Agency and Locality in the London Blitz / / by Darren Bryant
| Agency and Locality in the London Blitz / / by Darren Bryant |
| Autore | Bryant Darren |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 940.54/2121 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns - History
Great Britain - History World War, 1939-1945 History, Modern Human ecology - History Urban History History of Britain and Ireland History of World War II and the Holocaust Modern History Environmental History |
| ISBN |
9783031509858
3031509854 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction and Historiography -- Preamble -- Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940 -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Tip and Run Raids: 1943 -- Little Blitz: 1944 -- V-Weapons: 1944–1945 -- Historiography Review -- Critique of Historiography: An Absence of Locality -- Historiographical Themes: Home Front Studies -- Historiographical Themes: The Myth of the Blitz -- Shaping Wartime Experience: Metropolitan Differentials -- Class -- Gender -- Race -- Shaping Wartime Experience: The Agency of Locality -- Local Area Analysis -- The Six London Boroughs -- Metropolitan London: Finsbury -- Metropolitan London: Bermondsey -- Metropolitan London: Kensington -- Suburban Essex: East Ham -- Suburban Surrey: Croydon -- Suburban Middlesex: Acton -- Applying a Thematic Approach -- 2 Planning for War: London and the Localities -- Pre-War Fears -- Planning for War: Central Government -- Planning for War: Regional and County Level -- Planning for War: Local Authorities -- Metropolitan London: Finsbury -- Metropolitan London: Bermondsey -- Metropolitan London: Kensington -- Suburban Essex: East Ham -- Suburban Surrey: Croydon -- Suburban Middlesex: Acton -- 3 Main London Blitz Local Response: Metropolitan London -- Air Raids -- Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940 -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Shelters -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Homelessness: Rest Centres -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Communal Feeding -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- 4 Main London Blitz Local Response: The Suburbs -- Air Raids -- Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940 -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Shelters -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Homelessness: Rest Centres -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Communal Feeding -- Eve of the MainLondon Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- 5 Post-Blitz London: The Local Response -- Tip and Run Raids 1943 -- Little Blitz 1944 -- V-Weapons 1944–1945 -- 6 Local Response: Conclusions. |
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Bryant Darren
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Animals and Science Fiction / / edited by Nora Castle, Giulia Champion
| Animals and Science Fiction / / edited by Nora Castle, Giulia Champion |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 pages) |
| Disciplina | 050 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction
Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Literature - Philosophy Popular culture Human ecology - History Philosophy Postcolonialism Fiction Literature Contemporary Literature Literary Theory Popular Culture Environmental History Postcolonial Philosophy |
| ISBN |
9783031416958
3031416953 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. “Introduction: Reading the Speculative Animal” -- Chapter 2. From Animal Alterity to Animal Studies and SF Today: A Conversation with Sherryl Vint -- Chapter 3. “Safe in each other’s scaly arms”: Solace, Oddkinship, and the Third Position in African Speculative Texts -- Chapter 4. Playing the Animal: Imagining the Nonhuman Animal in 2-Dimensional Action and Adventure Games -- Chapter 5. Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney and the Species Politics of Risk -- Chapter 6. Listening to Nonhuman Animals in Science Fiction Film: Establishing Empathy through Dinosaur Voices in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom -- Chapter 7. “Muzzle for the Queen”: Settler-Nonhuman Entanglements in Australian Speculative Ecofiction -- Chapter 8. Reading the Speaking Animal: Biotechnology and Animal “Uplift” in Adam Roberts’s Bête -- Chapter 9. Spacefaring Animals and Their Humans: A Study in Extraction, Exploitation, and Co-Evolution -- Chapter 10. To “Jump” into an Animal’s Body: Empathy, Care, and ResExtendas in Emma Geen’s The Many Selves of Katherine North -- Chapter 11. “alien guest, courting the goodwill of a demonic microbe”: Living Poetry, NHAs and “Aliens Among Us” in Christian Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 1 -- Chapter 12. Disemboweling the Hyperreal in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja -- Chapter 13. A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy -- Chapter 14. Africanfuturist Assemblages of the Undersea in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon -- Chapter 15. To Build a World: The Return of Biota in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle -- Chapter 16. A Multispecies Right to the City? Reimagining the Speculative Narratives of Urban Sustainability -- Chapter 17. Divination with Digital Animals: Sci-fi Realism in Jia Zhangke’s Tian Zhuding (A Touch of Sin) -- Chapter 18. “The Face of Extinction”: On Haunted Futures with Machine Animals -- Chapter 19. Mesozoic Miscegenation: Erotic Fiction’s Resurrection of Dinosaurs -- Chapter 20. A “speculation built on fact”: On Dougal Dixon’s Zoology of the Future. |
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Animals as Experiencing Entities : Theories and Historical Narratives / / edited by Michael J. Glover, Les Mitchell
| Animals as Experiencing Entities : Theories and Historical Narratives / / edited by Michael J. Glover, Les Mitchell |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 pages) |
| Disciplina | 591.5 |
| Collana | The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Animal welfare - Moral and ethical aspects
Animal culture Human ecology - History Philosophy of nature Animal Ethics Animal Science Environmental History Philosophy of Nature |
| ISBN |
9783031464560
3031464567 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: ‘caught with ourselves in the net of life and time’ -- Part I. Animals as Experiencing Entities, Theories and Perspectives -- 2. Je suis, Je suis – I am, I follow: Formation of Animal Individual and Cultural Selves -- 3. Pain in Context: Indicators and Expressions of Animal Pain -- 4. Critical Animal Historiography, Experiential Subjectivity and Animal Standpoint Theory -- 5. Sensing Life: Intersections of Animal and Sensory Histories -- Part II. Animals’ Experiences in Narratives and History -- 6. History According To Cattle -- 7. A Historiography of Great Animal Massacres -- 8. From French Guinea to Florida: Chimpanzees as Multi-Purpose Objects of Research (1920s-1940s) -- 9. Animals And Colonial Indian Archives: Locating Nonhuman Agency and Subjectivities -- 10. Law Through the Eyes of Animals -- 11. Stolen Children of the Endless Night. A Critical Account of the Lives of British PitPonies. |
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Anthropocene Poetry : Place, Environment, and Planet / / by Yvonne Reddick
| Anthropocene Poetry : Place, Environment, and Planet / / by Yvonne Reddick |
| Autore | Reddick Yvonne |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (397 pages) |
| Disciplina |
809.104
809.193553 |
| Collana | Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment |
| Soggetto topico |
Ecocriticism
Poetry Communication in the environmental sciences Human ecology - History Poetry and Poetics Environmental Communication Environmental History |
| ISBN |
9783031393891
3031393899 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Anthropocene Poetry -- 3. ‘The World in a Glance’: Ted Hughes, Anthropocene Scales and Environmental Cosmopolitanism -- 4. Seamus Heaney’s Environmental Poetry: Conservation Causes, Deep Time, Shifting Scales and Climate Change -- 5. Alice Oswald: Voyaging in Anthropocene Waters -- 6. Pascale Petit: Entanglement, Animals and the ‘Anthropocene Extinction’ -- 7. Kei Miller: Ecopoetics of Relation, Resistance and Grief -- 8. Seasonal Disturbances: Environment, Migration, Science and an Anthropocene Poetics of Relation in Karen McCarthy Woolf’s Work -- 9. Coda: Everyday poems from the anthropocene and the Anthropocene Issue. |
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Reddick Yvonne
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Apocalyptic California : Gender in Climate Fiction / / by MaryKate Messimer
| Apocalyptic California : Gender in Climate Fiction / / by MaryKate Messimer |
| Autore | Messimer MaryKate |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (120 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.93355 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
Literature, Modern - 21st century America - Literatures Ecocriticism Literature - Philosophy Feminism and literature Human ecology - History Contemporary Literature North American Literature Feminist Literary Theory Environmental History |
| ISBN |
9783031299209
9783031299193 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Indigenous Influences on Early Ecofeminist Utopias -- Chapter Three: Cruel Optimism in the Slow Violence of Apocalypse -- Chapter Four: Hyperobjects and Hyperempathy in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower -- Chapter Five: Embodying the Land in N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season. |
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Messimer MaryKate
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Byzantine Tree Life : Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination / / by Thomas Arentzen, Virginia Burrus, Glenn Peers
| Byzantine Tree Life : Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination / / by Thomas Arentzen, Virginia Burrus, Glenn Peers |
| Autore | Arentzen Thomas <1976-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 pages) |
| Disciplina |
582.16
949.5013 |
| Collana | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Europe - History - 476-1492
Human ecology - History Civilization - History History of Medieval Europe Environmental History Cultural History |
| ISBN |
9783030759025
3030759024 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Writing on Trees -- 3. In the Beginning, Trees -- 4. Becoming-Tree -- 5. Three Leaves: A Theopoetic Epilogue. |
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Arentzen Thomas <1976->
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Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship : Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research / / edited by Alex Franklin
| Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship : Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research / / edited by Alex Franklin |
| Autore | Franklin Alex (Alexandra) |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxi, 577 pages) |
| Disciplina | 338.927072 |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental sciences - Social aspects
Environmental geography Ecology Human ecology - History Human geography Landscape architecture Environmental Social Sciences Integrated Geography Environmental Sciences Environmental History Human Geography Landscape Architecture |
| ISBN |
9783030842482
9783030842505 978303084247 |
| Classificazione | HIS000000POL044000SCI026000SCI030000SOC015000SOC026000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Sustainability Science as Co-Creative Research Praxis -- 2. Painting Outside the Lines: Transgressing the Managerial University, Avoiding Forced Creativity -- 3. Cooking commoning subjectivities: guerrilla narrative in the Cooperation Birmingham solidarity kitchen -- 4. Participative and decolonial approaches in environmental history -- 5. An Ethos and Practice of Appreciation for Transformative Research: Appreciative Inquiry, Care Ethics, and Creative Method -- 6. Imaginative Leadership: A conceptual frame for the design and facilitation of creative methods and generative engagement -- 7. Insights and inspiration from explorative research into the impacts of a community arts project -- 8. How to nurture ground for arts-based co-creative practice in an invited space: reflections on a community in North Netherlands -- 9. Reflections on doing cross-cultural research through and with visual methods -- 10. The Eye of the Beholder: Applying visual analysis in an historical study oflynxes' representations in the Bavarian Forest region -- 11. Back to the drawing board: creative mapping methods for inclusion and connection -- 12. 'Getting deep into things': Deep mapping in a 'vacant' landscape -- 13. Engaging 'future generations' in meaning making through visual methods: an alternative approach to defining city-regions -- 14. Technology as a Tool for Environmental Engagement. The case of Digital Participatory Mapping (DPM) -- 15. Living Labs: a creative and collaborative planning approach -- 16. Supporting institutional transformations: experimenting with reflexive and embodied cross-boundary research -- 17. How to make policy makers care about "wicked problems" such as biodiversity loss? - the case of a policy campaign. |
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Franklin Alex (Alexandra)
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| 2021 | ||
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Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power, 1790–1880 : Decarbonising Imperial History / / edited by Liz Conor
| Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power, 1790–1880 : Decarbonising Imperial History / / edited by Liz Conor |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (213 pages) |
| Disciplina | 338.2724 |
| Collana | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Imperialism
World history Human ecology - History Great Britain - History Science - History Australasia History Imperialism and Colonialism World History, Global and Transnational History Environmental History History of Britain and Ireland History of Science Australian History |
| ISBN |
9783031511509
3031511506 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 01: Cotton, coal, colonialism: Re-thinking the fossil economy in the geopolitical context of British imperialism -- Chapter 02: Colonial Staples: Steam Imperialism in Britain’s Carbon Frontier of Victoria -- Chapter 03: Steam-powered but Wood-fired: Coal and Renewable Energy in Colonial Economies -- Chapter 04: Awabakal and Nikkin: Reconnecting histories of first peoples, coal and colonists -- Chapter 05: Carbon Old and New: The Australian Agricultural Company, Coal, Wood and the complexities of energy transition in New South Wales, 1825 – 1847 -- Chapter 06: Cheap energy, cheap nature: Newcastle/ Awabakal coals in colonial capitalism, 1850-1880. |
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Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era / / by Keith Moser
| Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era / / by Keith Moser |
| Autore | Moser Keith A. |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Disciplina |
570.14
809.9336 |
| Collana | Sustainable Development Goals Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Ecocriticism
European literature Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Human ecology - History Continental philosophy European Literature Contemporary Literature Environmental History Continental Philosophy |
| ISBN |
9783030961299
9783030961282 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Chapter 1: Michel Serres's Biosemiotic Thought: Writing the "Immense Rhapsody" or "Great Story" of Life -- Chapter 2: Edgar Morin's Complex, "Ecologized" Thought: The Ubiquity of "Informational Capital" on the Battlefield of Life in the COVID-19 Era -- Chapter 3: The Biosemiosic Gaze of the "Wholly Other" and the Philosophical Exercise of "Limitrophy" in Jacques Derrida's Posthumous Philosophy -- Chapter 4: Michel Onfray's Biosemiotic, Materialistic, and Post-Monotheistic Reworking of Human and Other-Than-Human Semiosis -- Chapter 5: Dominique Lestel's Pioneering Biosemiotic Vision of "The Enchanted Space of Trans-Specific Communication" Within Hybrid Societies. |
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Moser Keith A.
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The Crusades and Nature : Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages / / edited by Jessalynn L. Bird, Elizabeth Lapina
| The Crusades and Nature : Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages / / edited by Jessalynn L. Bird, Elizabeth Lapina |
| Autore | Bird Jessalynn L |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (354 pages) |
| Disciplina |
809.02
950 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LapinaElizabeth |
| Collana | The New Middle Ages |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Medieval
Ecocriticism Europe - History - 476-1492 Human ecology - History Philosophy, Medieval Religion - History Medieval Literature History of Medieval Europe Environmental History Medieval Philosophy History of Religion |
| ISBN |
9783031587863
3031587863 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey?: Agrarian Environments in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem -- 3. A Porous Boundary: Natural and Supernatural in the Hystoria de via -- 4. Crusaders as Microcosm: Soldiers, Pilgrims and their Intestinal Parasites in the Medieval Mediterranean -- 5. Real Animals in the Siege d'Antioche -- 6, The Wonders of Nature: Imaginary and Imagined Animals in the Fictional Universe of the First Crusade -- 7. Were Medieval Seamen Aware of Mediterranean Currents? -- 8. Estrela do mar: the Sea as a Destination of Crusade in the Cantigas de Santa Maria -- 9. An Encounter with Alterity: Western Chronicles of the Third and Fourth Crusade and the Natural Environment of South-Eastern Europe -- 10. The Comets of 1264 and 1299: A Comparative Look at the Near Eastern Sources -- 11. Ad terram Prusie . . . Quasi vinea de Egipto translata: The Role of the Natural World in the Written and Visual Culture of the Prussian Crusades, 1230-1390 -- 12. ‘The root of bitterness’: Crusade and the eradication of heresy from the Occitanian landscape in Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay’s Historia Albigensis -- 13. Darkness Visible: Nature, Superstition, and Miracles in the Historia Albigensis of Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay -- 14. The Natural World as Book (Mis)Read by Paris Theologians and Competing Faiths. |
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Bird Jessalynn L
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