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UNINA9910702483803321 |
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Robinson Harold <1932-> |
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Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian biological survey of Dominica [[electronic resource] ] : the family Dolichopodidae with some related Antillean and Panamanian species (Diptera) / / Harold Robinson |
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Washington, D.C. : , : Smithsonian Institution Press, , 1975 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (141 pages) : illustrations |
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Smithsonian contributions to zoology ; ; no. 185 |
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Dolichopodidae - Dominica |
Insects - Dominica |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Title from title screen (viewed Nov 10, 2009). |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-128) and index. |
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UNINA9910823553303321 |
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MacDougall Robert <1971-> |
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The people's network : the political economy of the telephone in the Gilded Age / / Robert MacDougall |
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Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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[First edition.] |
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1 online resource (341 p.) |
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American Business, Politics, and Society |
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Telephone - United States - History - 20th century |
Telephone - Canada - History - 20th century |
Telephone companies - United States - History - 20th century |
Telephone companies - Canada - History - 20th century |
Telephone - Government policy - United States - History - 20th century |
Telephone - Government policy - Canada - History - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. A Fight with an Octopus -- Chapter 1. All Telephones Are Local -- Chapter 2. Visions of Telephony -- Chapter 3. Unnatural Monopoly -- Chapter 4. The Independent Alternative -- Chapter 5. The Politics of Scale -- Chapter 6. The System Gospel -- Conclusion. Return to Middletown -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and idealists alike, these small businesses were motivated not only by profit but also by the promise of open communication as a weapon against monopoly capital and for protection of regional autonomy. As the Bell empire grew, independents fought fiercely to retain control of their local |
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networks and companies—a struggle with an emerging corporate giant that has been almost entirely forgotten. The People's Network reconstructs the story of the telephone's contentious beginnings, exploring the interplay of political economy, business strategy, and social practice in the creation of modern North American telecommunications. Drawing from government documents in the United States and Canada, independent telephone journals and publications, and the archives of regional Bell operating companies and their rivals, Robert MacDougall locates the national debates over the meaning, use, and organization of the telephone industry as a turning point in the history of information networks. The competing businesses represented dueling political philosophies: regional versus national identity and local versus centralized power. Although independent telephone companies did not win their fight with big business, they fundamentally changed the way telecommunications were conceived. |
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UNINA9910975393703321 |
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Autore |
Stern Tiffany |
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Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan / / Tiffany Stern |
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Oxford [UK], : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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0-19-818681-9 |
9786610766734 |
9786611341596 |
1-280-76673-5 |
1-281-34159-2 |
0-19-922972-4 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (350 p.) |
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Theater rehearsals - England - History |
English drama - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Conventions and References; Abbreviations; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. REHEARSAL IN THE THEATRES OF PETER QUINCE AND BEN JONSON; Rehearsal Lexically; Background; Provincial Rehearsal; Mayors' rehearsals; How plays were prepared; Academic Rehearsal; 3. REHEARSAL IN SHAKESPEARE'S THEATRE; Background; Master of the Revels' Rehearsal; Preparing a Play for the Stage; Number of days to produce a play; Reading; Parts and study; Pronunciation and gesture; The group rehearsal; Time of group rehearsal; Place of general and partial rehearsals; Rehearsal, Writing, and Revision |
The book-holder (prompter)The manager; The author; The Nature of Performance; Book-holders in performance; Actors and parts in performance; First performance; First performance and the audience; Conclusion; The Future of the Renaissance Theatre; 4. REHFARSAL IN BETTERTON'S THEATRE; Background; Restoration Theatre Companies; The Authority of Buckingham's The Rehearsal; Public Theatre Rehearsal; Seasonal rehearsal; Number of days to produce a play; Reading; Parts; Lines'; Study; Pronunciation and gesture; Actor-training and rehearsal; Composers, authors, and individual rehearsal |
Group RehearsalAuthors and rehearsal; Managers and rehearsal; Prompters and rehearsal; The Master of the Revels as reviser; Performance; Actors and performance; Actors and extemporization; Prompter and performance; The first night; Conclusion; 5. REHEARSAL IN CIBBER'S THEATRE; Introduction; Background; Public Theatre Rehearsal; Rehearsal plays and rehearsal; Number of days to produce a play; Actor training; Reading; Casts and parts; Study; Group Rehearsal; Nature of rehearsal; Prompters and rehearsal; Authors and rehearsal; Managers and rehearsal; Actors and rehearsal; Performance |
The prompter and performanceConclusion; The first-night audience; The author and the text; 6. REHEARSAL IN GARRICK'S THEATRE- AND LATER; Background; Rehearsal Plays; Public Theatre Rehearsal; Number of rehearsals; Reading; Parts; Garrick, Macklin, and instruction; The content of rehearsal; Authors and rehearsal; Managers and rehearsal; Prompters and rehearsal; Performance; Actors in performance; Actors and extemporization; First performance; Part-based revision; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Attention is often given to the performance of a text, but not to the shaping process behind that performance. This is the first history of the subject, from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. It examines the nature and changing content of rehearsal, drawing on a mass of autobiographical, textual, and journalistic sources. - ;Attention is often given to the performance of a text, but not to the shaping process behind that performance. The question of rehearsal is seldom confronted directly, though important textual moments - like revision - are often attributed to it. Whatismore, up unti |
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