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View book details for The Economics of Ethnic Conflict
The Case of Burkina Faso
Investigates development practice, civil organization formation and the increase of ethnically motivated conflicts over the past two decades in Western Africa.Through richly detailed anthropological case studies of the rural economics and administrative policies in Burkina Faso, and reassessment of current …
This book challenges the assumption that Franz Schubert (1797-1828), best known for the lyricism of his songs, symphonies and chamber music, lacked comparable talent for drama.It is commonly assumed that Franz Schubert (1797-1828), best known for the lyricism of his …
View book details for The Nazi Past in Contemporary German Film
Viewing Experiences of Intimacy and Immersion
From intimate portrayals of ordinary Germans and Nazi leaders to immersive spectacles of war and defeat, this study argues that, since 1990, German film has focused on portraying the Nazi past from within.How has the German image of the Nazi …
Examines the impact of new media (such as video and YouTube) and the use of multi-media on live and recorded performance in Africa.Focuses on the ways African theatre and performance relate to various kinds of media. Includes contributions on dance; …
View book details for Music, Nature and Divine Knowledge in England, 1650-1750
Between the Rational and the Mystical
During a period of tumultuous change in English political, religious and cultural life, music signified the unspeakable presence of the divine in the world for many. What was the role of music in the early modern subject's sensory experience of …
View book details for Willful Girls
Gender and Agency in Contemporary Anglo-American and German Fiction
Explores the process of "becoming woman" through an analysis of the depiction of girls and young women in contemporary Anglo-American and German literary texts.What does it mean to "become woman" in the context of neoliberalism and postfeminism? What is the …
The figure and role of the late-medieval father is reappraised through a close reading of a range of documents from the period, including both letters and romances.Late medieval English society placed great weight on the practices of primogeniture, patrilineal descent, …
Considers how elite women could participate in Crusade, their means and motivations.The popular perception of the medieval Crusades is of conflicts spanning from the Holy Land to the Baltic, with huge armies of religious zealots led by knights wearing crosses. …
In nineteenth-century Britain, learned societies and clubs became contested sites in which a new kind of identity was created: the charisma and persona of the scholar, of the intellectual.In the early modern period the subject of knowledge was dogma. Early …
A general social and cultural history of Africa.Basil Davidson gives insights into the depth and sophistication of African cultural and social history in a way that is intelligible and accessible to the lay-reader. North America: Ohio U Press
View book details for Medieval and Renaissance Spain and Portugal
Studies in Honor of Arthur L-F. Askins
The career of Arthur L-F. Askins is celebreated in a panorama of current scholarship on the Iberian peninsula during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.This volume is dedicated to Professor Arthur L-F. Askins, whose scholarship on Spanish and Portuguese literatures …
Analyses the role of long-term continuities in the political and religious culture of Wales from the eve of the Civil War in 1640 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688In Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688, Sarah Ward Clavier provides a …
View book details for A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991
Updated and revised edition
Updated and revised edition.Bahru Zewde has updated the first edition, adding a new chapter and taking the history through to 1991. 'The new chapter enhances the value of the book as the best historical introduction to modern Ethiopia. The account …
Articles, tributes and reminiscences of composer, pianist and author Peter Dickinson are here brought together for the first time.Peter Dickinson has made an enduring contribution to British musical life, and his music has been regularly performed and recorded by leading …
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A Life beyond the Toccata
Brings to light the life and work of one of France's most distinguished musicians in the most complete biography in any language of Charles-Marie Widor.Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata brings to light the life and work of one of …
View book details for Manhood Enslaved
Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two …
View book details for Sex Ed, Segregated
The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America
Demonstrates that the intersection between race, gender, and class formed the backbone of Progressive-Era debates over sex education, the policing of sexuality, and the prevention of venereal disease.Against the backdrop of the Progressive Era, World War I, and the 1920s, …
View book details for Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell
Sources, Style, Performance, Historiography
Articles on English music, from the medieval period to the present day, centred on four of the major areas of scholarly enquiry.The major themes of the essays in this collection reflect the work of the distinguished scholar John Caldwell, professor …
View book details for Business Rhetoric in German Novels
From <I>Buddenbrooks</I> to the Global Corporation
Argues on the evidence of nine major German novels that literature and business have in common a reliance on language, understood in a creative, performative, and rhetorical sense.Throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, Germany has maintained its …
Fewer than two hundred probate inventories were thought to have survived for Bedfordshire and most were published in Bedfordshire Historical Record Society volumes 20 and 32. Recently more came to light, bringing the total of known pre-1660 inventories to almost …
View book details for Miraculous Rhymes
The Writing of Gautier de Coinci
The first published general study of an unduly neglected writer whose stylistic legacy remains unique in the Middle Ages.The well-connected, northern-French monk and musician Gautier de Coinci (1177/8-1236) occupies an unassailable position as one of the most exceptional vernacular writers …
Widor's pedagogical writings, translated for the first time, offer essential guidance for interpreting his organ compositions as well as those of his followers in the French Romantic organ school.Renowned organist, composer, and Paris Conservatory professor Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) was a …
The convocation records of the Churches of England and Ireland are the principal source of our information about the administration of those churches from middle ages until modern times. They contain the minutes of clergy synods,the legislation passed by them, …
View book details for The Changing Fortunes of a British Aristocratic Family, 1689-1976
The Campbells of Cawdor and their Welsh Estates
Traces the development of a typical British aristocratic family, its estates and its activities over the period when the landed aristocracy was at its height and over the period when the aristocracy had to cope with increasing democratisation.For over two …
View book details for Syon Abbey and its Books
Reading, Writing and Religion, c.1400-1700
Essays on the turbulent history of Syon Abbey, focussing on the role played by reading and writing in constructing its identity and experience.Founded in 1415, the double monastery of Syon Abbey was the only English example of the order established …
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