A Companion to American Indian History
captures the thematic breadth of Native American history.Twenty-five
original essays written by leading scholars, both American Indian
and non-American Indian, bring a comprehensive perspective to a history
that in the past has been related exclusively by Euro-Americans.
The essays cover a wide range of Indian
experiences and practices, including contacts with non-Indians, religion,
family, economy, law, education, gender, and culture. They reflect new
approaches to Native America drawn from environmental, comparative, and gender
history in their exploration of compelling questions regarding performance,
identity, cultural brokerage, race and blood, captivity, adoption, and slavery.
Each chapter also encourages further reading by including a carefully selected
bibliography.
Intended for students,
scholars, and general readers of American Indian history, this timely book is
the ideal guide to current and future research.
Spanning 400 years of musical drama, from the late Renaissance and including such classical masters as Verdi, Puccini, and Bizet, this is the complete visual guidebook to the great operas, their composers and performance history.
Richly illustrated and beautifully written, this book captures the art, lyricism, passion and excitement of opera through the ages. It is an ideal companion for opera newcomers and devotees alike.
From basic explanations of the history of opera to details of classic scores - all told in a witty, conversational tone and accompanied by hundreds of full-color photos.
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Neoliberalism--the doctrine
that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a
guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and
practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a
wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism and
The Condition of Postmodernity, here tells the political-economic story
of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the
world stage. Through critical engagement with this history, he
constructs a framework, not only for analyzing the political and
economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the
prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by
many oppositional movements.