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Corporate medievalism
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ISBN: 9781843843221 1843843226 9781843843559 1843843552 9781846159763 9781782041160 9786613834874 1846159768 128352242X 1782041168 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer,

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In the wake of the many passionate responses to its predecessor, Studies in Medievalism 22 also addresses the role of corporations in medievalism. Amid the three opening essays, Amy S. Kaufman examines how three modern novelists have refracted contemporary corporate culture through an imagined and highly dystopic Middle Ages. On either side of that paper, Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz explore how the Woolworth Company and Google have variously promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval interpretations of the Middle Ages. And Clare Simmons expands on that approach in a full-length article on the Lord Mayor's Show in London. Readers are then invited to find other permutations of corporate influence in six articles on the gendering of Percy's 'Reliques', the Romantic Pre-Reformation in Charles Reade's 'The Cloister and the Hearth', renovation and resurrection in M.R. James's "Episode of Cathedral History", salvation in the 'Commedia' references of Rodin's 'Gates of Hell', film theory and the relationship of the Sister Arts to the cinematic 'Beowulf', and American containment culture in medievalist comic-books. While offering close, thorough studies of traditional media and materials, the volume directly engages timely concerns about the motives and methods behind this field and many others in academia. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Aida Audeh, Elizabeth Emery, Katie Garner, Nickolas Haydock, Amy S. Kaufman, Peter W. Lee, Patrick J. Murphy, Fred Porcheddu, Clare A. Simmons, Mark B. Spencer, Richard Utz.


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Compassion, Inc : how corporate America blurs the line between what we buy, who we are, and those we help
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ISBN: 1280112166 9786613520708 0520951638 9780520951631 0520266528 9780520266520 9781280112164 6613520705 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Pink ribbons, red dresses, and greenwashing-American corporations are scrambling to tug at consumer heartstrings through cause-related marketing, corporate social responsibility, and ethical branding, tactics that can increase sales by as much as 74%. Harmless? Marketing insider Mara Einstein demonstrates in this penetrating analysis why the answer is a resounding "No!" In Compassion, Inc. she outlines how cause-related marketing desensitizes the public by putting a pleasant face on complex problems. She takes us through the unseen ways in which large sums of consumer dollars go into corporate coffers rather than helping the less fortunate. She also discusses companies that truly do make the world a better place, and those that just pretend to.


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Social Collateral : Women and Microfinance in Paraguay's Smuggling Economy
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ISBN: 0520962206 9780520962200 9780520287044 0520287045 9780520287051 0520287053 Year: 2015 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Microcredit is part of a global trend of financial inclusion that brings banking services, especially small loans, to the world's poor. In this book, Caroline Schuster explores Paraguayan solidarity lending as a window into the tensions between social development and global finance.Social Collateral tracks collective debt across the commercial society and smuggling economies at the Paraguayan border by examining group loans made to women by nonprofit development programs. These highly regulated loans are secured through mutual support and peer pressure-social collateral-rather than through physical collateral. This story of social collateral necessarily includes an interwoven account about the feminization of solidarity lending. At its core is an economy of gender-from pink-collar financial work, to men's committees, to women smugglers. At stake are interdependencies that bind borrowers and lenders, financial technologies, and Paraguayan development in ways that structure both global inequality and global opportunity.

Lever of empire : the international gold standard and the crisis of liberalism in prewar Japan
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ISBN: 9786612357664 0520931793 1282357662 1598759302 0520244206 9780520931794 1423745477 9781423745471 9780520244207 9781598759303 9781282357662 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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This book, the first full account of Japan's financial history and the Japanese gold standard in the pivotal years before World War II, provides a new perspective on the global political dynamics of the era by placing Japan, rather than Europe, at the center of the story. Focusing on the fall of liberalism in Japan in late 1931 and the global politics of money that were at the center of the crisis, Mark Metzler asks why successive Japanese governments from 1920 to 1931 carried out policies that deliberately induced deflation and depression. His search for answers stretches from Edo to London to the ragged borderlands of the Japanese empire and from the eighteenth century to the 1950's, integrating political and monetary analysis to shed light on the complex dynamics of money, empire, and global hegemony. His detailed and broad ranging account illuminates a range of issues including Japan's involvement in the economic dynamics that shook interwar Europe, the character of U.S. isolationism, and the rise of fascism as an international phenomenon.

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Money --- Currency question --- Gold standard --- Monetary policy --- Liberalism --- History. --- Inoue, Junnosuke, --- Takahashi, Korekiyo, --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Fiat money --- Free coinage --- Monetary question --- Scrip --- 高橋是清, --- 高橋是淸, --- Inouye, Junnosuke, --- 井上準之助, --- 井上凖之助, --- J4562 --- J4560.80 --- -Currency question --- -Gold standard --- Exchange standard, Gold --- Gold exchange standard --- Standard, Gold --- Japan: Economy and industry -- finance -- money --- Japan: Economy and industry -- finance -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Inoue, Junnosuke, 1869-1932 --- Takahashi, Korekiyo, 1854-1936 --- Liberty --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Currency crises --- Finance --- Finance, Public --- Legal tender --- J2284.70 --- J4300.70 --- History --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, meiji, taishō --- Japan: Economy and industry -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan --- Inoue, Junnosuke --- Takahashi, Korekiyo --- Inoue, Junnosuke, -- 1869-1932.. --- Takahashi, Korekiyo, -- 1854-1936.. --- Money -- Japan -- History.. --- Currency question -- Japan -- History.. --- Gold standard -- History.. --- Monetary policy -- Japan -- History.. --- Liberalism -- Japan -- History. --- Gaoqiao, Shiqing, --- asian history. --- business and finance. --- deflation. --- depression. --- east asian history. --- economic policy. --- economics. --- edo. --- empire. --- fascism. --- financial history. --- global politics. --- gold and currency. --- gold standard. --- government policy. --- history. --- imperial japan. --- imperial state. --- imperialism. --- japan. --- japanese empire. --- liberalism. --- london. --- modern japan. --- money. --- nonfiction. --- political extremism. --- politics. --- us isolationism. --- world war two. --- ww2. --- Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai (Japan)

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