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2012 and the end of the world : the Western roots of the Maya apocalypse / / Matthew Restall and Amara Solari
| 2012 and the end of the world : the Western roots of the Maya apocalypse / / Matthew Restall and Amara Solari |
| Autore | Restall Matthew <1964-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield, : Distributed by National Book Network, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
| Disciplina | 236/.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SolariAmara <1978-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Two thousand twelve, A.D
Maya calendar Maya philosophy Prophecies End of the world Millennialism Civilization, Western Civilization, Medieval |
| ISBN |
9781442206113
144220611X |
| Classificazione | HIS000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Figures; Introduction; 1 The History of the End of the World; 2 They Deserve Better; 3 God Is Angry; 4 The Moctezuma Factor; 5 Apocalypto; 6 We Are Almost There; Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading; About the Authors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910959148103321 |
Restall Matthew <1964->
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| Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield, : Distributed by National Book Network, c2011 | ||
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Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America : a biography / / William E. Gienapp
| Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America : a biography / / William E. Gienapp |
| Autore | Gienapp William E |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiii, 239 p. : ill., maps |
| Disciplina |
973.7/092
B |
| Soggetto topico | Presidents - United States |
| ISBN |
1-282-36738-2
0-19-803439-3 9786612367380 0-19-518422-X |
| Classificazione | HIS000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 A Son of the Frontier -- 2 Thwarted Ambition -- 3 Rise to Power -- 4 A People's Contest -- 5 From Limited War to Revolution -- 6 Midstream -- 7 To Finish the Task -- 8 With Malice Toward None -- Chronology of Abraham Lincoln -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910973361703321 |
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Gienapp William E
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The African American experience during World War II / / Neil A. Wynn
| The African American experience during World War II / / Neil A. Wynn |
| Autore | Wynn Neil A |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
| Disciplina | 940.53089/96073 |
| Collana | The African American history series |
| Soggetto topico |
World War, 1939-1945 - African Americans
World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - United States African Americans - History - 1877-1964 World War, 1939-1945 - Participation, African American African American soldiers - History - 20th century |
| ISBN |
9798765178003
1-282-56109-X 9786612561092 1-4422-0017-0 |
| Classificazione | HIS000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgments; Overview; Chronology; Introduction; The African American and War in Historical Context; Chapter 1: African Americans on the Eve of War; From New Negro to New Deal, 1920-1939; Chapter 2: Mobilizing for War; The Arsenal of Democracy and the Struggle for Inclusion; Chapter 3: Fighting for Freedom; Changing Military Policy and the Black Experience, 1941-1945; Chapter 4: Conflict on the Home Front; Resistance, Riot, and Social Change; Chapter 5: The Postwar Years and Changing Civil Rights; "An American Dilemma"; Documents; Notes; Annotated Bibliography; About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910956332103321 |
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Wynn Neil A
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| Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010 | ||
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The American ascendancy : how the United States gained and wielded global dominance / / by Michael H. Hunt
| The American ascendancy : how the United States gained and wielded global dominance / / by Michael H. Hunt |
| Autore | Hunt Michael H |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
| Disciplina | 327.73009/04 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MorrisBrian |
| Collana | H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series |
| Soggetto topico |
Hegemony - United States - History
International relations - History Geopolitics World history |
| ISBN |
9798890877734
9780807883419 0807883417 |
| Classificazione | HIS000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Nineteenth-century foundations -- Grand projects, 1898-1920 -- The American way in a fragmenting world, 1921-1940 -- Reaching for geopolitical dominance, 1941-1968 -- In the American image, 1941-1968 -- The Third-World challenge, 1941-1968 -- Disoriented giant, 1968-1991 -- The neoliberal triumph, 1991- -- Conclusion: Hegemony in question. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910958783403321 |
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Hunt Michael H
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| Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American heritage history of the civil war / / Bruce Catton
| American heritage history of the civil war / / Bruce Catton |
| Autore | Catton Bruce |
| Edizione | [1.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newbury, : New Word City, Inc., 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Soggetto topico |
Nonfiction
History |
| Soggetto non controllato | Fiction |
| ISBN | 1-61230-790-6 |
| Classificazione | HIS000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910151767203321 |
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Catton Bruce
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| Newbury, : New Word City, Inc., 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ancient libraries / / edited by Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf [[electronic resource]]
| Ancient libraries / / edited by Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 479 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 002.093 |
| Soggetto topico | Libraries - History - To 400 |
| ISBN |
1-139-89057-3
1-107-24121-9 1-316-62884-1 1-107-24833-7 1-107-25082-X 1-107-24750-0 1-107-24999-6 0-511-99838-4 1-107-24916-3 |
| Classificazione | HIS000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Libraries in ancient Egypt / Kim Ryholt -- 2. Reading the libraries of Assyria and Babylonia /Eleanor Robson -- 3. Fragments of a history of ancient libraries / Christian Jacob -- 4. Men and books in fourth-century BC Athens / Massimo Pinto -- 5. From text to text: the impact of the Alexandrian Library on the work of Hellenistic poets / Annette Harder -- 6. Where was the Royal Library of Pergamon? An institution found and lost again / Gaelle Coqueugniot -- 7. Priests, patrons and playwrights: libraries in Rome before 168 BC / Mike Affleck -- 8. Libraries in a Greek working life: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a case study in Rome / Daniel Hogg -- 9. Libraries and intellectual debate in the Late Republic: the case of the Aristotelian corpus / Fabio Tutrone -- 10. Ashes to ashes? The Library of Alexandria after 48 BC / Myrto Hatzimichali -- 11. The non-Philodemus book collection in the Villa of the Papyri / George W. Houston -- 12. 'Beware of promising your library to anyone': assembling a private library at Rome / T. Keith Dix -- 13. Libraries for the Caesars / Ewen Bowie -- 14. Roman libraries in the city of Rome / Matthew Nicholls -- 15. Flavian libraries in the city of Rome/ Pier Luigi Tucci -- 16. Archives, books and sacred space in Rome / Richard Neudecker -- 17. Visual supplementation and metonymy in the Roman public library / David Petrain -- 18. Libraries and reading culture in the High Empire / William A. Johnson -- 19. Myth and history: Galen and the Alexandrian library / Michael W. Handis -- 20. Libraries and paideia in the Second Sophistic: Galen and Plutarch / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi -- 21. The professional and his books: special libraries in the Roman world / Victor Martínez and Megan Finn Senseney. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779884603321 |
| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ancient libraries / / edited by Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf [[electronic resource]]
| Ancient libraries / / edited by Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 479 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 002.093 |
| Soggetto topico | Libraries - History - To 400 |
| ISBN |
1-139-89057-3
1-107-24121-9 1-316-62884-1 1-107-24833-7 1-107-25082-X 1-107-24750-0 1-107-24999-6 0-511-99838-4 1-107-24916-3 |
| Classificazione | HIS000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Libraries in ancient Egypt / Kim Ryholt -- 2. Reading the libraries of Assyria and Babylonia /Eleanor Robson -- 3. Fragments of a history of ancient libraries / Christian Jacob -- 4. Men and books in fourth-century BC Athens / Massimo Pinto -- 5. From text to text: the impact of the Alexandrian Library on the work of Hellenistic poets / Annette Harder -- 6. Where was the Royal Library of Pergamon? An institution found and lost again / Gaelle Coqueugniot -- 7. Priests, patrons and playwrights: libraries in Rome before 168 BC / Mike Affleck -- 8. Libraries in a Greek working life: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a case study in Rome / Daniel Hogg -- 9. Libraries and intellectual debate in the Late Republic: the case of the Aristotelian corpus / Fabio Tutrone -- 10. Ashes to ashes? The Library of Alexandria after 48 BC / Myrto Hatzimichali -- 11. The non-Philodemus book collection in the Villa of the Papyri / George W. Houston -- 12. 'Beware of promising your library to anyone': assembling a private library at Rome / T. Keith Dix -- 13. Libraries for the Caesars / Ewen Bowie -- 14. Roman libraries in the city of Rome / Matthew Nicholls -- 15. Flavian libraries in the city of Rome/ Pier Luigi Tucci -- 16. Archives, books and sacred space in Rome / Richard Neudecker -- 17. Visual supplementation and metonymy in the Roman public library / David Petrain -- 18. Libraries and reading culture in the High Empire / William A. Johnson -- 19. Myth and history: Galen and the Alexandrian library / Michael W. Handis -- 20. Libraries and paideia in the Second Sophistic: Galen and Plutarch / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi -- 21. The professional and his books: special libraries in the Roman world / Victor Martínez and Megan Finn Senseney. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821896403321 |
| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The ancient world in silent cinema / / edited by Pantelis Michelakis and Maria Wyke [[electronic resource]]
| The ancient world in silent cinema / / edited by Pantelis Michelakis and Maria Wyke [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxi, 379 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 791.43/658 |
| Soggetto topico |
Historical films - History and criticism
Silent films - History and criticism Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures |
| ISBN |
1-107-28957-2
1-139-89068-9 1-107-28908-4 1-107-29397-9 1-107-29118-6 1-139-06007-4 1-107-29013-9 1-107-29290-5 |
| Classificazione | HIS000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ; 1. Introduction: silent cinema, antiquity and 'The Exhaustless Urn of Time' / Pantelis Michelakis and Maria Wyke -- ; Part I. Theories, Histories, Receptions: ; 2. The ancient world on silent film: the view from the archive / Bryony Dixon; ; 3. On visual cogency: the emergence of an antiquity of moving images / Marcus Becker; ; 4. Cinema in the time of the pharaoh / Antonia Lant; ; 5. 'Hieroglyphics in motion': representing ancient Egypt and the Middle East in film theory and criticism of the silent period / Laura Marcus; ; 6. Architecture and art dance meet in the ancient world / David Mayer; ; 7. Ancient Rome in London: classical subjects in the forefront of cinema's expansion after 1910 / Ian Christie; ; 8. Gloria Swanson as Venus: silent stardom, antiquity and the classical vernacular / Michael Williams; ; 9. Homer in silent cinema / Pantelis Michelakis -- ; Part II. Movement, Image, Music, Text:: ; 10. Silent saviours: representations of Jesus' Passion in early cinema / Caroline Vander Stichele; ; 11. The Kalem Ben-Hur (1907) / Jon Solomon; ; 12. Judith's vampish virtue and its double market appeal / Judith Buchanan; ; 13. Competing ancient worlds in early historical film: the example of Cabiria (1914) / Annette Dorgerloh; ; 14. Peplum, melodrama and musicality: Giuliano l'Apostata (1919) / Giuseppe Pucci; ; 15. 'An orgy Sunday school children can watch': the spectacle of sex and the seduction of spectacle in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923) / David Shepherd; ; 16. Silent laughter and the counter-historical: Buster Keaton's Three Ages (1923) / Maria Wyke; ; 17. From Roman history to German nationalism: Arminius and Varus in Die Hermannschlacht (1924) / Martin M. Winkler; ; 18. The 1925 Ben-Hur and the 'Hollywood Question' / Ruth Scodel; ; 19. Consuming passions: Helen of Troy in the jazz age / Margaret Malamud. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790614803321 |
| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The ancient world in silent cinema / / edited by Pantelis Michelakis and Maria Wyke [[electronic resource]]
| The ancient world in silent cinema / / edited by Pantelis Michelakis and Maria Wyke [[electronic resource]] |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxi, 379 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 791.43/658 |
| Soggetto topico |
Historical films - History and criticism
Silent films - History and criticism Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures |
| ISBN |
1-107-28957-2
1-139-89068-9 1-107-28908-4 1-107-29397-9 1-107-29118-6 1-139-06007-4 1-107-29013-9 1-107-29290-5 |
| Classificazione | HIS000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ; 1. Introduction: silent cinema, antiquity and 'The Exhaustless Urn of Time' / Pantelis Michelakis and Maria Wyke -- ; Part I. Theories, Histories, Receptions: ; 2. The ancient world on silent film: the view from the archive / Bryony Dixon; ; 3. On visual cogency: the emergence of an antiquity of moving images / Marcus Becker; ; 4. Cinema in the time of the pharaoh / Antonia Lant; ; 5. 'Hieroglyphics in motion': representing ancient Egypt and the Middle East in film theory and criticism of the silent period / Laura Marcus; ; 6. Architecture and art dance meet in the ancient world / David Mayer; ; 7. Ancient Rome in London: classical subjects in the forefront of cinema's expansion after 1910 / Ian Christie; ; 8. Gloria Swanson as Venus: silent stardom, antiquity and the classical vernacular / Michael Williams; ; 9. Homer in silent cinema / Pantelis Michelakis -- ; Part II. Movement, Image, Music, Text:: ; 10. Silent saviours: representations of Jesus' Passion in early cinema / Caroline Vander Stichele; ; 11. The Kalem Ben-Hur (1907) / Jon Solomon; ; 12. Judith's vampish virtue and its double market appeal / Judith Buchanan; ; 13. Competing ancient worlds in early historical film: the example of Cabiria (1914) / Annette Dorgerloh; ; 14. Peplum, melodrama and musicality: Giuliano l'Apostata (1919) / Giuseppe Pucci; ; 15. 'An orgy Sunday school children can watch': the spectacle of sex and the seduction of spectacle in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923) / David Shepherd; ; 16. Silent laughter and the counter-historical: Buster Keaton's Three Ages (1923) / Maria Wyke; ; 17. From Roman history to German nationalism: Arminius and Varus in Die Hermannschlacht (1924) / Martin M. Winkler; ; 18. The 1925 Ben-Hur and the 'Hollywood Question' / Ruth Scodel; ; 19. Consuming passions: Helen of Troy in the jazz age / Margaret Malamud. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823444403321 |
| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The art of biography in Antiquity / / Tomas Hägg [[electronic resource]]
| The art of biography in Antiquity / / Tomas Hägg [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Hägg Tomas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 496 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 880.9/35 |
| Soggetto topico |
Classical biography - History and criticism
Biography as a literary form |
| ISBN |
1-139-36617-3
1-107-23050-0 1-280-64762-0 9786613633675 1-139-37873-2 1-139-06132-1 1-139-37587-3 1-139-37730-2 1-139-37188-6 1-139-38016-8 |
| Classificazione | HIS000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Prolegomena on biography modern and ancient -- 1. In the beginning was Xenophon: memoir, encomium, romance -- 2. Hellenistic theory and practice: fragments of industry -- 3. Popular heroes: the slave, the king, the poet -- 4. The Gospels: from sayings to a full life -- 5. Political biography at Rome: a new start -- 6. Plutarch and his Parallel Lives: ethical biography -- 7. Ways of life: philosophers and holy men -- Epilogue on ancient and Christian biography. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779155603321 |
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Hägg Tomas
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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