Professor Richard Hitchcock's Books

Mozarabs in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Identities and Influences

By: Professor Richard Hitchcock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mozarabs in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Identities and Influences

By: Professor Richard Hitchcock

The setting of this volume is the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, where Christianity and Islam co-existed side by side as the official religions of Muslim al-Andalus on the one hand, and the Christian kingdoms in the north of the peninsula on the other. Its purpose is to examine the meaning of the word 'Mozarab' and the history and nature of the people called by that name; it represents a synthesis of the author's many years of research and publication in this field. Richard Hitchcock first sets out to explain what being a non-Muslim meant in al-Andalus, both in the higher echelons of society and at a humbler level. The terms used by Arab chroniclers, when examined carefully, suggest a lesser preoccupation with purely religious values than hitherto appreciated. Mozarabism in León and Toledo, two notably distinct phenomena, are then considered at length, and there are two chapters exploring the issues that arose, firstly when Mozarabs were relocated in twelfth-century Aragón, and secondly, in sixteenth-century Toledo, when they were striving to retain their identity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1409480054

ISBN 13

9781409480051

Ruth Crawford Seeger : A Composer's Search for American Music

A Composer's Search for American Music

By: Judith Tick Professor of Music Northeastern University

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ruth Crawford Seeger : A Composer's Search for American Music

A Composer's Search for American Music

By: Judith Tick Professor of Music Northeastern University

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant American female composer in this century. Joining Aaron Copland and Henry Cowell as a key member of the 1920s musical avant-garde, she went on to study with modernist theorist and future husband Charles Seeger, writing her masterpiece, String Quartet 1931, not long after. But her legacy extends far beyond the cutting edge of modern music. Collaborating with poet Carl Sandburg on folk song arrangements in the twenties, and with the famous folk-song collectors John and Alan Lomax in the 1930s, she emerged as a central figure in the American folk music revival, issuing several important books of transcriptions and arrangements and pioneering the use of American folk songs in children's music education. Radicalized by the Depression, she spent much of the ensuing two decades working aggressively for social change with her husband and stepson, the folksinger Pete Seeger. This engrossing new biography emphasizes the choices Crawford Seeger made in her roles as composer, activist, teacher, wife and mother. The first woman to win a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in music composition, Crawford Seeger nearly gave up writing music as the demands of family, politics, and the folk song movement intervened. It was only at the very end of her life, with cancer sapping her strength, that she returned to composing. Written with unique insight and compassion, this book offers the definitive treatment of a fascinating twentieth-century figure.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

490

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198022999

ISBN 13

9780198022992

Goodbye Father : The Celibate Male Priesthood and the Future of the Catholic Church

The Celibate Male Priesthood and the Future of the Catholic Church

By: Madison (deceased) Richard A. Schoenherr Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Goodbye Father : The Celibate Male Priesthood and the Future of the Catholic Church

The Celibate Male Priesthood and the Future of the Catholic Church

By: Madison (deceased) Richard A. Schoenherr Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin

In the last half-century, the number of Catholic priests has plummeted by 40% while the number of Catholics has skyrocketed, up 65%. The specter of a faith defined by full pews and empty altars hangs heavy over the church. The root cause of this priest shortage is the church's insistence on mandatory celibacy. Given the potential recruitment advantages of abandoning the celibacy requirement, why, Richard A. Schoenherr asks, is the conservative Catholic coalition--headed by the pope--so adamantly opposed to a married clergy? The answer, he argues, is that accepting married priests would be but the first step toward ordaining women and thus forever altering the demographics of a resolutely male religious order. Yet Schoenherr believes that such change is not only necessary but unavoidable if the church is to thrive. The church's current stop-gap approach of enlisting laypeople to perform all but the central element of the mass only further serves to undermine the power of the celibate priesthood. Perhaps most importantly, doctrinal changes, a growing pluralism in the church, and the feminist movement among nuns and laywomen are exerting a growing influence on Catholicism. Concluding that the collapse of celibate exclusivity is all but inevitable, Goodbye Father presents an urgent and compelling portrait of the future of organized Catholicism.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

319

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198039123

ISBN 13

9780198039129

Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

By: Department of English University of Virginia Eric Lott Associate Professor

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

By: Department of English University of Virginia Eric Lott Associate Professor

For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes usefully intensified them. Based on the appropriation of black dialect, music, and dance, minstrelsy at once applauded and lampooned black culture, ironically contributing to a "blackening of America." Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. Underwritten by envy as well as repulsion, sympathetic identification as well as fear--a dialectic of "love and theft"--the minstrel show continually transgressed the color line even as it enabled the formation of a self-consciously white working class. Lott exposes minstrelsy as a signifier for multiple breaches: the rift between high and low cultures, the commodification of the dispossessed by the empowered, the attraction mixed with guilt of whites caught in the act of cultural thievery.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

332

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199762244

ISBN 13

9780199762248

"Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture

By: William H. Jordy,University Professor of Art William H Jordy,Mardges Bacon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

"Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture

By: William H. Jordy,University Professor of Art William H Jordy,Mardges Bacon

The Symbolic Essence of Modern European Architecture of the Twenties and Its Continuing Influence'), this collection contains critical writings on works by Mies, Corbusier, Kahn, and Venturi, as well as one previously unpublished text. Jordy leads readers to discover important connections of architecture with art, literature, intellectual history, symbolic structures, social purpose and community. He significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

340

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300094493

ISBN 13

9780300094497

Tourism, Development and Terrorism in Bali

By: Mr I Nyoman Darma Putra,Professor Michael Hitchcock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Tourism, Development and Terrorism in Bali

By: Mr I Nyoman Darma Putra,Professor Michael Hitchcock

This book investigates tourism as a form of globalization within the context of the island of Bali, which has been voted the world's top island destination for the third time running by American travellers. The volume covers the onset of the Asian Crisis, the largest stock-market crash since the Great Depression. The authors chart the turbulence that has afflicted the island at a time of market uncertainty and global political strife and analyze the responses of Bali's business and community leaders to the crises that have buffeted the island since the fall of Suharto. In particular, the book analyzes crisis management with regard to the Bali Bombings, the impact of the bombings on the tourism development cycle and investigates the motives of the bombers. The authors argue that the actions of the bombers can best be understood with regard to the rise of political Islam as a global issue and the book breaks new ground with an analysis of the bombers' global experiences. The book also examines home-grown resistance to certain aspects of globalization, notably the attempt to turn Besakih, the island's mother temple, into a World Heritage Site and top tourist destination.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

345

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1409487288

ISBN 13

9781409487289

Law and Sexual Misconduct in New England, 1650-1750

Steering Toward England

By: Professor Abby Chandler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Law and Sexual Misconduct in New England, 1650-1750

Steering Toward England

By: Professor Abby Chandler

From the seventeenth-century various colonial administrations all consciously measured their laws against that of England, whether their intention was imitation of or conscious opposition to, established English legal system. In order to trace the shifting and contested relationships between colonial laws and English laws, this book focuses on the prosecution of sexual misconduct. The two-part analysis of changing sexual misconduct laws and the resulting trial depositions highlights the ways in which ordinary New England colonists both interacted with and responded to the growing Anglicization of their legal systems.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

209

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472461924

ISBN 13

9781472461926

London

An Architectural History

By: Anthony Sutcliffe,Professor Anthony Sutcliffe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

London

An Architectural History

By: Anthony Sutcliffe,Professor Anthony Sutcliffe

London is one of the world’s greatest cities, and its architecture is a unique heritage. The Tower of London is an urban castle unique in Europe, St Paul’s is one of the world’s greatest domed cathedrals, and the squares and crescents of the West End inspired Haussmann’s Paris. In London, it is the variety of the streets, buildings, and parks that strikes the visitor. No king or government has ever set its mark here. Private ownership has shaped the city, and architects have served a wide variety of clients. London’s Classical era produced an elegant townscape between 1600 and 1830, but medieval, Tudor, and Victorian London were a potpourri of buildings large and small, each making its own design statement. In London: An Architectural History Anthony Sutcliffe takes the reader through two thousand years of architecture from the sublime to the mundane. With over 300 color illustrations the book is intended for the general reader and especially those visiting London for the first time.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300110065

ISBN 13

9780300110067

Pleasing Everyone

Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-age Hollywood

By: Jeffrey Knapp (Professor of English)

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Pleasing Everyone

Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-age Hollywood

By: Jeffrey Knapp (Professor of English)

Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, author Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema. Through fascinating explorations of such famous plays as Hamlet, The Roaring Girl, and The Alchemist, and such celebrated films as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, and City Lights, Knapp challenges some of our most basic assumptions about the relationship between art and mass audiences. Above all, Knapp encourages us to resist the prejudice that mass entertainment necessarily simplifies and cheapens whatever it touches. As Knapp shows, it was instead the ceaseless pressure to please everyone that helped generate the astonishing richness and complexity of Renaissance drama as well as of Hollywood film.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

312

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190634065

ISBN 13

9780190634063

Natural Moralities : A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism

A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism

By: Department of Philosophy Duke University David B. Wong Professor and Chair

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Natural Moralities : A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism

A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism

By: Department of Philosophy Duke University David B. Wong Professor and Chair

David B. Wong proposes that there can be a plurality of true moralities, moralities that exist across different traditions and cultures, all of which address facets of the same problem: how we are to live well together. Wong examines a wide array of positions and texts within the Western canon as well as in Chinese philosophy, and draws on philosophy, psychology, evolutionary theory, history, and literature, to make a case for the importance of pluralism in moral life, and to establish the virtues of acceptance and accommodation. Wong's point is that there is no single value or principle or ordering of values and principles that offers a uniquely true path for human living, but variations according to different contexts that carry within them a common core of human values. We should thus be modest about our own morality, learn from other approaches, and accommodate different practices in our pluralistic society.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

313

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

019804156X

ISBN 13

9780198041566

Canada First, Not Canada Alone

A History of Canadian Foreign Policy

By: Adam Chapnick,Professor of Defence Studies Adam Chapnick,Asa McKercher,Assistant Professor of History Asa McKercher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Canada First, Not Canada Alone

A History of Canadian Foreign Policy

By: Adam Chapnick,Professor of Defence Studies Adam Chapnick,Asa McKercher,Assistant Professor of History Asa McKercher

The definitive history of Canadian foreign policy since the 1930s, Canada First, Not Canada Alone examines how successive prime ministers have promoted Canada's national interests in a world that has grown increasingly complex and interconnected. Case studies focused on environmental reform, Indigenous peoples, trade, hostage diplomacy, and wartime strategy illustrate the breadth of issues that shape Canada's global realm. Drawing from extensive primary and secondary research, Adam Chapnick and Asa McKercher offer a fresh take on how Canada positions itself in the world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

355

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0197653715

ISBN 13

9780197653715

The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells

Science, Evolution, and Ecology

By: Professor Michael R Page

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells

Science, Evolution, and Ecology

By: Professor Michael R Page

At the close of the eighteenth century, Erasmus Darwin declared that he would 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science,' beginning, Michael Page argues, a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology, and technological progress that would extend from the Romantic through the Victorian periods. Examining the interchange between emerging scientific ideas-specifically evolution and ecology-new technologies, and literature in nineteenth-century Britain, Page shows how British writers from Darwin to H.G. Wells confronted the burgeoning expansion of scientific knowledge that was radically redefining human understanding and experience of the natural world, of human species, and of the self. The wide range of authors covered in Page's ambitious study permits him to explore an impressive array of topics that include the role of the Romantic era in the molding of scientific and cultural perspectives; the engagement of William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley with questions raised by contemporary science; Mary Shelley's conflicted views on the unfolding prospects of modernity; and how Victorian writers like Charles Kingsley, Samuel Butler, and W.H. Hudson responded to the implications of evolutionary theory. Page concludes with the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, to demonstrate how evolutionary fantasies reached the pinnacle of synthesis between evolutionary science and the imagination at the close of the century.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

240

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1409479218

ISBN 13

9781409479215

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 131, 2004 Lectures

By: Professor P.J. Marshall, CBE, FBA

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 131, 2004 Lectures

By: Professor P.J. Marshall, CBE, FBA

The topical issues debated in this volume include the patenting of AIDS drugs, the future pensions crisis, Britain's universities, and Pan-Islam.There are studies of Shakespeare, Pope, Montaigne, Robert Graves, and William Faulkner. And there are lectures on the Inquisition, empires in history, and the journey towards spiritual fulfilment.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

500

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0197263518

ISBN 13

9780197263518

The Spiritual Rococo

Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia

By: Professor Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Spiritual Rococo

Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia

By: Professor Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Exploring for the very first time the global reach and spiritual dimension of Rococo décor, particularly in France, Central Europe, Portugal, Brazil, and Spanish South America, this study investigates the socio-religious motives for the importation of this style into an ecclesiastical setting and its commonalities with Enlightenment values, overturning the cliché of Rococo as a frivolous style and acknowledging its essential modernity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

439

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1409400638

ISBN 13

9781409400639

Special Education in Contemporary Society

An Introduction to Exceptionality

By: Richard M. Gargiulo - Professor Emeritus,Emily C. Bouck

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Special Education in Contemporary Society

An Introduction to Exceptionality

By: Richard M. Gargiulo - Professor Emeritus,Emily C. Bouck

Special Education in Contemporary Society: An Introduction to Exceptionality offers a comprehensive, engaging, and readable introduction to the dynamic field of special education. Grounded in research and updated to reflect the most current thinking and standards of the field, this book provides students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs that are crucial to constructing learning environments that allow all students to reach their full potential. Authors Richard M. Gargiulo and Emily C. Bouck encourage a deep awareness and understanding of the "human" side of special education, providing students with a look into the lives of exceptional students and their families, as well as the teachers that work with exceptional persons throughout their lives. The Seventh Edition maintains the broad context and research focus for which the book is known while expanding on current trends and contemporary issues to better serve both pre-service and in-service teachers of exceptional individuals. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1310

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

1544373686

ISBN 13

9781544373683

Planning and Implementing Assessment

By: Richard Freeman,Roger (BP Professor of Learning Development Lewis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Planning and Implementing Assessment

By: Richard Freeman,Roger (BP Professor of Learning Development Lewis

This title outlines a set of principles and analytical methods that can be adapted to different assessment scenarios designed to enable readers to construct their own effective methods for assessment. Guidelines for design and methods of planning, choosing and implementation are provided.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

342

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

113536365X

ISBN 13

9781135363659

The Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Penalty

Constitutional Jurisprudence and Legislative Reform in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean

By: Professor Andrew Novak

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Penalty

Constitutional Jurisprudence and Legislative Reform in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean

By: Professor Andrew Novak

Historically, at English common law, the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies. Over the last three decades, however, many former British colonies have reformed their capital punishment regimes to permit judicial sentencing discretion, including consideration of mitigating factors. Applying a comparative analysis to the law of capital punishment, Novak examines the constitutional jurisprudence and resulting legislative reform in the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast Asia, focusing on the rapid retreat of the mandatory death penalty in the Commonwealth over the last thirty years. The coordinated mandatory death penalty challenges - which have had the consequence of greatly reducing the world’s death row population - represent a case study of how a small group of lawyers can sponsor human rights litigation that incorporates international human rights law into domestic constitutional jurisprudence, ultimately harmonizing criminal justice regimes across borders. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the study and development of human rights and capital punishment, as well as those exploring the contours of comparative criminal justice.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

201

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472423275

ISBN 13

9781472423276

Muscular Christianity

Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920

By: Clifford Putney,Assistant Professor of History Clifford Putney

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Muscular Christianity

Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920

By: Clifford Putney,Assistant Professor of History Clifford Putney

Dissatisfied with a Victorian culture focused on domesticity and threatened by physical decline in sedentary office jobs, American men in the late nineteenth century sought masculine company in fraternal lodges and engaged in exercise to invigorate their bodies. One form of this new manly culture, developed out of the Protestant churches, was known as muscular Christianity. In this fascinating study, Clifford Putney details how Protestant leaders promoted competitive sports and physical education to create an ideal of Christian manliness.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

320

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674042409

ISBN 13

9780674042407

The American Drug Culture

By: Thomas S. Weinberg,Gerhard Falk,Professor Gerhard J Falk,Ursula Adler Falk

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The American Drug Culture

By: Thomas S. Weinberg,Gerhard Falk,Professor Gerhard J Falk,Ursula Adler Falk

KEY FEATURES: Two opening chapters introduce readers to the theories and perspectives used by social scientists to study drugs and alcohol, and to the larger trends in legal and illegal use of controlled substances. Six chapters on alcohol provide comprehensive coverage of the most widely used and abused drug in America. Lively discussions of alcohol and drugs in American popular culture brings the topic to life and relatable. Two appendices contain case histories from the authors' field research of individuals with alcohol and substance use disorders.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

418

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

1506304672

ISBN 13

9781506304670

The Architect : Chapters in the History of the Profession

Chapters in the History of the Profession

By: Berkeley Spiro Kostof Professor of Architectural History University of California

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Architect : Chapters in the History of the Profession

Chapters in the History of the Profession

By: Berkeley Spiro Kostof Professor of Architectural History University of California

How did architects get to be architects in any given period in history? How were they trained? How did they find their clients and communicate with them? What did society think of them?. Spiro Kostof's The Architect, a collection of essays by historians and architects, explores these and other intriguing questions about the profession of architecture. The first book in more than fifty years to survey the profession from its beginnings in ancient Egypt to the modern day, it is the most complete synthesis to date of our knowledge of how the architect's profession developed. Included are a major study of the Beaux-Arts, a vivid memoir by the distinguished architect Josephy Esherick, and an excellent chapter on women which demostrates how the ethic of professionalism has contributed to the exploitation of women in this as in many other professions. The Architect places the current dilemma about the architect's role in society in historical perspective and offers a good overview of the development of one of the world's oldest professions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

386

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198020198

ISBN 13

9780198020196

The Culture of Equity in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Britain and America

By: Professor Mark Fortier

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Culture of Equity in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Britain and America

By: Professor Mark Fortier

Extending the chronological and cultural scope of Fortier’s book on equity, which focuses on early modern England, this interdisciplinary study draws on politics, religion, law, literature, and philosophy to argue that equity continued to be a key word throughout the Restoration and 18th century in Britain and America. Fortier asserts that equity is used and contested in many of the major social and political events of the period.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472441885

ISBN 13

9781472441881

The Politics of Provisions

Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, c. 1550–1850

By: Professor John Bohstedt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Politics of Provisions

Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, c. 1550–1850

By: Professor John Bohstedt

The elemental power of food politics has not been fully appraised. Food marketing and consumption were matters of politics as much as economics as England became a market society. In times of dearth, concatenations of food riots, repression, and relief created a maturing politics of provisions. Over three centuries, some eight hundred riots crackled in waves across England. Crowds seized wagons, attacked mills and granaries, and lowered prices in marketplaces or farmyards. Sometimes rioters parleyed with magistrates. More often both acted out a well-rehearsed political minuet that evolved from Tudor risings and state policies down to a complex culmination during the Napoleonic Wars. 'Provision politics' thus comprised both customary negotiations over scarcity and hunger, and 'negotiations' of the social vessel through the turbulence of dearth. Occasionally troops killed rioters, or judges condemned them to the gallows, but increasingly riots prompted wealthy citizens to procure relief supplies. In short, food riots worked: in a sense they were a first draft of the welfare state. This pioneering analysis connects a generation of social protest studies spawned by E.P. Thompson's essay on the 'moral economy' with new work on economic history and state formation. The dynamics of provision politics that emerged during England's social, economic and political transformations should furnish fruitful models for analyses of 'total war' and famine as well as broader transitions elsewhere in world history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

332

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1409480992

ISBN 13

9781409480990

Enchanted Evenings : The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim

The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim

By: Washington Geoffrey Block Professor of Music University of Puget Sound

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Enchanted Evenings : The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim

The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim

By: Washington Geoffrey Block Professor of Music University of Puget Sound

The classic musicals of Broadway can provide us with truly enchanted evenings. But while many of us can hum the music and even recount the plot from memory, we are often much less knowledgeable about how these great shows were put together. What was the inspiration for Rodgers and Harts Pal Joey, or Rodgers and Hammersteins Carousel? Why is Marias impassioned final speech in West Side Story spoken, rather than sung? Now, in Enchanted Evenings, Geoffrey Block offers theatre lovers an illuminating behind-the- scenes tour of some of the best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals of Broadways Golden Era. Readers will find insightful studies of such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Anything Goes, Porgy and Bess, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, My Fair Lady, and West Side Story. Block provides a documentary history of fourteen musicals in all--plus an epilogue exploring the plays of Stephen Sondheim--showing how each work took shape and revealing, at the same time, production by production, how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to the early 1960s, and beyond. The book's particular focus is on the music, offering a wealth of detail about how librettist, lyricist, composer, and director work together to shape the piece. Drawing on manuscript material such as musical sketches, autograph manuscripts, pre-production librettos and lyric drafts, Block reveals the winding route the works took to get to their final form. Block blends this close attention to the nuances of musical composition and stagecraft with trenchant social commentary and lively backstage anecdotes. Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Kurt Weill, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Sondheim, and other luminaries emerge as hardworking craftsmen under enormous pressure to sell tickets without compromising their dramatic vision and integrity. Opening night reviews and accounts of critical and popular response to subsequent revivals show how particular musicals have adapted to changing times and changing audiences, shedding light on why many of these innovative shows are still performed in high schools, colleges, and community theaters across the country, while others, such as Weills One Touch of Venus or Marc Blitzsteins The Cradle Will Rock, languish in comparative obscurity. Packed with information, including a complete discography and plot synopses and song-by-song scenic outlines for each of the fourteen shows, Enchanted Evenings is an essential reference as well as a riveting history. It will deepen readersappreciation and enjoyment of these beloved musicals even as it delights both the seasoned theater goer and the neophyte encountering the magic of Broadway for the first time.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

434

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199769885

ISBN 13

9780199769889

The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment

By: Professor Samir Younés

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment

By: Professor Samir Younés

If architectural judgment were a city, a city of ideas and forms, then it is a very imperfect city. When architects judge the success or failure of a building, the range of ways and criteria which can be used for this evaluation causes many contentious and discordant arguments. Proposing that the increase in number and intensity of such arguments threatens to destabilize the very grounds upon which judgment is supposed to rest, this book examines architectural judgment in its historical, cultural, political, and psychological dimensions and their convergence on that most expressive part of architecture, namely: architectural character. It stresses the value of reasoned judgment in justifying architectural form -a judgment based on three sets of criteria: those criteria that are external to architecture, those that are internal to architecture, and those that pertain to the psychology of the architect as image-maker. External criteria include, philosophies of history or theories of modernity; internal criteria include architectural character and architectural composition; while the psychological criteria pertain to 'mimetic rivalry', or rivaling desires for the same architectural forms. Yet, although architectural conflicts can adversely influence judgment, they can at the same time, contribute to the advancement of architectural culture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

477

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1409461734

ISBN 13

9781409461739

Essential Bible Study Tools for Ministry

By: Professor David R. Bauer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Essential Bible Study Tools for Ministry

By: Professor David R. Bauer

This up-to-date, highly selective bibliography is designed to acquaint students and ministers with major works, significant publishers and prominent scholars in biblical studies. It is the perfect guide for beginning a research project or building a ministerial library. References are included based on the following considerations: (1) usefulness for the theological interpretation of the Bible within the context of the faith of the church; (2) significance in the history of interpretation; and (3) representation of evangelical and especially evangelical Wesleyan scholarship.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

357

Publisher

Abingdon Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1426758286

ISBN 13

9781426758287

Religion and Rajput Women

The Ethic of Protection in Contemporary Narratives

By: Lindsey Harlan,Professor of Religious Studies Lindsey Harlan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Religion and Rajput Women

The Ethic of Protection in Contemporary Narratives

By: Lindsey Harlan,Professor of Religious Studies Lindsey Harlan

What is the relationship between caste and gender in the narratives of Rajput woman? During a year and a half of fieldwork in Rajasthan, a parched land dominated by the great Indian Desert, Lindsey Harlan interviewed more than a hundred women from all levels of Rajput society. She wanted to understand why certain religious practices were so important to Rajput women, and how they justified these to themselves. During the course of her interviews, the women described their religious practices--chief among them the worship of the family kuldevi (the goddess who exemplifies the ideal wife by staving off sickness, poverty, and infertility) and the veneration of satimatas (women who have immolated themselves on their husband's funeral pyre). As the women discussed these rituals, many of them also told Harlan religious myths and stories, drawing parallels between their behavior and that of various Indian heroines. These narratives and the role they play in the women's self-perception are the fascinating and enlightening subject of this book. What is the relationship between caste and gender in the narratives of Rajput woman? During a year and a half of fieldwork in Rajasthan, a parched land dominated by the great Indian Desert, Lindsey Harlan interviewed more than a hundred women from all levels of Rajput society. She wanted to understand why certain religious practices were so important to Rajput women, and how they justified these to themselves. During the course of her interviews, the women described their religious practices--chief among them the worship of the family kuldevi (the goddess who exemplifies the ideal wife by staving off sickness, poverty, and infertility) and the veneration of satimatas (women who have immolated themselves on their husband's funeral pyre). As the women discussed these rituals, many of them also told Harlan religious myths and stories, drawing parallels between their behavior and that of various Indian heroines. These narratives and the role they play in the women's self-perception are the fascinating and enlightening subject of this book.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

284

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520073398

ISBN 13

9780520073395

The Ancient World in the Cinema

By: Jon Solomon,Robert D Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture Jon Solomon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Ancient World in the Cinema

By: Jon Solomon,Robert D Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture Jon Solomon

This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from The Last Days of Pompeii to Gladiator. Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Greek and Roman history and mythology, films of the Old and New Testaments, films set in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Persia, films of ancient tragedies, comic films set in the ancient world, and more. The book has been updated to include feature films and made-for-television movies produced in the past two decades. More than two hundred photographs illustrate both the films themselves and the ancient sources from which their imagery derives.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

390

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300083378

ISBN 13

9780300083378

Revolution and the Word : The Rise of the Novel in America

The Rise of the Novel in America

By: Cathy N. Davidson Professor of English Duke University

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Revolution and the Word : The Rise of the Novel in America

The Rise of the Novel in America

By: Cathy N. Davidson Professor of English Duke University

Revolution and the Word offers a unique perspective on the origins of American fiction, looking not only at the early novels themselves but at the people who produced them, sold them, and read them. It shows how, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, the novel found a special place among the least privileged citizens of the new republic. As Cathy N. Davidson explains, early American novels--most of them now long forgotten--were a primary means by which those who bought and read them, especially women and the lower classes, moved into the higher levels of literacy required by a democracy. This very fact, Davidson shows, also made these people less amenable to the control of the gentry who, naturally enough, derided fiction as a potentially subversive genre. Combining rigorous historical methods with the newest insights of literacy theory, Davidson brilliantly reconstructs the complex interplay of politics, ideology, economics, and other social forces that governed the way novels were written, published, distributed, and understood. Davidson also shows, in almost tactile detail, how many Americans lived during the Constitutional era. She depicts the life of the traveling book peddler, the harsh lot of the printer, the shortcomings of early American schools, the ambiguous politics of novelists like Brackenridge and Tyler, and the lost lives of ordinary women like Tabitha Tenney and Patty Rogers. Drawing on a vast body of material--the novels themselves as well as reviews, inscriptions in cherished books, letters and diaries, and many other records--Davidson presents the genesis of American literature in its fullest possible context.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

338

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199728852

ISBN 13

9780199728855

American Modernism (1910-1945)

By: Roger Lathbury

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

American Modernism (1910-1945)

By: Roger Lathbury

This engaging, illustrated guide to the modernist movement in American literature provides a wealth of information on American modernism, the Lost Generation, modernism in the American novel, the Harlem Renaissance, modernism i.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

129

Publisher

Infobase Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1438134185

ISBN 13

9781438134185

Max Beerbohm

A Kind of a Life

By: N. John Hall,Distinguished Professor of English Bronx Community College and the Graduate School N John Hall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Max Beerbohm

A Kind of a Life

By: N. John Hall,Distinguished Professor of English Bronx Community College and the Graduate School N John Hall

Om den engelske forfatter og tegner Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

332

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300097050

ISBN 13

9780300097054

Flicker

Your Brain on Movies

By: Professor Jeffrey Zacks

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Flicker

Your Brain on Movies

By: Professor Jeffrey Zacks

How is it that a patch of flickering light on a wall can produce experiences that engage our imaginations and can feel totally real? From the vertigo of a skydive to the emotional charge of an unexpected victory or defeat, movies give us some of our most vivid experiences and most lasting memories. They reshape our emotions and worldviews--but why? In Flicker, Jeff Zacks delves into the history of cinema and the latest research to explain what happens between your ears when you sit down in the theatre and the lights go out. Some of the questions Flicker answers: Why do we flinch when Rocky takes a punch in Sylvester Stallone's movies, duck when the jet careens towards the tower in Airplane, and tap our toes to the dance numbers in Chicago or Moulin Rouge? Why do so many of us cry at the movies? What's the difference between remembering what happened in a movie and what happened in real life--and can we always tell the difference? To answer these questions and more, Flicker gives us an engaging, fast-paced look at what happens in your head when you watch a movie.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

367

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199982899

ISBN 13

9780199982899

Reframing the Social

Emergentist Systemism and Social Theory

By: Professor Poe Yu-ze Wan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Reframing the Social

Emergentist Systemism and Social Theory

By: Professor Poe Yu-ze Wan

Drawing extensively on the research findings of natural and social sciences both in America and Europe, Reframing the Social argues for a critical realist and systemist social ontology, designed to shed light on current debates in social theory concerning the relationship of social ontology to practical social research, and the nature of 'the social'. It explores the works of the systems theorist Mario Bunge in comparison with the approach of Niklas Luhmann and critical social systems theorists, to challenge the commonly held view that the systems-based approach is holistic in nature and necessarily downplays the role of human agency. Theoretically sophisticated and investigating the work of a theorist whose work has until now received insufficient attention in Anglo-American thought, this book will be of interest to those working in the field of social theory, as well as scholars concerned with philosophy of social science, the project of analytical sociology, and the nature of the relationship between the natural and social sciences.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

262

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1409494349

ISBN 13

9781409494348

Book's by Professor Richard Hitchcock

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email