to other evangelicals, and both profited, and by and large, there was nothing underhanded or hidden about it. Using the money from big businesses, American evangelicalism forayed into the world of radio, television, and publishing; evangelical schools and universities were established; and evangelical lobbyists petitioned public figures to influence both local and national legislation. For the cynic, Grem may have painted quite the contemptuous picture of conservative evangelical Christianity as a religious system dependent on big business donors. Grem himself admits, however, that “every successful movement requires money” (3). All movements, whether religious or otherwise, receive funding from corporations or business entities. Whether those causes seek Christianization or secularization, whether they are conservative or liberal, they all seek to advance an agenda or platform. This is where Grem arguably gives an unfair analysis, disparagement even, of the evangelical-business relationship. Conservative evangelicalism, as Grem adeptly reveals, simply has employed the business world and corporate structure to its advantage historically, and conservative evangelicals have done this better, arguably, than other groups. Darren E. Grem’s The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity offers a necessary glimpse into the world of conservative evangelical Christianity and the businessmen and corporations that supported its rise to religious and cultural dominance in public life. This is a helpful book for those interested in both history and religion, and is sure to be an enlightening read. However, let the reader be aware that this title receives more criticism than commendation.

God's Businessmen: Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War

“Place for me is the locus of desire,” writes Lucy Lippard in the opening to Lure of the Local (1997). This research project is about place. Two distinct sets of scholarship on place emerged in the 1970s and the 1990s. A third wave of place scholarship is evident today. Coming initially from geography and anthropology, the study of place is now ubiquitous across fields—in history, cultural studies, architecture, planning, health sciences, art and other disciplines. Despite the sustained interest in the study of place, one of the hallmarks of place is the ranging and contested contours of what place means. Place is defined, for the purposes of this study, as a describable location characterized by a shifting confluence of historical, material, political, cultural, economic, built, sensed and imagined qualities. There are three distinct goals in this research project. First, this research project seeks to explore how place has been theorized, imagined, and understood. Second, this research project is an inquiry into how place can be studied. To these ends, I name, define, and refine a method I call place ethnography. Place ethnography is a methodological framework that blends ethnographic and historic research with a range of disciplinary techniques in order to study place. I develop several concepts in this project. These include the idea of a place imaginary, defined as a dominant place perception, the

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Place, Imaginary, Identity: Place Ethnography in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

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"West of the west?": The territory of Hawai'i, the American West, and American colonialism in the twentieth century

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Vacation views: tourist photographs of the American West, 1945-1980

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Preserving the past and planning the future in Pasadena, Riverside and San Bernardino

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Jeffrey Ostler

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Into the West: the Story of Its People