Age of Exploration : How Chinese Scientists and Administrators Discovered China
| Age of Exploration : How Chinese Scientists and Administrators Discovered China |
| Autore | Kaske Elisabeth |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel/Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (300 pages) |
| Disciplina |
951
900 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | KöllElisabeth |
| Collana | Dialectics of the Global Series |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Modern Chinese history
history of Science nation building national space |
| ISBN |
9783111245362
3111245365 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- On the Series -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Exploration -- 2 Remaking Hinterland Guizhou: Ding Wenjiang's (1887-1936) Pioneering Geo-surveys in Southwest China -- 3 Meteorological Explorations in Republican China: Observations on Mount Emei and Mount Tai during the International Polar Year 1932/33 -- 4 A Shared Journey for the Chinese Oil Dream: The Yumen Oilfield, Foreign Geologists and the Localization of Chinese Petroleum Geologists -- 5 Infrastructure, Ethnography, and the Integration of Xinjiang: The Northwest Reconstruction Expedition of 1943 -- Part II: Representation -- 6 Re-shaping the Imagined Community: Postal Maps and the Making of National Space for Young China -- 7 The KMT's Long March: Highways, War, and National Space in China's Southwest -- Part III: Reclamation -- 8 Planting the Seeds of the Nation: Agricultural Experimental Stations and the Making of the Chinese Geo-Body -- 9 Spatializing the State Through Forest Surveys: Constructing Verticality and Encompassment in the Early Years of the People's Republic of China -- 10 Experiments with Scale: The People's Electrification Campaign of 1958-1961 and China's Pursuit for a New Energy Future -- 11 Conclusion -- List of Contributors -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911011378003321 |
Kaske Elisabeth
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| Basel/Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2024 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The global remapping of American literature [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Giles
| 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 |
Giles Paul
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| Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2010 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The global remapping of American literature [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Giles
| 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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| Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2010 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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