Children living in Great Britain and the United States at the beginning of each century between 1000 and 2000 A.D. describe their lifestyle at the time.
255- 290; Robert Snow and David Wright, "Coney Island: A Case Study in Popular Culture and Technical Change," Journal of Popular Culture 9 (Spring 1976): 960-975; Pilot and Ransom, Sodom by the Sea; Edo McCullough, Good Old Coney ...
Over 100 full-page, royalty-free illustrations document what well-dressed American men wore in early 1900s: checked and striped business suits, sporty knickers and jackets, elegant formal wear, long fur-trimmed coats.
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As big as the next century, as relevant as tomorrow, a novel of real life at the giddy, anxious end of the millennium.
The focus of this collection, essays originally published in the journal 19th-Century Music, is upon modernism in relation to its immediate heritage.
" Now Judit Frigyesi offers a broader perspective on Bartók's art by grounding it in the social and cultural life of turn-of-the-century Hungary and the intense creativity of its modernist movement.
AMERICAN ART SONGS of the Turn of the Century Edited by Paul Sperry At the turn of the 20th century , a large and diverse group of American composers created a treasury of memorable song . This superb collection compiled by tenor Paul ...
This overlooked trend, provocatively reassessed in Steven Bryan's well-documented history, contradicts our conception of the gold standard as a British-based system infused with English ideas, interests, and institutions.
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation ...
"Shapiro recounts the story of scientific cooking with a deft humor some might find unbecoming to a work of impeccable scholarship.