Kategoria BISAC: History >> Civilization

Staehelins Studie widmet sich der Frage nach der Echtheit der sogenannten Mozartschen Blaserkonzertante. Diese im Nachlass des Mozart-Biografen Jahn gefundene Komposition wird immer wieder mit dem Werk identifiziert, das Mozart 1778 in Paris komponierte und das seitdem verschollen ist. Die Untersuchung zieht neue Quellen heran und analysiert die stilistischen Seltsamkeiten des Werks, um zu zeigen, dass es sich keineswegs um ein Werk Mozarts handelt.

This book is an analytic and historical portrait of the volatile decades at the beginning of the 20th century. Engaging with avant-garde art and thought, and concentrating on two of the most controversial and still culturally relevant personalities of Viennese modernism - Sigmund Freud and Arnold Schoenberg - it tells the story of a cultural experiment of unprecedented proportions, an experiment that attempted to redesign the senses and the concept of individual identity. The book describes the shape of this identity through its mutually overlapping artistic and intellectual dimensions, as...

When did people first start to wear jewelry or play music? When were cows domesticated, and why do we feed their milk to our children? Where were the first cities, and what made them succeed? Who developed math--or invented money?
The history of humanity is one of invention and innovation, as we have continually created new things to use, to...

From the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who "writes with verve and a keen eye" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a fresh and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T--the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America.

Every century or so, our republic has been remade...

The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496-406 BC) to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle against fate. King Oedipus tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realise he has committed, and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. With profound insights into the human condition, it is a devastating portrayal of a ruler brought down by his own oath. Oedipus...