1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910213813903321

Autore

Smart William

Titolo

Over The Rim [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, : Utah State University Press, 2000

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

979.2/01

979.201

Soggetti

Mormons - Utah - History - 19th century

Mormons -- Utah -- History -- 19th century

Pratt, Parley P

Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker), 1807-1857

Utah - Discovery and exploration

Utah -- Discovery and exploration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; The Journals; The Official Report; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Over the Rim is the first book about an important but little-known expedition sent by Brigham Young to explore southern Utah. Led by Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, the party traveled from Salt Lake City south across the rim of the Great Basin to the Virgin River near future St. George. They brought back to Mormon leaders their first detailed portrait of the country to the south that the church planned to settle.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910555235403321

Autore

Heller Chaia

Titolo

Food, Farms, and Solidarity : French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2012

[s.l.] : , : Duke University Press, , 2013

ISBN

9781478092117

1478092114

9780822394808

0822394804

9781283925051

1283925052

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Collana

New ecologies for the twenty-first century

Classificazione

NAT011000SOC002010

Disciplina

338.1/844

338.1844

Soggetti

Agriculture and state - History - Political activity - 20th century - France

Farmers - Political aspects - France

Genetically modified foods - France

Sustainable agriculture - France

Anti-globalization movement - France

Business & Economics

Agricultural Economics

France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; About the series; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Creating a New Rationality of Agriculture in a Postindustrial World; Part I: Toward a New Rationality of Agriculture; 2. The New Paysan Movements: French Industrialized Agriculture and the Rise of the Postindustrial Paysan; 3. The Confédération Paysanne: Philosophy, Structure, and Constituency; Part II: The Confédération Paysanne's Early Anti-GMO Campaign, from Risk to Globalization; 4. Union Activism and



Programs: Early Campaigns and Paysan Agriculture; 5. We Have Always Been Modern: Toward a Progressive Anti-GMO Campaign

6. The Trial of the GMOS: Deploying Discourses from Risk to GlobalizationPart III: How France Grew Its Own Alter-globalization Movement; 7. Caravans, GMOS, and McDo: The Campaign Continues; 8. Operation Roquefort, Part I: Traveling to Washington, D.C.; 9. Operation Roquefort, Part II: The Battle of Seattle; 10. Postindustrial Paysans in a Post-Seattle World: New Movements, New Possibilities; 11. Conclusion: French Lessons;  What's to Be Learned?; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Chaia Heller follows one of France's largest farmers' unions as it joins with peasants internationally to contest the hegemony of genetically modified foods, free trade, and industrial agriculture.