Berlioz and the Romantic Century
Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher :
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Special Sorrows
Author : Matthew Frye Jacobson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 2002-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520233423
Book Description
Special Sorrows carefully delineates the centrality of Jewish, Polish and Irish supporters in the United States to national liberation movements abroad and details how such movements shaped immigrant life in the United States.
Salem
Author : Dane Anthony Morrison
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1555538509
Book Description
How is a sense of place created, imagined, and reinterpreted over time? That is the intriguing question addressed in this comprehensive look at the 400-year history of Salem, Massachusetts, and the experiences of fourteen generations of people who lived in a place mythologized in the public imagination by the horrific witch trials and executions of 1692 and 1693. But from its settlement in 1626 to the present, Salem was, and is, much more than this. In this volume, contributors from a variety of fields examine Salem's multiple urban identities: frontier outpost of European civilization, cosmopolitan seaport, gateway to the Far East, refuge for religious diversity, center for education, and of course, "Witch City" tourist attraction.
Kestner
Author : Jan Foulke
Publisher : Hobby House Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 1998-11
Category : Bisque dolls
ISBN : 9780875885384
Book Description
This book describes the German bisque dolls manufactured by the German company, Kestner, and produced from the early 1880s until the merging of the Kestner factory with Kammer & Reinhardt in the 1930s. This book features all the Kestner dolls, including the Hilda dolls, the closed-mouth, open-mouth and character babies and all bisque dolls. Extensive research has been undertaken with the mould numbers to further aid identification.
The Holy Name Journal
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 1917
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Billy Budd
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Aerie
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 1992-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429959541
Book Description
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of Billy Budd includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn. Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the handsome sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, noble looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful and ever-cheerful. He was a fierce fighter and a loyal friend. All the men and officers liked him... All but one: Master-at-Arms Claggart. Envious, petty Claggart plotted to make Billy's life miserable. But when a fear of mutinies swept through the fleet, Claggart realized he could do more than just torment the Handsome Sailor...He could frame Billy Budd for treason... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Urban Ethnicity
Author : Abner Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 38,75 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1136418857
Book Description
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1974 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Anoush
Author : Armen Tigranyan
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Music
ISBN :
Book Description
Against the Romance of Community
Author : Miranda Joseph
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816637959
Book Description
Exposing the complicity of social practices, identities, and communities with capitalism, this critique opens the possibility of genuine alliances across differences among groups such as gay consumers in the United States and Mexian maquiladora workers, Christian right "family values" and Asian "crony capitalism". [back cover].
Polish Americans
Author : James S. Pula
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Polish Americans
ISBN : 9780805784381
Book Description
The Polish American community has long been identified with three characteristics that the early immigrants brought with them to America, writes Pula: "an affection and concern for their ancestral homeland, a deep religious faith, and a sense of shared cultural values." Prominent among these values are family loyalty, a desire for property ownership, and pride in self-sufficiency.
