1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461059403321

Autore

Ives E. W (Eric William), <1931-2012, >

Titolo

Henry VIII / / Eric Ives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-19-155106-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 p.)

Collana

Very Interesting People ; ; 14

Disciplina

942.05/2092

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547

Great Britain Kings and rulers Biography

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; Preface; 1 Upbringing and inheritance, 1491-1514; 2 Wolsey as royal minister, 1514-1530; 3 New ideas and a new minister, 1530-1532; 4 Establishing the royal supremacy, 1533-1540; 5 Henry VIII: the man; 6 The realm reshaped; 7 The royal legacy; 8 The royal magnificence: images and reality; Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Definitive, concise, and very interesting...  From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time.  Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.  The Very Interesting People series includes the following titles: 1.William Shakespeare by Peter Holland  2. George Eliot by Rosemary Ashton  3. Charles Dickens by Michael Slater  4.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789545803321

Titolo

Chinatowns in a transnational world : myths and realities of an urban phenomenon / / edited by Vanessa Kunnemann and Ruth Mayer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-70924-X

1-283-44151-9

9786613441515

1-136-70925-8

0-203-81473-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KunnemannVanessa

MayerRuth <1965->

Disciplina

307.3/362089951

Soggetti

Ethnic neighborhoods

Chinatowns

National characteristics, Chinese

Culture and globalization

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

Introduction: a "bit of orient set down in the heart of a western metropolis" : the Chinatown in the United States and Europe / Ruth Mayer -- New York after Chinatown: Canal Street and the "new world order" / John Kuo Wei Tchen -- "Chinese quarters" : maritime labor, Chinese migration, and local imagination in Rotterdam and Hamburg, 1900-1950 / Lars Amenda -- Cosmopolitan lifestyles and "yellow quarters" : traces of Chinese life in Germany, 1921-1941 / Dagmar Yu-Dembski -- Rehabilitating chinatown at mid-century : Chinese Americans, race, and us cultural diplomacy / Mary Lui -- "Curious kisses" : the Chinatown fantasies of Thomas Burke / Anne Witchard -- "The greatest novelty of the age" : Fu-Manchu, Chinatown, and the global city / Ruth Mayer -- The Donaldina Cameron myth and the rescue of America, 1910-2002 / Kirsten Twelbeck -- "Showing what it is to be Chinese" : China/town authenticity and hybridity in Pearl S. Buck's kinfolk / Vanessa Künnemann -- "Food town" : Chinatown and



the American journey of Chinese food / Yong Chen -- London's Chinatown and the changing shape of Chinese diaspora / Rosemary Sales with Panos Hatziprokopiou, Alessio D'Angelo and Xia Lin -- Chinatowns in transition : between ethnic enclave and global emblem / Flemming Christiansen.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the history, the reality, and the complex fantasy of American and European Chinatowns and traces the patterns of transnational travel and traffic between China, South East Asia, Europe, and the United States which informed the development of these urban sites. Despite obvious structural or architectural similarities and overlaps, Chinatowns differ markedly depending on their location. European versions of Chinatowns can certainly not be considered mere replications of the American model. Paying close attention to regional specificities and overarching similarities, Ch