1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456864503321

Autore

Zimmerman Jonathan <1961->

Titolo

Small wonder [[electronic resource] ] : the little red schoolhouse in history and memory / / Jonathan Zimmerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-35181-8

9786612351815

0-300-15627-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Icons of America

Disciplina

371.6/20973

Soggetti

School buildings - Social aspects - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Series from jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One History -- Part two Memory -- Conclusion Dear Old Golden Rule Days? -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The little red schoolhouse has all but disappeared in the United States, but its importance in national memory remains unshakable. This engaging book examines the history of the one-room school and how successive generations of Americans have remembered-and just as often misremembered-this powerful national icon. Drawing on a rich range of sources, from firsthand accounts to poems, songs, and films, Jonathan Zimmerman traces the evolution of attitudes toward the little red schoolhouse from the late nineteenth century to the present day. At times it was celebrated as a symbol of lost rural virtues or America's democratic heritage; at others it was denounced as the epitome of inefficiency and substandard academics. And because the one-room school has been a useful emblem for liberal, conservative, and other agendas, the truth of its history has sometimes been stretched. Yet the idyllic image of the schoolhouse still unites Americans. For more than a century, it has embodied the nation's best aspirations and-especially-its continuing faith in education itself.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996384529603316

Autore

Boate Gerard <1604-1650.>

Titolo

Irelands naturall history [[electronic resource] ] : being a true and ample description of its situation, greatness, shape, and nature : of its hills, woods, heaths, bogs ... : with its heads or promontories, harbours, roades and bayes ... : and lastly, of the nature and temperature of its air and season, and vvhat diseases it is free from or subject unto ... / / written by Gerard Boate ... ; and now published by Samuell Hartlib, Esq. .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprinted at London, : For John Wright ..., 1652

Descrizione fisica

[16], 186, [5] p

Soggetti

Natural history - Ireland

Ireland Description and travel

Ireland Description and travel Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Errata: p. [5] at end.

Reproduction of original in Yale University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0198



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910372789403321

Titolo

Entfremdete Körper : Rassismus als Leichenschändung / Wulf D. Hund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2015

2015, c2009

ISBN

9783839411513

3839411513

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252)

Collana

Postcolonial Studies

Classificazione

MS 3530

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Rassismus

Racism

Diskriminierung

Postcolonialism

Body

Sexismus

History of Colonialism

Leichenschändung

Anthropologie

Cultural Studies

Postkolonialismus

Körper

Kolonialgeschichte

Kulturwissenschaft

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Inhalt    5 1. Vorwort    7 2. Die Körper der Bilder der Rassen    13 3. ›Bruder Mohr‹    81 4. ›Présenter les organes génitaux‹    117 5. ›Un individu de raça negroide‹ El Negro und die Wunderkammern des Rassismus    165 6. ›In the interest of science and of the colony‹    205

Sommario/riassunto

Der wissenschaftliche Rassismus untermauerte seine Theorien durch eine ungeheure Knochensammlung, deren Beschaffung im 19.



Jahrhundert eine regelrechte Skelettomanie auslöste. Die Jagd nach den Gebeinen der anderen missachtete jede Pietät. Sie störte die Totenruhe, raubte Leichen und schändete die Körper Verstorbener, deren Überreste zur Konstruktion typischer Rassenkörper dienten. Sie sollten Devianz gegenüber der weißen Norm demonstrieren – ihre öffentliche Zurschaustellung visualisierte und popularisierte die Rassentheorien und erlaubte den Betrachtern die Akkumulation rassistischen symbolischen Kapitals.Die Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen diesen Prozess an den Beispielen von Angelo Soliman, Sarah Baartman, El Negro und Truganini.

Besprochen in:Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 18/1 (2010), Stuart ParkesHistorische Anthropologie, 18/1 (2010), Ulrich van der Heyden

»The opening chapter [...] provides an overview of the topic, describing how skeletons were used to ›prove‹ racial superiority or inferiority [and] is exceptionally informative. [T]he others [...] provide [...] insights that remain highly relevant in a world still marked by racism.«

»Ein qualitätsvoller und geradezu spannend zu lesender Beitrag zur Erforschung der Wurzeln des Rassismus, sowohl aufgrund der theoretischen Durchdringung der Thematik als auch wegen der eindringlichen Fallbeispiele.«

Reviewed in:Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 18/1 (2010), Stuart Parkes