The best pitcher in baseball : the life of Rube Foster, Negro League giant / / Robert Charles Cottrell |
Autore | Cottrell Robert C. <1950-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (232 pages) |
Disciplina |
796.357/092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Baseball players - United States
African American baseball players Baseball team owners - United States Negro leagues - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Foster
Negro Rube baseball biography figure important most revealing |
ISBN |
0-8147-9040-2
0-585-43474-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE. The Best Pitcher in the Country -- TWO. At the Top of His Game -- THREE. A Return to the Midwest -- FOUR. The Leland Giants -- FIVE. The Chicago American Giants and the Making of a Black Baseball Dynasty -- SIX. Another Championship -- SEVEN. The Dynasty Is Interrupted -- EIGHT. Back on Top in Wartime -- NINE. Rube Ball -- TEN. Black Baseball and the Segregated Community -- ELEVEN. Organizing Black Baseball -- TWELVE. Czar of Black Baseball -- THIRTEEN. Rube Foster’s Legacy -- FOURTEEN. The Drive to Cooperstown -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780181103321 |
Cottrell Robert C. <1950-> | ||
New York, : New York University Press, c2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Jewish studies as counterlife : a report to the academy / / Adam Zachary Newton |
Autore | Newton Adam Zachary |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
Disciplina | 296.07 |
Soggetto topico |
Judaism - Study and teaching (Higher)
Jews - Study and teaching (Higher) |
Soggetto non controllato |
Academy
Community Jewish Studies Science of Judaism dialogic, disciplinarity figure humanities inter-discursive lever pitchfork report satire “to come” |
ISBN | 0-8232-8397-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Interchapter I. Js Davka -- Chapter 1. Jewish studies as lever -- Interchapter II. The dialectics of owner ship -- Chapter 2. Jewish studies and the pitchfork -- Interchapter III. “Past its own aim, out to another side” -- Chapter 3. Mochlos or Makhlokes: js and the humanities -- Interchapter IV. Speaking of js; and its vicissitudes -- Chapter 4. Bildungsheld or Pícaro, canon and list: a heterotopology for js -- Interchapter V. Bildung and built-ins -- Chapter 5. Ventilating the tradition: Rashbam and the Coen brothers -- Epilogue. Knotted thread, middle game: an envoi -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793414803321 |
Newton Adam Zachary | ||
New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Jewish studies as counterlife : a report to the academy / / Adam Zachary Newton |
Autore | Newton Adam Zachary |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
Disciplina | 296.07 |
Soggetto topico |
Judaism - Study and teaching (Higher)
Jews - Study and teaching (Higher) |
Soggetto non controllato |
Academy
Community Jewish Studies Science of Judaism dialogic, disciplinarity figure humanities inter-discursive lever pitchfork report satire “to come” |
ISBN | 0-8232-8397-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Interchapter I. Js Davka -- Chapter 1. Jewish studies as lever -- Interchapter II. The dialectics of owner ship -- Chapter 2. Jewish studies and the pitchfork -- Interchapter III. “Past its own aim, out to another side” -- Chapter 3. Mochlos or Makhlokes: js and the humanities -- Interchapter IV. Speaking of js; and its vicissitudes -- Chapter 4. Bildungsheld or Pícaro, canon and list: a heterotopology for js -- Interchapter V. Bildung and built-ins -- Chapter 5. Ventilating the tradition: Rashbam and the Coen brothers -- Epilogue. Knotted thread, middle game: an envoi -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827234903321 |
Newton Adam Zachary | ||
New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reflections : The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France / / Therese-Adele Husson ; translated and with commentary by Catherine J. Kudlick and Zina Weygand |
Autore | Husson Therese-Adele <1803-1831.> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (173 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.4/1/092 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
WeygandZina
KudlickCatherine Jean |
Collana | The History of Disability |
Soggetto topico |
Blind - Conduct of life
Blind women - France |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
among
blind changes fascinating figure ideas independence newly-discovered nineteenth-century physical poignant records self-sufficiency sensibility spirit story that |
ISBN |
0-8147-9538-2
0-8147-9098-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | C O N T E N T S; Foreword; I . Introduction; I I . Reflections on the Physical and MoralCondition of the Blind; III. Note on the Author's Youth; IV. Reflections on a Manuscript, a Life,and a World; Notes; About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910854400303321 |
Husson Therese-Adele <1803-1831.> | ||
New York, : New York University Press, c2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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