1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454515703321

Autore

Trim Mary

Titolo

Growing and knowing [[electronic resource] ] : a selection guide for children's literature / / Mary Trim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mùˆnchen, : K.G. Saur, 2004

ISBN

1-283-40331-5

9786613403315

3-598-44007-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

028.5/5

Soggetti

Children - Books and reading

Children's literature

Children's libraries - Book selection

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 (p. 246-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. The Developing Child -- CHAPTER TWO. The Knowing Child -- CHAPTER THREE. The Child, Growing with Genres -- CHAPTER FOUR. Every Child Deserves the Best -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Exploring Child -- CHAPTER SIX. Selecting Activities: Focus on Library and School -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Selecting Electronic Books -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Selecting for All Communities -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Growing and Knowing is designed to meet the needs of professionals working with children and their books. Intended for use as a reference book for library assistants and librarians in children's libraries, school libraries, resource centres, and general reference libraries, it also will provide sound information for trainee librarians, teachers and parents. The primary function of this book is to serve as a guide to the selection of books for children, recognizing the vast range of books published and the individual rates of reading and social development of different children. The first section



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464652803321

Autore

Verhoeven W. M.

Titolo

Americomania and the French Revolution debate in Britain, 1789--1802 / / Wil Verhoeven, University of Groningen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-46161-8

1-139-89308-4

1-107-45950-8

1-107-47231-8

1-139-62871-2

1-107-46521-4

1-107-46871-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 387 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

941.07/3

Soggetti

Utopias - United States

Great Britain History 1789-1820

Great Britain Politics and government 1789-1820

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Influence

France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Utopianism in practice : the American front of the French Revolution in Britain, 1789 -- 1802 -- "The war of systems": print culture and the institutionalization of the political divide in the 1790s -- "Cultivators of the earth": the American crisis and the emergence of the freehold farmer, 1763 -- 1783 -- "Rabies agri": or, wilderness for sale -- "The calculated rise of the American empire": the radicalization of American utopianism -- "The mania of emigration": new philosophers in the wilderness -- "The precious pearl of liberty": from Newgate Prison to Ohiopiomingo -- "Come to these Arcadians regions where there is room for millions": politics for the people -- "Look before you leap": the demonization of Jacobin America -- "Parrying the enemy with their own weapons": dystopianism and the popular discourse of fear --



Postscript : "mania reformatio" the demise of transatlantic utopianism.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the evolution of British identity and participatory politics in the 1790s. Wil Verhoeven argues that in the course of the French Revolution debate in Britain, the idea of 'America' came to represent for the British people the choice between two diametrically opposed models of social justice and political participation. Yet the American Revolution controversy in the 1790s was by no means an isolated phenomenon. The controversy began with the American crisis debate of the 1760s and 1770s, which overlapped with a wider Enlightenment debate about transatlantic utopianism. All of these debates were based in the material world on the availability of vast quantities of cheap American land. Verhoeven investigates the relation that existed throughout the eighteenth century between American soil and the discourse of transatlantic utopianism: between America as a physical, geographical space, and 'America' as a utopian/dystopian idea-image.