The Rising American Empire

Anglo-American Empire and the Crisis of the Legal Frame (Will the Real British Empire Please Stand Up?)

Rising Wage Dispersion across American Manufacturing

2 We use data from the manuscript censuses of manufacturing for 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 to study the dispersion of average monthly wages across establishments. We find a marked increased in wage inequality over the period, an increase that cannot be explained by biases in the data or changes in census enumeration procedures. Based on log wage regressions on establishment characteristics (for...

Dialectal variation in the rising accents of American English

In Pierrehumbert (1980) three rising accents are posited for English, H*, L+H* and L*+H, but this three-way contrast has often been disputed. In the present experiment, Minnesotan and Southern Californian speakers read two dialogs which included four levels of emphasis. Emphasis lengthened segmental duration, raised the scaling of all tones and delayed H alignment in L+H*. Independently of emph...

Globalization of American Fear Culture: The Empire in the Twenty-First Century

The idea that capitalist system reproduces by the growth of inequality and poverty is not new since it has been discussed widely by Marxism and post-marxism in the four corners of the world. However, the intersection of terrorism and capitalism seems be a heated discussion which today retains considerable concern from scholarship. In his recent book, Globalization of American Fear Culture, Geof...

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...