Raising citizens in the "century of the child" : the United States and German Central Europe in comparative perspective /

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Life after death : approaches to a cultural and social history during the 1940s and 1950s /

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Between mass death and individual loss : the place of the dead in twentieth-century Germany /

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Against all odds : the fight for a black middle class /

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Dream work / by Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

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Political ecumenism : Catholics, Jews and Protestants in de Gaulle's Free France, 1940-1945 / by Adams, Geoffrey, 1926-2012

Table of Contents: “…Free French leadership : a politically ecumenical coalition -- The free French organization at the end of 1943 -- Introduction : the free French challenge : reuniting the two Frances -- 1905-1940 : a generation united in war, divided in peace -- Charles de Gaulle : devout Catholic, pragmatic Republican, political ecumenist -- The general's inner circle : Christian and republican -- Rene Cassin : Jewish champion of Gaullist legitimacy -- Maurice Schumann : the Catholic voice of La France Libre -- Ecumenical money-managers : Pierre Denis, Andre Diethelm, Andre Postel-Vinay, Maurice Couve de Murville, and Pierre Mendes France.…”
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Imperial projections : screening the German colonies / by Fuhrmann, Wolfgang, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Colonial Films in Public Cinema -- The colonial travelogue -- Colonial films in transition: Robert Schumann's comeback -- Colonial film propaganda during the First World War. …”
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Twentieth-century theatre : a sourcebook /

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Weimar publics/Weimar subjects : rethinking the political culture of Germany in the 1920s /

Table of Contents: “…Geyer -- Political violence, contested public space, and reasserted masculinity in Weimar Germany / Dirk Schumann -- Publics, publicity, and mass culture. "A self-representation of the masses" : Siegfried Kracauer's curious Americanism / Miriam Hansen -- Neither masses nor individuals : representations of the collective in interwar German culture / Stefan Jonsson -- Capital culture in decline : inflation and the distress of intellectuals / Bernd Widdig -- Weimar topographies. …”
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Making music American : 1917 and the transformation of culture / by Bomberger, E. Douglas, 1958-

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Music at the limits / by Said, Edward W.

Table of Contents: “…Richard Strauss ; Wagner and the Met's Ring ; Opera productions (Der Rosenkavalier, House of the dead, Doctor Faust) ; Style and stylessness (Elektra, Semiramide, Katya Kabanova) ; Alfred Brendel : words for music (review of Alfred Brendel's Music sounded out: essays, lectures, interviews, afterthoughts) ; Die tote Stadt, Fidelio, The death of Klinghoffer ; Uncertainties of style (The ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten) ; Musical retrospection ; The bard festival ; The importance of being unfaithful to Wagner ; Music as gesture (on Solti) ; Les troyens ; Child's play (review of Maynard Solomon's Mozart: a life) ; 32 short films about Glenn Gould ; Bach's genius, Schumann's eccentricity, Chopin's ruthlessness, Rosen's gift (review of Charles Rosen's The romantic generation) ; Why listen to Boulez? …”
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Ballet's magic kingdom : selected writings on dance in Russia, 1911-1925 / by Volynskiĭ, A. L., 1863-1926

Table of Contents: “…Reviews and Articles -- Dance as a Solemn Ritual (1911) -- Coppélia (1911) -- Tamara Karsavina: The Trial of Damis -- The Nutcracker (1911) -- Mathilda Kshesinskaya: Swan Lake (1911) -- Schumann, Ballet, and Fokine (1912) -- Eunice and Chopiniana (1912) -- Errors of Creation: On Papillons and Islamey (1912) -- The Little Dove: Harlequinade (1912) -- The Russian Dance: Die Puppenfee (1912) -- Raymonda (1912) -- Coppélia (1912) -- Vaganova's Variation (1912) -- The Tsar Maiden: A New Production of The Little Humpbacked Horse (1912) -- A Circle of Immovable Stars: Alexander Gorsky and Mikhail Fokine (1913) -- Isadora Duncan: The Last Word (1913) -- Anna Pavlova (1913) -- Pavlova's Farewell Performance: La Bayadère (1913) -- A Kaleidoscope of Attire: Still More on Konstantin Korovin (1914) -- Elegy (1915) -- Mikhail Fokine: Some Lines Toward a Polemic (1915) -- La Jota Aragonese (1916) -- My Miniatures: Swan Lake (1920) -- Marius Petipa's La Bayadère (1922) -- The End of the Season: Lida Ivanova (1922) -- Two Schools of Classical Dance: Sleeping Beauty (1922) -- Stravinsky's Ballets (1922) -- The Birth of Apollo (1923) -- What Will Ballet Live By? …”
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