An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis.
An extensive look at historical, literary, and media representations of '68 in Germany, challenging the way it has been instrumentalized.
The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900.
The legend of Mélusine examined in a pan-European context.
An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction.
English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.
A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.
This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture.
Shaped by eighteenth-century assumptions, Liverpool nonetheless laid the foundations for the nineteenth-century Britain that emerged from the Reform era.
A pathbreaking, new intellectual biography of the composer and conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.
New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature.
A gazetteer of the many fine Shropshire country houses, which covers the architecture, the owners' family history, and the social and economic circumstances that affected them.