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  • Mime, Music and Drama on the Eighteenth-Century Stage

    The Ballet d'Action

    by Edward Nye ...
    The 'ballet d'action' was one of the most successful and controversial forms of theatre in the early modern period. A curious hybrid of dance, mime and music, its overall and overriding intention was to create drama. It was danced drama rather than dramatic dance, musical drama rather than dramatic music. Most modern critical studies of the ballet d'action treat it more narrowly as stage dance and ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Deburau

    Pierrot, Mime, and Culture

    by Edward Nye ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This volume analyses the nature of the mime art of Deburau and of the pantomime performances of the Théâtre des Funambules in Paris in the context of Romantic art, literature and socio-political thought.Deburau and the Théâtre des Funambules are characteristic of Romantic art in that they are closely associated with certain aspirations for social reform, even revolution. Deburau was an iconic ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    by Edward J. Stackpole, Wilbur S. Nye, Bradley M. Gottfried ...
    Fully revised and updated version of the 1960 classic. A must for Civil War buffs, amateur and professional alike. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Gettysburg

    by Stephen W. Sears ...
    A comprehensive history of the Battle of Gettysburg by one of today's leading historians.The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s history. Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day battle, but recent histories have tended to focus on the particulars rather than the big picture: on the generals or on single days of ... Read more

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  • Monsieur Proust's Library

    by Anka Muhlstein ...
    Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Gettysburg

    A Testing of Courage

    by Noah Andre Trudeau ...
    This National Bestseller is a "gripping narrative. . . . the best one-volume history of the decisive battle of the Civil War" ( New York Times Book Review ).America's Civil War raged for more than four years, but it is the three days of fighting in the Pennsylvania countryside in July 1863 that continues to fascinate, appall, and inspire new generations with its unparalleled saga of sacrifice and ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voice Lessons

    French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque

    by Katherine Bergeron ...
    Series series New Cultural History of Music
    Language, education, politics, and music come together in Katherine Bergeron's Voice Lessons, a study of the French mélodie in the Belle Epoque. Close readings of songs by Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel, along with poems, sound recordings, and other historical documents, seek to uncovers the cultural meanings of this art: why it emerged, why it mattered, and why it eventually disappeared. ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • How the South Could Have Won the Civil War

    The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat

    by Bevin Alexander ...
    Could the South have won the Civil War?To many, the very question seems absurd. After all, the Confederacy had only a third of the population and one-eleventh of the industry of the North. Wasn’t the South’s defeat inevitable?Not at all, as acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander reveals in this provocative and counterintuitive new look at the Civil War. In fact, the South most definitely ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • French Literature

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Carol Clark ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Boasting one of Western culture's oldest and richest literary traditions, French literature has long been a pioneer of style and innovation. From the farcical comedies of Moliere to the torment of Baudelaire's verse, it has inspired writers and artists everywhere throughout the ages. This comprehensive Beginner's Guide tells French literature's compelling story from the beginning right up to today ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America

    by James Longstreet ...
    This fascinating historical work contains the memoirs of General James Longstreet, one of the leading Confederate generals during the American Civil War. Immediately after the surrender of the Confederate armies engaged in the war between the States, General Lee undertook to write of the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia while under his command, and asked such assistance as I could give ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Bibliopolis

    French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914

    by Willa Z. Silverman ...
    Series series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    The late-nineteenth century in Europe was a period of profound political, social, and technological change. One result of these changes was the rise in France of an upper-bourgeois bohemian class. Many of its members stimulated interest in unique forms of artistic expression such as illustrated books. On account of their influence, an atmosphere of intense bibliophilic activity came to define ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Gettysburg's Peach Orchard

    Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the "Commanding Ground" Along the Emmitsburg Road

    by James A. Hessler, Britt C. Isenberg ...
    A "fascinating illumination of little-known accounts and personalities" by two experts on the Battle of Gettysburg ( Civil War News).The historiography of Gettysburg's second day is usually dominated by the Union's successful defense of Little Round Top—but the day's most influential action occurred nearly one mile west along the Emmitsburg Road, in farmer Joseph Sherfy's peach orchard. This is ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus