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Manufacturing Harmony is the first full-scale application of Herman and Chomsky s classic propaganda model to the news media content of a country with a system that is not outwardly similar to the United States. Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman examines the news media of the People s Republic of China using the five filters of the original model. He asks provocative questions concerning the nature of media ownership, the effect of government or private ownership on media content, the elite-centered nature news sourcing patterns, the benefits and costs of having active special interest groups to influence news coverage, the continued usefulness of the concepts of censorship and propaganda, the ability of advertisers to indirectly influence news production, and the potential increase of pro-capitalist, pro-consumerist ideology and nationalism in Chinese news media. This book will appeal to scholars of international media and journalism.

Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered promiscuous, a burden to their families or the state, those who had been sexually abused or raised in the care of the Church and State, and unmarried mothers. These girls and women were subjected to forced labour as well as psychological and physical maltreatment. Using the Irish States own report into the Magdalene institutions, as well as testimonies from survivors and independent witnesses, this book gives a detailed account of life behind the high walls of Irelands Magdalene institutions. The book offers an overview of the social, cultural and political contexts of institutional survivor activism, the Irish States response culminating in the McAleese Report, and the formation of the Justice for Magdalenes campaign, a volunteer-run survivor advocacy group. Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries documents the ongoing work carried out by the Justice for Magdalenes group in advancing public knowledge and research into Magdalene Laundries, and how the Irish State continues to evade its responsibilities not just to survivors of the Magdalenes but also in providing a truthful account of what happened. Drawing from a variety of primary sources, this book reveals the fundamental flaws in the state's investigation and how the treatment of the burials, exhumation and cremation of former Magdalene women remains a deeply troubling issue today, emblematic of the system of torture and studious official neglect in which the Magdalene women lived their lives. The Authors are donating all royalties in the name of the women who were held in the Magdalenes to EPIC (Empowering People in Care).

Índice. Abreviaturas. Prólogo. Prefacio. Introducción. Primera parte. "Nación" vs confederación (1776-1789)

A groundbreaking history of the marvelously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of the colony of Sydney From the sparkling harbor to the Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city's political elite, from the impact of its geology to its economy, this groundbreaking history offers an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city. Skillfully revealing how the landscape shaped the lives of the Aboriginal inhabitants and newcomers alike, this history first traces the ways in which relationships between the colonial authorities and ordinary men and women broke with old patterns, and how settler and Aboriginal histories became entwined. It also uncovers the ties between the burgeoning township and its rural hinterland expanding along the river systems of the Cumberland Plain. Enthusiastically received on first publication, this is a landmark account of the birthplace of modern Australia, and a fascinating and richly textured narrative of people and place.

La guerra hispano-cubano-americana de 1898 finalizó con el Tratado de Paz de París entre Estados Unidos y España. Este acuerdo supuso el fin del imperio español en América y la pérdida de Cuba después de cuatro siglos unida a la metropoli. Comenzo entonces la primera intervencion militar norteamericana de la Isla, periodo que se extenderia desde 1899 hasta 1902. En esos tres años, EE UU impulso una renovacion politica y social con el objetivo de convertir a Cuba en una aliada fiel y, quiza, terminar anexionandola. Tambien paso a controlar la economia cubana, en particular, el azucar, del que era la primera productora mundial.Aunque la amenaza anexionista no desaparecio durante toda la ocupacion, Cuba pudo declarar su independencia el 20 de mayo de 1902, pero pago un alto precio: entregar el control de su politica exterior a Estados Unidos gracias a la Enmienda Platt, una clausula incorporada a la nueva carta magna. A cambio, dio un gran paso hacia la plena soberania y consiguio firmar un tratado comercial con el pais norteamericano que le garantizaba un mercado enorme y estable.Este libro analiza ese periodo breve y fascinante en el que EE UU se convirtio en una potencia mundial y Cuba sento las bases republicanas. Un tiempo en el que la democracia llego del norte como un viento poderoso, pero tambien amenazante.

El desempeño del mariscal de campo José de la Cruz Fernández en los diez años que hemos examinado, 1812 a 1821, fue realmente eficaz y correcto, sobresaliente para los realistas, aunque tuvo sus más y sus menos con los tres virreyes con los que le toco l

AMERICAN CIVILIZATION AN INTRODUCTION es un libro del autor DAVILA, MANUEL H. editado por ROUTLEDGE. AMERICAN CIVILIZATION AN INTRODUCTION tiene un código de ISBN 978-0-367-62094-3.

Los reportajes de Saint-Exupéry sobre Moscú son únicos por su interés histórico y por la perspectiva del autor, cuya ironía y fina sensibilidad los convierten e magistrales. Textos que van más allá del reportaje periodistico y que gracias a la penetrate v