1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461032303321

Titolo

Proving grounds : militarized landscapes, weapons testing, and the environmental impact of U.S. bases / / edited by Edwin A. Martini ; contributors, Yooil Bae [and nine others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, [Washington] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Washington Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-295-80594-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

355.70286

Soggetti

Military bases - United States - Environmental aspects

Military bases, American - Environmental aspects

Nuclear weapons - Testing - Environmental aspects

Electronic books.

United States Military policy Environmental aspects

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; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Bases, Places, and the Layered Landscapes of American Empire / Edwin A. Martini; 1. Defending the Nation, Protecting the Land: Emergency Powers and the Militarization of American Public Lands / Brandon C. Davis; 2. Weather, Otters, and Bombs: Policy Making, Environmental Science, and U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1945-1958 / Neil Oatsvall; 3. Incident at Galisteo: The 1955 Teapot Series and the Mental Landscape of Contamination / Leisl Carr Childers

4. ""This Is Really Bad Stuff Buried Here"": Agent Orange, Johnston Atoll, and the Rise of Military Environmentalism / Edwin A. Martini5. The War on Plants: Drug Control, Militarization, and the Rehabilitation of Herbicides in U.S. Foreign Policy from Operation Ranch Hand to Plan Colombia / Daniel Weimer; 6. Addressing Environmental Risks and Mobilizing Democracy?: Policy on Public Participation in U.S. Military Superfund Sites / Jennifer Liss Ohayon; 7. Reality Revealed: U.S. Military Bases, Environmental Impact, and Civil Society in South Korea / Heejin



Han and Yooil Bae

8. A Wildlife Insurgency: The Endangered Species Act, Citizen-Initiated Lawsuits, and the Department of Defense at the End of the Cold War / Katherine M. Keirns9. Restoration and Meaning on Former Military Lands in the United States / David G. Havlick; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973154503321

Autore

Bodroghkozy Aniko <1960->

Titolo

Equal time : television and the civil rights movement / / Aniko Bodroghkozy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012

ISBN

9780252093784

025209378X

9781283992503

1283992507

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

The history of communication

Disciplina

302.23089/96073

Soggetti

Television and politics - United States

Television broadcasting of news - Political aspects - United States

African Americans on television

Race relations on television

African Americans in television broadcasting - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century

Television broadcasting - United States - Influence

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. [253]-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Propaganda tool for racial progress? -- Network news in the civil rights years. The chosen instrument of the revolution? -- Fighting for equal time: segregationists vs. integrationists -- The March on Washington and a peek into racial utopia -- Selma in the "glaring light of television" -- Civil Rights in prime time entertainment. Bringing "urgent issues" to the vast wasteland: East side/West side -- Is



this what you mean by color tv?: Julia -- Prime time, Good times -- Epilogue: the return of civil rights television: the Obama victory.

Sommario/riassunto

This work explores the crucial role of network television in reconfiguring new attitudes in race relations during the civil rights movement. The book provides an analysis which makes us think about the relationship between the media and the civil rights movement.