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The Corporate Commonwealth

Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516–1651

By: Henry S. Turner

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The Corporate Commonwealth

Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516–1651

By: Henry S. Turner

The Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fiction, politics, and value. Henry S. Turner uses the resources of economic and political history, literary analysis, and political philosophy to demonstrate how a number of English institutions with corporate associations—including universities, guilds, towns and cities, and religious groups—were gradually narrowed to the commercial, for-profit corporation we know today, and how the joint-stock corporation, in turn, became both a template for the modern state and a political force that the state could no longer contain. Through innovative readings of works by Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes, among others, Turner tracks the corporation from the courts to the stage, from commonwealth to colony, and from the object of utopian fiction to the subject of tragic violence. A provocative look at the corporation’s peculiar character as both an institution and a person, The Corporate Commonwealth uses the past to suggest ways in which today’s corporations might be refashioned into a source of progressive and collective public action.

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338

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University of Chicago Press

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022636349X

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9780226363493

Food and Flavor

A Gastronomic Guide to Health and Good Living

By: Henry Finck

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Food and Flavor

A Gastronomic Guide to Health and Good Living

By: Henry Finck

In this 1913 work, Henry Finck introduced gastronomy to Americans. Finck's argument for cultivating an appreciation for natural, whole, American-grown foods is thoroughly modern in its approach.

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638

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Applewood Books

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1429011092

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9781429011099

More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey

By: Henry Charlton Beck

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More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey

By: Henry Charlton Beck

From Colonial days to the early 1900s, iron forges, glass plants, lumber and paper mills flourished in the New Jersey of the Pine Barrens, in old Burlington, Gloucester and Salem Counties. Around the inlets of the Atlantic shore and on Delaware Bay, whaling and shipbuilding were important industries. Times have changed. Many of the old towns have fallen into ruin or disappeared, swallowed up in the abandoned lands of South Jersey or swept away by the unrelenting tides of the Jersey coast. Henry Charlton Black, raised in Haddonfield for years, shared his endless delight in the land and the lore of South Jersey. He, like a few other devoted Jerseyans, began to hunt out in the 1930s the old sites and to record the stories handed down from generation to generation, clear back to early settlers. In this sequel to Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey, his visits to the state's early heritage - churches, villages, and roads - are continued. He explores the routes of old railroads and the tangled wilderness of the Forked River Mountains, and he tells the lost stories of forgotten glass and iron and shipbuilding villages.

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