First published in 1991. At once poet, dramatist, adaptor and translator, the operatic librettist in turn expresses and mocks social convention. Deirdre O'Grady's study of the Italian operatic librettist identifies opera as a mirror of literary climates, popular taste and politi…
What happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? Martin Conway provides an innovative account of how a stable, durable, and remarkably uniform model of parliamentary democracy emerged in Western Europe - and how t…
A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's Democratic Age, Ma…