by John Louis DiGaetani (2006)
"Once tainted by association with Hitler and Nazism, Richard Wagner's work has experienced an international cultural renaissance in the last 25 years. This book, with essays for both the uninitiated and the seasoned fan, examines Wagner's Ring cycle from a wide array of modern perspectives"--Provided by publisher.
Dominique Marshall
A l'heure où l'Etat laisse tomber son filet d'obligations sociales, cet ouvrage dévoile ici un large pan de l'évolution des politiques sociales au Québec. On passe d'abord en revue les premières lois en faveur des familles, puis on soupèse l'influence des familles les plus pauvres sur la création des institutions publiques, d'éducation et de bien-être.
Jon Lee Anderson
Anderson reports from five war fronts, telling of passionate, defiant, and idealistic, guerrillas evoking romantic images of struggle for a just cause ...
Matthew Frye Jacobson
America's racial odyssey is the subject of this work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement of the new field of "whiteness studies" and linking it to traditional historical inquiry. Jacobson shows that in this nation of immigrants "race" has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities in becoming American were reracialized to become Caucasian. He provides a counterhistory of how nationality groups such as the Irish or Greeks became Americans as racial groups like Celts or Mediterraneans became Caucasian. Jacobson tracks race as a conception and perception, emphasizing the importance of knowing not only how we label one another but also how we see one another, and how that racialized vision has largely been transformed in this century.
Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff
A landmark study, based on thousands of music-related references mined by the authors from a variety of contemporaneous sources, especially African American community newspapers, Out of Sight examines musical personalities, issues, and events in context. It confronts the inescapable marketplace concessions musicians made to the period's prevailing racist sentiment. --from publisher description.