Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting traces the history of what was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century. From parrots and preachers to stammerers and singers, the book delves not only into changing medical norms and musical ideals but also into the sometimes painful and awkward daily work of having a voice.
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
Why Not Build the Mosque explores the Greek state’s attempts to build a mosque. Looking at the project’s decades-long history of failure and its bittersweet realization in 2020, Dimitris Antoniou demonstrates the productivity of unrealized plans and sheds light on what it takes for things to happen in contemporary democracies.
The Unruly Tongue explores the process through which science and medicine, politics, law, literature, and theology informed a new ethics of speech. Offering a new account of the power of words in Western thought, Melissa Vise shows how the regulation of speech became integral to republican values in medieval Europe.
Ofer Ashkenazi, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Rebekka Grossmann and Shira Miron
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781512826357
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Still Lives reveals how Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National Socialism. Based on analysis of more than fifteen thousand images, it explores the efforts of Jews to make sense of the changing landscapes of Germany, justify their decisions under Nazism, and communicate their hopes, anxieties, and self-perceptions.
Through extensive archival research on the information gathering, record-keeping, and diplomatic correspondence of Portuguese officials, Jorge Flores demonstrates how the Portuguese territories along the western coast of India were incorporated into the Persianate cultural sphere.
The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Occupied Words explores how Yiddish words created during the Shoah, or Khurbn Yiddish, operated as a form of Holocaust memory and as a testament to the sensation of speech under genocidal conditions.
Medieval Iberia was a complex space of intertwined powers and nuanced relationships between Christian and Muslim rulers. Exploring the interplay of crown and elites, underscoring the role of royal women, and rejecting the Reconquista paradigm, León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I reenvisions a pivotal stage in European history.
