The composer Ferruccio Busoni is most widely known today as the composer of such works as the Second Violin Sonata, the incidental music for Gozzi's Turandot, and the most monumental piano concerto in
Originally published in Swedish in 2002, Death, Modernity, and the Body explores the impact of modernization on customs and practices surrounding the dead body in Sweden in the late nineteenth and ea
Communication technologies have long been tools for nation building and imperial expansion. Yet over the past few decades digital media have also become a creative and political resource for indigenou
This essay collection examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media. Inspired by the proliferation of texts focused on this theme and the ongoing migrat
Until recently almost all histories of historiography have focused on national developments or at best introduced a comparative note from a limited Western perspective. Only in the last few years hav
The Enlightenment continues to be associated with the secularization and de-Christianization of intellectual culture in the West. And yet, religious thought played a far greater role in the emergence
This study looks closely at the changes taking place in Polish literary scholarship at the turn of the century, and focuses on the work of the founder of Polish Formalism, Kazimierz Woycicki and the o
How and why did public institutions become more racially inclusive during the Civil Rights Era? Was it because most white Americans had questioned their own assumptions about what blacks could think,
French and Italian varieties of opera have intermingled and informed one another from the genre's first decades onward. Yet we still have only a hazy view of why and how those intersections occurred a
Recent years have seen renewed interest in the historical study of labor in Africa. Unlike those of the past, these studies are rooted in the recognition of Africa's dynamic, expansive, and productive
Plato's Parmenides is regarded as a canonical work in ontology. Depicting a conversation between Parmenides of Elea and a young Socrates, the dialogue presents a rigorous examination of Socrates' theo
Many Enlightenment thinkers sought to discover the right political order for all times and all places, and scholars often view Montesquieu as working within this project. In this reassessment of Monte
In the second half of the nineteenth century, ways of thinking about food changed as chemists and physiologists identified nutrients and bodily needs and as urbanization, industrialization, and coloni
This collection of unpublished writings by the eminent harpsichordist and scholar Ralph Kirkpatrick contains his memoirs for the period 1933-77 and essays on a variety of topics, including his prepara
