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Becoming Americans in Paris - Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars - Bok av Brooke L. (Assistant Professor of History Blower - Hä

Overturning the old American cliches about \Gay Paree\ or the \City of Lights,\ Becoming Americans in Paris offers a darker and more nuanced portrait of how Americans helped to shape the cultural politics of Paris between the wars, and, at the same time, how Paris helped to shape modern American political culture.

SEK 636.00

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Becoming Americans in Paris - Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars - Bok av Brooke L. (Assistant Professor of History Blower - In

Overturning the old American cliches about \Gay Paree\ or the \City of Lights,\ Becoming Americans in Paris offers a darker and more nuanced portrait of how Americans helped to shape the cultural politics of Paris between the wars, and, at the same time, how Paris helped to shape modern American political culture.

SEK 780.00

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One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet - La Source 1866-2014 - Bok av Felicia (Professor of French McCarren - Inbunden

Based on research in the archives of the Paris Opera, One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet illustrates the full and complex history of performances of the ballet The Source, contextualized by political events, colonial and post-colonial narratives, and staging theories of heredity and hybridity.

SEK 1770.00

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Paris a Table - 1846 - Bok av Eugene Briffault - Inbunden

Paris a Table: 1846 is the first translation in English of a seminal book on gastronomy. Focusing on the Parisian dining scene, it takes the reader from the most elegant restaurant to a laborer's meals on the street, offering \the richest view of Balzac's time seen from the table\ (Le Monde).

SEK 306.00

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Prescriptions for the Mind - A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry - Bok av Joel (Professor Paris - Inbunden

The practice of psychiatry has undergone great changes in recent years. In this book, Joel Paris, MD, a veteran psychiatrist, provides a fluently written and accessible \state-of-the-field\ assessment. Himself a clinician, researcher, and teacher, Paris focuses on the most striking change within the field - the diverging roles of psychopharmacology and psychotherapy in contemporary practice. Where once psychiatrists were trained in Freudian psychoanalysis - whichinvolved, more than anything else,..

SEK 700.00

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Sounds of the Metropolis - The 19th Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna - Bok av Derek B. (Professor of Critical M

SEK 660.00

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Paris Savant - Capital of Science in the Age of Enlightenment - Bok av Bruno (Professor of History of Science Belhoste - Inbunden

Novelist Honore de Balzac was the first to use the phrase \Paris savant\ to refer to the dynamic Parisian scientific and intellectual community of the late 18th century. This book discusses how the Parisian scientific community came into its important place in the French Enlightenment, focusing on the Academy of Sciences.

SEK 596.00

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The Jews of Paris and the Final Solution - Communal Response and Internal Conflicts, 1940-1944 - Bok av Jacques (Professor of History Adler - Häftad

In this work a former member of the French Resistance, Jacques Adler, examines the diverse Jewish organizations that existed in Paris during the German occupation from 1940 to 1944. Showing how they combated gradual anti-Jewish measures, he presents a portrait of communal solidarity and conflict.

SEK 880.00

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Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944 - Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris - Bok av Jean ((1890-1978) French writer Guehenno - H

Diary of the Dark Years is a sharply observed record of day-to-day life in occupied Paris, but far more: it is \a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice\ (Wall Street Journal), expressing both shame at French collaboration with the Nazis and the stubborn resistance of an intellectual under great pressure.

SEK 210.00

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Staging the French Revolution - Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera, 1789-1794 - Bok av Mark (Senior Lecturer in French Darlow - Inbunden

Over the last decade, the theatre and opera of the French Revolution have been the subject of intense scholarly reassessment, both in terms of the relationship between theatrical works and politics or ideology in this period and on the question of longer-scale structures of continuity or rupture in aesthetics. Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera, 1789-1794 moves these discussions boldly forward, focusing on the ParisOp├⌐ra (Acad├⌐mie Royale de Musique) in..

SEK 1137.00

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Sounds of the Metropolis - The 19th-Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna - Bok av Derek B. (Professor of Critical M

The phrase \popular music revolution\ may instantly bring to mind such twentieth-century musical movements as jazz and rock 'n' roll. In Sounds of the Metropolis, however, Derek Scott argues that the first popular music revolution actually occurred in the nineteenth century, illustrating how a distinct group of popular styles first began to assert their independence and values. London, New York, Paris, and Vienna feature prominently as cities in which thechallenge to the classical tradition was..

SEK 797.00

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Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises - A Cas - Bok - Häftad

Captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britons in Paris after World War I. As the international vacationers move from Paris to Pamplona for the bullfight festival, the characters wend their various narratives through the impressionistic colours of modern European life.

SEK 610.00

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Carmen and the Staging of Spain - Recasting Bizet's Opera in the Belle Epoque - Bok av Michael (Lecturer in Music Christoforidis - Inbunden

Georges Bizet's Carmen and its staging of an exoticized Spain was progressively reimagined between its 1875 Paris premiere and 1915. This book explores Carmen's dynamic interaction with Spanishness in this cosmopolitan age of spectacle, across operatic productions, parodies, and theatrical adaptations from Spain to Paris, London, and New York.

SEK 690.00

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Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry - How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life's Misfortunes - Bok av Joel (Profes

This book, now revised in a second edition, examines the problem of over-diagnosis in psychiatry, focusing on problems with current diagnostic systems. Paris focuses on conditions most likely to be overdiagnosed, including major depressive disorder, ADHD, bipolar-II disorder, autism spectrum disorders, and PTSD. This new edition expands on Dr. Paris' argument and offers a new section on the link between aggressive psychopharmacology and current diagnosticpractices, as well as on transdiagnostic approaches..

SEK 587.00

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Divide and Conquer - A Comparative History of Medical Specialization - Bok av George (Professor of Social Studies of Medicine Weisz - Inbunden

Examines one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. This title traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines its spread to Germany, Britain, and the US.

SEK 916.00

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Desperate Measures - The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo - Bok av Claire (Phyllis Henderson Carey Professor of Music Fontijn - Häftad

The first-ever biography of composer Antonia Padoani Bembo, a seventeenth-century singer and composer. Author Claire Fontijn unveils the enthralling and surprising story of this remarkable woman, who moved in the musical, literary, and artistic circles of Venice and Paris.

SEK 646.00

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Taffanel: Genius of the Flute - Bok av Edward (Executive Producer Blakeman - Häftad

Paul Taffanel (1844 - 1908) is essentially the father of modern flute playing. Drawing on previously unavailable material from a provate archive in Paris, Blakeman describes and evaluates Taffanel's life, career, and works, with particular reference to his influence as founder of the modern French School of flute playing.

SEK 900.00

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The Biblical Interpretation of William of Alton - Bok av Timothy F. (Instructor Bellamah - Inbunden

Timothy Bellamah explores the exegesis of William of Alton, a Dominican regent master at Paris during the thirteenth-century. A near contemporary of Bonaventure, Albert the Great, and Thomas Aquinas, William was an important representative of university exegesis at a time of rapidly changing methods and remarkable intellectual development.

SEK 1570.00

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Taffanel: Genius of the Flute - Bok av Edward (Executive Producer Blakeman - Inbunden

Paul Taffanel (1844 - 1908) is essentially the father of modern flute playing. Drawing on previously unavailable material from a provate archive in Paris, Blakeman describes and evaluates Taffanel's life, career, and works, with particular reference to his influence as founder of the modern French School of flute playing.

SEK 1656.00

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Desperate Measures: Book and CD - Bok av Claire (Phyllis Henderson Carey Professor of Music Fontijn - Inbunden

Forced to leave Venice, Bembo, mother of three, fled to Paris and joined glorifying Louis XIV. Her music - opera, love song, cantata, motet, air - testifies to the magic of her singing voice. Fontijn's pathbreaking biography demonstrates how a courageous, talented woman thrived within the parameters of society and culture.

SEK 1197.00

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The Wilsonian Moment - Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism - Bok av Erez (Assistant Professor of History Mane

This book tells the neglected story of non-Western peoples at the time of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, showing how Woodrow Wilson's rhetoric of self-determination helped ignite the upheavals that erupted in the spring of 1919 in four disparate non-Western societies - Egypt, India, China and Korea.

SEK 1540.00

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The Wilsonian Moment - Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism - Bok av Erez (Dunwalke Associate Professor of Ame

This book tells the neglected story of non-Western peoples at the time of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, showing how Woodrow Wilson's rhetoric of self-determination helped ignite the upheavals that erupted in the spring of 1919 in four disparate non-Western societies--Egypt, India, China and Korea.

SEK 456.00

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The Glory and the Sorrow - A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution - Bok av Timothy (Professor Emeritus of History Tackett - Inbu

The Glory and the Sorrow is a biography of an ordinary citizen and his neighbors in central Paris that brings to life the day-to-day experience of the French Revolution, not only the thrill, the joy, and the enthusiasm, but also the uncertainty, the confusion, the anxiety, and the disappointments.

SEK 401.00

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The Scratch of a Pen - 1763 and the Transformation of North America - Bok av Colin G. (Professor of History and Samson Occom Professor of Native Ameri

In this captivating volume in the acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Calloway reveals how the 1763 Treaty of Paris had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, alignments, and relationships, and shows how and why.

SEK 290.00

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Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944 - Bok av Jean ((1890-1978) French writer Guehenno - Inbunden