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UNINA9910459200103321 |
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Fosher Kerry B |
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Titolo |
Under construction [[electronic resource] ] : making homeland security at the local level / / Kerry B. Fosher |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2009 |
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1-282-67904-X |
9786612679049 |
0-226-25745-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (286 p.) |
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Civil defense - Government policy - Massachusetts - Boston Metropolitan Area |
Local government - Massachusetts - Boston Metropolitan Area |
Civil defense - Government policy - United States |
Terrorism - Social aspects - United States |
Terrorism - Prevention - United States |
National security - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-252) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. POSITIONS -- CHAPTER 2. CONTEXT: POLICY AND GEOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 3. MUDDLING THROUGH: METHODS, ETHICS, AND WRITING -- CHAPTER 4. FINDING THE COMMUNITY -- CHAPTER 5. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO HOMELAND SECURITY WORK -- CHAPTER 6. DAILY TASKS -- CHAPTER 7. CONCEPTUALIZING SECURITY -- CHAPTER 8. MAINTAINING FLEXIBILITY: HOW THE WORK GETS DONE -- CHAPTER 9. OPPORTUNITIES AND PROBLEMS: FINAL COMMENTS -- APPENDIX. SAMPLE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE BOSTON AREA'S HOMELAND SECURITY POLICY COMMUNITY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, security became the paramount concern of virtually everyone involved in governing the United States. While the public's most enduring memories of that time involved the actions of the Bush administration or Congress, the day- |
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to-day reality of homeland security was worked out at the local level. Kerry B. Fosher, having begun an anthropological study of counterterrorism in Boston a few months prior to the attacks, thus found herself in a unique position to observe the formation of an immensely important area of government practice.</ |
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UNINA9910315227803321 |
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Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? : The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages / Jochen Althoff, Dominik Berrens, Tanja Pommerening |
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Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2019 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften |
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Antiquity |
Middle Ages |
Knowledge Transfer |
Universals |
Cultural History |
History of Astronomy |
Eschatology |
Ancient History |
Medieval History |
History |
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Frontmatter 1 CONTENT 5 Preface and Acknowledgements 9 The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era 13 Transmitting Symbolic Concepts from the Perspective of Cultural Cognition - The Acquisition and Transfer of Folk-biological Knowledge |
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41 The Transfer of Knowledge from Mesopotamia to Egypt 71 Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition - Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal Culture 99 Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Tradition - Medical Expertise and Knowledge of the Body among Rabbinic Jews in Late Antiquity 123 The Reception and Rejection of "Foreign" Astronomical Knowledge in Byzantium 167 "He assigned Him as the Jewel of the night" - The Knowledge of the Moon in Mesopotamian Texts of the Late Second and First Millennia BCE 187 Shapeshifter - Knowledge of the Moon in Graeco-Roman Egypt 213 Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch's De facie in orbe lunae - Found, Inherited, or Borrowed Ideas 253 Conclusion - Of Moon and Men: Observations about the Knowledge of the Moon in Antiquity 279 Know Your Sources Before You Argue - Minucius Felix and Augustine of Hippo on the Conflagration 289 The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian Sources 313 Poets, Prophets, and Philosophers - The End of the World According to Otto von Freising 343 The Ragnark Myth in Scandinavia - Finding, Inheriting, and Borrowing 365 Conclusion - The End of the World in Fire 385 About the Authors 391 Authors and Texts Cited 395 General index 403 |
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Since the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investigating the construction and transfer of such concepts between and within various ancient and medieval cultures. The single contributions try to answer questions concerning the sources of knowledge, the strategies of transfer and legitimation as well as the conceptual changes over time and space. After a comprehensive introduction, the volume is divided into three parts: The contributions of the first section treat various theoretical and methodological aspects. Two additional thematic sections deal with a special field of knowledge, i.e. concepts of the moon and of the end of the world in fire. |
»The book will mainly appeal to intellectual historians of antiquity, who will appreciate the case studies of ancient knowledge.« |
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