This book argues that corporate culture - the values, customs, and conventions of a business organization-has altered how workers conduct themselves both inside and outside the workplace. This book argues that corporate culture - the values, customs, and conventions of a busines…
This book argues that corporate culture - the values, customs, and conventions of a business organization-has altered how workers conduct themselves both inside and outside the workplace.
This book is an ethnography of a Japanese white-collar workplace in Osaka carried out during the late 1990s. It explores the relevance of social models to the analysis of social relations and women's status in the workplace by examining concepts of time, ritual, and space via th…
Ce livre porte sur les relations culturelles entre la France et la Sud̈e de 1945 ̉nos jours. Il rǔnit les articles pršentš ̉l?occasion de la confřence internationale, ± Frankrike-Sverige? Tur och retur?, qui a eu lieu ̉Stockholm en janvier 2014, organisě par l?Universit ̌Paris-Sorbon…
Gino Arias (1879-1940), Florentine historian and economist of Israeli origin, was in his later years one of the top theorists of Fascist corporatism, which he came to at the end of an as yet widely unstudied intellectual path. After reconstructing his biography, the book investi…
This book applies the contents of a working economist's tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley. Collectively those millions o…
"This book analyses the relationship between the Irish home rule crisis, the Easter Rising of 1916 and the conscription crisis of 1918, providing a broad and comparative study of war and revolution in Ireland at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Destenay skilfully looks at…
"This book analyses the relationship between the Irish home rule crisis, the Easter Rising of 1916 and the conscription crisis of 1918, providing a broad and comparative study of war and revolution in Ireland at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Destenay skilfully looks at…
Human societies are highly exposed to climate and weather conditions. This applies in particular to the pre-industrial period. This volume presents a comprehensive and detailed climate reconstruction for the area of the Burgundian Low Countries in the 15th century. The reconstru…
This is a story of landed aristocrats, Victorian politicians and nouveaux riches colonial entrepreneurs. It is about the impact on the old world of money made in colonial enterprises, and the cultural exchange resulting from colonial expansion; and it details the self-managed de…
by Brisson, Luc, Dierkens, Alain, Ducène, Jean-Charles, Beyer de Ryke, Benoît, Boquet, Damien, Vannier, Marie-Anne, Wackernagel, Wolfgang, de Andia, Ysabel, Todoroff, Boris, Counet, Jean-Michel, Dierkens, Jean, Sesé, Bernard, Brouwer, Christian, Lauwaert, Françoise, Le Brun, Jacques, Maître, Jacques, Nabert, Nathalie, Cazenave, Michel, Inowlocki, Sabrina, Lacrosse, Joachim
La mystique, qui est recherche d'une union intime entre l'homme et Dieu, puise notamment ses racines dans le courant néoplatonicien de l'union à l'Un. Nous suivrons ici le fil du néoplatonisme, tel qu'il s'est manifesté dans l'Empire romain tardif à partir de Plotin jusqu'à Proc…
La mystique, qui est recherche d'une union intime entre l'homme et Dieu, puise notamment ses racines dans le courant néoplatonicien de l'union à l'Un. Nous suivrons ici le fil du néoplatonisme, tel qu'il s'est manifesté dans l'Empire romain tardif à partir de Plotin jusqu'à Proc…
This study focuses on the relationship between nobility and freemasonry from 1750 to 1850. It examines the specific role of an esoteric discourse surrounding the roots of the human race, centring on legendary constructions of noble genealogies in eighteenth century Europe. The a…
Yet another book on witches and witchcraft? Although numerous, studies on this phenomenon that had such a profound influence on the political, social and religious history of the late Middle Ages and the early modern age in Europe can never be enough. At this time the political …
In a time, ours, in which historiography prefers to measure itself with witchcraft as a judicial phenomenon, or with the men who personally led the persecution, or even with the demonological treatises that greatly influenced witch hunters, this book focuses instead on the victi…
Jonestown, Waco, and Heaven's Gate resonate in the contemporary mind in the same way that Masada or Mount Tabor resonated in the minds of others long past. The members of these movements believed that the end of the world was at hand and that they had to act through violence or …
"In early 1860, pundits and political operatives across America confidently predicted the victory of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential election. Douglas, after all, led the Democrats, the only party that bridged North and South. But the Democracy wou…
In 1972, Italo Calvino published Invisible Cities, a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theoretical insight and glittering prose. The text is an extended meditation on urban life, and it continues to resonate not only am…
Part of the successful 'Inventing the Nation' history series, this book provides an authoritative and compelling history of Spain in the modern period. Humlebæk places a strong emphasis on the construction of the Spanish national identity and looks at how this identity has emerg…
