1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910339018803321

Titolo

Journal of modelling and simulation of systems : JMSS

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : HyperSciences, 2010-

ISSN

1737-9385

Soggetti

Computer simulation

Mathematical models

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963644003321

Autore

Skrentny John David

Titolo

The minority rights revolution / / John D. Skrentny

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002

ISBN

9780674043732

0674043731

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 473 p

Disciplina

323.173

Soggetti

Minorities - Civil rights - United States - History

Minorities - Legal status, laws, etc - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-459) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION: HOW WAR AND THE BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT CHANGED AMERICA -- 2 “THIS IS WAR AND THIS IS A WAR MEASURE”: RACIAL EQUALITY BECOMES NATIONAL SECURITY -- 3 NATIONAL SECURITY AND EQUAL RIGHTS: LIMITS AND QUALIFICATIONS -- 4 “WE WERE ADVANCING THE REALLY REVOLUTIONARY VIEW OF



DISCRIMINATION”: DESIGNATING OFFICIAL MINORITIES FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN EMPLOYMENT -- 5 “IN VIEW OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE OTHER SIGNIFICANT MINORITIES”: THE EXPANSION OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR MINORITY CAPITALISTS -- 6 “RACE IS A VERY RELEVANT PERSONAL CHARACTERISTIC”: AFFIRMATIVE ADMISSIONS, DIVERSITY, AND THE SUPREME COURT -- 7 “LEARN, AMIGO, LEARN!” BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE RIGHTS IN THE SCHOOLS -- 8 “I AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT THE INHERENT ABSURDITY”: TITLE IX AND WOMEN’S EQUALITY IN EDUCATION -- 9 WHITE MALES AND THE LIMITS OF THE MINORITY RIGHTS REVOLUTION: THE DISABLED, WHITE ETHNICS, AND GAYS -- 10 CONCLUSION: THE RARE AMERICAN EPIPHANY -- NOTES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In the wake of the black civil rights movement, other disadvantaged groups of Americans began to make headway--Latinos, women, Asian Americans, and the disabled found themselves the beneficiaries of new laws and policies--and by the early 1970s a minority rights revolution was well underway. In the first book to take a broad perspective on this wide-ranging and far-reaching phenomenon, John D. Skrentny exposes the connections between the diverse actions and circumstances that contributed to this revolution--and that forever changed the face of American politics. Though protest and lobbying played a role in bringing about new laws and regulations--touching everything from wheelchair access to women's athletics to bilingual education--what Skrentny describes was not primarily a bottom-up story of radical confrontation. Rather, elites often led the way, and some of the most prominent advocates for expanding civil rights were the conservative Republicans who later emerged as these policies' most vociferous opponents. This book traces the minority rights revolution back to its roots not only in the black civil rights movement but in the aftermath of World War II, in which a world consensus on equal rights emerged from the Allies' triumph over the oppressive regimes of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and then the Soviet Union. It also contrasts failed minority rights development for white ethnics and gays/lesbians with groups the government successfully categorized with African Americans. Investigating these links, Skrentny is able to present the world as America's leaders saw it; and so, to show how and why familiar figures--such as Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and, remarkably enough, conservatives like Senator Barry Goldwater and Robert Bork--created and advanced policies that have made the country more egalitarian but left it perhaps as divided as ever.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298471903321

Titolo

Economic History of Energy and Environment / / edited by S. Sugiyama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo : , : Springer Japan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

4-431-55507-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 p.)

Collana

Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan, , 2364-2394

Disciplina

333.70952

Soggetti

Environmental economics

Economic development

History

Sustainable development

Energy policy

Environmental Economics

Economic Growth

History, general

Sustainable Development

Energy Policy, Economics and Management

History

China

Great Britain

Japan

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction:Sugiyama -- Chapter 1 From firewood to coal: deforestation and the development of the silk reeling industry in modern Japan (Sugiyama and Yamada) -- Chapter 2 National railways and the procurement of railway sleepers in prewar Japan (Yamaguchi) -- Chapter 3 A history of the ecology and environmental conditions in China (Ueda) -- Chapter 4 The problem of air pollution in the British Industrial Revolution: the enactment of the Smoke Nuisance Abatement Act of 1821.



Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia.   This volume includes four chapters on energy and the environment of Japan, China, and Britain, and four short book reviews on recent academic works published in Japanese and English. The four chapters cover the following topics: the relationship between deforestation and the development of the silk reeling industry in a district of Nagano Prefecture (central Japan) from the 1870s to the 1900s and the subsequent shift from firewood to coal; the importance of timber supplies for the development of industry as illustrated by a case study on the supply of timber for use as rail sleepers in the Japanese national railway network during the prewar period; a methodological survey of the history of ecology and the environment in China; and an analysis of the British Smoke Nuisance Abatement Act of 1821 as a measure that incorporated the interests of politicians, landlords, and industrialists.