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During the nineteenth century Liverpool became the heart of an
international maritime network. As the 'second city' of Empire, its
merchants and shipowners operated within a transnational commercial
and financial system, while its trading connections stimulated the
development of new markets and their integration within an
increasingly global economy. This ground-breaking volume brings
together ten original contributions that reflect upon the
development of the city's business community from the
early-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War
with an emphasis on the period from 1851 to 1912. It offers the
first detailed analysis of Liverpool's merchant community within a
conceptual and historiographical framework which focuses on the
economic, social and cultural role of business elites in the
nineteenth century. It explores the extent to which business
success was predicated on the maintenance of networks of trust;
analyses the importance of business culture in structuring
commercial operations; and discusses the role of ethics, trust and
reputation within the changing framework of the business
environment. Particular attention is paid to the role of women and
the important contribution of the family to commercial success and
the maintenance of social networks. Changes in business practice
and social networks are also examined within a spatial context in
order to assess the impact of the development of a distinct
commercial centre and the clustering of commercial activity on
interaction, reputation and trust, while particular attention is
paid to the effect of suburbanization on existing associational
networks, the social cohesiveness of business culture, and the
cultural identity of the merchant community as a whole.
This interdisciplinary book brings together eleven original
contributions by scholars in the United Kingdom, continental
Europe, America and Japan which represent innovative and important
research on the relationship between cities and their hinterlands.
They discuss the factors which determined the changing nature of
port-hinterland relations in particular, and highlight the ways in
which port-cities have interacted and intersected with their
different hinterlands as a result of both in- and out-migration,
cultural exchange and the wider flow of goods, services and
information. Historically, maritime commerce was a powerful driving
force behind urbanisation and by 1850 seaports accounted for a
significant proportion of the world’s great cities. Ports acted
as nodal points for the flow of population and the dissemination of
goods and services, but their role as growth poles also affected
the economic transformation of both their hinterlands and
forelands. In fact, most ports, irrespective of their size, had a
series of overlapping hinterlands whose shifting importance
reflected changes in trading relations (political frameworks),
migration patterns, family networks and cultural exchange. Urban
historians have been criticised for being concerned primarily with
self-contained processes which operate within the boundaries of
individual towns and cities and as a result, the key relationships
between cities and their hinterlands have often been neglected. The
chapters in this work focus primarily on the determinants of
port-hinterland linkages and analyse these as distinct, but
interrelated, fields of interaction. Marking a significant
contribution to the literature in this field, Port-Cities and their
Hinterlands provides essential reading for students and scholars of
the history of economics.
This interdisciplinary book brings together eleven original
contributions by scholars in the United Kingdom, continental
Europe, America and Japan which represent innovative and important
research on the relationship between cities and their hinterlands.
They discuss the factors which determined the changing nature of
port-hinterland relations in particular, and highlight the ways in
which port-cities have interacted and intersected with their
different hinterlands as a result of both in- and out-migration,
cultural exchange and the wider flow of goods, services and
information. Historically, maritime commerce was a powerful driving
force behind urbanisation and by 1850 seaports accounted for a
significant proportion of the world's great cities. Ports acted as
nodal points for the flow of population and the dissemination of
goods and services, but their role as growth poles also affected
the economic transformation of both their hinterlands and
forelands. In fact, most ports, irrespective of their size, had a
series of overlapping hinterlands whose shifting importance
reflected changes in trading relations (political frameworks),
migration patterns, family networks and cultural exchange. Urban
historians have been criticised for being concerned primarily with
self-contained processes which operate within the boundaries of
individual towns and cities and as a result, the key relationships
between cities and their hinterlands have often been neglected. The
chapters in this work focus primarily on the determinants of
port-hinterland linkages and analyse these as distinct, but
interrelated, fields of interaction. Marking a significant
contribution to the literature in this field, Port-Cities and their
Hinterlands provides essential reading for students and scholars of
the history of economics.
Beat literature? Have not the great canonical names long grown
familiar? Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs. Likewise the frontline
texts, still controversial in some quarters, assume their place in
modern American literary history. On the Road serves as Homeric
journey epic. "Howl" amounts to Beat anthem, confessional outcry
against materialism and war. Naked Lunch, with its dark satiric
laughter, envisions a dystopian world of power and word virus. But
if these are all essentially America-centered, Beat has also had
quite other literary exhalations and which invite far more than
mere reception study. These are voices from across the Americas of
Canada and Mexico, the Anglophone world of England, Scotland or
Australia, the Europe of France or Italy and from the Mediterranean
of Greece and the Maghreb, and from Scandinavia and Russia,
together with the Asia of Japan and China. This anthology of essays
maps relevant other kinds of Beat voice, names, texts. The scope is
hemispheric, Atlantic and Pacific, West and East. It gives
recognition to the Beat inscribed in languages other than English
and reflective of different cultural histories. Likewise the
majority of contributors come from origins or affiliations beyond
the US, whether in a different English or languages spanning
Spanish, Danish, Turkish, Greek, or Chinese. The aim is to
recognize an enlarged Beat literary map, its creative
internationalism.
First published in 1906, this edition of Magnyfycence aimed to
highlight the true significance of the play within both the canon
of John Skelton's work and English drama. Robert Lee Ramsay
situates Magnyfycence as a morality play which functioned as a
bridge between medieval miracle plays and the modern comedy. He
demonstrates the text's significance as the first example of a play
by an English man of letters and our first example of a secular and
literary rather than theological morality play. This edition
features an extensive scholarly introduction exploring areas such
as the staging, versification, sources and characterisation,
followed by the Middle-English text itself along with glosses.
Today's engineering and geoscience student needs to know more than
how to design a new or remedial project or facility. Questions of
law and ambiguities of terms often occur in contracts for mining,
landfills, site reclamation, waste depositories, clean up sites,
land leases, operating agreements, joint ventures, and other
projects. Work place situations arise where environmental
compliance methods are challenged by enforcement agencies. Although
the statutes, rules, and regulations may seem to be worded clearly
and specifically, there are often questions in application and
sometimes varied interpretations. Environmental Law for Engineers
and Geoscientists introduces simplified American jurisprudence
focusing on the legal system, its courts, terms, phrases,
administrative law, and regulation by the agencies that administer
environmental law. The book comprehensively covers the "big five"
environmental statutes: NEPA, CAA, CWA, CERCLA, and RCRA. With the
basic law chapter as a foundation, the book covers the practical
applications of environmental law for geo-engineers. It concludes
with a chapter on the growing area of expert witnessing and
admissible evidence in environmental litigation - an area of law
where success or failure increasingly depends on the exacting
preparation and presentation of expert scientific evidence. Written
by a professional mining and geological engineer and a practicing
attorney, Environmental Law for Engineers and Geoscientists
prepares students for the numerous environmental regulatory
encounters they can expect when dealing with various statutes,
laws, regulations, and agency rules that govern, affect, and apply
to environmental engineering projects. It provides a working
knowledge of how to judge whether or not a project is in compliance
with regulations, and how to ensure that it is.
Originally published in 1991 this book brings together 9 essays
which address a number of central issues relating to the nature of
German industrialisation, including the role of foreign competition
in fostering technological change, the importance of market
integration for economic development and the response of German
banks to industrialisation. The book also provides an important
corrective to the traditional interpretation of German
industrialisation and reassesses the economic impact of the customs
union (Zollverein). The reappraisal of some dominant themes in
German economic and business history is distinctive in its explicit
use of economic theory in historical analysis of long-term growth
processes. It also emphasises the importance of sectoral analysis
and illustrates the usefulness of a differential regional approach
for understanding the process of German industrialisation.
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John Robert Lee’s Christian faith is always present in his
perceptions of experience and in the shaping of his art, and even
those who don’t share his faith should be grateful for this
because he gives us a poetry of an empathetic sensitivity to human
frailty, celebrations of the beauty of enduring love, prophetic
anger in calling out injustices and a sense of the sacredness of
the natural world and the terrible insults we offer it. It's a
magnificent and varied collection in which different kinds of
voices -- all JRL -- mesh together: the observational, the
sacramental, the elegiac, the prophetic and the personal. It’s a
collection in which four major suites of poems give the whole an
organic unity, which is not to say that the individual poems that
fall outside the suites don't make their fine contribution. The
‘Belmont Portfolio’, dedicated to Earl Lovelace, records a time
spent on his own in the unfamiliar streets of Belmont in Trinidad
in poems that catch the sense of being on the edge of adventure,
that see the numinous behind the ordinary. The ‘Office Hours’
suite, with its gracious nods to W.H. Auden, is both an engagement
with the hours of divine office and the Bible readings that go with
it, and a very human series of reflections on that most universal
of experiences – how we live through our diurnal cycles. There is
the rousing, prophetic, Old Testament righteous anger of the
‘Watchman’ sequence, which reflects on the hell of living in
Babylon and the gap between the deceits of ‘liberal
democracies’ and the ghastly realities of their global crimes. In
the last sequence, ‘What Remains to be Said’ the poet emerges
to the front of the stage and speaks directly and confidentially to
the reader. It is a sequence that gathers together what must be
treasured as sustenance through ‘this Purgatorio’ of our times,
reflections on how one can speak in an era where you are
“collared in faith in agnostic seasons”, where the frequency of
the deaths of those with whom you have shared the struggle is a
“haunting against my faith in the Tree of Life” – and a
wondering, slightly tongue-in-cheek: “approaching mid-seventies,
what do I know?”
Considerable attention has recently been focused on the importance
of social networks and business culture in reducing transaction
costs, both in the pre-industrial period and during the nineteenth
century. This book brings together twelve original contributions by
scholars in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and North
America which represent important and innovative research on this
topic. They cover two broad themes. First, the role of business
culture in determining commercial success, in particular the
importance of familial, religious, ethnic and associational
connections in the working lives of merchants and the impact of
business practices on family life. Second, the wider institutional
and political framework for business operations, in particular the
relationship between the political economy of trade and the
cultural world of merchants in an era of transition from personal
to corporate structures. These key themes are developed in three
separate sections, each with four contributions. They focus, in
turn, on the role of culture in building and preserving businesses;
the interplay between institutions, networks and power in
determining commercial success or failure; and the significance of
faith and the family in influencing business strategies and the
direction of merchant enterprise. The wider historiographical
context of the individual contributions is discussed in an extended
introductory chapter which sets out the overall agenda of the book
and provides a broader comparative framework for analysing the
specific issues covered in each of the three sections. Taken
together the collection offers an important addition to the
available literature in this field and will attract a wide
readership amongst business, cultural, maritime, economic, social
and urban historians, as well as historical anthropologists,
sociologists and other social scientists whose research embraces a
longer-term perspective.
Organizations do not have goals - only people do. Furthermore,
people within the same organizations have different goals. This
book takes this as its starting point, recognizing that
organizations are a dynamic coalition of individuals and groups
competing and co-operating as they each pursue their various
objectives. Power is a fundamental part of organizational behaviour
but many previous studies failed to recognize its centrality. This
book remedies this.
Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the
interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold
authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and
consumption of foods. This book examines the development of food
policy and regulation following the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis of
the late 1990s, and traces the changing relationships between three
key sets of actors: private interests, such as the corporate
retailers; public regulators, such as the EU directorates and UK
agencies; and consumer groups at EU and national levels. The
authors explore how these interests deal with the conundrum of
continuing to stimulate a corporately organised and increasingly
globalised food system at the same time as creating a public and
consumer-based legitimate framework for it. The analysis develops a
new model and synthesis of food policy and regulation which
reassesses these public/private sector responsibilities with new
evidence and theoretical insights.
Considerable attention has recently been focused on the importance
of social networks and business culture in reducing transaction
costs, both in the pre-industrial period and during the nineteenth
century. This book brings together twelve original contributions by
scholars in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and North
America which represent important and innovative research on this
topic. They cover two broad themes. First, the role of business
culture in determining commercial success, in particular the
importance of familial, religious, ethnic and associational
connections in the working lives of merchants and the impact of
business practices on family life. Second, the wider institutional
and political framework for business operations, in particular the
relationship between the political economy of trade and the
cultural world of merchants in an era of transition from personal
to corporate structures. These key themes are developed in three
separate sections, each with four contributions. They focus, in
turn, on the role of culture in building and preserving businesses;
the interplay between institutions, networks and power in
determining commercial success or failure; and the significance of
faith and the family in influencing business strategies and the
direction of merchant enterprise. The wider historiographical
context of the individual contributions is discussed in an extended
introductory chapter which sets out the overall agenda of the book
and provides a broader comparative framework for analysing the
specific issues covered in each of the three sections. Taken
together the collection offers an important addition to the
available literature in this field and will attract a wide
readership amongst business, cultural, maritime, economic, social
and urban historians, as well as historical anthropologists,
sociologists and other social scientists whose research embraces a
longer-term perspective.
The dissident voice in US culture might almost be said to have
been born with the territory. Its span runs from Roger Williams to
Thoreau, Anne Bradstreet to Gertrude Stein, Ambrose Bierce to the
New Journalism, The Beats to the recent Bad Subjects cyber-crowd.
In this new study, A. Robert Lee aims to explore those
counter-seams of modern American writing that sit outside, or at
least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons. Specifically, Lee
analyses three recent literary branches in the tradition: a
re-envisioning of the whole Beat web or circuit; a consortium of
postwar "outrider" voices Hunter Thompson to Joan Didion to Kathy
Acker; and a latest purview of what, all too casually, has been
designated "ethnic" writing.
The dissident voice in US culture might almost be said to have
been born with the territory. Its span runs from Roger Williams to
Thoreau, Anne Bradstreet to Gertrude Stein, Ambrose Bierce to the
New Journalism, The Beats to the recent Bad Subjects cyber-crowd.
In this new study, A. Robert Lee aims to explore those
counter-seams of modern American writing that sit outside, or at
least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons. Specifically, Lee
analyses three recent literary branches in the tradition: a
re-envisioning of the whole Beat web or circuit; a consortium of
postwar "outrider" voices - Hunter Thompson to Joan Didion to Kathy
Acker; and a latest purview of what, all too casually, has been
designated "ethnic" writing.
Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the
interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold
authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and
consumption of foods. This book examines the development of food
policy and regulation following the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis of
the late 1990s, and traces the changing relationships between three
key sets of actors: private interests, such as the corporate
retailers; public regulators, such as the EU directorates and UK
agencies; and consumer groups at EU and national levels. The
authors explore how these interests deal with the conundrum of
continuing to stimulate a corporately organised and increasingly
globalised food system at the same time as creating a public and
consumer-based legitimate framework for it. The analysis develops a
new model and synthesis of food policy and regulation which
reassesses these public/private sector responsibilities with new
evidence and theoretical insights.
First published in 1906, this edition of Magnyfycence aimed to
highlight the true significance of the play within both the canon
of John Skelton's work and English drama. Robert Lee Ramsay
situates Magnyfycence as a morality play which functioned as a
bridge between medieval miracle plays and the modern comedy. He
demonstrates the text's significance as the first example of a play
by an English man of letters and our first example of a secular and
literary rather than theological morality play. This edition
features an extensive scholarly introduction exploring areas such
as the staging, versification, sources and characterisation,
followed by the Middle-English text itself along with glosses.
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
In this deliciously delightful and amusing new work,
world-traveller, writer A. Robert Lee masters a surprising form:
the weird-essay-vignette. In a series of random, yet suspiciously
linked, encyclopaedia-like entries, he revisits the bizarre, the
banal, and the absurd behaviours, events, and trivia that fuse to
create a life - from sexing ostriches, to giant fake teeth, to the
meaning of meaning. For readers who love informative comedy, or
armchair philosophers who find flipping through dictionaries a
serendipitous hoot, this will be a book never to forget, and always
to return to.
Designed to challenge the ethical basis for much of the legal
regulation of matters surrounding birth, this series of essays
explores such controversial topics as whether surrogacy should be
allowed, and what guidelines are needed to control in vitro
fertilization programmes.
Complexity theory is a great, untapped resource in the field of
management. Experts agree that it can be a powerful tool for
managing complex and virtual programs, but there is little material
available to guide program managers on how to use complexity theory
to communicate and lead effectively. Filling this void, Successful
Program Management: Complexity Theory, Communication, and
Leadership identifies the best leadership types for complex program
environments. It goes beyond what is currently available in program
management standards to outline powerful solutions to the macro and
micro program issues facing program managers. Using language that
is easy to understand, the book describes practical complexity
theory techniques for establishing clear and effective
communications in a virtual environment. It explains what it takes
to communicate strategically to all parties involved and addresses
the communication issues common to most programs, including
stakeholder communication, project team communication, and
shareholder communication. The information presented in this book
is supported by peer review research. Each section includes a case
study, section quiz, and discussion questions to reinforce
learning. The book includes numerous tools, templates, and
techniques that can be helpful to the seasoned program manager as
well as program managers who are leading for the first time.
Clarifying the nuances of complexity theory, the text will help you
focus your strategic energies on the right things and arm you and
your team with the skills, tools, and techniques needed to succeed
in today's program environment.
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