1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463766903321

Autore

Bethwaite Frank

Titolo

Higher performance sailing : faster racing techniques / / Frank Bethwaite

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Adlard Coles Nautical, , 2013

ISBN

1-4729-0131-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 432 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

797.14

Soggetti

Yacht racing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

Since the publication of the author's 'High Performance Sailing' in 1984 a new breed of 'apparent wind' fast racers has claimed the water. 'Higher Performance Sailing' analyses what makes these boats sail fast (and what will make them faster) and how to harness the apparent wind for increased speed and better position on your rivals.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778411503321

Titolo

Colonial crucible [[electronic resource] ] : empire in the making of the modern American state / / edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2009

ISBN

9786612270543

1-282-27054-0

0-299-23103-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (705 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McCoyAlfred W

ScaranoFrancisco A (Francisco Antonio)

Disciplina

973.88

Soggetti

Imperialism - United States

United States Foreign relations 1897-1901

United States Foreign relations 1901-1909

United States Territorial expansion

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""; ""Illustrations ""; ""Preface ""; ""Part 1: Exploring Imperial Transitions ""; ""On the Tropic of Cancer: Transitions and Transformations in the U.S. Imperial State / Alfred W. McCoy, Francisco A. Scarano, and Courtney Johnson ""; ""Reading Imperial Transitions: Spanish Contraction, British Expansion, and American Irruption / Josep M. Fradera ""; ""From Old Empire to New: The Changing Dynamics and Tactics of American Empire / Thomas McCormick ""; ""Part 2: Police, Prisons, and Law Enforcement ""; ""Introduction / Alfred W. McCoy ""

""American Penal Forms and Colonial Spanish Custodial-Regulatory Practices in Fin de Siècle Puerto Rico / Kelvin Santiago-Valles """"Prohibiting Opium in the Philippines and the United States: The Creation of an Interventionist State / Anne L. Foster ""; ""Policing the Imperial Periphery: Philippine Pacification and the Rise of the U.S. National Security State / Alfred W. McCoy ""; """"The Prison That Makes Men Free"" : The Iwahig Penal Colony and the Simulacra of the American State in the Philippines / Michael Salman ""; ""Part 3: Education "";



""Introduction / Adam Nelson ""

""Negotiating Colonialism: ""Race,"" Class, and Education in Early-Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico / Solsirée Del Moral """"Enlightened Tolerance or Cultural Capitulation? Contesting Notions of American Identity / Amílcar Antonio Barreto ""; ""The Business of Education in the Colonial Philippines, 1909-30 / Glenn Anthony May ""; ""The Imperial Enterprise and Educational Policies in Colonial Puerto Rico / Pablo Navarro-Rivera ""; ""Understanding the American Empire: Colonialism, Latin Americanism, and Professional Social Science, 1898-1920 / Courtney Johnson ""

""Part 4: Race and Imperial Identities """"Introduction / Clare Corbould ""; ""Race, Empire, and Transnational History / Paul A. Kramer ""; ""Cenuses in the Transition to Modern Colonialism: Spain and the United States in Puerto Rico / Francisco A. Scarno ""; ""Race and the Suffrage Controversy in Cuba, 1898-1901 / Alejandro De La Fuente and Matthew Casey ""; ""From Columbus to Ponce de León: Puerto Rican Commemorations between Empires, 1893-1908 / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara ""

""A Critical-Historical Genealogy of ""Koko"" (Blood), "" 'Aina""(Land), Hawaiian Identity, and Western Law and Governance / Rona Tamiko Halualani """"Buying into Empire: American Consumption at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Kristin Hoganson ""; ""Confabulating American Colonial Knowledge of the Philippines: What the Social Life of Jose E. Marco's Forgeries and Ahmed Chalabi Can Tell Us about the Epistemology of Empire / Michael Salman ""; ""Part 5: Imperial Medicine and Public Health ""; ""Introduction / Nancy Tomes ""

""Pacific Crossings: Imperial Logics in United States' Public Health Programs / Warwick Anderson ""