1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911106496503321

Autore

Anderson Eugene Newton, Jr., <1941->

Titolo

Ecologies of the heart : emotion, belief, and the environment / / E.N. Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996

ISBN

0-19-756061-X

1-280-52747-1

0-19-535818-X

1-4294-1548-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 256 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

333.717

363.7

574.5

Soggetti

Environmental policy

Environmental protection

Human ecology

Environmental sciences - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-233) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Landscape with Figures; 2. Feng-shui: Ideology and Ecology; 3. Chinese Nutritional Therapy; 4. Learning from the Land Otter: Religious Representation of Traditional Resource Management; 5. Managing the Rainforest: Maya Agriculture in the Town of the Wild Plums; 6. Needs and Human Nature; 7. Information Processing: Rational and Irrational Transcended; 8. Culture: Ecology in a Wider Context; 9. In and Out of Institutions; 10. The Disenchanted: Religion as Ecological Control, and Its Modern Fate; 11. A Summary, and Some Suggestions; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Ecologies of the Heart, Anderson reveals how religion and other folk beliefs helped pre-industrial peoples control and protect their resources. He also presents a coherent view of long-term, sustainable policies for the environment.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911149018503321

Autore

Andrew Donna T. <1945->

Titolo

The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd : forgery and betrayal in eighteenth-century London / / Donna T. Andrew and Randall McGowen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001

ISBN

9780520923706

0520923707

9781597348058

1597348058

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 346 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

McGowenRandall <1948->

Disciplina

345.42/0263

Soggetti

Trials (Forgery) - England - London

Forgers - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-334) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. To The Hanging Tree -- Two. Alarming Crimes And Unsettling Stories -- Three. The Press And The Case -- Four. Passing Fair -- Five. Fashion And Its Discontents -- Six. Private Credit And Public Confidence -- Seven. Debating The Law -- Eight. Writing Her Life: Mrs. Rudd's Life Stories -- Nine. Mrs. Rudd On Trial -- Ten. "If Innocents Should Suffer" -- Eleven. Looking Back -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd tells the remarkable story of a complex forgery uncovered in London in 1775. Like the trials of Martin Guerre and O.J. Simpson, the Perreau-Rudd case-filled with scandal, deceit, and mystery-preoccupied a public hungry for sensationalism. Peopled with such familiar figures as John Wilkes, King George III, Lord Mansfield, and James Boswell, this story reveals the deep anxieties of this period of English capitalism. The case acts as a prism that reveals the hopes, fears, and prejudices of that society. Above all, this episode presents a parable of the 1770's, when London was the center of European finance and national politics, of fashionable life and tell-all journalism, of empire achieved and empire lost. The crime, a hanging



offense, came to light with the arrest of identical twin brothers, Robert and Daniel Perreau, after the former was detained trying to negotiate a forged bond. At their arraignment they both accused Daniel's mistress, Margaret Caroline Rudd, of being responsible for the crime. The brothers' trials coincided with the first reports of bloodshed in the American colonies at Lexington and Concord and successfully competed for space in the newspapers. From March until the following January, people could talk of little other than the fate of the Perreau's and the impending trial of Mrs. Rudd. The participants told wildly different tales and offered strikingly different portraits of themselves. The press was filled with letters from concerned or angry correspondents. The public, deeply divided over who was guilty, was troubled by evidence that suggested not only that fair might be foul, but that it might not be possible to decide which was which. While the decade of the 1770's has most frequently been studied in relation to imperial concerns and their impact upon the political institutions of the day, this book draws a different portrait of the period, making a cause célèbre its point of entry. Exhaustively researched and brilliantly presented, it offers both a vivid panorama of London and a gauge for tracking the shifting social currents of the period.