Oxford University Press

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Off the Record is a revealing exploration of piano performing practices of the        high Romantic era. Author and well-known keyboard player Neal Peres Da Costa bases        his investigation on a range of early sound recordings (acoustic, piano roll and        electric) that capture a generation of highly-esteemed pianists trained as far...

The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment for granting black men the right to vote but not women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this? In a lively narrative   Fighting Chance offers fresh answers to this...

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A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog ShopsIn America Walks into a Bar, Christine Sismondo recounts the rich and fascinating history of an institution often reviled, yet always central to American life. She traces the tavern from England to New England, showing how even the Puritans valued "e;a good Beere."e; With...

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