1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792213503321

Autore

Smith-Rosenberg Carroll

Titolo

This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity / / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

979-88-908851-8-0

0-8078-9591-1

1-4696-0039-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (509 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

973.2/5

Soggetti

National characteristics, American - History - 18th century

Men, White - United States - Attitudes - History - 18th century

Difference (Psychology) - Political aspects - United States - History - 18th century

Political culture - United States - History - 18th century

Violence - United States - History - 18th century

Racism - United States - History - 18th century

Paranoia - United States - History - 18th century

Sexism - United States - History - 18th century

Marginality, Social - United States - History - 18th century

United States Civilization 1783-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: "What, then, is the American, this new man?" -- Section 1. The new American-as-republican citizen -- Prologue 1: The drums of war/the thrust of empire -- Fusions and confusions -- Rebellious dandies and political fictions -- American Minervas -- Section 2. Dangerous doubles -- Prologue 2: Masculinity and masquerade -- Seeing red -- Subject female : authorizing an American identity -- Section 3. The new American-as-bourgeois gentleman -- Prologue 3:



The ball -- Choreographing class/performing gentility -- Polished gentlemen, troublesome women, and dancing slaves -- Black gothic.

Sommario/riassunto

This study traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self. It explores how the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and shared culture, solidified their national sense of self by imagining a series of 'others' (African Americans, Native Americans, women, the propertyless) whose differences from European American male founders overshadowed the differences that divided those founders.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830376603321

Autore

Alvarez Pedro J. J

Titolo

Bioremediation and natural attenuation [[electronic resource] ] : process fundamentals and mathematical models / / Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Walter A. Illman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2006

ISBN

1-280-28687-3

9786610286874

0-470-32322-1

0-471-73862-X

0-471-73861-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (624 p.)

Collana

Environmental science and technology

Altri autori (Persone)

IllmanWalter A (Walter Arthur)

Disciplina

628.5

Soggetti

Groundwater - Purification

Groundwater flow - Mathematical models

In situ bioremediation

Hazardous wastes - Natural attenuation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Wiley-Interscience."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BIOREMEDIATION AND NATURAL ATTENUATION; CONTENTS; Preface; 1. Introduction to Bioremediation; 2. Geochemical Attenuation



Mechanisms; 3. Biodegradation Principles; 4. Fundamentals of Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Processes; 5. Fate and Transport Equations and Analytical Models for Natural Attenuation; 6. Numerical Modeling of Contaminant Transport, Transformation, and Degradation Processes; 7. Field and Laboratory Methods to Determine Parameters for Modeling Contaminant Fate and Transport in Groundwater; 8. Bioremediation Technologies

9. Performance Assessment and Demonstration of Bioremediation and Natural AttenuationAppendix A. Chemical Properties of Various Organic Compounds; Appendix B. Free Energy and Thermodynamic Feasibility of Chemical and Biochemical Reactions; Appendix C. Commonly Used Numerical Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport Codes; Appendix D. Nonparametric Statistical Tests for Determining the Effectiveness of Natural Attenuation; Appendix E. Critical Values of the Student t-Distribution; Glossary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A groundbreaking text and professional resource on natural attenuation technology Natural attenuation is rapidly becoming a widely used approach to manage groundwater and soil contamination by hazardous substances in petroleum-product releases and leachate from hazardous waste sites and landfills. This book provides, under one cover, the current methodologies needed by groundwater scientists and engineers in their efforts to evaluate subsurface contamination problems, to estimate risk to human health and ecosystems through mathematical models, and to design and formulate appropriate r