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The early 19th century was a period of acute transition in operatic tradition and style, when time-honoured practices gave way to the developing aesthetics of Romanticism, and the heroic, the masculine, and the feminine were profoundly reconfigured. This book traces the development of female characters in these first decades of the century.

A thoroughly up-to-date revision of a landmark textbook.

Focuses on modernism as a global phenomenon. This work considers modernism as it was expressed in the non-Western world; the contradictions at the heart of modernization; and modernism's imagined geographies, "pyschogeographies" of distance and desire as viewed by the subaltern, the caste-bound, the racially mixed, and the gender-determined.

This photographed, compact field guide pays homage to sweet-flags, ragged-fringed orchids, swamp thistles, and more.

A vivid account of ritual, power, and social inequality in rural India.

A beautiful volume which captures the romance, beauty, and vitality of a bygone era

Rebellious generations and the emergence of new feminisms

A selection of the History Book Club, this book talks about the historical circumstances and political conditions of the contending adversaries, the strategic thinking and the personalities of the military commanders, the tactical manoeuvring on the field of battle, the role of armaments and technology, and the performance of the soldiers.

Covers revolutionary women leaders in the Paris Commune.

Publius Papinius Statius lived from the 40s to the mid-90s AD. In his teens he moved to Rome, and there, some years later, he embarked on his own career in poetry. This title presents an introduction that locates Statius in his historical and literary context, considers the importance of his "Silvae", and presents a brief history of the text.

Offers an introduction to Martin Heidegger's second important work, "Contributions to Philosophy" (From Enowning). This title reflects Heidegger's struggle to think at the edge of words and to bring to language what remains beyond the written or the spoken.

Looks into the essence of Heidegger's thought and engages the philosopher's transformative thinking with contemporary Western culture. This work examines Heidegger's translations of Greek philosophy and his interpretations and displacements of anthropology, ethics and politics, science and aesthetics.

A powerful and original engagement with France's most influential philosophers.

Features 15 essays which explore the resources that continental philosophy brings to debates about contemporary race theory and investigate the racism of some of Europe's most important thinkers. This volume provides a critical introduction to various perspectives on thinking about race and racism.

Presents the story of the Yugoslav cinema of the 1980s and addresses major film developments that have taken place in the former Yugoslavia's five successor states. This title situates the developments within the context of film economics, state subsidies, and changing patterns of political control.

Cultural theorists see contemporary society marked by radical hybridity in manifold social practices. This title is about cultural memory as a history of seeing and writing.

Featuring Indiana's wildflowers such as the herbaceous species - a total of 1,568 - recorded in Indiana (except grasses, sedges, and rushes), this title contains 640 color photographs, one for every group of visually similar species. Each species entry includes the scientific name, the common name, habitats, and a brief description of the plant.

Now back in print in a new edition!A Century of AmbivalenceThe Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the PresentSecond, Expanded EditionZvi GitelmanA richly illustrated survey of the Jewish historical experience in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet era.Anyone with even a passing interest in the history of Russian Jewry will want to own this splendid... book."e; -Janet Hadda, Los Angeles Times... a badly needed historical perspective on Soviet Jewry.... [Gitelman] is evenhanded in his treatment of various periods and themes, as well as in his overall evaluation of the Soviet Jewish experience.... A Century of Ambivalence is illuminated by an extraordinary collection of photographs that vividly reflect the hopes, triumphs and agonies of Russian Jewish life."e; -David E. Fishman, Hadassah Magazine Wonderful pictures of famous personalities, unknown villagers, small hamlets, markets and communal structures combine with the text to create an uplifting [book] for a broad and general audience."e; -Alexander Orbach, Slavic ReviewGitelman's text provides an important commentary and careful historic explanation.... His portrayal of the promise and disillusionment, hope and despair, intellectual restlessness succeeded by swift repression enlarges the reader's understanding of the dynamic forces behind some of the most important movements in contemporary Jewish life."e; -Jane S. Gerber, Bergen Jewish News... a lucid and reasonably objective popular history that expertly threads its way through the dizzying reversals of the Russian Jewish experience."e; -Village VoiceA century ago the Russian Empire contained the largest Jewish community in the world, numbering about five million people. Today, the Jewish population of the former Soviet Union has dwindled to half a million, but remains probably the world's third largest Jewish community. In the intervening century the Jews of that area have

Demonstrates the existence of a coherent pre-Islamic Arabian myth that was subsequently incorporated into Islamic poetic tradition. This book dissects the Arab-Islamic myth built around Muhammad's unearthing of a "golden bough" from the grave of the last survivor of an ancient Arab people.

Provides a "picture of Chinese literature of the past" that illustrates the four great literary genres of China: the classics, prose, poetry, and the literature of entertainment. This book combines personal insights with innovative historical accounts in a genre-based approach that aims to move beyond the typical chronology of dynasties.

Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, literary works, and other sources, the author reconstructs the fascinating story of how Portuguese immigrant - merchants, professionals, and intellectuals, for the most part - reasserted their Judaism, while maintaining their Iberian heritage.

A medieval Arab-Islamic folk romance, this book offers unusual perspectives on issues of gender, religion, race, and ethnicity, as woven into the art of an oral narrative. The folk are composed between the 13th and 16th centuries during the Mamluk age.

Consists of 30 essays, most of them written by Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian scholars. The essays herein reflect a multiplicity of projects, ranging from explicitly national issues to quite "universal" themes such as signs of media, cinema, music, writing, actoriality, gastronomy, mental illness, language, habitus, distinction, and more.

An important historical account by a senior official of the South Vietnamese government, covering the period after World War II to the end of the Vietnam War.

Presents an introduction to the field of cultural semiotics. This book features practical examples of how semiotics can be used. It is suitable for those who want to understand the whys and wherefores of semiotics.

Develops new historical methods to discover the Chicana's own story.

Explores what the last few decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. This book proposes new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world.

The role of gender in making and shaping mathematicians.

Presents an account of the religious dimension of Jacques Derrida's thought.

A work that presents the registrational practices of organists from 1550 to 1800. Along with the many stoplists and discussions of performance traditions, it discusses the religious and political context for each period and region - and how these affected the work of composers and organ builders.