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Peter Svenonius

Print publication date:
Feb 2007
Online publication date:
Sep 2012
Subject:
Linguistics, Morphology and Syntax
This article is about basic word order, morphology, and their relationship to movement. It explores some cross-linguistically pervasive word-order tendencies in which the hierarchical ... More

1325 + 17 = ?: Filling in the Blanks of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda  

Kimberly Theidon

Print publication date:
Feb 2018
Online publication date:
Dec 2017
Subject:
Political Science, Comparative Politics, Public Policy, International Relations
This chapter focuses on the absence of certain marginal groups from the United Nations’ Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and suggests correctives to those exclusions. The chapter discusses ... More

1900–1945  

Joy H. Calico

Print publication date:
Nov 2014
Online publication date:
Apr 2015
Subject:
Music, Musicology and Music History
This chapter considers three trends evident in recent research on opera in the period 1900–1945. Scholars tend to situate the genre, as well as individual works and composers, in relation ... More

1919  

Jean-François Fayet

Print publication date:
Jan 2014
Online publication date:
May 2013
Subject:
History, Social and Cultural History
Two years after the revolution in Russia, the social revolution was once again fermenting on the ruins of the empires defeated in the war. The First World War was turning into a civil war ... More

1936  

Tim Rees

Print publication date:
Jan 2014
Online publication date:
Dec 2013
Subject:
History, Modern History (1701 to 1945)
The year 1936 was a momentous one in the history of communism. This was a time of acute uncertainty and fear, during which the Soviet Union and international communist movement faced ... More

1956  

Sergey Radchenko

Print publication date:
Jan 2014
Online publication date:
May 2013
Subject:
History, Social and Cultural History
This article explores the impact of de-Stalinization on the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China. Writers, artists, and intellectuals welcomed the curtailment of repression—the so- ... More

1968  

Maud Anne Bracke

Print publication date:
Jan 2014
Online publication date:
Dec 2013
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
Around 1968 communism expanded as a global movement, especially in the developing world, while hitting a crisis of legitimation in Europe. In the Western world the late 1960s saw young ... More

1989  

Matthias Middell

Print publication date:
Jan 2014
Online publication date:
Dec 2013
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945), Cold War
The essay argues that the story of 1989 can be told either as a narrow or a wide story. The narrow story focuses on the end of communism, the unification of Germany, and the subsequent ... More

5150: On Unethical Privacy  

Matthew E. Reynolds

Print publication date:
Jul 2015
Online publication date:
Oct 2014
Subject:
Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology
5150: On Unethical Privacy is an autobiographical piece where Matthew Reynolds recounts the situation wherein he was involuntarily committed shortly before his 21st birthday. He describes ... More

A “Catholic Layman of German Nationality and Citizenship”?: Carl Schmitt and the Religiosity of Life  

Reinhard Mehring

Print publication date:
Jan 2017
Online publication date:
Dec 2014
Subject:
Political Science, Political Theory, Law and Politics
Carl Schmitt positioned his constitutional theory in the context of a “political theology” and referred to himself repeatedly as a Catholic. Schmitt scholarship has long pursued this ... More

A 1980 Attempt at Reviving Ancient Irrigation Practices in the Pacific: Rationale, Failure, and Success  

Matthew Spriggs

Print publication date:
Jan 2019
Online publication date:
Jul 2015
Subject:
Archaeology, Archaeology of Oceania
The author was project leader on an attempt to revive ancient irrigation practices on Aneityum Island (Vanuatu, S. Pacific) in 1980, based on his archaeological and ethnoarchaeological ... More

‘A Cloud of Witnesses’: Tractarians and Tractarian Ventures  

James Pereiro

Print publication date:
Jun 2017
Online publication date:
Jul 2017
Subject:
Religion, Christianity
The leaders of the Oxford Movement were supported by a cast of friends and disciples who made important contributions to the ideas and initiatives associated with the Movement. Most of ... More

‘A comely gate to so rich and glorious a citie’: The Paratextual Architecture of the Rheims New Testament and the King James Bible  

Katrin Ettenhuber

Print publication date:
Aug 2015
Online publication date:
Nov 2015
Subject:
Literature, Literary Studies - 1500 to 1700
This chapter examines Miles Smith’s King James Bible preface, ‘The Translators to the Reader’, excavating the polemical, hermeneutic, and literary contexts that frame the preface and ... More

“A Curious Sort of Book”: Jack London’s and the Politics of Prison Reform  

Susan I. Gatti

Print publication date:
Jan 2017
Online publication date:
Jan 2017
Subject:
Literature, Literary Studies - Fiction, Novelists, and Prose Writers, Literary Studies - 20th Century Onwards
A bold, imaginative work, The Star Rover demonstrates Jack London’s inventive approach to the social-protest genre. London mixes in the typical problem-novel ingredients: gritty, realistic ... More

‘A day after doomsday’: Cranmer and the Bible Translations of the 1530s  

Susan Wabuda

Print publication date:
Aug 2015
Online publication date:
Nov 2015
Subject:
Literature, Literary Studies - 1500 to 1700
This chapter explores the inaugural moment for the English Reformation, and for the rendering of the scriptures in English within a national church. In May 1530, Henry VIII began to suggest ... More

“A Day in the Life”: The Beatles and the BBC, May 1967  

Gordon Thompson

Print publication date:
Nov 2017
Online publication date:
Jan 2015
Subject:
Music, Musicology and Music History, Ethnomusicology
This chapter examines the issue of censorship in the British Broadcasting Corporation’s controversial decision to ban the final track, “A Day in the Life,” from the Beatles’ album, Sgt. ... More

“A Delightful Measure or a Dance”: Synetic Theater and Physical Shakespeare  

Sheila T. Cavanagh

Print publication date:
Mar 2019
Online publication date:
Mar 2020
Subject:
Music, Dance
This chapter considers work created by the Synetic Theater Company in the Washington, DC, area. Since its inception in 2002, Synetic has produced an award-winning series of “physical ... More

“A Different Kind of Goose Bump”: Notes Toward an LGBTQ Choral Pedagogy  

Charles Beale

Print publication date:
Apr 2017
Online publication date:
Mar 2017
Subject:
Music, Music Education
This chapter examines the musical practices and procedures of choruses such as the famous Gay Men’s Chorus within the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) communities of the ... More

‘A Dirtier Reality?’ Archaeological Methods and the Urban Project  

John Schofield

Print publication date:
Oct 2013
Online publication date:
Dec 2013
Subject:
Archaeology, Contemporary and Public Archaeology
Strait Street in Malta’s capital Valletta is an extraordinary street, and one that has fascinating stories to tell about its resident population and visitors over nearly 300 years. For ... More

“A Fanatic of Order in an Epoch of Confusing Turmoil”: The Political, Legal, and Cultural Thought of Carl Schmitt  

Jens Meierhenrich and Oliver Simons

Print publication date:
Jan 2017
Online publication date:
Sep 2016
Subject:
Political Science, Political Theory
This handbook engages with the critical ordering of Schmitt’s writings, investing in the proper contextualization of his polycentric thought. More important than whether Schmitt’s positions ... More

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