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Opera and Sovereignty Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226241135, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
584 pp., 25.5x18.7 cm, 26 musical examples, 10 tables, 46 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart".Opera and Sovereignty" is the first book to addres...

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Book in the Renaissance

Pettegree Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300178210, Yale University Press, September 2011
440 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 69 black&white illus.

The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegr...

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Ralph Tailor's Summer A Scrivener, His City and the Plague

Wrightson Keith

ISBN: HB: 9780300174472, Yale University Press, September 2011
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The plague outbreak of 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was one of the most devastating in English history. This hugely moving study looks in detail at its impact on the city through the eyes of a man who stayed as others fled: the scrivener Ralph Tailor....

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Cultural Revolution in Berlin Jews in the Age of Enlightenment

Feiner Shmuel, Naimark-Goldberg Natalie

ISBN: PB: 9781851242917, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2011
104 pp., 24x16 cm, 84 colour illus.

The process of secularization, which is one of the sources of present-day democracy, has its radical origins in eighteenth-century Europe. Criticism of religious norms and discipline, institutions and ideology led to the movement known as the Enlight...

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Medieval

Nuns Behaving Badly Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy

Monson Craig A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226534725, ISBN: HB: 9780226534619, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
264 pp., 22x14 cm, 25 halftones

Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superi...

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Fiction

Europe

Stricken Field A Novel

Gellhorn Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780226286969, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
328 pp., 20.5x13 cm

Martha Gellhorn was one of the first – and most widely read – female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she wa...

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Business & Economics

Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226556741, ISBN: HB: 9780226556659, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 line illus.

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an e...

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Europe

Trieste Adriatic Emporium and Gateway to the Heart of Europe

Kent Neil

ISBN: HB: 9781850658399, Hurst Publishers, August 2011
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Neil Kent's portrait of Trieste fills a major gap in contemporary writing on Italy, an important task bearing in mind that the city is now one of Western Europe's major gateways to the Balkans. It focuses in particular on the l...

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Europe

History

Martian Stranded on Earth Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science

Krementsov Nikolai

ISBN: HB: 9780226454122, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 halftones

Much like Vladimir Lenin, his onetime rival for the leadership of the Bolshevik party during its formative years, Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) was a visionary. In two science fiction novels set on Mars, Bogdanov imagined a future in which the worke...

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Europe

Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany Politics, Intelligence and Propaganda, 1941-43

Hayes Romain

ISBN: HB: 9781849041140, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! On the morning of 3 April 1941, 'Orlando Mazzotta', a man posing as an Italian diplomat, walked up the steps of the German Foreign Office in Berlin. The Under-Secretary of State, Dr Ernst Woermann, immediately received him and...

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