1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465575403321

Autore

Lawrence Jon

Titolo

Electing our masters [[electronic resource] ] : the hustings in British politics from Hogarth to Blair / / Jon Lawrence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612235061

1-282-23506-0

0-19-156776-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

324.941

Soggetti

Elections - Great Britain - History

Political campaigns - Great Britain - History

Electronic books.

Great Britain Politics and government 18th century

Great Britain Politics and government 19th century

Great Britain Politics and government 20th century

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. [255]-314) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Spirit of the Hustings; 1. John Bull at the Hustings: Electoral Politics from the Ancien Regime to the Second Reform Act; 2. The Fall of the Hustings and the Rise of the Platform; 3. Money, Men, and Mayhem: Electoral Politics before the First World War; 4. War, Women, and the 'Silent Majority'; 5. Towards the New Jerusalem; 6. The Decline of the Platform; 7. The Local Campaign in the Television Age; 8. Broadcasting Politics; 9. The Public Banished?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T

UV; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

An engaging history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present, highlighting how the television age has altered the interaction of politicians and public and asking what the media must now do to reinvigorate public politics. - ;In this engagingly written history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century



to the present, Jon Lawrence explores the changing relationship between politicians and public. Throughout this period, he argues, British politics has been characterized by bruising public rituals intended to bestow legitimacy on politicians by oblig

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144677003321

Titolo

Hormones in blood [[electronic resource] /] / editors for the Ciba Foundation, G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Elaine C.P. Millar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Little, Brown and Co., [1957]

ISBN

1-280-58911-6

9786613618948

0-470-71904-4

0-470-71651-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (430 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation colloquia on endocrinology ; ; v. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

MillarElaine C. P

WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward)

Disciplina

612.405

612/.405

Soggetti

Hormones

Blood - Analysis

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CIBA FOUNDATION COLLOQUIA ON ENDOCRINOLOGY VOLUME II; CONTENTS; Chairman's opening remarks; The state and concentration of the neurohypophysial hormones in the blood; Discussion; Some general principles in the bioassay of anterior pituitary and placental hormones in blood with special reference to clinical problems; Discussion; Inhibition of thyrotrophic activity with acetylated thyrotrophic hormone preparations; Discussion; The concentration of thyrotrophic hormone in the blood of the rabbit under different experimental conditions; Discussion; General Discussion

Thyroid hormones in the blood Disussion; Iodine in blood; Discussion;



Insulin in Blood; Discussion; Factors influencing the level of ACTH in the blood; Experiments on the level of blood corticotrophin with particular reference to scurvy; Discussion; Corticosteroid-releasing activity in blood; Discussion; Morphological changes in the adrenal cortex in relation to concentration of steroids in adrenal vein blood; Discussion; General Discussion; Extra-adrenal factors affecting the levels of 17-hydroxy-corticosteroids in plasma; Discussion

Circulating steroid hormone levels in relation to steroid hormone production Discussion; Studies on the steroids of human peripheral blood; Discussion; The physicochemical state of cortisol in blood; Discussion; Steroid interaction in the in vitro biosynthesis of steroid protein complexes; Discussion; The use of [16-3H] aldosterone in studies on human peripheral blood; Discussion; Short Communication; The determination of plasma oestrogen levels in late pregnancy; General Discussion; Metabolism and placental transmission of cortisol during pregnancy, near term; Discussion

Progesterone and related steroids in the blood of domestic animals Discussion; Catechol hormones in blood; Discussion; General Discussion