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The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. The recent discovery of a large number of private account books belonging to him and his family allows for a greater exploration of Peri's professional and personal life. Richard Goldthwaite, an economic historian, and Tim Carter, a musicologist, have done more, however, than write a biography: their investigation exposes the value of such financial documents as a primary source for an entire period. This record of Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables the first detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and opens a new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism. His economic circumstances reflect continuities and transformations in Florentine society, and the strategies for negotiating them, under the Medici grand dukes. They also allow a reevaluation of Peri the singer and composer that elucidates the cultural life of a major artistic center even in changing times, providing a quite different view of what it meant to be a musician in late Renaissance Italy.

Composers --- Finance, Personal --- -Finance, Personal --- -Biography --- Economic conditions --- History --- Sources --- Florence (Italy) --- Peri, Jacopo, --- Finance, Personal. --- Financial management, Personal --- Financial planning, Personal --- Personal finance --- Personal financial management --- Personal financial planning --- Songwriters --- Planning --- Zazzerino, --- Peri, Iacopo, --- Florent︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Firenze (Italy) --- Florencia (Italy) --- Florença (Italy) --- Florenz (Italy) --- Florentia (Italy) --- Finance --- Financial literacy --- Musicians --- Forence (Tuscany) --- E-books --- Florence (Tuscany) --- Composers - Biography - Italy --- Composers - Economic conditions - 16th century - Italy - Florence --- Composers - Economic conditions - 17th century - Italy - Florence --- Finance, Personal - - History - Sources - 16th century - Italy - Florence --- Finance, Personal - - History - Sources - 17th century - Italy - Florence --- Florence (Italy) - Economic conditions - 17th century --- Florence (Italy) - Economic conditions - 16th century --- -Florence (Italy)

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Une définition de la beauté évolutive selon les époques, de la beauté absolue, imaginaire, aux beautés singulières d'aujourd'hui.

Beauty, Personal --- Body, Human --- History. --- Social aspects. --- History of beauty - Renaissance-21st century --- CDL --- 391 --- Human body --- Beauty --- Complexion --- Grooming, Personal --- Grooming for women --- Personal beauty --- Personal grooming --- Toilet (Grooming) --- Hygiene --- Beauty culture --- Beauty shops --- Cosmetics --- History --- Social aspects --- Beauty, Personal - History. --- Body, Human - Social aspects. --- BEAUTE CORPORELLE --- BEAUTE FEMININE (ESTHETIQUE) --- SOINS DE BEAUTE --- HISTOIRE --- ASPECT SOCIAL

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The active role of women in the labor force is not limited to recent decades, or even to the last century. As William Chester Jordan amply demonstrates in Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies, women in premodern times played an integral part both as a source of labor and as participants in lending and borrowing. In this wide-ranging and provocative study, the author assesses the overall significance of women's work in medieval and early modern Europe, and in colonial and postcolonial societies. While earlier studies have concentrated on women in agriculture or craftwork, Jordan investigates consumption lending and borrowing among women in the European Middle Ages, female investment in early modern Europe, and, in a final section, the role of African and Caribbean marketwomen and their provision of and access to credit. By viewing the historical situation, Jordan sheds light on contemporary concerns about commercialization, the transformation of rural society, and industrialization. He provides a historical and comparative context for some of the current issues that plague the twentieth-century female work force. By understanding the role of gender in such an important aspect of traditional life as credit relationships, Jordan advances an ongoing reexamination of the issue in general. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval and early modern European, African, and Caribbean history; anthropology; and women's studies.

Consumer credit --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Consumer debt --- Credit --- History --- Finance, Personal&delete& --- Developing countries --- Europe --- Economic conditions. --- Economic conditions --- Credit, Debt & Loans --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- History. --- Finance, Personal --- Feminism --- Manners and customs --- Consumer credit - History --- Women - Finance, Personal - History --- Women - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Europe - Economic conditions - 16th century --- Developing countries - Economic conditions

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Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian-"I'm a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer"-has lived through much of jazz's history and has known many of jazz's most important figures, often as friend and confidant. Hentoff has been a tireless advocate for the neglected parts of jazz history, including forgotten sidemen and -women. This volume includes his best recent work-short essays, long interviews, and personal recollections. From Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong to Ornette Coleman and Quincy Jones, Hentoff brings the jazz greats to life and traces their art to gospel, blues, and many other forms of American music. At the Jazz Band Ball also includes Hentoff's keen, cosmopolitan observations on a wide range of issues. The book shows how jazz and education are a vital partnership, how free expression is the essence of liberty, and how social justice issues like health care and strong civil rights and liberties keep all the arts-and all members of society-strong.

Music --- Jazz --- Criticism --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Gillespie, Dizzy --- Armstrong, Louis --- Monk, Thelonious Sphere --- Woods, Phil --- Parker, Charles Christopher --- american music. --- american society. --- art. --- biographical. --- blues music. --- civil liberties. --- civil rights. --- contrarian. --- duke ellington. --- engaging. --- famous jazz musicians. --- feel good. --- free expression. --- gospel. --- health care. --- interviews. --- jazz band ball. --- jazz critics. --- jazz history. --- jazz lovers. --- jazz music. --- jazz musicians. --- jazz scene. --- louis armstrong. --- musicians. --- nonfiction. --- ornette coleman. --- personal history. --- political activists. --- quincy jones. --- retrospective. --- short essays. --- social justice issues.

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In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the "Vienna of the East" under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II-yet an idealized version lives on, suspended in the memories of its dispersed people and passed down to their children like a precious and haunted heirloom. In this original blend of history and communal memoir, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer chronicle the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory. They find evidence of a cosmopolitan culture of nostalgic lore-but also of oppression, shattered promises, and shadows of the Holocaust in Romania. Hirsch and Spitzer present the first historical account of Jewish Czernowitz in the English language and offer a profound analysis of memory's echo across generations.

Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History --- Social life and customs --- Chernivt͡si (Ukraine) --- Chernovt︠s︡y (Ukraine) --- Chernovyt︠s︡i (Ukraine) --- Czerniowce (Ukraine) --- Chernovit︠s︡y (Ukraine) --- Cernăuți (Ukraine) --- Cherniztsi (Ukraine) --- Tschernowitz (Ukraine) --- Chernovit︠s︡ (Ukraine) --- Tsʹernovits (Ukraine) --- Czernowitz (Ukraine) --- Černivci (Ukraine) --- Ṭshernoṿits (Ukraine) --- Tchernivtsi (Ukraine) --- Cernăuți (Romania) --- Ethnic relations --- Description and travel. --- Tchernovtsy (Ukraine) --- Hirsch, Carl, --- Hirsch, Lotte, --- Travel --- Černivci (Ukraine) --- Gottfried, Lotte, --- anthropology. --- carpathian mountains. --- communal memoir. --- cultural identity. --- cultural memory. --- czernowitz. --- discussion books. --- dispersed people. --- eastern european culture. --- education. --- engaging. --- european culture. --- family history. --- family. --- generational. --- habsburg empire. --- historical account. --- holocaust. --- idealized place. --- jewish czernowitz. --- jewish german. --- jewish memory. --- multigenerational. --- nonfiction. --- oral history. --- personal history. --- romania. --- ukraine. --- vanished community. --- world war ii. --- wwii.