Women Writing Opera

Jacqueline Letzter, Robert Adelson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 43
• In the age of the French Revolution, opera was the locus of cabals, intrigues, and violent journalistic invective. Yet it was also a period when women... Lees meer

Taste and Power

Leora Auslander

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 24
• Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise ... Lees meer

The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution

Dominique Godineau

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 26
• During the French Revolution, hundreds of domestic and working-class women of Paris were interrogated, examined, accused, denounced, arrested, and imp... Lees meer

The Collective and the Individual in Russia

Oleg Kharkhordin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 32
• Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is a... Lees meer

Private Lives and Public Affairs

Sarah Maza

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 18
• 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 ... Lees meer

Fascist Spectacle

Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 28
• This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of M... Lees meer

Cholera in Post-Revolutionary Paris

Catherine J Kudlick

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 25
• Cholera terrified and fascinated nineteenth-century Europeans more than any other modern disease. Its symptoms were gruesome, its sources were mysteri... Lees meer

Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914

Stephen P Frank

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 31
• This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously u... Lees meer

What Difference Does a Husband Make?

Elizabeth D Heineman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 33
• In October 1946, seven million more women than men lived in occupied Germany. In this study of unwed, divorced, widowed, and married women at work and... Lees meer

Jazz, Rock, and Rebels

Uta G Poiger

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 35
• In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger trace... Lees meer

The Frail Social Body

Carolyn J Dean

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 36
• Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, cultural critics there-journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, amon... Lees meer

Politics and Theater

Sheryl Kroen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 40
• Moliére's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views postrevolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. ... Lees meer

The View from Vesuvius

Nelson J Moe

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 46
• The vexed relationship between the two parts of Italy, often referred to as the Southern Question, has shaped that nation's political, social, and cul... Lees meer

Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810

Carla Hesse

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• In 1789, French revolutionaries initiated a cultural experiment that radically transformed the three basic elements of French literary civilization--a... Lees meer

France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart

Raymond Jonas

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 39
• In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacré-Coeur,... Lees meer

The New Biography

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 38
• The New Biography looks at the life stories of eight famous women in nineteenth-century France who became public figures even though they lived in a s... Lees meer

Listening in Paris

James H Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 21
• Beginning with the simple question, "Why did audiences grow silent?" Listening in Paris gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from th... Lees meer

Obstinate Hebrews

Ronald Schechter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 49
• Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so ... Lees meer

Speaking with Vampires

Luise White

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 37
• During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took... Lees meer

Moral Communities

Mark D Steinberg

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 14
• This valuable study offers a rare perspective on the social and political crisis in late Imperial Russia. Mark D. Steinberg focuses on employers, supe... Lees meer

The New Cultural History

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 6
• Across the humanities and the social sciences, disciplinary boundaries have come into question as scholars have acknowledged their common preoccupatio... Lees meer

The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity

David Kuchta

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 47
• 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 wh... Lees meer

The Wedding of the Dead

Gail Kligman

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Hooliganism

Joan Neuberger

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 19
• In this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuberger takes us to the streets of St. Petersburg in 19... Lees meer