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UNISA996248157203316 |
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Wey Gómez Nicolás |
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The tropics of empire : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies / / Nicolás Wey Gómez |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxiv, 592 p. ) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; |
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Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology |
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Geography, Medieval |
Discoveries in geography |
Navigation - History |
America Discovery and exploration Spanish |
Tropics Geography |
Europe Intellectual life 15th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-568) and index. |
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Introduction : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies -- Machina mundi : the moral authority of place in the early transatlantic encounter -- Columbus and the open geography of the ancients -- The meaning of India in pre-Columbian Europe -- From place to colonialism in the Aristotelian tradition -- En la parte del sol : Iberia's invention of the Afro-Indian tropics, 1434-1494 -- Between Cathay and a hot place : reorienting the Asia-America debate -- The tropics of empire in Columbus's Diario. |
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UNINA9910973346603321 |
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Autore |
Ang Ien |
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Desperately seeking the audience / / Ien Ang |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991 |
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9786610478323 |
041505270x |
9781134940417 |
1134940416 |
9781134940424 |
1134940424 |
9781280478321 |
1280478322 |
9780203133347 |
020313334X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (185 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Television viewers - United States |
Television viewers - Europe |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-199) and index. |
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Institutional knowledge: the need to control; 2 Audience-as-market and audience-as-public; 3 Television audience as taxonomic collective; 4 The limits of discursive control; 5 Commercial knowledge: measuring the audience; 6 In search of the audience commodity; 7 Streamlining 'television audience'; 8 The streamlined audience disrupted: impact of the new technologies; 9 The people meter 'solution'; 10 Revolt of the viewer? The elusive audience |
11 Normative knowledge: the breakdown of the public service ideal12 Britain: the BBC and the loss of the disciplined audience; 13 Netherlands: VARA and the loss of the natural audience; 14 Repairing the loss: the desire for audience information; Conclusions: Understanding television audiencehood; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Millions of people all over the world are avid members of the television audience. Yet, despite the central place television occupies in contemporary culture, our understanding of its complex and dynamic role in everyday life remains surprisingly limited. Focusing on the television audience, Ien Ang asks why we understand so little about its nature, and argues that our ignorance arises directly out of the biases inherent in prevailing official knowledge about it. She sets out to deconstruct the assumptions of this official knowledge by exploring the territory where it is mainly produced - the |
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