Captivity, Past and Present
Analyses of human bondage from the early modern era to now. Essays cover 16th-century Spanish sagas, Puritan narratives, the slave narrative of Olaudah Equiano, and incarcerated mothers. Includes an original 19th-century Comanche captivity narrative.
Commitment to Musical Excellence
For 75 years, the internationally recognized Gustavus Choir has built a heritage of choral music rooted in the a cappella tradition. This book chronicles the ensemble’s history, the legacy of its six conductors, and its unwavering commitment to musical excellence.
Common Ground
Today’s environmental problems have their origins in how we have lived. This book forges a connection between social and environmental history, exploring how the daily activities of ordinary people shaped our relationship with nature to inform our future.
Docudrama Performs the Past
Docudramas offer performance as persuasion. By re-creating true stories of war, tragedy, and the lives of noteworthy individuals, they perform the past. This performance of memory makes the memories of others our own, shaping public memory itself.
Repetitions of Word Forms in Texts
This book explores how experienced authors use word repetition in research articles, short stories, and speeches. It reveals how repetitions form a genre’s skeleton and which types improve a text, with applications for assessing quality and writing.
Beringia
This study explores the migration of cultures from Asia to North America, presenting linguistic evidence connecting the Athabaskan language family to Siberia. It examines the origins of the first Americans through anthropology, archaeology, and folklore.
Irish religion is being redefined beyond Catholic power and sectarianism. This first-of-its-kind book explores the widespread changes, from new religious movements and migrant religion to the spread of New Age spirituality, in a wide-ranging overview.
Law, Morality, and Abolitionism
Brown University President Francis Wayland denounced slavery as sinful yet respected the laws protecting it. Events forced him to confront his own moral arguments: If slavery violates natural rights, how could he not act? This work explores his journey.
“Show us what you’ve got”
This research addresses how owner/managers of Irish service small medium enterprises (SMEs) execute and manage brands. In an area of study in its infancy, this book provides evidence of the importance and relevance of branding to SMEs.
Contemporary Southeast Asian Performance
This volume offers vital insights into recent developments in Southeast Asian performance. Global communications have inspired novel collaborations, with contemporary artists increasingly working beyond the traditional boundaries of nation and discourses of identity.
Pasolini, Fassbinder and Europe
This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe’s last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.
This volume of Meyerbeer’s non-operatic work is devoted to his secular choral writing for male voices, solo songs with chorus, and songs with instrumental obbligato and local colour. These include patriotic anthems, a tribute to Beethoven, and laments.
This book showcases new approaches to postclassical comedy. The contributions approach New Comedy as theatrical performance and a dynamic player in socio-political discourse, emphasizing its progressiveness and importance for Hellenistic and Roman culture.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer’s cantatas were written for royal and civic commissions to celebrate dynastic events and praise famous men. His powers of lyric beauty and dramatic pomp are amply in evidence, revealing a forgotten side to the great operatic composer.
Religious Reading in the Lutheran North
Religious Reading in the Lutheran North opens up an overlooked part of early modern history. Following the Reformation, high literacy fueled a boom in religious literature across the Nordic countries. This book investigates publication, reading habits, and interpretations.
Romanesque Architecture and its Artistry in Central Europe, 900-1300
This book surveys Romanesque architecture in Central Europe, from palaces and castles to its major churches. It focuses on the artistic ornamentation—from portals to capitals—that transformed these monumental fortresses of God into powerful sermons in stone.
Stage Migrants
This volume investigates how recent migration is reflected in Irish culture, focusing on the representation of outsiders in theatre. It explores debates on national identity, multiculturalism, and racism in plays whose topics are central to any global community.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Once regarded as a great figure of music, with an impact as great as Rossini’s, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber is now neglected. The time has come to reassess his life and work, especially his collaboration with master librettist Eugène Scribe, and hear his elegant music again.
Landscape, Place and Culture
This collection of essays explores the cultural, social, and ecological dimensions of the Australia-India relationship. Through comparative studies of colonial experience, migration, and shared environmental crisis, this work reassesses our relationship to place.
Gardens of Madeira—Gardens of the World
This book explores gardens as cultural and literary expressions of the human condition. Ranging from Madeira to Africa, Asia, and the Americas, it shows how past discourses meet the quests of modern societies for paradises of asylum and encounter.
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