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UNINA9910461032303321 |
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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] |
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Seattle, [Washington] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Washington Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Military bases - United States - Environmental aspects |
Military bases, American - Environmental aspects |
Nuclear weapons - Testing - Environmental aspects |
Electronic books. |
United States Military policy Environmental aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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UNINA9910973154503321 |
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Autore |
Bodroghkozy Aniko <1960-> |
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Equal time : television and the civil rights movement / / Aniko Bodroghkozy |
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Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012 |
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9780252093784 |
025209378X |
9781283992503 |
1283992507 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (282 p.) |
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The history of communication |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-258) and index. |
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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 |
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this what you mean by color tv?: Julia -- Prime time, Good times -- Epilogue: the return of civil rights television: the Obama victory. |
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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. |
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