The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart, Paperback - Mitchell Cohen

A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journe...

John Bokina focuses on political aspects and meanings of operas from the baroque to the postmodern period, showing the varied ways that operas beco...

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Reducere. In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World Wa...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Marcia (New York University, USA) PallyNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimension...

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After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, the...

Veering from the hilarious to the tragic, Andrew Mitchell's tales from the parliamentary jungle make for one of the most entertaining political mem...

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The first thirteen centuries in France saw a new religion, a new language, new learning institutions and the beginnings of a great nation. The regi...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jakobi WilliamsIn this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jak...

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers IncAuthor(s): Mitchell A. SeligsonNumber of pages: 435Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 225 x 181 x 25Cover typ...

A Quick History of Politics takes us from pharaohs to fair votes, packed with facts and jokes about the many faces of politics through time.

Stephen Philip Cohen, the scholar who virtually created the field of South Asian security studies, has curated a unique collection of the most inte...

Abbate and Parker's A History of Opera is the first full new history of opera in sixty years - now in paperback in an updated second edition. "The ...

Reducere. Meeting Mozart: A Novel Drawn From the Secret Diaries of Lorenzo Da Ponte is a deftly plotted and richly detailed historical novel that spans gener...

This book makes available, for the first time in English, essays and poetry published in the seminal postcolonial Moroccan journal of culture and p...

Reducere. DescriptionA new history of the world's most embattled ideaToday, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has b...

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Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

From the Opera The Magic Flute and The Abduction from the Seraglio

Reducere. DescriptionWe live in the grip of a great illusion about politics, Pierre Manent argues in A World beyond Politics? It's the illusion that we would...

Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine and its assault on the US elections in 2016 forced a reluctant West to grapple with the effects of hybrid war....

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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Armenia, then keep reading...The tale of Armenia has its beginnings as a glorious ancient kingdo...