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UNINA9910450648603321 |
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Titolo |
Between poverty and the pyre : moments in the history of widowhood / / edited by Jan Bremmer and Lourens van den Bosch |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995 |
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1-134-88882-1 |
1-134-88883-X |
1-280-33149-6 |
0-203-30853-0 |
0-203-03698-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (285 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BremmerJan N |
BoschLourens van den <1944-> |
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Widowhood |
Life cycle, Human |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Editors' note; WIDOWS' WORLDS Representations and realities Marjo Buitelaar; THE PUBLIC IMAGE OF THE WIDOW IN ANCIENT ISRAEL Karel van der Toorn; PAUPER OR PATRONESS The widow in the Early Christian Church Jan N.Bremmer; WIDOWS IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND Rolf H.Bremmer Jr; WIDOWS AND THE LAW The legal position of widows in the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Dieneke Hempenius-van Dijk; 'EUROPEAN' WIDOWS IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES Their legal and social position Heleen C.Gall |
WOMEN WITHOUT MEN Widows and spinsters in Britain and France in the eighteenth century Olwen HuftonNOBLE WIDOWS BETWEEN FORTUNE AND FAMILY Yme Kuiper; THE ULTIMATE JOURNEYSat and widowhood in India Lourens P. van den Bosch; WIDOWS IN ISLAM Willy Jansen; WIDOWS HIDDEN FROM VIEW The disappearance of mourning dress among Dutch widows in the twentieth century Geertje van Os; WIDOWS IN WESTERN HISTORY A select bibliography Frouke Veenstra |
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and Kirsten van der Ploeg; Index |
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Between Poverty and the Pyre examines the history of the experience of widowhood across different cultures. It brings together a collection of essays by historians, anthropologists and philologists. The book shows how difficult it is to define the 'typical' widow, as the experiences of these women have differed so widely, not simply because of their different time periods and locations, but also becuase of their varying legal and religious status and economic conditions. The study is diverse with subjects ranging from: *Hindu wives who followed their husbands to the pyre * |
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UNINA9910783315703321 |
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Flamming Douglas |
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Bound for freedom [[electronic resource] ] : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America / / Douglas Flamming |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
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1-282-35873-1 |
9786612358739 |
0-520-94028-8 |
1-59734-508-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (518 p.) |
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African Americans - California - Los Angeles - History - 19th century |
African Americans - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century |
African Americans - Civil rights - California - Los Angeles - History |
Community life - California - Los Angeles - History - 19th century |
Community life - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century |
Civil rights movements - California - Los Angeles - History - 19th century |
Civil rights movements - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century |
Los Angeles (Calif.) Race relations |
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"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies". |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-438) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Arrival -- 1. Southern Roots, Western Dreams -- 2. The Conditions of Heaven -- 3. Claiming Central Avenue -- 4. A Civic Engagement -- 5. Politics and Patriotism -- 6. Fighting Spirit in the 1920's -- 7. The Business of Race -- 8. Surging Down Central Avenue -- 9. Responding to the Depression -- 10. Race and New Deal Liberalism -- Departure -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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Paul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he finally submitted to a strictly enforced Southern custom-he stepped off the sidewalk to allow white men who had just insulted him to pass by. Friends of the Bontemps family, like many others beckoning their loved ones West, had written that Los Angeles was "a city called heaven" for people of color. But just how free was Southern California for African Americans? This splendid history, at once sweeping in its historical reach and intimate in its evocation of everyday life, is the first full account of Los Angeles's black community in the half century before World War II. Filled with moving human drama, it brings alive a time and place largely ignored by historians until now, detailing African American community life and political activism during the city's transformation from small town to sprawling metropolis. Writing with a novelist's sensitivity to language and drawing from fresh historical research, Douglas Flamming takes us from Reconstruction to the Jim Crow era, through the Great Migration, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the build-up to World War II. Along the way, he offers rich descriptions of the community and its middle-class leadership, the women who were front and center with men in the battle against racism in the American West. In addition to drawing a vivid portrait of a little-known era, Flamming shows that the history of race in Los Angeles is crucial for our understanding of race in America. The civil rights activism in Los Angeles laid the foundation for critical developments in the second half of the century that continue to influence us to this day. |
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UNINA9910261140103321 |
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Autore |
Katrine L. Whiteson |
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Titolo |
Virus Discovery by Metagenomics: The (Im)possibilities |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Collana |
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Frontiers Research Topics |
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Microbiology (non-medical) |
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Since the late 1800s, the discovery of new viruses was a gradual process. Viruses were described one by one using a suite of techniques such as (electron) microscopy and viral culture. Investigators were usually interested in a disease state within an organism, and expeditions in viral ecology were rare. The advent of metagenomics using high-throughput sequencing has revolutionized not only the rate of virus discovery, but also the nature of the discoveries. For example, the viral ecology and etiology of many human diseases are being characterized, non-pathogenic viral commensals are ubiquitous, and the description of environmental viromes is making progress. This Frontiers in Virology Research Topic showcases how metagenomic and bioinformatic approaches have been combined to discover, classify and characterize novel viruses. |
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