1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996321339703316

Titolo

California Italian studies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Berkeley, Calif.], : EScholarship, University of California

Disciplina

945

Soggetti

Italian literature - History and criticism

Civilization

Italian literature

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Periodicals.

Italy Civilization Periodicals

Italy History Periodicals

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Sommario/riassunto

The California Italian Studies Journal is a digital, peer-reviewed, open access journal committed to publishing innovative and influential scholarly work in the field of Italian Studies. The nascent journal will feature interdisciplinary, comparative, and critical scholarship.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786379403321

Autore

Gavin Francis J

Titolo

Nuclear statecraft [[electronic resource] ] : history and strategy in America's atomic age / / Francis J. Gavin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca ; ; London, : Cornell University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8014-5675-4

0-8014-6532-X

0-8014-6576-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

Disciplina

355.02/170973

Soggetti

Nuclear weapons - Government policy - United States - History

Nuclear nonproliferation - Government policy - United States - History

Nuclear arms control - Government policy - United States - History

United States Foreign relations 1945-1989

United States Foreign relations 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. History, Theory, and Statecraft in the Nuclear Age -- 2. The Myth of Flexible Response -- 3. Nuclear Weapons, Statecraft, and the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962 -- 4. Blasts from the Past -- 5. Nuclear Nixon -- 6. That Seventies Show -- 7. Same as It Ever Was? -- 8. Global Zero, History, and the "Nuclear Revolution" -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging from a nuclear Iran to the global zero movement are generating sharp debate. The historical origins of our contemporary nuclear world are deeply consequential for contemporary policy, but it is crucial that decisions are made on the basis of fact rather than myth and misapprehension. In Nuclear Statecraft, Francis J. Gavin challenges key elements of the widely accepted narrative about the history of the atomic age and the consequences of the nuclear revolution. On the basis of recently declassified documents, Gavin reassesses the strategy of flexible response, the influence of nuclear weapons during the Berlin



Crisis, the origins of and motivations for U.S. nuclear nonproliferation policy, and how to assess the nuclear dangers we face today. In case after case, he finds that we know far less than we think we do about our nuclear history. Archival evidence makes it clear that decision makers were more concerned about underlying geopolitical questions than about the strategic dynamic between two nuclear superpowers. Gavin's rigorous historical work not only tells us what happened in the past but also offers a powerful tool to explain how nuclear weapons influence international relations. Nuclear Statecraft provides a solid foundation for future policymaking.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784969703321

Autore

Moses Wilson Jeremiah <1942->

Titolo

Alexander Crummell [[electronic resource] ] : a study of civilization and discontent / / Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c1989

ISBN

1-280-44968-3

0-19-536408-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Disciplina

973.04960730092B

973.04960730924B

973.8092

973/.0496073/0924 B

Soggetti

African Americans

Black nationalism - United States - History - 19th century

Pan-Africanism - History - 19th century

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; 1. Introduction; 2. The Early Years (1819-1840); 3. The Struggles of a Young Priest (1841-1847); 4. Arrival in England (1848-1849); 5. Cambridge Influences (1849-1853); 6. Adjustment to Africa (1853-1861); 7. Changing Attitudes in America and a Visit Home (1853-1863); 8. Liberia College and the Politics of Knowledge (1863-



1867); 9. Last Battles with the Bishop (1867-1870); 10. Missionary Work and Final Disillusionment (1870-1872); 11. Reconsidering the Destiny of Black Americans (1872-1882); 12. A Man of Mark (1882-1894); 13. Pastor Emeritus (1894-1896)

14. Tuskegee Under Fire: The American Negro Academy (1896-1898)15. Crummell's Universality and Significance; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix: Constitution and By-Laws of the American Negro Academy; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This remarkable biography, based on much new information, examines the life and times of one of the most prominent African-American intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Born in New York in 1819, Alexander Crummell was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, after being denied admission to Yale University and the Episcopal Seminary on purely racial grounds. In 1853, steeped in the classical tradition and modern political theory, he went to the Republic of Liberia as an Episcopal missionary, but was forced to flee to Sierra Leone in 1872, having barely survived republican Africa's first coup