1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464659803321

Autore

Lipman Jana K

Titolo

Guantanamo [[electronic resource] ] : a working-class history between empire and revolution / / Jana K. Lipman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-77242-2

9786612772429

0-520-94237-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Collana

American crossroads ; ; 25

Disciplina

359.7097291/67

Soggetti

Civil-military relations - Cuba - Guantanamo Bay

Navy-yards and naval stations, American - Cuba - History

Electronic books.

Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) Employees History

Caimanera (Cuba) History

Guantanamo (Cuba) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-308) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction. Between Guantánamo and GTMO -- Prologue. Regional Politics, 1898, and the Platt Amendment -- 1. The Case of Kid Chicle Military Expansion and Labor Competition, 1939-1945 -- 2. "We Are Real Democrats" Legal Debates and Cold War Unionism before Castro, 1940-1954 -- 3. Good Neighbors, Good Revolutionaries, 1940-1958 -- 4. A "Ticklish" Position Revolution, Loyalty, and Crisis, 1959-1964 -- 5. Contract Workers, Exiles, and Commuters Neocolonial and Postmodern Labor Arrangements -- Epilogue. Post 9/11: Empire and Labor Redux -- Appendix. Guantánamo Civil Registry, 1921-1958 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Guantánamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantánamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba, it is a town, and our military occupation there has required more than soldiers and sailors-it has required workers. This revealing history of the women and men who worked on the U.S. naval base in



Guantánamo Bay tells the story of U.S.-Cuban relations from a new perspective, and at the same time, shows how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution transformed the lives of everyday people. Drawing from rich oral histories and little-explored Cuban archives, Jana K. Lipman analyzes how the Cold War and the Cuban revolution made the naval base a place devoid of law and accountability. The result is a narrative filled with danger, intrigue, and exploitation throughout the twentieth century. Opening a new window onto the history of U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean and labor history in the region, her book tells how events in Guantánamo and the base created an ominous precedent likely to inform the functioning of U.S. military bases around the world.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136805703321

Autore

Regine Kolinsky

Titolo

The impact of learning to read on visual processing / / edited by: Tânia Fernandes and Régine Kolinsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2016

[Lausanne, Switzerland] : , : Frontiers Media SA, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (73 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour); digital file(s)

Collana

Frontiers in Psychology

Frontiers Research Topics

Disciplina

152.14

Soggetti

Reading, Psychology of

Visual perception - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

"Reading is at the interface between the vision and spoken language domains. An emergent bulk of research indicates that learning to read strongly impacts on non-linguistic visual object processing, both at the behavioral level (e.g., on mirror image processing-enantiomorphy-)



and at the brain level (e.g., inducing top-down effects as well as neural competition effects). Yet, many questions regarding the exact nature, locus, and consequences of these effects remain hitherto unanswered. The current Special Topic aims at contributing to the understanding of how such a cultural activity as reading might modulate visual processing by providing a landmark forum in which researchers define the state of the art and future directions on this issue. We thus welcome reviews of current work, original research, and opinion articles that focus on the impact of literacy on the cognitive and/or brain visual processes. In addition to studies directly focusing on this topic, we will consider as highly relevant evidence on reading and visual processes in typical and atypical development, including in adult people differing in schooling and literacy, as well as in neuropsychological cases (e.g., developmental dyslexia). We also encourage researchers on nonhuman primate visual processing to consider the potential contribution of their studies to this Special Topic" -- page 2.