Author: Publisher: Rotary International
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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1975 Proceedings: Sixty-Sixth Annual Convention of Rotary International
Author: Publisher: Rotary International
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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1976 Proceedings: Sixty-Seventh Annual Convention of Rotary International
Author: Publisher: Rotary International
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Proceedings: Thirty-Sixth Annual Convention of Rotary International
Author: Publisher: Rotary International
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism
Author: Brendan GoffPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674989791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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A new history of Rotary International shows how the organization reinforced capitalist values and cultural practices at home and tried to remake the world in the idealized image of Main Street America. Rotary International was born in Chicago in 1905. By the time World War II was over, the organization had made good on its promise to Ògirdle the globe.Ó Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism explores the meteoric rise of a local service club that brought missionary zeal to the spread of American-style economics and civic ideals. Brendan Goff traces RotaryÕs ideological roots to the business progressivism and cultural internationalism of the United States in the early twentieth century. The key idea was that community service was intrinsic to a capitalist way of life. The tone of Òservice above selfÓ was often religious, but, as Rotary looked abroad, it embraced Woodrow WilsonÕs secular message of collective security and international cooperation: civic internationalism was the businessmanÕs version of the Christian imperial civilizing mission, performed outside the state apparatus. The target of this mission was both domestic and global. The Rotarian, the organizationÕs publication, encouraged Americans to see the world as friendly to Main Street values, and Rotary worked with US corporations to export those values. Case studies of Rotary activities in Tokyo and Havana show the group paving the way for encroachments of US powerÑeconomic, political, and culturalÑduring the interwar years. RotaryÕs evangelism on behalf of market-friendly philanthropy and volunteerism reflected a genuine belief in peacemaking through the worldÕs Òparliament of businessmen.Ó But, as Goff makes clear, Rotary also reinforced American power and interests, demonstrating the tension at the core of US-led internationalism.
1977 Proceedings: Sixty-Eighth Annual Convention of Rotary International
Author: Publisher: Rotary International
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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2005 Proceedings: Ninety-Sixth Annual Convention of Rotary International
Author: Publisher: Rotary International
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
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1973 Proceedings: Sixty-Fourth Annual Convention of Rotary International
Author: Publisher: Rotary International
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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1974 Proceedings: Sixty-Fifth Annual Convention of Rotary International
Author: Publisher: Rotary International
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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2006 Proceedings: Ninety-Seventh Annual Convention of Rotary International
Author: Publisher: Rotary International
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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