The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, Paperback - Nicholas Cook

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century 'music' meant the 'art' tradition of Western Europe and North America; by the end of the century that was...

Reducere. Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, ...

Volume 2 surveys twentieth-century European intellectual history, conceived as a crisis in modernity. It focuses on figures such as Freud, Heidegge...

The third volume of The Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Russia and th...

Final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond. The book is for stu...

Reducere. When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The de...

Reducere. Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Richard (Professor of musicology, Professor of musicology, University of California, Berkeley) Tar...

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It highlights...

Sarbatoriti aniversarea a 50 de ani a celui mai iubit film de familie din toate timpurile! Comoara cinematografica produsa de Rodgers&Hammerstein s...

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

Reducere. This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing no...

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century.

The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015 - Kelly Becker, Iain D. Thomson

The Cambridge History of the Cold War - Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad

This collection provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in ...

This is the first volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Written by international experts, it seeks to overcome obstacl...

The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings ...

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 1, Ancient Science - Alexander Jones, Liba Taub

The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 1, Global War - Jay Winter

Reducere. (Yorktown). Exploration of the language, attitude, dissonance, and drama of the piano music of our century as in the works of Debussy, Bartok, Stra...

Reducere. This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early ('Kievan') Rus' to the start of Peter the Great's reign in 1689. ...

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689-1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, ...

Reducere. The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts ana...

The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare - Philip Sabin, Hans Van Wees, Michael Whitby

In The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts, shaped by era-...

Reducere. The Cambridge History of Medicine, first published in 2006, surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering ...

DescriptionJapan's ancient age was a period of radical and political change during which a Chinese-style empire emerged. This volume of The Cambrid...

This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. It charts how the...

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil societ...

The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrati...

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive political history of the war exploring the multifaceted history o...

This timely history explores the entry, reception and resettlement of refugees across twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on four cohorts of refuge...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Micaela BaranelloIllustration(s): 39 music examples, 6 b-w photographs, 1 tableNumber of pages:...

DescriptionBringing together original contributions from scholars around the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity...

DescriptionOver thirty essays provide a comprehensive overview of the essential events, persons, places and issues involved in the emergence of the...

The Cambridge History of the Cold War 3 Volume Set - Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad

An interdisciplinary book highlighting the relationship between the Red Sea region's colonial history and its present instability. Colonial Chaos e...

The Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical an...

A comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, c.1500-1700. Articles by leading specialists describe how new ideas, discoveri...

The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 2, Contexts - Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith, Adam Ledgeway

DescriptionThis revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It high...

A revised and fully-updated new edition of this leading survey of the twentieth-century European economy. Ivan T. Berend provides an integrated, co...

DescriptionByzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and ...

DescriptionThe Cambridge History of Religion in the Classical World provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the religions of the ancient ...

Reducere. This authoritative, accessible and engaging four-volume history vividly presents the Irish story - or stories - from c.600 to the present, within i...

Reducere. The Cambridge History of the American Civil War provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the American Civil War. With contributions from...

This two-volume history offers a comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements that shaped our intellectual world from the late...

Reducere. Containing just the twentieth-century chapters from Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, this revised and updated edi...