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Was the Cat in the Hat Black?

The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

By: Philip Nel

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Was the Cat in the Hat Black?

The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

By: Philip Nel

Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions. One of the places that racism hides-and thus perhaps the best place to oppose it-is books for young people. Was the Cat in the Hat Black? presents five serious critiques of the history and current state of children's literature tempestuous relationship with both implicit and explicit forms of racism. The book fearlessly examines topics both vivid-such as The Cat in the Hat's roots in blackface minstrelsy-and more opaque, like how the children's book industry can perpetuate structural racism via whitewashed covers even while making efforts to increase diversity. Rooted in research yet written with a lively, crackling touch, Nel delves into years of literary criticism and recent sociological data in order to show a better way forward. Though much of what is proposed here could be endlessly argued, the knowledge that what we learn in childhood imparts both subtle and explicit lessons about whose lives matter is not debatable. The text concludes with a short and stark proposal of actions everyone-reader, author, publisher, scholar, citizen- can take to fight the biases and prejudices that infect children's literature. While Was the Cat in the Hat Black? does not assume it has all the answers to such a deeply systemic problem, its audacity should stimulate discussion and activism.

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Oxford University Press

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019063507X

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9780190635077

Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence

By: Philip Gavitt

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Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence

By: Philip Gavitt

This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease, and growing economic inequality on the Italian peninsula displaced hundreds of thousands of families during this period. In order to handle the social crises generated by war, competition for social position, and the abandonment of children, a series of private and public initiatives expanded existing charitable institutions and founded new ones. Philip Gavitt's research reveals the important role played by lineage ideology among Florence's elites in the use and manipulation of these charitable institutions in the often futile pursuit of economic and social stability. Considering families of all social levels, he argues that the pursuit of family wealth and prestige often worked at cross-purposes with the survival of the very families it was supposed to preserve.

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Cambridge University Press

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110700294X

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9781107002944

The Creeds of Christendom

Vol.1-3 (The History and the Account of the Christian Doctrine)

By: Philip Schaff

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The Creeds of Christendom

Vol.1-3 (The History and the Account of the Christian Doctrine)

By: Philip Schaff

The Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical Notes is a three volume set written by Philip Schaff. The book classifiers and explains many different statements of belief and articles of faith throughout the Christian history. Schaff deals with the history of the creeds, starting with the Ecumenical creeds, and moving to Greek and Roman creeds, then Old Catholic Union creeds, and finally to the Evangelical creeds and Modern Protestant creeds.

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e-artnow

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8026897714

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9788026897712

Liturgy as Revelation

Re-Sourcing a Theme in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology

By: Philip Caldwell

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Liturgy as Revelation

Re-Sourcing a Theme in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology

By: Philip Caldwell

A critical issue in modern Catholic theology has been the relationship between the doctrine of revelation and the church’s liturgical and sacramental practice. This volume argues that although in the twentieth century Catholic theology increasingly recognized the centrality of Christology—particularly the person of Christ—as the locus of revelation and drew out the crucial implications of Christ as the revelation of God, it was slow to connect this revelatory dynamic with the encounter that occurs within the sacramental space of the liturgy, most notably the Eucharist. Taking the decline of the neoscholastic enterprise in Catholic theology and the challenges posed by modernism as his point of departure, Philip Caldwell traces the evolution of the Catholic theology of revelation in the twentieth century and the vital role played by the liturgical and sacramental renewal movements in reimagining this pivotal theological category. Examining the specific contributions of René Latourelle, Avery Dulles, Salvatore Marsilli, and Gustave Martelet against a background of pre-conciliar ressourcement theology, this volume provides a comprehensive account of why a Trinitarian and Christological construal of liturgy and sacraments as revelation is key to the vision that informed Vatican II and offers constructive theological and ecclesial possibilities for the future.

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Fortress Press

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1451489471

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9781451489477

The Artist Grows Old

The Aging of Art and Artists in Italy, 1500-1800

By: Philip Lindsay Sohm

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The Artist Grows Old

The Aging of Art and Artists in Italy, 1500-1800

By: Philip Lindsay Sohm

How does the artist’s self-conception change in old age? How does old age affect artistic practice? In this intriguing study, art historian Philip Sohm considers some of the greatest artists of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and their experiences of aging. Sohm investigates how art critics, collectors, biographers, and fellow artists dealt with old painters, what mental landscapes preconditioned responses to art by the elderly, and how biology and psychology were co-opted to explain the imprint that artists left on their art. He also looks carefully at the impact of prejudices, stereotypes, and other imaginary truths about old age. For some artists, the problems of old age were related to physical decline—Poussin’s hands became shaky, Titian’s eyesight dimmed. For others, psychological symptoms emerged. The book’s cast of characters includes Michelangelo, the hypochondriac young fogy; Titian, the shrewd marketer of old age; the multiphobic Pontormo; and others. With sensitivity and insight, Sohm uncovers what it meant to be an old artist and how successive generations have looked at the art of an old master.

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Yale University Press

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0300121237

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9780300121230

Communities of Cultural Value

Reception Study, Political Differences, and Literary History

By: Philip Goldstein

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Communities of Cultural Value

Reception Study, Political Differences, and Literary History

By: Philip Goldstein

Philip Goldstein is fast establishing himself as the doyen of 'reception study, ' a discipline that assumes that the reader's interpretive practices explain a text's import. In his latest work, Communities of Cultural Value, Goldstein delves again into the realm of literary criticism, painting an absorbing picture of the changing nature of a growing, more diversified readership and its challenge to professional literary study. Goldstein's PostMarxist approach investigates how interpretive communities govern the reader's practices, through lucid case studies that analyze the reception of texts and authors ranging from Jane Austen to John Le CarrZ. Communities of Cultural Values is an important addition to the continuing debate over art's aesthetic autonomy and the role of literary criticism in the 1990s, and it will be most valuable to readers seeking to chart the changing socio-historical condition of literary study.

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Lexington Books

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0739102621

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Finding Italian Roots

The Complete Guide for Americans

By: John Philip Colletta

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Finding Italian Roots

The Complete Guide for Americans

By: John Philip Colletta

A guide for family researchers of Italian descent points the way to resources in the United States as well as information available in the town halls, archives, churches, and libraries of Italy.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806317418

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9780806317410

The Italian City Republics

By: Daniel Philip Waley,Trevor Dean

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The Italian City Republics

By: Daniel Philip Waley,Trevor Dean

Daniel Waley and Trevor Dean illustrate how, from the eleventh century onwards, many dozens of Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual ‘tyrants’ took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of a precocious, and very well-documented, experiment in republican self-government. Focusing on the typical medium-sized towns rather than the better-known cities, the authors draw on a rich variety of contemporary material (both documentary and literary) to portray the world of the communes, illustrating the patriotism and public spirit as well as the equally characteristic factional strife which was to tear them apart. Discussion of the artistic and social lives of the inhabitants shows how these towns were the seed-bed of the cultural achievements of the early Renaissance. In this fourth edition, Trevor Dean has expanded the book’s treatment of religion, women, housing, architecture and art, to take account of recent trends in the abundant historiography of these topics. A new selection of illuminating images has been included, and the bibliography brought up to date. Both students and the general reader interested in Italian history, literature and art will find this accessible book a rewarding and fascinating read.

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Routledge

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1317864468

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A History of Plastic Surgery

By: Paolo Santoni-Rugiu,Philip J. Sykes

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A History of Plastic Surgery

By: Paolo Santoni-Rugiu,Philip J. Sykes

This book covers the history of plastic surgery from the remarkable achievements of such ancient civilizations as India and Egypt up to the revolutionary techniques developed at the end of the Middle Age, the Renaissance and beyond. Coverage details how the knowledge of wound healing has changed and influenced plastic surgery, describes the development of various surgical reconstructive procedures and details the birth of Cosmetic Surgery.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540462406

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Colouring Meaning

Collocation and connotation in figurative language

By: Gill Philip

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Colouring Meaning

Collocation and connotation in figurative language

By: Gill Philip

Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several levels, from the purely linguistic level of collocation, through its abstractions in colligation and semantic preference, to semantic prosody and connotation. This journey through both linguistic and cognitive levels involves the examination of habitual language and its exploitations, both mundane and colourful, explaining the phenomena observed in terms of current psycholinguistic research as well as corpus linguistics theory and analysis. The relationships between meaning in text and meaning in the mind are discussed at length and extensively illustrated with worked case studies to offer the reader a comprehensive overview of metaphorical and other secondary meanings as they emerge in real-world communicative situations.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027287236

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Dangerous Freedom

Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels

By: Philip Page

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Dangerous Freedom

Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels

By: Philip Page

Operating on many levels, this plurality-in-unity affects narrators, chronologies, individuals, couples, families, neighborhoods, races.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617033723

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Planning and Transformation

Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience

By: Philip Harrison,Alison Todes,Vanessa Watson

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Planning and Transformation

Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience

By: Philip Harrison,Alison Todes,Vanessa Watson

Planning and Transformation provides a comprehensive view of planning under political transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers in an international and a local audience. In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South Africa, planners believed they would be able to successfully promote a vision of integrated, equitable and sustainable cities, and counter the spatial distortions created by apartheid. This book covers the experience of the planning community, the extent to which their aims were achieved, and the hindering factors. Although some of the factors affecting planning have been context-specific, the nature of South Africa’s transition and its relationship to global dynamics have meant that many of the issues confronting planners in other parts of the world are echoed here. Issues of governance, integration, market competitiveness, sustainability, democracy and values are significant, and the particular nature of the South African experience lends new insights to thinking on these questions, exploring the possibilities of achievement in the planning field.

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Routledge

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1134238185

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9781134238187

Comprehensive Care for Complex Patients

The Medical-Psychiatric Coordinating Physician Model

By: Steven A. Frankel,James A. Bourgeois,Philip Erdberg

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Comprehensive Care for Complex Patients

The Medical-Psychiatric Coordinating Physician Model

By: Steven A. Frankel,James A. Bourgeois,Philip Erdberg

An innovative guide for all physicians, especially psychiatrists, who are challenged to work with complex, resource demanding patients.

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Cambridge University Press

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110702515X

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C: A Software Engineering Approach

By: Peter A. Darnell,Philip E. Margolis

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C: A Software Engineering Approach

By: Peter A. Darnell,Philip E. Margolis

This book describes the C programming language and software engineering prin ciples of program construction. The book is intended primarily as a textbook for beginning and intermediate C programmers. It does not assume previous knowl edge of C, nor of any high-level language, though it does assume that the reader has some familiarity with computers. While not essential, knowledge of another programming language will certainly help in mastering C. Although the subject matter of this book is the C language, the emphasis is on software engineering-making programs readable, maintainable, portable, and efficient. One of our main goals is to impress upon readers that there is a huge difference between programs that merely work, and programs that are well engi neered, just as there is a huge difference between a log thrown over a river and a well-engineered bridge. The book is organized linearly so that each chapter builds on information provided in the previous chapters. Consequently, the book will be most effective if chapters are read sequentially. Readers with some experience in C, however, may find it more useful to consult the table of contents and index to find sections of particular interest.

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1468403834

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C A Software Engineering Approach

By: Peter A. Darnell,Philip E. Margolis

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C A Software Engineering Approach

By: Peter A. Darnell,Philip E. Margolis

A highly readable text designed for beginning and intermediate C programmers. While focusing on the programming language, the book emphasises stylistic issues and software engineering principles so as to develop programs that are readable, maintainable, portable, and efficient. The software engineering techniques discussed throughout the text are illustrated in a C interpreter, whose source listing is provided on diskette, and highlighted "bug alerts" offer tips on the common errors made by novice programmers. Can be used as the primary course textbook or as the main reference by programmers intent on learning C.

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1461240204

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Brass Quintet (score) "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

for intermediate players

By: John Philip Sousa,Brass Series Glissato

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Brass Quintet (score) "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

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By: John Philip Sousa,Brass Series Glissato

The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa - Brass Quintet Arrangement (SCORE): Celebrate American patriotism with "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa, brought to life in this intermediate-level Brass Quintet arrangement. This arrangement, thoughtfully crafted for quintets, offers a vibrant and engaging rendition of Sousa's timeless classic. Set of Parts available in series (9): 2 Bb Trumpets Horn in F Trombone Tuba Optional parts are included to accommodate various instrumentations: Eb Horn Bb Tenor Horn (III T.C.) Bb Trombone (IV T.C.) Eb Tuba (T.C.) Multilingual Score Cards: Enhance your performance experience with our included multilingual score cards, available in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. These score cards provide valuable cultural and historical insights into the world of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" allowing you to connect with the music on a deeper level. This arrangement allows your Brass Quintet to showcase their musical prowess while honoring the rich musical heritage of the United States. Stand proud and perform this iconic piece with gusto! - partitions pour quintette de cuivres, Noten für Blechbläserquintett, spartiti per quintetto di ottoni, partituras para quinteto de metales, partituras para quinteto de metais, noder til messingkvintet, noter for messingkvintett, noter för mässingskvintett -

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Brass Quintet or Ensemble (set of parts) "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

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By: John Philip Sousa,Brass Series Glissato

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By: John Philip Sousa,Brass Series Glissato

The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa - Brass Quintet Arrangement: Celebrate American patriotism with "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa, brought to life in this intermediate-level Brass Quintet arrangement. This arrangement, thoughtfully crafted for quintets, offers a vibrant and engaging rendition of Sousa's timeless classic. Set of Parts (9): This comprehensive set of parts ensures a harmonious performance: 2 Bb Trumpets Horn in F Trombone Tuba Optional parts are included to accommodate various instrumentations: Eb Horn Bb Tenor Horn (III T.C.) Bb Trombone (IV T.C.) Eb Tuba (T.C.) Score available in series. Multilingual Score Cards: Enhance your performance experience with our included multilingual score cards, available in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. These score cards provide valuable cultural and historical insights into the world of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" allowing you to connect with the music on a deeper level. This arrangement allows your Brass Quintet to showcase their musical prowess while honoring the rich musical heritage of the United States. Stand proud and perform this iconic piece with gusto! - partitions pour quintette de cuivres, Noten für Blechbläserquintett, spartiti per quintetto di ottoni, partituras para quinteto de metales, partituras para quinteto de metais, noder til messingkvintet, noter for messingkvintett, noter för mässingskvintett -

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8835393841

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Edith Bruck in the Mirror

Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives

By: Philip Balma

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Edith Bruck in the Mirror

Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives

By: Philip Balma

Author of more than thirteen books and several volumes of poetry, screenwriter, and director, Edith Bruck is one of the leading literary voices in Italy, attracting increasing attention in the English-speaking world not least for her powerful Holocaust testimony, which is often compared with the work of her contemporaries Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani. Born in Hungary in 1932, she was deported with her family to the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Dachau, Christianstadt, Landsberg, and Bergen-Belsen, where she lost both her parents and a brother. After the war, she traveled widely until 1954 when she settled in Rome. She has lived there ever since. This important new study is motivated by a desire to better understand and situate Bruck's art as well as to advance (and, when necessary, to revise) the critical discourse on her considerable and eclectic body of work. As such, it underscores and analyzes the intermedial nature of her contributions to contemporary Italian culture, which should no longer be understood merely in terms of her willingness to revisit the subject of the Holocaust on the printed page or the silver screen. It also includes previously unpublished interviews with the author. The book will be of broad interest to scholars and students of Jewish (especially Holocaust) studies, Italian literature, film studies, women's studies, and postcolonial culture.

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Purdue University Press

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1612493343

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9781612493343

A Bibliography of Ant Systematics

By: Philip S. Ward,Barry Bolton,William L. Brown,Steven O. Shattuck

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A Bibliography of Ant Systematics

By: Philip S. Ward,Barry Bolton,William L. Brown,Steven O. Shattuck

This bibliography is a comprehensive compilation of the literature on ant systematics. Covering the period 1758 to 1995, it contains entries for approximately 8,000 publications on the taxonomy, evolution, and comparative biology of ants. Most of the literature citations have been carefully verified and precisely dated. An introductory chapter discusses the problems associated with dating a citation of taxonomic literature. A list of all serials cited (more than 1,300 titles) and their abbreviations accompanies the bibliography.

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Univ of California Press

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0520098145

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9780520098145

The Italian City-State

From Commune to Signoria

By: Philip Jones

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The Italian City-State

From Commune to Signoria

By: Philip Jones

Italy in the Middle Ages was unique among the countries of Europe in recreating, in a changed environment, the urban civilization of antiquity - the society, culture, and political formations of city-states. This book examines the origins and nature of this phenomenon from the fall of Rome to the eve of its consummation, the Italian Renaissance. The explanation is sought in Italy's singular `double existence' between two contrasted worlds - ancient and medieval. The ancient was characterised by the total predominance of the landed aristocracy in economy and society, enforced through a peculiar system of city states embracing town and country. The new medieval influences were marked by the separation of town, country and aristocracy, by the identification of towns with trade and a mercantile bourgeoisie, and by commercial and proto-industrial revolution. Italy shared in both worlds. It remained a land of cities and of an urbanized ruling class (except in the Norman South) and re-established territorial city states; but the staes were very different from those of antiquity, the city leaders in the commercial revolution, and Italy itself seen as a nation of shopkeepers, birthplace of capitalism. In this fascinating and ground-breaking study, Philip Jones traces in detail the tension and interaction between the two traditions, civic and patrician, mercantile and bourgeois, through all phases of Italian life to their culmination in two rival regimes of communes and despots.

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Clarendon Press

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0191590304

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9780191590306

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell

Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London 1660-1800

By: Philip H. Highfill,Kalman A. Burnim,Edward A. Langhans

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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell

Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London 1660-1800

By: Philip H. Highfill,Kalman A. Burnim,Edward A. Langhans

In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dominated by the glamour of David Garrick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 portraits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.

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SIU Press

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0809308339

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9780809308330

Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction

By: Philip Page

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Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction

By: Philip Page

As a reaction against persistent black exclusion from white American society, the novels of recent African American writers boldly celebrate the heritage of black culture. They acclaim a people once dispersed by racism and humiliation but now restoring its legacy of rich community life. For close examination of this theme Philip Page brings together five novelists who are in the forefront of contemporary fiction and shows how their voices combine for an ongoing dialogue on the importance of community to the African American world. Gaining its special force through addressing national concerns and through never backing away from the truth in the face of stubborn opposition, the fiction of Gaines, Naylor, Johnson, Cade-Bambara, and Wideman contributes to postmodernist debates on race, the repressed past, and the contemporary American conscience.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617034657

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Divas and Scholars

Performing Italian Opera

By: Philip Gossett

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Divas and Scholars

Performing Italian Opera

By: Philip Gossett

Divas and Scholars" is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant - and even failed - performances and suffused with his towering passion for music. Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our favorite operas.Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations between what is written and how it is interpreted by opera conductors and performers.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226304876

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What Else But Love?

The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison

By: Philip M. Weinstein

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What Else But Love?

The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison

By: Philip M. Weinstein

Philip Weinstein examines questions of race and gender through the works of two major twentieth-century American novelists, William Faulkner and Toni Morrison.--From publisher description.

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