Tag: Inventing

Inventing Slavonic Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople


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English | ISBN: 0198891504 | 2024 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Few alphabets in the world are actively celebrated, and none more so than the Slavonic. Annually across Eastern Europe, the alphabet and its inventors, Cyril and Methodios, are celebrated with parades, concerts, liturgical services, and public addresses by presidents, ministers, and mayors. Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople offers a new reading of the invention of the Slavonic alphabet and its implications. Its premise is simple: namely, that the alphabet was not invented once, but that it continued to be contested and redefined in the century after its creation. However, Inventing Slavonic goes against the grain of modern scholarship and popular common sense, where a stable and fossilized story about Cyril, his brother and companion Methodios, and the alphabet still persists.

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Network Nation Inventing American Telecommunications


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English | 2015 | pages: 529 | ISBN: 0674088131 | PDF | 2,0 mb
The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not only by technological imperatives and economic incentives but also by political decision making at the federal, state, and municipal levels.

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Beyond Piggly Wiggly Inventing the American Self-Service Store


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English | August 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 082036441X | 364 pages | True EPUB | 39.78 MB
Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. Before 1940 it was the only self-service chain with a national distribution network, but it was neither the first nor the only version. Beyond Piggly Wiggly reveals the importance of Piggly Wiggly in the invention of self-service and goes beyond the history of a single firm to explore the role of small business entrepreneurs who invented the first self-service stores in a grassroots social process.

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Inventing the People The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America


Free Download Edmund S. Morgan, "Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America"
English | 1989 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0393306232, 0393025055 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." ―Michael Kamman, Washington Post

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Inventing Agency Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject


Free Download Claudia Brodsky, "Inventing Agency: Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject"
English | ISBN: 1501317148 | 2017 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Inventing Agency addresses some of the most central and pressing concerns in criticism, theory, and philosophy today. As new metaphysics of the realia of power and independently animated objects have replaced ancient conceptualizations of substance, being, and causation, the question of the "subject"-of the capability for just such conceptual change, for acting to any effect whatsoever-has reemerged with fresh critical urgency. Writing on theories and fictions of the subject from Aristotle to Althusser and Fielding to Flaubert, the contributors to

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Listening to the Music the Machines Make Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983


Free Download Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983 by Richard Evans
English | January 26, 2023 | ISBN: 1913172333 | True EPUB | 528 pages | 4.4 MB
Listening to the Music the Machines Make is the enthralling, explosive story of electronic pop between 1978 and 1983-a true golden age of British music. This definitive book explores how krautrock, disco, glam rock, and punk inspired an electronic pop revolution and how that revolution went on to establish the foundations for hip-hop, house, and EDM.

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