A Vision for London, 1889-1914
A Vision for London, 1889-1914

Author: Susan D. Pennybacker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-11-08

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1134959958

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The London County Council was a the world's largest municipal government and a laboratory for social experimentation before the Great War. It sought to master the problems of metropolitan amelioration, political economy and public culture. Pennybacker's social history tests the vision of London Progressivism against its practitioners' accomplishments. She argues that the historical memory of the hopes inspired by LCC achievement and the disillusions spawned by failure, are potent forces in today's deeply ambivalent responses to metropolitan politics in London. The `new women', bohemian London, scandal in the building industry, midwifery, lodging houses, children's provision and the music hall were all provocative issues in LCC work. Their story richly evokes life in the turn-of-the-century metropolis and illustrates the complexities of `municipal socialism'.

Jewry in Music
Jewry in Music

Author: David Conway

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-12-15

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1139505351

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David Conway analyses why and how Jews, virtually absent from Western art music until the end of the eighteenth century, came to be represented in all branches of the profession within fifty years as leading figures – not only as composers and performers, but as publishers, impresarios and critics. His study places this process in the context of dynamic economic, political, sociological and technological changes and also of developments in Jewish communities and the Jewish religion itself, in the major cultural centres of Western Europe. Beginning with a review of attitudes to Jews in the arts and an assessment of Jewish music and musical skills, in the age of the Enlightenment, Conway traces the story of growing Jewish involvement with music through the biographies of the famous, the neglected and the forgotten, leading to a radical contextualisation of Wagner's infamous 'Judaism in Music'.

How to Do Shakespeare
How to Do Shakespeare

Author: Adrian Noble

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-11-27

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1135259860

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First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

George Washington's Secret Spy War
George Washington's Secret Spy War

Author: John A. Nagy

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-09-20

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1250096812

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"Using George Washington's diary as the primary source, Nagy tells the story of [his] experiences during the French and Indian War and his first steps in the field of espionage. Despite what many believe, Washington did not come to the American Revolution completely unskilled in this area of warfare. Espionage was a skill he honed during the French and Indian War and upon which he heavily depended during the Revolutionary War. He used espionage to level the playing field and then exploited it on to final victory"--Amazon.com.