Віра Карапетівна Мазманьянц – бібліотекар, бібліограф, книгознавець : (До 90-річчя з дня народження) : [Нарис життя і діяльності В. К. Мазманьянц ; Бібліографічний покажчик ; Спомини В. К. Мазманьянц]

Дане видання присвячене відомому харківському книгознавцю і бібліографу Вірі Карапетівні Мазманьянц, яка працювала у Центральній науковій бібліотеці Харківського державного університету в 1945-1992 рр. Видання призначено для книгознавців, бібліотекознавців, працівників наукових бібліотек, краєзнавців, усіх, хто цікавиться історією Центральної наукової бібліотеки Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна

Popular Attitudes to Taxation in Britain, c.1945- 1992

There has been a general view among British historians that popular opposition to tax increased dramatically in the 1970s. However, no study has looked in detail at the available evidence. This view has been based largely on politicians’ statements and a few isolated studies from the 1980s, most of which did not focus on Britain specifically. This thesis attempts to construct a more detailed picture of the development of popular attitudes to tax in Britain c1945 to 1992. To do this it first examines the available quantitative evidence, variable and unreliable as much of it is before the 1980s and draws some cautious conclusions about how this suggests popular attitudes to tax developed. The following chapters look at discussions in the major national newspapers and political magazines, two main political parties, the civil service, Trades Union Congress, and Federation of British Industries, later Confederation of British Industry, in a series of case studies. These focus on moments when tax was a particularly high-profile issue: the 1949 budget and 1950 election; the 1959 election and 1961 budget; the 1964 election and 1965 budget, the late 1960s and 1970 election; the late 1970s and 1979 election; and the 1987 and 1992 elections. The findings do not indicate that opposition increased significantly in the 1970s. On the contrary, the quantitative evidence suggests that popular opposition to taxation was consistently at a relatively low level throughout the period studied, potentially even decreasing through the 1980s, when the evidence is more methodologically reliable. Similarly, although there is evidence that some Labour politicians, in particular, were slightly more concerned about opposition to tax from the 1970s onwards, they were also convinced of opposition in the 1940s and 1950s, supposedly the high point of popular support for high taxation. Even in 1992, the evidence indicates that most Labour politicians remained convinced that perceptions of fairness in taxation were crucial and that support for public spending was also extensive. The views expressed by Labour and Conservative politicians’ during the 1980s indicate that they did not think at that time that popular opposition to tax had increased unprecedentedly in the 1970s. Instead, that idea first appeared in the press in 1987, becoming pervasive by 1992. Among the various organisations studied here, the research therefore indicates that this idea of opposition to tax increasing in the 1970s was found initially only among journalists in the late 1980s and early 1990s – and that it was circulated without supporting evidence

VOZES DA AMÉRICA LATINA NO DEBATE AMBIENTAL: DO PÓS-SEGUNDA GUERRA À RIO 92 POR FERNANDO ESTENSSORO SAAVEDRA.

A referida resenha discorre sobre o livro História do debate ambiental na política mundial (1945-1992): a perspectiva latino-americana, de Fernando Estenssoro Saavedra, ressaltando sua contribuição para o estudo das relações entre sociedade e natureza, especialmente quanto a sua dimensão política e configuração ao longo do século XX

MS 142 Guide to the William H. Ellett Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission Papers, (1945-1992)

The William H. Ellett Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission papers includes a 1945 topographical map of Nagasaki used in planning the atomic attack and a 1946 topographical map of Hiroshima that was used by the international damage assessment group. The collection also includes an unpublished manuscript of ABCC history written by John Z. Bowers, a former ABCC staffer. Ellett also included his personal copies of the Life Span Study reports. The size of the collection is one cubic foot (2 boxes and two oversize maps). See more at MS 142

The Paratexts of the Brazilian Translations of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

This article aims to discuss the paratexts found in the first edition (fi rst printing only) of each of the fi ve translations of A portrait of the Artist asa Young Man (1916), by James Joyce (1882-1941), in Brazilian  Portuguese. From cover to back cover, including prefaces, illustrations, and other paratexts, the fi ve translations (1945, 1992, 2013, 2014, and 2016) differ considerably. The rationale of this paper lies in the fact that the reception of an author in a target culture does not depend only on how his or her text is translated but also on the paratexts that “envelop” it. So A Portrait is not read in Brazil through the translations of its text only, since the ways in which the original paratexts (title and epigraph) and the added ones (notes, for example) are translated signifi cantly affect the reading experience.Keywords: Paratexts; titles; Joyce; translation; Portuguese language