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by Jonathan Strom
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
August Hermann Francke described his conversion to Pietism in gripping terms that included intense spiritual struggle, weeping, falling to his knees, and a decisive moment in which his doubt suddenly disappeared and he was “overwhelmed as with a stream of joy.” His account came to exemplify Pietist...
Looking at Contemporary Dance
A Guide for the Internet Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
With a focus on dance innovation from the late 19th century to the present, this history provides dance students with accessible information on the major contributors to the art. Organized chronologically by the decades in which innovators were born or dance organizations were founded, the study shows...
Knowing China
A Twenty-First Century Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments,...
Merce Cunningham
The Modernizing of Modern Dance
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Many Lives of Miss K
Toto Koopman - Model, Muse, Spy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A life of glamour and tragedy, set against the watershed cultural and political movements of twentieth-century Europe. "Toto" Koopman (1908–1991) is a new addition to the set of iconoclastic women whose biographies intrigue and inspire modern-day readers. Like her contemporaries Lee Miller...
Queen Victoria’s Lovers
Erotomania & Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The young Queen Victoria was a potent sex symbol, attracting outlandish fantasists. She also attracted stalkers and other unwanted attention seekers. The Victorian Press sardonically dubbed such people “Victoria’s lovers.” Victorian psychiatrists labelled them, “erotomaniacs.” Drawing on...
Music after the Fall
Modern Composition and Culture since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
"...the best extant map of our sonic shadowlands, and it has changed how I listen."—Alex Ross, The New Yorker
"...an essential survey of contemporary music."—New York Times
"…sharp, provacative and always on the money. The listening list alone promises...
Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715
Seditious Frivolity
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution...
The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable
A True Tale of Passion, Poison and Pursuit
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Quaker John Tawell's trial became a sensation, involving poison and sexual scandal. It helped to secure the telegraph's fame - and usher in the modern communication age. A true tale of murder and scientific revolution, The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable is historical crime writing at its best.
by Tania Grossinger
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
The story of Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel, an American landmark where generations of New Yorkers beat the summer heat—and the fun never ended**.**
From 1919 to 1986, if you were Jewish and lived in New York City, there was one word that could make you sigh with longing: Grossinger’s....
Tango
Creation of a Cultural Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2007
In Tango: Creation of a Cultural Icon Jo Baim dispels common stereotypes of the tango and tells the real story behind this rich and complex dance. Despite its exoticism, the tango of this time period is a very accessible dance, especially as European and North American dancers adapted it. Modern ballroom...
by Yaël Schlick
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel as a “technology of gender.” It also investigates the way travel’s utopian dimension and feminism’s...
Suffering Scholars
Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy. The association between sickness and genius continued to be a topic for discussion in the work of early modern writers, most recognizably in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But it was not until...
by J. Christopher Herold
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
"My system has changed - no more war, no more conquests," Napoleon announced after his escape from Elba in 1815. In the space of what is now known as the Hundred Days, the deposed French emperor was to demonstrate that nothing had changed. Only forty-six, he still possessed the ambition...