Controlling Knowledge makes a major contribution to our understanding of Muslim history in Mali and West Africa, both in recent decades and over the long term.
The list of extant music includes new pieces discovered within the last decade and provides new historical context for the instrument and its role in eighteenth-century French culture.
How Soviet citizens in the 1920s and 1930s internalized Soviet ways of looking at the world and living their everyday lives.
-International Philosophical QuarterlyThis volume presents the classic statements in semiotics and touches on a vast set of problems and themes-philosophical, aesthetic, literary, cultural, biological, and anthropological.
Discusses the effects of mercury pollution on the indigenous peoples of Peru and Bolivia
A revised and expanded guide to performance practice issues in Renaissance music
Retrieved after World War II from metal boxes and milk cans buried beneath the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, the "Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum... Læs mere
A dramatic account of the UN's struggle over how best to understand severe inequities in the global economy.
Focuses on how the unintended consequences of colonialism lead to the creation of an African middle class in Zimbabwe. This title shows... Læs mere
Critiques Eurocentrism in the prevailing art-culture system and reexamines the culture wars within the context of Hollywood, and the dominant U.S. cultural milieu.
Helps discover the piano works of one of the century's most interesting minds.