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Derived from the colorful traditions of vaudeville, burlesque, revue, and operetta, the musical has blossomed into America's most popular form of theater. Scott McMillin has developed a fresh aesthetic theory of this underrated art form, exploring the musical as a type of drama deserving the kind of critical and theoretical regard given to Chekhov or opera. Until recently, the musical has been considered either an "integrated" form of theater or an inferior sibling of opera. McMillin demonstrates that neither of these views is accurate, and that the musical holds true to the disjunctive and irreverent forms of popular entertainment from which it arose a century ago. Critics and composers have long held the musical to the standards applied to opera, asserting that each piece should work together to create a seamless drama. But McMillin argues that the musical is a different form of theater, requiring the suspension of the plot for song. The musical's success lies not in the smoothness of unity, but in the crackle of difference. While disparate, the dancing, music, dialogue, and songs combine to explore different aspects of the action and the characters. Discussing composers and writers such as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Kander and Ebb, Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome Kern, The Musical as Drama describes the continuity of this distinctively American dramatic genre, from the shows of the 1920's and 1930's to the musicals of today.

Musicals --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism

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In Language in History, Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin, he demonstrates, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and cultural identity in Britain and Ireland. For example, he examines the ways in which language was employed to construct a bourgeois public sphere in 18th Century England, and he reveals how language is still being used in contemporary Ireland to articulate national and political aspirations and why the Irish language died.By bringin

Language and history. --- Language and culture. --- Culture and language --- Culture --- History and language --- Linguistics and history --- History

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L’objectif de ce livre est d’observer le fonctionnement de la justice dans l’arrondissement judiciaire de Mons durant les deux guerres mondiales, face aux douloureuses réalités des collaborations et des résistances avec l’occupant allemand. Les conséquences de ces deux occupations se font sentir dès le mois d’août 1914 et jusqu’aux dernières suites pénales de l’épuration de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1961). Au fil de six contributions - deux sur la première guerre, quatre sur la seconde-, occupations et libérations sont abordées comme des réalités vécues au quotidien par des gens ordinaires. Les tensions de la première occupation sont éclairées par les confrontations entre polices allemandes et espions ou résistants et les poursuites des « inciviques » par des juges en uniforme après l’armistice. À la fin de la seconde occupation, les homicides de vengeance, la prise en charge des collaborateurs juvéniles, l’épuration des sympathisants de l’Ordre Nouveau et le procès de la « bande Chéron », un groupe de rexistes passés à la violence sanglante, dessinent une société clivée sur le plan économique, social, politique et culturel et soumise à une occupation plus dramatique que la première. Dans une atmosphère de quasi « guerre civile », la justice, qu’elle soit civile ou militaire, est investie d’une mission de rétablissement de l’ordre social et de pacification des comportements.

History --- Law --- justice --- guerre --- occupation --- résistance

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Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women in the profession, sets out the situation of women in technical fields and cartography-related organizations, and outlines the challenges they face in their careers. Map Worlds explores women as colourists in early times, describes the major houses of cartographic production, and delves into the economic function of intermarriages among cartographic houses and families. It relates how in later centuries, working from the margins, women produced maps to record painful tribal memories or sought to remedy social injustices. Much later, one woman so changed the way we think about continents that the shift has been likened to the Copernican revolution. Other women created order and wonder about the lunar landscape, and still others turned the art and science of making maps inside out, exposing the hidden, unconscious, and subliminal “text” of maps. Shared by all these map-makers are themes of social justice and making maps work for the betterment of humanity.

Cartography --- Women cartographers --- Maps --- Cartographers --- History. --- History --- Cartography. --- Feminist Cartography. --- Historical Cartography. --- Map making. --- Maps. --- Women.

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Ce livre nous fait revivre le fonctionnement des écoles normales depuis l'époque de leur splendeur jusqu'à la crise actuelle à laquelle la réforme de 1979 n'a pas mis un terme. Mais le propos n'est pas seulement historique. L'auteur aborde ici la question toujours brûlante de la formation des maîtres, qui déborde largement le cadre de la seule école élémentaire.

Teachers colleges --- History --- -Colleges of education --- Normal schools --- Schools of education --- Training colleges for teachers --- Universities and colleges --- -History --- Colleges of education --- History. --- Teachers colleges - France - History --- pédagogie --- école normale --- enseignement --- formation --- instituteur --- FRANCE --- ECOLES NORMALES --- ETUDE ET ENSEIGNEMENT