1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248290203316

Autore

Gille Zsuzsa

Titolo

From the cult of waste to the trash heap of history [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of waste in socialist and postsocialist Hungary / / Zsuzsa Gille

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-07837-2

9786612078378

0-253-11692-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/6

Soggetti

Environmental policy - Hungary

Refuse and refuse disposal - Social aspects - Hungary

Post-communism - Hungary

Electronic books.

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

Was state socialism wasteful? -- Toward a social theory of waste -- Discipline and recycle (1948-1974) -- Metallic socialism -- The primitive accumulation of waste in metallic socialism -- Reform and reduce (1975-1984) -- The efficiency model -- The limits of efficiency -- Privatize and incinerate (1985-present) -- The chemical model -- "Building a castle out of shit": the wastelands of the new Europe -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Zsuzsa Gille combines social history, cultural analysis, and                environmental sociology to advance a long overdue social theory of waste in this                study of waste management, Hungarian state socialism, and post--Cold War capitalism.                From 1948 to the end of the Soviet period, Hungary developed a cult of waste that                valued reuse and recycling. With privatization the old environmentally beneficial,                though not flawless, waste regime was eliminated, and dumping and waste incineration                were again promoted. Gille's a



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248083003316

Autore

Herlihy David

Titolo

Pisa in the early Renaissance; : a study of urban growth [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Port Washington, N.Y., : Kennikat Press, [1973, c1958]

ISBN

0-8046-1698-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 229 p.)

Disciplina

309.1/45/55

Soggetti

Pisa (Italy) Economic conditions

Pisa (Italy) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Original ed. issued as no. 68 of Yale historical publications. Miscellany.

"This book grew out of a dissertation written at Yale University."

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 215-221.