America in the British Imagination [[electronic resource] ] : 1945 to the Present / / by J. Lyons |
Autore | Lyons J |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina | 941.085 |
Soggetto topico |
America—History
World politics Social history Great Britain—History Europe—History History, Modern History of the Americas Political History Social History History of Britain and Ireland European History Modern History |
ISBN |
1-137-37679-1
1-137-37680-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Architect of Modern Britain: The Influence of the United Stateson Britain, 1945-1963; 2 Terra Incognita: The United States in the British Imagination, 1945-1963; 3 The BritishWorking Class and the United States, 1963-1979; 4 The United States and the Politics of Thatcherism, 1979-1990; 5 Culture Wars: American Global Supremacy and British Nationalism, 1990-2001; 6 September 11 and After: From Hostility to Indifference, 2001-2013; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790729703321 |
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America in the British Imagination [[electronic resource] ] : 1945 to the Present / / by J. Lyons |
Autore | Lyons J |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina | 941.085 |
Soggetto topico |
America—History
World politics Social history Great Britain—History Europe—History History, Modern History of the Americas Political History Social History History of Britain and Ireland European History Modern History |
ISBN |
1-137-37679-1
1-137-37680-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Architect of Modern Britain: The Influence of the United Stateson Britain, 1945-1963; 2 Terra Incognita: The United States in the British Imagination, 1945-1963; 3 The BritishWorking Class and the United States, 1963-1979; 4 The United States and the Politics of Thatcherism, 1979-1990; 5 Culture Wars: American Global Supremacy and British Nationalism, 1990-2001; 6 September 11 and After: From Hostility to Indifference, 2001-2013; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815251103321 |
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American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / / Susan Scott Parrish |
Autore | Parrish Susan Scott |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
Disciplina | 508/.0973 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
Soggetto topico |
Natural history - United States - History
Science - Social aspects - United States - History Intercultural communication - United States - History Imperialism - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8078-5678-9
1-4696-0095-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The British metropolis and its "America," 1584-1763. A strange overplus ; Nature's admirable regularity ; London's curious -- English bodies in America. The English humoral body ; Contagious climates ; The English body saved ; Uncouth symptoms -- Atlantic correspondence networks and the curious male colonial. Mutual commerce ; Not one rational eye ; The empirical advantage ; Becoming an F.R.S. ; Us Americans -- The nature of candid friendship. Familiar letters ; The honest friend versus the fop ; Curious love ; Gifts -- Lavinia's nature. Fatal curiosity ; A peculiar grace in the fair sex ; Specimens by every shipping ; Finding signs of the pastoral -- Indian sagacity. The most secret things of nature ; Dear and deadly grapes ; Contested mediation ; No people have better eyes ; A wonderful antidote -- African magi, slave poisoners. Topographies of slave knowledge ; Cunning ; Hiding places ; Collectors ; Poisoners ; Healers ; Obscene birds ; Forest trial, forest refuge. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460610103321 |
American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / / Susan Scott Parrish |
Autore | Parrish Susan Scott |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
Disciplina | 508/.0973 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
Soggetto topico |
Natural history - United States - History
Science - Social aspects - United States - History Intercultural communication - United States - History Imperialism - History |
ISBN |
979-88-908792-1-9
0-8078-5678-9 1-4696-0095-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The British metropolis and its "America," 1584-1763. A strange overplus ; Nature's admirable regularity ; London's curious -- English bodies in America. The English humoral body ; Contagious climates ; The English body saved ; Uncouth symptoms -- Atlantic correspondence networks and the curious male colonial. Mutual commerce ; Not one rational eye ; The empirical advantage ; Becoming an F.R.S. ; Us Americans -- The nature of candid friendship. Familiar letters ; The honest friend versus the fop ; Curious love ; Gifts -- Lavinia's nature. Fatal curiosity ; A peculiar grace in the fair sex ; Specimens by every shipping ; Finding signs of the pastoral -- Indian sagacity. The most secret things of nature ; Dear and deadly grapes ; Contested mediation ; No people have better eyes ; A wonderful antidote -- African magi, slave poisoners. Topographies of slave knowledge ; Cunning ; Hiding places ; Collectors ; Poisoners ; Healers ; Obscene birds ; Forest trial, forest refuge. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797705403321 |
Parrish Susan Scott
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American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / / Susan Scott Parrish |
Autore | Parrish Susan Scott |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
Disciplina | 508/.0973 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
Soggetto topico |
Natural history - United States - History
Science - Social aspects - United States - History Intercultural communication - United States - History Imperialism - History |
ISBN |
979-88-908792-1-9
0-8078-5678-9 1-4696-0095-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The British metropolis and its "America," 1584-1763. A strange overplus ; Nature's admirable regularity ; London's curious -- English bodies in America. The English humoral body ; Contagious climates ; The English body saved ; Uncouth symptoms -- Atlantic correspondence networks and the curious male colonial. Mutual commerce ; Not one rational eye ; The empirical advantage ; Becoming an F.R.S. ; Us Americans -- The nature of candid friendship. Familiar letters ; The honest friend versus the fop ; Curious love ; Gifts -- Lavinia's nature. Fatal curiosity ; A peculiar grace in the fair sex ; Specimens by every shipping ; Finding signs of the pastoral -- Indian sagacity. The most secret things of nature ; Dear and deadly grapes ; Contested mediation ; No people have better eyes ; A wonderful antidote -- African magi, slave poisoners. Topographies of slave knowledge ; Cunning ; Hiding places ; Collectors ; Poisoners ; Healers ; Obscene birds ; Forest trial, forest refuge. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815308103321 |
Parrish Susan Scott
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The American influence on English education / / W.H.G. Armytage |
Autore | Armytage W. H. G. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (137 p.) |
Disciplina |
370.941
370.973 370/.973 |
Collana | Routledge library editions: education |
Soggetto topico | Education - United States - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-67077-0
9786613647702 1-136-72276-9 0-203-81652-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
THE AMERICAN INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH EDUCATION; Copyright; The American Influence on English Education; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Yankee gospel; (i) Its exponent and his relationship with pro- American groups in eighteenth century England; (ii) Its chapel: the Royal Institution; (iii) Returned loyalists: Francis Green and the education of the deaf; Lindley Murray and his famous 'grammar'; (iv) Frontier service agencies and their influence on the University of London; (v) Early chapelries: lyceums, mechanics' institutes; and Franklin Clubs
(vi) 'Emerson mania' in the industrial north of England2 The emergence of the school boards; (i) Liberal admiration of popularly-elected non-sectarian school boards: Cobden's visit in 1835, and subsequent activity to promote them in England; (ii) The Horace Mann, George Combe, Cobden triangle; (iii) Other endorsements of American board school: James Silk Buckingham (pioneer town planner); J. F. W. Johnstone (chemist); Alexander MacKay (journalist); Lord Acton (historian); Harriet Martineau (feminist); J. R. Godley (Tory) (iv) The House of Commons and American practice: J. A. Roebuck in 1833 Sir Thomas Wyse in 1835; and Sir James Pakington in 1856; (v) The Endowed Schools Commission: James Frasefs report at the close of the Civil War, 1865; (vi) Background to 1870; (vii) The seepage of labour; 3 Mass literacy; (i) Radicalism and reading; Cobbett's success; The Stamp Act and Bulwer Lytton's arguments for a free press; Harmsworth and the rise of the American style newspaper; (ii) American juvenile books: 'Peter Parley'; the McGuffey readers; the 'Rollo' series and their Socinian outlook (iii) Emerson's influence on Froude Walt Whitman and the 'bulk-people' of the industrial north of England; Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne's anti-historicism; (iv) The rise of free libraries: the gifts of Andrew Carnegie, and the cataloguing skills of Melvil Dewey; (v) From detective story to science fiction; (vi) The 'neurosis of the future'; 4 The Land Grant example; (i) The Morrill Act of 1862 and American encouragement of scientific research, especially in agriculture; (ii) The 'Wisconsin model' and its English admirers, Patrick Geddes and Victor Branford (iii) Chautauqua to Chicago: the concept of the universal college(iv) Andrew Carnegie, Joseph Chamberlain and the rise of the civic universities; (v) Post-graduate research: the Johns Hopkins exemplar and Sir William Osier; (vi) The Mosely Commission, 1903; L.E.A.'s look across the Atlantic; H. B. Gray and the Public Schools; 5 The twentieth century university; (i) Balfour's attempts to attract American post-graduate students to Britain; institution of the Ph.D. and of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals; the flow, primed by Harkness and Rockefeller grants, increases westward (ii) American critics of the European tradition: Henry Adams and Abraham Flexner |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461982103321 |
Armytage W. H. G.
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The American influence on English education / / W.H.G. Armytage |
Autore | Armytage W. H. G. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (137 p.) |
Disciplina |
370.941
370.973 370/.973 |
Collana | Routledge library editions: education |
Soggetto topico | Education - United States - History |
ISBN |
1-136-72275-0
1-280-67077-0 9786613647702 1-136-72276-9 0-203-81652-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
THE AMERICAN INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH EDUCATION; Copyright; The American Influence on English Education; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Yankee gospel; (i) Its exponent and his relationship with pro- American groups in eighteenth century England; (ii) Its chapel: the Royal Institution; (iii) Returned loyalists: Francis Green and the education of the deaf; Lindley Murray and his famous 'grammar'; (iv) Frontier service agencies and their influence on the University of London; (v) Early chapelries: lyceums, mechanics' institutes; and Franklin Clubs
(vi) 'Emerson mania' in the industrial north of England2 The emergence of the school boards; (i) Liberal admiration of popularly-elected non-sectarian school boards: Cobden's visit in 1835, and subsequent activity to promote them in England; (ii) The Horace Mann, George Combe, Cobden triangle; (iii) Other endorsements of American board school: James Silk Buckingham (pioneer town planner); J. F. W. Johnstone (chemist); Alexander MacKay (journalist); Lord Acton (historian); Harriet Martineau (feminist); J. R. Godley (Tory) (iv) The House of Commons and American practice: J. A. Roebuck in 1833 Sir Thomas Wyse in 1835; and Sir James Pakington in 1856; (v) The Endowed Schools Commission: James Frasefs report at the close of the Civil War, 1865; (vi) Background to 1870; (vii) The seepage of labour; 3 Mass literacy; (i) Radicalism and reading; Cobbett's success; The Stamp Act and Bulwer Lytton's arguments for a free press; Harmsworth and the rise of the American style newspaper; (ii) American juvenile books: 'Peter Parley'; the McGuffey readers; the 'Rollo' series and their Socinian outlook (iii) Emerson's influence on Froude Walt Whitman and the 'bulk-people' of the industrial north of England; Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne's anti-historicism; (iv) The rise of free libraries: the gifts of Andrew Carnegie, and the cataloguing skills of Melvil Dewey; (v) From detective story to science fiction; (vi) The 'neurosis of the future'; 4 The Land Grant example; (i) The Morrill Act of 1862 and American encouragement of scientific research, especially in agriculture; (ii) The 'Wisconsin model' and its English admirers, Patrick Geddes and Victor Branford (iii) Chautauqua to Chicago: the concept of the universal college(iv) Andrew Carnegie, Joseph Chamberlain and the rise of the civic universities; (v) Post-graduate research: the Johns Hopkins exemplar and Sir William Osier; (vi) The Mosely Commission, 1903; L.E.A.'s look across the Atlantic; H. B. Gray and the Public Schools; 5 The twentieth century university; (i) Balfour's attempts to attract American post-graduate students to Britain; institution of the Ph.D. and of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals; the flow, primed by Harkness and Rockefeller grants, increases westward (ii) American critics of the European tradition: Henry Adams and Abraham Flexner |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790229803321 |
Armytage W. H. G.
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The American influence on English education / / W.H.G. Armytage |
Autore | Armytage W. H. G. |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (137 p.) |
Disciplina |
370.941
370.973 370/.973 |
Collana | Routledge library editions: education |
Soggetto topico | Education - United States - History |
ISBN |
1-136-72275-0
1-280-67077-0 9786613647702 1-136-72276-9 0-203-81652-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
THE AMERICAN INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH EDUCATION; Copyright; The American Influence on English Education; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Yankee gospel; (i) Its exponent and his relationship with pro- American groups in eighteenth century England; (ii) Its chapel: the Royal Institution; (iii) Returned loyalists: Francis Green and the education of the deaf; Lindley Murray and his famous 'grammar'; (iv) Frontier service agencies and their influence on the University of London; (v) Early chapelries: lyceums, mechanics' institutes; and Franklin Clubs
(vi) 'Emerson mania' in the industrial north of England2 The emergence of the school boards; (i) Liberal admiration of popularly-elected non-sectarian school boards: Cobden's visit in 1835, and subsequent activity to promote them in England; (ii) The Horace Mann, George Combe, Cobden triangle; (iii) Other endorsements of American board school: James Silk Buckingham (pioneer town planner); J. F. W. Johnstone (chemist); Alexander MacKay (journalist); Lord Acton (historian); Harriet Martineau (feminist); J. R. Godley (Tory) (iv) The House of Commons and American practice: J. A. Roebuck in 1833 Sir Thomas Wyse in 1835; and Sir James Pakington in 1856; (v) The Endowed Schools Commission: James Frasefs report at the close of the Civil War, 1865; (vi) Background to 1870; (vii) The seepage of labour; 3 Mass literacy; (i) Radicalism and reading; Cobbett's success; The Stamp Act and Bulwer Lytton's arguments for a free press; Harmsworth and the rise of the American style newspaper; (ii) American juvenile books: 'Peter Parley'; the McGuffey readers; the 'Rollo' series and their Socinian outlook (iii) Emerson's influence on Froude Walt Whitman and the 'bulk-people' of the industrial north of England; Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne's anti-historicism; (iv) The rise of free libraries: the gifts of Andrew Carnegie, and the cataloguing skills of Melvil Dewey; (v) From detective story to science fiction; (vi) The 'neurosis of the future'; 4 The Land Grant example; (i) The Morrill Act of 1862 and American encouragement of scientific research, especially in agriculture; (ii) The 'Wisconsin model' and its English admirers, Patrick Geddes and Victor Branford (iii) Chautauqua to Chicago: the concept of the universal college(iv) Andrew Carnegie, Joseph Chamberlain and the rise of the civic universities; (v) Post-graduate research: the Johns Hopkins exemplar and Sir William Osier; (vi) The Mosely Commission, 1903; L.E.A.'s look across the Atlantic; H. B. Gray and the Public Schools; 5 The twentieth century university; (i) Balfour's attempts to attract American post-graduate students to Britain; institution of the Ph.D. and of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals; the flow, primed by Harkness and Rockefeller grants, increases westward (ii) American critics of the European tradition: Henry Adams and Abraham Flexner |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811894003321 |
Armytage W. H. G.
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Anglo-American relations : contemporary perspectives / / edited by Alan P. Dobson and Steve Marsh |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina | 327.73041 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
DobsonAlan P
MarshSteve <1967-> |
Collana | Routledge advances in international relations and global politics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-97322-7
0-203-08008-4 1-136-16415-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Anglo-American Relations Contemporary perspectives; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1 Is there a 'strategic culture' of the special relationship? Contingency, identity, and the transformation of Anglo-American relations; 2 'Affection is the cement which binds us': Understanding the cultural sinews of the Anglo-American special relationship; 3 Personal diplomacy: Relations between prime ministers and presidents; 4 Transatlantic diplomacy and 'global' states; 5 The Anglo-American economic relationship: Special or not?
6 Global warming and the cooling of the special relationship: climate change and post-Cold War US-UK environmental politics7 The Anglo-American defence relationship; 8 'Strained' relations? Evaluating contemporary Anglo- American intelligence and security co-operation; 9 The US-UK special relationship: The Nuclear Dimension; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462867203321 |
Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
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Anglo-American relations : contemporary perspectives / / edited by Alan P. Dobson and Steve Marsh |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina | 327.73041 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
DobsonAlan P
MarshSteve <1967-> |
Collana | Routledge advances in international relations and global politics |
ISBN |
1-136-16414-6
1-283-97322-7 0-203-08008-4 1-136-16415-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Anglo-American Relations Contemporary perspectives; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1 Is there a 'strategic culture' of the special relationship? Contingency, identity, and the transformation of Anglo-American relations; 2 'Affection is the cement which binds us': Understanding the cultural sinews of the Anglo-American special relationship; 3 Personal diplomacy: Relations between prime ministers and presidents; 4 Transatlantic diplomacy and 'global' states; 5 The Anglo-American economic relationship: Special or not?
6 Global warming and the cooling of the special relationship: climate change and post-Cold War US-UK environmental politics7 The Anglo-American defence relationship; 8 'Strained' relations? Evaluating contemporary Anglo- American intelligence and security co-operation; 9 The US-UK special relationship: The Nuclear Dimension; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786045703321 |
Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
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