History Theory category: 16752 books
A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party
Democratic socialism and sectarianism
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is the first definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force which drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national divisions. Formed in 1924 and disbanded in 1987, the...
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume II
The New Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2006
First published in 1973 – and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 – this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.
Volume I outlines the early...
Creating the Jazz Solo
Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Throughout his life, Louis Armstrong tried to explain how singing with a barbershop quartet on the streets of New Orleans was foundational to his musicianship. Until now, there has been no in-depth inquiry into what he meant when he said, “I figure singing and playing is the same,” or, “Singing...
Romantic Appropriations of History
The Legends of Joanna Baillie and Margaret Holford Hodson
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Romantic Appropriations of History: The Legends of Joanna Baillie and Margaret Holford Hodson focuses on Joanna Baillie’s Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters (1821) and on various historical tales, either written or translated, by one of her very close friends, Margaret Holford Hodson. While...
The Composer As Intellectual
Music and Ideology in France, 1914-1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
In The Composer as Intellectual, musicologist Jane Fulcher reveals the extent to which leading French composers between the World Wars were not only aware of but also engaged intellectually and creatively with the central political and ideological issues of the period. Employing recent sociological...
Sculpting the Woman
Muscularity, Power and the Problem with Femininity
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
What is femininity?
Why does the idea of femininity not seem to «fit» with muscular women?
Why are muscular women the object of such controversy and skepticism?
Why do some women build muscle despite these strong cultural reactions?
Muscular women have long been the focus...
Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England
Tales of Turning
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there is a direct correspondence between the spiritual and rhetorical turn. Furthermore, by focusing on a comparatively early period in the history...
Lord Byron's Cain
Twelve essays and a text with variants and annotations
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Cain has been ranked as one of the two best dramatic poems written in England in the nineteenth century. Because of its religious heterodoxy, which veiled a political iconoclasm, and also because of Byron's notoriety, Cain stirred up a storm among Tories and clergymen "from Kentish town to Pisa." From...
Poems in Their Place
Intertextuality and Order of Poetic Collections
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
With essays by 13 leading scholars, this collection establishes the grounds for a new kind of poetics that considers the poetry book itself -- the concept and the material fact -- as an object of interpretation. The authors argue that the decisions poets make about the presentation of their works...
Reader in Tragedy
An Anthology of Classical Criticism to Contemporary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This unique anthology presents the important historical essays on tragedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span, it traces the development of theories and philosophies of tragedy, enabling readers to consider the ways...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2019
Volume 37B of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the work of Ludwig Lachmann, edited by Giampaolo Garzarelli. Contributors to the symposium include Peter Boettke, Erwin Dekker, Peter Lewin, and several other experts on Lachmann and the Austrian School....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Volume 31 of Research in Economic History (REHI) is forthcoming in April 2015. REHI is a peer-reviewed book series published once a year. We cover all areas of economic history, including demography and development. Research in Economic History is a well-established and well-cited journal which has...
by Christopher Hanes, Susan Wolcott
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Volume 32 of Research in Economic History (REHI) is forthcoming in April 2016. REHI is a peer-reviewed series published once a year. We cover all areas of economic history, including demography and development. Research in Economic History is a well-established and well-cited journal which has presented...
Wirtschaftsmacht Afrika
Wachstumspole, Potenziale und Perspektiven
Language: German
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Mit diesem Sammelband wird ein Beitrag zur aktuell kontrovers geführten Debatte über die Potenziale und Perspektiven der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung Subsahara-Afrikas geleistet. Anders als die vom pessimistischen Diskurs oder von Schönfärberei geprägten Untersuchungen der Probleme und Chancen...