1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463213203321

Titolo

Harbin to Hanoi : Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940 / / edited by Laura Victoir and Victor Zatsepine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2012

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2013

©2012

ISBN

988-8180-72-X

988-220-389-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Collana

Global connections.

Altri autori (Persone)

ZatsepineVictor

VictoirLaura A

Disciplina

307.76095

Soggetti

Architecture, Colonial - Asia

Colonies - Asia - History

Urbanization - Asia - History - 20th century

Urbanization - Asia - History - 19th century

Colonial cities - Asia

Electronic books.

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; Contributors; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Russia, Railways, and Urban Development in Manchuria, 1896-1930; 3. Beans to Banners; 4. France, Brossard Mopin, and Manchukuo; 5. International Concessions and the Modernization of Tianjin; 6. Mapping Colonial Space; 7. The Architecture of Risk; 8. Fabricating Justice; 9. Making Space for Higher Education in Colonial Hong Kong,  1887-1913; 10. Colonial Hanoi; 11. Hygienic Colonial Residences in Hanoi; 12. Domesticating the Suburbs; 13. Afterword; Index; Plates

Sommario/riassunto

Colonial powers in China and northern Vietnam employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of supremacy, a mission to civilize, a re-creation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and



work. In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture, and Asian and imperial history provide a detailed analysis of how colonization worked on different levels, and how it was expressed in stone, iron, and concrete. The process of creating the colonial built environment was multilayered and unpredictable. This book uncovers t

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704835903321

Autore

Simonen F. A.

Titolo

A generalized procedure for generating flaw-related inputs for the FAVOR code / / prepared by F.A. Simonen ... [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, , 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations

Soggetti

Nuclear pressure vessels - Testing - Computer programs

Pressure vessels - Testing

Pressure vessels - Cracking - Computer programs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Pacific Northwest National Laboratory."

"August 2013."

"NUREG/CR-6817, Rev.1."

"PNNL-14268A."

Title from title screen (viewed on Sept. 26, 2013).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-1-11-3).



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815568403321

Autore

Pleines Heiko

Titolo

Crises and conflicts in post-socialist societies : the role of ethnic, political and social identities / / Sabine Fischer, Heiko Pleines (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : , : Ibidem-Verlag, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

3-8382-5855-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Changing Europe ; ; Volume 4

Disciplina

305.80091717

Soggetti

Ethnicity - Former communist countries

Former communist countries Ethnic relations Congresses

Former communist countries Social policy Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at the Changing Europe summer school in Warsaw in September 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.