The case and trial of Capt. Robert Norwood, now prisoner in New-gate [[electronic resource]] : truely and impartially stated, and published for satisfaction of my allied friends, and very many others desirous thereof. Together with some observations upon the law and its professors, very worthy a most serious consideration. Both which, (with a brief answer, by way of postscript, to a secret calumny charged upon me) are here presented to the view and judgement of the whole nation: which, if duly considered, with the shrot [sic] discourse annexed, will clearly discover where England's death and life lies

• Record Nr.: UNISA996390774303316
• Autore: Norwood Robert, Captain
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [London, : s.n., 1652]
• Descrizione fisica: 24 p
• Soggetti: Trials (Heresy) - England
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Signed at end: Robert Norwood.; Caption title.; Imprint from Wing.; Item at 1304:15 identified as Wing C851; number cancelled in Wing (2nd ed.).; Reproductions of the originals in the Harvard University Library and the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0216

Disarmo : tre anni di negoziati : 1955-1958

• Record Nr.: UNISANNIOSBL0495483
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Roma, : United States information service, 1958
• Descrizione fisica: 105 p. ; 19 cm.
• Disciplina: 341.73
• Soggetti: Disarmo - 1955-1958; Disarmo - Conferenze internazionali
• Collocazione: V (S) 000 722
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Ain't I a beauty queen? : black women, beauty, and the politics of race / / Maxine Leeds Craig

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972720603321
• Autore: Craig Maxine Leeds
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0-19-988167-7; 1-60256-671-2; 1-280-65529-1; 0-19-515262-X; 0-19-803255-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48/896/073
• Soggetti: Beauty contests - Social aspects - United States; African American women - Social conditions; African Americans - Race identity; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) - United States; Civil rights movements - United States
• 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. [187]-193) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; ONE: Ridicule and Celebration: Black Women as Symbols in the Rearticulation of Race; TWO: Contexts for the Emergence of "Black Is Beautiful,""; THREE: Ain't I a Beauty Queen? Representing the Ideal Black Woman; FOUR: Standing (in Heels) for My People; FIVE: How Black Became Popular: Social Movements and Racial Rearticulation; SIX: Yvonne's Wig: Gender and the Racialized Body; SEVEN: Pride and Shame: Black Women as Symbols of the "Middle Class,"; EIGHT: The Appearance of Unity; NINE: An Ongoing Dialogue; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Black is Beautiful! The words were the exuberant rallying cry of a generation of black women who threw away their straightening combs and adopted a proud new style they called the Afro. The Afro, as worn most famously by Angela Davis, became a veritable icon of the Sixties. Although the new beauty standards seemed to arise overnight, they actually had deep roots within black communities. Tracing her story to 1891, when a black newspaper launched a contest to find the most beautiful woman of the race, Maxine Leeds Craig documents how black women have negotiated the intersection of race, class,