This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The ...tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Florence and the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (1694) in Paris, and spread across Europe - to Germany, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Russia - in the eighteenth century, engaging students of language as diverse as Leibniz, Samuel Johnson, and Catherine the Great. All the major academy and academy-style dictionaries of the period up to 1800, published and unpublished, are discussed in a single narrative, bridging national and linguistic boundaries, to offer a history of lexicography on a European scale. Like John Considine's Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2008), this study treats dictionaries both as physical books and as ambitious works of the human imagination.
In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nebhard chronicles African American cooperative
business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic
equality. Not since Du ...Bois’ 1907 Economic Cooperation among Negroes has there been
a full-length, nation-wide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage
extends that story into the twentieth century. Many of the players are well-known in
the history of the African American experience: W. E. B. Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph
and the Women’s Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen
Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes
Cooperative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the
cooperative movement to Black history provides a retelling of the African American
experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic
agency and grassroots economic organizing.
To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard pores over newspapers, period magazines and
journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters,
budgets and income statements; scholarly books, memoirs and biographies to reveal the
achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social
entrepreneurship. She also uses mixed methods economic analysis of quantitative and
qualitative data, theoretical analysis and applied theory to understand the effectiveness of
the particular practices and/or strategies documented. Themes of economic independence,
the critical role of women and youth in the African American cooperative movement, and
the use of cooperatives by Black organizations for community economic development
are interwoven into a linear treatment of the development of cooperatives among
African Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Gordon Nembhard finds
that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have
benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation
throughout the nation’s history.
The company he keeps Syrett, Nicholas L
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Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, Nicholas Syrett reveals how ...fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history. Based on extensive research at twelve different schools and analyzing at least twenty national fraternities,The Company He Keepsexplores many factors--such as class, religiosity, race, sexuality, athleticism, intelligence, and recklessness--that have contributed to particular versions of fraternal masculinity at different times. Syrett demonstrates the ways that fraternity brothers' masculinity has had consequences for other students on campus as well, emphasizing the exclusion of different groups of classmates and the sexual exploitation of female college students.
Businesses with a difference Quarter, Jack; Mook, Laurie; Ryan, Sherida
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Building on the popular 2010 collection Researching the Social Economy, Businesses with a Difference explores the challenges and opportunities faced by firms that seek a genuine balance between their ...social and economic objectives.
This is a unique history of what in the 1980s was the world’s largest association in the media field. However, the IOJ was embroiled in the Cold War: the bulk of 300,000 members were in the socialist ...East and developing South. Hence the collapse of the Soviet-led communist order in central-eastern Europe in 1989–91 precipitated the IOJ’s demise.The author – a Finnish journalism educator and media scholar – served as President of the IOJ during its heyday. In addition to a chronological account of the organization, the book includes testimonies by actors inside and outside the IOJ and comprehensive appendices containing unpublished documents.
In the 1790s, a single conversational circle—the Friendly Club—united New York City's most ambitious young writers, and in Republic of Intellect, Bryan Waterman uses an innovative blend of literary ...criticism and historical narrative to re-create the club's intellectual culture. The story of the Friendly Club reveals the mutually informing conditions of authorship, literary association, print culture, and production of knowledge in a specific time and place—the tumultuous, tenuous world of post-revolutionary New York City. More than any similar group in the early American republic, the Friendly Club occupied a crossroads—geographical, professional, and otherwise—of American literary and intellectual culture. Waterman argues that the relationships among club members' novels, plays, poetry, diaries, legal writing, and medical essays lead to important first examples of a distinctively American literature and also illuminate the local, national, and transatlantic circuits of influence and information that club members called "the republic of intellect." He addresses topics ranging from political conspiracy in the gothic novels of Charles Brockden Brown to the opening of William Dunlap's Park Theatre, from early American debates on gendered conversation to the publication of the first American medical journal. Voluntary association and print culture helped these young New Yorkers, Waterman concludes, to produce a broader and more diverse post-revolutionary public sphere than scholars have yet recognized.
