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An incisive exploration of two works whose revival is a milestone in modern musical life: Margaret Bonds's Montgomery Variations and Credo - now receiving the recognition long denied them. This brief, yet informative, appraisal introduces readers to masterworks that, though originating in the mid-twentieth century, speak directly to our own age"--

Based on multi-year ethnographic fieldwork on the Unemployed Workers' Movement in Argentina (also known as the piqueteros), Proletarian Lives provides a case study of how workers affected by job loss protect their traditional forms of life by engaging in progressive grassroots mobilization. Using life-history interviews and participant observation, the book analyzes why some activists develop a strong attachment to the movement despite initial...

Susan Kellogg's history of the Aztecs offers a concise yet comprehensive assessment of Aztec history and civilization, emphasizing how material life and the economy functioned in relation to politics, religion, and intellectual and artistic developments. Appreciating the vast number of sources available but also their limitations, Kellogg focuses on three concepts throughout - value, transformation, and balance. Aztecs created value, material,...

Contributing to the growing debate around the definition of Mediterranean noir, Barbara Pezzotti's groundbreaking study is the first in English to propose a rigorous classification of Mediterranean crime fiction. Intersecting crime fiction studies and Mediterranean studies, this interdisciplinary book provides a coherent and stringent definition in which the Mediterranean setting is not in the background, but is a meaningful arena where transn...

The first in-depth historical study of the origins of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movements of the last fifty years. The book will appeal to anyone interested in how classical music developed in the late twentieth century"--

This Element provides an overview of how the ancient thinkers (Anaxagoras, Plato and Aristotle) theorised about properties, such overview puts in relief the inquiries, problems and solutions they were pursuing while engaged in dialogue with each other. It examines alternative philosophical perspectives existing in antiquity concerning the explanation of property qualification, qualitative similarity, compositeness, and oneness. It further argu...

This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450-1500. It is aimed at those interested in Latin, medieval culture, the history of Britain, and the important role of Latin beside English and French in the Middle Ages.

This volume examines how Black women across the American South employed various forms of resistance and survival strategies to navigate the tumultuous Civil War and Reconstruction era. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in African American history, gender studies, and the Civil War and Reconstruction era.

Indispensable for students and scholars of Latin literature, ancient rhetoric, and Roman law, this new critical edition, destined to become the new standard, is accompanied by a thorough commentary that overturns long-held assumptions about Roman legal procedure and reveals Cicero's innovative rhetorical manipulation of the occasion.

This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450-1500. It is aimed at those interested in Latin, medieval culture, the history of Britain, and the important role of Latin beside English and French in the Middle Ages.

This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450âEUR"1500. It is aimed at those interested in Latin, medieval culture, the history of Britain, and the important role of Latin beside English and French in the Middle Ages.

This volume examines how Black women across the American South employed various forms of resistance and survival strategies to navigate the tumultuous Civil War and Reconstruction era. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in African American history, gender studies, and the Civil War and Reconstruction era.

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Through a careful study of the surviving fragmentary evidence, Giovanni Parmeggiani throws new light on the lost Histories of the fourth-century BC Greek historian Ephorus of Cyme, the first, according to Polybius, to have written a universal history.