Publications
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Spiritual Contestations – The Violence of Peace in South Sudan
(2023)
A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authorities draw on to claim or reclaim legitimacy and control. Peace-making can be ...
A Jewel in the Crown II
(2020)
Essays in Honor of the 90th Anniversary of the Institute of Optics University of Rochester
Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi
(2024)
Pipeline is a low-income, high-rise-tenement settlement in Nairobi's marginalized East and one of sub-Saharan Africa's most densely populated estates. An aspirational place where fleeting forms of capitalist consumption ...
The Erard Grecian Harp in Regency England
(2023)
During the early nineteenth century, the harp was transformed into a sophisticated instrument that became as popular as the piano. This was largely the result of the harp's intensive technical, musical and visual upgrading, ...
The Dutch Hatmakers of Late Medieval and Tudor London
(2023)
At the end of the Middle Ages, a group of hatmakers from the Low Countries migrated across the North Sea to London. These men brought with them new skills and technologies, unknown to English artisans, becoming the first ...
Richard Wagner's Essays on Conducting
(2021)
The first modern English edition of Richard Wagner's essays on conducting, extensively annotated, with a critical essay on Wagner as conductor: his aesthetic, practices, vocabulary, and impact. Richard Wagner was one of ...
George Rochberg, American Composer
(2019)
Based on private diaries, correspondence, and unpublished writings, George Rochberg, American Composer, reveals the impact of personal trauma on the creative and intellectual work of a leading postmodern composer. George ...
Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France
(2023)
This book closely analyses the rise and fall of Louis XIV's marine insurance institutions in Paris, which were central to the French monarchy's efforts to stimulate commerce, colonial enterprise and economic growth. These ...
A Pathway to Excellence
(2020)
The First 100 Years of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1921-2020
Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past
(2018)
A bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable nature of humans. For over a generation now, many leading performers, critics, and ...