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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated
    UID:
    kobvindex_INT70162
    Format: 1 online resource (481 pages)
    Edition: 20th ed.
    ISBN: 9780195174502 , 9780198038917
    Note: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Stollenwerck's Panorama, 1815 -- I: The Artisan Republic, 1788-1825 -- 1. "By Hammer and Hand": Artisans in the Mercantile City -- The Crafts in Flux -- Entrepreneurs -- Small Masters -- Journeymen -- A Restive Peace -- 2. Artisan Republicanism -- Redeeming the Revolution -- Republican Religion -- Articels Emblemattical of Our Trade, -- Republicanism and Conflict -- Artisan Republicanism and the Limits of Bourgeois Individualism -- II: The Bastard Workshop, 1825-1850 -- 3. Metropolitan Industrialization -- Metropolitan Manufacturing and the Bastardization of Craft -- The Sweated Trades: Clothing, Shoes, and Furniture -- Technology and the Division of Labor: Printing -- Subcontracting and the Building Trades -- The Persistence of Tradition: Shipbuilding and Food Preparation -- Craft Workers in the Industrializing Metropolis -- III: Working Man's Advocates, 1825-1832 -- 4. Entrepreneurs and Radicals -- Entrepreneurial Crusades: Moral Reform and Political Economy -- Impious Artisans and the Uses of Morality -- Property, Producers' Rights, and the Assault on Competition -- The Outcasts Organize -- Background to Crisis -- 5. The Rise and Fall of the Working Men -- Republicanism, Party Democracy, and Politics -- Dramatis Personae -- The Radical Movement -- The Coup -- The End -- Artisan Radicalism and the Paradoxes of Politics -- IV: The Journeymen's Revolt, 1833-1836 -- 6. "A Phalanx of Honest Worth": The General Trades' Union of the City of New York -- Union Men -- Union Democracy -- Strikes and Politics -- Class Consciousness and the Republic of Labor -- The Boundaries of Class -- Radicalism and the Union -- 7. Oppositions: To the Crisis of 1836 -- The Republic of the Bowery -- The Masters: Toward an Ideology of Free Labor -- The Crisis of 1836 -- The Legacy of Union -- V: Hard Times and Politics, 1837-1849 , 8. Panic and Prejudice -- Free Labor and the Republic of Capital -- The Jovial Hurrah: Washingtonian Temperance -- American Republicanism: Nativism, Mutuality, and Liberty -- Reformation -- 9. Subterranean Radicals -- Mike Walsh and the Shirtless Democracy -- Land Reform -- Plebeian Protestants: The American Laboring Confederacy and the Mechanics' Mutual -- Trade Societies, Immigrants, and Labor Radicalism -- Radicalism and Self-Respect -- VI: Class Conflict in the American Metropolis -- 10. The Labor Crisis of 1950 -- Movements and Men -- To City Hall -- The Tailors' Strike -- Party Politics, Dissolution, and the Aftermath -- Conclusion: "The Most Radical City in America, -- Epilogue: Hudson Street, 1865 -- Appendix: Tables and Figures -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
    Additional Edition: Print version Wilentz, Sean Chants Democratic Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2004 ISBN 9780195174502
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    UID:
    kobvindex_INT69540
    Format: 1 online resource (545 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9780521772976 , 9781139146364
    Series Statement: Econometric Society Monographs v.Series Number 32
    Content: These essays by Clive W. J. Granger span more than four decades and cover major topics in spectral analysis, seasonality, nonlinearity, methodology, and forecasting. The introduction by Eric Gysels, Norman R. Swanson and Mark W. Watson places the essays in context and demonstrates their enduring value
    Note: Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ACADEMIC PRESS -- AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION -- BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS -- BUREAU OF THE CENSUS -- CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS -- CHARTERED INSTITUTION OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT -- THE ECONOMETRICS SOCIETY -- ELSEVIER -- FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS -- HELBING AND LICHTENHAHN VERLAG -- JOHN WILEY andamp -- SONS, LTD. -- MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS, LTD. -- MIT PRESS -- TAYLOR andamp -- FRANCIS, LTD. -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Volume I -- SPECTRAL METHODS -- SEASONALITY -- NONLINEARITY -- METHODOLOGY -- FORECASTING -- Volume II -- CAUSALITY -- INTEGRATION AND COINTEGRATION -- LONG MEMORY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 1 The ET Interview: Professor Clive Granger -- BOOKS -- PAPERS -- Forthcoming -- Submitted -- PRICE RESEARCH -- SPECULATIVE MARKETS AND THEORY OF FINANCE -- STATISTICAL THEORY AND APPLIED STATISTICS -- PART ONE SPECTRAL ANALYSIS -- CHAPTER 2 Spectral Analysis of New York Stock Market Prices -- Summary -- 1. THE RANDOM WALK HYPOTHESIS -- 2. SPECTRAL METHODS -- 3. RESULTS OF THE ANALYSIS -- APPENDIX A -- Some Technical Considerations -- APPENDIX B -- Description of Series Analyzed -- Power Spectra -- Cross Spectra -- CHAPTER 3 The Typical Spectral Shape of an Economic Variable -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXAMPLES OF ESTIMATED SPECTRA -- 3. THE PROBLEM OF TREND -- 4. INTERPRETATION: BUSINESS CYCLES -- 5. DESCRIPTION: MODEL FITTING -- 6. IMPLICATIONS FOR MODEL BUILDING -- 7. IMPLICATIONS FOR CONTROL -- REFERENCES -- PART TWO SEASONALITY -- CHAPTER 4 Seasonality: Causation, Interpretation, and Implications -- 1. CAUSES OF SEASONALITY -- 1.1 Calendar -- 1.2 Timing Decisions -- 1.3 Weather -- 1.4 Expectation -- 2. DEFINITION -- 2.1 Definition 1 -- 2.2 Definition 2 -- 2.3 Definition 3 -- 3. SEASONAL MODELS -- 3.1 Model 1 , 3.2 Model 2 -- 3.3 Model 3 -- 3.4 Model 4 -- 3.5 Model 5 -- 3.6 Model 6 -- 4. DECOMPOSITION -- 5. WHY ADJUST? -- 6. OVERVIEW OF ADJUSTMENT METHODS -- 7. CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION -- 7.1 Property 1 -- 7.2 Property 2 -- 7.3 Property 3 -- 7.4 Property 4 -- 7.5 Property 5 -- 7.6 Property 6 -- 8. EFFECTS OF ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE -- 9. RELATING PAIRS OF ADJUSTED SERIES -- 10. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5 Is Seasonal Adjustment a Linear or Nonlinear Data-Filtering Process? -- 1. ON POTENTIAL SOURCES OF NONLINEARITY IN THE X-11 PROGRAM -- 1.1 The Decompositions -- 1.2 Multiplicative Versus Additive -- 1.3 Outlier Detections -- 1.4 Moving Average Filter Selection -- 1.5 Aggregation -- 2. A SIMULATION STUDY -- 2.1 The Data-Generating Processes -- 2.2 Properties of Linear Approximations -- 2.3 Linear Regression and Filtering -- 2.4 Technical Details -- 3. SIMULATION AND EMPIRICAL RESULTS -- 3.1 Seasonal Filtering and Linear Regression -- 3.2 Simulation Evidence on Properties of Linear Approximation -- 3.3 An Empirical Investigation -- 4. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART THREE NONLINEARITY -- CHAPTER 6 Non-Linear Time Series Modeling -- 1. NON-LINEAR MODELS -- 2. INSTANTANEOUS DATA TRANSFORMATIONS -- 3. INTRODUCTION TO BILINEAR MODELS -- 4. PARTICULAR CASE 1: A DIAGONAL MODEL -- 5. PARTICULAR CASE 2: WHITE NOISE MODELS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7 Using the Correlation Exponent to Decide Whether an Economic Series is Chaotic -- Summary -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CORRELATION EXPONENT TABLES -- 3. THE BDS TEST -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8 Testing for Neglected Nonlinearity in Time Series Models -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE NEURAL NETWORK TEST -- 3. ALTERNATIVE TESTS -- 3.1 The Keenan, Tsay, and Ramsey RESET Tests -- 3.2 The White Dynamic Information Matrix Test -- 3.3 The McLeod and Li Test , 3.4 The BDS Test -- 3.5 The Bispectrum Test -- 4. THE SIMULATION DESIGN -- 4.1 Block1 -- 4.2 Block2 -- 4.3 Bivariate Models -- 5. RESULTS OF THE SIMULATION -- 6. TESTS ON ACTUAL ECONOMIC TIME SERIES -- 7. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9 Modeling Nonlinear Relationships Between Extended-Memory Variables -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BALANCE OF AN EQUATION WITH SIMPLE NONLINEARITY -- 3. ALTERNATIVE DEFINITIONS OF EXTENDED MEMORY -- 4. TESTING FOR LINEARITY -- 5. NONLINEAR MODELING -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10 Semiparametric Estimates of the Relation Between Weather and Electricity Sales -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION MODEL -- 3. THE DATA AND SOME MODIFICATIONS -- 4. RESULTS -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- PART FOUR METHODOLOGY -- CHAPTER 11 Time Series Modeling and Interpretation -- Summary -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE SUM OF TWO INDEPENDENT SERIES -- 3. SERIES AGGREGATION AND OBSERVATIONAL ERROR MODELS -- 4. TIME AGGREGATION, NON-INTEGER LAGS AND FEEDBACK MODELS -- 5. REALIZABILITY OF SIMPLE MODELS -- 6. SIMULATION OF OBSERVATION ERROR MODELS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12 On the Invertibility of Time Series Models -- 1. A DEFINITION OF INVERTIBILITY -- 2. LINEAR MODELS -- 3. A CLASS OF NON-INVERTIBLE MODELS -- 4. BILINEAR MODELS -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 13 Near Normality and Some Econometric Models -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14 The Time Series Approach to Econometric Model Building -- 1. TWO PHILOSOPHIES -- 2. NONSENSE REGRESSIONS -- 3. PREWHITENING -- 4. BUILDING BIVARIATE FEEDBACK MODELS -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- CHAPTER 15 Comments on the Evaluation of Policy Models -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE CONTROL MECHANISM -- 2.1 Test 1 -- 2.2 Test 2 -- 2.3 Test 3 -- 2.4 Test 4 -- 2.5 Test 5 -- 2.6 Test 6 -- 2.7 Discussion -- 3. AN APPLICATION TO A MODEL OF THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE , 4. AN APPLICATION TO TWO MODELS OF THE DEMAND FOR BORROWED RESERVES -- 5. AN APPLICATION TO A MODEL FOR THE DEMAND FOR NARROW MONEY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM -- 6. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX. DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 16 Implications of Aggregation with Common Factors -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. COMMON FACTORS, INDIVIDUAL FACTORS, AND MODEL SIMPLIFICATION -- 3. AN EXAMPLE: THE ARBITRAGE PRICING THEORY MODEL -- 4. EXPECTATIONS -- 5. SOME PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 6. SUMMING UP -- APPENDIX: NONLINEAR MODELS -- REFERENCES -- PART FIVE FORECASTING -- CHAPTER 17 Estimating the Probability of Flooding on a Tidal River -- Abstract -- MATHEMATICAL THEORY -- PROBABILITY OF FLOODING AT GAINSBOROUGH -- Introduction -- Correlation Between Tides and Flow Over the Year -- The Distribution of Tide Heights -- Distribution of Flows -- Flood-Producing Flow/Tide Combinations -- The Probabilities of High Flows Occurring -- Final Results and Conclusion -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- APPENDIX -- Statistical Concepts Used in the Paper -- CHAPTER 18 Prediction with a Generalized Cost of Error Function -- INTRODUCTION -- QUADRATIC ERROR COST AND THE GAUSSIAN PROCESS -- LINEAR COST FUNCTION -- GENERAL SYMMETRIC COST FUNCTIONS -- NON-SYMMETRIC COST FUNCTIONS -- SOME PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE RESULTS -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX -- Proofs of two Theorems -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 19 Some Comments on the Evaluation of Economic Forecasts -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. UNIVARIATE TIME SERIES PREDICTION -- 3. COST FUNCTIONS -- 4. RANKING FORECASTS ON A LEAST SQUARES BASIS -- 5. FORECAST EFFICIENCY -- 6. HOW GOOD IS A PARTICULAR SET OF FORECASTS? -- 7. DIAGNOSTIC CHECKS ON FORECAST PERFORMANCE -- 8. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 20 The Combination of Forecasts -- INTRODUCTION -- CHOICE OF METHOD FOR DETERMINING WEIGHTS -- DESIRABLE PROPERTIES OF METHODS , 6. TRULY CHAOTIC MODELS , PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT METHODS -- MINOR MODIFICATIONS TO METHODS -- COMBINING FORECASTS FROM THE OUTSET -- COMMENTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX -- A1 Combining an Arithmetic and a Logarithmic Forecast -- A2 The Relationship Between the Combined Forecast Variance and the Variances of the Original Forecast Errors -- A3 The Distribution of... -- A4 Results of Combining Forecasts of the Airline Passenger Data -- Brown -- Box-Jenkins -- Harrison -- Constant -- Changing -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 21 Invited Review Combining Forecasts - Twenty Years Later -- Abstract -- THE BEGINNINGS -- SIMPLE EXTENSIONS -- FURTHER EXTENSIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 22 The Combination of Forecasts Using Changing Weights -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SWITCHING REGRESSION MODELS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO THE COMBINATION OF FORECASTS -- 3. COMBINING FORECASTS USING SWITCHING REGRESSION MODELS -- 3.1 Switching Regression Models in Which the Regime is Indicated by the Lagged Forecast Error -- 3.2 Switching Regression Models in Which the Regime is Indicated by an Economically Relevant Variable -- 4. SMOOTH TRANSITION REGRESSION MODELS -- 5. A FURTHER EMPIRICAL EXAMPLE -- 6. A COMPARISON OF THE IN-SAMPLE AND OUT-OF-SAMPLE PERFORMANCE OF THE ALTERNATIVE COMBINING METHODS -- 7. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 23 Forecasting Transformed Series -- Summary -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. AUTOCORRELATION PROPERTIES OF TRANSFORMED SERIES: THE STATIONARY CASE -- 3. AUTOCORRELATION PROPERTIES OF TRANSFORMED SERIES: INTEGRATED PROCESSES -- 4. FORECASTING TRANSFORMED VARIABLES -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX -- Properties of Hermite Polynomials -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 24 Forecasting White Noise -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CAUSAL VARIABLES -- 3. INSTANTANEOUS TRANSFORMATIONS -- 4. BILINEAR MODELS -- 5. NORMED MARKOV CHAINS
    Additional Edition: Print version Granger, Clive W. J. Essays in Econometrics: Volume 1, Spectral Analysis, Seasonality, Nonlinearity, Methodology, and Forecasting New York : Cambridge University Press,c2001 ISBN 9780521772976
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    New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated
    UID:
    kobvindex_INT72809
    Format: 1 online resource (368 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9780195147766 , 9780198033707
    Content: This book is the first full length work in forty years on the history of early American banking. It reveals new interpretations of early banking practices and why there was a need to change and progress with the times. This volume compares early banking with today's more advanced economic theory. Each section contains valuable research as well as contemporary findings and interpretations
    Note: Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Establishment and Governance of the Antebellum Bank -- 3. Banking Theory and Banking Practice in Antebellum America -- 4. New England: Small Banks and Familial Ties -- 5. The Rise and Fall of the Suffolk System -- 6. Middle Atlantic: Conservatism and Experimentation -- 7. New York's Safety Fund System: America's First Bank Insurance Experiment -- 8. Free Banking: The Populist Revolt Takes Root in New York -- 9. Banking in the South and West: Banks and the Commonweal -- 10. Property Banking, Free Banking, and Branch Banking -- 11. Assessing America's Early Banks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
    Additional Edition: Print version Bodenhorn, Howard State Banking in Early America New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2002 ISBN 9780195147766
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    New York, NY, USA : Abrams
    UID:
    kobvindex_INT0001475
    Format: 544 pages , richly illustrated (chiefly colour), maps , 30 x 23 cm
    ISBN: 9780810942530 , 0810942534
    Content: "From ancient Egyptian royal cemeteries to great 18th-century English estates and the earth works of today, this volume spans the history of landscape design, revealing a great deal about the development of societies, and how cities, parks and gardens embody cultural values."
    Content: "This volume presents a history of the ways in which human beings have shaped the landscape at cult sites, in cities and on great private estates, from prehistoric times to the present, throughout the world. The book considers what the evolution of the design of the landscape reveals about the development of society and culture, examining famous cities, palaces and parks, as well as lesser-known designed landscapes, and even sites now vanished from around the world. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs, drawings and plans, the book leads the reader through ancient cities, palatial gardens and magnificent sanctuaries. Also covered are: the royal cemeteries of ancient Egypt; the superb temples of ancient Greece and Rome; the magnificent gardens of Renaissance and Baroque Europe and the Far East; the great public parks of the late 19th century; and some of the most exciting avant-garde gardens and earth works of the present day."
    Note: FOREWORD THE SHAPING OF SPACE; THE MEANING OF PLACE MAGIC, MYTH, AND NATURE: LANDSCAPES OF PREHISTORIC, EARLY ANCIENT, AND CONTEMPORARY PEOPLES I. CAVES AND CIRCLES: Sustaining Life and Discerning Cosmic Order II. ARCHITECTURAL MOUNTAINS AND THE EARTH'S FIRST CITIES: Landscape as Urban Power in Early Ancient Civilizations III. RITUAL AND LANDSCAPE IN PREHISTORIC GREECE: Earth Goddess and the Mighty Lords IV COSMOLOGY IN THE LANDSCAPES OF THE AMERICAS: Spirits of Earth and Sky NATURE, ART, AND REASON: LANDSCAPE DESIGN IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD I. GODS AND HUMANS: The New Contract with Nature II. POLIS AND ACROPOLIS: City and Temple in the Greek Landscape III. EMPIRE: Hellenism and Roman Urbanism IV GARDEN AND VILLA: The Art of Landscape in Ancient Rome VISIONS OF PARADISE: LANDSCAPE DESIGN AS SYMBOL AND METAPHOR I. PARADISE AS A LITERARY TOPOS: Gardens of God and Gardens of Love II. PARADISE ON EARTH: The Islamic Garden III. PARADISE CONTAINED: Walled Cities and Walled Gardens of the European Middle Ages CLASSICISM REBORN: LANDSCAPE IDEALS OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY AND FRANCE I. PETRARCH, ALBERTI, AND COLONNA: Humanism and the Landscape II. BRAMANTE AND THE REDISCOVERY OF AXIAL PLANNING: Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Italy III. AXIAL PLANNING ON AN URBAN SCALE: The Development of Renaissance Rome IV CURRENTS OF FASHION: The Transformation of the Italian Garden in France V THE EVOLUTION OF FRENCH URBANIZATION AND GARDEN STYLE: Paris in the Time of Henry IV POWER AND GLORY: THE GENIUS OF LE NOTRE AND THE GRANDEUR OF THE BAROQUE I. THE MAKING OF VAUX-LE-VICOMTE AND VERSAILLES: Andre Le Notre II. THE GARDEN AS THEATER: Italian Baroque and Rococo Gardens EXPANDING HORIZONS: COURT AND CITY IN THE EUROPEAN GRAND MANNER I. FRENCH AND ITALIAN EXPORTS: The Application of Classical and Baroque Design Principles to Gardens in the Netherlands, England, Germany, and Beyond II. THE HEROIC CITY: Expressions of Classical and Baroque Urbanism III. NATURE'S PARADISE: America in the Colonial and Federal Periods SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: LANDSCAPES OF THE AGE OF REASON, ROMANTICISM, AND REVOLUTION I. THE GENIUS OF THE PLACE: Forging a New Landscape Style Through Literature, Art, and Theory II. LEAPING THE FENCE: The Transformation of the English Landscape into a Pastoral Idyll with Political Meaning III. REMAKING ENGLAND: Capability Brown, Professional Improver IM NATURE'S CANVAS: English Philosophers and Practitioners of the Picturesque V LANDSCAPES OF MORAL VIRTUE AND EXOTIC FANTASY: The French Picturesque VI. DESIGNING NATURE's GARDEN: The Landscapes of Thomas Jefferson VII. THE LANDSCAPE OF MIND AND SOUL: Goethe and Wordsworth NATURE AS MUSE THE GARDENS OF CHINA AND JAPAN I. MOUNTAINS, LAKES, AND ISLANDS: Intimations of Immortality in the Chinese Garden II. TEA, Moss, AND STONES: Temple and Palace Gardens of Japan EXPANDING CITIES AND NEW SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS: THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN I. BOTANICAL SCIENCE, THE GARDENESQUE STYLE, AND PEOPLE'S PARKS: Landscape Design in Vitorian England II. REDEFINING RURAL AMERICA: The Influence of Andrew Jackson Downing III. HONORING HISTORY AND REPOSE FOR THE DEAD: Commemorative Landscapes and Rural Cemeteries IV THE NEW METROPOLIS: Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as Park Builders and City Planners INDUSTRIAL AGE CIVILIZATION: BIRTH OF THE MODERN CITY, BEAUX-ARTS AMERICA, AND NATIONAL PARKS I. HAUSSMANN'S PARIS: Birth of the Modern City II. THE CITY BEAUTIFUL: Monumental Urbanism in Beaux-Arts America III. AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL: The National Park System LANDSCAPE AS AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE: THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT AND THE REVIVAL OF THE FORMAL GARDEN I. MODERNITY CHALLENGED: Ruskin's Influence, the Past Revalued, and Italy's Long Shadow II. THE EDWARDIAN AND POST-EDWARDIAN ENGLISH GARDEN: Aristocracy's Golden Afternoon and Twilight III. DESIGN SYNTHESIS: The End of the American Country Place Era SOCIAL UTOPIAS: MODERNISM AND REGIONAL PLANNING I. URBAN EXPANSION: Town Planningfor the Machine Age in Britain and Continental Europe II. GREENBELT TOWNS OR SUBURBS?: Creating the American Metropolis A NEW LANDSCAPE AESTHETIC: THE MODERNIST GARDEN I. TRANSITIONAL EXPERIMENTATION: Design Idioms of the Early Twentieth Century II. ABSTRACT ART AND THE FUNCTIONAL LANDSCAPE: Gardensfor Moder Living HOME, COMMERCE, AND ENTERTAINMENT: LANDSCAPES OF CONSUMERISM I. A HOME FOR THE FAMILY: The Landscape of Suburbia II. COMMERCE AND ENTERTAINMENT: Shopping Malls and Theme Parks HOLDING ON AND LETTING GROW: LANDSCAPE AS PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION, ART, SPORT, AND THEORY I. PRESERVING THE PAST: Place as Heritage, Identity, Tourist Landscape, and New Urbanist Community II. CONSERVING NATURE: Landscape Design as Environmental Science and Art III. EARTHWORKS, GOLF COURSES, PHILOSOPHICAL MODELS, AND POETIC METAPHORS: Landscape as Art Form, Sport, Deconstructivism, and Phenomenology THE WEAVING OF PLACE AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF FLOWS: LANDSdAPE AS BODILY EXPERIENCE AND VERNACULAR EXPRESSION I. BODY AND SPACE: The Weaving of Place II. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: The Loom of Landscape
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    Keywords: Case studies
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
    UID:
    kobvindex_INT50834
    Format: 1 online resource (264 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9780816691012
    Content: Michael Sorkin is widely hailed as one of the best architecture critics writing today. Iconoclastic and often controversial, he is a witty, entertaining, yet ultimately serious writer. In this new collection, Sorkin reviews the state of contemporary architecture and surveys the dramatic changes in the urban environment of the past decade. From New York to New Delhi, from Shanghai to Cairo, Sorkin offers a sweeping assessment of the impact of globalization, environmental degradation, electronic media, rapid growth, and the legacies of modernist planning
    Note: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Cities/Places -- Eleven Tasks for Urban Design -- Branding Space -- Times Square: Status Quo Vadis -- Round and Round -- Cranes over TriBeCa -- Big Deal -- A Passage through India -- Instrumental Cities -- Containing Cairo -- Second Nature -- Millennium in Vegas -- Acting Urban -- Notes on Vibe -- Phoenix Rising -- Remembering the Future -- Part II. Architects/Buildings -- Animating Space -- Siza the Day -- The Borders of Islamic Architecture -- Filming Wright -- Inside the Biosphere -- Come and Getty -- Habitat and After -- MOR Is Less -- Far, Far AwAIA -- Amazing Archigram -- Admitting the Fold -- Forms of Attachment -- Airport 98 -- No Sex Please, We're British -- How French Is It? -- Upstairs, Downstairs -- Part III. Misfits -- Container Riff -- Family Values -- The Second Greatest Generation -- War Is Swell -- Genius Loco: A Success Story -- Publication Information
    Additional Edition: Print version Sorkin, Michael Some Assembly Required Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,c2001 ISBN 9780816634828
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    UID:
    kobvindex_INT69566
    Format: 1 online resource (386 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9780521818735 , 9781139148702
    Series Statement: Econometric Society Monographs v.Series Number 36
    Content: This is the second of three volumes containing edited versions of papers and commentaries presented in invited symposium sessions of the Eighth World Congress of the Econometric Society. The papers summarize and interpret key developments and discuss future directions in a wide range of topics in economics and econometrics
    Note: Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 Sorting, Education, and Inequality -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SORTING INTO NEIGHBORHOODS -- 2.1. Multicommunity Models: The Economics of Sorting -- 2.2. The Efficiency of Local Provision of Education -- 2.3. Comparing Systems of Financing Public Education: Dynamic Considerations -- 3. SORTING INTO SCHOOLS -- 4. HOUSEHOLD SORTING -- 5. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- CHAPTER 2 Wage Equations and Education Policy -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. INTERPRETING WAGE EQUATIONS -- 2.1. The Wage Equation in a Competitive Model -- 2.2. The Wage Equation in the Burdett-Mortensen Equilibrium Search Model -- 2.3. The Schooling Coefficient -- 2.4. A Brief Digression: Estimating the Schooling Coefficient by Using Natural Experiments -- 3. EXTENSIONS OF THE COMPETITIVE SKILL MARKET EQUILIBRIUM MODEL -- 3.1. Willis and Rosen -- 3.2. Heckman and Sedlacek -- 3.3. Keane and Wolpin -- 4. USE OF STRUCTURAL ESTIMATION OF SCHOOLING CHOICE MODELS FOR THE EVALUATION OF EDUCATION POLICIES -- 4.1. Graduation Bonuses -- 4.2. Tuition Effects -- 4.3. Relaxing Borrowing Constraints -- 5. GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- Empirical and Theoretical Issues in the Analysis of Education Policy -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SORTING, EDUCATION, AND INEQUALITY -- 3. WAGE EQUATIONS AND EDUCATION POLICY -- 4. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- CHAPTER 3 Toward a Theory of Competition Policy -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PRICE-FIXING AGREEMENTS -- 2.1. Fighting Collusion Per Se -- 2.1.1. Fighting Collusion in a Static Setting -- 2.1.2. Fighting Collusion in a Dynamic Setting -- 2.2.Fighting Facilitating Practices -- 2.2.1. Communication Devices -- 2.2.2. Resale Price Maintenance -- 3. MERGER CONTROL , 1. NONLINEAR IMPLICIT STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS -- 1.1. Discrete Case -- 1.2. Testing for Overidentification and Underidentification -- 2. CONTROL FUNCTIONS AND INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES -- 2.1. Additive Errors -- 2.2. Discrete Choice -- References -- Name Index , 3.1. The Efficiency-Market Power Trade-Off -- 3.2. Assessing the Collusion Concern: The Role of Capacity Constraints -- 3.2.1. A Simple Model -- 3.2.2. Alpha-Equilibria -- 4. RESEARCH AGENDA -- 4.1. Procedures and Control Rights -- 4.2. Timing of Oversight -- 4.3. Information Intensiveness and Continued Relationship -- 4.4. Independence vis-à-vis the Political Environment -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- CHAPTER 4 Identification and Estimation of Cost Functions Using Observed Bid Data -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. IDENTIFYING MARGINAL COST FUNCTIONS FROM BIDS AND MARKET PRICES AND QUANTITIES -- 3. MODELS OF BEST-RESPONSE BIDDING AND BEST-RESPONSE PRICING -- 4. RECOVERING COST FUNCTION ESTIMATES FROM BEST-RESPONSE PRICES -- 5. RECOVERING COST FUNCTION ESTIMATES FROM BEST-RESPONSE BIDDING -- 6. OVERVIEW OF NEM1 -- 6.1. Market Structure in NEM1 -- 6.2. Market Rules in NEM1 -- 7. RECOVERING IMPLIED MARGINAL COST FUNCTIONS AND HEDGE CONTRACT QUANTITIES -- 8. IMPLICATIONS FOR MARKET MONITORING AND DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- CHAPTER 5 Liquidity, Default, and Crashes -- 1. LIQUIDITY CRISES -- 2. DEFAULT AND ENDOGENOUS CONTRACTS -- 3. DEFAULT AND COLLATERAL -- 3.1. Contracts with Collateral -- 3.2. Production -- 4. COLLATERAL EQUILIBRIUM -- 4.1. The Budget Set -- 4.2. Equilibrium -- 4.3. The Orderly Function of Markets -- 4.4. Endogenous Contracts -- 4.5. Margins and Liquidity -- 4.6. Collateral and Default -- 4.7. Constrained Efficiency -- 5. VOLATILITY -- 5.1. Natural Buyers, the Marginal Buyer, and the Distribution of Wealth -- 5.2. Volatility and Incomplete Markets -- 5.3. Volatility II: Asset Values and Margin Requirements -- 5.4. Why Margin Requirements Get Tougher -- 6. ENDOGENOUS COLLATERAL WITH HETEROGENOUS BELIEFS: A SIMPLE EXAMPLE -- 6.1. The Marginal Buyer -- 6.2. Endogenous Margin Requirement , 6.3. Margin Feedback Effects -- 6.4. Endogenous Default -- 6.5. Efficiency Versus Constrained Efficiency -- 7. CRASHES -- 7.1. What Caused the Crash? Feedback -- 7.2. Why Did the Margin Increase? -- 7.3. Liquidity and Differences of Opinion -- 7.4. Profits After the Crash and Cautious Speculators -- 8. THE LIQUIDITY SPREAD -- 9. SPILLOVERS -- 9.1. Correlated Output -- 9.2. Independent Outputs and Correlated Opinions -- 9.3. Cross-Collateralization and the Margin Requirement -- 9.4. Rational Expectations and Liquidity Risk -- 10. TWO MORE CAUSES OF LIQUIDITY CRISES -- 11. A DEFINITION OF LIQUIDITY AND LIQUID WEALTH -- References -- CHAPTER 6 Trading Volume -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. A DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM MODEL -- 2.1. The Economy -- 2.2. Discussion, Notation, and Simplifications -- 2.3.The Equilibrium -- 2.4. Implications for Trading and Returns -- 2.4.1. Trading Activity -- 2.4.2. Stock Returns -- 2.4.3. Volume-Return Relations -- 2.4.4. Merton's ICAPM -- 3. THE DATA -- 3.1. Volume Measures -- 3.1.1. A Numerical Example -- 3.1.2. Defining Individual and Portfolio Turnover -- 3.1.3. Time Aggregation -- 3.2. MiniCRSP Volume Data -- 3.3. Turnover Indexes -- 4. CROSS-SECTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VOLUME -- 4.1. Theoretical Implications for Volume -- 4.2. The Cross Section of Turnover -- 4.2.1. Cross-Sectional Regressions -- 4.2.2. Tests of (K +1)-Fund Separation -- 5. DYNAMIC VOLUME-RETURN RELATION -- 5.1. Theoretical Implications for a Volume-Return Relation -- 5.2. The Impact of Asymmetric Information -- 5.3. Empirical Evidence -- 6. TRADING VOLUME AND TRANSACTIONS COSTS -- 6.1. Equilibrium Under Fixed Transactions Costs -- 6.2. Volume Under Fixed Transactions Costs -- 6.3. A Calibration Exercise -- 7. TECHNICAL ANALYSIS -- 7.1. Automating Technical Analysis -- 7.2. Statistical Inference -- 7.3. Empirical Results -- 8. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- A Discussion of the Papers by John Geanakoplos and by Andrew W. Lo and Jiang Wang -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE GEANAKOPLOS PAPER -- 3. THE LO AND WANG PAPER -- 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- References -- CHAPTER 7 Inverse Problems and Structural Econometrics -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURAL ECONOMETRICS AND INVERSE PROBLEMS -- 3. LINEAR INVERSE PROBLEMS -- 4. ILL-POSED LINEAR INVERSE PROBLEMS -- 5. RELATION BETWEEN ENDOGENOUS VARIABLES -- 6. IV ESTIMATION -- 7. ASYMPTOTIC THEORY FOR TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION OF ILL-POSED LINEAR INVERSE PROBLEMS -- 8. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- CHAPTER 8 Endogeneity in Nonparametric and Semiparametric Regression Models -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Structural Equations -- 1.2. Parameters of Interest -- 2. NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION UNDER ALTERNATIVE STOCHASTIC RESTRICTIONS -- 2.1. Instrumental Variables Methods -- 2.1.1. The Linear Model -- 2.1.2. Extensions to Additive Nonparametric Models -- 2.1.3. The Ill-Posed Inverse Problem -- 2.1.4. Consistent Estimation Methods -- 2.1.5. Nonadditive Models -- 2.1.6. Fitted-Value Methods -- 2.2. Control Function Methods -- 2.2.1. The Linear Model -- 2.2.2. Extensions to Additive Nonparametric Models -- 2.2.3. Nonadditive Models -- 2.2.4. Support Restrictions -- 3. BINARY RESPONSE LINEAR INDEX MODELS -- 3.1. Model Specification and Estimation Approach -- 3.1.1. The Semiparametric Estimator of the Index Coefficients -- 3.1.2. The Partial-Mean Estimator of the ASF -- 4. COHERENCY AND ALTERNATIVE SIMULTANEOUS REPRESENTATIONS -- 5. AN APPLICATION -- 5.1. The Data -- 5.2. A Model of Participation in Work and Other Family Income -- 5.3. Empirical Results -- 5.4. The Coherency Model -- 6.SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- Endogeneity and Instruments in Nonparametric Models
    Additional Edition: Print version Dewatripont, Mathias Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Volume 2 New York : Cambridge University Press,c2003 ISBN 9780521818735
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
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    New York, NY, USA : Princeton Architectural Press
    UID:
    kobvindex_INT0001527
    Format: 152 pages , richly illustrated (some colour) , 22 x 18 cm
    Edition: 1st edition
    ISBN: 9781568983295 , 1568983298
    Series Statement: Design briefs
    Content: "A hands-on book design students and designers alike will welcome. Elements of Design is a tribute to an exceptional teacher and a study of the abstract visual relationships that were her lifelong pursuit. Rowena Reed Kostellow taught industrial design at Pratt Institute for more than fifty years and the designers she trained -- and the designers they're training today -- have changed the face of American design. This succinct, instructive, invaluable book reconstructs the series of exercises that led Kostellow's students from the manipulation of simple forms to the creation of complex solutions to difficult design problems. It includes her exercises and commentary along with selected student solutions, and concludes with examples of work from former students who became leaders in the field, including such well-known figures as Tucker Viemeister, Ralph Applebaum, Ted Muehling, and many others."
    Note: Acknowledgments -- Forewords -- Introduction -- Life and times -- Foundation -- Advanced studies in form -- Studies in space -- Development -- Professional work
    Language: English
    Keywords: Handbooks and manuals
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    Book
    New York, NY, USA :Warner,
    UID:
    kobvindex_INT0000608
    Format: xvi, 480 pages : , illustrations ; , 23 cm.
    Edition: 1st trade printing.
    ISBN: 9780446690683 (pbk.) , 0446690686 (pbk.) , 0446528382 (hbk.) , 9780446528382 (hbk.)
    Content: MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "In his #1 bestseller, Welch surveys his brilliant career at General Electric, reveals his personal business philosophy, and discusses his life post-retirement in a new Afterword." -- "They called him Neutron Jack. They called him the world's toughest boss. And then Fortune called him "The Manager of the Century." In his twenty-year career at the helm of General Electric, Jack Welch defied conventional wisdom and turned an aging behemoth of a corporation into a lean, mean engine of growth and corporate innovation. In this remarkable autobiography-a classic business book and runaway New York Times bestseller now updated with a new afterword by the author-Jack Welch takes us on the rough-and-tumble ride that has been his remarkable life. From his working-class childhood to his early days in G.E. Plastics to his life at the top of the world's most successful company, Welch tells his intensely personal story with his well-known fire and candor. And although it chronicles billion-dollar deals and high-stakes corporate standoffs, Jack is ultimately a story about people-from a man who based his career on demanding only the best from others and from himself."
    Note: EDITORIAL NOTE: first published 2001 as: Jack : what I've learned leading a great company and great people. , INDEX NOTE: includes index. , MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE: Author's note -- Prologue -- SECTION I EARLY YEARS -- Chapter 1, Building Self Confidence -- Chapter 2, Getting Out of the Pile -- Chapter 3, Blowing the Roof Off -- Chapter 4, Flying Below the Radar -- Chapter 5, Getting Closer to the Big Leagues -- Chapter 6, Swimming in a Bigger Pond -- SECTION II BUILDING A PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter 7, Dealing with Reality and "Superficial Congeniality" -- Chapter 8, The Vision Thing -- Chapter 9, The Neutron Years -- Chapter 10, The RCA Deal -- Chapter 11, The People Factory -- Chapter 12, Remaking Crotonville to Remake GE -- Chapter 13, Boundaryless: Taking Ideas to the Bottom Line -- Chapter 14, Deep Dives -- SECTION III UPS AND DOWNS -- Chapter 15, Too Full of Myself -- Chapter 16, GE Capital: The Growth Engine -- Chapter 17, Mixing NBC with Light Bulbs -- Chapter 18, When to Fight, When to Fold -- SECTION IV GAME CHANGERS -- Chapter 19, Globalization -- Chapter 20, Growing Services -- Chapter 21, Six Sigma and Beyond -- Chapter 22, E-Business -- SECTION V LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD -- Chapter 23, "Go Home, Mr. Welch" -- Chapter 24, What This CEO Thing Is All About -- Chapter 25, A Short Reflection on Golf -- Chapter 26, "New Guy" -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Afterword -- Appendixes -- Index. -- Provided by publisher.
    Language: English
    Keywords: Autobiographies
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    UID:
    kobvindex_INT0002541
    Format: 1 DVD video (116 minutes) : , sound (Dolby SR) ; colour ; , 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages). , 12 cm ; image format : 4:3. +
    Content: MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "My Architect: A Son's Journey is a 2003 documentary film about the American architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974), by his son Nathaniel Kahn, detailing the architect's extraordinary career and his familial legacy after his death in 1974. [...] The film features interviews with renowned architects, including Philip Johnson, Frank Gehry, Shamsul Wares, I.M. Pei, Moshe Safdie and Anne Tyng. Throughout the film, Kahn visits all of his father's buildings including The Yale Center for British Art, The Salk Institute, Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. The film explores Kahn's family life which involved his fathering children by three different partners, each of whom was kept in the dark about the existence of his other families. Reviewing the film in Chicago Reader, David Schwartz wrote: 'This absorbing, beautiful documentary is the first-person odyssey of Nathaniel Kahn, son of legendary architect Louis Kahn by one of his longtime mistresses. Despite his accomplishments, Kahn Sr. died a penniless loner in Penn Station in 1974, leaving behind three families, none of them aware of the others' existence. Seeking to unravel his father's mysterious personal life, Nathaniel combines rare personal footage and compelling interviews with the elder Kahn's colleagues, friends, and families.'"
    Content: MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "My Architect is filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn's intimate exploration of his father's life. Louis Kahn, the renowned architect, was found dead in Penn Station in 1974. He died in massive debt. His obituary in The New York Times mentioned Kahn's importance to modern architecture, but did not mention that he had a son. As it turned out, very few people knew that Louis Kahn led a kind of double life. He had a wife and daughter, but he also had two other children by two mistresses. Nathaniel traces his father's past, from his childhood to his prominence in the world of architecture. He interviews Louis' peers, including Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson, and I.M. Pei. He also interviews his own mother and his two half sisters. The filmmaker tries to reconcile his father's prestige with his financial ruin, and his passion for his work with his insensitive treatment of the women in his life and the children he fathered. He also travels the globe examining his father's legacy -- the buildings he designed throughout the world. My Architect was shown at New Directors/New Films in 2003."
    Content: MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "Der 1974 verstorbene Louis I. Kahn wird als einer der wichtigsten Architekten der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts angesehen. Während Kahns künstlerisches Erbe eine kompromisslose Such nach Wahrheit und Klarheit ist, war sein privates Leben voller Geheimnisse und Chaos. Mit seinem mysteriösen Tod auf der Herrentoilette der New Yorker Penn Station hinterließ er drei Familien. In einer Reise um die Welt nimmt uns Nathaniel Kahn, der illegitime Sohn, mit zu den bekannten Architekten unserer Zeit, gewährt tiefe Einblicke in seine Familie und enthüllt die faszinierende Schönheit der Gebäude seines Vaters. Ein Film, der als persönliche Geschichte beginnt und schließlich zu einer universellen Suche nach Identität, Kunstverständnis und dem Leben an sich wird." -- "Louis I Kahn, who died in 1974, is regarded as one of the most important architects of the second half of the 20th century. While Kahn's artistic heritage is an uncompromising quest for truth and clarity, his private life was full of secrets and chaos. With his mysterious death in the men's room of New York's Penn Station, he left three families behind. In a journey around the world, Nathaniel Kahn, the illegitimate son, takes us to the well-known architects of our time, providing deep insights into his family and revealing the fascinating beauty of his father's buildings. A film that begins as a personal story and finally becomes a universal search for identity, understanding of art and life itself."
    Note: BONUS MATERIAL: trailer, conversation with Nathaniel Kahn, additional scenes and rare historical footage with Louis Kahn. , GENERAL NOTE: booklet includes text by Hansjörg Göritz (Architect, Hannover), Louis I. Kahn's biography, Nathaniel Kahn's biography. , CHAPTERS: 1 Beginnings... -- 2 Looking in Philadelphia -- 3 Heading West -- 4 The immigrant -- 5 Dreams of a better city -- 6 Going to sea -- 7 The truth about the bastard -- 8 The nomad -- 9 Family matters -- 10 The end of the journey -- 11 Credits. , LANGUAGE NOTE: English original with subtitles in German and English.
    Language: English
    Keywords: Documentary films
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    Online Resource
    London : I. B. Tauris and Company, Limited
    UID:
    kobvindex_INT50971
    Format: 1 online resource (170 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9780857714886
    Content: In Baghdad, an enormous monument nearly twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe towers over the city. Two huge forearms emerge from the ground, clutching two swords that clash overhead. Those arms are enlarged casts of those of Saddam Hussein, showing every bump and follicle. The 'Victory Arch' celebrates a victory over Iran (in their 8-year long war) that never happened.'The Monument' is a study of the interplay between art and politics - of how culture, normally an unquestioned good, can play into the hands of power with devastating effects. Kanan Makiya uses the culture invented by Saddam Hussein as a window into the nature of totalitarianism and shows how art can become the weapon of dictatorship. Under Saddam Hussein, culture connived in his evil - The Monument explains how. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the power of culture and the culture of power."Brilliant and moving. The kind of totalitarian propaganda discussed by Makiya is relevant not only to explain the grip of power of Saddam Hussein but to other Arab countries."Peter Partner, The New York Review of Books"Makiya writes stridently, but he is also capable of patient rational analysis unravelling what the Monument teaches about the abuse of art for political purposes."Robert Hillenbrand, Times Literary Supplement
    Additional Edition: Print version Makiya, Kanan The Monument London : I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited,c2003 ISBN 9781860649660
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
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