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Johns Hopkins University Press The Economy of Renaissance Florence
Book SynopsisThe Economy of Renaissance Florence offers both a systematic description of the city's major economic activities and a comprehensive overview of its economic development from the late Middle Ages through the Renaissance to 1600.Trade ReviewRenaissance Florence has no more able defender in recent times than Professor Richard Goldthwaite. Washington Post Book World Richard Goldthwaite has served a long apprenticeship. As a dedicated student of the economy of Florence between the 13th and 16th centuries, he has published studies of the city's buildings and banks, its private wealth and the demand for its art. Now he has stood back and produced a magisterial history which brings all the strands of the story together and becomes, among its other virtues, a persuasive account of early capitalism. Economist 2009 Johns Hopkins University Press deserves praise for having so ably edited and published such a big book in this age of contraction and cost-cutting. It and the author have given us one of the most important books in Renaissance history to have appeared in many years: not simply a long-needed synthesis but a stimulating, insightful work that will guide research for a long time to come. -- Robert S. DuPlessis Renaissance Quarterly 2009 This book marks a crowning achievement of a distinguished academic career, and it achieves both authority in its exposition and modesty in its tone. An essential read for scholars interested in the study of Florence, and historical economics. -- Nicola Jones H-Italy, H-Net Reviews 2010 It is hard to do justice to so large, complex, and informative a work. A synthesis of the Florentine economy is a monumental undertaking. Goldthwaite offers a compelling image, which, like all such images, will draw its critics and admirers and set the parameters of the field for decades. -- Thomas Kuehn Journal of Modern History 2010 Masterful. So thorough, so inclusive, and so wide-ranging that its omission from the bibliography of on any future study on the Italian Renaissance will be a noticeable oversight. -- Brian Maxson Canadian Journal of History 2010Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures, and MapsPrefaceIntroduction: The Commerical RevolutionEconomic Growth and Development in Italy to 1300Trade with the LevantLinks to the NorthThe Tuscan TownsFlorenceRise to PredominanceThe Dynamics of GrowthPart I: International Merchant Banking1. The NetworkPerformanceDynamics of ChangePeriodizationThe Era of the FlorinBalance of PaymentsStructuresThe FirmThe Conduct of BusinessInterfirm RelationsThe CenterFlorence and Regional TradeFlorence as International Emporium2. The Shifting Geography of CommerceNorthwestern EuropeNaples and Southern ItalyThe Western MediterraneanA Transport RevolutionThe Iberian PeninsulaSouthern FranceThe Later Sixteenth CenturyCentral Italy and RomeVenice, the Adriatic, and the LevantCentral Europe3. Banking and FinanceBankingDeposits and LoansInternational Transfer and ExchangeThe Bill of Exchange as Credit InstrumentThe International Exchange MarketGovernment FinanceLoans to RulersRisksThe PapacyCompetition and Innovation in the Sixteenth CenturyPart II: The Urban Economy4. The Textile IndustriesGeneral PerformanceThe Wool IndustryThe Silk IndustryLinen DrapersBusiness OrganizationThe FirmOperations beyond the FirmProductionThe ShopThe Work ForceRecapitulation: Wool, Silk, and the Economy5. Artisans, Shop keepers, WorkersThe Work ForceGuildsArtisansWorks on the Margins of the MarketPerformance of the Artisan SectorDemand-Driven GrowthParameters of the Local Market6. Banking and CreditBanking Institutions through the Fifteenth CenturyHistoriographical ProblemsLocal BanksPawnbrokersWelfare InstitutionsBanks and the GovernmentLack of a Banking SystemPerformance of the Banking SectorPracticesEconomic FunctionsBankruptciesBanking outside of BanksOffsettingThe Private Credit MarketNew Directions in the Sixteenth CenturyA Public Savings- and- Loan BankA Central Clearance Bank?Conclusion7. ContextsGovernment and the EconomyEconomic PolicyFiscal PolicyBusiness Interests and GovernmentThe Region and the CityUrban GeographyIndustrial ResourcesAgricultureEconomic IntegrationPrivate WealthSocial MobilityA Profile of Wealth Distribution in 1427Redistribution of Wealth in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesConclusionEconomic CultureAttitudes and BehaviorNotions about the EconomyPerformanceThe Economy in the Short RunA Final JudgmentAppendix: Changing Values of the FlorinIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Performing China
Book SynopsisPart of a new wave of cross-disciplinary scholarship, where Chinese studies meets the British eighteenth century, this novel work will appeal to scholars in a number of fields, including performance studies, East Asian studies, British literature, cultural history, gender studies, and postcolonial studies.Trade ReviewWell-organized and documented. Book Bargains and Previews Yang has shown a productive conceptual direction for new scholarship on English writers in this period to take. For raising... important and clearly relevant and persistent issues, she deserves a wide readership. -- Robert Batchelor Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: China as Exemplar: Eastern Spectacle and Western Discourses of Virtue1. Heroic Effeminacy and the Conquest of China2. Sincerity and Authenticity: George Psalmanazar's Experiments in Conversion3. Transmigration, Fabulous Pedagogy, and the Morals of the Orient4. Luxury, Moral Sentiment, and The Orphan of ChinaEpilogue: Orientalism, Globalization, and the New Business of SpectacleNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Practice of Satire in England 16581770
Book SynopsisRather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.Trade ReviewImpressively comprehensive and provocative... This strong and wide-ranging book... earns its authority from the wealth of information it provides... Its determination to expand the range of satirical writing, somewhat in the spirit of Eliot's admonition, is a long-needed redefinition of the scope of the subject... It also offers a considerable enlargement of our knowledge and understanding of a lively and turbulent terrain, whose boundaries are wider and more untidy than we have imagined. Times Literary Supplement Marshall... revolutionizes the study of 18th-century satire. She not only significantly revises accepted definitions of satire but also analyzes and describes vastly greater numbers of satiric works than have previous studies... This original, detailed account of satire during the period will challenge and shape the literary history of satire for decades to come. Essential. Choice So much material is included in The Practice of Satire in England, and its historiographic claims are so striking, that scholars will be discussing this book for some time. Perhaps most admirably, Marshall has put satire, recently a rather neglected genre, firmly back at the center of scholarly attention and debate. -- Nicholas Hudson Philological Quarterly The Practice of Satire in England, 1658-1770 is a tremendously ambitious book... at once, monumental and humble-conscious of its own audacity, unfailingly respectful of the scholars whose work is being called into question, yet also confident of its contribution to the advancement of humanistic learning. -- Matthew J. Kinservik Modern Philology Broadening the notion of satire to include more works, more kinds of works, and a wider range of satirical motives and effects, [Marshall] offers an account of eighteenth-century literature more amenable to contemporary sensibilities than those of previous proponents and detractors of satire. Eighteenth-Century LifeTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Note on Texts, Dates, and MoneyPart 1. Canonical and Noncanonical Satire, 1658–1770I. The "Definition" Quagmire and the Problem of Descriptive TerminologyII. Genre versus ModeIII. The Modern Critical Canon and Its ImplicationsIV. The Total Satire Canon and Its Economic ContextThe Production of Satire in England, 1658–1770Price, Format, Dissemination, and Implied AudiencesV. Some Issues of Coverage and OrganizationVI. The Uses of a Taxonomic MethodologyThe Varieties of SatireForecasting Some ConclusionsThe Nature of the EnterprisePart 2. Contemporary Views on Satire, 1658–1770I. Concepts of Satire"Satire"Definition by ContrastII. The Business of SatireThe Opposition to SatireThe Case for SatireIII. The Practice and Province of SatireAcceptable and Problematical Satiric MethodsAppropriate and Inappropriate Satiric TargetsIV. Characterizing the SatiristV. Perceptions of Eighteenth-Century Satire Then and NowPart 3. Satire in the Carolean PeriodI. Some Preliminary ConsiderationsII. Dryden, Rochester, BuckinghamCarolean DrydenRochesterBuckingham's Purposive SatireIII. Marvell, Ayloffe, OldhamMarvell as Polemical SatiristAyloffe's Antimonarchical DiatribesOldham's Juvenalian PerformancesIV. Hudibras and Other Camouflage SatiresV. Personal and Social Satire: From Lampoons to Otway and LeeVI. Chronological Change, 1658–1685VII. IssuesIntensityTonePresentation of PositivesThe Problem of ApplicationVIII. The Discontinuous World of Carolean SatirePart 4. Beyond CaroleanI. Altered CircumstancesII. Dryden as Satirist, 1685–1700III. Poetic SatireTutchin, Defoe, and Political SatireGould and Defamatory SatireGarth and BlackmoreBrown, Ward, and Commercial SatireIV. Dramatic SatireShadwell and Exemplary ComedyMitigated SatireHarsh Social SatireV. The State of Satire ca. 1700Part 5. Defoe, Swift, and New Varieties of Satire, 1700–1725I. Defoe as SatiristAttack and DefenseInstruction and Direct Warning (Aimed at the Audience)Indirect Exposure and DiscomfitureII. Religious and Political SatireTopical ControversyMonitory Satire in the Manner of DefoeIdeological Argumentation: Dunton, Defoe, and OthersIII. Social and Moral SatireGeneralized SatireDidactic Satire in the Manner of SteeleParticularized and Topical SatireArgument and InquiryIV. The Alleged "Scriblerians"V. Swift before GulliverJokiness and PlayDestruction and NegativityPurposive Defamation and DefenseIndirection and Difficult SatireVI. Characterizing the Early Eighteenth CenturyPart 6. Harsh and Sympathetic Satire, 1726–1745I. Pope and Swift among Their ContemporariesPolitical Commentary and CombatThe Culture WarsSocial SatireII. Pope, Swift, GayPopeSwiftGayIII. The Problem of Meaning in Gulliver's TravelsIV . Fielding and the Move toward Sympathetic SatirePlayful Satire and EntertainmentProvocation and PreachmentDistributive JusticeFielding's Concept of SatireSympathetic SatireV. Alive and WellPart 7. Churchill, Foote, Macklin, Garrick, Smollett, Sterne, and Others, 1745–1770I. The Rise of "Poetic" SatireFrivolity and EntertainmentMoral PreachmentParticularized AttackPoeticized SatireChurchill's Nonpolitical SatireII. Wilkes, Churchill, and Political Controversy in the 1760sThe North BritonChurchill's Political SatireVisual SatireWilkes's Essay on WomanIII. Satire in the Commercial TheaterSocial ComedyLightweight Afterpiece EntertainmentSamuel FooteCharles MacklinDavid GarrickIV. Satire in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century NovelSmollett's Dark SatireThe Late Career of FieldingTristram Shandy and the Singularity of SterneCharlotte Lennox, Oliver Goldsmith, Sarah FieldingV. Satire for a Stable EraEpilogueI. Motives and ModesII. Remapping English Satire, 1658–1770AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Pathologist of the Mind
Book SynopsisThe first historian ever granted access to these exceptional medical records, Lamb offers a compelling new perspective on the integral but misunderstood legacy of Adolf Meyer.Trade ReviewFortunately for anyone wishing to learn about Meyer's ideas and their influence, Lamb, a historian, has mined his unpublished papers and correspondence for the truths that became opaque when he turned them into essays. Crucially, she has also read more than 1,800 of the meticulous patient records that Meyer and his staff created at the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, which reveal him at work as a clinician and teacher. These she presents as the key to understanding how he created an American psychiatry with his ideas at its center. The result is a tutorial in Meyer's psychobiology, and a fascinating look at patients' experiences, their suffering, and treatment in the early 20th century. -- Ben Harris PsycCRITIQUES In this fascinating study, Lamb examines Meyer's efforts to establish psychiatry as a clinical science and subdiscipline of biology... This book is a medical historian's dream. Choice Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry by Dr. S. D. Lamb... is a book full of interesting information on how Dr. Adolf Meyer, a Swiss neurologist and psychiatrist, set the basis for modern psychiatry in the United States. -- Marina Oppenheimer Metapsychology ... [Lamb] aims to give us a more detailed and rounded portrait of Meyer's life and career, and... has contributed some valuable and original material about Meyer's early activities at the Phipps Clinic. Times Literary Supplement Pathologist of the Mind clarifies Meyerian notions of psychobiology, psychotherapy, and evolutionary theory (among others) and places this important figure, as well as the hospital and area of specialty to which he was dedicated, into historical context. In impressively detailed fashion, the book brings the man and the era to life. Cheiron Book Prize Citation Some books are worth underlining every sentence. Susan D. Lamb's book, Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry is one of them. Psychiatric ServicesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Pathology as Method2. Mind as Biology3. Unique Soil in Baltimore4. The Baptismal Child of American Psychiatry5. A Wonderful Center for Mental Orthopedics6. Subconscious AdaptationConclusionNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Transforming a College
Book SynopsisLambert tell the rest of the story of the university's ambitious agenda to position Elon as a top-ranked liberal arts university and a national leader in engaged teaching and learning.Trade ReviewThe book is not intended to be a recipe for success. Rather, Keller hoped that others would draw inspiration from Elon's ascent. His words written in 2004 are just as true today, if not more so. 'America has never needed as many highly educated, creative, spirited persons as it does today.' University Advancement Keller has brought his estimable experience as a consultant, strategic planner, and scholar to the task of presenting an engaging case study of institutional transformation... The resulting account is appealing and engaging, challenging the mindset of readers who are cynical about the possibilities for change in higher education and further inspiring those readers who remain hopeful that, at least in some situations, wholesale transformation is achievable. Review of Higher Education What is striking about Transforming a college is the degree to which corporate and competitive strategy and management are so central to the success storyline. Canadian Journal of Higher EducationTable of ContentsForeword, by Leo M. LambertPreface1. Up from the Ashes2. New Leader, New Initiatives3. Student Life and Pleasures4. Elevating the Academics5. Financing the Rise6. The Fruits and Ironies of Success7. Analysis of an AscentAfterword, by Leo M. LambertAcknowledgmentsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Wonder of the Human Hand
Book SynopsisThroughout, the authors explore how medical science restores bones, tendons, nerves, muscles, and blood vessels in hands injured through disease, accident, and combat-ever aware of how the form and function of the human hand combine harmoniously in everyday activities and Herculean efforts alike.Trade ReviewClearly written without requirement for particular prior knowledge, and would be accessible to a bright middle school student... any layperson with an interest in problems of the hand and their treatments would find this book a valuable resource. -- Alexander A. Morgan Journal of Hand Surgery (Am.)Table of ContentsPreface. Work, Play, Love: The Marvel of the Human HandIntroduction. Touched: Hands + Environment = LifeChapter 1. Form Follows Function: The Anatomy of the HandChapter 2. Less (or More) than a Perfect 10: Congenital DifferencesChapter 3. It's Only a Game: The Athlete's HandChapter 4. Worn Down but Not Out: The Arthritic HandChapter 5. Good Vibrations: The Musician's HandChapter 6. I See What You Mean: Hearing with Your Eyes and Speaking with Your Hands in American Sign LanguageChapter 7. Life Is What Happens When You're Busy Making Other Plans: Injuries at Work and at HomeChapter 8. When Disease Hurts the Hand: Diabetes and the HandChapter 9. Sense and Sensibility: Seeing the World with Braille and Understanding Nerve Impairment SyndromesChapter 10. The Renoir Effect: Contractures and SpasticityChapter 11. Where Do We Go from Here? Future Innovations in Hand SurgeryResourcesList of Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Making Computers Accessible
Book SynopsisBridging the history of technology, science and technology studies, and disability studies, this book traces the psychological, cultural, and economic evolution of a consumer culture aimed at individuals with disabilities, who increasingly rely on personal computers to make their lives richer and more interconnected.Trade ReviewShe creatively and thoughtfully brings together three growing areas of historical scholarship: disability rights, technical developments in computing, and users of personal computers. Choice By underlining, once more, how we can come to know the truth about certain claims through empirical and historical inquiries, Petrick's book represents a significant advance in answering questions related to human-machine interaction. MetascienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Disability Rights and Technology before the Personal Computer2. Early Personal Computer Accessibility, 1980–19873. Corporate Philanthropy and the National Special Education Alliance4. The Growth of Disability Rights and Accessible Computer Technologies5. Accessibility and Software Applications in the 1990sConclusionNotesA Note on Theory, Method, and SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher
Book SynopsisAimed at educators, sociologists, political scientists, and policy makers, this book will be hailed as the definitive assessment of the origins and evolution of performance funding.Trade ReviewThe 'definitive assessment' of performance funding in higher education... Council of Independent Colleges Newsletter An in-depth study of an important topic...enlightening and very thorough. Comparative Education Review The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations is the most comprehensive volume on the current state of performance funding in higher education. Contemporary Sociology The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education clearly articulates the origins, implications, and life cycles of performance-based funding as a complex function of higher education finance that is here to stay. Teachers College RecordTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. IntroductionConundrums of Performance FundingResearch Questions and a Preview of Methods and PerspectivesChapter Contents and Preview of Findings2. Putting U.S. Performance Funding in ContextConceptualizing AccountabilityAccountability to State GovernmentState Finance of Higher Education as AccountabilityThe Use of Performance Outcomes in State FundingContextualizing U.S. Performance FundingSummary and Conclusions3. The Varying Trajectories of Higher Education Performance Funding ProgramsHow Many States Have Adopted Performance Funding?Two Waves of Performance Funding AdoptionDifferent Stages of Performance FundingVarying Trajectories of Performance FundingSynopses of the Performance Funding Programs in Our Eight StatesSummary and Conclusions4. Origins of the First Wave of State Performance Funding Adoptions with Rachel Hare Bork, Sosanya M. Jones, and Blanca E. VegaExplaining the Rise of State Performance FundingTheoretical PerspectivesResearch MethodsBroad-Based Social Forces Giving Rise to Performance FundingSupporters of Performance Funding and Their MotivesOpponents and Their BeliefsCoalition FormationIdentification of Policy SolutionsAgenda SettingSummary and Conclusions5. Incremental Change in Florida, Ohio, and TennesseeSelection of Cases and InterviewsTheoretical FrameworkIncremental Change in Funding Levels for Performance FundingIncremental Change in Performance IndicatorsSummary and Conclusions6. Performance Funding DiscontinuedResearch and Theoretical PerspectivesFactors Contributing to Performance Funding Program DiscontinuationRisk Factors for Performance Funding DiscontinuationSummary and Conclusions7. Origins of the Second Wave of Performance Funding Adoptions with Sosanya M. Jones, Hana Lahr, Lara Pheatt, and Vikash ReddyObjectives and Theoretical PerspectivesResearch Methods and Data SourcesBroad-Based Social Forces Giving Rise to the Wave 2 ProgramsAdvocacy Coalitions Supporting Performance FundingMuted OppositionFormation of the Supporting CoalitionsIdentification of Policy SolutionsPolicy Windows Opening the Way for PF 2.0Similarities and Differences in the Origins of Wave 1 and 2 ProgramsSummary and Conclusions8. Summary and ConclusionsSummary of FindingsResearch and Theory ImplicationsWhat Is the Likely Future of Performance Funding?AppendixResearch QuestionsTheoretical PerspectivesResearch MethodsNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press MOOCs High Technology and Higher Learning
Book SynopsisThis book offers a clear-eyed perspective on the potential and peril of this new form of education.Trade ReviewProfessor Rhoads chronicles the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs) from 2008 to 2014...Recommended [for] upper-division undergraduates through graduates, faculty and professional readers. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. The Organizational System of the World of the MOOC3. Connectivism, Social Learning, and the cMOOC/xMOOC Distinction4. Blowback and Resistance to the MOOC Movement5. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Organizing Enlightenment Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University
Book SynopsisIn order to survive, the university would have to institutionalize a new order of knowledge, one that was self-organizing, internally coherent, and embodied in the very character of the modern, critical scholar.Trade ReviewAn important story, told by Wellmon... His exposition is deeply grounded in intellectual, rather than social, history. Choice Organizing Enlightenment is an intriguing book for readers with significant prior knowledge of educational and German history...this reviewer found the material on lexica and encyclopedias a fascinating new perspective. History of Education QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Science as Culture2. The Fractured Empire of Erudition3. Encyclopedia from Book to Practice4. From Bibliography to Ethics5. Kant's Critical Technology6. The Enlightenment University and Too Many Books7. The University in the Age of Print8. Berlin, Humboldt, and the Research University9. The Disciplinary Self and the Virtues of the PhilologistAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex
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