Chronicles the shift in public opinion from continentalism and political isolationism to internationalism that the coming of World War II brought about by focusing on the career and thought of Jams T. Shotwell, one of the leading protagonists of internationalism and collective security in America.

James T. Shotwell and the rise of internationalism in America

Politics & Social Sciences

harold-josephson

Politics & Government

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.

Wagner's Ring cycle - "The Ring of the Niebelung" - has been described as one of the most enduring of operatic spectacles. This collection has brought together writings on the Ring and includes articles by George Bernard Shaw, Georg Solti and Andrew Porter, excerpts from Wagner's own letters and works and discourses by over 30 other writers. Covered is the tetralogy of the Ring - "Das Rheingold", "Die Walkuere", "Siegfried" and "Goetterdaemmerung" - in essays on Wagner's intention, the theory behind it, its interpretation, artistic backgrounds, historical influences, literary sources, musical architecture, modern stagings, the "Ring" in English and various styles of performance. The book is designed to serve as an introduction to the "Ring" as well as a companion to fans and performers of Wagner's operas.

Penetrating Wagner's Ring: An anthology

Arts & Photography

Music

St. John Hankin wrote reviews, essays, prose and verse parodies, short stories, a manuscript of a novel, and three one-act plays. Because his plays stress incisive, commonsensical protagonists, the emphasis in Hankin's drama and in the book's analyses is on characterizations and themes. This book includes a detailed primary and secondary bibliography on Hankin, a lengthy listing of productions of Hankin's plays, and an index.

St. John Hankin, Edwardian Mephistopheles

Phillips, William H.

Literature & Fiction

The Jewish community in Rome is the oldest in Europe, the only one to have existed continuously for over 2,000 years. This detailed study of the Jewish banking community in Italy is therefore of special value and interest. Poliakov’s classic account of the rise and fall of the Jewish bankers is at the same time the story of medieval finance in general, its decline, and the birth of ‘modern’ finance. The author traces the economic and theological implication of each stage in the ambiguous relationship that developed between the Jewish money trade and the Holy See. He shows that the protection enjoyed by the Jews from the Holy See had not only theological, but also economic roots. The study ends with an account of the introduction of modern, ‘capitalist’ techniques and of the consequent inevitable decline of the Jewish money trade.

Jewish Bankers and the Holy See from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Century (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Poliakov, Léon

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James T. Shotwell and the rise of internationalism in America

Penetrating Wagner's Ring: An anthology

St. John Hankin, Edwardian Mephistopheles

Jewish Bankers and the Holy See from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Century (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)