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.
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2007.
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| 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.


