1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000030261

Autore

Hardy, Thomas

Titolo

Il sindaco di Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy ; introduzione di Enzo Siciliano ; cronologia e nota bibliografica di Attilio Brilli ; traduzione di Luigi Berti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2007

ISBN

978-88-17-17331-5

Edizione

[3. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

360 p. ; 18 cm

Collana

BUR , Classici moderni

Disciplina

823.8

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814818203321

Autore

Reynold Nick

Titolo

Britain's unfulfilled mandate for Palestine / / Nick Reynold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-8701-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Disciplina

956.94/04

Soggetti

Mandates - Palestine - History - 20th century

Palestine History 1917-1948

Palestine Politics and government 1917-1948

Great Britain Foreign relations Palestine

Palestine Foreign relations Great Britain

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; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; I: A Mandate Proposed; Introduction; Chapter One: From Whence the Mandate Came; Chapter Two: Getting Off to a Bad Start in Palestine; Chapter Three: The New Samuel Broom Sweeps Clean!; Chapter Four: The Palestinian Arabs Set Out to Torpedo the Mandate; Chapter Five: Herbert Samuel-Part Two; Chapter Six: Seeking a Jewish-Arab Entente 1924-1929; Chapter Seven: The Second and Third British High Commissioners for Palestine; Chapter Eight: Whither Britain's Commitment to Zionism?

Chapter Nine: The Battle between the Palestine Administration and the Jewish Agency (over Immigration, Land, and Jobs)II: The Mandate Unfulfilled; Chapter Ten: The Tables Begin to Turn; Chapter Eleven: Appeasement Rules the Waves; Chapter Twelve: Would There Be Life after the 1939 White Paper?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>The Middle East and its problems have become a constant source of news and public interest, but the current issues cannot be understood without a firm grasp on the historical context of the conflicts. </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Britain's Unfulfilled Mandate for Palestine</span><span> provides this context



for one of the most significant issues in current global politics-Israel's relations with its neighbors-from the perspective a waning colonial power.</span></span>

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910634055703321

Autore

Iacovetta Franca

Titolo

Before Official Multiculturalism : Women's Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-4875-5230-0

1-4875-4566-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (442 pages)

Collana

Studies in Gender and History

Disciplina

305.8009713/541

Soggetti

Community activists - Ontario - Toronto - History - 20th century

Cultural pluralism - Ontario - Toronto - History - 20th century

Immigrants - Services for - Ontario - Toronto - History - 20th century

Social integration - Ontario - Toronto - History - 20th century

Women social workers - Ontario - Toronto - History - 20th century

HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Praise for Before Official Multiculturalism -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Introduction -- 1 The Case Study -- 2 The Scholarship -- Part Two: Narrative, Subjectivities, and Affect in the Multicultural Social Welfare Encounter -- 3 Toronto Counsellors and International Institute Social Work Theory and Practice -- 4 Professionals, Narrative, and Gendered Middle-Class Subjectivities -- 5 Marital Conflict, Emotions, and "De-culturalizing" Violence -- 6 Generational Conflict: Intimacy, Money, and "Miniskirt" Feminism -- Part Three: Community-Building Experiments, Integration Projects,and Collective Belonging -- 7 Making Multicultural Community at the



Institute -- 8 Community Projects for Rural Villagers: Health and Occupational Training -- 9 Food as Charity, Community-Building, and Cosmopolitanism on a Budget -- Part Four: Ethnic Folk Cultures and Modern Multicultural Mandates -- 10 Immigrant Gifts, Pluralist Spectacles, and Staging the Modern City and Nation -- 11 Handicrafts, High Art, and Human Rights: Cultural Guardianship and Internationalism -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- Series List.

Sommario/riassunto

Renowned author Franca Iacovetta provides a new perspective on multiculturalism by examining the hopes and challenges of women activists associated with the Toronto International Institute.