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Download or read book Beyond Bach written by Andrew Talle and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverence for J. S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, however, Bach stood as just another figure among a number of composers, many of them more popular with the music-loving public. Eschewing the great composer style of music history, Andrew Talle takes us on a journey that looks at how ordinary people made music in Bach's Germany. Talle focuses in particular on the culture of keyboard playing as lived in public and private. As he ranges through a wealth of documents, instruments, diaries, account ledgers, and works of art, Talle brings a fascinating cast of characters to life. These individuals--amateur and professional performers, patrons, instrument builders, and listeners--inhabited a lost world, and Talle's deft expertise teases out the diverse roles music played in their lives and in their relationships with one another. At the same time, his nuanced re-creation of keyboard playing's social milieu illuminates the era's reception of Bach's immortal works.
Book Synopsis Europa im Ostblock by : José M. Faraldo
Download or read book Europa im Ostblock written by José M. Faraldo and published by Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. This book was released on 2008 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe by : Fabio Giomi
Download or read book Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe written by Fabio Giomi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s, neoliberals have openly contested the idea that the state should protect the socio-economic well-being of its citizens, making ‘privatization’ their mantra. Yet, as historians and social scientists have shown, welfare has always been a ‘mixed economy’, wherein private and public actors dynamically interacted, collaborating or competing with each other in the provision of welfare services. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of welfare by developing three innovative approaches. Firstly, it illuminates the productive nature of public/private entanglements. Far from amounting to a zero-sum game, the interactions between the two sectors have changed over time what welfare encompasses, its contents and targets, often engendering the creation of new fields of intervention. Secondly, this book departs from a well-established tradition of comparison between Western nation-states by using and mixing various scales of analysis (local, national, international and global) and by covering case studies from Spain to Poland and France to Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thirdly, this book goes beyond state centrism in welfare studies by bringing back a host of public and private actors, from municipalities to international organizations, from older charities to modern NGOs. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Book Synopsis Political Beethoven by : Nicholas Mathew
Download or read book Political Beethoven written by Nicholas Mathew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Beethoven explores Beethoven's music as an active participant in political life from the Napoleonic Wars to the present day.
Book Synopsis European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 by : Dina Gusejnova
Download or read book European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 written by Dina Gusejnova and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century political practice and the project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access.
Book Synopsis The African Roots of Marijuana by : Chris S. Duvall
Download or read book The African Roots of Marijuana written by Chris S. Duvall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereotypes—shaped widespread myths about the plant and were used to depict the continent as a cultural backwater and Africans as predisposed to drug use. These myths continue to influence contemporary thinking about cannabis. In The African Roots of Marijuana, Chris S. Duvall corrects common misconceptions while providing an authoritative history of cannabis as it flowed into, throughout, and out of Africa. Duvall shows how preexisting smoking cultures in Africa transformed the plant into a fast-acting and easily dosed drug and how it later became linked with global capitalism and the slave trade. People often used cannabis to cope with oppressive working conditions under colonialism, as a recreational drug, and in religious and political movements. This expansive look at Africa's importance to the development of human knowledge about marijuana will challenge everything readers thought they knew about one of the world's most ubiquitous plants.
Book Synopsis Resettlers and Survivors by : Gaëlle Fisher
Download or read book Resettlers and Survivors written by Gaëlle Fisher and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located on the border of present-day Romania and Ukraine, the historical region of Bukovina was the site of widespread displacement and violence as it passed from Romanian to Soviet hands and back again during World War II. This study focuses on two groups of “Bukovinians”—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—as they navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in and after 1945. Through comparisons of the narratives and self-conceptions of these groups, Resettlers and Survivors gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring Bukovina’s significance for them as both a geographical location and a “place of memory.”
Book Synopsis Occupy World Street by : J. T. Ross Jackson
Download or read book Occupy World Street written by J. T. Ross Jackson and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occupy World Street offers a sweeping vision of how to reform our global economic and political structures, break away from empire, and build a world of self-determining sovereign states that respect the need for ecological sustainability and uphold human rights.
Book Synopsis Declining Democracy in East-Central Europe by : Attila Ágh
Download or read book Declining Democracy in East-Central Europe written by Attila Ágh and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic decline of democracy in East-Central Europe has attracted great interest world-wide. Going beyond the narrow spectrum of the extensive literature on this topic, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of ECE region – Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia – from systemic change in 1989 to 2019 to explain the reasons of the collapse of ECE democratic systems in the 2010s.
Book Synopsis The New Totalitarian Temptation by : Todd Huizinga
Download or read book The New Totalitarian Temptation written by Todd Huizinga and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What caused the eurozone debacle and the chaos in Greece? Why has Europe’s migrant crisis spun out of control, over the heads of national governments? Why is Great Britain calling a vote on whether to leave the European Union? Why are established political parties declining across the continent while protest parties rise? All this is part of the whirlwind that EU elites are reaping from their efforts to create a unified Europe without meaningful accountability to average voters. The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe is a must-read if you want to understand how the European Union got to this point and what the European project fundamentally is. This is the first book to identify the essence of the EU in a utopian vision of a supranationally governed world, an aspiration to achieve universal peace through a global legal order. The ambitions of the global governancers are unlimited. They seek to transform not just the world’s political order, but the social order as well—discarding basic truths about human nature and the social importance of tradition in favor of a human rights policy defined by radical autonomy and unfettered individual choice. And the global governance ideology at the heart of the EU is inherently antidemocratic. EU true believers are not swayed by the common sense of voters, nor by reality itself. Because the global governancers aim to transfer core powers of all nations to supranational organizations, the EU is on a collision course with the United States. But the utopian ideas of global governance are taking root here too, even as the European project flames into rancor and turmoil. America and Europe are still cultural cousins; we stand or fall together. The EU can yet be reformed, and a commitment to democratic sovereignty can be renewed on both sides of the Atlantic.
Book Synopsis Tax Evasion and Tax Havens since the Nineteenth Century by : Sébastien Guex
Download or read book Tax Evasion and Tax Havens since the Nineteenth Century written by Sébastien Guex and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective book offers a panorama of the history of tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax havens from the nineteenth century to the present day, based on the latest research in contemporary history. It aims to show that this phenomenon is at the heart of global capitalism, partly as a response of the ruling classes to the rise of progressive taxation, but for other reasons too: notably the development of a powerful tax evasion and avoidance industry in different countries. The book argues that tax competition between states has stimulated the development of tax havens. It discusses the notion of the ‘tax haven’ and proposes a more rigorous concept - that of the ‘tax predator’. Finally, the book sheds light on the socio-political conflicts that have developed around tax evasion and the way in which states have fought against or tolerated the phenomenon.
Book Synopsis Das neue Europa by : Μαργαρίτα Μαθιοπούλου
Download or read book Das neue Europa written by Μαργαρίτα Μαθιοπούλου and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Energie und Stadt in Europa by : Dieter Schott
Download or read book Energie und Stadt in Europa written by Dieter Schott and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dem Herausgeber ist es gelungen, hervorragende Fachleute in einem abgerundeten und, so lasst sich zusammenfassend sagen, wegweisenden Band zur Geschichte der stadtischen Energiefrage im Europa der Neuzeit zusammenzufuhren." Technikgeschichte Inhalt: Dieter Schott: Einfuhrung: Energie und Stadt in Europa. Von der vorindustriellen ,Holznotae bis zur Olkrise der 1970er Jahre Joachim Radkau: Das Ratsel der stadtischen Brennholzversorgung im "holzernen Zeitalter" Bill Luckin: Town, Country and Metropolis: The Formation of an Air Pollution Problem in London, 1800-1870 Jean Lorcin: Le "socialisme municipal" et l'electrification des villes francaises: frein ou accelerateur? Le cas de Saint-Etienne Alexandre Fernandez: La gestion des reseaux electriques par les grandes villes francaises, vers 1880 - vers 1930 Uwe Kuhl: Anfange stadtischer Elektrifizierung in Deutschland und Frankreich Gerhard Melinz: Gas und Elektrizitat als Elemente "stadtischer Leistungsverwaltung"? Kommunalisierungsprozesse und -strategien in Wien, Prag und Budapest im Kontext von politischen und okonomischen Interessen (1860-1918) Dieter Schott: Power for Industry: Electrification and its strategic use for industrial promotion. The case of Mannheim Marjolein aet Hart: Energy supply, energy saving and local government in twentieth century Netherlands. (Franz Steiner 1997)
Book Synopsis Helfer der Armen – Hüter der Öffentlichkeit / Guardians of the Poor – Custiodians of the Public by : Sabine Hering
Download or read book Helfer der Armen – Hüter der Öffentlichkeit / Guardians of the Poor – Custiodians of the Public written by Sabine Hering and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2006-03-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bi-lingual book describes the results of case studies about the history of social work in Eastern Europe between 1900 and 1960 in eight countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Slovenia. In diesem zweisprachigen Buch geht es um die Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojekts über die Geschichte der Sozialen Arbeit in Osteuropa in den Jahren zwischen 1900 und 1960, an dem acht Länder beteiligt waren: Bulgarien, Kroatien, Lettland, Polen, Rumänien, Russland, Slowenien und Ungarn.
Book Synopsis Manual of public examinations by : Sydney univ
Download or read book Manual of public examinations written by Sydney univ and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Empresses and Queens in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century by : Marion Romberg
Download or read book Empresses and Queens in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century written by Marion Romberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight case studies focus on a specific group of European Empress consorts and Queen regnants from the 17th to the 20th century and their relationship to the media, using a unique, comparative, cross-media, and cross-period approach.
Book Synopsis Cosmopolitan Vision by : Ulrich Beck
Download or read book Cosmopolitan Vision written by Ulrich Beck and published by Polity. This book was released on 2006-04-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses of such phenomena as migration, war and terror, as well as a range of literary and historical works, to weave a rich discursive web in which analytical, critical and methodological themes intertwine effortlessly. Contrasting a ‘cosmopolitan vision’ or ‘outlook’ sharpened by awareness of the transformative and transgressive impacts of globalization with the ‘national outlook’ neurotically fixated on the familiar reference points of a world of nations-states-borders, sovereignty, exclusive identities-Beck shows how even opponents of globalization and cosmopolitanism are trapped by the logic of reflexive modernization into promoting the very processes they are opposing. A persistent theme running through the book is the attempt to recover an authentically European tradition of cosmopolitan openness to otherness and tolerance of difference. What Europe needs, Beck argues, is the courage to unite forms of life which have grown out of language, skin colour, nationality or religion with awareness that, in a radically insecure world, all are equal and everyone is different.
