Author: Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
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Category : Folk-lore, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Under the Cap of Invisibility
Author: Lucie Genay
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826364233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Pantex was built during World War II near the town of Amarillo, Texas. The site was converted early in the Cold War to assemble nuclear weapons and produce high explosives. For nearly fifty years Pantex has been the sole assembly and disassembly plant for nuclear weapons in the United States. Today, most of the activities of the plant consist of the manufacture of high explosive components and the dismantlement or life extension of weapons. Unlike the much more famous nuclear-weapons-production sites at Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Hanford, and Rocky Flats, the Pantex plant has drawn little attention, hidden under a metaphoric “cap of invisibility.” Lucie Genay now lifts that invisibility cap to give the world its first in-depth look at Pantex and the people who have spent their lives as neighbors and employees of this secretive industry. The book investigates how Pantex has impacted local identity by molding elements of the past into the guaranty of its future and its concealment. It further examines the multiple facets of Pantexism through the voices of native and adoptive Panhandlers.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826364233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Pantex was built during World War II near the town of Amarillo, Texas. The site was converted early in the Cold War to assemble nuclear weapons and produce high explosives. For nearly fifty years Pantex has been the sole assembly and disassembly plant for nuclear weapons in the United States. Today, most of the activities of the plant consist of the manufacture of high explosive components and the dismantlement or life extension of weapons. Unlike the much more famous nuclear-weapons-production sites at Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Hanford, and Rocky Flats, the Pantex plant has drawn little attention, hidden under a metaphoric “cap of invisibility.” Lucie Genay now lifts that invisibility cap to give the world its first in-depth look at Pantex and the people who have spent their lives as neighbors and employees of this secretive industry. The book investigates how Pantex has impacted local identity by molding elements of the past into the guaranty of its future and its concealment. It further examines the multiple facets of Pantexism through the voices of native and adoptive Panhandlers.
Roman Life and Manners Under the Early Empire
Author: Ludwig Friedlaender
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Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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An Essay on the State of Literature and Learning Under the Anglo-Saxons
Author: Thomas Wright
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Category : Anglo-Saxon literature
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Category : Anglo-Saxon literature
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Under the Sky of My Africa
Author: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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A wide-ranging consideration of the nature and significance of Pushkin's African heritage Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. This child, later known as Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was to become Peter's godson and to live to a ripe old age, having attained the rank of general and the status of Russian nobility. More important, he was to become the great-grandfather of Russia's greatest national poet, Alexander Pushkin. It is the contention of the editors of this book, borne out by the essays in the collection, that Pushkin's African ancestry has played the role of a "wild card" of sorts as a formative element in Russian cultural mythology; and that the ways in which Gannibal's legacy has been included in or excluded from Pushkin's biography over the last two hundred years can serve as a shifting marker of Russia's self-definition. The first single volume in English on this rich topic, Under the Sky of My Africa addresses the wide variety of interests implicated in the question of Pushkin's blackness-race studies, politics, American studies, music, mythopoetic criticism, mainstream Pushkin studies. In essays that are by turns biographical, iconographical, cultural, and sociological in focus, the authors-representing a broad range of disciplines and perspectives-take us from the complex attitudes toward race in Russia during Pushkin's era to the surge of racism in late Soviet and post-Soviet contemporary Russia. In sum, Under the Sky of My Africa provides a wealth of basic material on the subject as well as a series of provocative readings and interpretations that will influence future considerations of Pushkin and race in Russian culture.
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A wide-ranging consideration of the nature and significance of Pushkin's African heritage Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. This child, later known as Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was to become Peter's godson and to live to a ripe old age, having attained the rank of general and the status of Russian nobility. More important, he was to become the great-grandfather of Russia's greatest national poet, Alexander Pushkin. It is the contention of the editors of this book, borne out by the essays in the collection, that Pushkin's African ancestry has played the role of a "wild card" of sorts as a formative element in Russian cultural mythology; and that the ways in which Gannibal's legacy has been included in or excluded from Pushkin's biography over the last two hundred years can serve as a shifting marker of Russia's self-definition. The first single volume in English on this rich topic, Under the Sky of My Africa addresses the wide variety of interests implicated in the question of Pushkin's blackness-race studies, politics, American studies, music, mythopoetic criticism, mainstream Pushkin studies. In essays that are by turns biographical, iconographical, cultural, and sociological in focus, the authors-representing a broad range of disciplines and perspectives-take us from the complex attitudes toward race in Russia during Pushkin's era to the surge of racism in late Soviet and post-Soviet contemporary Russia. In sum, Under the Sky of My Africa provides a wealth of basic material on the subject as well as a series of provocative readings and interpretations that will influence future considerations of Pushkin and race in Russian culture.
Shards from Kolonos
Author: Alan H. Sommerstein
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and the Magyars
Author: Jeremiah Curtin
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Category : Czechs
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Category : Czechs
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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All the Year Round
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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New Folklore Researches: Folk-prose
Author: Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
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Category : Folk-lore, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Category : Folk-lore, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Folk-prose
Author: Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Greek Folk Poesy: Folk prose. The survival of paganism
Author: John S. Stuart-Glennie
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Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Languages : en
Pages : 562
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