1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465540703321

Autore

Kennedy Stetson

Titolo

Southern exposure [[electronic resource] ] : making the South safe for democracy / / Stetson Kennedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, [2011]

ISBN

0-8173-8565-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Disciplina

975/.04

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950

Southern States Social conditions 1865-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co., 1946.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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-



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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460352903321

Autore

Hamblyn Richard

Titolo

Tsunami : nature and culture / / Richard Hamblyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Reaktion Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78023-416-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Collana

Earth Series

Disciplina

551.4637

Soggetti

Tsunamis

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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