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This study stems from discoveries in a trove of documents belonging to Charles-Henri de Lorraine, prince de Vaudémont, who served as governor of Milan under the Spanish crown from 1698 to 1706. These documents, together with a mass of other sources - letters, diaries, treatises, libretti, scores - offer a vivid new picture of musical life in Paris and Milan as well as exchanges between France and Italy. The book is both a patronage study and an examination of the contributions by - and the difficulties facing - musicians and dancers who worked across national and cultural boundaries. Music, Dance, and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, c.1700 follows the careers of the prince and the French violinist and composer Michel Pignolet de Montéclair. In the context of a renewed fascination with Italian music in the 1690s, Montéclair made a name for himself in Paris as a pedagogue and composer who understood both national styles and blended them in a way that was successful on French terms. Vaudémont hired Montéclair to direct a French violin band and to compose dance music for a series of new operas that observers declared "the best in Italy" but are virtually unknown today. These productions involved collaborations among a mixed company of French and Italian musicians, dancers, composers, and librettists modeled on the practice of Turinese court operas. The book is an account of the contributions of these figures to the cultural life of Paris, Milan, and other northern Italian states, and to the creative mixing of musical styles, operatic conventions, and dance technique in France and Italy through the 1720s and beyond.

Dance --- Music --- History --- History and criticism. --- Montéclair, Michel Pignolet de, --- Vaudémont, Charles-Henri de Lorraine, --- 1600-1799 --- France --- Italy --- Relations --- 18th-century musical cosmopolitanism. --- French-Italian exchange. --- artistic mixing. --- cosmopolitanism. --- cultural boundaries. --- music collaboration. --- musicians and dancers.

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The central theme of the volume is interdisciplinary experimentation. The volume includes collaborative and interdisciplinary studies on a variety of topics, from territorialisation of theory, relations between culture theory and research methodology, culture-dependent meaning formation, power relations in discourses on religion, communal heritage management, celebration practices of (national) holidays, conceptual boundaries of the ‘unnatural’, temporal boundaries in culture and cultural boundaries within archaeological material. Some of the chapters are dedicated to more general theoretical and methodological questions, while the majority of chapters use Estonian culture as source material for approaching broader cultural theoretical notions and questions. The chapters are the outcome of an experimental collaborative project aimed at bringing together representatives of various disciplines in order to find new ways to conceptualise and study their research objects or discover new study objects between disciplines. The approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration taken by the authors of the chapters are diverse. Some of them juxtapose or combine several disciplinary perspectives on common issue in order to highlight the multifaceted nature that escapes the purview of any one discipline. Some reveal similarities or complementarities between the disciplines despite the apparent differences in their metalanguage and theoretical apparatus. Others take a more integrative approach and aim to present a more holistic interdisciplinary theoretical or methodological framework. Several of the chapters re-evaluate or re-interpret existing data or case studies from the vantage points afforded by other fields, prompting questions that are not usually asked within their own field. In addition, the experimental collaboration also offered a space within which to explore issues located between disciplines and whose reoccurring presence becomes evident when diverse disciplines and studies are brought into dialogue.

Museology & heritage studies --- Communication studies --- Semiotics / semiology --- History --- Archaeology --- Religion & beliefs --- Cultural studies --- Social issues & processes --- Social groups --- Sociology & anthropology --- Political science & theory --- interdisciplinary culture theory, hybrid methodology, culture dependent meaning making, power, religion, heritage management, social rhythm, archaeological cultures, territorialisation, cultural boundaries, unnatural --- interdisciplinary culture theory --- hybrid methodology --- culture dependent meaning making --- power --- religion --- heritage management --- social rhythm --- archaeological cultures --- territorialisation --- cultural boundaries --- unnatural

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During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending from Korea to Hungary and from Iraq, Tibet, and Burma to Siberia. Ruling over roughly two thirds of the Old World, the Mongol Empire enabled people, ideas, and objects to traverse immense geographical and cultural boundaries. Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia reveals the individual stories of three key groups of people—military commanders, merchants, and intellectuals—from across Eurasia. These annotated biographies bring to the fore a compelling picture of the Mongol Empire from a wide range of historical sources in multiple languages, providing important insights into a period unique for its rapid and far-reaching transformations. Read together or separately, they offer the perfect starting point for any discussion of the Mongol Empire’s impact on China, the Muslim world, and the West and illustrate the scale, diversity, and creativity of the cross-cultural exchange along the continental and maritime Silk Roads.Features and Benefits:Synthesizes historical information from Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and Latin sources that are otherwise inaccessible to English-speaking audiences.Presents in an accessible manner individual life stories that serve as a springboard for discussing themes such as military expansion, cross-cultural contacts, migration, conversion, gender, diplomacy, transregional commercial networks, and more.Each chapter includes a bibliography to assist students and instructors seeking to further explore the individuals and topics discussed.Informative maps, images, and tables throughout the volume supplement each biography.

Intellectuals --- Mongols --- Merchants --- History, Military --- 13th century history. --- 14th century history. --- baiju. --- black sea trade. --- buddhism. --- burma. --- china. --- chinggis khan. --- conversion. --- cross cultural exchange. --- cultural boundaries. --- diplomacy. --- diversity. --- dynasty. --- empire. --- gender. --- geographical boundaries. --- guo kan. --- history of the world. --- hungary. --- intellectuals. --- iraq. --- korea. --- merchants. --- migration. --- military commanders. --- military expansion. --- mobility. --- mongol empire. --- muslim. --- patronage. --- qutulun. --- siberia. --- silk roads. --- taydula. --- tibet. --- transformation. --- translation. --- yang tingbi.

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From Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of United States history-our restless, relentless westward movement--but sets out in new directions, following women's trails from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. In colorful, spirited stories, she weaves a lyrical reconsideration of the processes that created, gave meaning to, and ultimately shattered the West. Twenty Thousand Roads introduces a cast of women mapping the world on their own terms, often crossing political and cultural boundaries defined by male-dominated institutions and perceptions. Scharff examines the faint traces left by Sacagawea and revisits Susan Magoffin's famed honeymoon journey down the Santa Fe Trail. We also meet educated women like historian Grace Hebard and government extension agent Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, who mapped the West with different voyages and visions. Scharff introduces women whose lives gave shape to the forces of gender, race, region, and modernity; participants in exploration, war, politics, empire, and struggles for social justice; and movers and shakers of everyday family life. This book powerfully and poetically shows us that to understand the American West, we must examine the lives of women who both built and resisted American expansion. Scharff remaps western history as she reveals how moving women have shaped our past, present, and future.

Women pioneers --- Women --- Frontier and pioneer life --- West (U.S.) --- History. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- america. --- american expansion. --- american west. --- cultural boundaries. --- exploration. --- fabiola cabeza de baca. --- famous women. --- gender issues. --- gender studies. --- grace hebard. --- historians. --- historical women. --- nonfiction stories. --- pamela des barres. --- political boundaries. --- race issues. --- sacagawea. --- santa fe trail. --- social justice. --- susan magoffin. --- textbooks. --- travel. --- united states history. --- western history. --- western travel. --- westward movement. --- women and travel.

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This tale of two cities - Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile - traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel processes involving distinctive constructions of community, class, and gender in the two widely separated but intimately related sites.

Copper industry and trade --- Anaconda Company --- Industries --- Business & Economics --- Metal trade --- Social aspects --- Anaconda Company. --- Atlantic Richfield Co. --- Anaconda Copper Co. --- Anaconda Copper Mining Company --- Anaconda Industries Co. --- anaconda company. --- anthropology. --- betrayal. --- business. --- butte. --- capitalism. --- chile. --- chuquicamata. --- class. --- community studies. --- community. --- consumption. --- copper mining. --- copper production. --- cultural boundaries. --- danger. --- ethnography. --- gender. --- geographic boundaries. --- global capitalism. --- local culture. --- miners. --- mining community. --- mining history. --- mining life. --- mining men. --- mining. --- montana. --- national boundaries. --- politics. --- privation. --- privilege. --- silicosis. --- social history. --- transformation. --- wasting.