The story goes that under the influence of blues and rock and roll, Britain suddenly started making spectacularly great music in the 1960s like some clever, quick learning cultural satellite of America. But Britain's mid twentieth-century pop music explosion didn't happen from a standing start. The reasons something so dazzling and multifaceted ......
This monograph is the first new study of a pivotal character in colonial, revolutionary and federal relations with the Amerindian tribes of western Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and the old Northwest. Butler, an Irish born merchant, trader and soldier on the uneasy borderlands of European settlement and tribal territory, made his way to influence ......
In this work by F. Willard Brown, the author presents established facts on a range of topics - from education to religious belief to health and wellness - that are crucial for an understanding of life, but often remain strikingly unknown to the public. Professor Brown explains how our species has evolved a superior intelligence yet lacks in ......
In 2013, Julie Burchill wrote a mischievous piece in the Observer to defend her friend Suzanne Moore. Burchill had not anticipated the vitriolic reaction that her words would provoke. She was pursued by the outrage mob, and there were even calls in the British House of Commons for her to be fired from her job. After that, Burchill - now known as ......
In 2013, the journalist Julie Burchill wrote a mischievous newspaper column defending a friend against political extremists. She was pursued by an outraged mob, denounced in Parliament and never published in that paper - or any other - for many years. Welcome To The Woke Trials is part-memoir and part-indictment of what happened to her between ......
Theodor Adorno famously proclaimed that the model of Kurt Weill's music could not be repeated. Weill's works for the stage nevertheless set an inescapable precedent for composers on both sides of the Atlantic. In Weill, Blitzstein, Bernstein, distinguished musicologist Rebecca Schmid explores how Weill's formal innovations laid the groundwork for ......
The Romantic Movement, the Re/creation of Islamic Andalusia and the Critical Reception
This research monograph breaks new ground in discussing (in English) the impact of Washington Irving's presence in Spain and the effect of his writings on Spanish topics by Spain's critics and general readership. Spanish critics, scholars and translators were and are active in assessing Irving's literary style, scholarly grasp and cultural ......
Indian counterinsurgency has expanded steadily over the years, adding a new region in each decade since the 1950s. Beginning with Nagaland, these wars without a name have followed a remarkably consistent pattern throughout the Northeast, in Punjab, Kashmir, and the central Indian Tribal Belt up to the present day. Such shared features as blanket ......
The Military History of Chukotka from the Early First Millennium to theNineteenth Century
Alexander Nefedkin's highly original new book, translated by the noted American scholar Richard L. Bland, is devoted to the understudied topic of the military and military-political history of Chukotka, the far northeastern region of the Russian Federation, separated from Alaska by Bering Strait. This study is based on primary sources, including ......
