Downwind : a people's history of the nuclear West / / Sarah Alisabeth Fox |
Autore | Fox Sarah Alisabeth <1981-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, England : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (480 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.7380978 |
Soggetto topico |
Uranium miners - Health and hygiene - West (U.S.)
Uranium mines and mining - Health aspects - Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah Nuclear weapons testing victims - West (U.S.) Nuclear weapons - Testing - West (U.S.) - History Nuclear weapons - Testing - Health aspects Radioactive fallout - Health aspects - West (U.S.) Radiation - Health aspects - West (U.S.) BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Infrastructure SOCIAL SCIENCE - General HISTORY - United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah Nuclear industry - Health aspects Nuclear weapons testing victims Radiation - Health aspects Uranium miners - Health and hygiene Uranium mines and mining - Health aspects |
ISBN |
1-4962-0766-1
0-8032-6950-1 0-8032-6949-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Living under the cloud -- Unearthing yellow monsters -- Home on the range -- Locally grown -- Writing down names -- Critical mass -- Conclusion. |
Altri titoli varianti | People's history of the nuclear West |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787193203321 |
Fox Sarah Alisabeth <1981->
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Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, England : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 | ||
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Downwind : a people's history of the nuclear West / / Sarah Alisabeth Fox |
Autore | Fox Sarah Alisabeth <1981-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, England : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (480 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.7380978 |
Soggetto topico |
Uranium miners - Health and hygiene - West (U.S.)
Uranium mines and mining - Health aspects - Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah Nuclear weapons testing victims - West (U.S.) Nuclear weapons - Testing - West (U.S.) - History Nuclear weapons - Testing - Health aspects Radioactive fallout - Health aspects - West (U.S.) Radiation - Health aspects - West (U.S.) BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Infrastructure SOCIAL SCIENCE - General HISTORY - United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah Nuclear industry - Health aspects Nuclear weapons testing victims Radiation - Health aspects Uranium miners - Health and hygiene Uranium mines and mining - Health aspects |
ISBN |
1-4962-0766-1
0-8032-6950-1 0-8032-6949-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Living under the cloud -- Unearthing yellow monsters -- Home on the range -- Locally grown -- Writing down names -- Critical mass -- Conclusion. |
Altri titoli varianti | People's history of the nuclear West |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807985203321 |
Fox Sarah Alisabeth <1981->
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Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, England : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 | ||
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In Pursuit of Alaska : An Anthology of Travelers' Tales, 1879-1909 / / Jean Morgan Meaux |
Autore | Meaux Jean Morgan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 917.98/03 |
Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings
Travel Frontier and pioneer life HISTORY - United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) TRAVEL - Special Interest - Adventure TRAVEL - Road Travel TRAVEL - Reference TRAVEL - Parks & Campgrounds TRAVEL - Special Interest - Ecotourism TRAVEL - Budget TRAVEL - Hikes & Walks TRAVEL - Museums, Tours, Points of Interest Frontier and pioneer life - Alaska |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Anecdotes. Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-295-80472-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface: Jumping Off the End of the Earth -- Note on Original Sources -- Part I. Romantic Voyage : A Tour of Southeastern Alaska -- Fort Wrangel, Alaska, August 8, 1879 / John Muir -- A Great Day in Sitka / Charles Hallock -- The Patriarch and His Little Detective / C.C. Hine -- The Alaska Barnum's Dancers / Septima M. Collis -- Riding the Rails through White Pass Canyon / Charles M. Taylor, Jr. -- Part II. Untamed Alaska : Into the Vast Unknown -- Chilcat Mission, Haines, Alaska / Caroline Willard -- Living Upon the Country / Lieutenant Henry T. Allen -- Escape from Icy Bay / H.W. Seton Karr -- Living Off the Enemy / John Bremner -- Whaling with the Fleet of 1887 / Herbert L. Aldrich -- Perilous Crawl Up the Chilkoot / Harry de Windt -- One Night on Valdez Glacier / Captain William Abercrombie -- From Nowhere to Nowhere / Robert Dunn -- Invitation to a Card Game / Agnes Herbert -- Mistakes at Sixty Below / Hudson Stuck -- Part III. Inexhaustible Optimism : The Mad Rush for Gold -- Outfit for an Argonaut / Ernest Ingersoll -- Heartbreak on the White Pass / Robert C. Kirk -- Ho for the Land of Gold! / Mary E. Hitchcock -- The Mosquitoes' Bugle on the Koyukuk / J.D. Winchester -- A Bureaucrat Comes to Call / Josiah Edward Spurr -- Pluck on the Kowak / Joseph Grinnell -- No Time for Sonatas / May Kellogg Sullivan -- Playing for Stakes / M. Clark -- The Great White Silence / Edward J. Devine -- The Alien God of Gold / Addison M. Powell -- On the Other Side of Disenchantment Bay / Arthur Arnold Dietz -- Twenty-One Days from Rampart City / John F. Stacey -- Epilogue: A Cabin on the Edge of the Forest -- Chronology of Alaska History through 1910. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460269203321 |
Meaux Jean Morgan
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Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2013 | ||
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In Pursuit of Alaska : An Anthology of Travelers' Tales, 1879-1909 / / Jean Morgan Meaux |
Autore | Meaux Jean Morgan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 917.98/03 |
Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings
Travel Frontier and pioneer life HISTORY - United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) TRAVEL - Special Interest - Adventure TRAVEL - Road Travel TRAVEL - Reference TRAVEL - Parks & Campgrounds TRAVEL - Special Interest - Ecotourism TRAVEL - Budget TRAVEL - Hikes & Walks TRAVEL - Museums, Tours, Points of Interest Frontier and pioneer life - Alaska |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Anecdotes. |
ISBN | 0-295-80472-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface: Jumping Off the End of the Earth -- Note on Original Sources -- Part I. Romantic Voyage : A Tour of Southeastern Alaska -- Fort Wrangel, Alaska, August 8, 1879 / John Muir -- A Great Day in Sitka / Charles Hallock -- The Patriarch and His Little Detective / C.C. Hine -- The Alaska Barnum's Dancers / Septima M. Collis -- Riding the Rails through White Pass Canyon / Charles M. Taylor, Jr. -- Part II. Untamed Alaska : Into the Vast Unknown -- Chilcat Mission, Haines, Alaska / Caroline Willard -- Living Upon the Country / Lieutenant Henry T. Allen -- Escape from Icy Bay / H.W. Seton Karr -- Living Off the Enemy / John Bremner -- Whaling with the Fleet of 1887 / Herbert L. Aldrich -- Perilous Crawl Up the Chilkoot / Harry de Windt -- One Night on Valdez Glacier / Captain William Abercrombie -- From Nowhere to Nowhere / Robert Dunn -- Invitation to a Card Game / Agnes Herbert -- Mistakes at Sixty Below / Hudson Stuck -- Part III. Inexhaustible Optimism : The Mad Rush for Gold -- Outfit for an Argonaut / Ernest Ingersoll -- Heartbreak on the White Pass / Robert C. Kirk -- Ho for the Land of Gold! / Mary E. Hitchcock -- The Mosquitoes' Bugle on the Koyukuk / J.D. Winchester -- A Bureaucrat Comes to Call / Josiah Edward Spurr -- Pluck on the Kowak / Joseph Grinnell -- No Time for Sonatas / May Kellogg Sullivan -- Playing for Stakes / M. Clark -- The Great White Silence / Edward J. Devine -- The Alien God of Gold / Addison M. Powell -- On the Other Side of Disenchantment Bay / Arthur Arnold Dietz -- Twenty-One Days from Rampart City / John F. Stacey -- Epilogue: A Cabin on the Edge of the Forest -- Chronology of Alaska History through 1910. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797900403321 |
Meaux Jean Morgan
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Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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In Pursuit of Alaska : An Anthology of Travelers' Tales, 1879-1909 / / Jean Morgan Meaux |
Autore | Meaux Jean Morgan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 917.98/03 |
Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings
Travel Frontier and pioneer life HISTORY - United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) TRAVEL - Special Interest - Adventure TRAVEL - Road Travel TRAVEL - Reference TRAVEL - Parks & Campgrounds TRAVEL - Special Interest - Ecotourism TRAVEL - Budget TRAVEL - Hikes & Walks TRAVEL - Museums, Tours, Points of Interest Frontier and pioneer life - Alaska |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Anecdotes. |
ISBN | 0-295-80472-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface: Jumping Off the End of the Earth -- Note on Original Sources -- Part I. Romantic Voyage : A Tour of Southeastern Alaska -- Fort Wrangel, Alaska, August 8, 1879 / John Muir -- A Great Day in Sitka / Charles Hallock -- The Patriarch and His Little Detective / C.C. Hine -- The Alaska Barnum's Dancers / Septima M. Collis -- Riding the Rails through White Pass Canyon / Charles M. Taylor, Jr. -- Part II. Untamed Alaska : Into the Vast Unknown -- Chilcat Mission, Haines, Alaska / Caroline Willard -- Living Upon the Country / Lieutenant Henry T. Allen -- Escape from Icy Bay / H.W. Seton Karr -- Living Off the Enemy / John Bremner -- Whaling with the Fleet of 1887 / Herbert L. Aldrich -- Perilous Crawl Up the Chilkoot / Harry de Windt -- One Night on Valdez Glacier / Captain William Abercrombie -- From Nowhere to Nowhere / Robert Dunn -- Invitation to a Card Game / Agnes Herbert -- Mistakes at Sixty Below / Hudson Stuck -- Part III. Inexhaustible Optimism : The Mad Rush for Gold -- Outfit for an Argonaut / Ernest Ingersoll -- Heartbreak on the White Pass / Robert C. Kirk -- Ho for the Land of Gold! / Mary E. Hitchcock -- The Mosquitoes' Bugle on the Koyukuk / J.D. Winchester -- A Bureaucrat Comes to Call / Josiah Edward Spurr -- Pluck on the Kowak / Joseph Grinnell -- No Time for Sonatas / May Kellogg Sullivan -- Playing for Stakes / M. Clark -- The Great White Silence / Edward J. Devine -- The Alien God of Gold / Addison M. Powell -- On the Other Side of Disenchantment Bay / Arthur Arnold Dietz -- Twenty-One Days from Rampart City / John F. Stacey -- Epilogue: A Cabin on the Edge of the Forest -- Chronology of Alaska History through 1910. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819819903321 |
Meaux Jean Morgan
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Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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