1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910141822103321

Titolo

Peopled landscapes : archaeological and biogeographic approaches to landscapes / / edited by Simon G. Haberle & Bruno David

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Acton, A.C.T. : , : ANU E Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

9781921862724

1921862726

9781921862717

1921862718

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 pages) : illustrations (some colour), colour map

Collana

Terra Australis ; ; 34

Disciplina

333.72099

Soggetti

Human ecology - Australasia

Landscape assessment - Australasia

Landscape changes - Australasia

Nature - Effect of human beings on - Australasia

Archaeology

Landscape archaeology

Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This impressive collection celebrates the work of Peter Kershaw, a key figure in the field of Australian palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Over almost half a century his research helped reconceptualize ecology in Australia, creating a detailed understanding of environmental change in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Within a biogeographic framework one of his exceptional contributions was to explore the ways that Aboriginal people may have modified the landscape through the effects of anthropogenic burning. These ideas have had significant impacts on thinking within the fields of geomorphology, biogeography, archaeology, anthropology and history. Papers presented here continue to explore the dynamism of landscape change in Australia and the



contribution of humans to those transformations. The volume is structured in two sections. The first examines evidence for human engagement with landscape, focusing on Australia and Papua New Guinea but also dealing with the human/environmental histories of Europe and Asia. The second section contains papers that examine palaeoecology and present some of the latest research into environmental change in Australia and New Zealand. Individually these papers, written by many of Australia’s prominent researchers in these fields, are significant contributions to our knowledge of Quaternary landscapes and human land use. But Peopled Landscapes also signifies the disciplinary entanglement that is archaeological and biogeographic research in this region, with archaeologists and environmental scientists contributing to both studies of human land use and palaeoecology. Peopled Landscapes reveals the interdisciplinary richness of Quaternary research in the Australasian region as well as the complexity and richness of the entangled environmental and human pasts of these lands.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454620803321

Autore

Shandler Jeffrey

Titolo

While America Watches [[electronic resource] ] : Televising the Holocaust

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-280-48120-X

0-19-802804-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

791.45658

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in television

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), on television

Television broadcasting

World War, 1939-1945

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), on television - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Image as Witness; 2. ""This Is Your Life""; 3. The Theater of Our Century; 4. The Man in the Glass Box; 5. A Guest in the Wasteland; 6. The Big Event; 7. The Rise of the Survivor; 8. The Master Paradigm; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

America's struggle against Nazism is one of the few aspects of World War II that has escaped controversy. Historians agree that it was a widely popular war, different from the subsequent conflicts in Korea and Vietnam because of the absence of partisan sniping, ebbing morale, or calls for a negotiated peace. In this provocative book, Steven Casey challenges conventional wisdom about America's participation in World War II. Drawing on the numerous opinion polls and surveys conducted by the U.S. government, he traces the development of elite and mass attitudes toward Germany, from the early days

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454938803321

Autore

Gardner Bruce L

Titolo

American agriculture in the twentieth century [[electronic resource] ] : how it flourished and what it cost / / Bruce L. Gardner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, [2006]

ISBN

0-674-26335-9

0-674-03749-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Disciplina

338.109730904

Soggetti

Agriculture - Economic aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Agriculture - Economic aspects - United States

Agriculture - United States - Costs

Family farms - United States

Farm income - United States

Agricultural credit

Agricultural productivity

Agricultural subsidies - United States

Agriculture and state - United States

Agricultural laws and legislation - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-378) and index.