Author: Marshall G. S. Hodgson File Type: pdf The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle of the twentieth century. This work grew out of the famous course on Islamic civilization that Hodgson created and taught for many years at the University of Chicago. In this concluding volume of The Venture of Islam, Hodgson describes the second flowering of Islam the Safavi, Timuri, and Ottoman empires. The final part of the volume analyzes the widespread Islamic heritage in todays world. This is a nonpareil work, not only because of its command of its subject but also because it demonstrates how, ideally, history should be written.The New Yorker

Author: Andrew Gibb File Type: epub In Californios, Anglos, and the Performance of Oligarchy in the U.S. West, author Andrew Gibb argues that the mid-nineteenth-century encounter between Anglos and californios the Spanish-speaking elites who ruled Mexican California between 1821 and 1848resulted not only in the Americanization of California but also the Mexicanization of Americans. Employing performance studies methodologies in his analysis of everyday and historical events, Gibb traces how oligarchy evolved and developed in the region. This interdisciplinary study draws on performance studies, theatre historiography, and New Western History to identify how the unique power relations of historical California were constituted and perpetuated through public performancesnot only traditional theatrical productions but also social events such as elite weddings and community dancesand historical events like the U.S. seizure of the city of Monterey, the feting of Commodore Stockton in San Francisco, and the Bear Flag Revolt. **Review Limited neither by a narrow focus on gold rush California nor a view of California theatre as a mere extension of the theatre of Mexico City, Andrew Gibb meticulously and cogently argues the history of a cultural collaboration, mediated not by conflict but by performance. This is theatre culture at its most persuasive, revealing the social, political, and economic factors at play in a given moment of historical change.Rosemarie Bank, author, Theatre Culture in America, 18251860 Gibbs work deftly challenges the long held notion that californio culture simply gave way to Anglo ascendancy when the United States took possession of the geography in the mid-nineteenth century. The result is a crucial contribution to our understanding of U.S. history, Western historiography, and Latinx history in (what would become) the United States.Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, author of Traveler, There Is No Road Theatre, the Spanish Civil War, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Americas About the Author Andrew Gibb is an assistant professor of theatre history, theory, and criticism at Texas Tech University. He has published work in Theatre History Studies, the Latin American Theatre Review, Theatre Symposium, Comparative Drama, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Texas Theatre Journal, and the edited collection Querying Difference in Theatre History.

Author: Mary Klages File Type: pdf Students of literature, film and cultural studies need to understand key theoretical terms and concepts but often find it hard to get to grips with exactly what they mean. This book provides precise definitions of terms and concepts in literary theory, along with explanations of the major movements and figures in literary and cultural theory and an extensive bibliography. It is designed for the student who needs to know what a particular term means, how it is used, and where it comes from, andenables them to apply the terms and concepts to their own investigations. The three part structure provides clear definitions of key terms and ideas, introductions to major figures including biographical and historical overviews and an annotated guide to important works. This invaluable resource provides readers with an easily accessible and comprehensive referenceguide toliterary and cultural theory.** This guide to key terms in literary theory is designed to make difficult terms, concepts and theorists accessible and understandable. Students of literature, film and cultural studies need to understand key theoretical terms and concepts but often find it hard to get to grips with exactly what they mean. This book provides precise definitions of terms and concepts in literary theory, along with explanations of the major movements and figures in literary and cultural theory and an extensive bibliography. It is designed for the student who needs to know what a particular term means, how it is used, and where it comes from, and enables them to apply the terms and concepts to their own investigations. The three part structure provides clear definitions of key terms and ideas, introductions to major figures including biographical and historical overviews and an annotated guide to important works. This invaluable resource provides readers with an easily accessible and comprehensive reference guide to literary and cultural theory. The Key Terms series offers undergraduate students clear, concise and accessible introductions to core topics. Each book includes a comprehensive overview of the key terms, concepts, thinkers and texts in the area covered and ends with a guide to further resources.

Author: Anna A. Lamari File Type: pdf An inexplicably understudied field of classical scholarship, tragic reperformance, has been surveyed in its true dimension only in the very recent years. Building on the latest discussions on tragic restagings, this book provides a thorough survey of reperformance of Greek tragedy in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, also addressing its theatrical, political, and cultural context. In the fifth and fourth centuries, tragic restagings were strongly tied to cultural mobility and exchange. Poets, actors, texts, vases, and vase-painters were traveling, bridging the boundaries between mainland Greece and Magna Graecia, boosting the spread of theater, facilitating theatrical literacy, and setting a new theatrical status quo, according to which popular tragic plays were restaged, by mobile actors, in numerous dramatic festivals, in and out of Attica, with or without the supervision of their composers. This book offers a holistic examination of ancient reperformances of tragedy, enhancing our perception of them as a vital theatrical practice that played a major part in the development of the tragic genre in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.