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The Art of the Network : Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence /

A sociological study of networking that explores the relationship between networks and agency and that analyzes a rich historical antecedent of contemporary networking and the concept of self that accompanies it.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: McLean, Paul Douglas, 1962-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The principles of networking as a social process
  • The rhetoric and design of Florentine letter writing
  • The socially contested concept of honor
  • What gets said when in patronage letters
  • The dynamics of office seeking
  • Friends of friends : raccomandazione as rhetoric and as constitutive principle
  • Patronage and the stalled transformation of the state
  • "Servants and slaves in everything and for everything" : Renaissance networking and the emergent modern self?
  • Conclusion: Culture and the network.