Oxford University Press

Charting Ireland's progression from a poor society on the periphery of Europe, dominated by the conflicts of competing warlords, to a centralized political unit with a rapidly developing market economy,  Contested Island is the story of the people who became the modern Irish....

In recent years there has been an outpouring of work at the intersection of social        movement thoery, organizational theory, economic, and political sociology. The        problems at the core of these areas, Fligstein and McAdam argue, have a similar        analytic and theoretical structure. Synthesizing much of this work, A Theory...

American Animation in Its Golden AgeIn Hollywood Cartoons, Michael Barrier takes us on a glorious guided tour of American animation in the 1930s, &'40s, and &'50s, to meet the legendary artists and entrepreneurs who created Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, Wile E. Coyote, Donald Duck, Tom and Jerry, and many other cartoon favorites.    ...

A Practical Guide to Developing Interactive Music Systems for Education and MoreIn Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V. J. Manzo provides a user-friendly introduction to a powerful programming language that can be used to write custom software for musical interaction.  Through clear, step-by-step instructions...

Early cinemas were noisy places with pianos, organs, ensembles of all varieties and sometimes full orchestras accompanied films. The histories about this era have until now focused exclusively on exhibition practices in the United States, which provides only a very narrow glimpse into the silent film era. Britain, a key cultural player in the...

This volume collects the influential work of Karen Alter analysing the ECJ's controversial influence on European politics. Together, the essays cover the entire history of the institution, from the early days of the Coal and Steel Community, through the activist transformation of the European legal system, to the current period of an enlarged EU....