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UNINA9910465540703321 |
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Kennedy Stetson |
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Titolo |
Southern exposure [[electronic resource] ] : making the South safe for democracy / / Stetson Kennedy |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, [2011] |
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1 online resource (396 p.) |
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Electronic books. |
Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950 |
Southern States Social conditions 1865-1945 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes index. |
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co., 1946. |
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Contents; Foreword to the 1991 Edition; 1. The Problem of the South; The Squalid South; Problem 1, Section 1; No Ready-Made Money; Grits without Gravy; Lethal Statistics; Be It Ever So Humble; Man and Land; The New Order of Slavocracy; The Perversion of Populism; Freedom Road-Closed; Last Hired, First Fired; Book Larnin', in Black And White; White Man's Country; The 7.7 Democracy of the South; The Plutocracy of Polltaxia; ""Votin' Is White Folk's Business""; 2. All's Hell on the Southern Front; The outhern Revolt; Constitutional Democracy Crusaders; Common Citizens Radio Committee |
American Democratic National CommitteeDud or Time Bomb?; The Visible Empire; Kingfish and Small Fry; 3. The Road Ahead; Many Things Money Can Buy; Whose Good Earth?; TVA Leads the Way; The South Joins the Unions; Brotherhood-Union Made; Fair Employment Forever!; The Race Racket; Prejudice Is Made, Not Born; Myth of the Master Race; James Crow, Ph.D.; Total Equality, and How to Get It; To Make The South Safe For Democracy; Index |
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Using thorough and stark statistics, Kennedy describes a South emerging from World War II, coming to grips with the racism and feudalism that had held it back for generations. He includes an all-out Who's Who, based on his own undercover investigations, of the ""hate- |
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mongers, race-racketeers, and terrorists who swore that apartheid must go on forever."" The first paperback edition brings to a new generation of readers Kennedy's searing profile of Dixie before the civil rights movement. |
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Record Nr. |
UNINA9910460352903321 |
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Autore |
Hamblyn Richard |
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Titolo |
Tsunami : nature and culture / / Richard Hamblyn |
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London : , : Reaktion Books, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (186 p.) |
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Tsunamis |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Tsunami; Imprint Page; Contents; Preface: The Tsunami Stone; 1. Tsunamis in History and Memory; 2. The Science of Tsunamis; 3. 'The Hungry Wave': Tsunamis in Myth and Legend ; 4. Tsunamis in Literature, Art and Film; 5. Living With Tsunamis: Warning Systems and Coastal Defence ; Tsunami Timeline; References; Select Bibliography; Associations and Websites; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index |
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When the earthquake that struck the Solomon Islands in 2013 produced tsunami waves that damaged the country's infrastructure, it was one in a recent string of reminders of the devastating effects these ferocious waves can have. From the 2011 tsunami in Japan to the giant waves that killed people near the Indian Ocean in 2004, these destructive events can utterly overwhelm an area not just with water but economic, social, and political devastations. But as Richard Hamblyn demonstrates in this cultural, historical, and scientific engagement with these spectacular natural phenomena, tsunamis rema |
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