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UNINA9910480070003321 |
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Autore |
Houston Serin D. |
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Titolo |
Imagining Seattle : Social Values in Urban Governance / / Serin D. Houston |
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Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2019] |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Sustainable development - Washington (State) - Seattle |
Urban policy - Washington (State) - Seattle |
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Seattle (Wash.) Economic conditions |
Seattle (Wash.) Social conditions |
Seattle (Wash.) Race relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Seattle, "The city of" -- Urban ambitions and anxieties: the quest for world-class status -- Exclusive inclusion: choosing sustainability and being green -- People, products, and processes: creativity as economic development -- Unsettling whiteness: the Race and Social Justice Initiative and institutional change -- Conclusion: "The city lives in us." |
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"Imagining Seattle is a study of social values in urban governance and the relationship of environmentalism, race relations, and economic growth in contemporary Seattle"-- |
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UNINA9910465614103321 |
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Autore |
Francis Martin <1964-> |
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The Flyer [[electronic resource] ] : British culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939-1945 / / Martin Francis |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2008 |
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9786611930752 |
1-281-93075-X |
0-19-155720-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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940.54 |
940.54/4941 |
940.544941 |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, British |
World War, 1939-1945 - Great Britain |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-258) and index. |
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Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. The Allure of the Flyer; 2. A Man's World; 3. The Flyer in Love; 4. Husbands and Fathers; 5. The Flyer and Fear; 6. A Darker Blue; 7. The New Achilles? Literature, Technology, and Violence; 8. Coming Home; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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The first scholarly study of the men of the RAF and British culture during the war, The Flyer examines the lives of these men and their popular representation in literary and cinematic texts. It illuminates broader issues of gender, class, race, emotional life, and the creation of a national myth in modern Britain. - ;Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin Francis provides the first school |
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