The 1970s [[electronic resource] ] : a new global history from civil rights to economic inequality / / Thomas Borstelmann |
Autore | Borstelmann Thomas |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 909.82/7 |
Collana | America in the world |
Soggetto topico |
Equality - United States - History - 20th century
Nineteen seventies |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
1960s
1970s African Americans American culture American history American politics American society Jimmy Carter U.S. economy Vietnam Watergate scandal civil rights class differences cultural left cultural liberalism deregulation diverse public culture economic changes economic conservatism economic decline economic deregulation economic insecurity economic right egalitarianism environmentalism ethnic diversity formal equality free market free-market economics free-market values gender hierarchies gender segregation gender globalization homosexuality human equality human rights imperialism inclusiveness individualism inequalities inflation mainstream American culture market solutions market values military retrenchment national self-determination oil crisis political corruption political development public authority racial diversity racism recession religion social development social inclusiveness socialism world history |
ISBN |
1-283-26744-6
9786613267443 1-4008-3970-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Crosscurrents of crisis in 1970s America : trouble abroad, corruption at home, conservatism and the distrust of government, economic insecurity, turning inward -- The rising tide of equality and democratic reform : women in the public sphere, women in the private sphere, the many frontiers of equality, political reform, resistance -- The spread of market values : a sea change of principles, the economy goes south, globalization's gathering speed, from citizenship to deregulation, market solutions for every problem, a freer market, a coarser culture -- The retreat of empires and the global advance of the market : the emergence of human rights, European empires and Southern Africa, the Soviet Empire, the American empire, the Israeli exception, the retreat of the state, China and the hollowing out of socialism -- Resistance to the new hyper-individualism : the environmentalist challenge, religious resurgence at home, religious resurgence in Israel, religious resurgence in the Muslim world, Jimmy Carter as a man of his times -- More and less equal since the 1970s : evidence to the contrary, inclusiveness ascending, markets persisting, unrestrained consumption, inequality rising. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457056203321 |
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Princton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2012 | ||
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The 1970s [[electronic resource] ] : a new global history from civil rights to economic inequality / / Thomas Borstelmann |
Autore | Borstelmann Thomas |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 909.82/7 |
Collana | America in the world |
Soggetto topico |
Equality - United States - History - 20th century
Nineteen seventies |
Soggetto non controllato |
1960s
1970s African Americans American culture American history American politics American society Jimmy Carter U.S. economy Vietnam Watergate scandal civil rights class differences cultural left cultural liberalism deregulation diverse public culture economic changes economic conservatism economic decline economic deregulation economic insecurity economic right egalitarianism environmentalism ethnic diversity formal equality free market free-market economics free-market values gender hierarchies gender segregation gender globalization homosexuality human equality human rights imperialism inclusiveness individualism inequalities inflation mainstream American culture market solutions market values military retrenchment national self-determination oil crisis political corruption political development public authority racial diversity racism recession religion social development social inclusiveness socialism world history |
ISBN |
1-283-26744-6
9786613267443 1-4008-3970-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Crosscurrents of crisis in 1970s America : trouble abroad, corruption at home, conservatism and the distrust of government, economic insecurity, turning inward -- The rising tide of equality and democratic reform : women in the public sphere, women in the private sphere, the many frontiers of equality, political reform, resistance -- The spread of market values : a sea change of principles, the economy goes south, globalization's gathering speed, from citizenship to deregulation, market solutions for every problem, a freer market, a coarser culture -- The retreat of empires and the global advance of the market : the emergence of human rights, European empires and Southern Africa, the Soviet Empire, the American empire, the Israeli exception, the retreat of the state, China and the hollowing out of socialism -- Resistance to the new hyper-individualism : the environmentalist challenge, religious resurgence at home, religious resurgence in Israel, religious resurgence in the Muslim world, Jimmy Carter as a man of his times -- More and less equal since the 1970s : evidence to the contrary, inclusiveness ascending, markets persisting, unrestrained consumption, inequality rising. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781764303321 |
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The global remapping of American literature [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Giles |
Autore | Giles Paul |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/32 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Geography in literature Boundaries in literature Space in literature Regionalism in literature National characteristics, American, in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
American Civil War
American Renaissance American South American broadcasting American culture American literary studies American literature Augustan American literature Cotton Mather Dave Eggers David Foster Wallace Don DeLillo Douglas Coupland Elizabeth Bishop European medievalism F. O. Matthiessen F. Scott Fitzgerald Flix Guattari Gary Snyder Gertrude Stein Gilles Deleuze Jos Mart Magnalia Christi Americana Nathaniel Hawthorne Native Americans New England Pacific Northwest Philip Roth Phillis Wheatley Ralph Waldo Emerson Richard Brautigan South America Timothy Dwight Toni Morrison U.S. national identity Ursula Le Guin Voice of America Wallace Stevens William Dean Howells William Faulkner William Gibson William Gilmore Simms Zora Neale Hurston allegory antebellum narratives cartography deterritorialization electronic media extravagance geography globalization liberal democracy medieval American literature medievalism metaregionalism modernism narratives national space place plantations poetry pseudo-geography regionalism social boundaries space technological innovations transnationalism |
ISBN |
1-282-96451-8
9786612964510 1-4008-3651-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the deterritorialization of American literature -- Part one: Temporal latitudes. Augustan American literature: an aesthetics of extravagance; medieval American literature: antebellum narratives and the "map of the infinite" -- Part two: The boundaries of the nation. The arcs of modernism: geography as allegory; suburb, network, homeland: national space and the rhetoric of broadcasting -- Part three: Spatial longitudes. Hemispheric parallax: South America and the American South; metaregionalism: the global pacific northwest -- Conclusion: American literature and the question of circumference. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458183403321 |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2010 | ||
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The global remapping of American literature [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Giles |
Autore | Giles Paul |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/32 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Geography in literature Boundaries in literature Space in literature Regionalism in literature National characteristics, American, in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
American Civil War
American Renaissance American South American broadcasting American culture American literary studies American literature Augustan American literature Cotton Mather Dave Eggers David Foster Wallace Don DeLillo Douglas Coupland Elizabeth Bishop European medievalism F. O. Matthiessen F. Scott Fitzgerald Flix Guattari Gary Snyder Gertrude Stein Gilles Deleuze Jos Mart Magnalia Christi Americana Nathaniel Hawthorne Native Americans New England Pacific Northwest Philip Roth Phillis Wheatley Ralph Waldo Emerson Richard Brautigan South America Timothy Dwight Toni Morrison U.S. national identity Ursula Le Guin Voice of America Wallace Stevens William Dean Howells William Faulkner William Gibson William Gilmore Simms Zora Neale Hurston allegory antebellum narratives cartography deterritorialization electronic media extravagance geography globalization liberal democracy medieval American literature medievalism metaregionalism modernism narratives national space place plantations poetry pseudo-geography regionalism social boundaries space technological innovations transnationalism |
ISBN |
1-282-96451-8
9786612964510 1-4008-3651-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the deterritorialization of American literature -- Part one: Temporal latitudes. Augustan American literature: an aesthetics of extravagance; medieval American literature: antebellum narratives and the "map of the infinite" -- Part two: The boundaries of the nation. The arcs of modernism: geography as allegory; suburb, network, homeland: national space and the rhetoric of broadcasting -- Part three: Spatial longitudes. Hemispheric parallax: South America and the American South; metaregionalism: the global pacific northwest -- Conclusion: American literature and the question of circumference. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791566403321 |
Giles Paul
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Peter Carey [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Woodcock Bruce |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 1996 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
Disciplina | 823 |
Collana | Contemporary World Writers |
Soggetto topico |
Postcolonialism in literature - Australia
Postcolonialism English English Literature Languages & Literatures |
Soggetto non controllato |
American culture
American imperialism Bliss Illywhacker Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey's fictions Tax Inspector Unusual Life of Tristan Smith capitalism counter-revolutionary resistance movement fable-like scenarios fictional practice gender humour narrative modes post-colonialism post-modernism retro-speculative fiction twentieth-century Australian history war crimes |
ISBN |
1-78170-053-2
1-84779-430-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgements; Series editor's foreword; Chronology; 1 Contexts and intertexts; 2 The stories; 3 Bliss (1981); 4 Illywhacker (1985); 5 Oscar and Lucinda (1988); 6 The Tax Inspector (1991); 7 The Unusal Life of Tristan Smith (1994) and The Big Bazoohley (1995); 8 Jack Maggs (1997); 9 True History of the Kelly Gang (2000); 10 Critical overview and conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996198560303316 |
Woodcock Bruce
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Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 1996 | ||
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The visioneers [[electronic resource] ] : how a group of elite scientists pursued space colonies, nanotechnologies, and a limitless future / / W. Patrick McCray |
Autore | McCray Patrick (W. Patrick) |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
Disciplina | 509 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - History
Visionaries |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
American culture
Eric Drexler Gerard O'Neill K. Eric Drexler Omni magazine asteroids atomic-scale engineering biotechnology countercultural ideals cutting-edge research existential crisis exploration exploratory science future technology human settlement lunar factory microelectronics nanotechnology pseudoscience science solar sails space colonies space colony space settlement space settlements technology visioneering |
ISBN |
1-299-05117-0
1-4008-4468-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Visioneering Technological Futures -- Chapter 1. Utopia or Oblivion for Spaceship Earth? -- Chapter 2. The Inspiration of Limits -- Chapter 3. Building Castles in the Sky -- Chapter 4. Omnificent -- Chapter 5. Could Small Be Beautiful? -- Chapter 6. California Dreaming -- Chapter 7. Confirmation, Benediction, and Inquisition -- Chapter 8. Visioneering's Value -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462284203321 |
McCray Patrick (W. Patrick)
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2013 | ||
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The visioneers [[electronic resource] ] : how a group of elite scientists pursued space colonies, nanotechnologies, and a limitless future / / W. Patrick McCray |
Autore | McCray Patrick (W. Patrick) |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
Disciplina | 509 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - History
Visionaries |
Soggetto non controllato |
American culture
Eric Drexler Gerard O'Neill K. Eric Drexler Omni magazine asteroids atomic-scale engineering biotechnology countercultural ideals cutting-edge research existential crisis exploration exploratory science future technology human settlement lunar factory microelectronics nanotechnology pseudoscience science solar sails space colonies space colony space settlement space settlements technology visioneering |
ISBN |
1-299-05117-0
1-4008-4468-1 |
Classificazione | SCI034000SCI050000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Visioneering Technological Futures -- Chapter 1. Utopia or Oblivion for Spaceship Earth? -- Chapter 2. The Inspiration of Limits -- Chapter 3. Building Castles in the Sky -- Chapter 4. Omnificent -- Chapter 5. Could Small Be Beautiful? -- Chapter 6. California Dreaming -- Chapter 7. Confirmation, Benediction, and Inquisition -- Chapter 8. Visioneering's Value -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786499403321 |
McCray Patrick (W. Patrick)
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2013 | ||
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