1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996388439503316

Autore

Cotton Charles <1630-1687.>

Titolo

Scarronnides, or, Virgile travestie [[electronic resource] ] : a mock-poem, on the first and fourth books of Virgil's Ænæis in English, burlesque

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by T.R. for Henry Brome ..., 1672

Edizione

[The eighth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

[2], 150 p

Soggetti

Burlesques

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0167



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962798003321

Titolo

Education in South Sudan : : status and challenges for a new system

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, , [2012]

copyright 2012

ISBN

9786613723307

9781280881992

1280881992

9780821388921

0821388924

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

pages cm

Collana

Africa human development series

Disciplina

370.9629

Soggetti

Education - South Sudan

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.

Nota di contenuto

Background and context -- Overall enrollment patterns -- Patterns of student flow -- Disparities in school participation -- Student learning and service delivery -- Education spending -- Teachers and teacher management in South Sudan -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

As part of the Country Status Report series, this book provides a comprehensive review of the status of education in post-conflict South Sudan. It is a result of collaborative work between MOE, key education stakeholders in South Sudan, and the World Bank. The aim is to contribute to the development of a shared vision for the future of the education system between government, citizens, and partners of the new South Sudan.With the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005 began the establishment of a new education system specifically for South Sudan. Primary school enrollments approx



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972353803321

Autore

Green Laurie Boush

Titolo

Battling the plantation mentality : Memphis and the Black freedom struggle / / Laurie B. Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

979-88-908741-0-8

0-8078-8887-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (430 p.)

Collana

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Disciplina

323.1196/0730768190904

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - Tennessee - Memphis - History - 20th century

African Americans - Segregation - Tennessee - Memphis - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - Tennessee - Memphis - History - 20th century

African Americans - Tennessee - Memphis - History - 20th century

Racism - Tennessee - Memphis - History - 20th century

Memphis (Tenn.) Race relations History 20th century

Memphis (Tenn.) History 20th century

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. 359-379) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the Delta -- Memphis before World War II: migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror -- Where would the Negro women apply for work?: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice -- Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault -- Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War -- Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere -- Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. Board of Education -- We were making history: students, sharecroppers, and sanitation workers in the Memphis freedom movement -- Battling the plantation mentality: from the Civil Rights Act to the sanitation strike.

Sommario/riassunto

African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation



and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Exploring the notion of ""freedom"" in postwar Memphis, Green demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing ""plantation mentality"" based on race, gender, and power that permeated southern culture long before--and even after--the ground