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UNINA9910452472303321 |
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Dimmock Matthew |
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Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in early modern English culture / / Matthew Dimmock [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-32706-7 |
1-107-23812-9 |
1-139-50753-2 |
1-107-33516-7 |
1-107-33271-0 |
1-107-33682-1 |
1-107-33350-4 |
1-107-33599-X |
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1 online resource (xvi, 291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Islam in literature |
Christianity and other religions - Islam - History |
Islam - Relations - Christianity - History |
Europe Civilization Islamic influences |
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Monografia |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: fabricating Mahomet -- 1. 'Well Rehearsed' in 'Books Old': Early Print and the Life of Mahomet -- 2. 'Most Like to Mahomet': Religious History and Reformation Mutability -- 3. Old Mahomet's Head: Idols, Papists and Mortus Ali on the English Stage -- 4. Bunyan's Dilemma: Seventeenth-Century Imposture, Liberty and True Mahomets -- Conclusion: Mahomet discovered. |
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The figure of 'Mahomet' was widely known in early modern England. A grotesque version of the Prophet Muhammad, Mahomet was a product of vilification, caricature and misinformation placed at the centre of Christian conceptions of Islam. In Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture Matthew Dimmock draws |
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on an eclectic range of early modern sources - literary, historical, visual - to explore the nature and use of Mahomet in a period bounded by the beginnings of print and the early Enlightenment. This fabricated figure and his spurious biography were endlessly recycled, but also challenged and vindicated, and the tales the English told about him offer new perspectives on their sense of the world - its geographies and religions, near and far - and their place within it. This book explores the role played by Mahomet in the making of Englishness, and reflects on what this might reveal about England's present circumstances. |
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UNINA9910790800303321 |
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Maines Rachel <1950-> |
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Asbestos and fire : technological tradeoffs and the body at risk / / Rachel Maines |
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[New Brunswick], New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2013 |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- TABLES -- PREFACE -- 1. The Asbestos Technology Decision Environment -- 2. Asbestos before 1880: From Natural Wonder to Industrial Materia -- 3. The Rise of the Asbestos Curtain -- 4. Mass Destruction by Fire: Asbestos in World War II -- 5. Schools, Homes, and Workplaces: Fire Prevention in the Postwar Built Environment -- 6. The Asbestos Tort Conflagration -- APPENDIX A. SOME ASBESTOS END-USES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1850–1990 -- APPENDIX B. SELECTED LIST OF ORGANIZATIONS SPECIFYING ASBESTOS IN CODES, STANDARDS, OR RECOMMENDATIONS, 1880–1980 -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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For much of the industrial era, asbestos was a widely acclaimed benchmark material. During its heyday, it was manufactured into nearly three thousand different products, most of which protected life and property from heat, flame, and electricity. It was used in virtually every industry from hotel keeping to military technology to chemical manufacturing, and was integral to building construction from shacks to skyscrapers in every community across the United States. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, this once popular mineral began a rapid fall from grace as growing attention to the serious health risks associated with it began to overshadow the protections and benefits it provided. In this thought-provoking and controversial book, Rachel Maines challenges the recent vilification of asbestos by providing a historical perspective on Americans’ changing perceptions about risk. She suggests that the very success of asbestos and other fire-prevention technologies in containing deadly blazes has led to a sort of historical amnesia about the very risks they were supposed to reduce. Asbestos and Fire is not only the most thoroughly researched and balanced look at the history of asbestos, it is also an important contribution to a larger debate that considers how the risks of technological solutions should be evaluated. As technology offers us ever-increasing opportunities to protect and prevent, Maines urges that learning to accept and effectively address the unintended consequences of technological innovations is a growing part of our collective responsibility. |
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