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UNINA990003088030403321 |
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Self, Peter |
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Government by the Market? : The Politics of Public Choice / Peter Self |
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Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1993 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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UNINA9910785767703321 |
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Nnolim Charles E |
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Issues in African literature [[electronic resource] /] / Charles E. Nnolim |
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Lagos [Nigeria], : Malthouse Press Ltd., c2010 |
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1-283-59338-6 |
9786613905833 |
978-8422-82-9 |
978-8422-80-2 |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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African literature - History and criticism |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1. A source for Arrow of God; 2. Trends in the |
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criticism of African literature; 3. Utopian literature and the African world view; 4. Politics in the West African novel; 5. The Nigerian tradition in the novel; 6. Prolegomena to a definition of the African aesthetic in literature; 7. A house divided: feminism in African literature; 8. Achebe's tragic heroes; 9. Achebe's masked spirits: culture's hum and buzz of social implications; 10. The critic of African literature: the challenge of the 1980's |
11. Moral values in the Nigerian novel 12. the unhappy woman in Nigerian fiction: a mythic interpretation of the archetypes; 13. The ""Sons of Achebe"": example of John Munonye; 14. African feminism: the scandalous path; 15. Contemporary Nigerian fiction; 16. The writer as patriot; Epilogue; Index; Back cover |
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The multitudinous nature of African literature has always been an issue but really not a problem, although its oral base has been used by expatriate critics to accuse African literature of thin plots, superficial characterisation, and narrative structures. African literature also, it is observed, is a mixed grill: it is oral; it is written in vernacular or tribal tongues; written in foreign tongues English, French, Portuguese and within the foreign language in which it is written, pidgin and creole further bend the already bent language giving African literature a further taint of linguistic i |
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UNINA9910962379103321 |
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Bailey Beth L. <1957-> |
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America's Army : making the all-volunteer force / / Beth Bailey |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Military service, Voluntary - United States |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-302) and index. |
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Individual freedom and the obligations of citizenship -- Repairing the Army -- The Army in the marketplace -- Race, "quality," and the hollow Army -- "If you like Ms., you'll love Pvt." -- The all-recruited Army -- The Army as social good -- The warrior ethos. |
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In 1973, not long after the last American combat troops returned from Vietnam, President Nixon fulfilled his campaign promise and ended the draft. No longer would young men find their futures determined by the selective service system; nor would the U.S. military have a guaranteed source of recruits. America’s Army is the story of the all-volunteer force, from the draft protests and policy proposals of the 1960s through the Iraq War. It is also a history of America in the post-Vietnam era. In the Army, America directly confronted the legacies of civil rights and black power, the women’s movement, and gay rights. The volunteer force raised questions about the meaning of citizenship and the rights and obligations it carries; about whether liberty or equality is the more central American value; what role the military should play in American society not only in time of war, but in time of peace. And as the Army tried to create a volunteer force that could respond effectively to complex international situations, it had to compete with other “employers” in a national labor market and sell military service alongside soap and soft drinks. Based on exhaustive archival research, as well as interviews with Army officers and recruiters, advertising executives, and policy makers, America’s Army confronts the political, |
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moral, and social issues a volunteer force raises for a democratic society as well as for the defense of our nation. |
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