Paul D McLean

The Art of the Network

Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341178
• ISBN-10: 0822341174
• Artikelnr.: 22885131

Autorenporträt

Paul D. McLean is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures ix
Preface xi
1. The Principles of Networking as a Social Process 1
2. The Rhetoric and Design of Florentine Letter Writing 35
3. The Socially Contested Concept of Honor 59
4. What Gets Said When in Patronage Letters 90
5. The Dynamics of Office Seeking 121
6. Friends of Friends: Raccomandazione as Rhetoric and as Constitutive
Principle 150
7. Patronage and the Stalled Transformation of the State 170
8. “Servants and Slaves in Everything and for Everything”: Renaissance
Networking and the Emergent Modern Self? 193
Conclusion: Culture and the Network 224
Notes 231
Bibliography 255
Index 279