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creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
Peter’s famous incognito tours of shipyards in Holland were anticipated in the eagerness of earlier tsars to adopt the bureaucratic and diplomatic methods of the grander European monarchies. Russia’s rulers and churchmen drew on ideas of the magnificent and spiritual from the baroque art and architecture of Central Europe, and adapted them to local
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Peter’s ‘symbolic reforms’ were meant to drive home the terrible urgency of political change. After his European tour in 1698, he imposed a ban on beards and personally cut off those of his leading nobles. Russian traditional dress – a loose robe or kaftan – was also outlawed, and ‘German dress’ was imposed.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR))
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