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OpenBookPublish, 1 month ago to Europe

📢NEW BOOK ALERT!

Out now: 'The #Nordic #Minuet: Royal Fashion and Peasant Tradition', ed. by Petri Hoppu, Egil Bakka, & Anne Margrete Fiskvik!

This major new anthology of the minuet in the #Nordic countries comprehensively explores the dance as a #historical, #social and #cultural phenomenon.

One of the most significant dances in #Europe, with a strong symbolic significance in #Westerndance culture and dance scholarship, the #minuet has evolved a distinctive pathway in this region, which these rigorous and pioneering essays explore.

As well as situating the minuet in different #national and #cultural contexts, this collection marshals a vast number of sources, including images and films, to analyze the changes in the dance across time and among different classes.

🌟This book is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners of #dance; #musicologists; and #historical and #folkdancers.

Access it for free or get your own hard copy/ebook at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0314

OpenBookPublish, 6 months ago to random

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OpenBookPublish, 9 months ago to literature

📢#OutNow in #OA: '#CheapPrint and #StreetLiterature of the #LongEighteenthCentury', edited by David Atkinson and Steve Roud.

This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the #eighteenthcentury trade in #streetliterature – #ballads, #chapbooks, and #popularprints – in England and Scotland.

Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into #ballads, #slipsongs, #storybooks, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high #literature.

It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century #popularculture and #literature, #print #history and the #booktrade, #ballad and #folk studies, children’s literature, and #socialhistory.

This #OpenAccess title is avalable at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0347

OpenBookPublish, 10 months ago to philosophy

📢#OutNow in #OA: 'Having Too Much: #Philosophical Essays on #Limitarianism' by Ingrid Robeyns (ed.).

'Having Too Much' is the first academic volume devoted to #limitarianism: the idea that using #economic or #ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits. This concept has deep roots in #economic and #political thought.

One can find similar statements of such limits in thinkers such as #Plato, #Aquinas, and #Spinoza. But this book is the first time in contemporary #political #philosophy that #limitarianism is explored at length and in detail.

Including some of the key published articles as well as new chapters, 'Having Too Much' is necessary reading for scholars and students of #politicaltheory and #philosophy, as well as anyone interested in questions of #distributivejustice.

Access this OA title for free or get a hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0338

OpenBookPublish, 1 year ago to random

📢Out Now in OA: 'The #Poetic #Edda: A Dual-Language Edition' by Edward Pettit

📚 This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of #OldNorse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the #PoeticEdda or #ElderEdda.

Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in #medieval #manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known as the #CodexRegius of the Poetic Edda.

The accompanying translations, informed by the latest scholarship, are concisely annotated to make them as accessible as possible.

As the first open-access, single-volume parallel #OldNorse edition and English translation of the Poetic Edda, this book will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars of Old Norse literature.

🔗 Access this OA title for free or get your own hard copy at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0308