Author: Elaine Kelly File Type: pdf This significant volume moves music-historical research in the direction of deconstructing the national grand narratives in music history, of challenging the national paradigm in methodology, and thinking anew about cultural traffic, cultural transfer and cosmopolitanism in the musical past. The chapters of this book confront, or subject to some kind of critique, assumptions about the importance of the national in the musical past. The emphasis, therefore, is not so much on how national culture has been constructed, or how national cultural institutions have influenced musical production, but, rather, on the way the national has been challenged by musical practices or audience reception. **About the Author Elaine Kelly is a senior lecturer in Music at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on the intersections between music, culture, politics, and intellectual history in nineteenth and twentieth-century Germany, with a particular focus on the German Democratic Republic. She is author of Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Music (OUP, 2014), editor together with Amy Wlodarski of Art Outside the Lines New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture (Rodopi, 2011), and has published her work in venues such as the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Opera Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Music, Kritika, and Music & Letters. Markus Mantere is a lecturer of musicology at Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland. His special areas are music history, musical performance studies, and T.W. Adornos music philosophy. Manteres most recent work is focused on the intellectual and social history of musicology in Finland. He is the author of The Gould Variations Technology, Philosophy and Criticism in Glenn Goulds Musical Thought and Practice (Peter Lang 2012) and editor together with Vesa Kurkela of Critical Music Historiography Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions (Ashgate 2015). Mantere is the Chair of the Finnish Society of Musicology since 2014. Derek B. Scott is Professor of Critical Musicology at the University of Leeds. His research field is music, cultural history, and ideology, and his books include Sounds of the Metropolis The 19th-Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna (2008), and Musical Style and Social Meaning (2010). He was the General Editor of Ashgates Popular and Folk Music Series for fifteen years, overseeing the publication of more than 100 books between 2000 and 2015. His present research is funded by a European Research Council advanced grant, and focuses on the reception in London and New York of operettas from the German stage, 19071938.

Author: Timothy May File Type: pdf As the largest contiguous empire in history, the Mongol Empire looms large in history it permanently changed the map of Eurasia as well as how the world was viewed. As the empire expanded, the Mongols were alternately seen as liberators, destroyers, and harbingers of apocalyptic doom. At the same time, they ushered in an era of religious tolerance and cross-cultural transmission. This book explores the rise and establishment of the Mongol Empire under Chinggis Khan, as well as its expansion and evolution under his successors. It also examines the successor states (Ilkhanate, Chaghatayid Khanate, the Jochid Ulus (Golden Horde), and the Yuan Empire) from the dissolution of the empire in 1260 to the end of each state. They are compared in order to reveal how the empire functioned not only at the imperial level but how regional differences manifested. **

Author: Oona Hathaway File Type: epub It will change the way you remember the 20th century and read the news in the 21st Steven PinkerA clarion call to preserve law and order across our planet Philippe SandsA fascinating and important book ... given the state of the world, The Internationalists has come along at the right moment Margaret MacMillan, Financial TimesSince the end of the Second World War, we have moved from an international system in which war was legal, and accepted as the ultimate arbiter of disputes between nations, to one in which it was not. Nations that wage aggressive war have become outcasts and have almost always had to give up their territorial gains. How did this epochal transformation come about? This remarkable book, which combines political, legal, and intellectual history, traces the origins and course of one of the great shifts in the modern world.Sweeping and yet personable at the same time, The Internationalists explores the profound implications of the outlawry of war. Professors Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro enrich their analysis with vignettes of the many individuals (some unknown to most students of History) who played such important roles in this story. None have put it all together in the way that Hathaway and Shapiro have done in this book Paul KennedyIn this timely, elegant and powerful book, Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro help us understand the momentous significance of the individuals who imagined an end to war. As the world stands on the cusp of a return to an earlier age, The Internationalists is a clarion call to preserve law and order across our planet Philippe Sands

Author: Binbin Yang File Type: pdf This book draws from newly available sources of womens writings from late imperial China to present an alternative approach to the lives of exemplary women--a category of women who were written into official dynastic histories for their unrelenting adherence to female virtue as defined by core Confucian family values. Despite the rich writing traditions about these women, their lives often remain clouded by larger moral and cultural agendas or distorted by the male authors who presented them according to their own emotional or commemorative needs. This book introduces an array of women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful and active subjects of their own lives, and closely examines the rhetorical strategies they exploited for self-representation. This study highlights these female authors skillful negotiation with--and appropriation of--the constrictive values of female exemplarity for self-empowerment. It draws on interdisciplinary sources to show how these authors crossed the boundaries of domains that were traditionally assumed to be closed to them--boundaries not only of gender but also of knowledge, economic power, and political engagement, as well as ritual and cultural authority--Provided by publisher.