates the operating ethos of the nation’s metropolitan leadership from the Great Depression of the 1930s through the present. Throughout that long period, residents of Flint and other cities repeatedly tried to revitalize their communities by demolishing outdated structures and institutions. During the Depression, education officials hoped to renew the city by re-making public schools into racially segregated community centers. In the postwar era, federal housing administrators sought to reinvigorate the local real estate market by subsidizing suburbanization and practicing various forms of mortgage redlining. Over the same period, GM executives worked to revolutionize automobile production by demolishing old urban factories and rebuilding them outside the city. When those efforts failed to create a renaissance, city leaders launched a plan to replace African-American neighborhoods with a freeway and new factories. In the end, though, each of these campaigns yielded a more impoverished and racially divided metropolis. Demolition Means Progress focuses on how these and other urban renewal efforts contributed to mass suburbanization, racial segregation, and deindustrialization.Less
In 1997, executives from the General Motors Corporation (GM) announced plans to shutter a massive complex of automobile factories in the Rust Belt city of Flint, Michigan. Shortly after the plants closed, company officials placed signs around the facility that read, “Demolition Means Progress.” The signs suggested that the struggling city of Flint—GM’s birthplace and onetime manufacturing hub—could not move forward to civic greatness until the old plants met the wrecking ball. More than just a corporate slogan, GM’s phrase encapsulates the operating ethos of the nation’s metropolitan leadership from the Great Depression of the 1930s through the present. Throughout that long period, residents of Flint and other cities repeatedly tried to revitalize their communities by demolishing outdated structures and institutions. During the Depression, education officials hoped to renew the city by re-making public schools into racially segregated community centers. In the postwar era, federal housing administrators sought to reinvigorate the local real estate market by subsidizing suburbanization and practicing various forms of mortgage redlining. Over the same period, GM executives worked to revolutionize automobile production by demolishing old urban factories and rebuilding them outside the city. When those efforts failed to create a renaissance, city leaders launched a plan to replace African-American neighborhoods with a freeway and new factories. In the end, though, each of these campaigns yielded a more impoverished and racially divided metropolis. Demolition Means Progress focuses on how these and other urban renewal efforts contributed to mass suburbanization, racial segregation, and deindustrialization.
Iván Villarmea Álvarez
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231174534
- eISBN:
- 9780231850780
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231174534.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter discusses two urban self-portraits, Tony Buba's Lightning Over Braddock (1988) and Michael Moore's Roger & Me (1989), in the context of historic urban identities giving way for the ...
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This chapter discusses two urban self-portraits, Tony Buba's Lightning Over Braddock (1988) and Michael Moore's Roger & Me (1989), in the context of historic urban identities giving way for the development of global cities. These films illustrate the decline of the American Rust Belt cities in the 1980s through first-person narratives in which the directors themselves appeared onscreen. Buba and Moore became characters as important as the depicted cities by using their own body and subjectivity in order to convey the main concerns of their community. And by combining an ironic self-portrait based on the aesthetics of failure with committed activism and guerrilla practices, both Buba and Moore widen the discursive possibilities of the socio-political documentary film, joining the defence of their respective communities with the expression of their own subjectivity.Less
This chapter discusses two urban self-portraits, Tony Buba's Lightning Over Braddock (1988) and Michael Moore's Roger & Me (1989), in the context of historic urban identities giving way for the development of global cities. These films illustrate the decline of the American Rust Belt cities in the 1980s through first-person narratives in which the directors themselves appeared onscreen. Buba and Moore became characters as important as the depicted cities by using their own body and subjectivity in order to convey the main concerns of their community. And by combining an ironic self-portrait based on the aesthetics of failure with committed activism and guerrilla practices, both Buba and Moore widen the discursive possibilities of the socio-political documentary film, joining the defence of their respective communities with the expression of their own subjectivity.
Andrew R. Highsmith
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226050058
- eISBN:
- 9780226251080
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226251080.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
During the 1970s and 1980s, municipal officials launched a massive campaign of urban revitalization to stimulate Flint’s economy. As part of this effort, local policymakers cleared hundreds of acres ...
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During the 1970s and 1980s, municipal officials launched a massive campaign of urban revitalization to stimulate Flint’s economy. As part of this effort, local policymakers cleared hundreds of acres of land for redevelopment, provided dozens of tax abatements to corporations, and used annexation to absorb businesses in neighboring suburbs. City leaders also supported the development of AutoWorld, the Water Street Festival Marketplace, and other projects designed to revitalize the city. Still, local officials could not persuade General Motors executives to modernize their urban plants. Faced with an ongoing loss of market share, GM laid off tens of thousands of Flint workers and closed numerous local plants during the 1970s and 1980s. The plant closures and layoffs devastated Flint’s economy along with its reputation as a company town. Local filmmaker Michael Moore documented GM’s disinvestment from Flint in his 1989 film, Roger and Me. Though deindustrialization created crises in many areas of the country, Flint, with its strong unions and high wages, bore the brunt of GM’s restructuring initiatives. Between 1970 and 2000, GM cut its local workforce dramatically while investing heavily in the Sunbelt and abroad. These long-distance capital migrations marked Flint’s emergence as an epicenter of the “Rust Belt.”Less
During the 1970s and 1980s, municipal officials launched a massive campaign of urban revitalization to stimulate Flint’s economy. As part of this effort, local policymakers cleared hundreds of acres of land for redevelopment, provided dozens of tax abatements to corporations, and used annexation to absorb businesses in neighboring suburbs. City leaders also supported the development of AutoWorld, the Water Street Festival Marketplace, and other projects designed to revitalize the city. Still, local officials could not persuade General Motors executives to modernize their urban plants. Faced with an ongoing loss of market share, GM laid off tens of thousands of Flint workers and closed numerous local plants during the 1970s and 1980s. The plant closures and layoffs devastated Flint’s economy along with its reputation as a company town. Local filmmaker Michael Moore documented GM’s disinvestment from Flint in his 1989 film, Roger and Me. Though deindustrialization created crises in many areas of the country, Flint, with its strong unions and high wages, bore the brunt of GM’s restructuring initiatives. Between 1970 and 2000, GM cut its local workforce dramatically while investing heavily in the Sunbelt and abroad. These long-distance capital migrations marked Flint’s emergence as an epicenter of the “Rust Belt.”
Marilyn A. Lewis, Davide A. Secci, Christian Hengstermann, John H. Lewis, and Benjamin Williams
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198807025
- eISBN:
- 9780191844812
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198807025.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter aims to contribute to our knowledge of what is known as ‘Origenian Platonist moment’ by analysing English translations of three Latin academic texts by George Rust, with annotations to ...
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This chapter aims to contribute to our knowledge of what is known as ‘Origenian Platonist moment’ by analysing English translations of three Latin academic texts by George Rust, with annotations to the two longer ones, written in 1656 and 1658 while he was a fellow of Christ’s College at the University of Cambridge: Messias in S. Scriptura promissus olim venit (The Messiah promised in the Holy Scripture came a long time ago); Act Verses, a souvenir printed broadsheet containing two poems, Resurrectionem e mortuis Scriptura docet nec refragatur Ratio (Scripture teaches the resurrection from the dead, and reason does not contradict this) and Anima separata non dormit (The soul, separated from the body, does not sleep); and Resurrectionem è Mortuis S. Scriptura tradit, nec refragatur Ratio (The Holy Scripture tells of the Resurrection of the dead, nor does reason oppose it). The two 1658 texts formed part of what was perhaps the most public exposition and celebration of Origenian Platonisme in Interregnum Cambridge.Less
This chapter aims to contribute to our knowledge of what is known as ‘Origenian Platonist moment’ by analysing English translations of three Latin academic texts by George Rust, with annotations to the two longer ones, written in 1656 and 1658 while he was a fellow of Christ’s College at the University of Cambridge: Messias in S. Scriptura promissus olim venit (The Messiah promised in the Holy Scripture came a long time ago); Act Verses, a souvenir printed broadsheet containing two poems, Resurrectionem e mortuis Scriptura docet nec refragatur Ratio (Scripture teaches the resurrection from the dead, and reason does not contradict this) and Anima separata non dormit (The soul, separated from the body, does not sleep); and Resurrectionem è Mortuis S. Scriptura tradit, nec refragatur Ratio (The Holy Scripture tells of the Resurrection of the dead, nor does reason oppose it). The two 1658 texts formed part of what was perhaps the most public exposition and celebration of Origenian Platonisme in Interregnum Cambridge.
Marilyn A. Lewis, Davide A. Secci, Christian Hengstermann, John H. Lewis, and Benjamin Williams
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198807025
- eISBN:
- 9780191844812
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198807025.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s two poems, contained in his Latin academic text entitled Act Verses: Scripture teaches the resurrection from the dead, and reason does ...
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This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s two poems, contained in his Latin academic text entitled Act Verses: Scripture teaches the resurrection from the dead, and reason does not contradict this and The soul, separated from the body, does not sleep. In the first poem, Rust says ‘Whoever is guided by God and reason, the mind’s two eyes, sails safely like the one whose course follows the light of the twin stars, Castor and Pollux. We call upon these two lights as our two sacred witnesses that human souls, separated from their earthly burden, will not therefore be perpetually cast about naked once they have put off their body and material covering’. In the second poem, Rust claims that ‘The pure mind will exult on the summit of Olympus, free from sleep and joining the angelic choirs. The impure and guilty soul is tormented by its own Erinys, wide awake, being relentlessly beset by its own Furies’.Less
This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s two poems, contained in his Latin academic text entitled Act Verses: Scripture teaches the resurrection from the dead, and reason does not contradict this and The soul, separated from the body, does not sleep. In the first poem, Rust says ‘Whoever is guided by God and reason, the mind’s two eyes, sails safely like the one whose course follows the light of the twin stars, Castor and Pollux. We call upon these two lights as our two sacred witnesses that human souls, separated from their earthly burden, will not therefore be perpetually cast about naked once they have put off their body and material covering’. In the second poem, Rust claims that ‘The pure mind will exult on the summit of Olympus, free from sleep and joining the angelic choirs. The impure and guilty soul is tormented by its own Erinys, wide awake, being relentlessly beset by its own Furies’.
Marilyn A. Lewis, Davide A. Secci, Christian Hengstermann, John H. Lewis, and Benjamin Williams
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198807025
- eISBN:
- 9780191844812
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198807025.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s Latin academic text entitled The Holy Scripture Tells of the Resurrection from the Dead, nor does Reason Oppose It. The soul Separated ...
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This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s Latin academic text entitled The Holy Scripture Tells of the Resurrection from the Dead, nor does Reason Oppose It. The soul Separated does not Sleep. Here Rust expresses his views about the resurrection of the dead. He cites I Corinthians 15:53, ‘For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality’, and analyses the reasoning by means of which the body is said to be the same throughout the entire span of life. Rust ends the discussion with the statement ‘The Holy Scripture tells of the resurrection from the dead, nor does reason oppose it’.Less
This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s Latin academic text entitled The Holy Scripture Tells of the Resurrection from the Dead, nor does Reason Oppose It. The soul Separated does not Sleep. Here Rust expresses his views about the resurrection of the dead. He cites I Corinthians 15:53, ‘For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality’, and analyses the reasoning by means of which the body is said to be the same throughout the entire span of life. Rust ends the discussion with the statement ‘The Holy Scripture tells of the resurrection from the dead, nor does reason oppose it’.
Theda Skocpol, Lara Putnam, and Caroline Tervo
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190083526
- eISBN:
- 9780190083564
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190083526.003.0013
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
How will new grassroots resistance groups affect the electoral prospects and activities of the Democratic Party? This chapter draws evidence from groups in many states, but it principally analyzes ...
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How will new grassroots resistance groups affect the electoral prospects and activities of the Democratic Party? This chapter draws evidence from groups in many states, but it principally analyzes changes in the large, variegated state of Pennsylvania—where more than two hundred grassroots anti-Trump groups emerged after 2016 in all but a dozen of sixty-seven counties. Drawing from answers to online questionnaires given by leaders of eighty-two groups, the chapter details group involvements in the 2018 election and analyzes the changing relationships between grassroots groups and Democratic candidates and local parties in five Pennsylvania settings: inner cities, metropolitan suburbs, upscale exurbs, declining rust belt areas, and rural counties.Less
How will new grassroots resistance groups affect the electoral prospects and activities of the Democratic Party? This chapter draws evidence from groups in many states, but it principally analyzes changes in the large, variegated state of Pennsylvania—where more than two hundred grassroots anti-Trump groups emerged after 2016 in all but a dozen of sixty-seven counties. Drawing from answers to online questionnaires given by leaders of eighty-two groups, the chapter details group involvements in the 2018 election and analyzes the changing relationships between grassroots groups and Democratic candidates and local parties in five Pennsylvania settings: inner cities, metropolitan suburbs, upscale exurbs, declining rust belt areas, and rural counties.
Edward B. Foley
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190060152
- eISBN:
- 9780190060183
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190060152.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
The 2016 election is, at a minimum, problematic from a Jeffersonian perspective, like 1992, and may have been another systemic malfunction, like 2000. Donald Trump received 107 of his 304 electoral ...
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The 2016 election is, at a minimum, problematic from a Jeffersonian perspective, like 1992, and may have been another systemic malfunction, like 2000. Donald Trump received 107 of his 304 electoral votes in states where he won less than 50 percent of the popular vote—failing to achieve the kind of compound majority-of-majorities consistent with the Jeffersonian vision of how the system should work. 2016 illustrates the system’s inability to handle third-party and independent candidates, like Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, an inability caused by the addition of plurality winner-take-all in the Jacksonian era. It is unknowable whether Trump or Hillary Clinton would have won runoffs in the three pivotal Rust Belt states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. But if Clinton had won runoffs there (and in the states where she was only a plurality winner), then she would have won the Electoral College with an appropriately Jeffersonian majority-of-majorities.Less
The 2016 election is, at a minimum, problematic from a Jeffersonian perspective, like 1992, and may have been another systemic malfunction, like 2000. Donald Trump received 107 of his 304 electoral votes in states where he won less than 50 percent of the popular vote—failing to achieve the kind of compound majority-of-majorities consistent with the Jeffersonian vision of how the system should work. 2016 illustrates the system’s inability to handle third-party and independent candidates, like Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, an inability caused by the addition of plurality winner-take-all in the Jacksonian era. It is unknowable whether Trump or Hillary Clinton would have won runoffs in the three pivotal Rust Belt states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. But if Clinton had won runoffs there (and in the states where she was only a plurality winner), then she would have won the Electoral College with an appropriately Jeffersonian majority-of-majorities.
