Popular Press

Reducere. In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

Description'Remembering Popular Music's Past' capitalises on the growing interest, globally, in the preservation of popular music's material past a...

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, The Conspiracy of Capital offers a new history of American radicalism and the alliance between the modern b...

This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. David Charlton considers ...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Chris WrightNumber of pages: 274Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

Rank and file soldiers were not 'the scum of the earth' but included a cross section of working-class men, who retained their former civilian cultu...

The NRSV Popular Text Edition is an entirely new setting using the New Revised Standard Version Anglicized Edition, the Bible translation recommend...

Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second R...

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...

This book is a social history of popular history in Britain between the end of the First World War and the 1970s. It considers how ordinary people ...

This book analyses popular sovereignty, one of the fundamental features of modern politics and history. It critically engages with the key thinkers...

Penny politics explores how and why Victorian popular literature from the 1830s and 1840s appealed to politicised, intermittently radicalised worki...

A major study into the changes in moral politics and culture of working-class Radicalism during a crucial period of modern British history. -- .

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the construction and contestation of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteen...

This study of working class tourism examines the evolution of the English holiday over two centuries, charting workers forms of travel from 'trampi...

The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular account...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Timothy PetersNumber of pages: 256Collection: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the...

This book takes a fresh look at British radicalism in the first-half of the nineteenth century from the new perspective of the history of emotions....

From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary...

Explores the link between revolutionary change in the Victorian world of print and women's entry into the field of mass-market publishing This book...

The pulse of Africa's growing music scenePublisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Alex PerulloIllustration(s): 35 b&w illus., 1 map, 47 videoN...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Examines the history of Fraktur (illuminated religious manuscripts created and used by Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centur...

In The Soldier's Two Bodies, James M. Greene investigates an overlooked genre of early American literature--the Revolutionary War veteran narrative...

Reducere. DescriptionThe land-grant ideal at the foundation of many institutions of higher learning promotes the sharing of higher education, science, and te...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Maria, Ph.D. ThomasIllustration(s): illusNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 234 x 160...

The institutionalisation of Fatah mirrors the evolution of the PLO and the Palestinian national cause generally. Understanding the factors that hav...

Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American bestsellers. But when the stories jumpe...

Petitioning has a forgotten but essential role in the history of modern democracy. In the antebellum era, petitions gave North Americans, especiall...

The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have be...

Reducere. Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exp...

DescriptionPop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the ...

Islamist thinkers used to debate the doctrine of the caliphate of man, which holds that God is sovereign but has appointed the multitude of believe...

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are innately aggressive or...

Building on critiques of other sceptical scholars, the feminist, folkloristic approach of this book deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient ...

Reducere. When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. W...

DescriptionRoman comedy evolved early in the war-torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower-class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape fu...

An essential guide to electoral authoritarianism-the most widespread, malignant and misunderstood type of dictatorship today-for scholars and stude...

Reducere. Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's mo...

Reducere. The American people overwhelmingly supported the nation's entry into the Spanish-American War of 1898, which led to U.S. imperial expansion into th...

Reducere. Who's better? Billie Holiday or P. J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions are...

Focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; th...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Richard KieckheferNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 15Cover typ...

Reducere. K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages ...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): James YekuIllustration(s): 50 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 292Publication date: 202...

This book provides a fascinating and innovative insight into popular culture in the ancient world. It covers a diverse range of subjects and object...

Reducere. Description"How is it that there are so many lloronas?" A haunting figure of Mexican oral and literary traditions, La Llorona permeates the conscio...

From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel...

Suitable for those engaged in the study of popular culture, American studies, cultural studies, cinema and visual studies, as well as to the genera...

Invokes and critiques the relationship between blues-based popular music and poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume is anch...

Reducere. This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of Commentary magazine who die...

Reducere. In this thoughtful and highly readable book, No l Sturgeon illustrates the myriad and insidious ways in which American popular culture depicts soci...

This book details the conditions leading to the failure of constitution making and constitutional reform in Turkey, and offers lessons that can be ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionOften dismissed as the rumblings of "the street, " popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Par...

This examination of the Iranian popular culture and women's role within this challenges familiar western assumptions about the complexities of Iran...

Reducere. In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. ...

Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like.--Nathan Heller, New YorkerHow a new model of democracy that opens...

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-orient...

Newly revised for 21st-century readers, the author - an ordained but fallen exorcist - tells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch...

This book gives insight into a particularly grim period during the early 1970s in Northern Ireland using an extremely unusual episode--the black ma...

A lively account of how Nova Scotian literature and popular culture depict a messy and unfinished process of deindustrialization.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the Uni...

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most contro...

Chinese Shadow Theatre documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Fan Pen Li Chen examines the relationship between hi...

An analysis of the ways that General Rafael Trujillos dictatorship (1930-1961) pervaded everyday life in the Dominican Republics capital, Santo Dom...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles M. TatumChicano Popular Culture, Second Edition provides a fascinating, timely, and accessible introduction to Chic...

Reducere. From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating ...

Reducere. A picture-rich field guide to American photography, from daguerreotype to digital. We are all photographers now, with camera phones in hand and soc...

In the United States, people are deeply divided along lines of race, class, political party, gender, sexuality, and religion. Many believe that his...