Early modern universities : networks of higher learning / / edited by Anja-Silvia Goeing, Glyn Parry, and Mordechai Feingold

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910794328503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 90-04-44405-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 501 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: History of Science and Medicine Library
• Disciplina: 378.40902
• Soggetti: Universities and colleges - Europe - History; Europe Intellectual life 16th century; Europe Intellectual life 17th century; Europe Intellectual life 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Anja-Silvia Goeing, Glyn Parry, and Mordechai Feingoldpart -- Colleges and the University of Paris, professors and students, religion and politics : some remarks on the history of Europe in the Late Middle Ages (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) / Andreas Sohn -- Structures and networks of learning in early modern Bologna / David A. Lines -- Church and state : sixteenth century higher education in Zurich and its ties to the city-state government / Anja-Silvia Goeing -- The beginnings of the German Academia Naturae Curiosorum (1652-1687) and the character of German intellectual life / Ian Maclean -- The academy, the university and cultural warfare : the case of Thomas Digges (1546-1595) / Glyn Parry -- Domestic academies / Jane Stevenson -- The circulation of knowledge in early colonial New Spain : a plural landscape / Yarí Pérez Marín -- A multifaceted educational landscape : the Dutch and their schools in and outside the Dutch Republic / Willem Frijhoff -- Schemes for students' mobility in Protestant Switzerland during the sixteenth century / Karine Crousaz -- Domestic grammar schools and overseas colleges in the formation of Irish Catholic clergy (1560-1620) / Thomas O'Connor -- The importance of location the eighteenth-century university and the ; intellectual rendez-vous / Laurence Brocklisspart -- Performing networks and relationships on stage at the early modern universities : theater and ritual at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Inns of Court / Elizabeth Sandis -- Defacing Euclid : reading and annotating the elements of geometry in early modern Britain / Benjamin Wardhaugh -- Archibald Pitcairne : heterodoxy and its milieu in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Edinburgh / Michael Hunter -- The collections of the University of Aberdeen, 1495-1807 : centers and peripheries, networks and culture / Peter Davidson and Jane Stevensonpart -- The messengers of the nations of the University of Paris and the book trade (late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) / Martina Hacke -- The cooperation between professors and printers in Basel and Zurich during the early modern period / Urs B. Leu -- Typologies and pharmaceutical markets : the reception of pseudo-Mesue's Schriftencorpus in print / ZIolanda Ventura -- Traveling salesmen or scholarly travelers? : early modern botanists on the move marketing their knowledge of nature / Alette Fleischer -- "Abroad colleges," print culture, and book collections the Irish Colleges, Paris, 1676-1794 / Liam Chambers.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book contains twenty essays by expert scholars of higher learning in the early modern period. Together they discuss topics that historians of universities have largely ignored: notably the extensive collaboration, and occasional conflicts, between university scholars, instructors, and administrators on the one hand, and students at academies, independent and dependent colleges, gymnasia, and Latin schools on the other. The contributions also cover a wide geographical range, covering universities, schools, academies, and the history of the book, in many European states, and Latin America"--

American exceptionalism and human rights / / edited by Michael Ignatieff

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910345143203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2005
• ISBN: 1-282-15806-6; 9786612158063; 1-4008-2688-8
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): IgnatieffMichael
• Disciplina: 323/.0973
• Soggetti: Human rights - United States; National characteristics, American; United States Foreign relations Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction: American Exceptionalism and Human Rights / Ignatieff, Michael -- Part I. The Varieties of Exceptionalism -- Chapter 2. The Exceptional First Amendment / Schauer, Frederick -- Chapter 3. Capital Punishment and American Exceptionalism / Steiker, Carol S . -- Chapter 4. Why Does the American Constitution Lack Social and Economic Guarantees? / Sunstein, Cass R. -- Chapter 5. America's Jekyll-and-Hyde Exceptionalism / Hongju Koh, Harold -- Part II. Explaining Exceptionalism -- Chapter 6. The Paradox of U.S. Human Rights Policy / Moravcsik, Andrew -- Chapter 7. American Exceptionalism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law / Kahn, Paul W. -- Part III. Evaluating Exceptionalism -- Chapter 8. American Exceptionalism: The New Version / Hoffmann, Stanley -- Chapter 9. Integrity-Anxiety? / Michelman, Frank I . -- Chapter 10. A Brave New Judicial World / Slaughter, Anne-Marie -- Chapter 11. American Exceptionalism, Exemptionalism, and Global Governance / Ruggie, John Gerard -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: With the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, the most controversial question in world politics fast became whether the United ; States stands within the order of international law or outside it. Does America still play by the rules it helped create? American Exceptionalism and Human Rights addresses this question as it applies to U.S. behavior in relation to international human rights. With essays by eleven leading experts in such fields as international relations and international law, it seeks to show and explain how America's approach to human rights differs from that of most other Western nations. In his introduction, Michael Ignatieff identifies three main types of exceptionalism: exemptionalism (supporting treaties as long as Americans are exempt from them); double standards (criticizing "others for not heeding the findings of international human rights bodies, but ignoring what these bodies say of the United States); and legal isolationism (the tendency of American judges to ignore other jurisdictions). The contributors use Ignatieff's essay as a jumping-off point to discuss specific types of exceptionalism--America's approach to capital punishment and to free speech, for example--or to explore the social, cultural, and institutional roots of exceptionalism. These essays--most of which appear in print here for the first time, and all of which have been revised or updated since being presented in a year-long lecture series on American exceptionalism at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government--are by Stanley Hoffmann, Paul Kahn, Harold Koh, Frank Michelman, Andrew Moravcsik, John Ruggie, Frederick Schauer, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Carol Steiker, and Cass Sunstein.