Western Europe, Eastern Europe and world development, 13th-18th centuries : collection of essays of Marian Małowist / / edited by Jean Batou and Henryk Szlajfer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970048603321
• Autore: Małowist Marian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-95092-4; 9786612950926; 90-474-4152-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Collana: Studies in critical social sciences, , 1573-4234 ; ; v. 16
• Altri autori (Persone): BatouJean; SzlajferHenryk
• Disciplina: 330.94/02
• Soggetti: Economic development - History; North and south - History; Economic history - Medieval, 500-1500; Economic history - 16th century; Economic history - 1600-1750; Europe, Western Economic conditions; Europe, Eastern Economic conditions; Europe, Western Relations Europe, Eastern; Europe, Eastern Relations Europe, Western; Europe Foreign economic relations
• 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: Preface: "Marian Małowist : an appreciation" / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Introduction: "I chased after Polish grain all over the world" / Jean Batou and Henryk Szlajfer -- Commercial capitalism and agriculture -- Merchant credit and the putting-out system : rural production during the Middle Ages -- Some remarks on the role of merchant capital in Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages -- Kaffa : the Genoese colony in Crimea and the Eastern question (1453-1475) -- Levantine trade with Eastern Europe in the 16th Century : some problems -- Poland, Russia and Western trade in the 15th and 16th centuries -- The problem of ; the inequality of economic development in Europe in the later Middle Ages -- Problems of the growth of the national economy of Central-Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages -- East and West Europe in the 13th-16th centuries : confrontation of social and economic structures -- Economic and political divisions in medieval and early modern Europe -- Eastern Europe and the countries of the Iberian Peninsula : parallels and contrasts -- The social and economic stability of the Western Sudan in the Middle Ages -- The Western Sudan in the Middle Ages : underdevelopment in the empires of the Western Sudan Hopkins-Małowist debate -- Social and economic life in Timur's empire -- New Saray, capital of the Golden Horde -- The foundations of European expansion in Africa in the 16th century : Europe, Maghreb and Western Sudan -- Portuguese expansion in Africa and European economy at the turn of the 15th century -- Gulf of Guinea countries in the 15th and early 16th century.
• Sommario/riassunto: \'This collection of essays is most welcome. The main articles of Marian Małowist are collected together (and in many cases translated into English) for the first time. Małowist, who is one of the major economic historians of the twentieth century, is also a much neglected one. Of the eighteen articles here, only five were published in English-language journals that are widely read by historians and social scientists, and even these journals are primarily read by economic historians. So most scholars have been missing out on one of the most fertile and cultivated minds who have written on the central issue of our times - the wide and widening gulf between the core and the periphery, the North and the South, western and eastern Europe\' (Immanuel Wallerstein).

After phrenology : neural reuse and the interactive brain / / Michael L. Anderson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971667303321
• Autore: Anderson Michael L. <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-262-54473-3; 0-262-32068-1; 0-262-32067-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.8/2
• Soggetti: Brain - Physiology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A Bradford book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Neural reuse and the need for a new approach to understanding brain function -- Interactive differentiation and the search for neural coalitions : neural reuse in the functional development of the brain -- Neural reuse in contemporary cognitive science -- Do brain regions have personalities of their own? : toward a dispositional neuroscience -- Brains and their bodies -- Embodiment, computation and control -- Languaging with an interactive brain -- A functionalist neuroscience for the 21st century.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The computer analogy of the mind has been as widely adopted in contemporary cognitive neuroscience as was the analogy of the brain as a collection of organs in phrenology. Just as the phrenologist would insist that each organ must have its particular function, so contemporary cognitive neuroscience is committed to the notion that each brain region must have its fundamental computation. In After Phrenology, Michael Anderson argues that to achieve a fully post-phrenological science of the brain, we need to reassess this commitment and devise an alternate, neuroscientifically grounded taxonomy of mental function. Anderson contends that the cognitive roles played by each region of the brain are highly various, reflecting different neural partnerships established under different circumstances. ; He proposes quantifying the functional properties of neural assemblies in terms of their dispositional tendencies rather than their computational or information-processing operations. Exploring larger-scale issues, and drawing on evidence from embodied cognition, Anderson develops a picture of thinking rooted in the exploitation and extension of our early-evolving capacity for iterated interaction with the world. He argues that the multidimensional approach to the brain he describes offers a much better fit for these findings, and a more promising road toward a unified science of minded organisms"--MIT CogNet.