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Janet Polasky Asylum between nations
refugees in a revolutionary era
"Driven from their homelands, refugees from ancient times to the present have sought asylum in worlds turned upside down. Theirs is an age-old story. So too are the solutions to their plight. In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, thousands of men and women took to the roads and waterways on both sides of the Atlantic--refugees in search of their inalienable rights. Although larger nations fortified their borders and circumscribed citizenship, two port cities, German Hamburg and Danish...
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Engels | 312 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven | 2023
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Nicholas Mathew The Haydn economy
music, aesthetics, and commerce in the late eighteenth century
Introduction. Ringing coins ; Haydn and the city ; Media, motion, connection ; Commerce, interest, objects, work, value -- Commerce. Importation of Haydn, Warehouse aesthetics ; Mobility and credit ; A resonant world ; New addresses ; Music before the cliché -- Interest. Taking note(s) ; Psychic investments ; Disinterest and boredom ; Making musical interest ; The fate of interest -- Objects. Little boxes ; Pursuit of objects ; Objects, animals, people ; Haydn's musical objects ; Surface fantasies...
Engels | 243 pagina's | The University of Chicago Press, Chicago | 2022
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