A comprehensive, clear account of the last ten years of Beethoven's life, this book is arranged in two parts: one biographical and one an analytical account of the music. For this edition, a substantially revised appendix examines the illness suffered by Beethoven in light of recent advances in immunology.

Beethoven: The Last Decade 1817-27

Larkin, Edward

Cooper, Martin

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford University Press

Thomas Paine has been celebrated for his role in persuading the American colonists to revolt against Britain and declare their independence. At the same time, however, scholars have generally dismissed his writings as propaganda. This book demonstrates that Paine was a skilled and sophisticated writer and thinker who transformed political literature in the late eighteenth century by creating a new literature of politics that bridged political philosophy and the everyday, common-sensical knowledge of ordinary people. The impact of this new political language would be remarkable as it energized a mass public to participate in the arena of politics, an arena from which they had been excluded.

Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution

History

Americas

Cambridge University Press

Thomas Paine has been celebrated for his role in persuading the American colonists to revolt against Britain and declare their independence. At the same time, however, scholars have generally dismissed his writings as propaganda. This book demonstrates that Paine was a skilled and sophisticated writer and thinker who transformed political literature in the late eighteenth century by creating a new literature of politics that bridged political philosophy and the everyday, common-sensical knowledge of ordinary people. The impact of this new political language would be remarkable as it energized a mass public to participate in the arena of politics, an arena from which they had been excluded.

Business & Money

Economics

Early American artists and political thinkers wrestled with the challenges of forming a cohesive, if not coherent, culture and political structure to organize the young republic and its diverse peoples. The American School of Empire shows how this American idea of empire emerged through a dialogue with British forms of empire, becoming foundational to how the US organized its government and providing early Americans with the framework for thinking about the relations between states and the disparate peoples and cultures that defined them. Edward Larkin places special emphasis on the forms of the novel and history painting, which were crucial vehicles for the articulation of the American vision of empire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The American School of Empire

Arts & Photography

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Beethoven: The Last Decade 1817-27

Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution

Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution

The American School of Empire