"Jacobitism was the ascendant political ideology in Irish Catholic society between the Battle of the Boyne and the outbreak of the French Revolution. This book offers the first analytic study of Irish Jacobitism in English, spanning the period between the succession of James II …
Presents an introduction to the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as the musical environment that shaped and inspired him.
Bach and the High Baroque
by Teaching Company, Greenberg, Robert
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Presents an introduction to the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as the musical environment that shaped and inspired him.
Music of the Baroque: History, Culture, and Performance takes inspiration from the field of cultural history. The emphasis is on questions of performativity how audiences perceived, reacted to, and identified with musical works and performances. The author illuminates representa…
A Nation of Women provides a history of the significance of gender in Lenape/Delaware encounters with Europeans, and a history of women in these encounters.
This volume recounts the clashes and intrigues that played out over the landscape of the Old Southwest and across six decades as the Spanish, French, British, and ultimately Americans vied for control. Rivalry began soon after initial discovery, mapping, and exploration as the w…
"This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Flor…