1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000011972

Titolo

CIGR handbook of agricultural engineering / edited by CIGR, the International Commission of Agricultural Engineering

Pubbl/distr/stampa

St. Joseph (MI) : American Society of Agricultural Engineers, c1999

ISBN

1-892769-01-8

0-929355-98-9

1-892769-02-6

1-892769-03-4

0-929355-97-0

Descrizione fisica

v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Disciplina

630

Soggetti

Ingegneria agraria - Manuali

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

<<Vol. 1. :>> Land and water engineering / volume editor: H. N. van Lier. - XVIII, 558 p. <<Vol. 2. :>> Animal production & aquacultural engineering / Part 1. : Livestock housing and environment, volume editor: El Houssine Bartali ; Part 2. : Aquaculture engineering, volume editor: Frederick Wheaton. - XIII, 359 p. <<Vol. 3. :>> Plant production engineering, volume editor: Bill A. Stout. - XXIII, 632 p. <<Vol. 4. :>> Agro-processing engineering, volume editor: F. W. Bakker-Arkema. - XIII, 527 p. <<Vol. 5. :>> Energy and biomass engineering, volume editor: Osamu Kitani. - XX, 330 p



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452851303321

Titolo

The martial imagination : cultural aspects of American warfare / / edited by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station : , : Texas A&M University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-4619-4455-4

1-62349-090-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; ; no. 144

Altri autori (Persone)

BryanJimmy L

Disciplina

303.60973

Soggetti

Violence

War and society - United States

War

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Militarization and violence: Militarizing the menagerie: American zoos from World War II to the early Cold War / John M. Kinder -- War and trauma: Francis Parkman and the challenge of writing the pain of the other / Kathleen Kennedy -- Agents of destiny: the Texas Rangers and the dilemma of the conquest narrative / Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. -- Gender and ethnicity: A prison without bars: Charles Lee and the society of gentlemen prisoners during the American Revolution / James J. Schaefer -- From Maiden to Mambisa: Evangelina Cisneros and the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1898 / Belinda Linn Rinc©on -- Reconstructing warriors: myth, meaning, and multiculturalism in US Army advertising after Vietnam / Jeremy K. Saucier -- Imagination and emotion: "Remember the Alamo" to "remember the Maine": the visual ideologies of the Mexican and Spanish-American wars / Bonnie M. Miller -- Virtuous victims, visceral violence: war and melodrama in American culture / Jonna Eagle -- On angel's wings: the religious origins of the US Air Force / Timothy J. Cathcart -- Foretelling and forgetting: The prophecies of Civil War soldiers: a history of the future / Jason Phillips -- Randall Wallace's we were soldiers: forgetting the American war in Viet Nam / Susan L. Eastman -- Marshaling the



imaginary, imagining the martial: or, what is at stake in the cultural analysis of war? / Amy S. Greenberg.

Sommario/riassunto

Martial experiences and the mythologies that surround them have profoundly affected the ways in which Americans think of themselves. Wars identify the heroes who help define national character, provide the stories for the grand narratives of belonging and sacrifice, and serve as markers for essential moments of transformation. However, only in the last several years have scholars begun using the term "cultural history of American warfare" to identify the study of how public discourse formulates these defining myths and narratives. This volume brings together scholarship from diverse fields in