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Among numerous ancient Western tropes about gender and procreation, ""the seed and the soil"" is arguably the oldest, most potent, and most invisible in its apparent naturalness. In Gender Vendors: Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud, Al Jones de-naturalizes the proto-theory of "seed-and-soil" procreation and deconstructs its contemporary legacy.

"Through the mid-nineteenth century, the United States whaling industry drove industrialization and urbanization, offering ways to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, Jamie L. Jones tells that story from the flipside of the modern age of fossil fuel - a history of how the whaling industry held firm to U.S. popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of 'energy' in American culture, and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, artifacts from whaling ships, periodicals, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth century United States through the lens of the whaling industry's legacy. She shows that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations. In terms of how we view power as a nation, we are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale."

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's Introduction -- The Background -- The Springs of Agricultural Productivity -- General -- Advances in Husbandry Technique -- Improvements in Agrarian Organitation -- Contributions to Economic Development -- The Supply of Food and Raw Materials -- The Release of Factors of Production -- Income Effects of Agricultural Change and Development of a Market for Industrial Goods -- Conclusions -- 1 Obstacles to Progress -- 2 Agricultural Progress in Open-Field Oxfordshire -- 3 Agriculture and the Brewing and Distilling Industries in the Eighteenth Century -- 4 Enclosure and Labour Supply in the Industrial Revolution -- 5 The Cost of Parliamentary Enclosure in Warwickshire -- 6 Agriculture and Economic Growth in England, 1660-1750: Agricultural Change -- 7 Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth in England 1700-1760 -- Select Bibliography.

"Through the mid-nineteenth century, the United States whaling industry drove industrialization and urbanization, offering ways to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, Jamie L. Jones tells that story from the flipside of the modern age of fossil fuel - a history of how the whaling industry held firm to U.S. popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of 'energy' in American culture, and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, artifacts from whaling ships, periodicals, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth century United States through the lens of the whaling industry's legacy. She shows that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations. In terms of how we view power as a nation, we are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale"--

Professions and politics in crisis - a MacIntyrean response -- Composing the stories of our lives - pursuing our good through human flourishing -- Flourishing in practices - common goods and the pursuit of excellence -- Living in Piscopolis Part I - Fishing crews, their common goods, and their everyday relationships with other inhabitants -- Living in Piscopolis Part II - Political conversation and the greater common good in the fishing village polis -- Living in the liberal democratic state - contrasts and prospects -- Living in Juropolis - trawling for justice in the fishing village of the law -- Beyond Juropolis - toward the liberal democratic state as a republic of virtue.

This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies. After explaining how the author made his discoveries and when they started, it analyses relations between documentary and landscape evidence. It is based on exceptional first-hand observation of a dozen sites and close consideration of topics in the ecological and economic history of southern England. They range from reclaiming chalk down-land, occupying low-lying heaths and reconstructing parkland, to wool-stapling and the manufacture of gunstocks for the African slave trade. Additional themes include the tension between ecology and institutions in decisions about the location of economic activity; the decay of communal farming ahead of enclosure; and other interesting puzzles in rural economic history. This book offers an original approach to questions in economic history through its synthesis of different types of evidence. It will be of interest to a diverse range of readers because it addresses how economic change was registered in the landscape, and how that change was influenced by landscape. It is a book with highly original features, contributing simultaneously to economic, agricultural, environmental, and landscape history.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe, c. 1450-1700 -- Tanja L. Jones -- 2. Female Court Artists: Women's Career Strategies in the Courts of the Early Modern Period -- Christina Strunck -- 3. Caterina van Hemessen in the Habsburg Court of Mary of Hungary -- Jennifer Courts -- 4. Sofonisba Anguissola, a Painter and a Lady-in-Waiting -- Cecilia Gamberini -- 5. Creative Reproductions: Diana Mantuana and Printmaking at Court -- Maria F. Maurer -- 6. 'Una persona dependente alla Serenissima Gran Duchessa': Female Embroiderers and Lacemakers between the courts of Florence and France -- Adelina Modesti -- 7. Life at Court: Luisa Roldán in Madrid 1689-1706 -- Catherine Hall-van den Elsen -- Bibliography -- Index.

Part One. The Erosion of Obstacles -- 1.Barriers and Push Forces -- 2. Military and Ecclesiastical Buildings -- 3. Dissolution of the Monasteries -- 4. Civil War -- 5. Communal Farming and Under-used Land -- 6. Tithes -- 7. Archaic Institutions -- 8. Obstructive Infrastructure -- 9. Maladministration -- Part Two. Coping with Shocks -- 10. Disease -- 11. Insults to agriculture -- 12. Storms and adverse seasons -- 13. Floods -- 14. Fires -- Conclusions.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Last Capitalist -- Real Farmers: -- Shaky Ed: Neatness as a Virtue I -- Big Machinery - Big Feeler -- Farmer Grable: Frugality as a Duty -- Organic Vertegration -- All Cattlemen Are Crazy -- Harry the Hog Man -- Slumming with Sheep -- Modem Slavery in the World of Milk -- Crazy Billy the Fantasy Farmer -- Sherman the Scalper -- Why Aren't There More Irish Farmers? -- Larry the Lip: Wheeling and Dealing -- The Farming Game: -- The Smart Boys -- The Irrational World of Farm Finance -- How to Beat the System -- Will There Be Any Plowjockeys in Heaven? -- Afterword to the Bison Book Edition -- Back Cover

I entered a doctoral program in social work to better understand how to use applied research to address emergent social issues. This case will describe the process of choosing and employing a methodology (ultimately a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods) to answer a newly emergent social question, "Who will care for people in the community who are no longer able to exercise decision-making capacity for themselves?" I knew of a program that recruited and trained volunteers to provide legal guardianship services to people in their community who were no longer able to make important decisions about their lives. Without assistance, people who have illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease may neglect their own health and safety and may jeopardize the safety of people in their community. Assuming legal guardianship is a very responsible task. Most people who chose to volunteer would prefer a less burdensome task, such as coaching, physical therapist assistant (PTA) work, or assisting with a fundraiser. I wanted to understand who accepted this very responsible volunteer task, why they chose to do this, and why they continued in this capacity. Understanding the demographic characteristics and motivations of these volunteers may help to replicate this program in other areas. This case study will help students understand the process of choosing a methodology that will address the research questions and how to engage both an academic audience and the public audience including the research participants in this study.