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UNINA9910461626703321 |
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Autore |
Edwards Justin D |
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Titolo |
Mobility at large [[electronic resource] ] : globalization, textuality and innovative travel writing / / Justin D. Edwards & Rune Graulund |
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Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2012 |
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1-78138-770-2 |
1-78138-900-4 |
1-84631-773-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (375 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Travel writing - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Travel Revisited; 1 Travelling with the Ondaatje Bros; 2 Amitav Ghosh and Caryl Phillips: Global Travel, Then and Now; 3 Unhomely Travels; or, the Haunts of Daphne Marlatt and W. G. Sebald; 4 The World, My City: Home Grounds and Global Cities; 5 Travel Histories - From Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul and Beyond; Postscript: Still Mobile; Bibliography; Notes; Index |
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Mobility at Large explores a unique trajectory of travel writing. Instead of focussing on best-selling travel texts by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Alain de Botton and others, this book examines a strand of innovative contemporary travel writing wherein the authors experiment with form, content and the politics of representation. In this, innovative travel texts by a range of writers - from Michael Ondaatje and Caryl Phillips to Daphne Marlatt and Sam Miller - transform the genre by inscribing travel, migration, mobility and displacement within a variety of experimental textual st |
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UNINA9910715985903321 |
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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 19, 1872, information in relation to what amount is due to any of the states lately in insurrection, under provisions of the 12th section of the act of Congress approved June 7, 1862, entitled "An Act for the Collection of Direct Taxes in Insurrectionary Districts, and for Other Purposes;" also "whether any, and, if so, what amount has been paid to any of said states under and in accordance with the provisions of said act or other acts amendatory thereof." March 6, 1872. -- Referred to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1872 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (5 pages) |
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Senate executive document / 42nd Congress, 2nd session. Senate ; ; no. 46 |
[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial no. 1479] |
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Enemy property |
Revenue |
Factory and trade waste |
Real property |
Tax collection |
Sales tax |
Financial statements |
Legislative materials. |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes. |
FDLP item number not assigned. |
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