Histories of the Musical: An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 1 (Oxford Handbooks) edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf
English | October 2, 2018 | ISBN: 0190877766 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 1.7 MB
The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a mélange of performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and burlesque, minstrelsy and jazz, musicals have always sought to amuse more than instruct, and to make money more than make political change. In spite of their unapologetic commercialism, though, musicals have achieved supreme artistry and have influenced culture as much as if not more than any other art form in America, including avant-garde and high art on the one hand, and the full range of popular and commercial art on the other. Reflecting, refracting, and shaping U.S. culture since the early twentieth century, musicals converse with shifting dynamics of gender and sexuality, ethnicity and race, and the very question of what it means to be American and to be human.

A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity (The Cultural Histories) by Paul Christesen, Charles H. Stocking
English | August 31st, 2022 | ISBN: 1350023965 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 6.08 MB
A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE to 600 CE. From the founding of the Olympics and Rome's celebratory games, sport permeated the cultural life of Greco-Roman antiquity almost as it does our own. Gymnasiums, public baths, monumental arenas, and circuses for chariot racing were constructed, and athletic contests proliferated. Sports-themed household objects were very popular, whilst the exploits of individual athletes, gladiators, and charioteers were immortalized in poetry, monuments, and the mosaic floors of the wealthy. This rich sporting culture attests to the importance of leisure among the middle and upper classes of the Greco-Roman world, but by 600 CE rising costs, barbarian invasions, and Christianity had swept it all away.

Carl A. Zimring Ph.D., "Coastal Metropolis: Environmental Histories of Modern New York City "
English | ISBN: 0822946521 | 2021 | 320 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from complex water and waste management issues, to housing and feeding millions of residents in a concentrated area, to dealing with climate change in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and everything in between. Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field,

Gothic Histories: The Taste for Terror, 1764 to the Present By Clive Bloom
2010 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1847060501 | PDF | 10 MB
In the middle of the eighteenth century the Gothic became the universal language of architecture, painting and literature, expressing a love not only of ruins, decay and medieval pageantry, but also the drug-induced monsters of the mind. By explaining the international dimension of Gothicism and dealing in detail with German, French and American authors, Gothic Histories demonstrates the development of the genre in every area of art and includes original research on Gothic theatre, spiritualism, 'ghost seeing' and spirit photography and the central impact of penny-dreadful writers on the genre, while also including a host of forgotten or ignored authors and their biographies. Gothic Histories is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Gothic and its literary double, the horror genre, leading the reader from their origins in the haunted landscapes of the Romantics through Frankenstein and Dracula to the very different worlds of Hannibal Lecter and Goth culture. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it is a fascinating guide to the Gothic and horror in film, fiction and popular culture.

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity (The Cultural Histories Series) by Robin Osborne
English | August 31st, 2022 | ISBN: 1474298656 | 281 pages | True PDF | 8.19 MB
A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture and fashion. Many of our current attitudes to the world of things are shaped by ideas forged in classical antiquity. We now understand that we do not merely do things to objects, they do things to us. Reinterpreting objects in Greece and Rome casts new light on our understanding of ourselves and turns the ancient world upside down.

True Crime Case Histories - (Books 7, 8, & 9): 36 Disturbing True Crime Stories (3 Book True Crime Collection) by Jason Neal
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B4MD2BH6 | 450 pages | EPUB | 5.47 Mb
36 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and Deception

True Crime Case Histories - (Books 4, 5, & 6): 36 Disturbing True Crime Stories (3 Book True Crime Collection) by Jason Neal
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08W4MXPQ9 | 435 pages | EPUB | 4.25 Mb
36 True Crime Stories of Murder & Mayhem

Adel Beshara, "The Origins of Syrian Nationhood: Histories, Pioneers and Identity"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0415615046, 1138789186 | PDF | pages: 398 | 2.9 mb
The 'Syria idea' emerged in the nineteenth century as a concept of national awakening superseding both Arab nationalism and separatist currents. Looking at nationalist movements, ideas and individuals, this book traces the origin and development of the idea of Syrian nationhood from the perspective of some of its leading pioneers.

A Little History of Art: Little Histories Series (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BRYHK2V6 | 2023 | 11 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 305 MB
Author: Charlotte Mullins
Narrator: Rachael Beresford

, "Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 0812248686 | 2017 | 368 pages | PDF | 16 MB
From Halakhic innovation to blood libels, from the establishment of new mendicant orders to the institutionalization of Islamicate bureaucracy, and from the development of the inquisitorial process to the rise of yeshivas, universities, and madrasas, the long thirteenth century saw a profusion of political, cultural, and intellectual changes in Europe and the Mediterranean basin. These were informed by, and in turn informed, the religious communities from which they arose. In city streets and government buildings, Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived, worked, and disputed with one another, sharing and shaping their respective cultures in the process. The interaction born of these relationships between minority and majority cultures, from love and friendship to hostility and violence, can be described as a complex and irreducible "entanglement." The contributors to