1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457822303321

Autore

Rosenthal Jean-Laurent

Titolo

Before and beyond divergence [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of economic change in China and Europe / / Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, R. Bin Wong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-674-06129-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Classificazione

QG 000

Altri autori (Persone)

WongRoy Bin

Disciplina

330.94

Soggetti

Comparative economics

Electronic books.

China Economic conditions

China Economic policy

Europe Economic conditions

Europe Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Miracles, Myths, and Explanations in Economic History -- 1 Space and Politics -- 2 Population, Resources, and Economic Growth -- 3 Formal and Informal Mechanisms for Market Development -- 4 Warfare, Location of Manufacturing, and Economic Growth in China and Europe -- 5 Credit Markets and Economic Change -- 6 Autocrats, War, Taxes, and Public Goods -- 7 Political Economies of Growth, 1500- 1950 -- Conclusion: Findings, Methods, and Implications -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviving a classic question in economic history: why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China?Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the nineteenth-century economic divergence between Europe and the rest of the world. This book, the product of over twenty years of research, takes a sharply different tack. It argues that political differences which crystallized well before 1800 were responsible both for China's early and more recent prosperity and



for Europe's difficulties after the fall of the Roman Empire and during early industrialization.Rosenthal and Wong show that relative prices matter to how economies evolve; institutions can have a large effect on relative prices; and the spatial scale of polities can affect the choices of institutions in the long run. Their historical perspective on institutional change has surprising implications for understanding modern transformations in China and Europe and for future expectations. It also yields insights in comparative economic history, essential to any larger social science account of modern world history.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454787903321

Autore

Godfrey Barry

Titolo

Crime and Empire 1840 - 1940 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013

ISBN

1-134-00938-0

1-134-00931-3

1-282-07748-1

9786612077487

1-84392-580-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DunstallGraeme

Disciplina

364.9034

Soggetti

Criminal justice, Administration of

Criminal justice, Administration of - History - 19th century

Criminal justice, Administration of - History - 20th century

Colonies - History - Administration

International law - History

Crime - History

Social Welfare & Social Work

Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency

Social Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Notes on the editors and contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Crime and empire: introduction; 2 The changes in policing and penal policy in nineteenth century Europe; 3 Explaining the history of punishment; 4 Crimes of violence, crimes of empire?; 5 Colonialism and the rule of law: the case of South Australia; 6 Colonial history and theories of the present: some reflections upon penal history and theory; 7 Crime, the legal archive and postcolonial histories; 8 Traces and transmissions: techno-scientific symbolism in early-twentieth-century policing

9 The English model? Policing in late nineteenth-century Tasmania10 The growth of crime and crime control in developing towns: Timaru and Crewe, 1850-1920; 11 (Re)presenting scandal: Charles Reade's advocacy of professionalism within the English prison system; 12 'Saving our unfortunate sisters'? Establishing the first separate prison for women in New Zealand; 13 Maori police personnel and the rangatiratanga discourse; 14 'To make the precedent fit the crime': British legal responses to sati in early nineteenth-century north India

15 'Everyday life' in Boer women's testimonies of the concentration camps of the South African War, 1899-190216 Codification of the criminal law: the Australian parliamentary experience; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its overarching theme is the transformation and convergence of criminal justice systems during a period that saw a broad shift from legal pluralism to the hegemony of state law in the European world and beyond.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910711552203321

Autore

Merrill Matthew

Titolo

Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resource . Chapter M. Southern Rocky Mountain Basins / / by Matthew D. Merrill [and twelve others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Virginia : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 60 pages) : color illustrations, color maps

Collana

Open-file report ; ; 2012-1024-M

Soggetti

Geological carbon sequestration - Rocky Mountains

Geological carbon sequestration

Rocky Mountains

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 47-59).



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787126303321

Autore

Clarke Bruce

Titolo

Neocybernetics and narrative / / Bruce Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis ; ; London : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4529-4215-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Posthumanities ; ; 29

Disciplina

808

Soggetti

Narration (Rhetoric)

Cybernetics in literature

System theory in literature

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

Cover; Contents; Introduction: Mysteries of Cognition; 1. Systems, Media, Narrative: From the Trace to the Telepathic Imaginary; 2. Communication and Information: Noise and Form in Michel Serres and Niklas Luhmann; 3. Feedback Loops: Media Embedding and Narrative Time from Jimi Hendrix; 4. Observing Aramis, or the Love of Technology: Objects and Projects in Gilbert Simondon and Bruno Latour; 5. Mediations of Gaia: Ecology and Epistemology from Gregory Bateson; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Neocybernetics and Narrative opens a new chapter in Bruce Clarke's project of rethinking narrative and media through systems theory. Reconceiving interrelations among subjects, media, significations, and the social, this study demonstrates second-order systems theory's potential to provide fresh insights into the familiar topics of media studies and narrative theory.  A pioneer of systems narratology, Clarke offers readers a synthesis of the neocybernetic theories of cognition formulated by biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, incubated by cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster, and cu