History - Europe - General

In 1944, 13-year-old Fritz Tubach was almost old enough to join the Hitler Youth in his German village of Kleinheubach. That same year in Tab, Hungary, 12-year-old Bernie Rosner was loaded onto a train with the rest of the village's Jewish inhabitants and taken...

The great friendship between Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson began with a chance meeting in a bar. Bearing this in mind, Patricia Guy, internationally known wine journalist and member of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes, has written a witty study of Victorian drinking habits,...

Now updated to address recent developments in the post-9/11 world, A World of Nations, Second Edition, provides an analytical narrative of the origins, evolution, and end of the Cold War. Much more than a simple account of the long struggle between the two superpowers,...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "I came here, where freedom is being defended, to serve it, and to live or die for it." - Pulaski Many Americans labor under the misconception that the nation's colonial...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

Written in a lively and accessible style, Antiquity Now opens our gaze to the myriad uses and abuses of classical antiquity in contemporary fiction, film, comics, drama, television - and even internet forums. With every chapter focusing on a different aspect of classical reception...

An informal social history-rich and surprising-of the centuries old relationship between cows and humans. "A far from humdrum book-it will open even jaundiced eyes."-Larry McMurtry.Author: Laurie Winn CarlsonISBN-10: 1566634555ISBN-13: 9781566634557Publisher: Ivan R. Dee PublisherLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2002Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.62w x 0.97d

'A compelling and evocative re-imagining of the events that led to this most infamous of murders; full of wit and pathos.' Hana Cole, author of The Devil's CrossingBECKET: WARRIOR1159Toulouse.Thomas of London, Chancellor of England, has spent a lifetime as a clerk, administrator, and ambassador....

To avenge defeats in a former war, Austria assembled a massive superiority in forces thanks to powerful alliances, and an army reformed and far more effective than ever before. But Prussia hung on, to force a long war and a bloody draw. The brilliance...

Bread and Salt - a literal translation of the Russian word for hospitality - explores the social and economic implications of eating and drinking in Russia in the thousand years before 1900. Eating and drinking are viewed here as social activities which involves the...

In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety of kinds of states which were viable at...

A Journal of the Plague Year is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665 when the bubonic plague struck the city of London. It is presented as an eyewitness account of the events at the time, told in somewhat chronological order....

The Slavs saw themselves as Hungarian citizens speaking Pan-Slav and Czech dialects - and yet were the origins of what would become in the twentieth century a new Slovak nation. How then did Slovak nationalism emerge from multi-ethnic Hungarian loyalism, Czechoslovakism and Pan-Slavism? Here...

This book is an account of two dimension of state and nation building in France and Spain since the seventeenth century--the invention of a national boundary line and the making of Frenchmen and Spaniards. It is also a history of Catalan rural society in...

This book contains a systematic study of economic institutions during the Spanish Enlightenment in the areas of print culture (the press, merchants' handbooks, teaching materials), education (university chairs in political economy and commerce) and the organisation of financial matters at state level (economic societies,...

Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist's dream, for the peculiar and acidic properties of the bog have preserved the bodies so...

A great collision of armies under the banners of the crescent and the crossThe Battle of Tours (also called Poitiers) in 732 A.D. was one of the most significant battles fought during the last two millennia. This book is far more than just a...

After Empires describes how the end of colonial empires and the changes in international politics and economies after decolonization affected the European integration process. Until now, studies on European integration have often focussed on the search for peaceful relations among the European nations, particularly...

This is the first complete detailed study of the military aspects of the first half of this important conflict (1618-1635). Each chapter deals with a particular battle, but Guthrie also examines wider questions of strategy, leadership, armaments, organization, logistics, and war finances. The main...

Over the past few centuries, northern Europe's bogs have yielded mummified men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable account of their modern afterlives,...

The book describes and analyses the Scanian War, which was fought from 1675 to 1679 between, on one side, primarily Brandenburg and Denmark-Norway and, on the other, SE - Sweden. The war was mainly fought in Scania, the former Danish lands along the border...

Through interviews, workshops, and structured analysis on the causes of potential conflict, the authors of this report outline new conventional arms control (CAC) measures to lower the risk of conflict in Europe. The existing CAC regime is outdated and largely irrelevant to today's security...

Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa in the period after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors explore crucial moments in which change...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Since earliest times the strategy and tactics of the Celts in battle has exhibited a continuity over the centuries that is quite surprising. This book provides a comprehensive study of the way in which the Celtic people fought and the weapons that they used....

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

1. The Atlantic Sugar Trade: Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants in the Seventeenth Century2. The Development of the Sephardic Jewish Sugar Trade Newtork3. Dutch Trade and Sephardic Merchants in the Atlantic and British Caribbean World in the Seventeenth Century4. Evidence from Trade Records at the Amsterdam...

Offering an overview of the marketplace for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the interest and importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. It considers the impact on the development of print culture of the emergent,...

The authors explore where, how, and how often U.S. adversaries have intervened militarily since 1946 and identify why these adversaries initiated military interventions and why they might do so in the future. Three companion reports consider Chinese, Russian, and Iranian military intervention behavior in...

In 1943, seventeen year old John Gorman joined in the Army Specialized Training Program, a pioneering recruiting program that offered enlistees an opportunity for a college education after completing basic training. In February 1944, while Gorman was still in boot camp, the Army converted...

Archaeology, Politics and Islamicate Cultural Heritage in Europe responds to the wishes of specialists in the history and archaeology of Islamicate societies in Europe to explore the integration of these societies into historical narratives. In order to deal with the multiple implications and wide...

A detailed history of the development and influence of European culture and its economic society.Author: Frederick L. NussbaumISBN-10: 1587981122ISBN-13: 9781587981128Publisher: Beard BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/04/2002Pages: 488Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.12w x 1.19d

At the end of the 1920s, the Modernist and avant-garde artistic programmes of the early Soviet Union were swept away by the rise of Stalinism and the dictates of Socialist Realism. Did this aesthetic transition also constitute a conceptual break, or were there unseen...

This book tells a personal story of a child driven away from his homeland under life-threatening circumstances. Having to endure unbearable cold, thirst, hunger, pains, being tired, soooo tired....Author: Karin BartschISBN-10: 1430328665ISBN-13: 9781430328667Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/02/2007Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

Chapter 1. Introduction: Making Love Sexual in the Edwardian Age.- Chapter 2: The Emotional Body: Religion and Male Friendship at Oxford.- Chapter 3: "Phallic Thumbs" Conceiving a New Eden.- Chapter 3: The Carnal Brother Body: Emotion, Interiority, and the Epistolary "Talking Cure".- Chapter 5:...

"This bold, intellectually ambitious, and wholly original book challenges the way in which Western social science understands China.... It will set the standard for all future comparative and theoretical research on China."--Timothy Brook, Stanford University"This is a most extraordinary book. Wong's approach is to...

The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. Although it purports to have been written only a few years after the event, it actually was written in the...

*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"So, there lies the brave de Kalb. The generous stranger, who came from a distant land to fight our battles and to water with his blood the tree of liberty. Would to God...

A thrilling chronicle of one of the most important battles in Western history from T.C.F. Hopkins.Like an angry lion, the Turkish menace growled at the frontiers of Europe. In 1453, the last remnant of the mighty Roman Empire was obliterated when Turkish forces overran...

Noel Cashford served for six years in the Royal Navy's Mine and Bomb Disposal Squad. During this time he made safe over 200 devices, 57 in a mere three days.Noel didn't intend to be a daring hero as poor eyesight had prevented him from...

Frank Lestringant is one of the foremost authorities on European encounters with the New World. This book is a fascinating account of the existence of New World cannibalism and the images it conjured up for Europeans from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Drawing...

Author: Otto Von BismarckISBN-10: 1602066949ISBN-13: 9781602066946Publisher: Cosimo ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2013Pages: 442Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.13d

Author: Buckland, Lawrie WalkerISBN-10: 1847347290ISBN-13: 9781847347299Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2007Pages: 380Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.85d

Originally published in 1976, Clausewitz and the State presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. Peter Paret combines social and military history and psychological interpretation with a study of Clausewitz's military theories and of his unduly neglected historical...

"Politics is the art of the possible," Otto Von Bismarck famously said, and here, in his own words, the art of politics is laid bare by one of the most prominent and influential European statesmen of the nineteenth century. These are the intimate reflections...

The question of how to conceptualize the role of technological innovations is of crucial importance for understanding the mechanisms and rhythms of long-term cultural change in prehistoric and early historic societies. The changes that have come about have often been modelled as gradual and...

What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus," in Laplace's words....

An ordinary young soldier's view of both sides of a great conflict This a companion book the Leonaur title 'A conscript for Empire'. Like young Philippe Schwein the author of that book, Johan Christian Maempel was a Rhinelander who found himself in the service...

The work of the Renaissance humanists comes to life in Anthony Grafton's exploration of the primary sources and modern scholarship, classical and modern elements in the world of European letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Tracing the ties that bound the world...

"This is a book of astonishing quality, comprising a wealth of outstanding studies that underline the various shifts and mutations that took place mostly in the late medieval and late modern periods. It is true that issues of gender could play a more prevalent...