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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466099603321

Autore

Goodman David S. G.

Titolo

Social and political change in revolutionary China : the Taihang Base area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945 / / David S.G. Goodman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

1-4616-4338-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (379 p.)

Collana

World social change

Disciplina

303.4/0951

Soggetti

Social change - China - Taihang Mountains

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945

Electronic books.

Taihang Mountains (China) Social conditions

Taihang Mountains (China) Politics and government

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 (pages 275-330) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Social And Political Change In Revolutionary China ; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Chronology: The Taihang Base Area, 1937-1945 ; Maps; Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region, 1945; Liaoxian (Zuoquan) County; Wuxiang County; Licheng County; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Revolutionary Process; PART I: POLITICAL ORDER; 1. Base Area and Border Region; 2. Liaoxian: The Administrative Center; 3. Wuxiang: Military Affairs and Mobilization; 4. Licheng: Food and Factories; PART II: SOCIAL REFORM; 5. The Revolutionary Imperative; 6. Liaoxian: Land and Social Reform

7. Wuxiang: Radical Politics and Revolutionary Conflict8. Licheng: Resistance and Rebellion; Conclusion: Revolution in Southeast Shanxi; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This history provides the first book-length study and the first county-level analysis of social and political change in the Taihang Base Area during the key years of the War of Resistance to Japan. David S. G. Goodman explores revolution as process, arguing that the CCP was successful because of its management of revolutionary incrementalism.



In particular, he examines the roles and interactions of urban intellectuals, teachers, and peasant small-holders as agents of change. Based on newly available documents and interviews, this meticulously researched work deepens our understanding of the so

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462856203321

Autore

Tormey Jane

Titolo

Cities and photography / / Jane Tormey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-86285-6

1-283-97238-7

1-135-19035-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Routledge critical introductions to urbanism and the city

Disciplina

778.9/4

Soggetti

Street photography

City and town life

Photography - Social aspects

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

Contexts introduction chapter -- Cities and urbanism -- Photography concepts -- Photography and/in/of the city -- The documented city -- Walking the city -- Social and political practices -- The metaphorical city -- Postmodern megalopolis -- City and subject -- Pyschogeographies and the city.

Sommario/riassunto

Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different disciplines: across the social sciences and humanities, photography and fine art.This text offers different perspectives from which to view social, political and cultural ideas about the city and urbanism, through both verbal discussion and



photographic representation.

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Record Nr.

UNISA996392274503316

Autore

Lilly William <1602-1681.>

Titolo

Annus tenebrosus, or The dark year [[electronic resource] ] : Or astrologicall iudgements upon two lunar eclipses, and one admirable eclips of the sun, all visible in England, 1652. Together with a short method how to judge the effects of eclipses. / / By William Lilly, student in astrologie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for the Company of Stationers, and H. Blunden at the Castle in Corn-hill, 1652

Descrizione fisica

[16], 63, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts)

Soggetti

Lunar eclipses - 1652

Solar eclipses - 1652

Astrology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Catamite, and" inserted with a caret between 'Lilly,' and 'student'; "march 22 1651"; and the last number of the date has been marked through.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018