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On Deep History and the Brain

By: Daniel Lord Smail

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When does history begin? What characterizes it? This book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. It lays out a new case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology into the realm of history.

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Univ of California Press

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0520252896

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Legal Plunder

Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe

By: Daniel Lord Smail

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Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe

By: Daniel Lord Smail

As a Europe grew rich in the Middle Ages, the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of households often substituted for hard currency. Pawnbrokers kept goods in circulation, and sergeants of the law marched into debtors’ homes to seize belongings equal in value to debts owed. David Smail describes a material world on the cusp of modern capitalism.

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Harvard University Press

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0674737288

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Imaginary Cartographies

Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille

By: Daniel Lord Smail

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Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille

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How, in the years before urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? The author develops a method for understanding how residents thought about their personal geography. He explores how they charted their city, its social structure and their place within it.

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Cornell University Press

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0801436265

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The Consumption of Justice

Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264–1423

By: Daniel Lord Smail

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The Consumption of Justice

Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264–1423

By: Daniel Lord Smail

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the courts (the consumers of justice) and explains why men and women chose to invest resources in the law. Smail shows that the courts were quickly adopted as a public stage on which litigants could take revenge on their enemies. Even as the new legal system served the interest of royal or communal authority, it also provided the consumers of justice with a way to broadcast their hatreds and social sanctions to a wider audience and negotiate their own community standing in the process. The emotions that had driven bloodfeuds and other forms of customary vengeance thus never went away, and instead were fully incorporated into the new procedures.

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0801468779

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On Deep History and the Brain

By: Daniel Lord Smail

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Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe

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Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe

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The Consumption of Justice

emotions, publicity, and legal culture in Marseille, 1264-1423

By: Daniel Lord Smail

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The Consumption of Justice

emotions, publicity, and legal culture in Marseille, 1264-1423

By: Daniel Lord Smail

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the courts (the consumers of justice) and explains why men and women chose to invest resources in the law. Daniel Lord Smail shows that the courts were quickly adopted as a public stage on which litigants could take revenge on their enemies. Even as the new legal system served the interest of royal or communal authority, it also provided the consumers of justice with a way to broadcast their hatreds and social sanctions to a wider audience and negotiate their own community standing in the process. The emotions that had driven bloodfeuds and other forms of customary vengeance thus never went away, and instead were fully incorporated into the new procedures.

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0801468787

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Deep History

The Architecture of Past and Present

By: Andrew Shryock,Daniel Lord Smail

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Deep History

The Architecture of Past and Present

By: Andrew Shryock,Daniel Lord Smail

Combining cutting-edge social and evolutionary theory with the latest discoveries about human genes, brains, and material culture, this book invites scholars and general readers alike to explore the dynamic of connectedness that spans all of human history.

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Imaginary Cartographies

Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille

By: Daniel Lord Smail

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Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille

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How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In his strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, and their own identities within that structure through a set of cartographic grammars which powerfully shaped their lives.Prior to the fourteenth century, different interest groups—notaries, royal officials, church officials, artisans—developed their own cartographies in accordance with their own social, political, or administrative agendas. These competing templates were created around units ranging from streets and islands to vicinities and landmarks. Smail shows how the notarial template, which privileged the street as the most basic marker of address, gradually emerged as the cartographic norm. This transformation, he argues, led to the rise of modern urban maps and helped to inaugurate the process whereby street addresses were attached to citizen identities, a crucial development in the larger enterprise of nation building.Imaginary Cartographies opens up powerful new means for exploring late medieval and Renaissance urban society while advancing understanding of the role of social perceptions in history.

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1501718096

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A Concise History of History

Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present

By: Daniel Woolf

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A Concise History of History

Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present

By: Daniel Woolf

This short history of history is an ideal introduction for those studying or teaching the subject as part of courses on the historian's craft, historical theory and method, and historiography. Spanning the earliest known forms of historical writing in the ancient Near East right through to the present and covering developments in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, it also touches on the latest topics and debates in the field, such as 'Big History', 'Deep History' and the impact of the electronic age. It features timelines listing major dynasties or regimes throughout the world alongside historiographical developments; guides to key thinkers and seminal historical works; further reading; a glossary of terms; and sample questions to promote further debate at the end of each chapter. This is a truly global account of the process of progressive intercultural contact that led to the hegemony of Western historiographical methods.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108697062

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Jazz Historiography

The Story of Jazz History Writing

By: Daniel Hardie

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Jazz Historiography

The Story of Jazz History Writing

By: Daniel Hardie

Jazz has been around for over a hundred years but how much do we know about its history, and how much of what think we know is true? Beginning in the so called Jazz Age of the 1920s jazz history was recounted and interpreted by admiring authors and record collectors both in the United States and elsewhere. However, since the early 1990s some historians have come to doubt the validity of the conventional narrative of the story of jazz and some of its most hallowed traditions. In Jazz Historiography: The Story of Jazz History Writing Daniel Hardie uncovers the course of jazz history writing from early Jazz Age American and French publications to Academic texts in the 2000s, and seeks answers to questions about the accuracy of those accounts and the influence they have had on our understanding of jazz history - even the impact they might have had on the course of jazz history itself. How much for example did the work of jazz historians influence the course of the New Orleans Revival? Was the appearance of bebop in the 1940s a revolutionary response to oppression experienced by Afro American musicians in a commercialized popular music industry, or was it an attempt to mirror the development of classical music of the time? How has the development of University jazz studies influenced the writing of jazz history?

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iUniverse

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1491714441

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Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss

Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality

By: Daniel Scott Souleles

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Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss

Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality

By: Daniel Scott Souleles

Since the early 1980s, private equity investors have heralded and shepherded massive changes in American capitalism. From outsourcing to excessive debt taking, private equity investment helped normalize once-taboo business strategies while growing into an over $3 trillion industry in control of thousands of companies and millions of workers. Daniel Scott Souleles opens a window into the rarefied world of private equity investing through ethnographic fieldwork on private equity financiers. Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss documents how and why investors buy, manage, and sell the companies that they do; presents the ins and outs of private equity deals, management, and valuation; and explains the historical context that gave rise to private equity and other forms of investor-led capitalism. In addition to providing invaluable ethnographic insight, Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss is also an anthropological study of inequality as Souleles connects the core components of financial capitalism to economic disparities. Souleles uses local ideas of "value" and "time" to frame the ways private equity investors comprehend their work and to show how they justify the prosperity and poverty they create. Throughout, Souleles argues that understanding private equity investors as contrasted with others in society writ large is essential to fully understanding private equity within the larger context of capitalism in the United States.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496215427

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The Political Morality of the Late Scholastics

Civic Life, War and Conscience

By: Daniel Schwartz

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The Political Morality of the Late Scholastics

Civic Life, War and Conscience

By: Daniel Schwartz

Examines the practical dilemmas, both moral and political, of peace time and war time as discussed by the Late Scholastics.

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1108492452

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Empowering Interactions

Political Cultures and the Emergence of the State in Europe 1300–1900

By: Wim Blockmans,Daniel Schläppi

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Empowering Interactions

Political Cultures and the Emergence of the State in Europe 1300–1900

By: Wim Blockmans,Daniel Schläppi

The emergence of the state in Europe is a topic that has engaged historians since the establishment of the discipline of history. Yet the primary focus of has nearly always been to take a top-down approach, whereby the formation and consolidation of public institutions is viewed as the outcome of activities by princes and other social elites. Yet, as the essays in this collection show, such an approach does not provide a complete picture. By investigating the importance of local and individual initiatives that contributed to state building from the late middle ages through to the nineteenth century, this volume shows how popular pressure could influence those in power to develop new institutional structures. By not privileging the role of warfare and of elite coercion for state building, it is possible to question the traditional top-down model and explore the degree to which central agencies might have been more important for state representation than for state practice. The studies included in this collection treat many parts of Europe and deal with different phases in the period between the late middle ages and the nineteenth century. Beginning with a critical review of state historiography, the introduction then sets out the concept of 'empowering interactions' which is then explored in the subsequent case studies and a number of historiographical, methodological and theoretical essays. Taken as a whole this collection provides a fascinating platform to reconsider the relationships between top-down and bottom-up processes in the history of the European state.

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Routledge

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131714421X

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Authorship and Publicity Before Print

Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning

By: Daniel Hobbins

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Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning

By: Daniel Hobbins

Widely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and religious schism. Yet modern scholarship has struggled to define Gerson's place in history, even as it searches for a compelling narrative to tell the story of his era. Daniel Hobbins argues for a new understanding of Gerson as a man of letters actively managing the publication of his works in a period of rapid expansion in written culture. More broadly, Hobbins casts Gerson as a mirror of the complex cultural and intellectual shifts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In contrast to earlier theologians, Gerson took a more humanist approach to reading and to authorship. He distributed his works, both Latin and French, to a more diverse medieval public. And he succeeded in reaching a truly international audience of readers within his lifetime. Through such efforts, Gerson effectively embodies the aspirations of a generation of writers and intellectuals. Removed from the narrow confines of late scholastic theology and placed into a broad interdisciplinary context, his writings open a window onto the fascinating landscape of fifteenth-century Europe. The picture of late medieval culture that emerges from this study is neither a specter of decaying scholasticism nor a triumphalist narrative of budding humanism and reform. Instead, Hobbins describes a period of creative and dynamic growth, when new attitudes toward writing and debate demanded and eventually produced new technologies of the written word.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812202295

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Deep History

The Architecture of Past and Present

By: Andrew Shryock,Daniel Lord Smail

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Deep History

The Architecture of Past and Present

By: Andrew Shryock,Daniel Lord Smail

Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered. This breakthrough book, as important for readers interested in the present as in the past,brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written by leading experts in a variety of fields, it maps events, cultures, and eras across millions of years to present a new scale for understanding the human body, energy and ecosystems, language, food, kinship, migration, and more. Combining cutting-edge social and evolutionary theory with the latest discoveries about human genes, brains, and material culture, Deep History invites scholars and general readers alike to explore the dynamic of connectedness that spans all of human history. With Timothy Earle, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Clive Gamble, April McMahon, John C. Mitani, Hendrik Poinar, Mary C. Stiner, and Thomas R. Trautmann

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On Deep History and the Brain

On Deep History and the Brain

Legal Plunder

Legal Plunder

Imaginary Cartographies

Imaginary Cartographies

The Consumption of Justice

The Consumption of Justice

On Deep History and the Brain

On Deep History and the Brain

Legal Plunder

Legal Plunder

The Consumption of Justice

The Consumption of Justice

Deep History

Deep History

Imaginary Cartographies

Imaginary Cartographies

A Concise History of History

A Concise History of History

Jazz Historiography

Jazz Historiography

Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss

Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss

The Political Morality of the Late Scholastics

The Political Morality of the Late Scholastics

Empowering Interactions

Empowering Interactions

Authorship and Publicity Before Print

Authorship and Publicity Before Print

Deep History

Deep History

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