Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power
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A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi...
Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present
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iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these...
Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy
Avi Goldfarb, Shane M. Greenstein and Catherine E. Tucker
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As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has become...
How Reason Almost Lost its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston and Rebecca Lemov
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In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the...
Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption After Empire
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How do contemporary generations come to terms with losses inflicted by imperialism, colonialism, and...
Innovation Policy and the Economy: 17
Shane M. Greenstein, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
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The seventeenth volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Innovation Policy and the...
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: A Philosophical Guide
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A classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed is as influential as it...
Representing Talent: Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies
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Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet...
Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting
Andreas Mayer and Christopher Barber
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In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing...
Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
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Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even...