Melancholia is a commonly experienced feeling, and one with a long and fascinating medical history that can be charted back to antiquity. Avoiding the simplistic binary opposition of constructivism and hard realism, this book argues that melancholia was a culture-bound syndrome …
American and European societies, particularly in the long wake of the events of 9/11 and the bombings in Madrid and London, have struggled with the recurrent problem of Islamophobia, which continues to surface in waves of controversial legislative proposals, public anger over th…
"When President Barack Obama visited Cairo in 2009 to deliver an address to Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global Muslim community for granted. But as Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative his…
Donne accès au texte intégral des cinq volumes du Oxford History of Western Music écrit par le musicologue Richard Taruskin sur l’histoire de la musique occidentale. Contient des illustrations, des exemples musicaux ainsi que des bibliographies complémentaires pour chacun des li…
