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Star Course

Nineteenth-Century Lecture Tours and the Consolidation of Modern Celebrity

By: Peter Cherches

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Star Course

Nineteenth-Century Lecture Tours and the Consolidation of Modern Celebrity

By: Peter Cherches

In the quarter century following the Civil War, “star courses” brought people famous for diverse pursuits before American audiences as lecturers, transforming what had been a largely educational institution into a major form of mainstream popular entertainment. No longer reliant on a rhetoric of uplift that had characterized the more sedate antebellum American lyceum movement exemplified by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gilded-Age lecture series presented a wider range of individuals—writers, humorists, preachers, actors, scientists, and political activists—to an American public yearning to see and hear the famous and the infamous of all stripes in the flesh. Borrowing the word “star” from the theater, these national lecture tours helped to solidify an already evolving notion of celebrity through emerging public relations techniques and an expanding transportation network that transformed the lecture platform into a pre-electronic form of mass media, prefiguring much of the content of television and radio. Among the lecturers discussed are Mark Twain, the superstar cleric Henry Ward Beecher, cartoonist Thomas Nast, and African explorer Henry Morton Stanley, as well as the 19th wife of Brigham Young. Based on extensive archival research and newspaper accounts of the time, Star Course recaptures a lost chapter in American popular performance history. “In the century before television brought stars into our living rooms, celebrities crisscrossed the nation, bringing entertainment and perspectives to towns large and small. Peter Cherches, through his careful research and engaging prose, brings the stars and impresarios of the nineteenth-century lecture circuit back from the dead and gives us a front-row seat. This is an important book.” – David T.Z. Mindich, author of Just the Facts: How “Objectivity” Came to Define American Journalism and chair of Temple University’s journalism department.

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9463512039

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Lift Your Right Arm

By: Peter Cherches

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Lift Your Right Arm

By: Peter Cherches

The five sequences of Lift Your Right Arm are minimalist novels of sorts—thought-provoking, mostly deadpan prose that is often darkly humorous. From the stark relationship studies of "Bagatelles" and "Dirty Windows" to the wry observations of "Mr. Deadman" and "A Certain Clarence," the stars of these pieces are Peter Cherches’ unique takes on Everyman and Everywoman—dead or alive—navigating a world in which very little is what it seems.

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Pelekinesis

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1938349032

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A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC

By: Eric Csapo,Peter Wilson

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A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC

By: Eric Csapo,Peter Wilson

This is the second volume of A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC and focuses exclusively on theatre culture in Attica (Rural Dionysia) and the rest of the Greek world. It presents and discusses in detail all the documentary and material evidence for theatre culture and dramatic production from the first two centuries of theatre history, namely the period c.500 to c.300 BC. The traditional assumption is laid to rest that theatre was an exclusively or primarily Athenian institution, with the inclusion of all sources of information for theatrical performances in twenty-two deme sites and over one hundred and twenty independent Greek (and some non-Greek) cities. All texts are translated and made accessible to non-specialists and specialists alike. The volume will be a fundamental work of reference for all classicists and theatre historians interested in ancient theatre and its wider historical contexts.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521765579

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9780521765572

History of Shock Waves, Explosions and Impact

A Chronological and Biographical Reference

By: Peter O. K. Krehl

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History of Shock Waves, Explosions and Impact

A Chronological and Biographical Reference

By: Peter O. K. Krehl

This unique and encyclopedic reference work describes the evolution of the physics of modern shock wave and detonation from the earlier and classical percussion. The history of this complex process is first reviewed in a general survey. Subsequently, the subject is treated in more detail and the book is richly illustrated in the form of a picture gallery. This book is ideal for everyone professionally interested in shock wave phenomena.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540304215

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Peiresc’s Mediterranean World

By: Peter N. Miller

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Peiresc’s Mediterranean World

By: Peter N. Miller

Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) was a “prince” of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc’s study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge of matters mundane and exotic. Mining the remarkable 70,000-page archive of this Provençal humanist and polymath, Peter N. Miller recovers a lost Mediterranean world of the early seventeenth century that was dominated by the sea: the ceaseless activity of merchants, customs officials, and ships’ captains at the center of Europe’s sprawling maritime networks. Peiresc’s Mediterranean World reconstructs the web of connections that linked the bustling port city of Marseille to destinations throughout the Western Mediterranean, North Africa, the Levant, and beyond. “Peter Miller’s reanimation of Peiresc, the master of the Mediterranean, is the best kind of case study. It not only makes us appreciate the range and richness of one man’s experience and the originality of his thought, but also suggests that he had many colleagues in his deepest and most imaginative inquiries. Most important, it gives us hope that their archives too will be opened up by scholars skillful and imaginative enough to make them speak to us.” —Anthony Grafton, New York Review of Books

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Harvard University Press

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0674744063

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9780674744066

Environmental Policy Analyses

Learning from the Past for the Future - 25 Years of Research

By: Peter Knoepfel

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Environmental Policy Analyses

Learning from the Past for the Future - 25 Years of Research

By: Peter Knoepfel

There are few more sensitive or important policy areas in the world today, and that means this book is a hugely relevant and timely one. Written by practice-oriented political scientists from various universities in Europe and the rest of the world, this book is a testimony to both policy and the evolution of policy analyses over the last 25 years. On the basis of empirical observations all contributions have attempted to develop new conceptual perspectives for environmental policy analyses which furthermore can be generalized and applied to other policy fields.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540731490

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Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature and Translation

Studies for Keith Val Sinclair

By: Peter Rolfe Monks,Douglas David Roy Owen

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Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature and Translation

Studies for Keith Val Sinclair

By: Peter Rolfe Monks,Douglas David Roy Owen

Contains thirty-three papers, twelve with illustrations, by leading scholars in Medieval Codicology and Iconography, in Humanist Translations and in Medieval French, Early English, and Medieval Irish Literatures. Each throws new light on particular problems in a specialism.

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BRILL

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9004622721

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In the Flesh of the Text

The Poetry of Marie-Claire Bancquart

By: Peter Broome

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In the Flesh of the Text

The Poetry of Marie-Claire Bancquart

By: Peter Broome

This closely focused study of the inner movements, dynamic tensions and tactile richness of an intensely sensual but deeply searching poetry, is the first full-length monograph devoted to one of France’s foremost contemporary woman poets. Marie-Claire Bancquart’s work explores, primarily through the vulnerabilities and sensitivities of the body (hence this book’s ‘carnal’ title), the possibility of releasing a cry: a salvation of language and spirit from indifference, abstraction and dehumanisation, a celebration of a moment’s reunion with the recreative vitality of the physical universe, an act of love in its most private yet cosmic expression. Bancquart has described her language as a ‘braille of the living’: minimal, interrupted and riddled with obscurities and gaps of the unsayable, but apprehending the world and composing its significance in a singularly tactile translation. This study will appeal to those keen to discover one of the most original voices of present-day European poetry, the distinctive poetic resonances of one of its most self-aware and vibrant female sensibilities, and the provocative orientations of ‘new writing’ traversed by the dilemmas and paradoxes of our own era.

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9401205582

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The Sea

Thalassography and Historiography

By: Peter N. Miller

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The Sea

Thalassography and Historiography

By: Peter N. Miller

A unique volume that addresses how a thalassographic frame opens up new and important questions for the study of history

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University of Michigan Press

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0472118676

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9780472118670

Understanding Interdependence

The Macroeconomics of the Open Economy

By: Peter B. Kenen

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Understanding Interdependence

The Macroeconomics of the Open Economy

By: Peter B. Kenen

Surveying the current state of knowledge on the international monetary system, this volume contains essays on the behaviour of exchange rates, current account adjustment, international debt, European monetary union, capital mobility, the reform of former planned economies, and more.

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Princeton University Press

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0691034087

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Chanson

The French Singer-Songwriter from Aristide Bruant to the Present Day

By: Peter Hawkins

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Chanson

The French Singer-Songwriter from Aristide Bruant to the Present Day

By: Peter Hawkins

En France, tout finit par des chansons' is the well-known phrase which sums up the importance of chanson for the French. A song tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages and troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, chanson is part of the texture of everyday life in France - a part of the national identity and a barometer of popular taste. In this first study of chanson in English, Peter Hawkins examines the background to the genre and the difficulties in defining what is and what is not chanson. The focus then moves to the development of the singer-songwriter of chanson from 1880 to the present day. This period saw the emergence of national icons from Aristide Bruant at the end of the nineteenth century through to internationally recognized musicians such as Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg. Each of these figures used chanson to express the particular moral dilemmas, tragic situations and moments of euphoria particular to themselves and their times. The book provides bibliographies, discographies and details of video recordings for each of the singer-songwriters that it discusses. It is both an essential reference guide to the genre and a useful case history of the adaptation of an ancient form to the demands of the modern mass media.

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Routledge

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1351572415

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Renaissance Rome 1500-1559

A Portrait of a Society

By: Peter Partner

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Renaissance Rome 1500-1559

A Portrait of a Society

By: Peter Partner

Peter Partner is an established scholar, qualified by his research on The Papal State Under Martin Vand The Lands of St. Peterto write this general book on Renaissance Rome. The titles of the chapters of the book are tantalizing, and they indicate the breadth of issues under review: politics, economics, population, "noble life" and "daily life", and, finally, "the spirit of a city and the spirit of an age." No similar, recent study exists for Rome, and Partner's book responds to a genuine need. The book is written with wit and good style, and it contains a great deal of information . . . "--John W. O'Malley, University of Detroit, Canadian Journal of History, 13(1), pp. 115 - 116.

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Univ of California Press

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0520039459

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A New Special Relationship

Free Trade and U.S.-Canada Economic Relations in the 1990s

By: Peter Morici

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A New Special Relationship

Free Trade and U.S.-Canada Economic Relations in the 1990s

By: Peter Morici

This study examines from an American perspective the impact of the free trade agreement (FTA) on the evolution of the Canada-United States economic relationship. It puts into historical context the special trading relationship between Canada and the United States which prevailed over the early postwar period. It examines how FTA rules and dispute settlement procedures create an effective basis for managing bilateral economic relationships in the context of more decentralized policy processes. It also explores the potential impact on the bilateral trading regime of the changing nature of international competition, the adjustments taking place in the structure of the Canadian and American economies, and the challenges posed by continuing technological change.

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IRPP

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0886451329

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9780886451325

Philosophy in the Islamic World

By: Peter Adamson

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Philosophy in the Islamic World

By: Peter Adamson

Peter Adamson presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. He traces its development from early Islam to the 20th century, from Spain to Persia. He introduces Jewish and Christian thinkers as well as Muslim; theology, mysticism, and the history of science all feature here in this rich and lively story.

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Oxford University Press

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0199577498

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The Tchaikovsky Papers

Unlocking the Family Archive

By: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

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The Tchaikovsky Papers

Unlocking the Family Archive

By: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

A wealth of previously unpublished letters and personal documents drawn from the family archives of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Yale University Press

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0300191367

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Rome, Polybius, and the East

By: Peter Derow

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Rome, Polybius, and the East

By: Peter Derow

This volume offers a collection of seventeen of the more important papers written by the late Peter Derow during the course of his career. With a detailed introduction by the editors, it is essential reading for anyone interested in Roman imperialism or Polybius, and Rome's rise to Mediterranean power.

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0199640904

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Revolution, Religion, and National Identity

Imperial Anglicanism in British North America, 1745-1795

By: Peter M. Doll

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Revolution, Religion, and National Identity

Imperial Anglicanism in British North America, 1745-1795

By: Peter M. Doll

Starting from a discussion of the constitutional and theological basis of the establishment of the Church of England, Peter Doll relates how in response to the events of this period a colonial Anglican church establishment changed from a merely theoretical ideal to a cornerstone of post-Revolutionary colonial policy in British North America."--BOOK JACKET.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838638309

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Dante’s Testaments

Essays in Scriptural Imagination

By: Peter S. Hawkins

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Dante’s Testaments

Essays in Scriptural Imagination

By: Peter S. Hawkins

Exploring Dante's reading and how he transformed what he found, this book argues that the independence and strength of Dante's poetic stance stems from deep and sustained experience of Christian scriptures.

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Stanford University Press

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0804737010

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High Ideals and Noble Intentions

Voluntary Sector-Government Relations in Canada

By: Peter R. Elson

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High Ideals and Noble Intentions

Voluntary Sector-Government Relations in Canada

By: Peter R. Elson

The relationships between governments and the voluntary sector in Canada are long-standing and complex. Beginning with an historical overview of developments in voluntary sector-government relations from 1600 to 1930, High Ideals and Noble Intentions goes on to explore more recent events and to bring present day policy and practice into focus. Peter R. Elson examines critical historical events in the relationship between the federal government and the voluntary sector which continue to exert their influence. He demonstrates through in-depth case studies that these events are critical to understanding contemporary voluntary sector-government relations. Elson explores the impact of the regulation of charities based on amendments to the 1930 Income War Tax Act; the shift from citizen-based program funding to service-based contract funding in the mid-1990s; and advocacy regulation changes in the 1980s. Elson's case is strengthened by an important and timely comparison between voluntary sector and central government relations in Canada and England. This historically informed comparative analysis provides the basis for practical recommendations meant to improve the future of voluntary sector-government relations across Canada.

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