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Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy: Richard Rorty: From Pragmatist Philosophy to Cultural Politics (Hardcover)

Richard Rorty was one of the most important philosophers of the last half of the twentieth century. His work helped effect global transformations in the way philosophy thinks about its work and role midst contemporary culture. He was influential... more

Marx / Bochum Symphony Orchestra - Orchestral Works 1 - Music & Performance - CD

Joseph Marx was one of the leading figures of Austrian musical culture during his lifetime but his music was out of step with 20th-century Modernism and most of his music disappeared from concert programmes after his death. The Natur-Trilogie is a... more

Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orchestral Works 3 - Music & Performance - CD

From the diversity of Bulgarian musical culture Pancho Vladigerov stands out as undoubtedly the most important composer for the musical self-conception of modern Bulgaria. As the mentor of generations of Bulgarian composers in the 20th century up to... more

Ives String Quartet - String Quartets 1-4 - Music & Performance - CD

Quincy Porter was one of a diverse generation of American composers who played a significant role in shaping and directing American musical culture in the mid-twentieth century. Although his orchestral works attracted considerable attention in.... more

Paul Robeson - On My Journey - Music & Performance - CD

An American giant of 20th-century music Paul Robeson stood tall against racism McCarthyism and blacklisting to proclaim the majesty of African-American culture. Recorded on his own Othello label in the 1950s Robeson s voice rings out with... more

Hal Leonard 20th Century French Music for Guitar-Max Eschig

21 compositions by Auric Fran�aix Poulenc Segovia Tansman and more. Includes historical commentary. 20th-Century French Music for Guitar encapsulates a variety of genres and styles closely aligned to French culture and taste and exhibits... more

Oviedo Filarmonia - Suite Veneziana / Tryptichon / Divertimento - Music & Performance - CD

Wolf-Ferrari is famous for his operatic works in which he invented a new idiom by transplanting 18th-century Venetian culture into the 20th century. But almost all of the composer s orchestral music dates from his final years and occupies a... more

Pre-Owned The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation (Hardcover 9781732321243) by Carolyn Vaughan Jill McCleary Jonathan Mabry

Artists from Lorna Simpson to Andy Warhol explore the iconography and culture of food Showing how artists in the 20th and 21st centuries have considered this universal subject The Art of Food provides a lens with which to examine food beyond its... more

Six Pillars: Introductions to the Works of Sri Aurobindo (Paperback)

Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) was one of the great twentieth-century figures of India. Over the course of his lifetime he helped India s struggle for freedom and became a leading yogi philosopher and poet of his time and culture. In his teaching Sri... more

This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers (Paperback)

This book is not a before-and-after story. Our culture treats suffering like a problem to fix a blight to hide or the sad start of a transformation story. We silently secretly wither under the pressure of living as though suffering is a predicament... more

Pre-Owned Irving Berlin s Show Business : Broadway - Hollywood - America 9780810958913

Few artists have left as profound a mark on 20th-century culture as did Irving Berlin. Starting in New York s Tin Pan Alley in 1907 and continuing to Broadway and Hollywood Berlin enraptured Americans with such songs as Alexander s Ragtime Band... more

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture: Hieroglyphic Modernisms: Writing and New Media in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)

Explores hieroglyphs as a metaphor for the relationship between new media and writing in British modernism In the British Museum one object attracts more tourists than any other: the Rosetta Stone. The decipherment of the Stone by Jean-François... more

Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Centur Finding Democracy in Music Book 6 (Hardcover)

For a century and more the idea of democracy has fuelled musicians 　imaginations. Seeking to go beyond music s proven capacity to contribute to specific political causes musicians have explored how aspects of their practice embody democratic... more

Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Lup Sex Sea and Self: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses 1924-1948 (Paperback)

Sex Sea and Self reassesses the place of the French Antilles and French Caribbean literature within current postcolonial thought and visions of the Black Atlantic. Using a feminist lens this study examines neglected twentieth-century French texts by... more

Perspectives in Economic and Social Hist Workers Unions and Payment in Kind: The Fight for Real Wages in Britain 1820-1914 (Hardcover)

Despite the dramatic expansion of consumer culture from the beginning of the eighteenth century onwards and the developments in retailing advertising and credit relationships in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there were a significant number... more

Memory Studies: Global Constellations Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels (Hardcover)

This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries the discussion draws attention to the ongoing role of visual culture in framing... more

Marx Engels and Marxisms: Intellectuals and Communist Culture: Itineraries Problems and Debates in Post-War Argentina (Hardcover)

This book investigates a central chapter in the history of 20th century intellectualism: the commitment to the communist ideal and the Soviet Union. Focusing on Argentina whose communist party was among the most important in Latin America Petra... more

New Directions in Latino American Cultures: Punto de Vista and the Argentine Intellectual Left (Hardcover)

This book is the first comprehensive account of the Argentine magazine Punto de Vista (1978-2008) a cultural review that gathered together prominent Argentine intellectuals throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century. Directed by cultural... more

Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Lite Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature culture and empire (Paperback)

Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt examines the link between cosmopolitanism in Egypt from the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century and colonialism. While it has been widely noted that such a relationship exists the nature and impact... more

Recreating First Contact : Expeditions Anthropology and Popular Culture (Hardcover)

Recreating First Contact explores themes related to the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the early twentieth century and that were legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology. During this period new... more

Children s Literature and Culture Children s Literature and New York City (Hardcover)

This collection explores the significance of New York City in children s literature stressing literary political and societal influences on writing for young people from the twentieth century to the present day. Contextualized in light of... more

Transnational Italian Cultures Searching for Japan: 20th Century Italy s Fascination with Japanese Culture Book 3 (Hardcover)

This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the... more

Oxford Studies in Dance Theory Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century (Paperback)

Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy.... more

Key Concepts: Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts (Paperback)

The French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is now recognised as one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. In a career of over fifty years Bourdieu studied a wide range of topics: education culture art politics economics literature law... more

Key Concepts Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts (Hardcover)

The French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is now recognised as one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. In a career of over fifty years Bourdieu studied a wide range of topics: education culture art politics economics literature law... more

Directions in Cultural History Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History (Paperback)

Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History explores the dream as a distinctively modern object of inquiry and as a fundamental aspect of identity and culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. While dreams have been a sustained object of... more

Directions in Cultural History Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History (Hardcover)

Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History explores the dream as a distinctively modern object of inquiry and as a fundamental aspect of identity and culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. While dreams have been a sustained object of... more

Culture of Western Europe Vol. 3 : The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 9780813306230 Used / Pre-owned

A revised and updated edition of this established cultural history has a new opening chapter and a new conclusion which frame the book s examination of the interplay between eighteenth-century rationa CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or... more

Palgrave Studies in Literature Culture and Economics: Modernist Poetics in China: Consumerist Economics and Chinese Literary Modernism (Hardcover)

This book examines organizations of consumerist economics which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China in relation to modernist poetics. Consumerist economics include the... more

Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts 1980-2020 (Hardcover)

This book examines trauma in late twentieth- and twenty-first century American popular culture. Trauma has become a central paradigm for reading contemporary American culture. Since the early 1980s an extensive range of genres increasingly feature... more

Oxford Studies in American Literary Hist Literature in the Making: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

In the eighteenth century literature meant learned writings; by the twentieth century literature had come to be identified with imaginative aesthetically significant works and academic literary studies had developed special protocols for... more

Studies in American Thought and Culture: Ernest Hemingway : Thought in Action (Paperback)

Ernest Hemingway’s groundbreaking prose style and examination of timeless themes made him one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. Yet in Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action Mark Cirino observes “Literary criticism... more

Race and American Culture Who Set You Flowin ?: The African-American Migration Narrative (Hardcover)

Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin ? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization identifying the... more

Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power: Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan : Kuki Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics (Series #5) (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

During the interwar years in Japan discourse on culture turned sharply inward after generations of openness to Western ideas. The characterizations that arose-that Japanese culture is unique essential and enduring-came to be accepted both inside and... more

Oswald Spengler ALS Europaisches Phanomen : Der Transfer Der Kultur- Und Geschichtsmorphologie Im Europa Der Zwischenkriegszeit 1919-1939 (Hardcover)

English summary: There was hardly another German author from the first half of the 20th century who was quoted reviewed and criticized so often in the time immediately after World War I as the philosopher of culture and history Oswald Spengler... more

Rhyming Hope and History (Paperback)

The subject of culture has provided theologians with a whole new realm of exploration. By the turn of the twentieth century and the beginning of this new milennium the subject of culture had presented itself to theologians and church leaders for... more

Pre-Owned A World Made Safe for Differences : Cold War Intellectuals and the Politics of Identity 9780847690572

In A World Made Safe for Differences Christopher Shannon examines how an anthropological definition of culture shaped the central political and social narratives of the Cold War era. In the middle decades of the twentieth century American... more

American History: Mary Hunter Austin: A Female Writer s Protest Against the First World War in the United States (Paperback)

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) is often referred to as an important American writer of the early decades of the 20th century with much of her work concerning nature and Native American culture. Hunter Austin was also considered to be one of the... more