An Universal Etymological English Dictionary; ... the Sixteenth Edition, with Considerable Improvements. by N. Bailey,

An Universal Etymological English Dictionary; ... the Sixteenth Edition, with Considerable Improvements. by N. Bailey,
Author: N Bailey
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 970
Release: 2018-04-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781379599319

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T141550 London: printed for R. Ware, W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. and P. Knapton, T. and T. Longman, S. Birt [and 10 others in London], 1755. [952]p.; 8°

The Economic Lives of Platforms

The Economic Lives of Platforms
Author: Anne Mette Thorhauge
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2024-06-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529237505

This interdisciplinary collection rethinks the political economy of the digital market by asking what came before platforms and suggesting what might come after them. By unpacking the concept of ‘platform economies’ into locally embedded variations of digital markets, the book identifies what is new about contemporary platforms and what is characteristic of wider historical, social and economic currents. The diverse team of authors employ various analytical approaches, including in-depth ethnographic studies, and theoretical and analytical reconceptualizations of platforms and the industries they encompass. Tapping into current themes including the decolonisation of the internet, this book offers a timely assessment of the implications of emerging reconfigurations between technology, information, society and markets.

From Reformation to Improvement

From Reformation to Improvement
Author: Paul Slack
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1998-09-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191542598

Between the early sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries, the character of English social policy and social welfare changed fundamentally. Aspirations for wholesale reformation were replaced by more specific schemes for improvement. Paul Slack's analysis of this decisive shift of focus, derived from his 1995 Ford Lectures, examines its intellectual and political roots. He describes the policies and rhetoric of the commonwealthsmen, godly magistrates, Stuart monarchs, Interregnum projectors, and early Hanoverian philanthropists, and the institutions — notably hospitals and workhouses - which they created or reformed. In a series of thematic chapters, each linked to a chronological period, he brings together what might seem to have been disparate notions and activities, and shows that they expressed a sequence of coherent approaches towards public welfare. The result is a strikingly original study, which throws fresh light on the formation of civic consciousness and the emergence of a civil society in early modern England.