1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797830903321

Autore

Diamond Patrick

Titolo

Can labour win? : the hard road to power / / Patrick Diamond and Giles Radice with Penny Bochum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Policy Network, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78348-545-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (53 p.)

Disciplina

324.24107

Soggetti

Great Britain Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover-Page; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Executive Summary; Introduction: Why Did Labour Lose?; The Electoral Battleground: Polling Analysis and the Views of Wavering Voters; Why Labour Lost: Party Views; What Labour Must Do; Conclusion: Labour's Hard Road to Power

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>The Labour party was not just narrowly defeated in the UK's General Election in 2015, it was overwhelmingly rejected by an electorate who no longer trust the party. This book examines how the party must understand its failures and recover to become a credible challenger in the next election.</span></span>



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821844703321

Autore

López Marissa K

Titolo

Chicano nations : the hemispheric origins of Mexican American literature / / Marissa K. Lopez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2011

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

9780814753293

0814753299

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

American Literatures Initiative ; ; 4

Disciplina

810.9/86872073

Soggetti

American literature - Mexican American authors - History and criticism

Mexican Americans - Intellectual life

Mexican Americans in literature

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

Latinidad abroad : Sarmiento's, Zavala's, and Perez Rosales' narrative maps -- Mexicanidad at home : Mariano Vallejo's Chicano historiography -- Racialized bodies and the limits of the abstract : Maria Mena and Daniel Venegas -- More life in the skeleton : Caballero and the teleology of race -- Ana Castillo's 'distinct place in the Americas' -- Border patrol as global surveillance: post-9/11 Chicana/o detective fiction.

Sommario/riassunto

Chicano Nations argues that the trans-nationalism that is central to Chicano identity originated in the global, postcolonial moment at- the turn of the nineteenth century rather than as an effect of contemporary economic conditions, which began in the mid nineteenth century and primarily affected the labouring classes. The Spanish empire then began to implode, and colonists in the ""new world"" debated the national contours of the viceroyalties. This is where Marissa K. Lopez locates the origins of Chicano literature, which is now and always has been ""post-national,"" encompassing the wealthy