Reasons humbly offered to the Honourable House of Commons, why no farther duty or excise be laid upon wines [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996396168103316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [London, : s.n., 1695]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 sheet (2 p.)
• Soggetti: Wine and wine making - Taxation; Wine and wine making - Law and legislation - England
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Place and date of publication from Wing (2nd ed.).; Reproduction of original in the British Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018

Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality / / Joseph Comer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910545194703321
• Autore: Comer Joseph
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 pages)
• Disciplina: 303.482
• Soggetti: Globalization - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: San Francisco, January 2016 -- 1. INTRODUCTION: THE MEDIATIZED MOBILITY OF PEOPLE, POLITICS, AND PRIDE Cape Town, April 2016 -- 2. 'EQUALITY ON THE SEA': INTERROGATING LGBTQ PRIVILEGE IN THE TOURISM DISCOURSE OF 'AFRICA'S GAY CAPITAL'-- 3. REPRESENTING THE SPECTRUM: THE DISCURSIVE PRODUCTION OF QUEER HETEROTOPIA AT AN LGBTQ TOURISM CONVENTIONLondon, June 2016 -- 4. COUNTING 'THE COST OF DISCRIMINATION': MANAGING LGBTQ DIVERSITY AT THE ECONOMIST'S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE -- 5. SLOGANIZING AND 'MATERIALIZING' EQUALITY: SCALES OF SOLIDARITY IN THE DISCOURSE OF TRANSNATIONAL LGBTQ ADVOCACYSydney, February 2017 -- 6. CONCLUSION: QUEER COSMOPOLITANISM AND THE SCALING OF UTOPIA Melbourne, August 2020.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book critically unpacks the why and how around everyday rhetorics and slogans promoting global LGBTQ equality. Examining the means by which particular discourses of progress and hope are circulated globally, it offers unique insights into how LGBTQ livelihoods, relationships, and social movements are legitimated and valued in contemporary society. Adopting an innovative critical discourse-ethnographic approach, Comer draws on scholarship from the sociolinguistics of global mobility, queer linguistics, and digital media studies, offering in-depth analyses of representations of LGBTQ identity across a range of domains. The volume examines semiotic linkages between: LGBTQ tourism marketing; Cape Town, South Africa, as a locus for contemporary ideologies of global mobility and equality; ; diversity management practices framing LGBTQ equality as a business imperative; and, humanitarian discourses within transnational LGBTQ advocacy. Autoethnographic vignettes and principles from within queer theory are incorporated by Comer's critical discourse-ethnographic approach, giving voice to personal experience in order to sharpen scholarly understanding of the relationships between everyday social voices', globalized neoliberal political economy, and the media. Taken together, the volume expansively (if queerly) maps what Comer refers to as the mediatization of equality', and will be of interest to graduate students and scholars in critical discourse studies, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, as well as those working across such fields as media studies, queer studies, and sociology.

Britain and the bomb : nuclear diplomacy, 1964-1970 / / David James Gill

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789036103321
• Autore: Gill David James <1982->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8047-8858-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Collana: Stanford Nuclear Age Series
• Disciplina: 355.02/170941
• Soggetti: Nuclear weapons - Government policy - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Great Britain Foreign relations 1964-1979
• 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: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. A British Bomb -- 2. The Ambiguities of Opposition -- 3. Constructing the Atlantic Nuclear Force -- 4. The Recurring Death of Nuclear Sharing -- 5. Cooperation as Consultation -- 6. Proliferation Politics -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on primary sources from both sides of the Atlantic, Britain and the Bomb explores how economic, political, and strategic ; considerations have shaped British nuclear diplomacy. The book concentrates on Prime Minister Harold Wilson's first two terms of office, 1964-1970, which represent a critical period in international nuclear history. Wilson's commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and his support for continued investment in the British nuclear weapons program, despite serious economic and political challenges, established precedents that still influence policymakers today. The continued independence of Britain's nuclear force, and the enduring absence of a German or European deterrent, certainly owes a debt to Wilson's handling of nuclear diplomacy more than four decades ago. Beyond highlighting the importance of this period, the book explains how and why British nuclear diplomacy evolved during Wilson's leadership. Cabinet discussions, financial crises, and international tensions encouraged a degree of flexibility in the pursuit of strategic independence and the creation of a non-proliferation treaty. Gill shows us that British nuclear diplomacy was a series of compromises, an intricate blend of political, economic, and strategic considerations.