1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007756830403321

Autore

Anson, William Reynell <1843-1914>

Titolo

Anson's law of contract

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1969

Edizione

[23rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

XLV, 653 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

346.02

Locazione

DDCP

DEC

Collocazione

16-AB-134

16-AB-133

16-AB-165

DPR 13c-155

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458092003321

Titolo

At home and abroad [[electronic resource] ] : historicizing twentieth-century whiteness in literature and performance / / edited by La Vinia Delois Jennings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-09858-X

9786613098580

1-57233-744-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Tennessee studies in literature ; ; v. 44

Altri autori (Persone)

JenningsLa Vinia Delois

Disciplina

809/.93355

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Race awareness in literature

White people in literature

Electronic books.

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

Introduction: The race for whiteness in the twentieth century / La Vinia Delois Jennings -- Argentina White / Amy Kaminsky -- A dream of a white Vienna after World War I: Hugo Bettauer's The city without Jews and The blue stain / Peter Höyng -- From "Yeʹlida" to Movimiento de mujeres Dominico-Haitianas: gendering resistance to whiteness in the Dominican Republic / Dawn Duke -- Romancing whiteness: popular Appalachian fiction and the imperialist imagination at the  turns of two centuries / Emily Satterwhite -- The threat to whiteness: white women's marital betrayals in colonial settings / Suzanne Leonard -- The suspect whiteness of Spain / Baltasar Fra-Molinero -- The myth of whiteness and a changing Italy: historic memory and colonialist attitudes in Lamerica / Reneʹe DʹEliz-Zunino -- "Claiming": White ambition, multiracial identity, and the new American racial passing / Meredith McCarroll -- Beyond the white Negro: eminem, Danny Hoch, and race treason in contemporary America / Kimberly Chabot Davis -- Stalling Zion: hegemony, whiteness, and racial discourse in the matrix phenomenon / Douglas A. Cunningham.



Sommario/riassunto

Featuring new critical essays by scholars from Europe, South America, and the United States, At Home and Abroad presents a wide-ranging look at how whiteness-defined in terms of race or ethnicity-forms a category toward which people strive in order to gain power and privilege. Collectively these pieces treat global spaces whose nation building and identity formation have turned on biological and genealogical exigencies to whiten themselves.Drawing upon racialized, national practices implemented prior to and during the twentieth century, each of the essays enlists literature or per

3.

Record Nr.

UNICASUTO1181843

Autore

Stramaglia, Antonio

Titolo

(Quintiliano) L'astrologo : Declamazioni maggiori, 4 / Antonio Stramaglia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cassino, : Università di Cassino, 2013

ISBN

9788883170713

Descrizione fisica

251 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Edizioni Università di Cassino , . Collana di studi umanistici ; 4

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Con il testo

L'astrologo attribuito a Quintiliano