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  • Mozart and the Nazis

    How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon

    de Erik Levi ...
    A music historian uncovers Nazi Germany's use of Mozart as a WWII propaganda tool in this "intriguing study [that] comprehends a range of vital topics" ( Choice).As the Nazi war machine expanded its bloody ambitions across Europe, the Third Reich sought to promote a sophisticated and even humanitarian image of German culture through the tireless promotion of Mozart's music. In this revelatory book ... Leer más

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  • The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945

    Propaganda, Myth and Reality

    Edición de David Fanning, Erik Levi ...
    Series series Routledge Music Handbooks
    Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during World War II. Almost all music institutions in the occupied lands came under direct German control or were subject to severe scrutiny and censorship, the prime objective being to change the musical fabric of these ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Music and Displacement

    Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond

    Series series Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
    The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond constitutes a pioneering volume that aims to fill ... Leer más

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    A New Global History

    Short essays offer a kaleidoscopic, “provocative history of France” and its place within the world—from its prehistoric frescoes and Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015 (New Yorker).“A major work, exhaustive, controversial and fresh—and entirely relevant to Anglophone readers”—that redefines how we write about national and world history (Guardian).Bringing together an impressive group of ... Leer más

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  • Medieval Military Medicine

    From the Vikings to the High Middle Ages

    A study of how doctors and surgeons treated the brutal injuries and illnesses suffered by medieval combatants.Soldiers of the Middle Ages faced razor-sharp swords and axes that could slice through flesh with gruesome ease, while spears and arrows were made to puncture both armor and the wearer, and even more sinister means of causing harm produced burns and crush injuries. These casualties of war ... Leer más

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  • Blood, Oil and the Axis

    The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941

    de John Broich ...
    An "almost absurdly colorful" history of the WWII battle for the Levant: "In places . . . the material is like Casablanca meets The English Patient" ( The Wall Street Journal).In the spring of 1941, the Allied forces had one last hope: that the Axis would run through its fuel supply. In Blood, Oil and the Axis, historian John Broich tells the vital story of Iraq and the Levant during this most ... Leer más

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  • Night of the Long Knives

    Hitler's Excision of Rohm's SA Brownshirts, 30 June – 2 July 1934

    Series series History of Terror
    The historian and author of The Shanghai Massacre presents an in-depth chronicle of Hitler's plot to eliminate political rivals and his own SA Brownshirts.In the summer of 1934, Adolf Hitler conducted a ruthless purge of his own fascist colleagues, many of whom had helped the Nazi Party rise to power. The brawling street thugs of the SA had bludgeoned Hitler's political opposition into submission ... Leer más

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  • The Wandering Mind

    What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking

    Rooted in neuroscience, psychology and evolutionary biology, this study explores what happens when we stop paying attention and the effect on our behavior.If we've done our job well—and, let's be honest, if we're lucky—you'll read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you won't. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That's just how ... Leer más

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  • The Crisis Years

    Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

    The groundbreaking and revelatory tale of the most dangerous years of the Cold War and the two leaders who held the fate of the world in their hands.This bestselling history takes us into the tumultuous period from 1960 through 1963 when the Berlin Wall was built and the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union to the abyss. In this compelling ... Leer más

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  • The Eagle in the Mirror

    de Jesse Fink ...
    Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of Charles Howard “Dick” Ellis, the Australian-born British intelligence officer and master spy accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century.The longest serving spy for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Ellis came to New York at ... Leer más

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  • Democracy's Beginning

    The Athenian Story

    A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later.The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and remarkable story of how ... Leer más

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  • The Lost World of Byzantium

    The acclaimed author of Byzantium and the Crusades "offers a fresh take on this fabled but hidden civilization" across 11 centuries of history (Colin Wells, author of Sailing from Byzantium).For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Rather than recounting the standard ... Leer más

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