scholarly journals Farmers, the Police Force, and the Authorities: The “Calvatone (1911) Hoard” as Seen Through Archival Records (Cremona – Italy)

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-136
Author(s):  
Antonino Crisà
Keyword(s):  
Museum Studies ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
The State ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Local Police ◽  
Italian Government ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regional Authorities

This paper presents a new set of archival records from Rome on the discovery of a Roman Republican denarii hoard, found by the brothers Birsilio and Luigi Simonazzi on their lands at Calvatone (Cremona, Italy, 1911). Local police forces seized the hoard and alerted the Coin Cabinet of Brera in Milan, where the numismatist Serafino Ricci (1867–1943) evaluated and finally acquired selected coins to increase the museum collections. The “Calvatone (1911) hoard” is an essential case study in the history of Italian numismatic collections, museum studies, and archaeology. These records are particularly worth studying for two main reasons. They show how local and regional authorities dealt with casual archaeological discoveries in northern Italy during the post-Unification period (1861–1918). They also help us to better understand how the Italian government acted to safeguard antiquities according to contemporary law, and how the state collections could be increased by judicial seizures and fresh acquisitions.

scholarly journals History of the publishing activity of the State Natural History Museum of the NAS of Ukraine

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
O. Klymyshyn
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The State ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Publishing Activity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Collections

The publishing activity of the museum for the whole period of its existence is analyzed, starting from the first published in the museum by V. Didushitsky in 1880 and up to 2018 inclusive. Approximately this work is about 3.5 thousand publications, among which 84 monographs; 35 issues of the scientific miscellany "Proceedings of the State Natural History Museum"; 5 issues of the book series "Scientific Collections of the State Natural History Museum"; more than 50 catalogs of museum collections, thematic miscellanies, qualifiers, dictionaries and guides; about 2.2 thousand scientific articles; about 1 thousand materials and abstracts of reports of scientific conferences, as well as dozens of popular scientific articles, brochures and booklets.

scholarly journals FORMAÇÃO DA ESTRATÉGIA EM CONDIÇÕES DE ELEVADA INFLUÊNCIA GOVERNAMENTAL: UMA ANÁLISE LONGITUDINAL DA FUNDAÇÃO DE APOIO À PESQUISA CIENTÍFICA E TECNOLÓGICA DO ESTADO DE SANTA CATARINA – FAPESC

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Maurício Fernandes Pereira ◽  
Karla Simoni Oening
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Behavior ◽  
The State ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Strategy Formation ◽  
Environmental Selection ◽  
Strategy Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
Direct Administration ◽  
Governmental Politics

This research analyzes the process of strategy formation in the Foundation of Support to the Scientific and Technological Research of the State of Santa Catarina - FAPESC, a body of the government’s direct administration structure in the State of Santa Catarina, with the purpose of understanding how its construction occurs: if in a deliberate way, anticipated and rational; or, as an emergency, in consequence of the interactions of the agents present in the organizations’ routine. By way of a case study of longitudinal, historical and biographical character, and based in the procedures proposed by the Direct Research (MINTZBERG, 1979; MINTZBERG; McHUGH, 1985), the history of the institution was retrieved in the period comprised between the years of 1990 and 2005. The data has disclosed that, in adapting itself strategically, beyond the predominance of a planned and sistemic strategic behavior, the institution suffered an intense influence from the governmental politics of the State and this, associated with the low power to influence the environment with high environmental determinism, reduced the importance of the management scienter in the success of the company indicating that mechanisms of environmental selection operate to the detriment of the adaptation. Key words: Strategy. Change and adaptation. Formation of the strategy.

scholarly journals Arkansas Statewide Interactive Video Service: Education as an Anchor Tenant

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max C. Kolstad ◽  
Paulo Ovídio I. Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Interactive Video ◽  
The State ◽  
Enterprise Network ◽  
Video Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
Video Network

This case study is intended to document the development of the multipurpose statewide enterprise network in the state of Arkansas. Although this case study will provide an overview of all aspects and partners involved in this development, the paper will predominantly focus on primary education in Arkansas as an anchor tenant. Primary education in Arkansas is of particular importance to the development of the current statewide interactive video network. The case study will accomplish this in four major sections: History of the state of Arkansas Enterprise Network, History of the state of Arkansas Video Network, Developing Education as a Telecommunications Anchor, and Developing Education as an Application Anchor. This initial case study is qualitative in nature and will hopefully serve as the basis for further detailed and in-depth quantitative research.

scholarly journals Treating Museum Objects as Text: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-96
Author(s):  
Kirsten Hebert
Keyword(s):  
Medical Instrument ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Material Evidence

Medical instrument collections are neglected primary source material that can be used to produce original scholarship on thehistory of medicine and the history of optometry. Opening museum collections and associated archives to researchers allowscollections managers to simultaneously address curatorial backlogs, facilitate research, and provide a foundation for craftingpublic-facing exhibits. In order to add to the historiography, research should not only focus on the technical aspects of theinstruments, but also employ theory to examine of the meaning of the objects in context. In this way, objects can be a vehicle forunderstanding broader themes in the history of medicine and reveal their utility as material evidence of the impact of medicineon society and culture. This two-part article includes a historiography of ophthalmic instruments and a case study in which an assemblage of ophthalmometers in the Archives & Museum of Optometry collection are treated as “text” to explore the nature of power in the doctor-patient relationship in early optometry.

Convict police and the enforcement of British order: Policing the rum economy in early New South Wales

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-264
Author(s):  
Matthew Allen
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Police Force ◽  
South Wales ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Contemporary Development

Among the many peculiarities of early New South Wales was the absence of a police force to manage a population largely composed of convicted criminals. Instead, the early Governors were forced to employ trusted convicts and ex-convicts to act as watchmen and constables and police their fellows. This article explores the history of these neglected convict police in the context of the contemporary development of modern policing in the British world. Using a case-study of a crack-down on illicit distilling under Governor King in 1805–1806, I demonstrate that the convict police were both surprisingly effective and prone to corruption, reflecting the legacy of British policing traditions and the influence of reformist ideas.

“The Honest Marxist”

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (S1) ◽  
pp. 100-126
Author(s):  
Yakov Feygin
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
State University ◽  
Mathematical Economics ◽  
Policy Relevance ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Research ◽  
Moscow State University

This article examines the career of Yakov Kronrod, a Soviet economic theorist, in the context of the larger transformation of Soviet economics in the post-Stalin period. It argues that Kronrod’s debates with his rivals in the “Mathematical Economics” and “Moscow State University” approaches to economics open a window on how the changing relationship between the state and the profession of economics created new research agendas. The transformation of economics in the post-Stalin period into a “Cold War Science” from an “ideological science” made “policy relevance” increasingly important to Soviet economic practitioners and allowed once ideologically hostile ideas to become central to economics. This case study makes a larger intervention into the history of late Soviet society, arguing that seemingly arcane intellectual conflicts were, in fact, a reflection of extremely contentious political battles and that ideology remained a key site of politics deep into the Brezhnev era.

Scylla et Glaucus: A case study

1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-228
Author(s):  
Neal Zaslaw
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
French Opera ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of

The policies of centralisation pursued by Louis XIV and his ministers affected most aspects of French life and culture. From 1645 opera had been imported from Italy by Louis' minister Cardinal Mazarin, originally out of political motives. When it had become ‘naturalised’, assuming its characteristic French guise under the despotic direction of Lully's Académie Royale de Musique, it continued to serve political purposes. In return for a monopoly on theatre music, Lully saw to it that opera served not only as entertainment for the nobility and bourgeoisie, but also as propaganda for the state and for the divine right of the King. An incidental effect of these policies was that the number of French operas produced was small compared to the number in Italy. This was due to the monopoly; to the centralisation, which meant that with few exceptions ‘French’ opera really meant ‘Parisian’ opera; and to the lavishness of the productions, which made frequent changes of repertory impractical even with subsidies. Each première was an event of note, chronicled in official and unofficial sources – the archival documents, mémoires, correspondence, periodicals, pamphlets and books of the day. This profusion of documentation frequently makes possible a degree of precision about the history of early French opera that can rarely be attained for other national schools.

Urban Contingency and the Problem of Representation in Second Empire Paris

1995 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Mead
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Process ◽  
State Institution ◽  
The State ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
Paris Opera ◽  
Napoleon Iii ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The City

Charles Garnier's Paris Opéra (1861-75) and Baron Haussmann's contemporary replanning of Paris (1853-70) supposedly represent the Second Empire of Napoléon III. But this case study of the Opéra within the context of its quarter of Paris contradicts the usual assumptions that the monument and the city were either the inevitable products or the characteristic political expressions of the state. First, a chain of events dating back to the seventeenth century is reconstructed in order to demonstrate that the decision reached in 1860 to site the Opéra on the Grands Boulevards at the end of a projected new avenue was less the consequence of an imperial plan than the pragmatic result of the often contingent urban history of Paris. Second, the parallel and equally pragmatic evolution of the characteristic Parisian façade of a giant order on an arcuated base is traced from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries in order to explain why Garnier's Opéra and Haussmann's surrounding buildings came to have the same form of elevation. Interpreted in light of both the Opéra's own ambiguous status as a state institution and the ambiguous nature of nineteenth-century bourgeois civil society, this evidence suggests that neither urban nor architectural forms are fixed in their meaning, but tend rather to adjust their meaning to the changing circumstances of their use. This article concludes that a city and its monuments find their meaning in the continuous process by which a city's inhabitants shape and experience their surroundings, rather than in the episodic political programs of the state.

Medical Dominance in Canada in Historical Perspective: The Rise and Fall of Medicine?

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Coburn ◽  
George M. Torrance ◽  
Joseph M. Kaufert
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The State ◽  
Alternative Conceptions ◽  
Health Occupations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Petite Bourgeoisie ◽  
Medical Dominance ◽  
Internal Fragmentation

Freidson's concept of medical dominance is compared to the alternative conceptions of neo-Marxist writers. Dominance is then examined in historical perspective, using medicine in Canada (mainly Ontario) as a case study. Medicine emerged as the dominant health occupation in Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, consolidating its power between World War I and the Saskatchewan doctors' strike of 1962. The authors argue that medical dominance has declined since that time due to such factors as the involvement of the state in health insurance, the rise of other health occupations, increasing public or at least elite skepticism, and possible internal fragmentation. The underlying social explanation for this historical process is sought in changes in the Canadian class structure, specifically the spread of the capitalist mode of production, the decline of the petite bourgeoisie, and the rise of the state. It is suggested that Freidson's specific accounts of the history of medicine must be incorporated for explanatory purposes within the broader neo-Marxist view of medicine as an intermediary rather than an ultimately determining institution.

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