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27 produkter
Shadow of the Empress
Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy
Av Larry Wolff
Inbunden, 2023
1044 kr
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A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination.In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), …
Boys and Their Baby
Av Larry Wolff
E-bok, 2012
79 kr
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“The boys” are Adam and Huck, former college roommates. A decade out of college and just as long out of touch with each other, they are reunited when Adam arrives to share Huck’s apartment on Russian Hill in San Francisco. “Their baby” is Christopher, Huck’s entrancing almost-one-year-old son, …
Disunion within the Union
The Uniate Church and the Partitions of Poland
Av Larry Wolff
Häftad, 2020
168 kr
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Between 1772 and 1795, Russia, Prussia, and Austria concluded agreements to annex and eradicate the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania. With the partitioning of Poland, the dioceses of the Uniate Church (later known as the Greek Catholic Church) were fractured by the borders of three regional …
Inventing Eastern Europe
The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
Av Larry Wolff
Häftad, 1996
397 kr
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This is a wide-ranging intellectual history of how, in the 18th century, Europe came to be conceived as divided into "Western Europe" and "Eastern Europe". The author argues that this conceptual reorientation from the previously accepted "Northern" and "Southern" was a work of cultural construction …
Venice and the Slavs
The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment
Av Larry Wolff
Inbunden, 2002
1636 kr
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This book studies the nature of Venetian rule over the Slavs of Dalmatia during the eighteenth century, focusing on the cultural elaboration of an ideology of empire that was based on a civilizing mission toward the Slavs. The book argues that the Enlightenment within the "Adriatic Empire" of …
Venice and the Slavs
The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment
Av Larry Wolff
Häftad, 2002
397 kr
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This book studies the nature of Venetian rule over the Slavs of Dalmatia during the eighteenth century, focusing on the cultural elaboration of an ideology of empire that was based on a civilizing mission toward the Slavs. The book argues that the Enlightenment within the "Adriatic Empire" of …
Anthropology of the Enlightenment
Av Larry Wolff, Marco Cipolloni
Inbunden, 2007
1735 kr
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The modern enterprise of anthropology, with all of its important implications for cross-cultural perceptions, perspectives, and self-consciousness emerged from the eighteenth-century intellectual context of the Enlightenment. If the Renaissance discovered perspective in art, it was the …
Anthropology of the Enlightenment
Av Larry Wolff, Marco Cipolloni
Häftad, 2007
426 kr
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The modern enterprise of anthropology, with all of its important implications for cross-cultural perceptions, perspectives, and self-consciousness emerged from the eighteenth-century intellectual context of the Enlightenment. If the Renaissance discovered perspective in art, it was the …
Paolina's Innocence
Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice
Av Larry Wolff
Inbunden, 2012
1620 kr
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In the summer of 1785, in the city of Venice, a wealthy 60-year-old man was arrested and accused of a scandalous offense: having sexual relations with the 8-year-old daughter of an impoverished laundress. Although the sexual abuse of children was probably not uncommon in early modern Europe, it is …
Paolina's Innocence
Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice
Av Larry Wolff
Häftad, 2012
401 kr
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In the summer of 1785, in the city of Venice, a wealthy 60-year-old man was arrested and accused of a scandalous offense: having sexual relations with the 8-year-old daughter of an impoverished laundress. Although the sexual abuse of children was probably not uncommon in early modern Europe, it is …
Idea of Galicia
History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture
Av Larry Wolff
Inbunden, 2010
1505 kr
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Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its memory continues to exercise a powerful …
Idea of Galicia
History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture
Av Larry Wolff
E-bok, 2012
428 kr
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Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its memory continues to exercise a powerful …
Anthropology of the Enlightenment
Av Larry Wolff, Marco Cipolloni
E-bok, 2007
517 kr
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The modern enterprise of anthropology, with all of its important implications for cross-cultural perceptions, perspectives, and self-consciousness emerged from the eighteenth-century intellectual context of the Enlightenment. If the Renaissance discovered perspective in art, it was the …
Paolina's Innocence
Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice
Av Larry Wolff
E-bok, 2012
464 kr
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In the summer of 1785, in the city of Venice, a wealthy 60-year-old man was arrested and accused of a scandalous offense: having sexual relations with the 8-year-old daughter of an impoverished laundress. Although the sexual abuse of children was probably not uncommon in early modern Europe, it is …
Idea of Galicia
History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture
Av Larry Wolff
Häftad, 2012
354 kr
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Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its memory continues to exercise a powerful …
Singing Turk
Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon
Av Larry Wolff
Inbunden, 2016
1636 kr
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While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of …
Singing Turk
Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon
Av Larry Wolff
E-bok, 2016
464 kr
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While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of …
Child Abuse in Freud's Vienna
Postcards from the End of the World
Av Larry Wolff
Häftad, 1995
386 kr
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On the cusp of the twentieth century, in the most cosmopolitan city in the world, there a sensation that entranced the city's populace as nothing had beforea sensation that cast a great and disturbing shadow over the city, and then vanished, leaving no more trace than a shadow would. Child Abuse …
Eight Stories
Tales of War and Loss
Av Erich Maria Remarque, Larry Wolff
Inbunden, 2018
1161 kr
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A compelling set of short stories from the author of World War I classic, All Quiet on the Western Front German-American novelist Erich Maria Remarque captured the emotional anguish of a generation in his World War I masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as in an impressive selection …
Eight Stories
Tales of War and Loss
Av Erich Maria Remarque, Larry Wolff
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
157 kr
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A compelling set of short stories from the author of World War I classic, All Quiet on the Western Front German-American novelist Erich Maria Remarque captured the emotional anguish of a generation in his World War I masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as in an impressive selection …
Singing Turk
Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon
Av Larry Wolff
Häftad, 2018
396 kr
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While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of …
Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe
Av Larry Wolff
Inbunden, 2020
1505 kr
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At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson's influence on the remapping of borders was profound. But it was his impact on the modern political structuring of Eastern Europe that …
Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe
Av Larry Wolff
Häftad, 2020
353 kr
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At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson's influence on the remapping of borders was profound. But it was his impact on the modern political structuring of Eastern Europe that …
Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe
Av Larry Wolff
E-bok, 2020
428 kr
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At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson's influence on the remapping of borders was profound. But it was his impact on the modern political structuring of Eastern Europe that …
Shadow of the Empress
Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy
Av Larry Wolff
Häftad, 2023
294 kr
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A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination.In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), …
Shadow of the Empress
Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy
Av Larry Wolff
E-bok, 2023
349 kr
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A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination.In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), …
