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UNINA9910458315703321 |
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Autore |
Salazar James B |
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Bodies of reform [[electronic resource] ] : the rhetoric of character in Gilded Age America / / James B. Salazar |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2010 |
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0-8147-8653-7 |
0-8147-4132-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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America and the long 19th century |
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American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Character in literature |
Characters and characteristics in literature |
National characteristics, American, in literature |
Character - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century |
Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century |
Political culture - United States - History - 19th century |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Philanthropic Taste -- 2. Character Is Capital -- 3. Muscle Memory -- 4. “A Story Written on Her Face” -- 5. Character’s Conduct -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable “stuff,” has had a long and checkered history giving shape to the American national identity.Bodies of Reform reconceives this pivotal category of nineteenth-century literature and culture by charting the development of the concept of “character” in the fictional genres, social reform movements, and political cultures of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. By reading novelists |
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such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman alongside a diverse collection of texts concerned with the mission of building character, including child-rearing guides, muscle-building magazines, libel and naturalization law, Scout handbooks, and success manuals, James B. Salazar uncovers how the cultural practices of representing character operated in tandem with the character-building strategies of social reformers. His innovative reading of this archive offers a radical revision of this defining category in U.S. literature and culture, arguing that character was the keystone of a cultural politics of embodiment, a politics that played a critical role in determining-and contesting-the social mobility, political authority, and cultural meaning of the raced and gendered body. |
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UNINA9910797362903321 |
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Autore |
Fay Marianne |
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Decarbonizing Development : : Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future / / Fay, Marianne |
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Washington, D.C., : The World Bank, , 2015 |
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1-4648-0606-3 |
1-4648-0480-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (184 pages) |
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Climate Change and Development Series |
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Carbon dioxide mitigation |
Economic development - Environmental aspects |
Atmospheric carbon dioxide - Environmental aspects |
Carbon - Environmental aspects |
Fossil fuels - Environmental aspects |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Overview""; ""Planning for a Low-Carbon Future: What We Need to Do Now Depends on the End Goal""; ""Enabling the Transition with a Policy Package That Is Efficient, Acceptable, and Credible""; ""Managing the |
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Transition: Protecting Poor People and Avoiding the Potential Pitfalls of Reforms""; ""In Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Part I: Planning for a Low-Carbon Future: What to Do Now Depends on the End Goal""; ""1. Reducing Carbon Emissions to Zero""; ""Stabilizing the Climate Requires Zero Net Emissions"" |
""Zero Net Emissions Requires Action on Four Fronts""""Notes""; ""References""; ""2. Acting Sooner Rather than Later""; ""Feasible Really Means Cost-Effective""; ""Cost-Effectiveness Requires Early Action""; ""The Costs of Early Action Should Be Modest""; ""Early Action Paths Are Prudent""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""3. Planning Ahead with an Eye on the End Goal""; ""Factor in Uncertainty, Disagreement, and Multiple Objectives""; ""Focus on What Is Urgent and Carries Co-Benefits""; ""Build Sectoral Pathways to Carbon Neutrality"" |
""Annex 3A: Tools to Develop Sectoral Pathways to Zero Emissions""""Notes""; ""References""; ""Part II: Enabling a Low-Carbon Transition: Prices and More""; ""4. Getting Prices Right""; ""A Necessary Step: Removing Fossil-Fuel Subsidies""; ""The Economics of Carbon Prices�Pretty Straightforward""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""5. Building Policy Packages That Are Acceptable, Credible, and Effective""; ""Ensuring the Needed Technologies Are Available and Affordable""; ""Ensuring the Needed Infrastructure Is in Place"" |
""Tackling Other Factors�Such as Behavior�That Reduce the Impact of Price Incentives""""Notes""; ""References""; ""6. Getting the Finance Flowing""; ""Growing the Pie""; ""Greening the Pie""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Part III: Managing the Transition: Protecting the Poor and Avoiding the Potential Pitfalls of Reforms""; ""7. Ensuring the Poor Benefit""; ""Direct Distributional Impacts of Right Pricing�Possibly Positive?""; ""Revenue Recycling Enables Redistribution and Allows for Pro-Poor Climate Policies""; ""Managing Perceived Impacts"" |
""Land-Use-Based Mitigation�Impacts Depend on Design""""Notes""; ""References""; ""8. Smoothing the Transition to Make It Happen""; ""Managing Concentrated Losses""; ""Managing the Fears of Competitiveness Loss""; ""Managing the Risk of Government Failures""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Boxes""; ""1.1 The “Full� Story on Greenhouse Gases""; ""2.1 An Extreme Case of Commitment�Urban Forms""; ""3.1 Short-Term Strategies Need to Be Designed Keeping the Long-Term Goal in Mind�Examples from Brazil and Germany""; ""3.2 A World Bank Software for Comparing Abatement Options: MACTool"" |
""3.3 Using Space to Design Deforestation Policies"" |
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The science is unequivocal: stabilizing climate change implies bringing net carbon emissions to zero. This must be done by 2100 if we are to keep climate change anywhere near the 2oC warming that world leaders have set as the maximum acceptable limit. Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future looks at what it would take to decarbonize the world economy by 2100 in a way that is compatible with countries' broader development goals. Here is what needs to be done: -Act early with an eye on the end-goal. To best achieve a given reduction in emissions in 2030 depends on whether this is the final target or a step towards zero net emissions. Go beyond prices with a policy package that triggers changes in investment patterns, technologies and behaviors. Carbon pricing is necessary for an efficient transition toward decarbonization. It is an efficient way to raise revenue, which can be used to support poverty reduction or reduce other taxes. Policymakers need to adopt measures that trigger the required changes in investment patterns, behaviors, and technologies - and if carbon pricing is temporarily impossible, use these measures as a substitute. Mind the political economy and smooth the transition for those who stand to be most affected. Reforms live or |
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die based on the political economy. A climate policy package must be attractive to a majority of voters and avoid impacts that appear unfair or are concentrated on a region, sector or community. Reforms have to smooth the transition for those who stand to be affected, by protecting vulnerable people but also sometimes compensating powerful lobbies. |
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