1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784266703321

Autore

Miller Toby

Titolo

Cultural citizenship [[electronic resource] ] : cosmopolitanism, consumerism, and television in a neoliberal age / / Toby Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-09378-5

9786611093785

1-59213-562-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Disciplina

306.0973

Soggetti

Culture - Study and teaching - United States

Consumption (Economics) - United States

Mass media - United States

United States Politics and government

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. [181]-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

What is cultural citizenship? -- Television terror: being ignorant, living in Manhattan -- Television food: from Brahmin Julia to working-class Emeril -- Television weather: tomorrow will be-- risky and disciplined.

Sommario/riassunto

What does it mean to be a ""citizen"" today, in an age of unbridled consumerism, terrorism, militarism, and multinationalism? In this passionate and dazzling book, Toby Miller dares to answer this question with the depth of thought it deserves. Fast-moving and far-ranging, Cultural Citizenship blends fact, theory, observation, and speculation in a way that continually startles and engages the reader.  Although he is unabashedly liberal in his politics, Miller is anything but narrow minded. He looks at media coverage of September 11th and the Iraq invasion as well as ""infotainment"



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910897989103321

Autore

Desiderato Agustín Daniel

Titolo

The Argentine Navy and the First World War, 1914-1928 : Defence and Maritime Interests / / by Agustín Daniel Desiderato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031676529

3031676521

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 pages)

Disciplina

940.32582

Soggetti

Military history

Latin America - History

International relations - History

World history

History, Modern

Military History

Latin American History

Diplomatic and International History

World History, Global and Transnational History

Modern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Men, Means, and Resources -- 3. Neutrality, Trade and Navigation -- 4. The Argentine Navy and the First World War -- 5. Staying neutral, but Close to the Allies -- 6. Post-war Lessons -- 7. The Modernisation of the Argentine Navy -- 8. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

Combining the social and cultural history of war, global and maritime history, this book examines the Argentine Navy during the First World War and in its immediate aftermath. Drawing from a wide range of primary sources, including naval publications, correspondence, memoirs and official documents, the book contributes to the institutional history of the Argentine Navy by outlining the contours of the Force at the beginning of the twentieth century—detailing its



organisation, resources and training—and its evolution over the decades. The author also explores the repercussions of World War I on the Argentine Navy, focusing on the circulation of ideas, knowledge and debates, and their appropriation and re-signification by this armed institution. It reconstructs the scenario of the Allied naval blockade and German submarine warfare— the main pillars of the economic war waged by the belligerents—and emphasises the difficulties and challenges they posed for Argentine trade, navigation and neutrality, as well as for the naval modernisation projects that the country undertook. Reflecting on the impact of the First World War on the Argentine Republic’s Navy between 1914 and 1928, this book is valuable reading for those researching maritime history, Argentine history and the socio-cultural history of warfare. Agustín Daniel Desiderato holds a PhD in History from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. He is a postdoctoral fellow of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) at the Institute of Argentine and American History Dr. Emilio Ravignani (UBA/CONICET), co-coordinator of the Group of Historical War Studies (GEHiGue) at that institute and Professor at the National Defense University (UNDEF). He has published in international journals such as War in History, The Mariner´s Mirror and The International Journal of Maritime History.