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Nietzsche and Other Buddhas

Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy

by Jason M. Wirth
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019

In Nietzche and Other Buddhas, author Jason M. Wirth brings major East Asian Buddhist thinkers into radical dialogue with key Continental philosophers through a series of exercises that pursue what is traditionally called comparative or intercultural philosophy as he reflects on what makes such exercises...

Have the Mountains Fallen?

Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War

by Jeffrey Lilley
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018

After surviving the blitzkrieg of World War II and escaping from three Nazi prison camps, Soviet soldier Azamat Altay fled to the West and was charged as a traitor in his homeland of Kyrgyzstan in Soviet Central Asia. Chingiz Aitmatov became a hero of Kyrgyzstan, propelled by family loss to write...

Preserving Petersburg

History, Memory, Nostalgia

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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008

For more than three centuries, St. Petersburg, founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as Russia's westward-oriented capital and as a visually stunning showcase of Russia's imperial ambitions, has been the country's most mythologized city. Like a museum piece, it has functioned as a site for preservation,...
by Nikolai Findeizen
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008

In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history. Volume 2 of...

Looking Jewish

Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora

by Carol Zemel
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Jewish art and visual culture—art made by Jews about Jews—in modern diasporic settings is the subject of Looking Jewish. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic...
by Robert S. Hatten
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017

Robert Hatten’s new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar... in questions of musical meaning.... [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology...

Music and Globalization

Critical Encounters

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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011

World music" emerged as a commercial and musical category in the 1980s, but in some sense music has always been global. Through the metaphor of encounters, Music and Globalization explores the dynamics that enable or hinder cross-cultural communication through music. In the stories told by the contributors,...

Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera

Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun

by Yayoi Uno Everett
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015

Yayoi Uno Everett focuses on four operas that helped shape the careers of the composers Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun, which represent a unique encounter of music and production through what Everett calls "multimodal narrative." Aspects of production design, the mechanics...

Love in the Time of AIDS

Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa

by Mark Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010

In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of this virulent epidemic. By living in an informal settlement and collecting love letters, cell phone text...
by Barbara Tepa Lupack
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013

In the early 1900s, so-called race filmmakers set out to produce black-oriented pictures to counteract the racist caricatures that had dominated cinema from its inception. Richard E. Norman, a southern-born white filmmaker, was one such pioneer. From humble beginnings as a roving "home talent" filmmaker,...

Patrons of Paleontology

How Government Support Shaped a Science

by Jane P. Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of...
by Erik Kennes, Miles Larmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016

Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer provide a history of the Katangese gendarmes and their largely undocumented role in many of the most important political and military conflicts in Central Africa. Katanga, located in today's Democratic Republic of Congo, seceded in 1960 as Congo achieved independence and...

Nonprofits in Crisis

Economic Development, Risk, and the Philanthropic Kuznets Curve

by Nuno S. Themudo
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

Why do some countries have a vibrant nonprofit sector while others do not? Nonprofits in Crisis explores the theory of risk as a major mechanism through which economic development influences the nonprofit sector. Nuno S. Themudo elaborates this idea by focusing on Mexican nonprofit organizations,...

More Than Chattel

Black Women and Slavery in the Americas

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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1996

... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." —Drew Faust Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men’s experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in...
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