Iran and the World
In an era of profound global change, Iran has maintained stability in its blend of religion and politics. This book examines recent developments in Iran and its interaction with the world, attracting experts in international relations and political science.
This book investigates how Estonia, Poland and Latvia comply with the EU’s free movement of capital. It compares their laws, analyzes the link between national restrictions and cross-border capital flows, and reports the views of affected business executives.
African American Religious Experiences
Facing slavery, Jim Crow, and racism, African Americans relied on religion as their source of strength. This is a story of survival, demonstrating how religion became the key ingredient and ultimate weapon that allowed a race to adapt and endure.
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
More than a hostess or a footnote to Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a pioneering writer. This volume links her subversive biography to her innovative works, revealing how a scandalous marriage launched her career as a public author.
Rebellion and Revolution
This collection of essays by scholars of history, literature, and film offers new perspectives on key moments of German rebellion. It takes a multidisciplinary approach to analyze events from the 1525 Peasants’ War to the fall of the GDR.
British Music and the French Revolution investigates the little-studied repertoire of concert and theatrical music created in Britain between 1789–1795. It explores how a spirit of patriotism, political turmoil, and war inspired an outpouring of music.
Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things
These essays draw on a variety of critical approaches for a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-offs. This volume is accessible to everyone, from interested academics to the general public.
This interdisciplinary analysis demonstrates not only how a culture is preserved in a text, but how that text can in turn define its culture, even redefine its history, by exploring how all texts and their contexts are constructs.
What would a piece of clay say if it could speak? This book revisits the enigma of the Phaistos Disc, exploring archaeological excavations, archaic languages, and myths to uncover new information and allow “The Stones to Speak.”
Movement and Clitics
This volume gathers selected papers on movement and clitics. The authors explore a wide variety of languages, from Icelandic to Mayan, drawing on data from adult grammar, language acquisition, developmental language disorders, and language change.
What linguistic traits contrast public from private communication in English? This ground-breaking volume examines the question from the late middle ages to the modern era, with contributions from top international scholars exploring a range of historical sources.
This volume discusses pluralism and the interplay between religion and politics. As competing religious truths have historically produced violent conflict, and since religion is constitutive of identity, its influence on politics is extremely significant.
Love Ya Hate Ya
This volume analyzes youth language as a tool for negotiating identity and social relations. Covering diverse groups from Argentina to Greenland, it finds surprising similarities and presents youth language as functional, socially valuable, and flexible.
Ludwig Minkus, Don Quixote
Minkus & Petipa’s Don Quixote is one of the most enduring creations of 19th-century Russian ballet. Based on Cervantes’s novel, it tells the love story of Kitri and Basilio with musical buoyancy and melodic verve that have made it a global favorite.
This collection of papers from linguistics and anthropology explores the intricate relation between language, gender, and sexuality. Contributors cover topics from heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and queer experience to voice, silence, and nationalism.
Confessional Theology?
Christian confessions are often seen as purely theological, but this study argues they cannot ignore their political contexts. It explores the link through Karl Barth’s theology, examining the Barmen Declaration in Nazi Germany and the Belhar Confession.
Ludwig Minkus; Fiammetta/Néméa
Aloysius Ludwig Minkus, famous for his ballets Don Quixote and La Bayadère, launched his career through a collaboration with the great choreographer Arthur Saint-Léon. Together they produced works in St Petersburg and Paris, including Néméa and The Golden Fish.
This volume presents two ballets by Ludwig Minkus, composed at the peak of his powers with choreographer Marius Petipa. It includes the beloved Grand Pas from Paquita, a jewel of the classical repertoire, and the allegorical work, Nuit et Jour.
Ludwig Minkus
Marius Petipa’s exuberant ballet Don Quixote, with its celebrated score by Ludwig Minkus, is based on the adventures of Kitri and Basilio from Cervantes’s novel. This edition reproduces the piano score of the classic St. Petersburg version.
Giacomo Meyerbeer Orchestral Works
Giacomo Meyerbeer, a master of 19th-century opera, was renowned for impassioned drama and vivid orchestral power. This volume gathers his finest orchestral works, from famous opera ballets and marches to grand festive overtures waiting to be rediscovered.