Benjamin L White Livres

Opening up a topic long closed to debate, this is the first study ever to survey the developments of musical thought in modern Irish cultural history. Its purpose is to register the function of music as a dynamic agent in the history of Irish ideas in the period 1770-1970 by means of three prevailing themes: the integrity of sectarian culture, the political expression of cultural independence, and the symbolic force of Celticism. The Keeper's Recital aims to identify and distinguish between the symbolic power of Irish music and its failure to generate a durable aesthetic comparable to that which infused the Literary Revival.

You Talkin' to Me? explores the hidden history of English in New York City - a history that encompasses social class, immigration, culture, economics, and, of course, real estate. E. J. White illuminates a new dimension of the city's landscape through entertaining stories of New York's most famous characters and cultural institutions, from Broadway to the newsroom.

Who was Paul of Tarsus? Radical visionary of a new age? Gender-liberating progressive? Great defender of orthodoxy? In Remembering Paul, Benjamin L. White offers a critique of early Christian claims about the "real" Paul in the second century C.E.--a period in which apostolic memory was highly contested--and sets these ancient contests alongside their modern counterpart: attempts to rescue the "historical" Paul from his "canonical" entrapments. White charts the rise and fall of various narratives about Paul and argues that Christians of the second century had no access to the "real" Paul. Through the selection, combination, and interpretation of pieces of a diverse earlier layer of the Pauline tradition, Christians defended images of the Apostle that were important for forming collective identity.

Why, in the years around 1920, did the concept of 'minority' suddenly become prominent in public affairs worldwide? The author uses a study of Syria under the French mandate to show what historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'. číst celé