The Cambridge History of World Music, Paperback - Philip V. Bohlman

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

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...

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. 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

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...

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

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

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...

The Cambridge History of the Second World War is an authoritative new account of the conflict that unfolded between 1939 and 1945. With contributio...

Volume 1 surveys late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history, focusing on the profound impact of the Enlightenment. It co...

Reducere. This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present. Based on the most recent and innovative scho...

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

The Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World - Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter, Hans van de Ven

Reducere. The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shape...

Reducere. Volume Two of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War into a long-lasting international system durin...

Reducere. This volume examines the origins, causes and early years of the Cold War. Leading scholars show how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ide...

Reducere. War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambr...

Reducere. The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History o...

Reducere. Among the factors which determine the birth and development of the basic elements of a civilization, one of the most important - perhaps the most i...

DescriptionThe oceans are our planet's most distinctive and imposing natural habitat. They cover 71 percent of its surface; support a remarkably di...

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

Describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, of the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, and battles with the French o...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and pra...

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...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Philip ManselIllustration(s): 24pp colourNumber of pages: 640Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 3...

This definitive history of African-American theatre embraces companies from across the U.S., as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-Americ...

Ranging from early medieval musical bards to pop music in the twenty-first century, this book describes Welsh musical practices and traditions and ...