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Hitler and the Final Solution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Hitler and the Final Solution

Pp. vii-xxxiii contain Friedländer's introduction, which did not appear in the original German edition.

Priest and Parish in Vienna
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Priest and Parish in Vienna

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: BRILL

"Priest and Parish in Vienna, 1780 to 1880" details the social, cultural, and political transformation of the Austrian Catholic priesthood in nineteenth-century Vienna. It shows how priests, a very important and influential group in Austria, were changed from servants of the state into political activists working for the contentious Christian Social Party in fin-de-siecle Vienna.

Before Infallibility
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Before Infallibility

The study of two nineteenth-century priests who tried to transform their church through a new formulations of ancient Truth. Systematic theologian Anton Gunther challenged the pantheistic idealism dominant in the German intellectual world of his day, and Johann Emanuel Veith found in Gunther's system of contrapositional dualism the basis of his theological expression.

Franz Liszt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 538

Franz Liszt

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-02-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Franz Liszt: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and performer. The second edition includes research published since the publication of the first edition and provide electronic resources. Franz Liszt was born on 22 October 1811 at Raiding, today located in Austria’s Burgenland. He received his first piano lessons from his father, Adam Liszt, an employee of the celebrated Eszterházy family. Young Franz was quickly acclaimed a prodigy, and in 1820 a group of Hungarian magnates offered to underwrite his musical education. Shortly thereafter the Liszts moved to Vienna, where Franz studied piano and composition with Carl Czerny and Anton Salieri. Performances there earned Liszt local fame; even Beethoven expressed interest in him.

Mozart-Bibliographien
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Mozart-Bibliographien

The work Mozart Bibliographies is published to commemorate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday. 1,612 independent and hidden bibliographies as well as reference works on Mozart's life, his works and his family are recorded here with commentaries. It also covers non-independent bibliographies, catalogues of his works, exhibition catalogues, discographies and filmographies. With a few exceptions, all the entries are based on title autopsy. The bibliographies are divided into titles on Mozart's family, Constanze Mozart, Karl Mozart, Leopold Mozart, Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Wolfgang Amadeus d. J. (Franz Xaver Wolfgang) Mozart. The extensive material is indexed by names, titles and subject headings, providing varied insights and access.

Productive Men, Reproductive Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

Productive Men, Reproductive Women

The debate on the origins of modern gender norms continues unabated across the academic disciplines. This book adds an important and hitherto neglected dimension. Focusing on rural life and its values, the author argues that the modern ideal of separate spheres originated in the era of the Enlightenment. Prior to the eighteenth century, cultural norms prescribed active, interdependent economic roles for both women and men. Enlightenment economists transformed these gender paradigms as they postulated a market exchange system directed exclusively by men. By the early nineteenth century, the emerging bourgeois value system affirmed the new civil society and the market place as exclusively male...

Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter

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Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 609

Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography

An excellent starting point for both reference librarians and for library users seeking information about family history and the lives of others, this resource is drawn from the authoritative database of Guide to Reference, voted Best Professional Resource Database by Library Journal readers in 2012. Biographical resources have long been of interest to researchers and general readers, and this title directs readers to the best biographical sources for all regions of the world. For interest in the lives of those not found in biographical resources, this title also serves as a guide to the most useful genealogical resources. Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.

50 Years K.G. Saur
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

50 Years K.G. Saur

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Franz Grillparzer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Franz Grillparzer

In this first comprehensive survey of criticism on Grillparzer, Dr. Roe highlights the main areas of critical debate and provides a chronological account of the major trends and developments: through periods of misunderstanding and neglect or of political appropriation in the cause of Nazism or Austrian nationalism, and through recent decades dominated by various schools of thought, whether sociological or psychoanalytical. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of Austrian and European literature, Austrian culture, and literary theory and criticism.