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This is an account of the actions taken by the residents of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to create a local amateur society singing the music of J. S. Bach and to develop it into a choir of international importance. Singers, instrumentalists, industrialists, academicians, bankers, and churches acted in community to found and perpetuate a group devoted to sharing the music of Bach locally, nationally, and internationally. While The Bach Choir of Beth...

The first book-length study of China's Catholic martyr saints, this work recounts the cultural, religious, and economic conflicts that unfolded during China's Qing dynasty (1644-1911). China's Saints considers closely the personal and public lives of both missionaries and Chinese converts who lived during China's late-imperial era.

This collection reveals the life and work of pioneer Chinese Christian women, who have until now been largely invisible. The essays illustrate how gender affected their understanding of Christianity and career choices.

In this book the author reveals a tapestry woven by Christopher Tolkien from different portions of his father's work that is often quite mind-boggling, with inserts that seemed initially to have been editorial inventions shown to have come from some other remote portion of Tolkien's vast body of work.

The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen's 1960 seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, an anthology that Marjorie Perloff once called "the fountainhead of radical American poetics." The New American Poetry is referred to in every literary history of post-World War II American poetry. Allen's anthology has reached its fiftieth anniversary, providing a unique time for reflection and reeva...

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This volume explores the vitality of cultural, economic, and political life of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, whose unique location (close enough to New York and Philadelphia to market grain, iron, coal, and steel but distant enough to develop its own cultural live) offers a regional model persisting for more than two centuries.

This collection examines different aspects of Barry¿s cycle, The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture, to place the artist's work and ideas in the context of contemporary debates about nationalism and improvement, publicity and patronage.

This book explores the adaptations by filmmakers of existing occult religions as framing devices for their work. It also discusses the cultural implications of these films, both as flash points in the national discourse on religion and as springboards for social criticism.

Harriet Martineau is one of the most prolific and well-connected Victorian writers to have fallen off the literary map in the century following her death. This eclectic collection of letters ranges from the 1820s through 1870s and includes private and professional correspondence, from brief notes to long discourses, addressing topics from domestic minutiae and personal health to national and international affairs with people like Maria Weston ...

This book investigates the cultural afterlife of James Thomson's The Seasons (1730) by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain.

Out of Steam, Dieselization and American Railroads, 1920 1960 examines how and why American railroads embraced the diesel locomotive and abandoned steam. Highly regulated railroads were facing difficult business conditions from 1920 to 1960 that resulted in extensive cost cutting. Steam and diesel locomotives were capable machines but were designed, constructed, and maintained in vastly different ways. Railroads generally dieselized to control...

This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18, 000 performances that took place in Dublin¿s theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan¿s becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.

This book tells of the difficulties of setting up and operating a joint Chinese-American airline, China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) in the 1930s and 1940s in a China beset by internal conflicts and an expanding war with Japan. BondOs personal stories of the evacuations of Shanghai and Hankow, and of the successful but heartbreaking CNAC evacuation of Hong Kong are truly memorable. The book looks at the forces that shaped China in the ...

This book is the first ethnography of "comunero culture" in an agricultural community in the Coquimbo region of Chile. In this unforgiving environment of limited resources and cyclical drought, the comunidades agrícolas make use of indivisible communal land, democratic decision-making, cooperative relations of production and resource conservation, and diverse economic activities closely linked to changing environmental conditions. Based on fie...

Reading and Riding traces the foundation and development of Louis Hachette¿s Bibliothe`que des Chemins de Fer and its impact on the social, political, and cultural history of nineteenth-century France.

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This book explores the origins of Harris¿s scientific interests, his struggle to find a professional position and research resources, and his entomological investigations and library career. It also examines his development of strategies for publishing scientific and popular work.