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UNINA9910452192503321 |
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Durant Robert F. <1949-> |
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The greening of the U.S. military [[electronic resource] ] : environmental policy, national security, and organizational change / / Robert F. Durant |
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Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2007 |
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1-58901-446-4 |
1-4356-2977-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (317 p.) |
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Public management and change series |
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Military bases - Environmental aspects - United States |
Environmental responsibility - Government policy - United States |
Military privileges and immunities - United States |
Environmental policy - United States |
Organizational change - United States |
Electronic books. |
United States Armed Forces Environmental aspects |
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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 and index. |
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A world apart? -- Greening, national security, and the postmodern military -- About-face at the Pentagon? -- Base cleanups, sovereign impunity, and the expansion of the beaten zone -- Guns, dogs, fences, and base transfers -- Missiles, mayhem, and the munitions rule -- Natural resources management, military training, and the greening of the drone zone -- Safety, security, and chemical weapons demilitarization -- Pollution prevention, energy conservation, and the perils of châteaux generalship -- Avoiding the harder right in the post-Clinton era? -- Lessons for practice and theory. |
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By the Cold War's end, U.S. military bases harbored nearly 20,000 toxic waste sites. All told, cleaning the approximately 27 million acres is projected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. And yet while progress has been made, efforts to integrate environmental and national security concerns into the military's operations have proven a daunting and intrigue-filled task that has fallen short of professed goals in the post-Cold War era.In The Greening of the U.S. Military, Robert F. Durant |
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delves into this too-little understood world of defense environmental policy to uncover the epic and on |
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UNINA9910798379903321 |
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Autore |
Allison David B. |
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Living history : effective costumed interpretation and enactment at museums and historic sites / / David B. Allison |
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Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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American Association for State and Local History |
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Museums - Educational aspects |
Museum theater - Educational aspects |
Historical reenactments - United States |
Historic sites - Interpretive programs - United States |
History - Study and teaching - United States |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Using living history to connect with visitors -- Putting living history in context -- Making meaning and creating authenticity at museums -- Examining successful first-person interpretation -- The power of children at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis -- "History Players" at the Minnesota History Center -- Enactment at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science -- Theater and exhibit actors at the Science Museum of Minnesota -- Opening doors at Conner Prairie -- "They're trying to learn for free!" -- Playing with living history in pop culture -- Conclusion -- Using living history for stronger programing and education -- Appendix. |
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Here, David Allison, who has worked at several museums known for effective enactments, provides the fascinating stories of three large living history museums as they adapt to changing audience expectations; a solid overview of the types of interpretation that living history museums use; best practices (and practices for you to avoid) |
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from the intersection of public history, individual agency, and business imperatives at museums and historic sites. Living History: Effective Costumed Interpretation and Enactment at Museums and Historic Sites looks at the history of these compelling techniques, p |
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