1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815502803321

Autore

Gow Michael

Titolo

Furious / / Michael Gow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney : , : Currency Press, , [2017]

2017

ISBN

1-76062-169-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (44 pages)

Disciplina

813.6

Soggetti

Family secrets

Strangers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973105003321

Autore

Chambers Cheryl L. <1969->

Titolo

Drug laws and institutional racism : the story told by the Congressional record / / Cheryl L. Chambers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso, Tex., : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2011

ISBN

9781593326609

1593326602

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Law and society : recent scholarship

Disciplina

344.7304/460262

Soggetti

Drug control - Social aspects - United States - History

Narcotic laws - Social aspects - United States - History

Racism - United States - History

Sociological jurisprudence - United States

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; CHAPTER 1; Introduction; CHAPTER 2; Conflict Theory and Racial Inequality; CHAPTER 3; Institutional Racism and the Use of the Congressional Record; CHAPTER 4; Opium Laws of the Late 1800's and 1909; CHAPTER 5; The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937; CHAPTER 6; Anti-drug Abuse Act of 1986: Cocaine and Crack Cocaine; CHAPTER 7; Conclusions; APPENDIX; Methodology; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Chambers's hypothesis is that an historical analysis of the Congressional discussions surrounding the opium laws in the late 1800's and early 1900's, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 will illustrate that competition and threat, economic and/or political, were present prior to the enactment of the laws. Analyses indicate that while economic and to a limited extent political competition between Chinese immigrants and white Americans affected the passage of the opium laws, economic and political competition had little effect on the Marihuana Tax Act or the Anti-D

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910882997103321

Autore

Campbell Duncan M.

Titolo

Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China / / Phillip E. Bloom, Nicholas K. Menzies, Michelle Bailey, Duncan M. Campbell, Sarah Chen Huang, Huang Xiao, Liu Shanshan, Georges Metailie, Carla Nappi, Kathleen Ryor, Zheng Bo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Marino : , : The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9780873282734

0873282736

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 pages)

Soggetti

Landscape architecture - China - History - Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912

Gardens - China - History

Gardens, Chinese - China - History

China History Ming dynasty, 1368-1644

China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Director's foreword / Nicole Cavender -- Acknowledgments / Phillip E. Bloom -- Notes to the reader -- Chinese periods and dynasties -- Introduction. Growing and knowing in the gardens of China / Phillip E. Bloom -- Growing. Humble administrator's garden : cat. 1 ; Imperially ordered comprehensive examination of the agricultural calendar, cat. 2 ; Abstruse secrets of cultivating flowers from the lodge of wearied returns, cat. 3 ; Secretly transmitted mirror of flowers, cat. 4. Secretly transmitted mirror of flowers as a textbook of gardening / Georges Metailie -- "Preface" / translated by Duncan M. Campbell ; Garden tools, cat. 5 ; Garden for solitary pleasure, cat. 6. Literati medicinal gardens in Chinese paintings : Part 1 / Liu Shanshan and Huang Xiao ; Complete collection of medical traditions past and present, cat. 7 ; Orange daylily and butterflies, cat. 7 -- Knowing. Garden for solitary pleasure, cat. 9 ; Materia medica for famine relief, cat. 10. Famine foods from the prince's garden to the agronomist's guidebook / Sarah Chen Huang ; Revised "compendium of materia medica," cat. 11 -- 13 ways : recipes for looking at a ginseng root / Carla Nappi ; Illustrations and sounds of "approaching correctness," cat.12 ; One hundred flowers, cat. 13 -- Living amid the flowers : One hundred flowers and the tradition of botanical painting in late imperial China / Kathleen Ryor ; Butterflies at play during an eternal spring, cat. 14 ; Flowers and butterflies, cat. 15 ; Orchids, bamboo, fungus, and rocks, cat. 16 ; Cleansing medicinal herbs in the stream on a spring day, cat. 17 : Literati medicinal gardens in Chinese paintings : part 2 / Liu Shanshan and Huang Xiao.