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UNINA9910465234203321 |
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Autore |
Maas Michael <1951-, > |
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Readings in late antiquity : a sourcebook / / Michael Maas |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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1-283-54699-X |
9786613859440 |
1-136-61704-3 |
0-203-54401-3 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (529 p.) |
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Routledge sourcebooks for the ancient world |
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History - To 527 |
History - 527-1081 |
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Rome History Empire, 284-476 Sources |
Byzantine Empire Civilization To 527 Sources |
Byzantine Empire Civilization 527-1081 Sources |
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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 indexes. |
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Cover; READINGS IN LATE ANTIQUITY: A Sourcebook; Copyright; CONTENTS; MAPS; INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION; INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHRONOLOGY; LATE ANTIQUE RULERS; PERMISSIONS; 1 THE ROMAN EMPIRE: RULER AND ADMINISTRATION; 2 CITIES; 3 THE ROMAN ARMY; 4 CHRISTIANITY; 5 POLYTHEISM; 6 JEWS; 7 WOMEN; 8 DOMESTIC LIFE; 9 LAW; 10 MEDICINE; 11 PHILOSOPHY; 12 SASANIAN PERSIA; 13 INVADERS AND SUCCESSOR STATES; 14 STEPPE PEOPLES AND SLAVS; 15 ISLAM; APPENDIX: LATE ANTIQUITY ON THE WEB; INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES; INDEX |
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Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new |
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definitions of identity and community. The Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe to be replaced by new ""Germanic"" kingdoms. In the East, Byzantium emerged, while the Persian Empire reached its apogee and collapsed. Arab armies carrying the banner of Islam reshaped the political map and brought the late antique era to a close.This sourcebook illustrates the dramatic politica |
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UNINA9910463324603321 |
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Autore |
Butler Andrew M |
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Solar flares [[electronic resource] ] : science fiction in the 1970s / / Andrew M. Butler |
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Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2012 |
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1-78138-798-2 |
1-78138-922-5 |
1-84631-779-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (723 p.) |
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Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies |
Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; ; 43 |
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Science fiction - 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; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1 The Ends of First Sf: Pioneers as Veterans; 2 After the New Wave: After Science Fiction?; 3 Beyond Apollo: Space Fictions after the Moon Landing; 4 Big Dumb Objects: Science Fiction as Self-Parody; 5 The Rise of Fantasy: Swords and Planets; 6 Home of the Extraterrestrial Brothers: Race and African American Science Fiction; 7 Alien Invaders: Vietnam and the Counterculture; 8 This Septic Isle: Post-Imperial Melancholy; 9 Foul Contagion Spread: Ecology and Environmentalism |
10 Female Counter-Literature: Feminism11 Strange Bedfellows: Gay Liberation; 12 Saving the Family? Children's Fiction; 13 Eating the |
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Audience: Blockbusters; 14 Chariots of the Gods: Pseudoscience and Parental Fears; 15 Towers of Babel: The Architecture of Sf; 16 Ruptures: Metafiction and Postmodernism; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index |
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Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as ""confused, self-involved, and stale."" The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf - on the one hand it aspired to be a serious form, addressing issues such as race, Vietnam, feminism, ecology and sexuality, on the other hand it broke box office records with Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien and Superman: The Movie. Across the political spectrum, writers perceived a series of invisible enemies: radicals addressed the ideological structur |
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