Examining the social history of music, this book brings together sociological and historical methods. This text is reissued here in Ashgate's Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain series, though of course the book ranges beyond its study of London to discuss in detail the contrasting concert life of Paris and Vienna. This edition features a substantial new preface which takes into account the significant work that has been done in this field since the book first appeared, and provides an opportunity to assess the impact the book has had on our thinking about the European middle class and its...
Examining the social history of music, this book brings together sociological and historical methods. This text is reissued here in Ashgate's Music in...
In 1812, less than forty years after breaking from Britain, the United States found itself in another war with its former colonial master. Now, during the two hundredth anniversary of the War of 1812 comes Neither Victor nor Vanquished, William Weber's reappraisal of this critical but frequently misunderstood conflict. In the first half of the book, Weber reexamines the war's military aspects, highlighting the asymmetric nature of the conflict as the world's foremost naval power with a credible professional army stood against an idealist republic with commercial and agricultural...
In 1812, less than forty years after breaking from Britain, the United States found itself in another war with its former colonial master. Now, during...
