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Huju
Traditional Opera in Modern Shanghai
Inbunden, 2003
1074 kr
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China has over three hundred distinct styles of music drama, from exorcism theatre to farce, historical romance, and shadow puppetry. This study considers one of the newer operatic forms. Established just two centuries ago, huju (Shanghai opera), is renowned for its portrayal of ordinary people, …
Loyola's Bees
Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry
Inbunden, 2003
1497 kr
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From the Renaissance well into the eighteenth century hundreds of Latin poems, some running to tens of thousands of verses, were produced on subjects as multifarious as they were topical: meteorology and magnetism, raising chickens and children, the arts of sculpture and engraving, writing and …
The State of the Political
Conceptions of Politics and the State in the Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Franz Neumann
Av Duncan Kelly
Inbunden, 2003
1388 kr
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The State of the Political offers a broad-ranging re-interpretation of the understanding of politics and the state in the writings of three major German thinkers, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Franz Neumann. It rejects the typical separation of these writers on the basis of their allegedly …
Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song
From the Blues to the Baltic
Av Mary-Ann Constantine, Gerald Porter
Inbunden, 2003
1199 kr
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This book takes a radical approach to the study of traditional songs. Folk song scholarship was originally obsessed with notions of completeness and narrative coherence; even now long narratives hold a privileged place in most folk song canons. Yet field notebooks and recordings (and, increasingly, …
Voicing the Soviet Experience
The Poetry of Ol'ga Berggol'ts
Inbunden, 2003
901 kr
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This is a long overdue examination of a poet whose career offers a case study in the complexities facing Soviet writers in the Stalin era. Ol'ga Berggol'ts (1910-1975) was a prominent Russian Soviet poet, whose accounts of heroism in wartime Leningrad brought her fame. This volume addresses her …
Singing the Village
Music, Memory and Ritual among the Sibe of Xinjiang
Inbunden, 2004
985 kr
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The Sibe are an immigrant group, Qing dynasty bannermen who made a three-year "long march" from Manchuria in the 18th century to serve as a border garrison in the newly conquered Western Regions of the Qing Chinese empire. They preserved their military structure and a discrete identity in the …
Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion
Michoacán, 1927-29
2004
1043 kr
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Dr Butler provides a new interpretation of the cristero war (1926-29) which divided Mexico's peasantry into rival camps loyal to the Catholic Church (cristero) or the Revolution (agrarista). This book puts religion at the heart of our understanding of the revolt by showing how peasant allegiances …
England's Revelry
A History of Popular Sports and Pastimes, 1660-1830
Av Emma Griffin
2005
1163 kr
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This study looks at the relationship between popular recreations and the spaces in which they took place, and in doing so it provides a history of how England enjoyed itself during the long eighteenth century.Because the poor lacked land of their own, public spaces were needed for their sports and …
Russia and the Eastern Question
Army, Government and Society, 1815-1833
2006
1962 kr
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This book covers one of the most important and persistent problems in nineteenth-century European diplomacy, the Eastern Question. The Eastern Question was essentially a short hand for comprehending the international consequences caused by the gradual and apparently terminal decline of the Ottoman …
Genocide and Resistance in Hitler's Bosnia
The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941-1943
Inbunden, 2006
1607 kr
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This volume is a study of revolution, genocide and national identity in Bosnia-Hercegovina during World War II. It explains the civil war between two rival guerrilla movements - the Partisans and the Chetniks - both in terms of long-term socio-economic and cultural fissures in Bosnia-Hercegovina, …
The Life and Travels of Xavier Marmier (1808-1892)
Bringing World Literature to France
Inbunden, 2007
1290 kr
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This is the first critical biography of Xavier Marmier. The celebrity of Marmier was such that his death made headline news in most major newspapers in France. Marmier made his reputation as a traveller, travel writer, translator, literary critic, comparatist, journalist, novelist, poet, lecturer, …
Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914
Av Ruth Livesey
Inbunden, 2007
1199 kr
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This book brings to life the growth of the socialist movement among men and women artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Britain. For these campaigners, socialism was inseparable from a desire for a new beauty of life; beauty that also, for many, required them rejecting the sexual …
Delivering Justice in Qing China
Civil Trials in the Magistrate's Court
Av Linxia Liang
Inbunden, 2007
1074 kr
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Traditional Chinese law, including Qing law, was often criticized as being inapplicable in civil trials and it was often believed that the magistrate's court preferred mediation rather than decision-making. This volume challenges these views and repairs the distorted picture of Qing civil …
Anthropological Knowledge, Secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea
Exchanging Skin
Av Tony Crook
Inbunden, 2007
1043 kr
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What is the nature of knowledge? Anthropology imagines it possible to divide or separate social and analytical relations, whereby knowledge travels between persons as a thing. And yet, Bolivip imagines knowledge as the bodily resources or parts of a person that can be extended or combined with …
The Invention of Altruism
Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain
Av Thomas Dixon
Inbunden, 2008
1560 kr
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Altruism' was coined by the French sociologist Auguste Comte in the early 1850s as a theoretical term in his 'cerebral theory' and as the central ideal of his atheistic 'Religion of Humanity'. In The Invention of Altruism, Thomas Dixon traces this new language of 'altruism' as it spread through …
Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000
Inbunden, 2008
1431 kr
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We know that many people converted to Islam in colonial East Africa, but the why and how remain obscure. Recently, these Muslim congregations have come under scrutiny for producing Islamic radicals, but again the causes are poorly understood. This book traces the history of Muslim congregations in …
A World Upturned
Commentary on and Analysis of The Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All
Inbunden, 2009
1129 kr
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The Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All is one of the major works from the golden age of Egyptian literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1980-1630 BC). The poem provides one of the most searching explorations of human motivation and divine justice to survive from Ancient Egypt, and its stark …
Embedded Cosmopolitanism
Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of 'Dislocated Communities'
Av Toni Erskine
Inbunden, 2008
1043 kr
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In this innovative book, Toni Erskine offers a challenging and original normative approach to some of the most pressing practical concerns in world politics - including the contested nature of the prohibitions against torture and the targeting of civilians in the 'war on terror'.Erskine's vision of …
Credit and Village Society in Fourteenth-Century England
Av Chris Briggs
Inbunden, 2009
1074 kr
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Exploring the role of credit is vital to understanding any economy. In the past two decades historians of many European regions have become increasingly aware that medieval credit, far from being the preserve of merchants, bankers, or monarchs, was actually of basic importance to the ordinary …
'The Horrid Popish Plot'
Roger L'Estrange and the Circulation of Political Discourse in Late Seventeenth-Century London
Av Peter Hinds
Inbunden, 2010
1695 kr
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The Popish plot was an alleged Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II and re-introduce the Catholic faith to England. Despite it being a fiction, belief in the plot became widespread and many innocent Catholics were sent to their deaths.Moving away from the focus of recent histories of the …
Names are Thicker than Blood
Kinship and Ownership amongst the Iatmul
Av Andrew Moutu
Inbunden, 2013
1043 kr
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This is an ethnographic study of kinship and the nature and behaviour of ownership amongst the much-studied Sepik River Iatmul people.Until very recently, anthropology has remained a Western analytical project for understanding and conceptualising non-Western societies, and was often geared towards …
The Claims of Culture at Empire's End
Syria and Lebanon under French Rule
2010
1074 kr
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This volume asks fundamental questions about the political impact of cultural institutions by exploring the power struggles for control over such institutions in Syria and Lebanon under French Mandate rule. Countering assertions of French imperial cultural ascendancy and self-confidence, the author …
Borderline Citizens
Women, Gender and Political Culture in Britain, 1815-1867
Inbunden, 2009
1251 kr
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This volume provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of women's involvement in British political culture in the first half of the nineteenth century. It is based upon extensive archival research, but also engages with recent feminist theories in the social sciences, such as psychology and …
The Lombard League, 1167-1225
Inbunden, 2010
1074 kr
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This is the first book devoted to the Lombard League, an association created by the city republics of northern Italy in the 12th century in order to defend their autonomy and that of the papacy in a momentous struggle against the German holy roman emperor Frederick I Barbarossa. Consequently, the …
Beyond Elegy
Classical Arabic Women's Poetry in Context
Inbunden, 2010
1199 kr
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This volume tackles complex theoretical questions about sex and gender and the way that they inform classical Arabic poetics.Arabic literature has a rich tradition of women's poetry, and of lamentation for the dead in particular. Dr Hammond argues that these elegies - marthiya - were received into …
Harnessing Fortune
Personhood, Memory and Place in Mongolia
Inbunden, 2011
1429 kr
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Based on long-term fieldwork with herding families along the Mongolian-Russian border, this book examines how people tend to past memories in their homes while navigating new ways of accumulating wealth and fortune in the face of political and economic uncertainties. It is at this intersection, …
The Lost Woodlands of Ancient Nasca
A Case-study in Ecological and Cultural Collapse
Inbunden, 2011
1074 kr
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This book presents an archaeological case of prehistoric human environmental impact: a study of ecological and cultural change from the arid south coast of Peru, beginning around 750 BC and culminating in a collapse during the Middle Horizon, around AD 900. Its focus is the lower Ica Valley - today …
Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900
Inbunden, 2011
1660 kr
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This monograph examines the relationship between women, language and grammar with particular reference to the Italian context between the sixteenth and the end of the nineteenth century, from the codification of Italian as a literary language to the formation of a unified state. It investigates the …
Vulcan's Forge in Venus' City
The Story of Bronze in Venice, 1350-1650
Inbunden, 2011
2851 kr
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Between 1350 and 1650, a vast number of bronze objects, both large and small, decorative and functional, were produced in Venice for domestic consumption and for the export market. Whether unique works of art specifically commissioned from renowned sculptors by wealthy patrons, or low status …
Producing Modernity in Mexico
Labour, Race, and the State in Chiapas, 1876-1914
Inbunden, 2012
1518 kr
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Race, ethnicity and gender played an important role in the complex relationship between export agriculture, labour and state power in Chiapas during the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1914). This case study of tropical plantation development and a major regional study of modern Mexico analyses the …
