Pomp, Power, and Politics
Author | : Mara R. Wade |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9789042017115 |
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Author | : Mara R. Wade |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9789042017115 |
Author | : Pomp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kathryn Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781614911067 |
Author | : Meg Jacobs |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374714894 |
An authoritative history of the energy crises of the 1970s and the world they wrought In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Dark Christmas trees, lowered thermostats, empty gas tanks, and the new fifty-five-mile-per-hour speed limit all suggested that America was a nation in decline. “Don’t be fuelish” became the national motto. Though the embargo would end the following year, it introduced a new kind of insecurity into American life—an insecurity that would only intensify when the Iranian Revolution led to new shortages at the end of the decade. As Meg Jacobs shows, the oil crisis had a decisive impact on American politics. If Vietnam and Watergate taught us that our government lied, the energy crisis taught us that our government didn’t work. Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter promoted ambitious energy policies that were meant to rally the nation and end its dependence on foreign oil, but their efforts came to naught. The Democratic Party was divided, with older New Deal liberals who prized access to affordable energy squaring off against young environmentalists who pushed for conservation. Meanwhile, conservative Republicans argued that there would be no shortages at all if the government got out of the way and let the market work. The result was a political stalemate and panic across the country: miles-long gas lines, Big Oil conspiracy theories, even violent strikes by truckers. Jacobs concludes that the energy crisis of the 1970s became, for many Americans, an object lesson in the limitations of governmental power. Washington proved unable to design an effective national energy policy, and the result was a mounting skepticism about government intervention that set the stage for the rise of Reaganism. She offers lively portraits of key figures, from Nixon and Carter to the zealous energy czar William Simon and the young Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. Jacobs’s absorbing chronicle ends with the 1991 Gulf War, when President George H. W. Bush sent troops to protect the free flow of oil in the Persian Gulf. It was a failure of domestic policy at home that helped precipitate military action abroad. As we face the repercussions of a changing climate, a volatile oil market, and continued turmoil in the Middle East, Panic at the Pump is a necessary and lively account of a formative period in American political history.
Author | : Kristin E. Heyer |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 158901216X |
Depicts the ambivalent character of Catholics' mainstream 'arrival' in the US, integrating social scientific, historical and moral accounts of persistent tensions between faith and power. This work describes the implications of Catholic universalism for voting patterns, international policymaking, and partisan alliances.
Author | : James Garratt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1107032415 |
Changes our picture of how music and politics interact through a rigorous and wide-ranging reappraisal of the field.
Author | : Laurance Lyon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Xavier Salmon |
Publisher | : Paul Holberton Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
This lavish and beautiful book illustrates and discusses 52 French drawings dating from the late 17th to the early 19th century, all from the extraordinary collection Chateau de Versailles. Together the drawings tell the story of the major buildings at Versailles, its gardens, the court, and the personalities associated with the palace of Louis XIV and later French kings. Among the artists represented are many of the major figures of this magnificent period of French art, including Le Brun, Lemoine, Cochin, Claude-Joseph, Horace Vernet, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Paul Delaroche, and Jacques-Louis David, whose splendid compositional study for his Oath of the Tennis Court, the event that marked the beginning of the French Revolution, is of particular interest.
Author | : Daniel L. Unowsky |
Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781557534002 |
This book examines the promotion and reception of the image of Franz Joseph (Habsburg emperor from 1848 to 1916) as a symbol of common identity in the Austrian half of the Habsburg Monarchy (Cisleithania). In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century the promotion of the cult of the emperor encouraged a Cisleithania-wide culture of imperial celebration. On Franz Joseph's birthdays and jubilees, cities produced special theater productions, torchlight parades, and ethnic/historical processions. Thousands of voluntary associations sponsored local festivities. Hundreds of thousands of villagers and townspeople set transparent portraits of Franz Joseph in illuminated windows. Publishers sold millions of commemorative books and pamphlets, and retailers offered busts, plaques, and mass-produced portraits of the emperor. The ability of the center to control the meaning of Habsburg patriotism was limited, however. This study concentrates on the official presentation of the imperial cult as well as on the use or rejection of the image of the emperor by regional social and nationalist factions. It analyzes both the production of the cult of the emperor and its reception, illuminating the tension between national and supra-national identity in an age of expanding political participation.