The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America

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Galen Cranz surveys the rise of the park system from 1850 to the present through 4 stages - the pleasure ground, the reform park, the recreation facility and the open space system. Looking at both their physical design and social purpose, Cranz argues that city parks have become an instrument of social policy with the potential for reflecting and serving social values.

Galen Cranz is Associate Professor of Sociology in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley

The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America

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Galen Cranz
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The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America
Galen Cranz
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The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America
Galen Cranz
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David Salle: Photographs
Henry Geldzahler
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David Salle Photographs
Henry; Cheim, John (editor) Geldzahler
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DAVID SALLE: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM 1980-1990
John (edited & designed) Cheim
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That's Life Snoopy

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That's Life, Snoopy
Charles M. Schulz
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That's Life, Snoopy
Charles M. Schulz
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That's Life, Snoopy
Charles Monroe Schulz
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That's Life Snoopy
Charles Schulz
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That's Life, Snoopy

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That's Life, Snoopy
Charles Schultz
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When we donate our unwanted clothes to charity, we rarely think about what will happen to them: who will sort and sell them, and finally, who will revive and wear them. In this fascinating look at the multibillion dollar secondhand clothing business, Karen Tranberg Hansen takes us around the world from the West, where clothing is donated, through the salvage houses in North America and Europe, where it is sorted and compressed, to Africa, in this case, Zambia. There it enters the dynamic world of Salaula, a Bemba term that means "to rummage through a pile."

Essential for the African economy, the secondhand clothing business is wildly popular, to the point of threatening the indigenous textile industry. But, Hansen shows, wearing secondhand clothes is about much more than imitating Western styles. It is about taking a garment and altering it to something entirely local, something that adheres to current cultural norms of etiquette. By unraveling how these garments becomes entangled in the economic, political, and cultural processes of contemporary Zambia, Hansen also raises provocative questions about environmentalism, charity, recycling, and thrift.

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Consumers as active participants.......2001-08-29

The author, an anthropologist, explores the phenomenon of second-hand clothes being exported from the West into Zambia, where they are sold on as "luxury goods". She argues against the idea that this is a North-South neo-colonial or aid transaction, asserting that Zambians are not just passive recipients of recycled clothes, but active consumers making informed (or at least broadly understood) cultural choices. She also explores how clothes, as cultural signifiers, give the wearer meaning in the specific Zambian social context. She also identifies reasons why people choose salaula and its impact on culture and "modernization" in Zambia Hansen explains the whole commodity chain of procurement, distribution and consumption of second-hand clothes. The reader may be surprised to learn that clothes given away to charities may be sold to exporters for resale in developing countries at all.

Salaula - The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia

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Salaula - The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia
KT Hansen
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Salaula The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia
Hansen Karen Tranberg
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Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia
Karen Tranberg Hansen
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This study provides an analysis of comparative gender differences in the EU. It addresses a range of issues from employment and households to culture, sexuality, male violence, the state, migration and women's movements.

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Highly Recommended!.......2007-01-11

This book clearly defines abstinence, recovery and sobriety. an easy read and recommended for one of my classes. I would recomment it to anyone who wants to know about alcoholism and drug addiction. Even though it was written over a decade ago it still appplies today!

this lady really knows her stuff.......1999-09-19

having worked with chemically dependent teens for 23 years I can say..YEAH! Her sense of humor comes through all the way. Let's face it ..you gotta have one when working with teens.They are wonderful breed, albeit a breed apart. MS Bell does it well!! I recommend it as required reading for all parents of teens!

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In this second volume of a multi-volume work, Russel Beatie continues his detailed study of the generals who commanded the Union's victorious Army of the Potomac. When the first volume appeared, Civil War News commended Beatie's monumental study, noting that "readers will find its thoroughness and extensive detail useful to their efforts to better understand the Union war effort." This new survey of the war's first six months of fighting places the command decisions of the army's senior officers in the social, political, military, and economic context of their day.

Thought-provoking and original (the book is based entirely on manuscript sources, many of which have never before been examined), Beatie's account and his conclusions about the actions of the Union's high command differ-often significantly-from traditional historical thinking. What emerges is a fresh understanding of these men and how their personalities influenced their command decisions, and the political atmosphere that influenced their military actions. The Army of the Potomac is about leaders as men-their successes and failures commanding the Union's largest army.

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too many easily correctable errors; very disappointing.......2006-11-08

This book needs both an editor and a proofreader. I picked it up mostly to see what Mr. Beatie said about the late 1861 period that covers Ball's Bluff, the one Civil War topic about which, having authored the most recent book on that battle, I can claim some expertise.

Here are a few examples of the problems in Beatie's book, problems both of fact and of interpretation, that I've found in the first 200 pages:

He buys the old, discredited story that Ball's Bluff came out of a deliberate Union attempt to take Leesburg. That is simply wrong.

He has a bad habit of citing dialogue in quotation marks but not footnoting it. Beatie noted in his volume 1 that he sometimes changed "indirect discourse" to "direct discourse;" in other words, he makes up conversations. He does this in vol. 2 as well.

He consistently confuses the sequence of events during the Ball's Bluff period. For example, he says that Gen. George McCall's advance from Langley to Dranesville was done in order to try to force the Confederates out of Leesburg. In fact, it was done IN RESPONSE TO the temporary Confederate withdrawal from Leesburg a couple of days before. Another small but typical example: he has the two Union mountain howitzers being captured by the rebs much earlier in the fight than they actually were. There are numerous other examples.

He several times refers to the California Regiment as the California Battalion, an entirely different entity which didn't even exist at the time of Ball's Bluff.

He speaks of a Federal diversion at Conrad's Ferry. There was no such thing.

He repeats the old idea that the Confederates had an "overwhelming force" against the yanks when it has long been known that the numbers at Ball's Bluff were virtually equal with each side putting right at 1700 men on the field.

He at least twice refers to Col. Edward Dickinson Baker as Edward Donald Baker.

He has Lt. Col. Walter Jenifer in command of the 8th Virginia Cavalry at Ball's Bluff. The 8th Virginia INFANTRY was at Ball's Bluff. Jenifer did command the 8th Va Cav later in the war, but not then.

He say that the bullet that hit Lt. Oliver Wendell Holmes lodged in his lungs (it did not), then he reverses himself later in the text with no explanation.

He says that Union Gen. Charles Stone was at First Manassas, though Stone was then part of Gen. Patterson's little army and nowhere near Manassas.

He cites a McClellan-to-Stone telegram from the O.R. in which the names of Darnestown, Maryland, and Dranesville, Virginia got morphed into "Darnesville." This caused some confusion at the time. Somehow, Beatie turns the non-existent "Darnesville" into an equally non-existent "Dranestown."

He claims that Union colonels William R. Lee (20 Mass) and Milton Cogswell (42 NY) were captured as they tried to make their way to Edwards Ferry. In fact, Lee was captured while moving in the other direction, toward Conrad's Ferry. Cogswell was captured while trying to organize troops on the Federal left. Neither man was attempting to get to Edwards Ferry.

I'll continue to read this book and hope that the sloppy writing and weird little mistakes in the first 200 pages don't carry over to the rest of it. At this point, however, I'd have to say that John Hennessy's scathing review of Beatie's volume 1 written some time ago could easily be rewritten to encompass volume 2.

Important New Multi-Volume Work on the AotP.......2005-08-28

This is the second volume in Beatie's potentially monumental multi-volume effort attempting to cover the command decisions in the higher levels of the Union's most famous Army. Volume 2 picks up where Volume 1 left off. George B. McClellan had been appointed to command the Army of the Potomac after McDowell's less than stellar showing at First Bull Run. Throughout this book, Beatie attempts to explain how McClellan, his subordinates, the politicians, and everyone else involved created an Army out of the ashes of the Manassas defeat. Beatie argues that there was an unfair prejudice against West Pointers and that political appointees many times were in over their heads at various levels of command. He also details the events that led to McClellan outmaneuvering the venerable Gen. Scott into a not-so-early retirement and the interference of politicians in the day-to-day workings of the Army of the Potomac, especially with regards to the notorious Committee on the Conduct of the War, led by Radical Republican Benjamin Wade, and late in the book when Edwin Stanton became the Secretary of War, and McClellan's immediate enemy. But to me, the most important contribution Beatie makes is his painstaking recreation of the relationship between McClellan as General-in-Chief and Lincoln as Commander-In-Chief. Beatie seems to be more tolerant of McClellan's peculiarities and less impressed with Lincoln's understanding of military affairs than the average writer. I do not mind this at all because Beatie has done such an enormous amount of research and has dug into so many manuscripts that we may be seeing for the first time a fair and unbiased opinion on a very controversial time in the Army's history. 636 pp., 21 maps

Essential history of the Army of the Potomac.......2005-08-05

Lawyer-historian Russel H. Beatie's second volume on the history of the Army of the Potomac is a welcome addition to my
vast Civil War Library. Like most Civil War buffs my shelves
teem with big volumes on the Army of Northern Virginia but lack
good histories of the Army of the Potomac!
Beatie's series is sure to be come the sine qua non for anyone wanting an in depth study of this much maligned but eventually magnificent sword of Lincoln.
Beatie's is a writer more interested in the political and
strategical thinking of war leaders in Washington than he is in
blow by blow descriptions of battle. In this second volumen in the series he does discuss in depth the battle of Ball's Bluff
fought on on Oct. 21, 1861 in which Lincoln's old law partner
the inept Edward Baker died. Beatie explores the impact of this
small battle on the competency of Union leaders; how it helpedfoment the call for a Committee on the Conduct of the War led
by Radical Republicans such as Benjamin Franklin Wade to control the strategy of the War.
Beatie explores how the pool of military commanders was drawn from professional soldiers who graduated from West Point; political generals and those who came from the ranks of volunteer
companies mustered in by individaul state governors. He also
explores how foreign born leaders came to leadership roles in the
army.
Beatie's pen is adept at drawing incisive portraits of Northern leaders such as Winfield Scott; Fitzjohn Porter; Joe
Hooker and the star of this book William McClellan. McClellan
took the commanding position of union forces following the retirement of old, crusty Winfield Scott.
McClellan could train and equip an army to fight but was slow
in launching an assault agains the rebels. His thoughts about
launching the Urbanna water assault on Richmond, the Occoquan
plan and the Penisular Campaign strategy are explored in depth!
Beatie writes in an adequate style but he lacks the skill of
writers such as Foote, Freeman and Catton to entrance the reader
with the magic of words.
Maps are adequate.
In addition to the military leaders the author sketches such
luminaries as Edwin Stanton (whom he dislikes) and of course the
Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln had to steer the war effort handling with deft genius the Radical Republicans, conservative forces in the army and government, abolitionists
and others who disdained his leadership.
The book is dry to read but contains invaluable information on the Army of the Potomac. Well recommended for the serious student of the Civil War in the Eastern Theatre.

Beatie's Lieutenants.......2005-05-05

In this second volumne of what appears to be an incredibly long study of leadership in the Army of the Potomac, Mr Beatie covers the sitzwar period from Sep61 to Feb62. We are still dealing with a formative period for the evolution of George B McClellan's Grand Army of the Potomac. Because McClellan superceded Winfield Scott as the General in Chief of the US Army for most of this period, Beatie's task is complicated as he must deal with strategic and operational concerns and command personalities simultaneously.

Previous studies of this period include Catton's, Mr Lincoln's Army, Kenneth Williams, Lincoln Finds a General, and the books of Stephan Sears.

I don't feel that Mr Beatie quite holds his own with the aforementioned. He chastizes Sears for losing his objectivity on McClellan and then turns right around and calls Edwin Stanton a "moral coward" before he even properly introduces the character into his narrative. There are many such critical lapses in dealing with a complicated cast of characters.

Gordon Rhea got several books into his Overland series before he realized that he hadn't quite got the essence of his thesis. I get the impression Mr Beatie is also struggling.

There is much good scholarship here, but I'd advise anyone interested in the subject to try the other authors mentioned before Mr Beatie

Reservations about Beatie.......2005-03-16

In most respects, Beatie is interesting but not exactly what I want from a history of the Army of the Potomac. Beatie's focus is on the leadership, particularly at the divisional level and army level. What I would prefer is more of an organizational history, more focus on the training of the troops and the development of the structure of the army. For instance, Casey's Provisional Division, which was responsible for training new regiments, is mentioned in passing. I would like a chapter or so on its operation and how that evolved over time. Gerald Prokopowicz's All for the Regiment has more of the focus I would prefer.

A minor opening point: Beatie's command of written English is mediocre and it interferes at times with the book. He would have benefited from a stronger editor. In particular, there are two sentences in his capsule biographies that were astonishingly poorly written - simply not a reasonably constructed English sentence.

I have misgivings about the strength and depth of Beatie's research. It's clear that he's read extensively in various manuscript collections, memoirs and biographies. But there's one lapse that illustrates my concern. A significant portion of volume 2 reviews the backgrounds of the brigade and divisional leaders of the Army of the Potomac, detailing their prior experience. One chapter is the Bull Run Officer Pool, covering those who were field and brigade officers at Bull Run, IIRC. In this, Beatie admits that he doesn't know the pre-Bull Run experience of 15 to 20 percent of the officers. Firstly, why is this an imprecise number? This is a fairly limited pool. I would expect Beatie to have a list of these officers with a brief note as to their background. This should yield a precise number of unknown backgrounds, rather than an estimate. Secondly, and more importantly, why didn't Beatie take the time to do more in-depth research? I would expect the respective state historical societies or a major public library to be able to quickly provide a sketch background for field officers in these early-war regiments. If Beatie is concentrating on the army's leadership, who these men were and their backgrounds are important details. It's certainly a line of research I would have pursued further.

Beatie also doesn't integrate his material as well as he might. For instance, he devotes a couple of chapters to discussing Frederick Lander's conduct of the Romney campaign in the winter of 1861-2. But why are we following this campaign? What does it tell us about the development of the Army of the Potomac? Lander doesn't go on to greater glory - he dies in March 1862. Beatie doesn't explain what he draws from this material. Since we have other general histories, Beatie should be selective in his operational description, focusing on what illuminates his conclusions. I worry about what will happen when Beatie reaches the Peninsula and active campaigning. Are we to read just another account of the campaign? If that's to be the case, I would have preferred Beatie to concentrate on that rather than spend the time on the first two volumes.

Overall, Beatie has points of interest and I don't regret having read these two volumes. I did prefer the first volume to the second. I'll continue on to the third. Yet I'm inclined to be skeptical of Beatie and his points and to hope for something offering more complex interpretation and depth in the history of the Army of the Potomac.

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The Victoria History of the County of Sussex: Volume Three (Victoria County History)

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Romano-British Sussex, Chichester City.

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