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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454115203321

Titolo

Iowa history reader [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Marvin Bergman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2008

ISBN

1-60938-011-8

1-58729-708-6

Edizione

[University of Iowa Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (470 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BergmanMarvin <1953->

Disciplina

977.7

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Iowa History

Iowa Social conditions

Iowa Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Ames : State Historical Society of Iowa in association with Iowa State University Press, 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Iowa : the middle land / Dorothy Schwieder -- "We dance in opposite directions" : Mesquakie (Fox) separatism from the Sac and Fox Tribe / Michael D. Green -- The frontier in process : Iowa's trail women as a paradigm / Glenda Riley -- Farming in the Prairie Peninsula, 1830/1890 / Allan G. Bogue -- The political culture of antebellum Iowa : an overview / Robert Cook -- "Men did not take to the musket more commonly than women to the needle" : Annie Wittenmyer and soldiers' aid / Elizabeth D. Leonard -- Iowans and the politics of race in America, 1857/1880 / Robert R. Dykstra -- Town development, social structure, and industrial conflict / Shelton Stromquist -- Iowa's struggle for state railroad control / John Lauritz Larson -- Why the Populist Party was strong in Kansas and Nebraska but weak in Iowa / Jeffrey Ostler -- Iowa, wet or dry? Prohibition and the fall of the GOP / Richard Jensen -- To whom much is given : the social identity of an Iowa small town in the early twentieth century / Thomas J. Morain -- Rural Iowa in the 1920s and 1930s / Dorothy Schwieder and Joseph Frazier Wall -- World War II and rural women / Deborah Fink -- The modernization of Iowa's agricultural structure in the twentieth century / Mark Friedberger -- The evolution of the Iowa precinct caucuses /



Hugh Winebrenner -- Iowa's abortion battles of the late 1960s and early 1970s : long-term perspectives and short-term analyses / James C. Mohr.

Sommario/riassunto

Rather than survey the basic facts, the essayists engage readers in the actual making of Iowa's history by trying to understand the meaning of its past. By providing comprehensive accounts of topics in Iowa history that embrace the broader historiographical issues in American history, such as the nature of Progressivism and Populism, the debate over whether women's expanded roles in wartime carried over to postwar periods, and the place of quantification in history, the essayists contribute substantially to debates at the national level at the same time that they interpret Iowa's distinctive...

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786721403321

Autore

Lupton Deborah

Titolo

Risk / / Deborah Lupton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-09031-9

0-203-07016-X

1-135-09032-7

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

Key ideas

Disciplina

302/.12

Soggetti

Risk - Sociological aspects

Risk perception - Social aspects

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

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction; Changes in the meaning of risk; Contemporary concepts of risk; Risk anxieties and late modernity; The aim of this book; 2 Theorizing risk; The technico-scientific perspective; Cognitive psychology; Sociocultural perspectives; Social constructionist positions; Concluding comments; 3 Risk and culture; The importance of culture; Purity, danger and the body; Risk and blame; The grid-group model; Concluding comments; 4 Risk and



reflexive modernization; Beck and the 'risk society'; Reflexive modernization; Individualization

World risk society and cosmopolitanismGiddens' perspectives on risk; Risk and trust; Concluding comments; 5 Risk and governmentality; Governmentality; From dangerousness to risk; Contemporary risk strategies; Precautionary risk and the crisis of neo-liberalism; Concluding comments; 6 Risk and subjectivity; Risk knowledges and reflexivity; Social structures and power relations; Aesthetic, affective and habitual dimensions; Concluding comments; 7 Risk and Otherness; Conceptualizing Otherness; Embodiment and Otherness; Hybridity and liminality; The psychodynamics of Otherness

Spatiality and OthernessConcluding comments; 8 Risk and pleasure; Escape attempts; Edgework; Risk-taking as gendered performances; Desire and transgression; Concluding comments; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Risk (second edition) is a fully revised and expanded update of a highly-cited, influential and well-known book. It reviews the three major approaches to risk in social and cultural theory, devoting a chapter to each one. These approaches were first identified and described by Deborah Lupton in the original edition and have since become widely used as a categorisation of risk perspectives.The first draws upon the work of Mary Douglas to articulate the 'cultural/symbolic' perspective on risk. The second approach is that of the 'risk society' perspective, based on the writings