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The psychiatric profession in Germany changed radically from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I. In a book that demonstrates his extensive archival knowledge and an impressive command of the primary literature, Eric J. Engstrom investigates the history of university psychiatric clinics in Imperial Germany from 1867 to 1914, emphasizing the clinical practices and professional debates surrounding the development of these institutions and their impact on the course of German psychiatry.

The rise of university psychiatric clinics reflects, Engstrom tells us, a shift not only in asylum culture, but also in the ways in which social, political, and economic issues deeply influenced the practice of psychiatry. Equally convincing is Engstrom’s argument that psychiatrists were responding to and workingto shape the rapidly changing perceptions ofmadness in Imperial Germany.

In a series of case studies, the book focuses on a number of important clinical spaces such as the laboratory, the ward,the lecture hall, and the polyclinic. Engstrom argues that within these spaces clinics developed their own disciplinary economies and that their emergence was inseparablyintertwined with jurisdictional contests between competing scientific, administrative, didactic, and socio-political agendas. ... Read more

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For half a century, the United States has garnered substantial political and economic benefits as a result of the dollar's de facto role as a global currency. In recent years, however, the dollar's preponderant position in world markets has come under challenge. The dollar has been more volatile than ever against foreign currencies, and various nations have switched to non-dollar instruments in their transactions. China and the Arab Gulf states continue to hold massive amounts of U.S. government obligations, in effect subsidizing U.S. current account deficits, and those holdings are a point of potential vulnerability for American policy.

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David Calleo, Johns Hopkins University
Benjamin Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Marcello de Cecco, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
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Is economic nationalism an outdated phenomenon in light of globalization? Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World demonstrates the enduring, and even heightened, economic significance of national identities and nationalism in the current age. The volume’s contributors, pioneers in the reinterpretation of economic nationalism, explore diverse ways in which national identities and nationalism continue to shape contemporary economic policies and processes.

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Descriptive Sketches
The eigth volume in the Cornell Wadsworth Series, this new edition of Descriptive Sketches is based on a complete reexamination of all the printed versions and manuscript materials.

Wordsworth published the poem simultaneously with An Evening Walk in 1793, and although he began to alter it soon after it first appeared in print, he did not undertake extensive revisions until 1836. He continued to revise the text until the last lifetime edition (1849-1850) but most of the changes after the 1836 printing are minor. Thus the 1836 text can be regarded as the final version.

After Professor Birdsall's historical introduction to the poem, the book offers reading texts of the 1793 and 1836 editions on facing pages, allowing line-by-line comparisons. Photographs of some of the most complex and interesting manuscript pages appear opposite transcriptions of the manuscripts. One appendix contains important new material on Coleridge's use of Wordsworth's material, and another covers contemporary reviews of Desriptive Sketches.
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Originally published in 1920.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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