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Wright Christopher, Ph.D. |
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The Gattilusio lordships and the Aegean world, 1355-1462 / / by Christopher Wright |
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (487 p.) |
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The Medieval Mediterranean : Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1500, , 0928-5520 ; ; Volume 100 |
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Pirates - Aegean Sea Region |
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Power (Social sciences) - Aegean Sea Region - History - To 1500 |
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Aegean Sea Region History |
Aegean Sea Region Politics and government |
Lesbos Island (Greece) Biography |
Genoa (Italy) Biography |
Byzantine Empire Relations Aegean Sea Region |
Aegean Sea Region Relations Byzantine Empire |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Political Context and Development -- 2 Byzantium: Sovereignty and Legitimacy -- 3 Genoa: Migration and Solidarity -- 4 The Lordships as a Network: Family and Enterprise -- 5 Inside the Lordships: Communities and Government -- 6 Latin Christendom: Common Causes and Compromises -- 7 The Turks: Security and Submission -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Old Phokaia -- Appendix 2: Territorial Acquisitions in the Northern Aegean -- Appendix 3: The Alum of Maroneia -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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In The Gattilusio Lordships and the Aegean World 1355-1462 , Christopher Wright offers a window into the culturally and politically diverse late medieval Aegean. The overlapping influences of the |
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contrasting networks of power at work in the region are explored through the history of one of many small and distinctive political units that flourished in this fragmented environment, the lordships of the Gattilusio family, centred on Lesbos. Though Genoese in origin, they owed their position to Byzantine authority. Though active in crusading, they cultivated congenial relations with the Ottomans. Though Catholic, they afforded exceptional freedom to the Orthodox Church. Their regime is shown to represent both a unique fusion of influences and a revealing microcosm of its times. |
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UNINA9910460195203321 |
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Wurster Charles F. |
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DDT wars : rescuing our national bird, preventing cancer, and creating Environmental Defense Fund / / Charles F. Wurster |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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0-19-755951-4 |
0-19-021943-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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DDT (Insecticide) - Toxicology |
DDT (Insecticide) - Physiological effect |
DDT (Insecticide) - Environmental aspects |
Health promotion |
Environmental health |
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Previously issued in print: 2015. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. A New England Town Sprays Its Elm Trees with DDT""; ""How Did I Get into This?""; ""DDT Kills Birds but Doesn�t Save the Trees""; ""2. Sue the Bastards on Long Island: The Power of an Idea""; ""DDT Goes to Trial on Long Island""; ""Rigging the Audubon Convention; A Wall Street |
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Lawyer Was Unimpressed""; ""The Environmental Defense Fund Is Born""; ""3. Proceed with Caution, then Sue the Bastards in Michigan""; ""The Suit Partly Unravels; Another Win While Losing""; ""The Cities Cave In, Forget to Kick Us Out"" |
""Evolving a Master Plan""""4. On to Wisconsin, the Dairy State""; ""DDT Goes to Trial in Madison, Wisconsin""; ""Birds Die, Nests Fail""; ""DDT, Thin Eggshells, and Reduced Reproduction in Birds""; ""DDT Reduces Reproduction in Trout and Salmon""; ""Wayland Hayes: “DDT Is Absolutely Safe�""; ""A Toxicologist Arrives from Sweden""; ""The Task Force for DDT Questions the Analyses; Confusion with PCBs""; ""Integrated Pest Management Without any DDT""; ""Summation: DDT Is a Pollutant in the Wisconsin Ecosystem""; ""To Make an Omelet, You will Break Some Eggs"" |
""Mid-1969: Where Did We Stand, What Had We Accomplished?""""Final Verdict from the DDT Hearings in Wisconsin""; ""5. EDF, Barely an Organization, Getting Its Act Together""; ""Environmental Defense Fund, or Fundless Environmental Defenders?""; ""6. EDF Diversifies into New Environmental Arenas""; ""Early Battles""; ""The Environmental Decade: The 1970s""; ""Environmental Defense Fund: Biggest Bang for the Buck""; ""The Judicial Approach Is Contagious""; ""7. Time to Go After the Feds""; ""What!? DDT Also Causes Cancer?""; ""What!? DDT Also Causes Mutations and Birth Defects?"" |
""Both Federal Agencies React to the Petitions. Barely!""""The Environmental Defense Fund Takes Two Federal Agencies to Court""; ""The Appeals Court Makes an Historic Decision""; ""The Bruising Battle of the Briefs""; ""8. Escalating the DDT Issue with More Court Cases""; ""Flushing Tons of DDT into the Los Angeles Sewer System""; ""What Happened to Montrose and Its Pollution Legacy After 1972?""; ""Bald Eagles Gone, Golden Eagles Move in""; ""9. Changes in Washington Affect the DDT Battle""; ""EDF Begins to Expand: New People, New Washington Office"" |
""10. DDT Goes to Trial, Finally, in Washington, DC""""DDT: Global Contamination Problem""; ""Predatory Birds Pay the Price""; ""Mechanism for DDE-Induced Thin-Shelled Eggs""; ""Dangers of DDT to Fish and People Who Eat Them""; ""Superior Insect Control Without DDT""; ""Does DDT Cause Cancer? In Mice? Rats? Humans?""; ""DDT Industry Shortage of Qualified Witnesses""; ""11. Ruckelshaus Decides""; ""The Ruckelshaus Decision: DDT Gets Canceled! Almost!""; ""Both Sides Appeal the Ruling to the Court of Appeals""; ""Passing the Test of Time""; ""They Are After Us Again�40 Years Later. Why?"" |
""The Use of DDT for Controlling Malaria"" |
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This is a firsthand account of the Environmental Defense Fund's battle to ban DDT from use as a pesticide, written by a founding member of the EDF. It describes the various legal and scientific maneuvers required to have the Environmental Protection Agency officially ban DDT. |
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