Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture, Paperback

Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the composer's position in German-Jew...

The Viennese cafe was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, af...

This book reads Oscar Wilde's literary texts in relation to his open support for revolutionaries, along with his expressions of solidarity with Iri...

This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of th...

Illuminates the history of western anti-imperialism through the stories of a number of specific friendships that flourished between South Asians an...

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Explores cultural defence and revivalism in Scottish literature and art The first book-length, interdisciplinary study on fin-de-siècle Scotland Un...

Argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain was part of a...

Reducere. DescriptionDisruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture journeys from ancient folkloric appearances of Tricksters such as Raven and ṣ -El...

This fascinating study explores the ways in which fin-de-siecle periodicals portrayed science, both imaginatively and intellectually. It shows how ...

Publisher: Nabu PressNumber of pages: 334Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 191 x 245 x 29Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lectu...

Reducere. Mathilde Blind's contributions to the New Woman and Decadent movements in the 1880s and 1890s placed her at the centre of fin-de-siècle literary cu...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Mark (Macquarie University, Australia) HearnIllustration(s): 21 bw illus; 21 bw illusNumber of pages...

The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender an...

This book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary...

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This volume gives an overview of Roman burial practices in the Gallia Lugdunensis province during the Early Roman Empire, focussing on grave treatm...

Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that...

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Helen A. FieldingIllustration(s): 11 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 248Publication da...

Synthesizing music, literature and theory, Fraser Riddell reveals the importance of music in emergent queer identities at the fin de siecle. Illumi...

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Reducere. Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driv...

Over the course of nearly one-thousand images this title considers the painting, photography, fashion, architecture and associated mediums that cha...

Reducere. Vienna, located at the heart of Europe was the city of choice for American, British, German and Russian spymasters in their merciless trade, to plo...

This intellectual 2001 biography recovers the legacy of Karl Popper (1902-1945); the progressive, cosmopolitan, Viennese socialist who combated fas...

A relaunched 4th edition of this handy language and culture guide with a new layout to reflect the often humorous nature of the content.

Water presents the rich history of human interaction with water, from earliest agriculture to contemporary issues of water resources, global confli...

An engaging insight into the myriad ways coal has affected our lives.Illustrations: 99 illustrations, 76 in colour

Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 230 x 160 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Keith ...

Reducere. Supporting you with varied pedagogy throughout, this engaging new book provides a foundational understanding of politics and protest before focusin...

From the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on its diverse p...

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This wide-ranging book describes the importance, as well as the fragility of glaciers.

One hundred years after the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander of Macedon, we see the emergence of a new Iranian dynasty that, by 140 BC, ...

This book by conservationist Laurence Rose is about the complexity and vulnerability of nature, and the unexpected connections between people and w...

Publisher: Prospect BooksAuthor(s): Blandine VieIllustration(s): IllustrationsTranslator: Giles MacDonoghNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2011...

Written by internationally renowned experts, the Fourth Edition provides a complete introduction to the research process making it the perfect hand...

We may learn to utilize these great forces that lie within us all, and to utilize them to the best possible effect. As we use them they will grow, ...

Reducere. Great companies know that attracting and retaining the best people requires having a great business culture in place. Keith Hertling, a lifelong le...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Amit PinchevskiNumber of pages: 240Collection: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge seriesPublication date: 2022Dim...

This account reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context. It explores the mu...

Cahier de seminaire. La prose francaise au XXe siecle - Simona Jisa

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