Suchergebnisse

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- 'Unless you let things take for ever . . .' -- 'The Helium Kids', New Musical Express Book of Rock, 1973/revised edition, 1978 -- Part One: The Big World Out There -- 1. Barrytown -- 2. North Park and After -- Interview with Maureen Cleave, London Evening Standard, October 1964 -- 3. Night By Night -- Macclesfield Advertiser, November 1964 -- 4. New York Journal, 1964-5 -- Exclusive Doors -- 5. The Mood of the Moment -- Part Two: The Long Afternoon -- 6. Something in the Air -- 7. Sunny Goodge Street -- 8. London Journal, January-August 1967 -- 'The Helium Kids - Paisley Patterns (Decca)', Gandalf's Garden, Summer 1967 -- 9. Beautiful People -- 10. Autumn Almanac -- '[59]AGAMEMNON'S MIGHTY SWORD (Dangerfield-Halliwell)', Ian MacDonald, The Helium Kids in the Studio: A Song Chronology, 1991 -- Extract from David Hepworth, Rock's Golden Years, 2005 -- Part Three: Imperial Phases -- 11. Station to Station -- 12. Real Cool Time -- ' "Groovin' with the band" - The memoirs of Miss Leonie Creemcheeze' -- 13. Echo Beach -- 14. Down South, Jukin' -- Part Four: Traps for Troubadours -- 'How they threw it all away', Nick Du Pont, contribution to Allan Jones (ed.), War Stories: Despatches from the Rock and Roll Front Line, 1983 -- 15. Tales from the Riverbank -- 'BAD VIBES IN TEXAS - On the Road with the Helium Kids', Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 3 September 1975 -- 16. 1977 (i) -- For Immediate Release -- Five minutes with Garth Dangerfield', Sounds, 23 March 1977 -- 17. 1977 (ii) -- A Close Encounter with the Don', Mojo, October 1998 -- 'Shard, Donald Aloysius', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2005 -- Part Five: Bringing It All Back Home -- 18. 2007 -- Giant Inflatables: The Helium Kids: Complete Recordings 1964-77 (Cherry Red)', Jon Savage, Uncut, October 2007 -- The rain sweeps in.

Higher education is a central institution in U.S. democracy. In the 2010s, however, many states that spent previous decades building up their higher education systems began to tear them down. Growing hostility toward higher education reflected changing social forces that remade the politics of U.S. higher education. The political Right became increasingly reliant on angry white voters as higher education became more racially diverse. The Republican party became more closely connected to extremely wealthy donors as higher education became more costly. In Wrecked, Barrett J. Taylor shows how these social changes set a collision course for the Right and higher education. These attacks fed a policy agenda of deinstitutionalization, which encompassed stark divestment from higher education but was primarily characterized by an attack on the institution's social foundation of public trust. In response to these attacks, higher education officials have offered a series of partial defenses that helped higher education to cope in the short-term but did nothing to defend the institution itself against the long-term threat of declining public trust. The failure to address underlying issues of mistrust allowed conflict to escalate to the point at which many states are now wrecking their public higher education systems. Wrecked offers a unique and compelling perspective linking higher education policymaking to broader social and political forces acting in the twenty-first century

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Manpower -- 1. Roman Manpower -- 2. Rival Manpower -- Part II. Finance -- 3. Roman Finance -- 4. Rival Finance -- Conclusions -- Appendix. A Note on Ancient Demography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Tudors : traitors and heretics -- Civil war and Oliver Cromwell : the poisoner of the people -- John Wilkes : the terror of all bed ministers -- The American Revolution : forge of sedition -- The political cartoon : poking fun -- Nineteenth-century radicals : guerrilla journalism -- The Crimean War : that miserable scribbler -- The American Civil War : wild ravings -- Suffragettes : the truth for a penny -- The First World War : a few writing chappies -- The press barons : mad, bad, and dangerous -- The Second World War : bloody marvelous! -- TV news : the idiot's lantern -- The Soviet Union : scruffy, dog-eared and undaunted -- Vietnam : bang-bang and body bags -- Watergate : Deep Throat and dirty tricks -- The Falklands : a quick win (for the mighty) -- Blair and Iraq : the dodgy spinners -- The social media revolution : Trumps, tweets and fake news -- The future : wobbling on.

Peter J. Taylor has produced a sweeping, empirically grounded, defense of cities as fundamental building blocks of long-term, large scale social structures; a way of freeing social science from state-centric bias; and indeed, mankinds hope. However, the single greatest strength of this complex, seductive, argument is the insistence on treating cities relationally, as process. Here the key to understanding the significance of cities is by studying them in terms of the dynamic networks they form and in their relations to states. (Richard E. Lee, Binghamton University, US). -- The founding father of the famous Globalization and World Cities Research Network and think-tank on worldwide links between cities presents this fascinating overview on cities in geohistory. By moving cities to the centre stage, Peter Taylor proposes that concern for states tell only part of the macro-social story of humanity. Cities have been, and are, the engines of innovation. This impressive new book provides new insights into why cities succeed or fail. The book is in the class with broadminded presentations like Jared Diamonds book Guns, Germs and Steel. (Christian Matthiessen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and President, International Geographical Unions Commission on Urban Geography). -- This is a "big book" by Peter Taylor. It tells of the extraordinary world-making powers of cities across the ages, it explains why a state-centric social science has constrained recognition of these powers over the last two centuries, and it outlines a new "indisciplinarity" to help us make sense of a human condition increasingly forged out of the urban. Anyone troubled by the social sciences as we know them, ought to read this book. (Ash Amin, Cambridge University, UK and author, Land of Strangers).