History - Europe - General

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams." - Francisco Franco The Spanish Civil...

History of the Alps, 1500-1900: Environment, Development, and Society provides a precise history of one of the greatest mountain range systems in the world.Author: Jon MathieuISBN-10: 1933202343ISBN-13: 9781933202341Publisher: West Virginia University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2009Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d

Rapier fencing and duelling during the 16th and 17th centuries was dominated by the Italian masters, whose systems of sword fighting became increasingly sophisticated. Breaking away from this trend, Nicoletto Giganti developed something different: a frugal system of fencing that cut to the core...

The book describes the development of the Swedish Army during the Great Northern War, 1700-1721, when Sweden fought against a coalition of Russia, Denmark-Norway and Poland-Saxony. For parts of the war, Prussia and Hanover also joined the enemy coalition. The book describes how the...

On March 1st 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered Operation Weserubung: the invasion of Norway. Having swept across Europe, the Nazi assault on Scandinavia was designed to secure the valuable iron ore being delivered by rail from Sweden to the Norwegian port of Narvik. To complete...

The reign of Philip IV of Spain is fascinating, as after a century of dominance in Europe, the Spanish hegemony was seriously challenged by France. At the beginning of Philip IV's reign, Spanish dominions were vast, not only in Europe but also in South...

Before Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee and other historians of cultural rise and fall, there was Brooks Adams. And while today there are ever more historians adding their theories as to why civilizations collapse through such factors as military invasion, over-taxation, or ecological shifts, most...

This book provides an overview of the various forms and trajectories of Great Power policy towards Central Europe between 1914 and 1945. This involves the analyses of diplomatic, military, economic and cultural perspectives of Germany, Russia, Britain, and the USA towards Hungary, Poland, the...

PREFACE. "Why take the style of these heroic times? For nature brings not back the mastodon -- Nor we those times; and why should any man Remodel models?" What Tennyson thus said of his own first essay in the Idyls of the King, in...

Europa Sun's fifth issue is here Every issue seems to have its own feel, and this issue is no different. This issue is slightly more literary than usual, with articles on William Butler Yeats (Irish patriotic poet), Homer's Iliad, Victorian writing conventions, and the...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Portuguese explorer Jorge lvares visited the Chinese coast in 1513 and was the first European to do so via the sea. Shortly after, more Portuguese visited around the Tunmen...

*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingThe Palace of the Soviets (Russian: Dvorets Sovetov) was an unrealized project for the construction of a high-rise administrative building in Moscow, to be used for sessions of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading World War II was thus the culmination of a quarter century of tank development, and it would also be the first major test of tanks in mobile warfare,...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading World War II was thus the culmination of a quarter century of tank development, and it would also be the first major test of tanks in mobile warfare,...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Before Trafalgar, Admiral Horatio Nelson had already earned enduring fame for the British victory at the Battle of the Nile. In 1798, he was given command of a...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The enduring image of World War I is of men stuck in muddy trenches, and of vast armies deadlocked in a fight neither could win. It was a war of barbed...

This book is about the section of the Thirty-Year War, relating primarily to the struggle between the Holy Roman Empire, Sweden, and France. Jochnick analyzes the incentives and objectives of these three dominant entities in the war, their conduct, the impact of the War...

The discussion of homosexuality over so huge an area as the Mediterranean means draconian choices, but I've set out to fully cover the past and the present, from Gilgamesh to Caesar, from Gloeden's Taormina nude-boy models to Truman Capote and his Sicilian hustlers, from...

It was by no means evident in the early years of the twentieth century that Albania in southeastern Europe would become an independent country and would join the family of European nations. After five centuries as a part of the Ottoman Empire, the country...

Lectures on early English history by William Stubbs. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1900 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.Author: William StubbsISBN-10: 1533405212ISBN-13: 9781533405210Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2016Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize:...

Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy F hrer, Leader of the Nazi Party, flew alone in an unarmed aeroplane, through a night of fire and ruin, on the most dangerous flight of his life. This is an amazing true story of his secret peace mission in...

In the 1850s, while studying the foreign policies of European states and endeavouring to disclose the inner springs of these policies, Marx often turned to the history of diplomacy. Working at the British Museum, he discovered, in the collection of an English historian and...

Robert Sidney Bowen, Jr. was a World War I aviator, newspaper journalist, magazine editor and author. He is best known for his boys' series books written during World War II, the Dave Dawson War Adventure Series and the Red Randall Series. He also worked...

The Battle of Fontenoy marked a turning point in the War of the Austrian Succession, yet it has rarely been analyzed in depth and the Europe-wide conflict in which it played a part is little understood. James Falkner, in this perceptive and original account,...

The Maginot Line, the complex system of strongpoints constructed between the world wars by the French to protect against attack from Germany, is one of the most famous, extensive and controversial defensive schemes in all military history. It stretched from Belgium to Switzerland, and...

Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe is a book written by John Robison. It was first published in 1797 and is considered a classic work of conspiracy theory literature. The book presents a detailed account of a secret...

The 2nd part of a two-part series describing the evolution of Media legislation in Hungary focusing on the period from 2010-2013. The author is a former member of the Hungarian Media Authority and noted television journalist. The purpose of the book is to provide...

So, you want to know about power politics? You want a practical guide on how to seize and hold power without idealism? This little book is the one you've been searching for, and it's been the best of its kind since it was first...

Was First World War Inevitable? - The Forgotten Telegram (On the 100th anniversary of WWI. Little-known facts and mysteries of the eve of WWI) Almost 100 years after the begining of First World War, there is still exist some forgotten or mysterious facts. The...

This volume continues the story of the cultural and political history of the Croatian people.Author: Francis H. EterovichISBN-10: 1487598416ISBN-13: 9781487598419Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/1970Pages: 614Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.37d

This book represents a survey of the cultural and economic life of the Croatian people, containing a wealth of factual information on various aspects of one of the most interesting regions in Europe.Author: Francis H. EterovichISBN-10: 1487598408ISBN-13: 9781487598402Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/1964Pages:...

This set of four volumes is an indispensable reference work for the study of modern Russia in general and Soviet Communism in particular. Volume 2 deals with the period from the October Revolution to the establishment of Stalin's regime.Author: Richard GregorISBN-10: 1487591705ISBN-13: 9781487591700Publisher: University...

This book documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789-1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite settlement of Molochna. Cornies' papers offer a widow onto both the Mennonite world, and onto the Tsarist state's relationship with minorities of...

This series of essays by the late Hal Draper looks at the Middle East conflict from what was long a unique point of view. Unlike traditional Zionism whose slogan "a land without people for a people without a land" made clear its intentions with...

Contrary to the stereotypical images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual abuse traditionally associated with Ottoman or 'Turkish' prisons, Kent Schull argues that, during the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1918), they played a crucial role in attempts to transform the empire. It was within these...

This title describes the development of Germany's war economy in the light of the unpublished documentary material which was captured in 1945 including records from the Reich Ministry of Armaments and Munitions, notes made by Albert Speer of his conferences with Hitler, many papers...

Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history - the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process - in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies...

This book is one in the Pen & Sword Transport History imprint in the 'Locomotive Portfolio' series and covers the family of two-cylinder 4-6-0s designed and built by the Chief Mechanical Engineers of the London & South Western and Southern Railways between 1914 and...

The period from the 12th century onward saw vast changes in every aspect of life on both the Greek mainland and islands, as monarchies disappeared to be replaced by aristocratic rule and finally by the development of a new form of community: the city-state....

'The best conceivable guide to the city' - an essential cultural history for all visitors of FlorenceThe rich and glorious past of one of the best loved cities in the world, Florence, is brought vividly to life for today's visitor in this collection which...

The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy. From Regency playhouses, to which young noblemen would go simply in order to insult someone to provoke...

Farewell to Kosovo is a story of survival through love, courage and loyalty. It is a historical novel based on the author's recollection of stories about his grandparents. As reflected in the novel, the Muslim populations of southern Europe and the Balkans suffered continuous...

A Franciscan Friar who became the first great teacher of mathematics in the courts and universities of Renaissance Italy is the central figure of this study. Taylor has examined Paciolo's writings and has translated large portions of them for the present volume. He has...

Author: Raymond F. McNairISBN-10: 146854599XISBN-13: 9781468545999Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2012Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.43d

The European Union celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2017, but celebrations were muted by Brexit and the growing sense of a crisis of identity. However, as this seminal work shows, the history and ambition of the European Union are considerable. Written by key stakeholders...

*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents Though Napoleon Bonaparte's unquenchable thirst for military adventurism eventually cost him both his throne and his freedom during the Napoleonic Wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the French...

The account of "The Black Death" here translated by Dr. Babington was Hecker's first important work of this kind. It was published in 1832, and was followed in the same year by his account of "The Dancing Mania." The books here given are the...

Joe Hughes revisits his thirty year nursing and demanding trade union careers at St Francis Psychiatric Hospital at Haywards Heath in Sussex and produces a well researched history which at times is controversial but also humorous and always enjoyable. This is a local history...

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Constant warfare between the French and the British spilled over into the New World as the countries in conflict fought for control of this prosperous territory. Drawn into this fight were the Native American tribes trying to protect their own diminishing claims to the...