1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455415003321

Autore

Zellen Barry Scott <1963->

Titolo

Arctic doom, Arctic boom [[electronic resource] ] : the geopolitics of climate change in the Arctic / / Barry Scott Zellen ; foreword by Walter J. Hickel [and] Daniel J. Moran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, CA, : Praeger, c2009

ISBN

1-282-33886-2

9786612338861

0-313-38013-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Collana

Security and the environment Arctic doom, Arctic boom

Disciplina

551.65113

551.6511'3-dc22

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Arctic regions

Geopolitics - Arctic regions

Electronic books.

Arctic regions Climate

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Foreword; 1 Introduction: Arctic Spring; 2 The Geopolitics of Snow and Ice; 3 An Arctic Imperative?; 4 From Cold War to Warming Earth; 5 Polar Uncertainties; 6 The End of the Arctic; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An expert examination of the way climate change is transforming the Arctic environmentally, economically, and geopolitically, and how the challenges of that transformation should be met.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465641303321

Autore

Gilmore Michael T

Titolo

Surface and depth [[electronic resource] ] : the quest for legibility in American culture / / Michael T. Gilmore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-19-531324-0

0-19-803587-X

1-60256-941-X

9786610502776

1-280-50277-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Disciplina

818/.08

Soggetti

American prose literature - History and criticism

Social problems in literature

National characteristics, American, in literature

American fiction - History and criticism

Literature and society - United States

Electronic books.

United States In literature

United States Civilization

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PROLOGUE : Freud's Night Out; 1 Three Foundational Documents and Their Indelibility; 2 Majoritarian and Racial Tyranny: Tocqueville and Beaumont; 3 Popular Forms; Cooper and the Western; Poe and the Detective Story; Fanny Fern and the Celebrity Novel; 4 The Nineteenth-Century Canon: Hidden in Plain Sight; The Scarlet Letter; Melville's Moby-Dick; Thoreau's Walden; James's The American; 5 Freud and Film Redux; 6 Twentieth-Century Classics and New Technologies of Legibility; Wharton's Summer; Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a "Modernist" Western

Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises7 Race/Erasure: Douglass to Roth; EQUIVOCAL EPILOGUE : Total Visibility in Utopia and Dystopia; NOTES;



INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

The idea of a common American culture is in retreat; arguments emphasizing difference have discredited the grand synthetic studies that marginalized groups and perspectives at odds with the master narrative. This work is an attempt to revitalize an interpretive overview.