What was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century?In 1854, singing master Manuel Garcia became the first person to see the vocal cords at work in a human throat. Less than...
Islam, Political Cost, and the Practice of Democracy in Greece
Dimitris Antoniou
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512827163
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
An ethnography of a long-unbuilt mosque in Greece that explores government operations and contemporary democracyWhy Not Build the Mosque? tells the story of the Greek state’s centuries-long attempt...
A cultural history of speech in medieval ItalyThe Unruly Tongue, a cultural history of speech in medieval Italy, offers a new account of how the power of words changed in Western thought. Despite the...
Ofer Ashkenazi, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Rebekka Grossmann and Shira Miron
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781512826357
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
How German Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National SocialismStill Lives is a systematic study of the ways Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the...
Explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century IndiaEmpire of Contingency explores the information and communication practices of...
How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the HolocaustThe Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing...
A corrective to conventional accounts of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I in medieval IberiaAcclaimed historians Bernard F. Reilly and Simon R. Doubleday tell the story of the reign of...
The Rise and Decline of a Venetian Family in the Century of the Black Death
Alan M. Stahl
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512826197
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
How a lower patrician Venetian family strove for status and wealth over the course of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuriesThe House of Condulmer tells the story of a lower patrician Venetian...
José Ortega y Gasset’s Liberalism Against Populism
Brendon Westler
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512826005
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist best known for The Revolt of the Masses, first translated into English in 1932. In it, Ortega critiques a populist deformation...
