Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860
Author: Rosemarie K. Bank
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-01-28
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521563871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of pre-Civil War American theatre.
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Industrial Wage Work
Author: Nancy F. Cott
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-02-07
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 3110969459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo detailed description available for "Industrial Wage Work".
Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 5
Author: Laurie Garrison
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-05-17
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1040128971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.
American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
Author: Elizabeth Duquette
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-08-29
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 0192899902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society. While some informed their thinking with reference to classical texts, which comprehensively consider tyranny's dangers, most drew on a more contemporary source—Napoleon Bonaparte, the century's most famous man and its most notorious tyrant. Because Napoleon defined tyranny around the nineteenth-century Atlantic world—its features and emergence, its relationship to democratic institutions, its effects on persons and peoples—he provides a way for nineteenth-century Americans to explore the parameters of tyranny and their complicity in its cruelties. Napoleon helps us see the decidedly plural forms of tyranny in the US, bringing their fictions into focus. At the same time, however, there are distinctly American modes of tyranny. From the tyrannical style of the American imagination to the usurping potential of American individualism, Elizabeth Duquette shows that tyranny is as American as democracy.
Performing Disunion
Author: Lawrence T. McDonnell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-06-30
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 1316887006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces how and why the secession of the South during the American Civil War was accomplished at ground level through the actions of ordinary men. Adopting a micro-historical approach, Lawrence T. McDonnell works to connect small events in new ways - he places one company of the secessionist Minutemen in historical context, exploring the political and cultural dynamics of their choices. Every chapter presents little-known characters whose lives and decisions were crucial to the history of Southern disunion. McDonnell asks readers to consider the past with fresh eyes, analyzing the structure and dynamics of social networks and social movements. He presents the dissolution of the Union through new events, actors, issues, and ideas, illuminating the social contradictions that cast the South's most conservative city as the radical heart of Dixie.
Out in Public
Author: Alison Piepmeier
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780807855690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImages of the corseted, domestic, white middle-class female and the black woman as slave mammy or jezebel loom large in studies of nineteenth-century womanhood, despite recent critical work exploring alternatives to those images. In Out in Public,
Musicians of Bath and Beyond
Author: Nicholas Temperley
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1783270780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndex of Edward Loder's compositions -- General Index
Colors of Enchantment
Author: Sherifa Zuhur
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2001-07-01
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 1617972312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this companion volume to the successful Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East (AUC Press, 1998), historian and ethnomusicologist Sherifa Zuhur has once again commissioned and edited authoritative essays from noteworthy scholars from around the globe that explore the visual and performing arts in the Middle East. What differentiates this volume from its predecessor is its investigation of theater, from the early modern period to the contemporary. Topics include race and national identity in Egyptian theater, early writing in the Arab theater in North America, Persian-language theater from its origins through the twentieth century, Palestinian nationalist theater, and a survey of the work of noted Egyptian playwright Yusuf Idris. Other aspects of the arts are not neglected, of course, as further avenues of dance, music, and the visual arts are explored. Marked by interesting and fresh perspectives, Colors of Enchantment is another vital contribution to scholarship on the arts of the Middle East. Contributors: Najwa Adra, Wijdan Ali, Sami Asmar, Clarissa Burt, Michael Frishkopf, M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Tori Haring-Smith, Kathleen Hood, Deborah Kapchan, Neil van der Linden, Samia Mehrez, Mona Mikhail, Sami A. Ofeish, 'Ali Jihad Racy, Rashad Rida, Tonia Rifaey, Edward Said, Lori Anne Salem, Philip D. Schuyler, Selim Sednaoui, Reuven Snir, James Stone, Eve Troutt Powell, and Sherifa Zuhur.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 868
ISBN-13: 9780520079922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.
Inventing the American Guitar
Author: James Westbrook
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1493079336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInventing the American Guitar is the first book to describe the early history of American guitar design in detail. It tells the story of how a European instrument was transformed into one with all of the design and construction features that define the iconic American flat-top guitar. This transformation happened within a mere 20 years, a remarkably brief period. The person who dominates this history is C. F. Martin Sr., America's first major guitar maker and the founder of the Martin Guitar Company, which continues to produce outstanding flat-top guitars today. After emigrating from his native Saxony to New York in 1833, Martin quickly established a guitar making business, producing instruments modeled after those of his mentor, Johann Stauffer of Vienna. By the time he moved his family and business to rural Pennsylvania in 1839, Martin had absorbed and integrated the influence of Spanish guitars he had seen and heard in New York. In Pennsylvania, he evolved further, inventing a uniquely American guitar that was fully developed before the outbreak of the Civil War. Inventing the American Guitar traces Martin's evolution as a craftsman and entrepreneur and explores the influences and experiments that led to his creation of the American guitar that is recognized and played around the world today. To learn more about the history of the Martin guitar, click here to view the video and article from BBC, How Martin Guitars Became an 'American Stratavarius'.
