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An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that
shows how a private institution became “a great engine of
state” The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution
that operated for the benefit of its shareholders—and yet came to
be considered, as Adam Smith described it, “a great engine of
state.” In Virtuous Bankers, Anne Murphy explores how this
private organization became the guardian of the public credit upon
which Britain’s economic and geopolitical power was based.
Drawing on the voluminous and detailed minute books of a Committee
of Inspection that examined the Bank’s workings in 1783–84,
Murphy frames her account as “a day in the life” of the Bank of
England, looking at a day’s worth of banking activities that
ranged from the issuing of bank notes to the management of public
funds. Murphy discusses the bank as a domestic environment, a
working environment, and a space to be protected against theft,
fire, and revolt. She offers new insights into the skills of the
Bank’s clerks and the ways in which their work was organized, and
she positions the Bank as part of the physical and cultural
landscape of the City: an aggressive property developer, a
vulnerable institution seeking to secure its buildings, and an
enterprise necessarily accessible to the public. She considers the
aesthetics of its headquarters—one of London’s finest
buildings—and the messages of creditworthiness embedded in that
architecture and in the very visible actions of the Bank’s
clerks. Murphy’s uniquely intimate account shows how the
eighteenth-century Bank was able to deliver a set of services that
were essential to the state and commanded the confidence of the
public.
This volume brings together work by established and emerging
scholars to consider the work and impact of Bhai Vir Singh. Bhai
Vir Singh (1872-1957) was a major force in the shaping of modern
Sikh and Punjabi culture, language, and politics in the undivided
colonial Punjab, prior to the Partition of the province in 1947,
and in the post-colonial state of India. The chapters in this book
explore how he both reflected and shaped his time and context, and
address some of the ongoing legacy of his work in the lives of
contemporary Sikhs. The contributors analyze the varied genres,
literary and historical, that were adopted and adapted by Bhai Vir
Singh to foreground and enhance Sikh religiosity and identity.
These include his novels, didactic pamphlets, journalistic writing,
prefatory and exegetical work on spiritual and secular historical
documents, and his poems and lyrics, among others. The book will be
of particular interest to those working in Sikh studies, South
Asian studies and post-colonial studies.
Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the
world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the
religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book
analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in
South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and early colonial
period. Chapters explore the multiple understandings of time and
the past that informed the historical imagination in various kinds
of literary representations, including historiographical and
literary texts, hagiography, and religious canonical literature.
The book addresses the contributing forces and comparative
implications of the formation of religious and communitarian
sensibilities as expressed through the imagination of the past, and
suggests how these relate to each other within and across
traditions in South Asia. By bringing diverse materials together,
this book presents new commonalities and distinctions that inform a
larger understanding of how religion and other cultural formations
impinge on the concept of temporality, and the representation of it
as history.
Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the
world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the
religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book
analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in
South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and early colonial
period. Chapters explore the multiple understandings of time and
the past that informed the historical imagination in various kinds
of literary representations, including historiographical and
literary texts, hagiography, and religious canonical literature.
The book addresses the contributing forces and comparative
implications of the formation of religious and communitarian
sensibilities as expressed through the imagination of the past, and
suggests how these relate to each other within and across
traditions in South Asia. By bringing diverse materials together,
this book presents new commonalities and distinctions that inform a
larger understanding of how religion and other cultural formations
impinge on the concept of temporality, and the representation of it
as history.
This edited collection attends to the locations of memory along and
about the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders and the complex
ways in which such memories are both allowed for and erased in the
present. The collection is situated at the intersection of
narratives connected to memory and commemoration in order to ask
how memories have been formed and perpetuated across the imposition
of these borders. It explores how national boundaries both silence
memories and can be subverted in important ways, through
consideration of physical sites and cultural practices on both
sides of the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh borders that gesture towards
that which has been lost - that is, the cultural whole that was the
cultural regions of Punjab and Bengal before Partition, as well as
broader cultural "wholes" across South Asia, across religious and
linguistic lines - alongside forces that deny such connections. The
chapters address issues of heritage and memory through specific
case-studies on present-day memorial, museological and
commemoration practices, through which sometimes competing memorial
landscapes have been constructed, and show how memories of past
traumas and histories become inscribed into diverse forms of
cultural heritage (the built landscape, literature, film).
This edited collection attends to the locations of memory along and
about the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders and the complex
ways in which such memories are both allowed for and erased in the
present. The collection is situated at the intersection of
narratives connected to memory and commemoration in order to ask
how memories have been formed and perpetuated across the imposition
of these borders. It explores how national boundaries both silence
memories and can be subverted in important ways, through
consideration of physical sites and cultural practices on both
sides of the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh borders that gesture towards
that which has been lost - that is, the cultural whole that was the
cultural regions of Punjab and Bengal before Partition, as well as
broader cultural "wholes" across South Asia, across religious and
linguistic lines - alongside forces that deny such connections. The
chapters address issues of heritage and memory through specific
case-studies on present-day memorial, museological and
commemoration practices, through which sometimes competing memorial
landscapes have been constructed, and show how memories of past
traumas and histories become inscribed into diverse forms of
cultural heritage (the built landscape, literature, film).
In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair
Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of the
Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. In an intimate
narrative style, Ahmad writes a world that hovers between memory
and imagination, home and abroad. The narrator follows the pull of
his subconscious, shifting between past and present, recalling
different eras of Lahore’s neighbourhoods and the communities
that define them. These stories evoke the complex realities of
post-colonial Pakistani Punjab. The contradictions and betrayals of
this region’s history reverberate through the stories, evident in
the characters, their circumstances, and sometimes their erasure.
Skillfully translated from Punjabi by Anne Murphy, this collection
is an essential contribution to the wider recognition of the
Punjabi language and its literature.
This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of
this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in
the field. Methods to assess mitochondrial function is of great
interest to neuroscientists studying chronic forms of
neurodegeneration, including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ALS,
Huntington's and other triplet repeat diseases, but also to those
working on acute conditions such as stroke and traumatic brain
injury. This volume covers research methods on how to assess the
life cycle of mitochondria including trafficking, fusion, fission,
and degradation. Multiple perspectives on the complex and difficult
problem of measurement of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species
production with fluorescent indicators and techniques ranging in
scope from measurements on isolated mitochondria to non-invasive
imaging of metabolic function.
In this second of two new volumes covering mitochondria, methods
developed to assess the number and function of nuclear-encoded
proteins in the mitochondrion are presented. Chapters focus on the
regulation of mitochondrial function and mitochondrial diseases,
with a section emphasizing the mitochondrial defects associated
with type 2 diabetes.
The critically acclaimed laboratory standard for 40 years, "
Methods in Enzymology" is one of the most highly respected
publications in the field of biochemistry. With more than 450
volumes published, each volume presents material that is relevant
in today's labs -- truly an essential publication for researchers
in all fields of life sciences.
New methods focusing on the examination of normal and abnormal
mitochondrial function are presented in an easy-to-follow format by
the researchers who developed them
Along with a companion volume covering topics including
mitochondrial electron transport chain complexes and reactive
oxygen species, provides a comprehensive overview of modern
techniques in the study of mitochondrial malfunction
Provides a "one-stop shop" for tried and tested essential
techniques, eliminating the need to wade through untested or
unreliable methods
A mysterious message carried by the wind encourages animals all
across the land to head West for their protection and for a better
future for their young. White Tail, Eagle, Newton, and others begin
a long journey which takes them through many difficulties until
they reach their Destiny, a small island in the middle of a vast
ocean. Here, they settle peacefully, until a plane is spotted,
threatening their new sense of security.
Anne Murphy offers a groundbreaking exploration of the material
aspects of Sikh identity, showing how material objects, as well as
holy sites, and texts, embody and represent the Sikh community as
an evolving historical and social construction. Widening
traditional scholarly emphasis on holy sites and texts alone to
include consideration of iconic objects, such as garments and
weaponry, Murphy moves further and examines the parallel
relationships among sites, texts, and objects. She reveals that
objects have played dramatically different roles across
regimes-signifers of authority in one, mere possessions in
another-and like Sikh texts, which have long been a resource for
the construction of Sikh identity, material objects have served as
a means of imagining and representing the past. Murphy's deft and
nuanced study of the complex role objects have played and continue
to play in Sikh history and memory will be a valuable resource to
students and scholars of Sikh history and culture.
Social care needs excellent leaders now more than ever. Effective
leaders aim high, listen to what the service users want and need,
inspire their staff and continually question what they are doing
and why. This book draws together the latest research on
fundamental leadership issues in social care, discussing
collaborative leadership and the importance of place-based
development, exploring the key disciplines of supervision,
management and leadership and examining the purpose of a learning
framework for social care. Comparative approaches are also provided
by practitioners working outside of social work, placing leadership
development in context across the public, private and voluntary
sectors and presenting authoritative guidance from an international
perspective. Leadership in Social Care will appeal to social care
practitioners and service providers, academics, researchers and
students who are passionate about making a difference for the
people who use their services.
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