Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Learning Zulu
A Secret History of Language in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property,...
Secrets and Leaks
The Dilemma of State Secrecy
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Secrets and Leaks examines the complex relationships among executive power, national security, and secrecy. State secrecy is vital for national security, but it can also be used to conceal wrongdoing. How then can we ensure that this power is used responsibly? Typically, the onus is put on lawmakers...
Brahms and His World
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated composers. In this substantially revised and enlarged edition, the editors remain close...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Alban Berg and His World is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Schoenberg's musical revolution was balanced by a lifelong devotion to the warm sensuousness of Viennese musical...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. At the height...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner...
The Poison King
The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until...
The Infidel and the Professor
David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thought
David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as “the Great Infidel” for his skeptical religious views and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally. While he remains well-known in Russia—where...
Kazantzakis, Volume 1
Politics of the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
"No author who lives in Greece," writes Peter Bien, "can avoid politics." This first volume of his major intellectual biography of Nikos Kazantzakis approaches the distinguished--and controversial--writer by describing his struggle with political questions that were in reality...
Chaucer
A European Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant’s son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets
More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life—yet his poems are anything...
Tocqueville
The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Many American readers like to regard Alexis de Tocqueville as an honorary American and democrat--as the young French aristocrat who came to early America and, enthralled by what he saw, proceeded to write an American book explaining democratic America to itself. Yet, as Lucien Jaume argues in this...
Maimonides
Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing...
Dostoevsky
A Writer in His Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly...