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Musical Debate and Political Culture in France, 1700-1830
The first full-length treatment of the operatic querelles in eighteenth-century France, placing individual querelles in historical context and tracing common themes of authority, …
Religion and Profit
The Moravians, a Protestant sect founded in 1727 by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and based in Germany, were key players in the rise of international evangelicalism. In …
Ancient and Modern Ships
Ancient and Modern Ships Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships by Sir George C. V. Holmes is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution, design, and construction of wooden sailing vessels …
Culture, Politics, and National Identity in Wales 1832-1886
Culture, Politics and National Identity in Wales 1832-86 offers the first comprehensive account of politics in the principality between the first and third reform acts. Based on a …
Dissertation on the Contents, Virtues and Uses, of Cold and Hot Mineral Springs; Particularly, Those of Scarborough
Concept of the Animal and Modern Theories of Art
This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists to explore the influence of the …
Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture
While the arms race of the post-war period has been widely discussed, Purcell explores the under-acknowledged but critical role another kind of 'race' - that is, race as a …
Tabbs and Bouncer
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
Friedrich Jacobi held a position of unparalleled importance in the golden age of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century intellectual history. Nonetheless, the range and style …
Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans from 1796 to 1905. Linking local epidemics to the …
Music and the Southern Belle
Candace Bailey's exploration of the intertwining worlds of music and gender shows how young southern women pushed the boundaries of respectability to leave their unique mark on a …
Catholic Women's Movements in Liberal and Fascist Italy
In the early 1900s the Catholic Church appealed, for the first time in its history, directly to women to reassert its religious, political and social relevance in Italian society. …