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61. | | Title: France at the Crystal Palace: bourgeois taste and artisan manufacture in the nineteenth centuryAuthor: Walton, Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Whitney Walton approaches the nineteenth-century French industrial development from a new perspective - that of consumption. She analyzes the French performance at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to illustrate how bourgeois consumers influenced France's distinctive pattern of industrial develo . . . [more]Similar Items | 62. | | Title: At the dawn of modernity: biology, culture, and material life in Europe after the year 1000Author: Levine, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | European History | European StudiesPublisher's Description: Looking at a neglected period in the social history of modernization, David Levine investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. New commercial routines, new forms of agriculture, new methods of information technology, and increased population . . . [more]Similar Items | 63. | | Title: Music drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828Author: Everist, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Opera | French Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life comes alive in Mark Everist's impressive institutional history of the Paris Odéon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. Everist traces the complete arc of the Odéon's short but highly successful life from ascent to t . . . [more]Similar Items | 64. | | Title: Crescendo of the virtuoso: spectacle, skill, and self-promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution Author: Metzner, Paul 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | European StudiesPublisher's Description: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound au . . . [more]Similar Items | 65. | | Title: Gregory the Great: perfection in imperfectionAuthor: Straw, Carole Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Classical History | ChristianityPublisher's Description: Gregory I (590-604) is often considered the first medieval pope and the first exponent of a truly medieval spirituality. Carole Straw places Gregory in his historical context and considers the many facets of his personality - monk, preacher, and pope - in order to elucidate the structure of his thou . . . [more]Similar Items | 66. | | Title: Decadent enchantments: the revival of Gregorian chant at SolesmesAuthor: Bergeron, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Music | Musicology | French Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, . . . [more]Similar Items | 67. | | Title: Antonia Canova and the politics of patronage in revolutionary and Napoleonic EuropeAuthor: Johns, Christopher M. S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Art History | European Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: The Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) was Europe's most celebrated artist from the end of the ancien régime to the early years of the Restoration, an era when the traditional relationship between patrons and artists changed drastically. Christopher M. S. Johns's refreshingly original stud . . . [more]Similar Items | 68. | | Title: From monuments to traces: artifacts of German memory, 1870-1990Author: Koshar, Rudy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies | History | Architectural History | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many writers and scholars shortsighted, Koshar surveys . . . [more]Similar Items | 69. | | Title: The widening gate: Bristol and the Atlantic economy, 1450-1700 Author: Sacks, David Harris 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | European History | United States HistorySimilar Items | 70. | | Title: Private lives and public affairs: the causes célèbres of prerevolutionary FranceAuthor: Maza, Sarah C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Law | European History | European Literature | French StudiesPublisher's Description: From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in the years before the Revolution. Similar Items | 71. | | Title: Peasants and king in Burgundy: agrarian foundations of French absolutism Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | French StudiesPublisher's Description: The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant protest that concern social scientists today. Hilton Root challenges traditional assumptions and proposes a new interpretation of the relationship between state and society. Similar Items | 72. | | Title: Printed poison: pamphlet propaganda, faction politics, and the public sphere in early Seventeenth-century France Author: Sawyer, Jeffrey K Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Print Media | Politics | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Combining a broad analysis of political culture with a particular focus on rhetoric and strategy, Jeffrey Sawyer analyzes the role of pamphlets in the political arena in seventeenth-century France. During the years 1614-1617 a series of conflicts occurred in France, resulting from the struggle for d . . . [more]Similar Items | 73. | | Title: The beast in the boudoir: petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris Author: Kete, Kathleen Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | European StudiesPublisher's Description: Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian bourg . . . [more]Similar Items | 74. | | Title: Venice's hidden enemies: Italian heretics in a Renaissance cityAuthor: Martin, John Jeffries Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result . . . [more]Similar Items | 75. | | Title: The three-piece suit and modern masculinity: England, 1550-1850Author: Kuchta, David 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | European History | Men and MasculinityPublisher's Description: In 1666, King Charles II felt it necessary to reform Englishmen's dress by introducing a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. We learn what inspired this royal revolution in masculine attire--and the reasons for its remarkable longevity--in David Kuchta's engaging and handsomely illustr . . . [more]Similar Items | 76. | | Title: The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000Author: Endelman, Todd M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies | European History | Ethnic Studies | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: In Todd Endelman's spare and elegant narrative, the history of British Jewry in the modern period is characterized by a curious mixture of prominence and inconspicuousness. British Jews have been central to the unfolding of key political events of the modern period, especially the establishment of t . . . [more]Similar Items | 77. | | Title: Wondrous in his saints: counter-Reformation propaganda in Bavaria Author: Soergel, Philip M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Medieval HistoryPublisher's Description: At the close of the sixteenth century, despite Protestant attempts to discourage popular devotion to saints and shrines, the Roman Church in Bavaria initiated a propagandistic campaign through the publishing of pilgrimage books and pamphlets. Philip Soergel's cogent exploration of this little-known . . . [more]Similar Items | 78. | | Title: And now my soul is hardened: abandoned children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930 Author: Ball, Alan M Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: Warfare, epidemics, and famine left millions of Soviet children homeless during the 1920s. Many became beggars, prostitutes, and thieves, and were denizens of both secluded underworld haunts and bustling train stations. Alan Ball's study of these abandoned children examines their lives and the strat . . . [more]Similar Items | 79. | | Title: Boundaries: the making of France and Spain in the PyreneesAuthor: Sahlins, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | Anthropology | European History | Geography | French StudiesSimilar Items | 80. | | Title: Magnetic mountain: Stalinism as a civilizationAuthor: Kotkin, Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly ag . . . [more]Similar Items |
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