1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456794603321

Autore

Clark J. F. M (John F. M.), <1963->

Titolo

Bugs and the Victorians [[electronic resource] /] / J.F.M. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.] ; ; London, : Yale University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-35272-5

9786612352720

0-300-16003-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Classificazione

NU 2000

Disciplina

595.70942/09034

Soggetti

Entomology - England - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The politics of insects -- Struggle for the minds of insects -- Bees and ants -- Social insects and secular science -- Darwin and the entomologists -- The Colorado beetle -- A female entomologist -- Insects and  empire -- House flies -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the impulse to name and classify the natural world accelerated, and insects presented a particularly inviting challenge. This lively book explores how science became increasingly important in nineteenth-century British culture and how the systematic study of insects permitted entomologists to engage with the most pressing questions of Victorian times: the nature of God, mind, and governance, and the origins of life. By placing insects in a myriad of contexts-politics, religion, gender, and empire-John F. McDiarmid Clark demonstrates the impact of Victorian culture on the science of insects and on the systematic knowledge of the natural world. Through engaging accounts of famous and eccentric innovators who sought to define social roles for themselves through a specialist study of insects-among them a Tory clergyman, a banker and member of Parliament, a wealthy spinster, and an entrepreneurial academic-Clark highlights the role of insects in the making of modern Britain and maintains that the legacy of Victorian entomologists continues to this day.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968695603321

Titolo

Black Power beyond Borders : The Global Dimensions of the Black Power Movement / / edited by N. Slate

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

9781137285065

1137285060

9781137295064

1137295066

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Black History

Disciplina

322.420973

Soggetti

United States - History

America - History

World history

Social history

History, Modern

Civilization - History

US History

History of the Americas

World History, Global and Transnational History

Social History

Modern History

Cultural History

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: The Borders of Black Power; Part I The Roots of Black Power; 1 Rethinking Radicalism: African Americans and the Liberation Struggles in Somalia, Libya, and Eritrea, 1945-1949; 2 The Activism of George McCray: Confluence and Conflict of Pan-Africanism and Transnational Labor Solidarity; 3 When the Panther Travels: Raceand the



Southern Diaspora in the History of the BPP, 1964-1972; Part II The Panthers Abroad; 4 The Black Panthers of Israel and the Politics of the Radical Analogy

5 The Polynesian Panthers and the Black Power Gang: Surviving Racism and Colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand*6 The Dalit Panthers: Race, Caste, and Black Power in India; Part III The Power in Black Power; 7 "They've lynched our savior, Lumumba in the old fashion Southern Style": The Conscious Internationalism of American Black Nationalism; 8 From Black Power to a Revolution of Values: Grace Lee Boggs and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.; 9 Music Is a World: Stevie Wonder and the Sound of Black Power; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements and vice versa how individuals and groups in other parts of the world interpreted 'Black Power,' from African liberation movements to anti-caste agitation in India to indigenous protests in New Zealand.