American history [[electronic resource] ] : a very short introduction / / Paul S. Boyer |
Autore | Boyer Paul S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 161 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 973 |
Collana | Very short introductions |
Soggetto topico | History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786613888853
0-19-990854-0 1-283-57640-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458893003321 |
Boyer Paul S | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American history : a very short introduction / / Paul S. Boyer |
Autore | Boyer Paul S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 161 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 973 |
Collana | Very short introductions |
Soggetto topico | History |
ISBN |
9786613888853
9780199908547 0-19-990854-0 1-283-57640-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Beginnings : Pre-history to 1763 -- 1763-1789 : Revolution, constitution, a new nation -- The promise and perils of nationhood, 1789-1850 -- Slavery and Civil War -- Industrialization and its consequences -- 1900-1920 : reform and war -- 1920-1945 : conflict and creativity, Depression and reform, war and global power -- 1945-1968 : Affluence, reform, war, social unrest -- To the present. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792110703321 |
Boyer Paul S | ||
Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American history : a very short introduction / / Paul S. Boyer |
Autore | Boyer Paul S |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 161 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 973 |
Collana | Very short introductions |
Soggetto topico | History |
ISBN |
9786613888853
9780199908547 0-19-990854-0 1-283-57640-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Beginnings : Pre-history to 1763 -- 1763-1789 : Revolution, constitution, a new nation -- The promise and perils of nationhood, 1789-1850 -- Slavery and Civil War -- Industrialization and its consequences -- 1900-1920 : reform and war -- 1920-1945 : conflict and creativity, Depression and reform, war and global power -- 1945-1968 : Affluence, reform, war, social unrest -- To the present. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823791503321 |
Boyer Paul S | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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By the bomb's early light [[electronic resource] ] : American thought and culture at the dawn of the atomic age / / Paul Boyer ; with a new preface by the author |
Autore | Boyer Paul S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 1994 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (464 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.92 |
Soggetto topico |
Atomic bomb - Moral and ethical aspects
Atomic bomb |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8078-7570-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Party I. First Reactions; Part II. Overture: The World Government Movement; Part III. The Atomic Scientists: From Bomb-Makers to Political Sages; Part IV. Anodyne to Terror: Fantasies of a Techno Atomic Utopia; Part V. The Social Implications of Atomic Energy: Prophecies and Prescriptions; Part VI. The Crisis of Morals and Values ; Part VII. Culture and Consciousness in the Early Atomic Era; Part VIII. The End of the Beginning: Settling in for the Long Haul; Epilogue: From the H-Bomb to Star Wars: The Continuing Cycles of Activism and Apathy
Notes |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458050003321 |
Boyer Paul S | ||
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 1994 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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By the bomb's early light [[electronic resource] ] : American thought and culture at the dawn of the atomic age / / Paul Boyer ; with a new preface by the author |
Autore | Boyer Paul S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 1994 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (464 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.92 |
Soggetto topico |
Atomic bomb - Moral and ethical aspects
Atomic bomb |
ISBN |
979-88-908648-9-5
0-8078-7570-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Party I. First Reactions; Part II. Overture: The World Government Movement; Part III. The Atomic Scientists: From Bomb-Makers to Political Sages; Part IV. Anodyne to Terror: Fantasies of a Techno Atomic Utopia; Part V. The Social Implications of Atomic Energy: Prophecies and Prescriptions; Part VI. The Crisis of Morals and Values ; Part VII. Culture and Consciousness in the Early Atomic Era; Part VIII. The End of the Beginning: Settling in for the Long Haul; Epilogue: From the H-Bomb to Star Wars: The Continuing Cycles of Activism and Apathy
Notes |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784623203321 |
Boyer Paul S | ||
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 1994 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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By the bomb's early light : American thought and culture at the dawn of the atomic age / / Paul Boyer ; with a new preface by the author |
Autore | Boyer Paul S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 1994 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (464 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.92 |
Soggetto topico |
Atomic bomb - Moral and ethical aspects
Atomic bomb |
ISBN |
979-88-908648-9-5
0-8078-7570-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Party I. First Reactions; Part II. Overture: The World Government Movement; Part III. The Atomic Scientists: From Bomb-Makers to Political Sages; Part IV. Anodyne to Terror: Fantasies of a Techno Atomic Utopia; Part V. The Social Implications of Atomic Energy: Prophecies and Prescriptions; Part VI. The Crisis of Morals and Values ; Part VII. Culture and Consciousness in the Early Atomic Era; Part VIII. The End of the Beginning: Settling in for the Long Haul; Epilogue: From the H-Bomb to Star Wars: The Continuing Cycles of Activism and Apathy
Notes |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810701303321 |
Boyer Paul S | ||
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 1994 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Salem possessed [[electronic resource]] : the social origins of witchcraft / / Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum |
Autore | Boyer Paul S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2003, c1974 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxi, 231 p. ) : ill., geneaological table, map ; |
Disciplina | 301.2/1 |
Altri autori (Persone) | NissenbaumStephen |
Soggetto topico | Witchcraft - Social aspects - Massachusetts - Salem |
ISBN |
0-674-28266-3
0-674-28265-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue: What happened in 1692 -- 1692 : some new perspectives -- In quest of community, 1639-1687 -- Afflicted village, 1688-1697 -- Salem Town and Salem Village : the dynamics of factional conflict -- Two families : the Porters and the Putnams -- Joseph and his brothers : a story of the Putnam family -- Samuel Parris : a pilgrim in Bethlehem -- Witchcraft and social identity -- Epilogue: To the eighteenth century. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248273103316 |
Boyer Paul S | ||
Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2003, c1974 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Urban masses and moral order in America, 1820-1920 [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Boyer |
Autore | Boyer Paul S |
Edizione | [1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 1992, c1978 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (432 p. ) : 35 halftones 3 line illustrations |
Disciplina | 301.36/3/0973 |
Soggetto topico | Urbanization - United States - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-674-02862-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part One. The Jacksonian Era 1. The Urban Threat Emerges: A Strategy Takes Shape 2. The Tract Societies: Transmitting a Traditional Morality by Untraditional Means 3. The Sunday School in the City: Patterned Order in a Disorderly Setting 4. Urban Moral Reform in the Early Republic: Some Concluding Reflections Part Two. The Mid-Century Decades: Years of Frustration and Innovation 5. Heightened Concern, Varied Responses 6. Narrowing the Problem: Slum Dwellers and Street Urchins 7. Young Men and the City: The Emergence of the YMCA Part Three. The Gilded Age: Urban Moral Control in a Turbulent Time 8. "The Ragged Edge of Anarchy": The Emotional Context of Urban Social Control in the Gilded Age 9. American Protestantism and the Moral Challenge of the Industrial City 10. Building Character among the Urban Poor: The Charity Organization Movement 11. The Urban Moral Awakening of the 1890's 12. The Two Faces of Urban Moral Reform in the 1890's Part Four. The Progressives and the City: Common Concerns, Divergent Strategies 13. Battling the Saloon and the Brothel: The Great Coercive Crusades 14. One Last, Decisive Struggle: The Symbolic Component of the Great Coercive Crusades 15. Positive Environmentalism: The Ideological Underpinnings 16. Housing, Parks, and Playgrounds: Positive Environmentalism in Action 17. The Civic Ideal and the Urban Moral Order 18. The Civic Ideal Made Real: The Moral Vision of the Progressive City Planners 19. Positive Environmentalism and the Urban Moral-Control Tradition: Contrasts and Continuities 20. Getting Right with Gesellschaft: The Decay of the Urban Moral-Control Impulse in the 1920's and After Notes Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455444603321 |
Boyer Paul S | ||
Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 1992, c1978 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Urban masses and moral order in America, 1820-1920 / / Paul Boyer |
Autore | Boyer Paul S |
Edizione | [1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 1992, c1978 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 387 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 301.36/3/0973 |
Soggetto topico | Urbanization - United States - History |
ISBN |
0-674-26231-X
0-674-02862-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part One. The Jacksonian Era 1. The Urban Threat Emerges: A Strategy Takes Shape 2. The Tract Societies: Transmitting a Traditional Morality by Untraditional Means 3. The Sunday School in the City: Patterned Order in a Disorderly Setting 4. Urban Moral Reform in the Early Republic: Some Concluding Reflections Part Two. The Mid-Century Decades: Years of Frustration and Innovation 5. Heightened Concern, Varied Responses 6. Narrowing the Problem: Slum Dwellers and Street Urchins 7. Young Men and the City: The Emergence of the YMCA Part Three. The Gilded Age: Urban Moral Control in a Turbulent Time 8. "The Ragged Edge of Anarchy": The Emotional Context of Urban Social Control in the Gilded Age 9. American Protestantism and the Moral Challenge of the Industrial City 10. Building Character among the Urban Poor: The Charity Organization Movement 11. The Urban Moral Awakening of the 1890's 12. The Two Faces of Urban Moral Reform in the 1890's Part Four. The Progressives and the City: Common Concerns, Divergent Strategies 13. Battling the Saloon and the Brothel: The Great Coercive Crusades 14. One Last, Decisive Struggle: The Symbolic Component of the Great Coercive Crusades 15. Positive Environmentalism: The Ideological Underpinnings 16. Housing, Parks, and Playgrounds: Positive Environmentalism in Action 17. The Civic Ideal and the Urban Moral Order 18. The Civic Ideal Made Real: The Moral Vision of the Progressive City Planners 19. Positive Environmentalism and the Urban Moral-Control Tradition: Contrasts and Continuities 20. Getting Right with Gesellschaft: The Decay of the Urban Moral-Control Impulse in the 1920's and After Notes Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778571703321 |
Boyer Paul S | ||
Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 1992, c1978 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Urban masses and moral order in America, 1820-1920 / / Paul Boyer |
Autore | Boyer Paul S |
Edizione | [1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 1992, c1978 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 387 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 301.36/3/0973 |
Soggetto topico | Urbanization - United States - History |
ISBN |
0-674-26231-X
0-674-02862-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part One. The Jacksonian Era 1. The Urban Threat Emerges: A Strategy Takes Shape 2. The Tract Societies: Transmitting a Traditional Morality by Untraditional Means 3. The Sunday School in the City: Patterned Order in a Disorderly Setting 4. Urban Moral Reform in the Early Republic: Some Concluding Reflections Part Two. The Mid-Century Decades: Years of Frustration and Innovation 5. Heightened Concern, Varied Responses 6. Narrowing the Problem: Slum Dwellers and Street Urchins 7. Young Men and the City: The Emergence of the YMCA Part Three. The Gilded Age: Urban Moral Control in a Turbulent Time 8. "The Ragged Edge of Anarchy": The Emotional Context of Urban Social Control in the Gilded Age 9. American Protestantism and the Moral Challenge of the Industrial City 10. Building Character among the Urban Poor: The Charity Organization Movement 11. The Urban Moral Awakening of the 1890's 12. The Two Faces of Urban Moral Reform in the 1890's Part Four. The Progressives and the City: Common Concerns, Divergent Strategies 13. Battling the Saloon and the Brothel: The Great Coercive Crusades 14. One Last, Decisive Struggle: The Symbolic Component of the Great Coercive Crusades 15. Positive Environmentalism: The Ideological Underpinnings 16. Housing, Parks, and Playgrounds: Positive Environmentalism in Action 17. The Civic Ideal and the Urban Moral Order 18. The Civic Ideal Made Real: The Moral Vision of the Progressive City Planners 19. Positive Environmentalism and the Urban Moral-Control Tradition: Contrasts and Continuities 20. Getting Right with Gesellschaft: The Decay of the Urban Moral-Control Impulse in the 1920's and After Notes Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808818703321 |
Boyer Paul S | ||
Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 1992, c1978 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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