1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996395990703316

Titolo

By the King. A proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of flesh in Lent, or on fish dayes [[electronic resource] ] : appointed by the law, to bee heereafter strictly obserued by all sorts of people

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprinted at London, : yy Bonham Norton, and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, M.DC. XXII [1622, i.e. 1623]

Descrizione fisica

3 sheets (versos blank)

Altri autori (Persone)

James, King of England,  <1566-1625.>

Soggetti

Meat industry and trade - Law and legislation - Great Britain

Lent - Law and legislation

Fasting - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Caption title.

Dated at end: Whitehall the thirtieth day of Ianuary, in the twentieth yeere of our reigne ... .

Imprint from colophon.

The year date is according to Lady Day dating.

In this edition sheet 1 has last indented line to right of the initial beginning "times", and arms with initials "IR" at top (arms 14).

Steele notation: England, times 2)Inhol- 3)re pu-; Arms 14.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967869103321

Autore

Terretta Meredith

Titolo

Petitioning for our rights, fighting for our nation : the history of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960 / / Meredith Terretta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Langaa RPCIG, 2013

ISBN

9956-728-18-7

9956-728-55-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Soggetti

Cameroon - Politics and government

Women - Political activity

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. 145-157).

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Cameroonian Women and the Writing of Popular Nationalism -- Ruben Um Nyobe and the Multi-Layered Origins of the UPC and UDEFEC -- UDEFEC's Political Awakening -- The Official Ban of the Nationalist Movement, and Reorganization in the Maquis -- City to Village: The Rejection of the Colonial Curse -- Conclusion : Towards a Nation of Outsiders -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

Thousands of Cameroonian women played an essential role in the radically anti-colonial nationalist movement led by the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC): they were the women of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women (UDEFEC). Drawing on women nationalistsí petitions to the United Nations, one of the largest collections of political documents written by African women during the decolonization era, as well as archival research and oral interviews, this work shows how UDEFEC transcended ethnic, class, education and social divides, and popularized nationalism in both urban and rural