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The Face of Decline
The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered. Today, very little mining or industry remains, although residents have made valiant efforts to restore the fabric of their communities. In The Face of Decline, the noted historians Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht offer a sweeping history of...
Retracing a Winter's Journey
Franz Schubert's "Winterreise"
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
I like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too, Franz Schubert told the friends who were the first to hear his song cycle, Winterreise. These lieder have always found admiring audiences, but the poetry he chose to set them to has been widely regarded as weak and trivial. In...
Bach in Berlin
Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the "St. Matthew Passion"
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the work before...
Virtuosi Abroad
Soviet Music and Imperial Competition during the Early Cold War, 1945–1958
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
In the 1940s and 1950s, Soviet musicians and ensembles were acclaimed across the globe. They toured the world, wowing critics and audiences, projecting an image of the USSR as a sophisticated promoter of cultural and artistic excellence. In Virtuosi Abroad, Kiril Tomoff focuses on music and the Soviet...
Cultivating the Masses
Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914–1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet government carried out a massive number of deportations, incarcerations, and executions. Paradoxically, at the very moment that Soviet authorities were killing thousands of individuals, they were also engaged in an enormous pronatalist campaign to boost the population....
Hear My Sad Story
The True Tales That Inspired "Stagolee," "John Henry," and Other Traditional American Folk Songs
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Read an excerpt and listen to the songs featured in the book at http://folksonghistory.com/In 2015, Bob Dylan said, "I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs. And I played them, and I met other people that played them, back when nobody was doing it. Sang nothing but these...
Dirt for Art's Sake
Books on Trial from "Madame Bovary" to "Lolita"
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated...
The Uskoks of Senj
Piracy, Banditry, and Holy War in the Sixteenth-Century Adriatic
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In this highly original and influential book, Catherine Wendy Bracewell reconstructs and analyzes the tumultuous history of the uskoks of Senj, the martial bands nominally under the control of the Habsburg Military Frontier in Croatia, who between the 1530s and the 1620s developed a community based...
Sodom on the Thames
Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Sodom on the Thames looks closely at three episodes involving sex between men in late-nineteenth-century England. Morris Kaplan draws on extensive research into court records, contemporary newspaper accounts, personal correspondence and diaries, even a pornographic novel. He focuses on two notorious...
Whose Detroit?
Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
America's urbanites have engaged in many tumultuous struggles for civil and worker rights since the Second World War. In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the struggles of Motor City residents during the 1960s and early 1970s and finds that conflict continued to plague the...
Final Solutions
Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Benjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commonly assumed. He shows that the impetus for mass killing usually originates from a relatively small group...
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Cicero’s On the Republic and On the Laws are his major works of political philosophy. They offer his fullest treatment of fundamental political questions: Why should educated people have any concern for politics? Is the best form of government simple, or is it a combination of elements from such...
Damned Women
Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 1999
In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft...
The Ideology of the Offensive
Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War offers new insight into the tragic miscalculations of that era and into their possible parallels in present-day war planning. By 1914, the European military powers had adopted offensive military strategies...