1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480739403321

Autore

Taslitz Andrew E. <1956->

Titolo

Reconstructing the Fourth Amendment [[electronic resource] ] : A History of Search and Seizure, 1789-1868 / / Andrew E. Taslitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8147-8421-6

0-8147-8315-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Disciplina

345.73/054409034

Soggetti

Searches and seizures - United States - History

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. 279-342) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Plugging into the Fourth Amendment's matrix -- Violence as political expression -- The quantity and quality of evidence -- Modern implications I : peoplehood and inter-branch responsibilities -- Modern implications II : precedent and political meaning -- Expressive violence and southern honor -- Slave locomotion -- Mobility's meaning for the South -- Mobility's meaning for the North -- Privacy and property -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- Law on the street.

Sommario/riassunto

The modern law of search and seizure permits warrantless searches that ruin the citizenry's trust in law enforcement, harms minorities, and embraces an individualistic notion of the rights that it protects, ignoring essential roles that properly-conceived protections of privacy, mobility, and property play in uniting Americans. Many believe the Fourth Amendment is a poor bulwark against state tyrannies, particularly during the War on Terror. Historical amnesia has obscured the Fourth Amendment's positive aspects, and Andrew E. Taslitz rescues its forgotten history in Reconstructing the Fourth



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910265230703321

Autore

Whitehead Mark <1975->

Titolo

State, science and the skies : governmentalities of the British atmosphere / / Mark Whitehead

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, United Kingdom ; ; Malden, MA : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2009

ISBN

1-4443-0787-8

1-4443-9986-1

1-282-33161-2

9786612331619

1-4443-0788-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

RGS-IBG Book Series

Disciplina

363.73920941

Soggetti

Air - Pollution - Government policy - Great Britain

Air quality - Government policy - Great Britain

Science and state - Great Britain

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : space, history and the governing of air pollution -- Historical geographies of science and government : exploring the apparatuses of atmospheric knowledge production -- Science, sight and the optics of air government -- Governing air conduct : exhibition, examination and the cultivation of the atmospheric self -- Instrumentation and the sites of atmospheric monitoring -- A national census of the air : spatial science, calculation and the geo-coding of the atmosphere -- Automating the air : atmospheric simulations and digital beings -- Environmental governmentalities and the ecological coding of the British atmosphere -- Conclusion : learning like a state in an age of atmospheric change.

Sommario/riassunto

Utilizing environmental archival materials from the UK, State, Science and the Skies presents a groundbreaking historical account of the development of a state science of atmospheric pollution. Offers the most extensive historical and geographical account of atmospheric government and pollution in Britain, available todayPresents archival



material from 150 years of British history that represents an original contribution to our knowledge of the history of science and governmentDevelops an innovative combination of Foucauldian history of government with a history of atmos

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911025280003321

Autore

Contini, Maria Teresa

Titolo

Café-chantant / Maria Teresa Contini, Paolo A. Paganini, Marcello Vannucci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze, : Casa Editrice Bonechi, 1977

Descrizione fisica

149 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Vannucci, Marcello

Paganini, Paolo A.

Disciplina

792.7

Locazione

DARST

Collocazione

DE FUSCO 1161

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia