1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450934403321

Autore

Lovelace John Timothy

Titolo

The artistry & tradition of Tennyson's battle poetry / / by J. Timothy Lovelace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-88600-8

0-415-76264-2

1-135-88601-6

1-280-07611-9

0-203-49079-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Studies in major literary authors ; ; v. 28

Disciplina

821/.8

Soggetti

Classicism - England - History - 19th century

Military art and science in literature

English poetry - Greek influences

Battles in literature

Electronic books.

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 (p. 167-179) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Tennyson and the Heroic Tradition; The Early War Poetry; Historical and Legendary Battles; Contemporary Conflicts; Maud; Idylls of the King; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Argues that Tennyson's war poems reflect image patterns of the Iliad and the Aeneid, and reinvigorate the heroic ethos that informs these and other ancient texts.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910701733003321

Titolo

Diesel pollution [[electronic resource] ] : fragmented federal program that reduce mobile source emissions could be improved : report to congressional committees

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ii, 53 pages) : illustrations

Soggetti

Pollution prevention - Government policy - United States

Diesel motor exhaust gas - United States

Motor vehicles - United States - Motors (Diesel) - Exhaust gas

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title screen (viewed May 1, 2012).

"February 2012."

"GAO-12-261."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785784303321

Autore

Suarez-Potts William J

Titolo

The making of law [[electronic resource] ] : the Supreme Court and labor legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931 / / William J. Suarez-Potts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8348-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Disciplina

344.7201

Soggetti

Labor laws and legislation - Mexico - History

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; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Rights of Free Labor, 1875-1910; 2. Free Labor and the Federal Judiciary, 1875-1910; 3. Porfirian Industrial Relations and the Rights of Labor; 4. Toward Social Legislation; 5. Legislating Labor Law, 1911-1924; 6. The Supreme Court and Labor Law, 1917-1924; 7. Labor Law and Supreme Court Decisions, 1925-1931; 8. The Enactment of the Federal Labor Law, 1925-1931; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Despite Porfirio Díaz's authoritarian rule (1877-1911) and the fifteen years of violent conflict typifying much of Mexican politics after 1917, law and judicial decision-making were important for the country's political and economic organization. Influenced by French theories of jurisprudence in addition to domestic events, progressive Mexican legal thinkers concluded that the liberal view of law-as existing primarily to guarantee the rights of individuals and of private property-was inadequate for solving the ""social question""; the aim of the legal regime should instead be one of harmo