Autore	Schweik Susan M (Susan Marie), <1956->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : New York University, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (446 p.)
Disciplina	346.7301/3
Collana	The history of disability
Soggetto topico	People with disabilities - Legal status, laws, etc - United States - History Beggars - Legal status, laws, etc - United States - History Discrimination against people with disabilities - Law and legislation - United States - History People with disabilities - United States - History Beggars - United States - History
Soggetto non controllato	Americas chapter hard history look ugly
ISBN	0-8147-0887-0 0-8147-4088-X 1-4416-2291-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Producing the unsightly -- Getting ugly -- The law in context -- The law in language -- Dissimulations -- Gender, sexuality, and the ugly law -- Immigration, ethnicity, and the ugly law -- Race, segregation, and the ugly law -- The right to the city -- Rehabilitating the unsightly -- All about ugly laws (for ten cents).
Record Nr.	UNISA-996582044803316

Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : New York University Press, c2001
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (270 p.)
Disciplina	344.73/0798
Altri autori (Persone)	BalkinJ. M AckermanBruce A
Soggetto topico	Segregation in education - Law and legislation - United States - History Discrimination in education - Law and legislation - United States - History
Soggetto non controllato	Americas case changed country court esteemed legal most that voices weigh
ISBN	0-8147-2304-7 0-585-43470-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Brown as Icon -- 2 The History of the Brown Litigation -- 3 Rewriting Brown: A Guide to the Opinions -- Jack M. Balkin (judgment of the Court) -- Drew S. Days III (concurring) -- Bruce Ackerman (concurring) -- Frank I. Michelman (concurring in part and concurring in the judgment) -- John Hart Ely (concurring in the judgment except as to the remedy) -- Catharine A. MacKinnon (concurring in the judgment) -- Michael W. McConnell (concurring in the judgment) -- Cass R. Sunstein (concurring in the judgment) -- Derrick A. Bell (dissenting) -- Comments from the Contributors -- Appendix A: The Supreme Court’s Original Opinions in Brown I, Bolling, and Brown II -- Appendix B: The Constitution of the United States of America: Selected Provisions -- Brown v. Board of Education: A Selected Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910780028003321

Autore	Knight Frederick C
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : New York University Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (242 p.)
Disciplina	331.11/7340970903
Collana	Culture, Labor, History
Soggetto topico	Slave labor - America - History Agricultural laborers - America - History Africans - America - History Black people - America - History Agriculture - America - History African diaspora
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato	Africans Americas Atlantic Broad Diaspora Working about alter center challenges clearly conceptual course current debates development frameworks labor looking plantation readers scholarly scope shaped significant slave their them through trade ways who workers written
ISBN	0-8147-4834-1 0-8147-4912-7 1-4416-3663-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Material Life in West and West Central Africa, 1650−1800 -- 2 Seeds of Change -- 3 Cultivating Knowledge -- 4 In an Ocean of Blue -- 5 Slave Artisans -- 6 Natural Worship -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456561003321

Autore	Delmas Adrien
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cape Town, : UCT Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xxxi, 364 p. ) : ill. ;
Altri autori (Persone)	DelmasAdrien PennNigel
Soggetto topico	Written communication - Africa - History Written communication - America - History Communication and culture - Africa - History Communication and culture - America - History Cultural relations - History Written communication - History - Africa Written communication - History - America Communication and culture - History - Africa Communication and culture - History - America Languages & Literatures Philology & Linguistics
Soggetto non controllato	History written culture colonial expansion 16th to 19th centuries missionaries settlers cultural exchange analphabetical cultures Africa Americas Dutch East India Company Khoikhoi
ISBN	1-920499-16-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: The written word and the world / Adrien Delmas -- Rock art, scripts and proto-scripts in Africa: the Libyco-Berber example / Jean-Loïc Le Quellec -- From pictures to letters: the early steps in the Mexican tlahcuilo's alphabetisation process during the 16th century / Patrick Johansson -- Edmond R. Smith's writing lesson: archive and representation in 19th century Araucanía / André Menard -- Missionary knowledge in context: geographical knowledge of Ethiopia in dialogue during the 16th and 17th centuries / Hervé Pennec ; translated from the French by Sarah Townsend -- From travelling to history: an outline of the VOC writing system during the 17th century / Adrien Delmas ; translated from the French by Christine Bull -- Towards an archaeology of globalisation: readings and writings of Tommaso Campanella on a theological-political empire between the Old and the New worlds (16th-17th centuries) / Fabián Javier Ludueña Romandini -- Charlevoix and the American savage: the 18th-century traveller as moralist / David J. Culpin -- Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: from travel writing to Kolb's 'full description' / Nigel Penn -- Nothing new under the sun: anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1800-1910 / Peter Merrington -- Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th century / Julio Esteban Vezub -- To my dear minister: official letters of African Wesleyan evangelists in the late 19th-century Transvaal / Lize Kriel -- Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: documents and practices across spaces and social economics / Mastin Prinsloo -- The 'painting' of black history: the Afro-Cuban codex of José Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812) / Jorge Pavez Ojeda -- On not spreading the Word: ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century / Gerald Groenewald -- Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American culture / José Emilio Burucúa.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910213858503321