290 research outputs found
Kenneth R. Stow. Taxation, Community and State. The Jews and the Fiscal Foundations of the Early Modern Papal State
No full textSchwarzfuchs Simon. Kenneth R. Stow. Taxation, Community and State. The Jews and the Fiscal Foundations of the Early Modern Papal State. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 203, n°3, 1986. p. 326
Kenneth R. Stow. Taxation, Community and State. The Jews and the Fiscal Foundations of the Early Modern Papal State
No full textSchwarzfuchs Simon. Kenneth R. Stow. Taxation, Community and State. The Jews and the Fiscal Foundations of the Early Modern Papal State. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 203, n°3, 1986. p. 326
K. R. Stow. The "1007 anonymous" and Papal Sovereignity : Jewish Perceptions of the Papacy and Papal Policy in the High Middle Ages
No full textSchwarzfuchs Simon. K. R. Stow. The "1007 anonymous" and Papal Sovereignity : Jewish Perceptions of the Papacy and Papal Policy in the High Middle Ages. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 208, n°3, 1991. p. 342
S. Graysel. The Church and the Jews in the XIIIth Century, II : 1254-1314. Edited and arranged with additional notes by Kenneth R. Stow
No full textSchwarzfuchs Simon. S. Graysel. The Church and the Jews in the XIIIth Century, II : 1254-1314. Edited and arranged with additional notes by Kenneth R. Stow. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 208, n°3, 1991. pp. 344-345
A Political Companion to John Steinbeck
No full textThough he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902–1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, nearly ninety years after his work first appeared in print, Steinbeck’s novels, stories, and plays still generate controversy: his 1937 book Of Mice and Men was banned in some Mississippi schools in 2002, and as recently as 2009, he made the American Library Association’s annual list of most frequently challenged authors.
A Political Companion to John Steinbeck examines the most contentious political aspects of the author’s body of work, from his early exploration of social justice and political authority during the Great Depression to his later positions regarding domestic and international threats to American policies. Featuring contemporaneous and present-day interpretations of his novels and essays by historians, literary scholars, and political theorists, this book covers the spectrum of Steinbeck’s writing, exploring everything from his place in American political culture to his seeming betrayal of his leftist principles in later years.
Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh is professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Social Movements in Politics: A Comparative Study.
Simon Stow is associate professor in the Department of Government at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Republic of Readers? The Literary Turn in Political Thought and Analysis.
The editors are to be congratulated for assembling a political companion to John Steinbeck that is at once biographically and historically informative, interdisciplinary in its attentions, and accessibly written all the way through. -- Susan McWilliams -- Pomona College
Do you think you know John Steinbeck? You might have to think again. Stow and Zirakzadeh have put together a superb volume of essays on Steinbeck’s astounding body of work: novels, plays, journalism, screenplays, wartime journalism, travel writing, and more. The essays work brilliantly together, something many edited volumes cannot claim. Steinbeck engaged America in all its tragic complexity and came away a thoroughly ambivalent American. Readers of this indispensable volume are likely to find themselves in a similarly disconcerting position—and thankful for it. -- Steven Johnston, Neal A. Maxwell Chair in Political Theory, Public Policy, and Public Service -- University of Utah
This volume of essays on John Steinbeck, like the wonderful Kentucky volumes on Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville, offers finely crafted essays that explore the relationship between the political and the literary in diverse ways. These compelling essays assess the motivations and ambiguities in his engagement with politics and nationhood, and trace how that engagement is transfigured as literary art. But this volume is notable for two reasons. Obviously, essays about Steinbeck are especially timely now, as we face a time of economic crisis when suffering and inequality remain mostly invisible, when the supremacy of market values seems incontestable, and when alternatives are widely ridiculed and demonized. But also, because Steinbeck addressed his time by political activism, and because of his enormous and continuing influence in popular culture—from fifth grade curriculums to Bruce Springstein—the essays in this volume range more widely than other Kentucky volumes, and that is a welcome development in political theory. -- George Shulman -- New York University-Gallatin
The collection is well conceived and well executed. It deserves a place in every city and university library in the US. [. . .] Highly recommended. -- Choicehttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1075/thumbnail.jp
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Islands in the works of Randolph Stow (1935-2010)
No full textThis article considers the different senses of island in the writings of Australian author, Randolph Stow, and the manner in which he evokes these islands through descriptive means, through the evocative use of language, and through sound. The afterlife islands of aboriginal dreaming lie at the heart of the 1958 novel, To the Islands, while island languages and identities form the extraordinary dramatic narrative, Visitants, set in the Trobriand Islands, where Stow lived and worked in 1959. Real, experienced islands (Sicily, Malta and Gozo, the Scottish island of Handa, and Madeira and the Azores, which he visited in October 1974) pervade Stow’s fiction and poems. They are also present in the many surviving letters to his family. Somewhat differently, the concept of the island as a bounded space features in his inland narratives, including A Haunted Land (1957), where farmsteads form metaphorical archipelagos
Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.239-Revolution Resolves, 1783. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Simon Stow
No full textPetition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909142 Date of creation: 1783-02-24 Petition location: Marlborough Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Simon Stow Actions taken on dates: 1783-02-25,1783-03-07,1783-03-10 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 25, 1783 and resolved and granted and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 7, 1783 and read and concurred with amendment and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 10, 1783 and read and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, resolved, granted, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: agent Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: Henry Barnes, Daphne, Middlesex, absentee, Simon Stowe, Oliver Prescot Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 239, pages 144-145 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.</p
Visitants : Stow's end time novel
No full textIn the literary archive of Papua New Guinea (PNG), Randolph Stow’s novel Visitants has a special place. Its setting in the Trobriand Islands off the east coast of PNG in 1959, when Australia was a decolonising administrative power, and the author’s first-hand experience of that world, make Visitants a rare work on any terms, especially in the context of Australian literature, where writers have not looked in that direction much. One notable exception is T. A. G. Hungerford, author of The Ridge and the River, to whom Stow dedicates his novel in Pidgin that translates as ‘I want to send this book to my friend’
Combustor design optimization using the Prometheus Design System
No full textEmploying a novel feature recognition based approach, the Prometheus combustor design system enables geometry manipulation, automated aerothermal network analysis and automated fluid volume creation, meshing and CFD boundary condition definition irrespective of topological variations in the combustor configuration. To date the system has been demonstrated with respect to the isothermal optimisation of a combustor prediffuser shape and the cross-sectional shape of a fuel injector feed arm. The following paper extends this approach and presents the application of the system to the design optimisation of a single skin rich burn combustor module with reacting flow CFD simulations. A multi-objective design optimisation whereby dilution port diameters are varied to simultaneously reduce combustor pressure losses and achieve a target exit radial temperature distribution is presented. A multi-fidelity framework combining CFD and aerothermal network simulations for reducing the cost of pressure loss optimisations is also briefly explored
House Unpassed Legislation 1788, Docket 2801, SC1/series 230, Petition of Simon Stow
No full textPetition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935257 Date of creation: 1788-03-27 Petition location: Marlborough Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Simon Stow Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Henry Barnes, estate, absentee, Oliver Prescott, judge, probate, Middlesex county, Edward Barnes, Groton, lands, [Daphne] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1788, Docket 2801 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.</p
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