855 Ergebnisse für: analyzes
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Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation - Thomas Turino - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Iy5bQL58m08C&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=okeh+old-time&source=bl&ots=acnMRuNu2d&sig=uFKq-qvF7xKb_TWZq5
People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. In Music as Social Life, Thomas Turino explores…
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The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in ... - Erik Zürcher - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=GYsKhU7UW-cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=erik+z%C3%BCrcher+buddhism&source=bl&ots=bxwXD1HJKP&sig=aa6z
"The reprinting in 2007 of a book originally produced nearly fifty years earlier (and based on a doctoral dissertation begun in the early 1950s) is not merely a publishing event. It constitutes a milestone in the academic study of early Chinese Buddhism…
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Technology and Investment: The Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry - Barbara Molony - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=D-RKXtu8HsEC&pg=PA276#v=onepage
The chemical industry was Japan's first "high-tech" industry, and its companies the most important examples of a noteworthy business structure in the prewar period, the so-called "new zaibatsu." Molony deals with one branch of the chemical…
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Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19th ... - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=-dVtAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA132#v=onepage
David B. Sachsman and David W. Bulla have gathered a colorful collection of essays exploring sensationalism in nineteenth-century newspaper reporting. The contributors analyze the role of sensationalism and tell the story of both the rise of the penny…
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Pagodas in Play: China on the Eighteenth-century Italian Opera Stage - Adrienne Ward - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=hhmwo6wQzG4C&pg=PA98
Pagodas in Play analyzes the treatment of China in the imaginative and spectacular world of eighteenth-century Italian opera. It shows how Italians used perceptions of Chinese culture to address local and transnational developments, particularly…
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Strange Pilgrimages: Exile, Travel, and National Identity in Latin America ... - Ingrid Elizabeth Fey, Karen Racine - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Y-S_Bxl1pRkC&pg=PA43
This fascinating collection of essays and articles shows how Latin Americans travels and residency abroad helped them re-examine their own origins and perceptions of their homeland. Latin Americans traveled both purposefully and frequently in the…
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The Evangelicals: A Historical, Thematic, and Biographical Guide - Robert H. Krapohl, Charles H. Lippy - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=VD8mwQWLEVEC&pg=PA250
The different facets of American religious life are more thoroughly understood with an awareness of the Evangelical heritage that intersects the different denominational boundaries. Since Evangelicalism is not confined to one religious denomination or…
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Die Rechtsprechung zur Versammlungsfreiheit im internationalen Vergleich ... - Katrin Gaßner - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=dXyvLLmCxowC&pg=PA92
English summary: Katrin Gassner analyzes and compares the decisions made by various supreme courts regarding freedom of assembly. She describes the general principles, similarities and differences in the rulings as well as the changes in these rulings…
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Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America - Sharon Ann Murphy - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=7kaw5GfYMbgC&pg=PA92#v=onepage
Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class.Using the economic…
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Technology and Investment: The Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry - Barbara Molony - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=D-RKXtu8HsEC&pg=PA275#v=onepage
The chemical industry was Japan's first "high-tech" industry, and its companies the most important examples of a noteworthy business structure in the prewar period, the so-called "new zaibatsu." Molony deals with one branch of the chemical…