Autore	Kahn Douglas <1951->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (344 p.)
Disciplina	700.1/08
Soggetto topico	Sound in art Radio noise
Soggetto non controllato	1960s 19th century aelectrosonic sounds aeolian sphere music aesthetics artists arts brainwaves early sound technologies earth magnitude energies global perspective global transmissions henry david thoreau humanities media studies modern communications modern world music history musicians natural radio nonfiction outer space science historians science history scientists sound energy telegraph lines telephone thomas watson
ISBN	0-520-25780-4 0-520-95683-4
Classificazione	LH 65020
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Thomas Watson : natural radio, natural theology -- Microphonic imagination -- The aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's sphere music -- The aelectrosonic and energetic environments -- Inductive radio and whistling currents -- Alvin Lucier : brainwaves -- Edmond Dewan and cybernetic hi-fi -- Alvin Lucier : whistlers -- From brainwaves to outer space : John Cage and Karl Jansky -- For more new signals -- Sound of the underground : earthquakes, nuclear weaponry, and music -- Long sounds and transperception -- Pauline Oliveros : sonosphere -- Thomas Ashcraft : electroreceptor -- Black sun, black rain -- Star-studded cinema -- Robert Barry : conceptualism and energy -- Collaborating objects radiating environments -- Joyce Hinterding : drawing energy -- Earth-in-circuit.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910779837903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (275 p.)
Disciplina	306.362096
Altri autori (Persone)	ChristopherEmma <1971-> PybusCassandra RedikerMarcus
Collana	California World History Library
Soggetto topico	Slave trade - Africa - History Enslaved persons Slavery
Soggetto non controllato	abolition african slave trade american civil war american south bonded labor bonded soldiers captivity china sea chinese labor convict transportation death east african middle passage forced migration global perspective history of slavery history human cargo indentured servants indian ocean irish labor melanesian labor trade middle passage migration slave traders slavery sulu zone terror torture trafficked women transported convicts voc voyages yellow trade
ISBN	9786612360350 1-282-36035-3 0-520-94098-9 1-4356-0192-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction / Rediker, Marcus / Pybus, Cassandra / Christopher, Emma -- One. The Other Middle Passage: The African Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean / Alpers, Edward A. -- Two. The East African Middle Passage: David Livingstone, the Zambesi Expedition, and Lake Nyassa, 1858-1866 / McCalman, Iain -- Three. The Iranun and Balangingi Slaving Voyage: Middle Passages in the Sulu Zone / Warren, James -- Four. The Voyage Out: Peter Kolb and VOC Voyages to the Cape / Penn, Nigel -- Five Bound for Botany Bay: John Martin's Voyage to Australia / Pybus, Cassandra -- Six. "The Slave Trade Is Merciful Compared to [This]": Slave Traders, Convict Transportation, and the Abolitionists / Christopher, Emma -- Seven. Convict Passages in the Indian Ocean, c. 1790-1860 / Anderson, Clare -- Eight. After Slavery Forced: Drafts of Irish and Chinese Labor in the American Civil War, or the Search for Liquid Labor / Nelson, Scott Reynolds -- Nine. La Trata Amarilla: The "Yellow Trade" and the Middle Passage, 1847-1884 / Hu-DeHart, Evelyn -- Ten. "A Most Irregular Traffic": The Oceanic Passages of the Melanesian Labor Trade / Brown, Laurence -- Eleven. La Traite des Jaunes: Trafficking in Women and Children across the China Sea / Martínez, Julia -- Afterword: "All of It Is Now" / Bales, Kevin / Trodd, Zoe -- Postscript: The Gun-Slave Cycle / Rediker, Marcus -- Appendix -- Contributors -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910778117003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2002]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (438 p.)
Disciplina	973/.07/2
Soggetto topico	Globalization
Soggetto non controllato	alternative interpretations american history anthology democracy economic development environmental development global perspective globalism historians historical context historical essays historical historiography history scholars history textbooks modern perspective national narrative nationalism nonfiction political science political retrospective revolution revolutionaries students and teachers traditional history transnational context united states us history world powers
ISBN	1-282-35953-3 9786612359538 0-520-93603-5 1-59734-863-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction. Historians, the Nation, and the Plenitude of Narratives -- 1. Transnationalism and the Challenge to National Histories -- 2. Internationalizing International History -- 3. Where in the World Is America? The History of the United States in the Global Age -- 4. International at the Creation: Early Modern American History -- 5. How the West Was One: The African Diaspora and the Re-Mapping of U.S. History -- 6. Time and Revolution in African America: Temporality and the History of Atlantic Slavery -- 7. Beyond the View from Euro-America: Environment, Settler Societies, and the Internationalization of American History -- 8. From Euro- and Afro-Atlantic to Pacific Migration System: A Comparative Migration Approach to North American History -- 9. Framing U.S. History: Democracy, Nationalism, and Socialism -- 10. An Age of Social Politics -- 11. The Age of Global Power -- 12. American Empire and Cultural Imperialism: A View from the Receiving End -- 13. Do American Historical Narratives Travel? -- 14. The Modernity of America and the Practice of Scholarship -- 15. The Exhaustion of Enclosures: A Critique of Internationalization -- 16. The Historian's Use of the United States and Vice Versa -- APPENDIX. Participants in the La Pietra Conferences, 1997-2000 -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910780450703321

Autore	Richards John F
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (697 p.)
Disciplina	304.2
Collana	The California world history library ACLS Humanities E-Book
Soggetto topico	Human ecology - History Nature - Effect of human beings on - History
Soggetto non controllato	age of exploration case studies china commercial hunting conquest deforestation early modern period england environmental change environmental history environmental impact frontier life fur trade global history global perspective historical processes human impact imperialism japan natural environment natural historians natural history natural world north america reshaping landscapes russia settlement frontiers wetland ecology
ISBN	0-520-90095-2 0-520-93935-2 1-59734-972-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. The Global Context -- Part II. Eurasia and Africa -- Part III. The Americas -- Part IV. The World Hunt -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910780245003321