1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451385003321

Autore

Heneghan Bridget T

Titolo

Whitewashing America [[electronic resource] ] : material culture and race in the antebellum imagination / / Bridget T. Heneghan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2003

ISBN

1-283-85101-6

1-60473-046-3

1-4237-3198-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

813.009/355

Soggetti

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Race in literature

American literature - White authors - History and criticism

Material culture - United States - History - 19th century

Human skin color in literature

Material culture in literature

Segregation in literature

Slavery in literature

Racism in literature

White in literature

Electronic books.

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 (p. 183-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The pot calling the kettle : white goods and the construction of race in antebellum America -- Living on white bread : class considerations and the refinement of whiteness -- Unmentionable things unmentioned : constructing femininity with white things -- See Spot run : white things in the rhetoric of racial, moral, and hygienic purity.

Sommario/riassunto

Literary criticism -- American history -->  Even before mass marketing, American consumers bought products that gentrified their households and broadcast their sense of ""the good things in life.""   Bridging literary scholarship, archaeology, history, and art history, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum



Imagination explores how material goods shaped antebellum notions of race, class, gender, and purity.   From the Revolutionary War until the Civil War, American consumers increasingly sought white-colored goods. Whites prefe

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782302703321

Autore

Hernes Tor

Titolo

The Spatial Construction of Organization [[electronic resource] /] / Tor Hernes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, USA, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004

John Benjamins Publishing Company

ISBN

1-282-16069-9

9786612160691

90-272-9584-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

The Advances in organization studies, , 1566-1075 ; ; 12

Disciplina

302.3/5/01

Soggetti

Organizational sociology - Philosophy

Spatial behavior

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Sociology / General

Social Change

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

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 and index.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779418703321

Autore

Rumney Thomas A

Titolo

The geography of Central America and Mexico [[electronic resource] ] : a scholarly guide and bibliography / / Thomas A. Rumney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., c2013

ISBN

1-299-38777-2

0-8108-8637-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

Geography

Disciplina

917.2

Soggetti

Geography - Central America

Geography - Mexico

Mexico Geography

Central America Geography

Mexico Geography Bibliography

Central America Geography Bibliography

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

Contents; Introduction; List of Journals Used; 1 The Region as a Whole; 2 Belize; 3 Costa Rica; 4 El Salvador; 5 Guatemala; 6 Honduras; 7 Mexico; 8 Nicaragua; 9 Panama; Author Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

The Geography of Central America and Mexico: A Scholarly Guide and Bibliography by Thomas A. Rumney collects, organizes, and presents as many of these scholarly publications as possible to help and encourage efforts in the teaching, study, and continuing scholarship of the geography of this area, which covers Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, as well as the region as a whole.