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UNINA9910783739403321 |
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Bailey Douglass W (Douglass Whitfield), <1963-, > |
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Balkan prehistory : exclusion, incorporation and identity / / Douglass W. Bailey |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
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1-134-60707-5 |
1-134-60708-3 |
1-280-31769-8 |
0-203-46196-7 |
9786610317691 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (367 p.) |
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Antiquities, Prehistoric - Balkan Peninsula |
Prehistoric peoples - Balkan Peninsula |
Balkan Peninsula Antiquities |
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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 and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Balkan prehistory (6500 2500 BC): fundamental changes in human behaviour; Fundamental changes in living; Explanation; The organization and structure of the book; Setting the scene: the Balkans before 6500 BC; Spatial organization in the middle and upper Palaeolithic; Expressions of identity in the Balkan late Pleistocene; Where is the Mesolithic?; Chapter conclusions; Summary; Building social environments (6500 5500 BC); Northern Greece; West- and south-central Bulgaria |
The Western Balkans and the lower DanubeThe Danube Gorges; North-west Anatolia and Turkish Thrace; Chapter conclusions; Summary; New dimensions of material culture: pottery containers and other forms of expression (6500 5500 BC); Other forms of expressive material culture; Non-representational, visually expressive material culture; Chapter conclusions and summary; Continuity or change? Burials, lithics, plants and animals (6500 5500 BC); Flaked ston |
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Bailey's volume fills the gap that existed in an archaeology of the |
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Balkans and is required reading for anyone studying the Neolithic, Copper and early Bronze Ages of Eastern Europe. |
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UNINA9910810765803321 |
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Autore |
Maurini Alessandro |
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Aldous Huxley : the political thought of a man of letters / / Alessandro Maurini |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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1 online resource (193 pages) |
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Politics, Literature, and Film |
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United States Politics and government |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: An intellectual biography of a political thinker -- Beyond Marxism and positivism: the formative years -- Huxley's political thinking: the lesson of Vilfredo Pareto -- Mass society and Fordism -- The totalitarian elite -- Democratic elitism for peace and democracy -- Political thought between utopia and dystopia -- Huxley within contemporary political thought -- Appendix: On pacifist and cooperative realism: a misunderstanding in Turin between Aldous Huxley and Giuseppe Prezzolini in 1958. |
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UNINA9910485607803321 |
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Autore |
Woods Randall Bennett |
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A Black odyssey : John Lewis Waller and the promise of American life, 1878 -1900 / / Randall Bennett Woods |
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University Press of Kansas, 1981 |
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Lawrence : , : Regents Press of Kansas, , 1981 |
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©1981 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (xviii, 254 pages) : illustrations ; |
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Race relations |
Politicians |
Diplomats |
African Americans - Social conditions |
African Americans |
Diplomats - United States |
Politicians - Kansas |
African Americans - Social conditions - To 1964 |
African Americans - Kansas - History |
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Biographies. |
United States |
Kansas |
United States Race relations |
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This book focuses on the career of a single individual—an ambitious, resourceful Black American—and his efforts to realize personal fulfillment in a racist world.No Black American was more determined to realize the promise of American life following the Civil War, nor more frustrated by his inability to do so than John Lewis Waller. Waller, whose |
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first twelve years were spent in slavery, overcame his humble beginnings to become a politician, lawyer, journalist, and diplomat. Nevertheless, his life provides a case study of a middle class black caught between a desire to work within the existing political and economic framework and a need to reject a milieu that was becoming increasingly racist.Waller spent his childhood as a slave in Missouri, and his adolescence on a farm in Iowa. Circumstances and personal ambition combined to allow Waller to acquire a trade—barbering—and a profession—lawyering—in the 1870s. In 1878 he migrated to frontier Kansas, where he practiced law, edited a newspaper, rose to a position of leadership in the black community, and became an important figure in the state Republican party. His political career ended abruptly in 1890, however, when the Republicans rejected his bid to be nominated as the party’s candidate for state auditor. Convinced that his defeat was due to the rising tide of racism throughout the nation, he turned his attentions abroad.Waller was particularly susceptible to the lure of overseas empire because he had spent much of his adult life in the midst of a community of people who had succumbed to the myth of a “promised land,” who were convinced that the Black person would be best able to realize his potential in economically underdeveloped regions not yet exploited and controlled by the white man. In 1891 President Benjamin Harrison appointed Waller United States consul to the east African island of Madagascar. By 1894 Waller had obtained a huge land grant there for the founding of a black utopia. He hoped to establish a plantationcolony that would simultaneously advance his personal fortunes, serve as an investment opportunity for aspiring black capitalists, and constitute a refuge for oppressed AfroAmericans who wished to immigrate. He was thwarted once again by racism, however—this time in the guise of French imperialism. Viewing Waller and his plans as a threat to their hegemony in Madagascar, French authorities quashed the concession, arrested Waller on a charge of being a spy, and sentenced him to twenty years in prison. There followed a fullscale diplomatic confrontation between the United States and France. Waller was released after serving ten months in a French prison, but only after the Cleveland administration agreed to discredit him to the point where he would seem guilty as charged.In his early manhood John Lewis Waller had realized that because he was a Negro personal achievement could not be separated from racial advancement. Responding to that perception, he spent a lifetime searching for a frontier where blacks could enjoy the blessings of democracy and capitalism, and yet be free of the blight of racism. Unlike the vast majority of American Blacks of his time, Waller was able to articulate his dreams, have an impact on the larger, white dominated environment, and realize his individual potential to a remarkable degree. Nevertheless, his dreams were ultimately dashed by racism. His sad but fascinating story deserves the careful attention of all students of politics and race relations during the complex postCivil War year. |
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