1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785915203321

Titolo

From an antique land [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to ancient Near Eastern literature / / edited by Carl S. Ehrlich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009

ISBN

9786613926241

1-283-61379-4

0-7425-6347-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (523 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EhrlichCarl S

Disciplina

809.56

Soggetti

Middle Eastern literature - History and criticism

Oriental literature - History and criticism

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 (p. 445-492) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Sumerian Literature; Chapter 3: Egyptian Literature; Chapter 4: Akkadian Literature; Chapter 5: Hittite Literature; Chapter 6: Canaanite Literature; Chapter 7: Hebrew/Israelite Literature; Chapter 8: Aramaic Literature; Bibliography; Index; About the Editor and Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

From an Antique Land introduces the various cultures and literatures of the Ancient Near East, including literature originally written in Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Ugaritic, Canaanite, Hebrew, and Aramaic. The timeframe extends from the invention of writing through the conquest of Alexander the Great. Each chapter includes an overview of the culture, a discussion of literary genres, and descriptions and short analyses of the major literary works.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830391503321

Titolo

Advances in photochemistry . Volume 24 [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Douglas C. Neckers, David H. Volman, Günther von Bünau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Wiley-Interscience, 1998

ISBN

1-282-30527-1

9786612305276

0-470-13355-4

0-470-13382-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Collana

Advances in photochemistry ; ; 24

Altri autori (Persone)

BünauGünther von

NeckersDouglas C

VolmanDavid H

Disciplina

541.35

541.35082

Soggetti

Chemistry, Physical and theoretical

Photochemistry

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

ADVANCES IN PHOTOCHEMISTRY; CONTENTS; Optical Single-Molecule Detection at Room Temperature; Pressure-Tuning Photochemistry of Metal Complexes in Solution; Photo-Induced and Spontaneous Proton Tunneling in Molecular Solids; The EPR Spectroscopic D Parameter of Localized Triplet Diradicals as Probe for Electronic Effects in Benzyl-Type Monoradicals; Photothermal Studies of Photophysical and Photochemical Processes by the Transient Grating Method; Index; Cumulative Index, Volumes 1-24

Sommario/riassunto

Setting the pace for progress and innovation . . . ""There is no doubt that these are 'hot and exciting' research areas . . . [Advances in Photochemistry] could easily serve as a definitive source of background information for future researchers."" --Journal of the American Chemical Society""For any library wishing to maintain a first-rate reference series on the photochemical literature. --Physics TodayMore than a simple survey of the current literature, Advances in Photochemistry offers critical evaluations written by internationally



recognized experts. These pioneeri

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972312903321

Autore

Dattel Gene

Titolo

Cotton and race in the making of America : the human costs of economic power / / Gene Dattel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Ivan R. Dee, , 2009

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2025

ISBN

979-82-16-40902-1

1-283-28375-1

9786613283757

1-4422-1019-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (604 p.)

Disciplina

338.1/73510975

Soggetti

Ethnic studies

United States - Race relations

United States - Politics and government - 1865-1933

United States - Politics and government - 1783-1865

United States - Economic conditions

African Americans - Southern States

History of the Americas

History

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

Part 1: Slavery in the Making of the Constitution; Chapter 1: The Silent Issue at the Constitutional Convention; Part 2: The Engine of American Growth, 1787-1861; Chapter 2: Birth of an Obsession; Chapter 3: Land Expansion and White Migration to the Old Southwest; Chapter 4: The Movement of Slaves to the Cotton States; Chapter 5: The Business of Cotton; Chapter 6: The Roots of War; Part 3: The North: For Whites Only, 1800-1865; Chapter 7: Being Free and Black in the North; Chapter 8: The Colonial North; Chapter 9: Race Moves West; Chapter



10: Tocqueville on Slavery, Race, and Money in America

Part 4: King Cotton Buys a WarChapter 11: Cultivating a Crop, Cultivating a Strategy; Chapter 12: Great Britain and the Civil War; Chapter 13: Cotton and Confederate Finance; Chapter 14: Procuring Arms; Chapter 15: Cotton Trading in the United States; Chapter 16: Cotton and the Freedmen; Part 5: The Racial Divide and Cotton Labor, 1865-1930; Chapter 17: New Era, Old Problems; Chapter 18: Ruling the Freedmen in the Cotton Fields; Chapter 19: Reconstruction Meets Reality; Chapter 20: The Black Hand on the Cotton Boll; Chapter 21: From Cotton Field to Urban Ghetto: The Chicago Experience

Part 6: Cotton Without Slaves, 1865-1930Chapter 22: King Cotton Expands; Chapter 23: The Controlling Laws of Cotton Finance; Chapter 24: The Delta Plantation: Labor and Land; Chapter 25: The Planter Experience in the Twentieth Century; Chapter 26: The Long-Awaited Mechanical Cotton Picker; Chapter 27: The Abdication of King Cotton

Sommario/riassunto

Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton could be grown. Both before and after the Civil War, blacks were assigned to the cotton fields while a pervasive racial animosity and fear of a black migratory invasion caused white Northerners to contain blacks in the South.