Deep thoughts are lightly expressed in this distillation of nearly forty years' experience and study.
This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of the way folk music intersected with, and was structured by, conceptions of national affinity and national identity. Based…
The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga s…
This is a monumental work describing the main developments of world economy in the postWW II period. The term ``world economy'' covers industrialized areas in Western Europe, North America, and Japan. Since the 1960s, the Eastern bloc and the Third World were added to this defin…
The literary legacies of World War II have been mixed, especially in West Germany and Japan, where the burden of defeat has been expressed by novelists and intellectuals in strikingly different ways. Reflecting the cultural differences between the two nations, and the experience…
