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UNINA9910954648603321 |
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Griswold Wendy |
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Titolo |
Regionalism and the reading class / / Wendy Griswold |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2008 |
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9786611957025 |
9781281957023 |
128195702X |
9780226309262 |
0226309266 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Reading - Social aspects |
Reading interests |
Regionalism - Social aspects |
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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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Place, regional culture, and literary regionalism -- The reading class -- Cowbirds in America -- Paradox in Italy -- State patronage in Norway and the U. S. -- Conclusion : the reading class and regionalism. |
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Globalization and the Internet are smothering cultural regionalism, that sense of place that flourished in simpler times. These two villains are also prime suspects in the death of reading. Or so alarming reports about our homogenous and dumbed-down culture would have it, but as Regionalism and the Reading Class shows, neither of these claims stands up under scrutiny-quite the contrary. Wendy Griswold draws on cases from Italy, Norway, and the United States to show that fans of books form their own reading class, with a distinctive demographic profile separate from the general public. This reading class is modest in size but intense in its literary practices. Paradoxically these educated and mobile elites work hard to put down local roots by, among other strategies, exploring regional writing. Ultimately, due to the technological, economic, and political advantages they wield, cosmopolitan readers are able to celebrate, perpetuate, and reinvigorate local culture. Griswold's study will appeal to students of |
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cultural sociology and the history of the book-and her findings will be welcome news to anyone worried about the future of reading or the eclipse of place. |
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UNINA9911007473703321 |
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Autore |
Stuessy Tod F |
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Titolo |
Organizing the Green World: A Conceptual History of Botanical Classification / / by Tod F. Stuessy |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025 |
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[1st ed. 2025.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XVIII, 373 p. 127 illus., 55 illus. in color.) |
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Disciplina |
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Plants - Evolution |
Plants - Development |
Plant ecology |
Evolution (Biology) |
Science - History |
Plant Evolution |
Plant Development |
Plant Ecology |
Evolutionary Theory |
History of Science |
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Chapter 1 Classification as a portrait of reality -- Chapter 2 Observing the natural world -- Chapter 3 Keeping ancient knowledge alive -- Chapter 4 Utility of plants for humans -- Chapter 5 Early efforts toward formal classification -- Chapter 6 A stable and convenient system emerges -- Chapter 7 Improving predictive quality -- Chapter 8 Development of evolutionary thinking -- Chapter 9 Phylogenetic/evolutionary classification systems: European influences -- Chapter 10 Phylogenetic/evolutionary classification systems: American and other Influences -- Chapter 11 The populational |
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revolution -- Chapter 12 Explanation and quantification in classification -- Chapter 13 Putting descent into quantitative classification -- Chapter 14 Phylogenetic analysis and its influence on classification -- Chapter 15 Quantitative evolutionary phylogenetics -- Chapter 16 Horizons. |
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This book focuses on plant systematics and evolution, with special interest on the history and philosophy of botanical classification. Tracing the history of how humans have dealt with ordering the plant world is very much a glimpse of how human culture and science have progressed over the past 2000 years. The objective in this book is to present ideas on plant classification beginning with classical Greek and Roman scholars, through the Middle Ages, into the Renaissance, and finally to the modern 21st century. Significant quantitative methods in classification have originated within the past 70 years, which have never before been integrated with previous historical perspectives. Most textbooks of systematic botany contain an historical introduction or perhaps a chapter on the history of classification, but this book presents much greater detail on the classifications themselves and the cultural dimensions of the different time periods. Biographical detail is also provided to give a better appreciation of the individual botanists who have contributed new ideas in the search for maximally predictive systems. |
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