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Originally published by eth co-director David Hadbawnik’s habenicht press in 2012, Ballads uses the lyric form to explore the effects of global Capitalism from a sharp Marxist perspective. Recognizing the congruence between folk song circulation and the circulation of money, the “currency” of the ballad alongside supply-side economics, Owens hails Wordsworth’s Lyric Ballads experiment (undertaken at the dawn of England’s Industrial Age) as one touchstone. But he also understands the built-in obsolescence of the form, its tendency to hearken back to imaginary origins. “[E]veryone has an idea they know what a ballad is,” Owens writes in his “Working Notes.” “It’s this degraded thing shot through with a sense of pastness, cultural infancy and a charming but sometimes dangerous rusticity that needs to be carefully framed and reined.” Thus Owens’ Ballads playfully engages with language, figures, and forms from medieval and early modern England, with nods to the caesura-based, alliterative line, and Barbara Allan, Thomas the Rhymer, and Piers Plowman making appearances in the book’s brief lyrics.

Poetry by individual poets --- Poetry, Modern. --- Small press books. --- Little press books --- Books --- Modern poetry --- Poetry --- poetry --- ballads --- premodern England --- global capitalism

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Each chapter of this book takes as its starting point a myth, a legend, a story or a fable, and explores its contemporary relevance for a world of globalization, organizations and, consumerism. Each contributor is inspired by a relatively short but rich text which is then used as a springboard for an analysis of contemporary social and organizational realities. The idea behind this book is that by looking at contemporary society through the prism of pre-modern narratives, certain features emerge in sharp relief, while others are found to be entrenched in societies across the ages. The texts that have inspired the authors of this collection differ - some are myths, some are stories, one is a children's tale. The origins of these texts differ, from the scriptural to the folkloric, from high art to oral tradition. What all the texts have in common is a distinct and compelling plot, a cast of recognizable characters with an ability to touch us and speak to us through the ages, and, above all, a powerful symbolic aura, one that makes them identifiable landmarks in storytelling tradition. The driving force behind this project was each author's love for their narratives.; It is not an exaggeration to say that the book is a true labour of love. The chapters are introduced by the editor and are arranged in four parts, each with it own introduction. The chapters in each part spring from stories that share a narrative character, and are labelled as Knowledge Narratives, Heroic Narratives, Tragic Narratives, and Reflecive Narratives. The book offers a set of probing, original and critical inquiries into the nature of human experience knowledge and truth, the nature of leadership, power and heroic achievement, postmodernity and its discontents, and emotion, identity and the nature of human relations in organizations. Different chapters deal, among other things, with the nature of leadership in the face of terrorism, friendship, women's position in organizations, the struggle for identity, the curse of insatiable consumption and the ways the hero and heroine are constructed in our times.

Storytelling. --- Organizational behavior. --- Management --- Art de conter --- Comportement organisationnel --- Gestion --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Organizational behavior --- Storytelling --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Behavior in organizations --- Organization --- Psychology, Industrial --- Social psychology --- Philosophy --- Performance --- organizational studies --- myths --- premodern narratives --- EGOS --- E-books

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"Iran’s particular system of traditional Persian art music has been long treated as the product of an ever-evolving, ancient Persian culture. In Music of a Thousand Years, Ann E. Lucas argues that this music is a modern phenomenon indelibly tied to changing notions of Iran’s national history. Rather than considering a single Persian music history, Lucas demonstrates cultural dissimilarity and discontinuity over time, bringing to light two different notions of music-making in relation to premodern and modern musical norms. An important corrective to the history of Persian music, Music of a Thousand Years is the first work to align understandings of Middle Eastern music history with current understandings of the region’s political history." --Back cover.

Music --- Maqām. --- Dastgāh. --- History and criticism. --- Melody --- Music theory --- Musical intervals and scales --- Makam --- Muğam --- Mugham --- Nagham --- ancient persian culture. --- changing notions. --- cultural dissimilarity. --- discontinuity. --- entertainment. --- ethnomusicology. --- historical analysis. --- iran history. --- iran. --- middle eastern music. --- modern musical norms. --- modern phenomenon. --- music making. --- music. --- national history. --- persian art music. --- persian music history. --- political history. --- premodern.

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Using the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed forces and their environment at three levels: landscapes, living beings, and diseases. The study focuses on Europe's Meuse Region, well-known among historians of war as a battleground between France and Germany. By analyzing soldiers' long-term interactions with nature, this book engages with current debates about the ecological impact of the military, and provides new impetus for contemporary armed forces to make greater effort to reduce their environmental footprint. "This is an impressive interdisciplinary study, contributing to environmental history, the history of war and historical geography. The book advances an original and intriguing argument that armed forces have had a vested interest in preserving the environments and habitats in which they operate, and have thus contributed to environmental conservation long before this became a popular cause of wider humanity. The work will provide a template for how this topic can be researched for other parts of the world or for other time periods." Peter H. Wilson, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford

Armed Forces --- Armed Forces. --- Environmental aspects. --- Europe --- Europe. --- Meuse River Region --- History, Military. --- Military art and science --- Armed Services --- Military, The --- Disarmament --- Environmental aspects --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Ecological history. --- Military history. --- Natural barriers in history. --- premodern environmentalism. --- war and the environment. --- wildlife protection, mosasaur.

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern economic growth, have paid great attention to the formation and development of the market economy as a set of institutions able to augment people's welfare. The role of specific nonmarket practices for promoting the economic development and welfare has been a distinct concern, typically involving discussion of the state's economic policies. How have societies tackled those issues that the market did not? To what extent did those solutions reflect the structure of an economy? Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy explores these questions by investigating efforts made for the provision of ";public goods"; in early modern economies from the perspective of Japanese socioeconomic history during Tokugawa era (1603-1868), and by comparing those cases with others from Europe and China's economic history. The contributors focus on three areas of inquiry-early modern era welfare policies for the poor, infrastructure, and forest management-to provide both a unique perspective on Japanese public finance at local levels and a vantage point outside of Europe to encourage a more global view of early modern political economies that shaped subsequent modern transformations.

History --- Asian history --- Economics --- Japan --- Prussia (Germany) --- China --- Economic conditions --- Economic conditions. --- Preussen (Germany) --- Prusse (Germany) --- Prusy (Germany) --- Prusyah (Germany) --- Prussia (Kingdom) --- Public goods --- HISTORY / Asia / China. --- History. --- Goods, Public --- Finance, Public --- Welfare economics --- Free rider problem (Economics) --- comparative study of premodern economies. --- early modern era welfare policies. --- early modern political economies. --- economic development in history. --- europe and chinas economic history. --- forest management. --- global view. --- industrialization. --- infrastructure. --- japan. --- japanese public finance. --- japanese socioeconomic history. --- market economy. --- modern economic growth. --- tokugawa era. --- History / Asia --- Business & Economics / Economics