1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005314130403321

Autore

Goffart, Walter

Titolo

Caput and colonate : towards a history of late Roman taxation / Walter Goffart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto ; Buffalo : Toronto University Press, [1974]

ISBN

0-8020-5289-4

Descrizione fisica

IX, 165 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

The Phoenix : journal of the Classical Association of Canada ; Supplementary 12

Disciplina

336.0937

937.06

Locazione

FLFBC

DDR

Collocazione

937.06 GOF 1

DDR-XVIII D 003

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140272303321

Titolo

A companion to John F. Kennedy / / edited by Marc Selverstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : , : John Wiley & Sons, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-60879-8

1-118-60886-0

1-118-60876-3

1-118-60880-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (642 pages)

Collana

Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History

Disciplina

973.922092

Soggetti

United States Politics and government 1961-1963

United States Foreign relations 1961-1963

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

I. The biographies -- Writing Kennedy / James Giglio -- II. Politics before the presidency -- Kennedy in Congress / Donald Ritchie -- The election of 1960 / William Rorabaugh -- III. Managing the presidency -- First family / Barbara Perry -- Robert F. Kennedy / Joseph Palermo -- Theodore Sorensen / Michael Brenes -- Action intellectuals / John Dumbrell -- Congress / K.C. Johnson -- Civil-military relations / Erin Mahan -- Media / Aniko Bodroghkozy -- IV. Hot spots -- Berlin / Andreas Daum -- Cuba / Alan McPherson -- Laos / Seth Jacobs -- Vietnam / Andrew Preston -- V. Global challenges -- Europe / Andrew Priest -- Latin America / Jeffrey Taffet -- Middle East / April Summit -- Africa / Philip Muehlenbeck -- Sino-Soviet split / Noam Kochavi -- Non-aligned world / Robert Rakove -- Foreign economic policy / Tom Zeiler -- Peace Corps / Nicole Anslover -- Brushfire wars / Jeff Woods -- Nuclear issues / Philip Nash -- Space / John Logsdon -- VI. Domestic concerns -- Kennedy liberalism / Lily Geismer -- Women's issues / MaryAnne Borrelli -- Civil rights / Derek Catsam -- Arts / Donna Binkiewicz -- VII. Dallas -- The assassination / John McAdams.

Sommario/riassunto

A Companion to John F. Kennedy presents a comprehensive collection of historiographical essays addressing the life and administration of the



nation's 35th president. Features original contributions from leading Kennedy scholarsReassesses  Kennedy, his administration, and the era of the New FrontierReconsiders relevant Kennedy scholarship and points to new avenues of researchConsiders the major crises faced by Kennedy, along with domestic issues including women's issues and civil rights

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793811603321

Autore

Meeker Natania

Titolo

Radical Botany : Plants and Speculative Fiction / / Antónia Szabari, Natania Meeker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-8232-8665-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 pages)

Disciplina

809.93353

Soggetti

Plants in literature

Plants in motion pictures

Speculative fiction - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Radical botany: an introduction -- Chapter 2. Libertine botany and vegetal modernity -- Chapter 3. Plant societies and enlightened vegetality -- Chapter 4. The inorganic plant in the romantic garden -- Chapter 5. The end of the world by other means -- Chapter 6. Plant horror: love your own pod -- Chapter 7. Becoming plant nonetheless -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life as vegetal. Meeker and Szabari argue that the recognition of plants’ liveliness and animation, as a result of scientific discoveries from the seventeenth century to



today, has mobilized speculative creation in fiction, cinema, and art. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. Radical Botany traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought. If, as Michael Foucault has argued, the notion of the human was born at a particular historical moment and is now nearing its end, Radical Botany reveals that this origin and endpoint are deeply informed by vegetality as a form of pre- and posthuman subjectivity. The trajectory of speculative fiction which this book traces offers insights into the human relationship to animate matter and the technological mediations through which we enter into contact with the material world. Plants profoundly shape human experience, from early modern absolutist societies to late capitalism’s manipulations of life and the onset of climate change and attendant mass extinction. A major intervention in critical plant studies, Radical Botany reveals the centuries-long history by which science and the arts have combined to posit plants as the model for all animate life and thereby envision a different future for the cosmos.