Class acts [[electronic resource] ] : service and inequality in luxury hotels / / Rachel Sherman |
Autore | Sherman Rachel <1970-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
Disciplina | 647.94068 |
Soggetto topico |
Hospitality industry - Customer services - United States
Hotels - United States - Management Luxuries - Social aspects - United States Social classes - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
america
behind the scenes bellperson class differences concierge consumer society cultural studies demographic study economic inequality ethnographers ethnographic research hotel jobs hotel managers hotel staff hotel workers housekeepers luxury consumption luxury hotels luxury service nonfiction study nonfiction service industry social inequality social relationships united states urban hotels wealthy guests workplace |
ISBN |
0-520-93960-3
1-281-75250-9 9786611752507 1-4337-0002-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Luxury Service And The New Economy -- 1. "Better Than Your Mother": The Luxury Product -- 2. Managing Autonomy -- 3. Games, Control, And Skill -- 4. Recasting Hierarchy -- 5. Reciprocity, Relationship, And Revenge -- 6. Producing Entitlement -- Conclusion: Class, Culture, And The Service Theater -- Appendix A: Methods -- Appendix B: Hotel Organization -- Appendix C: Jobs, Wages, And Nonmanagerial Workers In Each Hotel: 2000-2001 -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827298003321 |
Sherman Rachel <1970->
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Cold War orientalism [[electronic resource] ] : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / / Christina Klein |
Autore | Klein Christina <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (574 p.) |
Disciplina | 950.4/24 |
Soggetto topico |
Orientalism - United States - History - 20th century
Public opinion - United States Asians in mass media Cold War - Social aspects - United States Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
america american history americans in asia artists asia asian history cold war era cold war cultural historians cultural history cultural studies global power struggles globalization historians intellectuals international relations middlebrow nonfiction orientalism orientalist culture pacific islands policy makers political history political policies postwar period public opinion soviet union textbooks us expansion world history writers |
ISBN |
0-520-93625-6
1-283-42257-3 1-59734-548-2 9786613422576 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration -- Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment -- How to be an American abroad : James Michener's The voice of Asia, and postwar mass tourism -- Family ties as political obligation : Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the discourse of adoption -- Musicals and modernization : The king and I -- Asians in America : Flower drum song and Hawaii. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777389903321 |
Klein Christina <1963->
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Cold War orientalism [[electronic resource] ] : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / / Christina Klein |
Autore | Klein Christina <1963-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (574 p.) |
Disciplina | 950.4/24 |
Soggetto topico |
Orientalism - United States - History - 20th century
Public opinion - United States Asians in mass media Cold War - Social aspects - United States Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
america american history americans in asia artists asia asian history cold war era cold war cultural historians cultural history cultural studies global power struggles globalization historians intellectuals international relations middlebrow nonfiction orientalism orientalist culture pacific islands policy makers political history political policies postwar period public opinion soviet union textbooks us expansion world history writers |
ISBN |
0-520-93625-6
1-283-42257-3 1-59734-548-2 9786613422576 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration -- Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment -- How to be an American abroad : James Michener's The voice of Asia, and postwar mass tourism -- Family ties as political obligation : Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the discourse of adoption -- Musicals and modernization : The king and I -- Asians in America : Flower drum song and Hawaii. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809386303321 |
Klein Christina <1963->
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Cultural moves [[electronic resource] ] : African Americans and the politics of representation / / Herman S. Gray |
Autore | Gray Herman <1950-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.45/652996073 |
Collana | American crossroads |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans on television
African Americans - Music - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
african american culture
african americans america american politics black americans black artists black culture black musical tradition black musicians black political power black scholars collection of essays cultural history cultural identity cultural visibility legitimacy lincoln center nonfiction essays politics of representation popular culture social change social inclusion sociology united states wynton marsalis |
ISBN |
1-282-35786-7
9786612357862 0-520-93787-2 1-59734-561-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The New Conditions Of Black Cultural Production -- 2. Jazz Tradition, Institutional Formation, And Cultural Practice -- 3. The Jazz Left -- 4. Where Have All The Black Shows Gone? -- 5. Television And The Politics Of Difference -- 6. Different Dreams, Dreams Of Difference -- 7. Cultural Politics As Outrage(Ous) -- 8. Is (Cyber) Space The Place? -- 9. Music, Identity, And New Technology -- Conclusion: Cultural Moves -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783317103321 |
Gray Herman <1950->
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Cultural moves [[electronic resource] ] : African Americans and the politics of representation / / Herman S. Gray |
Autore | Gray Herman <1950-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.45/652996073 |
Collana | American crossroads |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans on television
African Americans - Music - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
african american culture
african americans america american politics black americans black artists black culture black musical tradition black musicians black political power black scholars collection of essays cultural history cultural identity cultural visibility legitimacy lincoln center nonfiction essays politics of representation popular culture social change social inclusion sociology united states wynton marsalis |
ISBN |
1-282-35786-7
9786612357862 0-520-93787-2 1-59734-561-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The New Conditions Of Black Cultural Production -- 2. Jazz Tradition, Institutional Formation, And Cultural Practice -- 3. The Jazz Left -- 4. Where Have All The Black Shows Gone? -- 5. Television And The Politics Of Difference -- 6. Different Dreams, Dreams Of Difference -- 7. Cultural Politics As Outrage(Ous) -- 8. Is (Cyber) Space The Place? -- 9. Music, Identity, And New Technology -- Conclusion: Cultural Moves -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813981403321 |
Gray Herman <1950->
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Divided by Borders : Mexican Migrants and Their Children / / Joanna Dreby |
Autore | Dreby Joanna |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.874 |
Soggetto topico |
Emigrant remittances - Mexico
Emigrant remittances -- Mexico Households - Mexico Households -- Mexico Marital conflict Marital conflict -- Case studies Mexicans - Family relationships - United States Mexicans -- Family relationships --United States -- Case studies Mexico - Emigration and immigration Mexico -- Emigration and immigration Parent and child Parent and child -- Case studies Immigration & Emigration Political Science Law, Politics & Government |
Soggetto non controllato |
america
american border children of migrants discussion books divided families economics emigration immigration family issues family ties family global economy immigrants and immigration immigration and immigrants mexican children mexican families mexican migrants mexicans mexico migrant parents migrant workers overcoming adversity parents and children parents sacrifices relocation social science thought provoking transnational families united states |
ISBN |
1-282-42231-6
9786612422317 0-520-94583-2 |
Classificazione | MS 3600 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Families -- Acknowledgments/Agradecimientos -- 1. Sacrifice -- 2. Ofelia and Germán Cruz: Migrant Time versus Child Time -- 3. Gender and Parenting from Afar -- 4. Armando López on Fatherhood -- 5. Children and Power during Separation -- 6. Middlewomen -- 7. Cindy Rodríguez between Two Worlds -- 8. Divided by Borders -- Appendix A: Research Design -- Appendix B: Family Descriptions -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781095903321 |
Dreby Joanna
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Divided by Borders : Mexican Migrants and Their Children / / Joanna Dreby |
Autore | Dreby Joanna |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.874 |
Soggetto topico |
Emigrant remittances - Mexico
Emigrant remittances -- Mexico Households - Mexico Households -- Mexico Marital conflict Marital conflict -- Case studies Mexicans - Family relationships - United States Mexicans -- Family relationships --United States -- Case studies Mexico - Emigration and immigration Mexico -- Emigration and immigration Parent and child Parent and child -- Case studies Immigration & Emigration Political Science Law, Politics & Government |
Soggetto non controllato |
america
american border children of migrants discussion books divided families economics emigration immigration family issues family ties family global economy immigrants and immigration immigration and immigrants mexican children mexican families mexican migrants mexicans mexico migrant parents migrant workers overcoming adversity parents and children parents sacrifices relocation social science thought provoking transnational families united states |
ISBN |
1-282-42231-6
9786612422317 0-520-94583-2 |
Classificazione | MS 3600 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Families -- Acknowledgments/Agradecimientos -- 1. Sacrifice -- 2. Ofelia and Germán Cruz: Migrant Time versus Child Time -- 3. Gender and Parenting from Afar -- 4. Armando López on Fatherhood -- 5. Children and Power during Separation -- 6. Middlewomen -- 7. Cindy Rodríguez between Two Worlds -- 8. Divided by Borders -- Appendix A: Research Design -- Appendix B: Family Descriptions -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814158303321 |
Dreby Joanna
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The Divo and the Duce : Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America / / Giorgio Bertellini |
Autore | Bertellini Giorgio |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 305.52 |
Collana | Cinema Cultures in Contact |
Soggetto topico |
Celebrities in mass media
Communication in politics Mass media and publicity Motion picture industry - United States - History - 20th century Publicity - United States - History - 20th century PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
ambassadors
america american climate authoritarian benito mussolini charismatic masculinity consumerism democratic celebrations democratic expansion of civil rights dictator isolationism italian born star italy jazz age journalists male power nativism political popularity post world war 1. public opinion publicists rodolfo valentino united states |
ISBN | 0-520-30136-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Nothing Like Going to an Authority!" -- Part One. Power and Persuasion -- Part Two. The Divo, or the Governance of Romance -- Part Three. The Duce, or the Romance of Undemocratic Governing -- Conclusions -- Archival Sources -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Primary Sources -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910311930003321 |
Bertellini Giorgio
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The Divo and the Duce : Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America / / Giorgio Bertellini |
Autore | Bertellini Giorgio |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 305.52 |
Collana | Cinema Cultures in Contact |
Soggetto topico |
Celebrities in mass media
Communication in politics Mass media and publicity Motion picture industry - United States - History - 20th century Publicity - United States - History - 20th century PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
ambassadors
america american climate authoritarian benito mussolini charismatic masculinity consumerism democratic celebrations democratic expansion of civil rights dictator isolationism italian born star italy jazz age journalists male power nativism political popularity post world war 1. public opinion publicists rodolfo valentino united states |
ISBN | 0-520-30136-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Nothing Like Going to an Authority!" -- Part One. Power and Persuasion -- Part Two. The Divo, or the Governance of Romance -- Part Three. The Duce, or the Romance of Undemocratic Governing -- Conclusions -- Archival Sources -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Primary Sources -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996312640203316 |
Bertellini Giorgio
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Empire and revolution [[electronic resource] ] : the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War / / John Mason Hart |
Autore | Hart John M (John Mason), <1935-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (722 p.) |
Disciplina | 972/.00413 |
Soggetto topico |
Americans - Mexico - History
Investments, American - Mexico - History Nationalism - Mexico - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
america
american attitudes american dream banking industry civil war corruption economic growth expansion global empire globalization historians historical analysis historical perspective historiography international relations manifest destiny mexican revolution mexico mining nafta national infrastructure natural resources nonfiction oil industry railroad revolution revolutionaries social connections textbooks united states us expansion war |
ISBN |
0-520-90077-4
1-282-35825-1 9786612358258 0-520-93929-8 1-59734-593-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Imperial Ambition -- 1. Arms And Capital -- 2. Rival Concessionaires -- 3. Ubiquitous Financiers -- 4. Building The Railroads -- 5. Silver, Copper, Gold, And Oil -- 6. Absentee Landlords -- 7. Resident American Elite -- 8. Boomers, Sooners, And Settlers -- 9. Mexico For The Mexicans -- 10. Interventions And Firestorms -- 11. Crisis In The New Regime -- 12. Nationalization Of Land And Industry -- 13. Cooperation And Accommodation -- 14. Return Of The American Financiers -- 15. Mexico In The New World Order -- Conclusion: Imperial America -- Endpiece -- Appendix 1. Partial List Of American Landholdings And Ownership In Mexico, 100,000 Acres And More, 1910-1913 -- Appendix 2. Partial List Of American Properties Of More Than 100,000 Acres Or Of Special Significance, Derived Via Government Portions Of Land Surveys Or From The Land Survey Companies, 1876-1910 -- Appendix 3. American Banking Syndicates Formed To Render Financial Support To Britain And Her Allies During World War I, September 1914-April 1917 -- Notes On Archival Sources -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780375203321 |
Hart John M (John Mason), <1935->
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