Autore	Montgomery David R. <1961->
Edizione	[New ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (305 p.)
Disciplina	631.4/9 631.49
Soggetto topico	Soil science - History Soils Soil erosion
Soggetto non controllato	agrarian society agricultural american push westward ancient greece anthropologist anthropology archaeologists archaeology central america china colonialism cultural and historical context european colonialism geographer geography geologist geology history of importance of dirt mesopotamia protective vegetation roman empire running out of dirt
ISBN	1-280-49201-5 9786613587244 0-520-95211-1 9780520258068
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Good Old Dirt -- 2. Skin of the Earth -- 3. Rivers of Life -- 4. Graveyard of Empires -- 5. Let Them Eat Colonies -- 6. Westward Hoe -- 7. Dust Blow -- 8. Dirty Business -- 9. Islands in Time -- 10. Life Span of Civilization -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910790282503321

Autore	Theiss Janet M. <1964->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (299 p.)
Disciplina	176/.0951
Soggetto topico	Chastity Women - China - Social conditions
Soggetto non controllato	18th century adultery chastity cult chastity shrines chastity china chinese history chinese women criminals domestic violence domesticity female chastity female sexuality female virtue femininity feminist law feminist theory gender roles gender studies gender hagiography imperial china imperialism innocent justice system laws legal cases legal system politics purity qing rape sexual assault sexual harassment sexual morality sexual virtue suicide widows women and the law women womens studies
ISBN	0-520-93066-5 1-59734-581-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction -- PART ONE: The Chastening State: The Qing Chastity Cult in Ritual, Law, and Statecraft -- Prologue: A Chaste Barbarian Martyrs Herself on the Imperial Frontier -- 1. Defining Gender Orthodoxy for a Multiethnic Empire -- 2. Statecraft and Gender Order in the Qianlong Reign -- PART TWO: Female Virtue and the Politics of Patriarchy -- Prologue: A Righteous Husband Plays the Politics of the Wifely Way -- 3. Enforcing Gender Order: Between the Ancestral Hall and the Yamen -- 4. Divided Loyalties: Natal Families and the Exercise of Patrilineal Authority -- 5. Adultery, Incest and the Multiple Meanings of Patriarchy -- PART THREE: Mapping Chastity across Boundaries of Body, Mind, and Space -- Prologue: A Compromised Widow Sacrifices Her Body to Defend Inner Virtue -- 6. The Wages of Wanton Mixing: Violation and Gender Disorder -- 7. "Accommodating Sages": Gender Separation in Social Practice -- PART FOUR: "Being a Person": Female Humiliation and Social Power -- Prologue: Male Impropriety and Female Outrage Lead to a Tragic End -- 8. The Problem of Female Moral Agency -- 9. The Logic of Female Suicide -- Epilogue
Altri titoli varianti	Politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China Chastity in 18th century China
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910783316403321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (313 p.)
Disciplina	939/.6
Altri autori (Persone)	BrantinghamP. Jeffrey <1970-> KuhnSteven L. <1956-> KerryKristopher W. <1970->
Soggetto topico	Paleolithic period - Europe, Eastern Paleolithic period - Asia, Central Tools, Prehistoric - Europe, Eastern Tools, Prehistoric - Asia, Central
Soggetto non controllato	adaptation anthropology antiquities archaeology aurignacian upper paleolithic aurignacian biological anthropology blades caucasus central asia china danube dzudzuana eastern asia eastern europe evolution fossil record fossils georgia gobi desert human behavior interpleniglacial karasu koulichivka levant makarovo modern humans mongolia mousterian middle paleolithic nonfiction paleolithic prehistoric tools russia shuidonggou siberia ucagizh cave upper paleolithic wadi al hasa
ISBN	9786612357169 0-520-93009-6 1-282-35716-6 1-59734-585-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- 1. On the Difficulty of the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transitions -- 2. Early Upper Paleolithic Backed Blade Industries in Central and Eastern Europe -- 3. Continuities, Discontinuities, and Interactions in Early Upper Paleolithic Technologies: A View from the Middle Danube -- 4. Koulichivka and Its Place in the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition in Eastern Europe -- 5. Origins of the European Upper Paleolithic, Seen from Crimea: Simple Myth or Complex Reality? -- 6. The Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic on the Russian Plain -- 7. Emergence of the Levantine Upper Paleolithic: Evidence from the Wadi al-Hasa -- 8. New Perspectives on the Initial Upper Paleolithic: The View from Üçaǧizh Cave, Turkey -- 9. The Upper Paleolithic in Western Georgia -- 10. The Aurignacian in Asia -- 11. The Middle-Upper Paleolithic Interface in Former Soviet Central Asia -- 12. The Early Upper Paleolithic of Siberia -- 13. Origin of the Upper Paleolithic in Siberia: A Geoarchaeological Perspective -- 14. Initial Upper Paleolithic Blade Industries from the North-Central Gobi Desert, Mongolia -- 15. The Initial Upper Paleolithic at Shuidonggou, Northwestern China -- 16. The Early Upper Paleolithic and the Origins of Modern Human Behavior -- References -- Contributors -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910810597803321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam : , : Elsevier B.V.
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource
Disciplina	550 E12 [ONLINE]
Soggetto topico	Earth sciences
Soggetto genere / forma	Periodicals.
Soggetto non controllato	geologie geology china aardwetenschappen earth sciences Geology (General) Geologie (algemeen)
ISSN	1876-777X
Classificazione	38.00 550764761
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910146883903321

Autore	Loyalka Michelle Dammon <1972->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (277 p.)
Disciplina	307.2/40951
Soggetto topico	Rural-urban migration - China - History Migration, Internal - China - History
Soggetto non controllato	asian studies china chinese culture and traditions chinese culture chinese economy chinese family life chinese labor chinese oppression chinese philosophers chinese politics chinese tradition confucianism history how to create national change how to endure hardships labor laws learning about chinese history leisure reads national transformation overcome difficulties problems in china production in china urban centers in china vacation reads whats it like to live in china
ISBN	1-280-11657-9 9786613520869 0-520-95203-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The veggie vendors -- The impenetrable knife sharpener -- The teenage beauty queens -- The ever-floating floater -- The landless landlords -- The nowhere nanny -- The opportunity spotter -- The big boss.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910778959303321