Ancestral leaves : : a family journey through Chinese history / / Joseph W. Esherick
| Ancestral leaves : : a family journey through Chinese history / / Joseph W. Esherick |
| Autore | Esherick Joseph S |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 374 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina |
929.20951
929/.20951 951 |
| Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Asia / General |
| Soggetto non controllato |
14th century
19th century ancestors asian biography biographical china chinese communists chinese history chinese rebellions chinese cultural revolution economic growth everyday life family history family lines historical nonfiction history buffs japanese invasion modern china modern history nonfiction oral histories personal history republican era social history social transformation war and revolution warfare world war ii wwii ye family |
| ISBN |
1-283-33184-5
9786613331847 0-520-94762-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Fleeing the Long Hairs -- 2. Family roots -- 3. Father, Son, and Family -- 4. Rebellion -- 5. Official Life in the Late Qing -- 6. A time of transitions -- 7. Doing Business in Tianjin -- 8. Growing Up in Tianjin -- 9. Student Life in the 1930's -- 10. War -- Part III. The People's Republic -- 11. Family Life in new China -- 12. Hundred Flowers and Poisonous Weeds -- 13. The Cultural revolution -- Epilogue: After the Deluge -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- Selected Ye Family Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785570603321 |
Esherick Joseph S
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| Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] | ||
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The final victim of the blacklist [[electronic resource] ] : John Howard Lawson, dean of the Hollywood Ten / / Gerald Horne
| The final victim of the blacklist [[electronic resource] ] : John Howard Lawson, dean of the Hollywood Ten / / Gerald Horne |
| Autore | Horne Gerald |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
| Disciplina |
812/.52
B |
| Soggetto topico |
Dramatists, American - 20th century
Screenwriters - United States Blacklisting of authors - United States Communism and literature - United States - History - 20th century Theater - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century Motion picture industry - California - Los Angeles - History |
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1930s
1940s 1947 20th century america antisemitism biographical blacklist california cinema communism communist party directors edmund wilson ernest hemingway f scott fitzgerald gene kelly historical nonfiction hollywood ten hollywood house unamerican activities committee imprisonment infamy john dos passos john howard lawson joseph mccarthy mccarthyism political figures politics radical politics red scare screenwriters united states us history |
| ISBN |
9786612358579
0-520-93993-X 1-282-35857-X 1-60129-501-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. Toward Commitment -- 3. Hollywood -- 4. From Hollywood to Broadway -- 5. Commitment -- 6. Theory and Practice -- 7. Struggle -- 8. Fighting-and Writing -- 9. Writing-and Fighting -- 10. Red Scare Rising -- 11. Inquisition -- 12. Jailed for Ideas -- 13. "Blacklisted" -- 14. The Fall of Red Hollywood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784417503321 |
Horne Gerald
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 | ||
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Not fit for our society [[electronic resource] ] : nativism and immigration / / Peter Schrag
| Not fit for our society [[electronic resource] ] : nativism and immigration / / Peter Schrag |
| Autore | Schrag Peter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Emigration and immigration - Social aspects
Emigration and immigration - Public opinion Emigration and immigration - Government policy Nativism Eugenics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
america
american citizenship american culture american history american society chinese immigrants controversial current events discussion books fear and change german immigrants historical nonfiction immigrants immigration debate immigration policies immigration irish immigrants italian immigrants jewish immigrants latino immigrants modern immigration nativism political issues politics race and immigration social change students and teachers united states us history |
| ISBN |
1-282-76391-1
9786612763915 0-520-94577-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | A city upon a hill -- "This visible act of ingurgitation" -- "Science" makes its case -- Preserving the race -- The great awhitening -- "They keep coming" -- A border without lines. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784956003321 |
Schrag Peter
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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Re-imagining Greek tragedy on the American stage [[electronic resource] /] / Helene P. Foley
| Re-imagining Greek tragedy on the American stage [[electronic resource] /] / Helene P. Foley |
| Autore | Foley Helene P. <1942-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 375 Seiten) |
| Disciplina | 792.1/20973 |
| Collana | Sather classical lectures |
| Soggetto topico |
Greek drama - History and criticism
Theater - United States - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century literacy
american culture and politics american interpretation american theater books for english students classical greek literature coffee table books controversial topics dramatic easy to read educational books engaging greek tragedy historical nonfiction history of american dance history of american theater how to write a tragedy intense emotion interpretation of greek tragedy learning while reading lively page turner performing arts shakespeare theater film theatrical |
| ISBN |
1-283-62280-7
0-520-95365-7 9780520953659 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- One. Greek Tragedy Finds an American Audience -- Two. Making Total Theater in America -- Three. Democratizing Greek Tragedy -- Four. Reenvisioning the Hero -- Five. Reimagining Medea as American Other -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785725903321 |
Foley Helene P. <1942->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 | ||
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Threads and traces [[electronic resource] ] : true, false, fictive / / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi
| Threads and traces [[electronic resource] ] : true, false, fictive / / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi |
| Autore | Ginzburg Carlo |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina | 907.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Historiography - Philosophy
Literature and history History - Errors, inventions, etc Truth Collective memory |
| Soggetto non controllato |
academics
early modern europe essay collection europe firsthand experience historians historical conventions historical nonfiction historical perspective historical truth historical historiography history jewish experience jewish studies literary criticism literary critics memory neoskepticism nonfiction essays philosophy political positivism poststructuralism retrospective truth and fiction writing history |
| ISBN |
1-283-29184-3
9786613291844 0-520-94984-6 |
| Classificazione | HIS010000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Description and Citation -- 2. The Conversion of the Jews of Minorca (a.d. 417-418) -- 3. Montaigne, Cannibals, and Grottoes -- 4. Proofs and Possibilities: Postscript to Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre -- 5. Paris, 1647: A Dialogue on Fiction and History -- 6. The Europeans Discover (or Rediscover) the Shamans -- 7. Tolerance and Commerce: Auerbach Reads Voltaire -- 8. Anacharsis Interrogates the Natives: A New Reading of an Old Best Seller -- 9. Following the Tracks of Israël Bertuccio -- 10. The Bitter Truth: Stendhal's Challenge to Historians -- 11. Representing the Enemy: On the French Prehistory of the Protocols -- 12. Just One Witness: The Extermination of the Jews and the Principle of Reality -- 13. Details, Early Plans, Microanalysis: Thoughts on a Book by Siegfried Kracauer -- 14. Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It -- 15. Witches and Shamans -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781511603321 |
Ginzburg Carlo
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 | ||
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To the bomb and back : Finnish World War II children tell their stories / / edited by Sue Saffle
| To the bomb and back : Finnish World War II children tell their stories / / edited by Sue Saffle |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | XIII, 322 s. $b ill |
| Disciplina | 940.53161 |
| Soggetto topico |
World War, 1939-1945 - Children - Finland
World War, 1939-1945 - Evacuation of civilians - Finland World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945 - Children - Sweden Children - Sweden Children - Finland Finns - Sweden |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1939
1945 account of finlands war childrens experiences bibliography of secondary sources denmark extensive introduction finland finnish children great social historical mistake historical nonfiction largest wwii children transport lifelong traumas narrative account of finlands war children over two dozen photographs sent away to protect them soldiers fought superior axis powers soviet and german forces sweden wwii youthful survivors of war |
| ISBN | 1-78920-516-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 - The Work of Sorrow; 2 - Unanswered Questions for a Finnpojke; 3 - A Desire to Scream; 4 - Horseshoes and Licorice Drops; 5 - The Last Summer in Sweden; 6 - Farting in Swedish; 7 - Sugar Beets and Spettecaka; 8 - Dragons in a Handbag; 9 - A Good and Bad Hand; 10 - The Red Shoes; 11 - Bread in a Suitcase; 12 - The Lucky Stain; 13 - Paper Dolls; 14 - The Woman in the Broad-Brimmed Hat; 15 - Swedish Toys; 16 - Goodbye to the Bombs; 17 - Someone's Daughter; 18 - To the Bomb and Back; 19 - A Blonde Curly-Haired Girl
20 - Fishing with RagnarPhoto Section; 21 - Black Birds; 22 - Terror of the Dark; 23 - Funeral Games; 24 - The Woman in Black; 25 - Understanding Backwards; 26 - A Happier War Child Story; 27 - No Easy Choices; 28 - God natt, sov Gott; 29 - A Lifelong Exile; 30 - Take the Bed Down!; 31 - Waiting for the Time to Pass; 32 - Children's Prayers; 33 - ""Send the Little Ones!""; 34 - A Tale of Two Sisters; 35 - Swedish Fish; 36 - Horses in the Kitchen; 37 - Rita, not Rauha; 38 - Repairing the Clock; 39 - Soldier Boy; Appendix; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788129003321 |
| New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015 | ||
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To the bomb and back : Finnish World War II children tell their stories / / edited by Sue Saffle
| To the bomb and back : Finnish World War II children tell their stories / / edited by Sue Saffle |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | XIII, 322 s. $b ill |
| Disciplina | 940.53161 |
| Soggetto topico |
World War, 1939-1945 - Children - Finland
World War, 1939-1945 - Evacuation of civilians - Finland World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945 - Children - Sweden Children - Sweden Children - Finland Finns - Sweden |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1939
1945 account of finlands war childrens experiences bibliography of secondary sources denmark extensive introduction finland finnish children great social historical mistake historical nonfiction largest wwii children transport lifelong traumas narrative account of finlands war children over two dozen photographs sent away to protect them soldiers fought superior axis powers soviet and german forces sweden wwii youthful survivors of war |
| ISBN | 1-78920-516-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 - The Work of Sorrow; 2 - Unanswered Questions for a Finnpojke; 3 - A Desire to Scream; 4 - Horseshoes and Licorice Drops; 5 - The Last Summer in Sweden; 6 - Farting in Swedish; 7 - Sugar Beets and Spettecaka; 8 - Dragons in a Handbag; 9 - A Good and Bad Hand; 10 - The Red Shoes; 11 - Bread in a Suitcase; 12 - The Lucky Stain; 13 - Paper Dolls; 14 - The Woman in the Broad-Brimmed Hat; 15 - Swedish Toys; 16 - Goodbye to the Bombs; 17 - Someone's Daughter; 18 - To the Bomb and Back; 19 - A Blonde Curly-Haired Girl
20 - Fishing with RagnarPhoto Section; 21 - Black Birds; 22 - Terror of the Dark; 23 - Funeral Games; 24 - The Woman in Black; 25 - Understanding Backwards; 26 - A Happier War Child Story; 27 - No Easy Choices; 28 - God natt, sov Gott; 29 - A Lifelong Exile; 30 - Take the Bed Down!; 31 - Waiting for the Time to Pass; 32 - Children's Prayers; 33 - ""Send the Little Ones!""; 34 - A Tale of Two Sisters; 35 - Swedish Fish; 36 - Horses in the Kitchen; 37 - Rita, not Rauha; 38 - Repairing the Clock; 39 - Soldier Boy; Appendix; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808629803321 |
| New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015 | ||
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The tragic tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War [[electronic resource] /] / Raymond Jonas
| The tragic tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War [[electronic resource] /] / Raymond Jonas |
| Autore | Jonas Raymond <1954-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Disciplina |
282/.092
B |
| Soggetto topico |
World War, 1914-1918 - Religious aspects - Catholic Church
Sacred Heart, Devotion to - France - History of doctrines - 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
apotheosis
biography childhood trauma christianity claire ferchaud discussion books downfall european history french countryside french peasant french war historical nonfiction historical visionaries illustrated jesus christ joan of arc life story national fame religious visions sacred heart spiritual development spiritual directors spiritual patronage tragic history visionary gifts visions of jesus war world war i. wwi |
| ISBN |
1-282-76312-1
9786612763120 0-520-93828-3 1-59734-947-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The Great War in the European imagination -- Miracle or "miracle?" -- Carnal vision and saintly ambition -- Spiritual patronage and a mission to save France -- Silent eruptions : Claire and her public -- In the footsteps of Joan -- A kind of apotheosis : Claire goes to Paris -- Claire's story goes public : the Sacred Heart and the Union Sacrée -- Consecration by proxy -- The unraveling -- The unmaking of a saint -- Prologue as epilogue : the story of Jonas. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783315303321 |
Jonas Raymond <1954->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005 | ||
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