1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455200003321

Autore

DeLombard Jeannine Marie

Titolo

Slavery on trial [[electronic resource] ] : law, abolitionism, and print culture / / Jeannine Marie DeLombard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

1-4696-0579-1

0-8078-8773-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

Studies in legal history

Disciplina

342.7308/7

Soggetti

Slavery - Law and legislation - United States - History

Slavery - United States - History

Slavery in literature

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 (p. 277-307) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Banditti and Desperadoes, Incendiaries and Traitors; 1 The Typographical Tribunal; 2 Precarious Evidence: Sojourner Truth and the Matthias Scandal; Part II: At the Bar of Public Opinion; 3 Eyewitness to the Cruelty: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative; 4 Talking Lawyerlike about Law: Black Advocacy and My Bondage and My Freedom; 5 Representing the Slave: White Advocacy and Black Testimony in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred; 6 The South's Countersuit: William MacCreary Burwell's White Acre vs. Black Acre

Conclusion: All Done Brown at Last: Illustrating Harpers FerryNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. Jeannine Marie DeLombard examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal language to ""try"" the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media.



Discussing autobiographies by Frederick Douglass, a scandal narrative about Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist speech by Henry David Th

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996393300303316

Autore

Poole Matthew <1624-1679.>

Titolo

A dialogue between a popish priest and an English Protestant [[electronic resource] ] : Wherein the principal points and arguments of both religions are truly proposed and fully examined. / / By Matthew Poole .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by E. Cotes, and are to be sold by R. Smith ... S. Tomson ... F. Titan ... and H. Murdock ..., 1667

Descrizione fisica

[18], 232 p

Soggetti

Protestantism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910137202003321

Autore

Adrian Meule

Titolo

Food cravings / / topic editors: Adrian Meule and Boris C. Rodríguez Martín

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2015

Switzerland : , : Frontiers Media SA, , 2015

ISBN

9782889195176 (ebook)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (101 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Psychiatric Disorders, Individual

Psychiatry

Health & Biological Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Food cravings refer to an intense desire to consume specific foods and are predictive of over- or binge eating. Many studies have been performed in an attempt to assess, understand and control food cravings. The aim of this research topic is to present up-to-date information about food cravings from different perspectives.The expected themes are (but are not limited to):Assessment of food cravings.The role of food cravings in eating disorders, dieting, and obesity.Psychological mechanisms that underlie food cravings.Influence of food cravings on food choice.Relationship between food cravings and food addiction, wanting and liking.Self-control of food cravings.Interventions aimed at reducing food cravings.