Memorializing the GDR : monuments and memory after 1989 / / Anna Saunders |
Autore | Saunders Anna <1967-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (382 pages) |
Disciplina | 943/.1087 |
Soggetto topico |
Memorials - Germany (East)
Memorialization - Political aspects - Germany (East) Collective memory - Germany (East) |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
art berlin wall civic collective forms of memory commemorative projects conflicting memories diplomacy east germany eastern germany europe gdr german culture german democratic republic german history german society historical contexts history identity karl marx memorial culture memory modern german history occupied germany peaceful revolution public memory regional constructions retrospective revolutionaries social change social history social issues socialist monuments |
ISBN | 1-78533-681-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Memory debates and the built environment since unification -- 'Working through' the GDR past -- A shifting memorial culture -- Memory, monuments and memorialization -- Notions of, and problems with, collective forms of memory -- Monuments, memorials and 'memory markers' -- Socialist icons: from heroes to villains? -- The role of monuments in the GDR -- Transition: October 1989 to October 1990 -- Eastern Berlin I: from unification to Lenin's fall -- Eastern Berlin II: from the commission's recommendations to -- Thalmann's survival -- Demolition debates beyond Berlin: Chemnitz's 'nischel' -- Modification: a modern makeover for Halle's flag monument -- Relocation: finding a new home for Leipzig's Karl Marx relief -- Conclusion: the ever-present narrative of 1989 -- Soviet special camps: reassessing a repressed past -- Special camps and interrogation centres -- Commemoration without monumentalization: representing silenced memories at Buchenwald -- Emotive symbolism and reconciliation at Funfeichen -- Breaking the silence: historical revision in Greifswald -- A monument without answers? Haftstatte Prenzlauer Allee, Berlin --
Conclusion: Revoking silence -- 17 June 1953 uprisings: remembering a failed revolution -- Conflicting interpretations in Berlin: Katharina Karrenberg, Wolfgang Ruppel and beyond -- Remembering Hennigsdorf's steelworkers -- Tank tracks in Leipzig -- Tank tracks in Dresden -- Conclusion: diverse remembrance -- The Berlin Wall: historical document, tourist magnet or urban eyesore? -- The early post-Wende years: from commodification to preservation -- Ubergange: Remembering border crossings and transitions -- Bernauer Strasse wall memorial (Part I): peripheral remembrance? -- Victimhood and visibility I: Remembering child vicitms in Treptow -- Victimhood and visibility II: White crosses in duplicate -- Victimhood and visibility III: The Freedom Memorial, Checkpoint Charlie -- Towards decentralised remembrance: the gesamtkonzept and Bernauer Strasse (Part II) -- Conclusion: Shifting remembrance -- Remembering the 'peaceful revolution' and German unity -- Building national memory? Berlin's freedom and unity monument -- Remembering the Leipzig demonstrations: the Nikolaikirchhof and beyond -- Schwerin's controversial remembrance of the round table -- Swords into ploughshares: Dessau's peace bell -- Transforming the fortunes of Magdeburg? the development of a citizens' monument -- A truly democratic project? Plauen's Wende monument -- Conclusion: The concrete legacy of the peaceful revolution -- Conclusion: Beyond the palimpsest -- What remains? -- Dominant narratives -- Dialogic remembrance and entangled memories. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810019403321 |
Saunders Anna <1967-> | ||
New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2018 | ||
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Men of bronze [[electronic resource] ] : hoplite warfare in ancient Greece / / edited by Donald Kagan and Gregory F. Viggiano |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.4/738 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KaganDonald
ViggianoGregory |
Soggetto topico |
Armor, Ancient - Greece
Military art and science - Greece - History - To 1500 Soldiers - Greece - History - To 1500 Weapons, Ancient - Greece |
Soggetto non controllato |
Aristotle
Assyrian army Etruscan Bomarzo shield Greek culture Greek history Greek hoplites Greek infantry Greek mercenaries Greek military history Greek social status Greek soldiers Greek state Greek values Greek warfare Homeric epics Homeric warfare Oriental influence Persian army Politics The Other Greeks The Western Way of War agrarianism ancient Greece ancient Greek warfare archaeology archaic Greek arms archaic Greeks chronological framework citizen-soldier citizen-soldiers double-grip shield early Greek hoplite warfare early Greek infantry economic change elite landowners gentlemen farmers gradualism grand hoplite narrative hoplite armor hoplite arms hoplite battle hoplite class hoplite debate hoplite equipment hoplite fighting hoplite formations hoplite iconography hoplite ideology hoplite orthodoxy hoplite panoply hoplite reform hoplite shield hoplite warfare hoplite weapons hoplites leisure class literary sources lyric poetry mass collision material culture mercenary service middling farmers modern historians phalanx poetry polis political development revisionism site survey small-scale farmers social change sociopolitical issues spear survey archaeology survey data survey projects yeomen farmers |
ISBN | 1-4008-4630-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. The Hoplite Debate / Kagan, Donald / Viggiano, Gregory F. -- CHAPTER 2. The Arms, Armor, and Iconography of Early Greek Hoplite Warfare / Viggiano, Gregory F. / Wees, Hans van -- CHAPTER 3. Hoplitai/Politai: Refighting Ancient Battles / Cartledge, Paul -- CHAPTER 4. Setting the Frame Chronologically / Snodgrass, Anthony -- CHAPTER 5. Early Greek Infantry Fighting in a Mediterranean Context / Raaflaub, Kurt A. -- CHAPTER 6. The Hoplite Revolution and the Rise of the Polis / Viggiano, Gregory F. -- CHAPTER 7. Hoplite Hell: How Hoplites Fought / Krentz, Peter -- CHAPTER 8. Large Weapons, Small Greeks: The Practical Limitations of Hoplite Weapons and Equipment / Schwartz, Adam -- CHAPTER 9. Not Patriots, Not Farmers, Not Amateurs: Greek Soldiers of Fortune and the Origins of Hoplite Warfare / Hale, John R. -- CHAPTER 10. Can We See the "Hoplite Revolution" on the Ground? Archaeological Landscapes, Material Culture, and Social Status in Early Greece / Foxhall, Lin -- CHAPTER 11. Farmers and Hoplites: Models of Historical Development / Wees, Hans van -- CHAPTER 12. The Hoplite Narrative / Davis Hanson, Victor -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786994003321 |
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Men of bronze : hoplite warfare in ancient Greece / / edited by Donald Kagan and Gregory F. Viggiano |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.4/738 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KaganDonald
ViggianoGregory |
Soggetto topico |
Armor, Ancient - Greece
Military art and science - Greece - History - To 1500 Soldiers - Greece - History - To 1500 Weapons, Ancient - Greece |
Soggetto non controllato |
Aristotle
Assyrian army Etruscan Bomarzo shield Greek culture Greek history Greek hoplites Greek infantry Greek mercenaries Greek military history Greek social status Greek soldiers Greek state Greek values Greek warfare Homeric epics Homeric warfare Oriental influence Persian army Politics The Other Greeks The Western Way of War agrarianism ancient Greece ancient Greek warfare archaeology archaic Greek arms archaic Greeks chronological framework citizen-soldier citizen-soldiers double-grip shield early Greek hoplite warfare early Greek infantry economic change elite landowners gentlemen farmers gradualism grand hoplite narrative hoplite armor hoplite arms hoplite battle hoplite class hoplite debate hoplite equipment hoplite fighting hoplite formations hoplite iconography hoplite ideology hoplite orthodoxy hoplite panoply hoplite reform hoplite shield hoplite warfare hoplite weapons hoplites leisure class literary sources lyric poetry mass collision material culture mercenary service middling farmers modern historians phalanx poetry polis political development revisionism site survey small-scale farmers social change sociopolitical issues spear survey archaeology survey data survey projects yeomen farmers |
ISBN | 1-4008-4630-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. The Hoplite Debate / Kagan, Donald / Viggiano, Gregory F. -- CHAPTER 2. The Arms, Armor, and Iconography of Early Greek Hoplite Warfare / Viggiano, Gregory F. / Wees, Hans van -- CHAPTER 3. Hoplitai/Politai: Refighting Ancient Battles / Cartledge, Paul -- CHAPTER 4. Setting the Frame Chronologically / Snodgrass, Anthony -- CHAPTER 5. Early Greek Infantry Fighting in a Mediterranean Context / Raaflaub, Kurt A. -- CHAPTER 6. The Hoplite Revolution and the Rise of the Polis / Viggiano, Gregory F. -- CHAPTER 7. Hoplite Hell: How Hoplites Fought / Krentz, Peter -- CHAPTER 8. Large Weapons, Small Greeks: The Practical Limitations of Hoplite Weapons and Equipment / Schwartz, Adam -- CHAPTER 9. Not Patriots, Not Farmers, Not Amateurs: Greek Soldiers of Fortune and the Origins of Hoplite Warfare / Hale, John R. -- CHAPTER 10. Can We See the "Hoplite Revolution" on the Ground? Archaeological Landscapes, Material Culture, and Social Status in Early Greece / Foxhall, Lin -- CHAPTER 11. Farmers and Hoplites: Models of Historical Development / Wees, Hans van -- CHAPTER 12. The Hoplite Narrative / Davis Hanson, Victor -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808634803321 |
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mexico : the struggle for democratic development / / Daniel C. Levy and Kathleen Bruhn ; with Emilio Zebadúa |
Autore | Levy Daniel C |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 355 pages) |
Disciplina | 320.972 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BruhnKathleen <1963->
ZebadúaEmilio |
Soggetto topico | Democracy - Mexico |
Soggetto non controllato |
alamo
antonio lopez de santa anna aztec carlos salinas catholic church colonialism conquest conquistadores cortes democracy drug trafficking electoral reform empire ernesto zedillo ethnicity government history imperialism indigenous culture indigenous people jose maria morelos la reforma media mexican history mexican independence mexican revolution mexico migration miguel hidalgo military modern mexico nafta nonfiction politics porfiriato social change spain |
ISBN |
0-520-93261-7
1-282-35897-9 9786612358975 1-59875-805-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Map -- Foreword to the First Edition -- 1. The Changing Course of Development -- 2. Legacies of Undemocratic Development -- 3. The Rise of Political Competition -- 4. Difficult Democracy -- 5. The State and the Market -- 6. Mexico in a U.S.-Led World -- 7. Bilateral Issues -- 8. The Struggle for Democratic Development -- Notes -- Selected References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783670103321 |
Levy Daniel C | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mr. Emerson's revolution / / edited by Jean McClure Mudge |
Autore | McClure Mudge Jean |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Open Book Publishers, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (457 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 814.3 |
Soggetto topico | Transcendentalists (New England) |
Soggetto genere / forma | History |
Soggetto non controllato |
women's rights
emancipation ralph waldo emerson social change abolition united states Boston |
ISBN |
9781783740994
9781783741007 9781783741014 9781783740987 9781783740970 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contributors -- Foreword: Emerson’s Renewing Power / John Stauffer and Steven Brown -- Introduction: Emerson as Spiritual and Social Revolutionary / Jean McClure Mudge -- The Making of a Protester. 1.1 A Legacy of Revolt, 1803-1821 / Phyllis Cole -- 1.2 Becoming an American "Adam,” 1822-1835 / Wesley T. Mott -- Public and Private Revolutions. 2.1 The "New Thinking”: Nature, Self, and Society, 1836-1850 / David M. Robinson -- 2.2 Dialogues with Self and Society, 1835-1860 / Jean McClure Mudge -- Emerson the Reformer. 3. A Pragmatic Idealist in Action, 1850-1865 / Len Gougeon -- Emerson’s Evolving Emphases. 4. Actively Entering Old Age, 1865-1882 / Jean McClure Mudge -- Emerson’s Legacy in America. 5. Spawning a Wide New Consciousness / Jean McClure Mudge -- Emerson in the West and East. 6.1 Europe in Emerson and Emerson in Europe / Beniamino Soressi 6.2 Asia in Emerson and Emerson in Asia / Alan Hodder -- Emerson: A Chronology -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910156256203321 |
McClure Mudge Jean | ||
Open Book Publishers, 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989–2011) [[electronic resource] ] : Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts and Identities |
Autore | Casciarri Barbara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY, : Berghahn Books, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina | 964.4043 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AssalMunzoul A. M
IretonFrancois |
Soggetto topico |
Natural resources--Sudan--Management
Sudan--Politics and government--1985- Sudan--Social conditions--21st century Natural resources - Management - Sudan History & Archaeology Regions & Countries - Africa |
Soggetto non controllato |
africa
civic conflict contemporary sudan cultural change dark diplomacy engaging geographical viewpoint globalization historical independence movement insights from fieldwork intense major transformations national identity natural resources political science political regional conflict regional studies retrospective social change social science social sciences south sudan sudan sudanese history tragic water management |
ISBN | 1-78238-618-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989-2011); Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Transliteration of Arabic Terms; Abbreviations; Introduction - Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989-2011): Insights from Fieldwork; Part I - Land Issues and Livelihoods in the Capital Region and Rural Areas; Chapter 1 - Old-Timers and Newcomers in Al-Salha: Dynamics of Land Allocation in an Urban Periphery; Chapter 2 - Urban Agriculture Facing Land Pressure in Greater Khartoum: The Case of New Real Estate Projects on Tuti and Au Se'id
Chapter 3 - Access Strategies to Economic and Social Resources among Recent Migrants on the Outskirts of Khartoum: The Example of Bawga Al-SharigChapter 4 - Contested Land Rights and Ethnic Conflict in Mornei (West Darfur): Scarcity of Resources or Crises of Governance?; Part II - Water Resources at the Core of Local and Global Interactions; Chapter 5 - Sudan's Hydropolitics: Regional Chess Games, National Hegemony and Local Resistance; Chapter 6 - Local Management of Urbanized Water: Exchanges among Neighbours, Household Actions and Identity in Deim (Khartoum) Chapter 7 - Domestic Water Supply and Management in North Kordofan Villages: Al-Lowaib as an ExampleChapter 8 - Water Management among Sudanese Pastoralists: End of the Commons or 'Silent Resistance' to Commoditization?; Part III - New Actors, New Spaces and New Imagination on Conflicts; Chapter 9 - Asian Players in Sudan: Social and Economic Impacts of 'New-Old' Actors; Chapter 10 - Oil Exploration and Conflict in Sudan: The Predicament for Pastoralists in North-South Borderline States; Chapter 11 - What Place in Khartoum for the Displaced? Between State Regulation and Individual Strategies Chapter 12 - Activist Mobilization and Internationalization of the Darfur CrisisPart IV - Reshaping Languages, Identities and Ideologies; Chapter 13 - The Islamic Movement and Power in Sudan: From Revolution to Absorption into the State; Chapter 14 - Language Policy and Planning in Sudan: From Local Vernaculars to National Languages; Chapter 15 - 'One Tribe, One Language': Ethnolinguistic Identity and Language Revitalization among the Laggori in the Nuba Mountains Chapter 16 - Between Ideological Security and Intellectual Plurality: 'Colonialism' and 'Globalization' in Northern Sudanese Educational DiscoursesEpilogue - A New Sudan?; Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797163903321 |
Casciarri Barbara | ||
New York, NY, : Berghahn Books, 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989–2011) : Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts and Identities |
Autore | Casciarri Barbara |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY, : Berghahn Books, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina | 964.4043 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AssalMunzoul A. M
IretonFrancois |
Soggetto topico |
Natural resources--Sudan--Management
Sudan--Politics and government--1985- Sudan--Social conditions--21st century Natural resources - Management - Sudan History & Archaeology Regions & Countries - Africa |
Soggetto non controllato |
africa
civic conflict contemporary sudan cultural change dark diplomacy engaging geographical viewpoint globalization historical independence movement insights from fieldwork intense major transformations national identity natural resources political science political regional conflict regional studies retrospective social change social science social sciences south sudan sudan sudanese history tragic water management |
ISBN | 1-78238-618-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989-2011); Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Transliteration of Arabic Terms; Abbreviations; Introduction - Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989-2011): Insights from Fieldwork; Part I - Land Issues and Livelihoods in the Capital Region and Rural Areas; Chapter 1 - Old-Timers and Newcomers in Al-Salha: Dynamics of Land Allocation in an Urban Periphery; Chapter 2 - Urban Agriculture Facing Land Pressure in Greater Khartoum: The Case of New Real Estate Projects on Tuti and Au Se'id
Chapter 3 - Access Strategies to Economic and Social Resources among Recent Migrants on the Outskirts of Khartoum: The Example of Bawga Al-SharigChapter 4 - Contested Land Rights and Ethnic Conflict in Mornei (West Darfur): Scarcity of Resources or Crises of Governance?; Part II - Water Resources at the Core of Local and Global Interactions; Chapter 5 - Sudan's Hydropolitics: Regional Chess Games, National Hegemony and Local Resistance; Chapter 6 - Local Management of Urbanized Water: Exchanges among Neighbours, Household Actions and Identity in Deim (Khartoum) Chapter 7 - Domestic Water Supply and Management in North Kordofan Villages: Al-Lowaib as an ExampleChapter 8 - Water Management among Sudanese Pastoralists: End of the Commons or 'Silent Resistance' to Commoditization?; Part III - New Actors, New Spaces and New Imagination on Conflicts; Chapter 9 - Asian Players in Sudan: Social and Economic Impacts of 'New-Old' Actors; Chapter 10 - Oil Exploration and Conflict in Sudan: The Predicament for Pastoralists in North-South Borderline States; Chapter 11 - What Place in Khartoum for the Displaced? Between State Regulation and Individual Strategies Chapter 12 - Activist Mobilization and Internationalization of the Darfur CrisisPart IV - Reshaping Languages, Identities and Ideologies; Chapter 13 - The Islamic Movement and Power in Sudan: From Revolution to Absorption into the State; Chapter 14 - Language Policy and Planning in Sudan: From Local Vernaculars to National Languages; Chapter 15 - 'One Tribe, One Language': Ethnolinguistic Identity and Language Revitalization among the Laggori in the Nuba Mountains Chapter 16 - Between Ideological Security and Intellectual Plurality: 'Colonialism' and 'Globalization' in Northern Sudanese Educational DiscoursesEpilogue - A New Sudan?; Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814142103321 |
Casciarri Barbara | ||
New York, NY, : Berghahn Books, 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Music and Dance in Eastern Africa : Current Research in Humanities and Social Sciences / / Kahithe Kiiru, Maina wa Mũtonya |
Autore | Brinkman Inge |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Nairobi, : Africae, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (138 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HassanKenedid A
KiiruKahithe KochoreHassan H MũtonyaMaina wa Ng’wenoBettina NjoguKimani OmenyaGordon Onyango PommerolleMarie-Emmanuelle WoolnerChristina J wa MũtonyaMaina |
Collana | Africae Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Music
Dance music gender dance social change |
Soggetto non controllato |
music
gender dance social change |
ISBN | 2-9573058-4-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910496010703321 |
Brinkman Inge | ||
Nairobi, : Africae, 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Not fit for our society [[electronic resource] ] : nativism and immigration / / Peter Schrag |
Autore | Schrag Peter |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.8 |
Soggetto topico |
Emigration and immigration - Social aspects
Emigration and immigration - Public opinion Emigration and immigration - Government policy Nativism Eugenics |
Soggetto non controllato |
america
american citizenship american culture american history american society chinese immigrants controversial current events discussion books fear and change german immigrants historical nonfiction immigrants immigration debate immigration policies immigration irish immigrants italian immigrants jewish immigrants latino immigrants modern immigration nativism political issues politics race and immigration social change students and teachers united states us history |
ISBN |
1-282-76391-1
9786612763915 0-520-94577-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | A city upon a hill -- "This visible act of ingurgitation" -- "Science" makes its case -- Preserving the race -- The great awhitening -- "They keep coming" -- A border without lines. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784956003321 |
Schrag Peter | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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One Nation under AARP : The Fight over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future / / Frederick Lynch |
Autore | Lynch Frederick |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.3/80973 |
Soggetto topico |
Senior power - Political activity - United States
Older people - United States Baby boom generation - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
1950s
aarp aging american association of retired persons baby boomers boomer generation boomers economic policy entitlements gerontology government spending government health care delivery health care lobbying medicare nonfiction ok boomer pensions political equity political lobby politics post boomer resistance retirement seniors social change social equity social security special interest group |
ISBN |
1-283-27797-2
9786613277978 0-520-94890-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Not Going Quietly -- 1. Boomer Basics: Generation, Culture, Demographics -- 2. Old Age in a New Society -- 3. Boomers' Senior Power Potential: From Social Protest to Self-Preservation -- 4. Crash Landing for a Self-Critical Generation -- 5. Not Your Father's AARP: Bill Novelli Builds a New Boomer Brand -- 6. AARP Turns Fifty: The Battle for Health Care Reform -- 7. You Can't Always Get What You Want: Me, We, or AARP? -- Appendix: Methodological Odyssey -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781383203321 |
Lynch Frederick | ||
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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