The Guitar in Jazz presents in rich, entertaining detail the history and development of the guitar as a jazz instrument. In a series of essays by some of jazz's leading historians and critics, the volume traces the impressive evolution...

A richly textured portrait of the famous Native leader Powhatan and his realm emerges in this revisionist study. For decades the English colonists at and around Jamestown lived in the shadow of a powerful confederation of Native American...

"Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers" ist die Autobiografie des österreichischen Schriftstellers Stefan Zweig, die erstmals 1942 veröffentlicht wurde. In diesem Werk schildert Zweig das kulturelle und gesellschaftliche...