ledochowicz.com

Europe

Music

Stalin's Music Prize Soviet Culture and Politics

Frolova-Walker Marina

ISBN: HB: 9780300208849, Yale University Press, March 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Marina Frolova-Walker's fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin's Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes, awarded annually to artists whose work was thought to represent the b...

HB:

£30,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Europe

Savage Shore Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery

Seal Graham

ISBN: HB: 9780300220414, Yale University Press, March 2016
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled "Great Southland". In this enthralling history of early discover...

HB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Political Science

Europe

Southern Europe? Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece from the 1950s Until the Present Day

Baumeister Martin, Sala Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9783593504827, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

According to mainstream discourse of the Cold War, post-1945 Western Europe was essentially a homogeneous historical space fully integrated into modern industrial society. But as "Southern Europe?" makes clear, Western European societies were in fact...

PB:

£44,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Europe

Heroic Failure and the British

Barczewski Stephanie

ISBN: HB: 9780300180060, Yale University Press, February 2016
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 54 black&white illus.

From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, histori...

HB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Europe

Law

Engines of Truth Producing Veracity in the Victorian Courtroom

Schneider Wendie Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780300125665, Yale University Press, December 2015
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad...

HB:

£65,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Literary Criticism

Europe

Setting Plato Straight Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance

Reeser Todd W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226307008, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars – most of them Catholic – read, digested, a...

HB:

£36,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Europe

Camisard Uprising War and Religion in the Cevennes

Crackanthorpe David

ISBN: PB: 9781909930209, Signal Books, December 2015
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! Protestant numbers in France fell from ten per cent of the population in 1598, when Henri IV gave protection by the Edict of Nantes, to a persecuted two per cent in 1700 following its revocation in 1685 by Louis XIV. The destru...

PB:

£14,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Europe

Biography & Memoires

Imprudent King A New Life of Philip II

Parker Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300216950, Yale University Press, November 2015
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 colour illus.,14 black&white illus.

Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of t...

PB:

£15,99

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Europe

Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II Mannerist Art and Architecture in the Imperial Capital, 1583-1612

Fucikova Eliska

ISBN: PB: 9788024622637, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2015
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 colour plates, 25 halftones, 6 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II" takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire, and when the i...

PB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Music

Europe

Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court Music and the Circulation of Power

Cusick Suzanne G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226132136, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
488 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 6 halftones, 1 line drawing, 13 tables, 43 musical examples

A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her pe...

PB:

£36,00

QTY:

add books to the list