Every farm a factory : the industrial ideal in American agriculture / / Deborah Fitzgerald

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452232303321
• Autore: Fitzgerald Deborah Kay
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• ISBN: 1-281-73158-7; 9786611731588; 0-300-13341-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 pages)
• Collana: Yale agrarian studies series
• Disciplina: 338.1/0973
• Soggetti: Agriculture - Economic aspects - United States - History - 20th century; Family farms - United States - History - 20th century; Agricultural credit - United States - History - 20th century; Farms, Size of - Economic aspects - United States - History - 20th century; Farm mechanization - Economic aspects - United States - History - 20th century; Agriculture - Capital investments - United States - History - 20th century; Farm mortgages - United States - History - 20th century; Business cycles - United States - History - 20th century; Farm foreclosures - United States - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• 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 (pages 197-234).
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture -- 2. By the Numbers: Economics and Management in Agriculture -- 3. Agricultural Engineers and Industrialization -- 4. Farms as Factories: The Emergence of Large-Scale Farming -- 5. The Campbell Farming Corporation -- 6. Collectivization and Industrialization: Learning from the Soviets -- Conclusion: Changing the Landscape -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: During the early decades of the twentieth century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity. In this book Deborah Fitzgerald argues that farms became modernized in the 1920's because they adopted not only new machinery but also the financial, cultural, and ideological apparatus of industrialism. Fitzgerald examines how bankers and emerging professionals in engineering and economics pushed for systematic, businesslike farming. She discusses how factory practices served as a template for the creation across the country of industrial or corporate farms. She looks at how farming was affected by this revolution and concludes by following several agricultural enthusiasts to the Soviet Union, where the lessons of industrial farming were studied.

Distributing silent film serials : local practices, changing forms, cultural transformation / / Rudmer Canjels

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458988903321
• Autore: Canjels Rudmer <1974-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-83735-3; 1-283-04107-3; 9786613041074; 0-203-83258-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Collana: Routledge advances in film studies ; ; 7
• Disciplina: 791.43/3
• Soggetti: Film serials - Europe - History and criticism; Film serials - United States - History and criticism; Silent films - Europe - History and criticism; Silent films - United States - History and criticism; Motion pictures - Distribution; Electronic books.
• 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: Introduction -- Film seriality and its serial uses : transition and beyond. ; seriality unbound -- Monopolizing episodic adventures -- Localizing serials, translating spectacle and daily life. American mysteries in France -- German spectacle from within -- Adjusting seriality in the Netherlands -- Confronting seriality in Europe and America -- Consuming new world views : American serials in Germany -- Minds that cannot condense : European serials in America -- Another time -- Overshooting in America -- Adjusting forms and diminishing uses -- Beyond the cliffhanger -- Appendix : overview of imported serial films.
• Sommario/riassunto: Tracing the international consumption, distribution, and cultural importance of silent film serials in the 1910s and 1920s, Canjels provides an exciting new understanding of the cultural dimension and the cultural transformation and circulation of media forms. Specifically, he demonstrates that the serial film form goes far beyond the well-known American two-reel serial-the cliffhanger. Throughout the book, Canjels focuses on the biggest producers of serials, America, France, and Germany, while imported serials, such as those in the Netherlands, are also examined. This research offer

Agency, norms, inquiry, and artifacts, essays in honor of Risto Hilpinen / / edited by Paul McNamara, Andrew J. I. Jones, and Mark A. Brown

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910561297203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 3-030-90749-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Collana: Synthese Library ; ; v.454
• Disciplina: 160
• Soggetti: Logic; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical; Modality (Logic)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Part I Branching Time, Causation, and Agency -- 1 Time and ; Actual Obligations -- 1.1 Theory and Practice -- 1.2 The CJ1 Lexicon and Semantics -- 1.3 Some Observations and Interpretation -- 1.3.1 Contexts -- 1.3.2 Norms and Obligations -- 1.3.3 Deliberation and Evaluation -- 1.3.4 Fulfillment and Violation -- 1.4 Bringing Time into the Picture -- 1.5 Comparing the Systems -- 1.6 Analysis of Some Scenarios -- 1.7 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Actual Cause and Chancy Causation in Stit: A PreliminaryAccount -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Formal Framework -- 2.3 Group Agency and Essential Contributors -- 2.4 Indeterminism and `Chancy Causation' -- 2.5 Causal Dependencies and Independence of Agents -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- Part II The Nature of Norms and Obligations -- 3 Deontic Logic and the Propositional Nature of Norms -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Two Typical Strategies -- 3.3 Norms and Norm-Propositions -- 3.4 Hilpinen's Solution to Jørgensen's Dilemma -- 3.5 Two Interpretations of Hilpinen's Ideas -- 3.6 Another Approach to the Logic of Norm-Propositions -- 3.7 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Imperative Foundations for the Metaphysics of Obligations -- 4.1 Introduction: Taking Obligations Seriously -- 4.2 The Satisfaction/Violation of Obligations and the Association Function -- 4.2.1 Prescriptions -- 4.2.2 The Satisfaction and the Violation of Obligations -- 4.2.3 The Association Function -- 4.2.4 The Correspondence Result -- 4.3 The Nature of Obligations and the Identity Thesis -- 4.3.1 The Identity Thesis -- 4.3.2 Obligation Phasalism and the Time-Indexed Identity Thesis -- 4.4 Conclusion -- A.1 Appendix: Moral Obligation Prescriptivism -- References -- Part III Varieties and Applications of Normative Logic -- 5 The Logic of ``Must'' and ``Have to'' -- 5.1 Introducing Aggregative Predicates -- 5.2 A Formal Representation.; 5.3 The Origin-Compliance Dimension of Deontic Predicates -- 5.4 Connections with Moral Theory -- 5.5 Deontic Paradoxes -- 5.6 Prima Facie Requirements vs. Requirements All Things Considered -- 5.7 An Aggregative Permissive Predicate? -- 5.8 Conclusion -- References -- 6 On the Role of Normative Modalities in the Characterization of Emotions -- 6.1 Two Categories of Normative Modality -- 6.2 Approving and Wanting -- 6.3 The Mental Structure of Emotions -- 6.4 Unacceptability -- 6.5 A Reformulation of Pörn's Atomic Emotion Types -- References -- 7 A Natural Conditionalization of the DWE Framework -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Doing Well Enough (DWE) -- 7.2.1 Language and Logic -- 7.2.2 Semantics for DWE -- 7.2.3 A Modest Generalization of the DWE Framework -- 7.3 Conditionalizing the DWEG Framework -- 7.3.1 Motivating the Need to Do So -- 7.3.2 The Language and Formal Semantics for CDWEG -- 7.3.3 The CDWEG Logic -- 7.4 The Earlier Motivation Again and Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Part IV History of Deontic Logic -- 8 Ibn Ḥazm on Heteronomous Imperatives. A Landmark in the History of the Logical Analysis of Norms -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Ibn Ḥazm's Logic of Heteronomous Imperatives -- 8.2.1 The Main Definitions -- 8.2.2 Freedom and Heteronomy: Ought Presupposes Can -- 8.3 On Natural and Deontic Necessity -- 8.4 Deontic Imperatives and the CTT-Analysis of Hypotheticals -- 8.4.1 Quantifying Over Actions -- 8.4.2 Logical Analysis of Ibn Ḥazm's Heteronomous Imperatives -- 8.5 A Landmark in the History of the Logical Analysis of Norms. Natural and Deontic Modalities -- 8.6 Ibn Ḥazm's Parallelism, Qiyās, and the Inferential Structure of Imperatives -- 8.7 Beyond Ibn Ḥazm: Conclusions and the Work Ahead -- 8.7.1 Brief Remarks on Ibn Ḥazm's Heteronomous Imperatives and Deontic Logic.; 8.7.2 On Normativity the Other Way Round and the Internalization of Nature -- References -- Part V Inquiry and Inference -- 9 Hilpinen's Theory of Inquiry -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The Semantics of ; Questions and the Theory of Inquiry (1986) -- 9.3 Inquiry, Argumentation and Knowledge (1991) -- 9.4 Belief Systems as Artifacts (1995) -- 9.5 Final Remarks -- References -- 10 Practical Inferences -- 10.1 Hilpinen on Practical Abduction, and His Instrumentalist Framing Assumptions -- 10.2 From Hilpinen's to a Broader Instrumentalism -- 10.3 Beyond Instrumentalism, I: Inference Versus Mere Association -- 10.3.1 The Taking Condition, or the Guise of the Normative -- 10.3.2 Taking One's Reasons to Be One's Reasons -- 10.3.3 Rules and the Form of an Inference -- 10.4 Beyond Instrumentalism, II: Practicality and Virtue -- 10.4.1 Desire and Motivation -- 10.4.2 What Instrumentalism Cannot Explain -- 10.5 Conclusion: A Non-instrumentalist Alternative -- References -- Part VI Artifacts -- 11 Artwork Authorship as a Sign-in-Action -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Peirce Semiotics as Process Semiotics -- 11.3 Authorship, Artifact and Semiotic Distributedness -- 11.4 Where to Go from Here … Some Implications -- 11.5 Conclusion -- References -- 12 The Primacy of Abstract Artifacts -- 12.1 Hilpinen's Theory of Artifacts - A Critical Diachronic Overview -- 12.2 The Primacy of Abstract Artifacts -- References -- About Risto Hilpinen -- Positions, Professional Service, and Honors -- Professor Hilpinen's Publications -- A. Monographs and Edited Books -- B. Articles and Reviews.