La carte avant les cartographes : L’avènement du régime cartographique en France au XVIIIe siècle / / Nicolas Verdier

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910568201003321
• Autore: Verdier Nicolas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Paris, : Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2021
• ISBN: 979-1-03-510763-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (378 p.)
• Collana: Territoires en mouvements
• Soggetti: Geography; France; cartographie; territoire; géographie; XVIIIe siècle; cadastre; carte
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Plus qu’un livre sur la production ou sur la circulation des cartes, cet ouvrage étudie la diffusion de la culture cartographique dans la France du XVIIIe siècle, qui modifie profondément le rapport des acteurs aux territoires. Il s’agit de comprendre comment une pensée de l’espace se met en place, en partie grâce à la carte, à l’époque des Lumières – avec des conséquences jusqu’à nos jours. L’ouvrage dépasse ici le postulat classique d’une évidente diffusion de la carte aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Pour en mettre en exergue les chronologies, l’enquête passe tant par l’analyse d’indices techniques que par celle des discours sur la carte. Les conséquences de cette diffusion apparaissent tant dans les mutations de la géographie que dans la transformation de quelques professions ; c’est d’abord le cas des commissaires à terriers. Le mouvement est européen, mais la France connaît des temporalités spécifiques qui aboutissent à la mise en place des ingénieurs du cadastre lors de la ; Révolution. Les professions d’ingénieurs du génie, comme celles d’ingénieurs des ponts s’institutionnalisent grâce à l’usage de la carte, qui devient l’un des éléments clés de leur identité corporative, tout autant qu’un outil indispensable de leur action.

The global phenomenon of family-owned or managed universities / / edited by Philip G. Altbach [and three others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910795277603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill sense, , [2020]; ©2020
• ISBN: 90-04-42343-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Global perspectives on higher education ; ; Volume 44
• Disciplina: 378.04
• Soggetti: Private universities and colleges
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Part 1. The framework -- Part 2. Countries and institutions -- Part 3. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Although an entirely unknown part of higher education worldwide, there are literally hundreds of universities that are owned/managed by families around the world. These institutions are an important subset of private universities-the fastest growing segment of higher education worldwide. Family-owned or managed higher education institutions (FOMHEI) are concentrated in developing and emerging economies, but also exist in Europe and North America. This book is the first to shed light on these institutions-there is currently no other source on this topic Who owns a university? Who is in charge of its management and leadership? How are decisions made? The answers to these key questions would normally be governments or non-profit boards of trustees, or recently, for-profit corporations. There is another category of post-secondary institutions that has emerged in the past half-century challenging the time-honored paradigm of university ownership. Largely unknown, as well as undocumented, is the ; phenomenon of family-owned or managed higher education institutions. In Asia and Latin America, for example, FOMHEIs have come to comprise a significant segment of a number of higher education systems, as seen in the cases of Thailand, South Korea, India, Brazil and Colombia. We have identified FOMHEIs on all continents-ranging from well-regarded comprehensive universities and top-level specialized institutions to marginal schools. They exist both in the non-profit and for-profit sectors".