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UNINA9911104496203321 |
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Autore |
McGarry Molly |
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Titolo |
Ghosts of futures past : spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America / / Molly McGarry |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 |
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9786612359309 |
9781282359307 |
1282359304 |
9780520934061 |
0520934067 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (285 p.) |
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Spiritualism - United States - History - 19th century |
Religion and culture - United States - History - 19th century |
United States Religion 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--P. facing t.p. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Mourning, media, and the cultural politics of conjuring the dead -- Indian guides : haunted subjects and the politics of vanishing -- Spectral sexualities : free love, moral panic, and the making of U.S. obscenity law -- Mediomania : the spirit of science in a culture of belief and doubt -- Secular subjects : a queer genealogy of untimely sexualities. |
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Ghosts of Futures Past guides readers through the uncanny world of nineteenth-century American spiritualism. More than an occult parlor game, this was a new religion, which channeled the voices of the dead, linked present with past, and conjured new worldly and otherworldly futures. Tracing the persistence of magic in an emergent culture of secularism, Molly McGarry brings a once marginalized practice to the center of American cultural history. Spiritualism provided an alchemical combination of science and magic that called into question the very categories of male and female, material and immaterial, self and other, living and dead. Dissolving the boundaries between them opened Spiritualist practitioners to other voices and, in turn, allowed them to |
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imagine new social worlds and forge diverse political affinities. |
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UNINA9911095984003321 |
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Autore |
Hernández-León Rubén |
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Titolo |
Metropolitan migrants : the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States / / Ruben Hernandez-Leon |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
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9786612360732 |
9781282360730 |
1282360736 |
9780520942462 |
0520942469 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Mexicans - United States |
Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Mexico - Monterrey |
Mexicans - Texas - Houston |
United States Emigration and immigration Economic aspects Case studies |
Monterrey (Mexico) Economic conditions |
Monterrey (Mexico) Emigration and immigration |
Houston (Tex.) Emigration and immigration |
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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 (p. 225-245) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Maps of Monterrey and Houston -- Chapter 1. The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States -- Chapter 2. Urban-Industrial Development in Mexico, 1940-2005 -- Chapter 3. Restructuring and International Migration in a Mexican Urban Neighborhood -- Chapter 4. The Monterrey-Houston Connection -- Chapter 5. The Migration Industry in the Monterrey-Houston Connection -- Chapter 6. Metropolitan Migrants -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- |
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Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon-the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year, on-the-ground study of one working-class neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico's industrial powerhouse and third-largest city, Metropolitan Migrants explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the industrial modernization of the past three decades have pushed a new flow of migrants toward cities such as Houston, Texas, the global capital of the oil industry. Weaving together rich details of everyday life with a lucid analysis of Mexico's political economy, Rubén Hernández-León deftly traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class, from the national level to the kitchen table. |
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