Lyrical liberators : the American antislavery movement in verse, 1831-1865 / / edited by Monica Pelaez

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910467765703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 0-8214-4608-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustration (some color)
• Disciplina: 811/.30803552
• Soggetti: American poetry - 19th century; Slavery - United States; Antislavery movements - United States; Abolitionists; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Calls for action -- The murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy -- Fugitive slaves -- The assault on Senator Charles Sumner -- John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry -- Slaves and death -- Slave mothers -- The South -- Equality -- Freedom -- Atonement -- Wartime -- Emancipation, the Proclamation, and the Thirteenth Amendment.
• Sommario/riassunto: Before Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets, who put pen to paper during an era when speaking out against slavery could mean risking your life. Indeed, William Lloyd Garrison was dragged through the streets by a Boston mob before a planned lecture, and publisher Elijah P. Lovejoy was fatally shot while defending his press from rioters. Since poetry formed a part of the cultural, political, and emotional lives of readers, it held remarkable persuasive power. Yet antislavery poems have been less studied than the activist editorials and novels of the time. In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover these poems from the periodicals - Garrison's Liberator, Frederick Douglass's North Star, and ; six others—in which they originally appeared. The poems are arranged by theme over thirteen chapters, a number that represents the amendment that finally abolished slavery in 1865. The book collects and annotates works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women. There is no other book like this. Sweeping in scope and passionate in its execution, Lyrical Liberators is indispensable for scholars and teachers of American literature and history, and stands as a testimony to the power of a free press in the face of injustice.

Spatial Information Theory : 8th International Conference, COSIT 2007, Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23, 2007, Proceedings / / edited by Stephan Winter, Matt Duckham, Lars Kulik, Ben Kuipers

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910484418603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2007
• ISBN: 3-540-74788-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2007.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XV, 455 p.)
• Collana: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, , 2946-1642 ; ; 4736
• Disciplina: 910.285
• Soggetti: Artificial intelligence - Data processing; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; Database management; Physical geography; Data Science; Artificial Intelligence; Theory of Computation; Database Management; Models of Computation; Physical Geography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cultural Studies -- Progress on Yindjibarndi Ethnophysiography -- Study of Cultural Impacts on Location Judgments in Eastern China -- Cross-Cultural Similarities in Topological Reasoning -- Thalassographeïn: Representing Maritime Spaces in Ancient Greece -- Semantics -- From Top-Level to Domain Ontologies: Ecosystem Classifications as a Case Study -- Semantic Categories Underlying the Meaning of ‘Place’ -- Spatial Semantics in Difference Spaces -- Similarity -- Evaluation of a Semantic Similarity Measure for Natural Language Spatial Relations -- Affordance-Based Similarity Measurement for Entity Types -- An Image-Schematic Account of Spatial Categories -- Mapping and Representation -- Specifying Essential Features of Street Networks -- Spatial Information Extraction for Cognitive Mapping with a Mobile Robot -- Spatial Mapping and Map Exploitation: A Bio-inspired Engineering Perspective -- Scale-Dependent Simplification of 3D Building Models Based on Cell Decomposition and Primitive Instancing -- Perception and Cognition -- Degradation in Spatial Knowledge Acquisition When Using Automatic Navigation Systems -- Stories as Route Descriptions -- Three Sampling Methods for Visibility Measures of Landscape Perception -- Reasoning and Algorithms -- Reasoning on Spatial Semantic Integrity Constraints -- Spatial Reasoning with a Hole -- Geospatial Cluster Tessellation Through the Complete Order-k Voronoi Diagrams -- Drawing a Figure in a Two-Dimensional Plane for a Qualitative Representation -- Navigation and Landmarks -- Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Turn Direction Concepts -- A Uniform Handling of Different Landmark Types in Route Directions -- Effects of Geometry, Landmarks and Orientation Strategies in the ‘Drop-Off’ Orientation Task -- Uncertainty and Imperfection -- Data Quality Ontology: AnOntology for Imperfect Knowledge -- Triangulation of Gradient Polygons: A Spatial Data Model for Categorical Fields -- Relations in Mathematical Morphology with Applications to Graphs and Rough Sets.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2007, held in Melbourne, Australia in September 2007. The 27 revised full papers were carefully reviewed from 102 submissions, and they are organized in topical sections on cultural studies, semantics, similarity, mapping and representation, perception and cognition, reasoning and algorithms, navigation and landmarks, as well as uncertainty and imperfection.