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Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage : Boy Heroines and Female Pages / by Shapiro, Michael, 1938-

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history To 1625.…”
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Staging Desire : Queer Readings of American Theater History /

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Detroit on Stage : The Players Club, 1910-2005 / by Levering, Marijean

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Staging Governance : Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770–1800 / by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

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Staged Otherness : Ethnic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe, 1850–1939 /

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Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers : Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theater / by Davy, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Introducing WOW: "A miracle on E. 4th Street" -- Women are laughing again: allied faces -- Sex, drag, and rock 'n' roles: the festivals -- Feminist space and a system of anarchy: the storefront -- Staging the unimaginable: New York's East Village club scene -- Challenging whiteness: the fourth-floor walk-up -- "Learning to walk on our hands" -- Appendix: WOW Production history.…”
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Encounter, Engagement, and Exchange : How Native Populations of the Americas Transformed the World /

Table of Contents: “…Native Americans as portrayed on the operatic stage :…”
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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender /

Table of Contents: “…'The Moor of Venice, ' or the Italian on the Renaissance English stage /…”
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Revolutionary Acts : Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938 / by Mally, Lynn

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Before Official Multiculturalism : Women’s Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s / by Iacovetta, Franca, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The Case Study -- The Scholarship -- Toronto Counsellors and International Institute Social Work Theory and Practice -- Professionals, Narrative, and Gendered Middle-Class Subjectivities -- Marital Conflict, Emotions, and "De-culturalizing" Violence -- Generational Conflict: Intimacy, Money, and "Mini-Skirt" Feminism -- Making Multicultural Community at the Institute -- Community Projects for Rural Villagers: Health and Occupational Training -- Food as Charity, Community-Building, and Cosmopolitanism on a Budget -- Immigrant Gifts, Pluralist Spectacles, and Staging the Modern City and Nation -- Handicrafts, High Art, and Human Rights: Cultural Guardianship and Internationalism.…”
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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 /

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The Three Ages of Government : From the Person, to the Group, to the World / by Raadschelders, J. C. N.

Table of Contents: “…-- Government in society: The conceptual and historical context for understanding government -- Opening Salvo: On the torture of holistic scholarship -- Government as artifice of bounded rationality: Simon and Vico -- Social ontology for understanding institutional arrangements -- Hierarchies of knowledge: From simple to complex phenomena -- Government as function of instinct, community, and society -- Institutional changes and the triple whammy -- Changes at the constitutional level -- Changes at the collective level -- Changes at the operational level -- Enter the triple whammy: Industrialization, urbanization, and rapid population growth -- The stage is set for the remainder of this book -- Instinct and intent: Origins and elements of human governing behaviors -- The nature-nurture issue: From dichotomy to balanced complex -- Sociality among the great apes and humans: Similarities and differences -- Similarities -- Differences -- Physical and social features of the Hominin tribe -- Human instinct and intent -- How we differ from primates: Governing among and of hunter-gatherers -- Conflicting impulses underlying governing arrangements -- Concluding comments: Relevance to understanding what government is -- Tribal community: Governing humans in ever larger, sedentary groups -- The growth, dispersion, and concentration of the human species -- The agricultural revolution: Fraud or inevitable? …”
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Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / by Wilson, James F.

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Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain : Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula /

Table of Contents: “…Recording zarzuela grande in Spain in the Early Days of the Phonograph and Gramophone / Eva Moreda Rodríguez ; The Invisible Voices of the Early Recording Market in Portugal / Leonor Losa ; Radio, Popular Music, and Nationalism in Portugal in the 1940s / Pedro Moreira ; Protest Song and Recording in the Final Stages of the Estado Novo in Portugal (1960-1974) / Hugo Castro -- Part III. …”
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Anatomizing Civil War : Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique / by Dinter, Martin T.

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Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing : The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theatre / by Seniors, Paula Marie

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I Made You to Find Me : The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address / by Hedley, Jane

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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose / by Callanan, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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Theater Figures : The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel / by Allen, Emily, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Theatrical reforms: Stage fright and the scene of reading -- Staging a comeback: The remasculinization of the novel -- Heimlich maneuvers: Domesticity, theatricality, and the abject -- Mesdames Bovary: Performative reading, cultural capital, and high art -- Performing distinction: Elevating the literary sphere.…”
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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy /

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy /

by Kefeli, Agnes

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