Mount Vernon Democratic Banner January 2, 1896

Mount Vernon Democratic Banner was a newspaper published weekly in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Until 1853, it was published as the Democratic Banner.https://digital.kenyon.edu/banner1896/1020/thumbnail.jp

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV

A new edition of Kaplan’s landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on research in all the Parisian depots and more than fifty departmental archives and specialized and municipal libraries, Kaplan’s classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and the political economy of deregulatory reform. Anthem Press is proud to reissued this pathbreaking work together with a significant new historiographic companion volume by the author, “The Stakes of Regulation: Perspectives on ‘Bread, Politics and Political Economy’ Forty Years Later.

The Mobile Workshop: Mobility, Technology, and Human-Animal Interaction in Gonarezhou (National Park), 1850-present.

The dissertation investigates the role of mobility in the interactions of people, technology, and nature in Gonarezhou National Park in southeastern Zimbabwe for the last 150 years. It concentrates on the movement of three specific actors. First, it examines the movement of people such as state administrators, hunters or poachers, human traffickers, insurgents, and illegal immigrants to South Africa. Second, it explores technologies like indigenous hunting technologies, western-made guns, veterinary disease control, and indigenous and western conservation. Thirdly, it looks at the movement of nature, specifically wild animals, plants, water, minerals, and the weather. By paying close attention to the role of mobility, the dissertation attempts to bring together people, nature, and technology in one narrative. Scholars who write about mobility have often normalized or naturalized it in such a way that we do not see how movement itself works to produce history or ‘social’ behavior. Mobility is taken as more of a premise but is rarely problematized. This dissertation argues that mobility itself disrupts and (re)assembles various kinds of boundaries in important ways. I use the notion of the mobile workshop to talk about the artifacts, skills and socio-technical relations that surround these border-crossing people, nature, and technology as they move through time and space. These artifacts, skills and socio-technical relations are the very same ones scholars have used to define a workshop. Mobility renders the workshop portable and capable of operating on the move or being shifted from place to place. This dissertation tells how villagers around Gonarezhou forest have formed alliances with these itinerant outsiders, animals, insects and technologies to transgress state monopoly over wildlife. At no point in the 150 years examined here did the human element completely control the stage where technology and nature interacted. In principle, various incarnations of the state defined “right” and “wrong” forms of mobility; in practice, the “wrong” mobilities of human and nonhuman subjects ruled these various forms of the state, which in turn resorted to treating human subjects in the same ways as they did animal pests. Governance became pest control work.Ph.D.HistoryUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/61738/1/mavhungc_1.pd

10.2 Epistemology / 20th Anniversary – Part 1

Richard Kostelanetz, Umberto Eco, Fernando Aguiar, Philippe Sollers, Sandra Birdsell, W.M. Sutherland, Spencer Selby, Louis Dudek, Frank Davey, Dennis Oppenheim, Brion Gysin, George Bowering, Jim McCrary on William Burroughs, Mel Freilicher on Kathy Acker, Helen Lovekin, Karen MacCormack, Steve McCaffery, Peter Jaeger, Taylor Brady, Christine Germain, Paul Dutton, Mark Laliberte, Sheila E. Murphy, Colin Morton, Paget Norton, Sam Patterson, Norman Lock, George Swede, Craig Foltz, Carole A. Turner, Linda Kivi, Lee Henderson, Mark Kerwin, Antonio Gomez, A. Connolly, Maggie Helwig, Joellie Ethier, Gary Barwin, Frank Sauers, Henry Ferris, David King, Jaqueline W. Turner, Paul Vermeersch, Chris Belsito, k ripp, Barry Butson, Denis Robillard, Brian D. Johnston, Irving Weiss, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Alootook Ipellie, Rolland Nadjiwon, William George, Antanas Sileika, Fausto Bedoya, Andrew Palcic. Cover Art: Francisco Aliseda

Scholars in Action (2 vols)

In Scholars in Action, an international group of 40 authors open up new perspectives on the eighteenth-century culture of knowledge, with a particular focus on scholars and their various practices.; Readership: All interested in the Republic of Letters, the history of Enlightenment and the history of early modern knowledge, scholarship and science

Hearing about Jesus, but thinking about Joel: exploring the biblical and historical relationship between spiritual and economic transformation

The salvation-restoration oracle in Joel 1 and 2 depicts the four phases of a spiritual cycle that has economic consequences: backsliding causes Yahweh to progressively remove His blessing, thus creating economic “recession”; disobedience (i.e. deliberate, blatant sin) leads to “depression”; true, heart-felt repentance causes Yahweh to reinstate His blessing, which kick-starts the process of “recovery”; and increasing levels of obedience lead ultimately to full blessing, resulting in “prosperity”. In particular, Joel 2:28 suggests that the outpouring of economic blessing will either precede or occur in close proximity to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And since the apostle Peter used this passage to introduce his Pentecost sermon, I would argue that, when the devout Jews in his audience were hearing about Jesus, they were also thinking about Joel; or, to be more precise, the promises of economic transformation outlined in that book. Furthermore, the early chapters of Acts contain sufficient evidence to suggest that the economic prosperity promised in the OT salvation-restoration oracles was actually experienced by the Primitive Church in the post-Pentecost period. Consequently, it is possible that the persecution experienced by the Hellenistae was motivated primarily by economic factors, although doctrinal issues obviously provided a convenient excuse

The Picnic Makers of Bongo: Developing rituals and ritualising developments in a transitioning frontier Bhutanese community

My thesis is based on a year's ethnographic fieldwork conducted in what has been called 'frontier zones' or 'zones of contact' in the anthropological literature of the Himalayas (Pratt 1991 as cited in Shneiderman, 2010: 291). Because of its removed distance from Bhutan's civilizational centre, Bongo was home to a multifaceted indigenous culture that is part of what Tucci (1980 [1970]) called 'folk religion' of the Tibetan cultural area. However, as the Bhutanese state embarked on a systematic modernisation process in the 1960s, precocious children from Bongo became one of its primary beneficiaries. Because of its close proximity to the neighbouring Indian hill stations of Darjeeling and Kalimpong, many of these children received British-style managerial education. Their new competencies enabled them to rise through the ranks of the then nascent Bhutanese civil service. However, the earliest interventions that these educated members of Bongo made in their community was to emulate the state's sophisticated Buddhist culture in their community in what I call the development of rituals. Similar processes can be witnessed in other Himalayan areas that Ortner (1995: 359) labelled as 'religious upgrading', where adoption of Buddhism was the first and primary manifestation of development and progress. From 2008, when the Bhutanese state became secularised and as successive elected governments promoted a material culture that is amendable to their more immediate electoral imperatives, Bongo's communal capabilities have been recalibrated to serve what I call a ritualised development. Therefore, I employ Shneiderman's (2015) distinction between the 'practice' and 'performance' of rituals to argue that "the process of modernisation [has been] a process of ritualization" in Bongo. In view of the rich ritual culture that I was confronted with in my fieldwork, my research seeks to ask why the so-called 'development' or 'modernisation' (as some prefer to call this phenomenon) takes on ritual form in certain historically peripheral societies? In answering this primary question, I found that the state acts a major cause and catalyst of change, and so, this thesis asks what role does the state play in triggering such transformations? But contrary to some simplistic perceptions, the people can be agentive actors and can often mediate effectively with what is called the 'state effect' (Shneiderman, 2010: 291). Therefore, my research seeks to answer what broader impact does such modernising processes and 'objectification of culture' have on the redistribution of key economic resources and in realigning the axis of power between centrally and peripherally located actors in the state

An aesthetic for sustainable interactions in product-service systems?

Copyright @ 2012 Greenleaf PublishingEco-efficient Product-Service System (PSS) innovations represent a promising approach to sustainability. However the application of this concept is still very limited because its implementation and diffusion is hindered by several barriers (cultural, corporate and regulative ones). The paper investigates the barriers that affect the attractiveness and acceptation of eco-efficient PSS alternatives, and opens the debate on the aesthetic of eco-efficient PSS, and the way in which aesthetic could enhance some specific inner qualities of this kinds of innovations. Integrating insights from semiotics, the paper outlines some first research hypothesis on how the aesthetic elements of an eco-efficient PSS could facilitate user attraction, acceptation and satisfaction

The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin

Agriculture; Food Science; Environmental Science and Engineerin

Cultures of commerce compared: a comparative study of the ideal of the businessman in China and England, c.1600-1800

This study compares business culture in seventeenth and eighteenth century China and England through an examination of the ideals of the businessman. It focuses on these ideals as presented in business advice literature, the core of which are business handbooks giving advice on how businessmen were expected to behave. These handbooks have not previously been used comparatively. This study looks at three aspects of the ideal of the businessman – attitudes to the market, wealth and social relations. Business culture is an important factor in global history for explaining economic performance and the Great Divergence. In England, the rise of a bourgeoisie with commercial values and increasing status of commerce is seen as a spur to economic development. On the other hand, in China, the ideal of the Confucian merchant has been argued to be a possible hindrance. By comparing the business cultures of China and England through an analysis of business advice literature we find similarities which dispel many stereotypes, and differences, which point out factors important in the Great Divergence. Through this this study aims to shed new light on cultural debates in global economic history. This study argues that there are highly surprising similarities between the ideals of the businessmen of China and England, including thrift, charity and attitudes to the market. However, it also argues that through this comparison two key differences in attitudes are crystalized which might have been important in looking at the Great Divergence. In England the ideal of honesty was made malleable and subsumed to commerce. In China a familial emphasis was present in the ideal of the Chinese businessman to a much greater degree than for the English businessman