History - Europe - General

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"Trade-Routes and Commerce of the Roman Empire" is a comprehensive scholarly examination of the vast economic networks and logistical achievements that unified the ancient Roman world. Focusing primarily on the first two centuries of the Empire, this work provides a detailed survey of the...

The long-awaited third and fourth volumes of Nicholas Boyle's magisterial biography Goethe: The Poet and the Age cover the period of the Napoleonic Empire in Germany, relatively neglected by literary scholars as years national humiliation. Yet these years saw the publication by Goethe of...

Unlock the Fascinating World of Ancient Greece with 450 Must-Know Questions and Answers!This captivating trivia book takes you on a journey through one of history's greatest civilizations, packed with epic stories, groundbreaking inventions, and timeless philosophy that continue to influence our world.With 450 carefully...

Intelligence testing has shaped modern society in profound ways, influencing education, psychology, law, and governance. This volume offers the first comprehensive study of the history of IQ testing in a Nordic country, shedding new light on its development, adaptation, and societal impact in Norway.By...

Finding meaningful activities that engage and soothe a loved one with dementia or memory loss can be challenging.The Picture Book of The Winter Palace was designed to bring calm, beauty, and gentle engagement into those moments.This book features the grandeur of The Winter Palace...

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Thomas Hobbes' English version in 1629. As Valla's manuscript passed through the hands of...

Victorian Dundee: a city grown prosperous on more than a century's lead in linen production and for a time the world's jute capital - 'Juteopolis'. But textile production was accompanied by a strong sense of civic pride, some remarkable architectural triumphs and perhaps a...

"Report To The Honorable Commissioners Of Sewers Of The City Of London, On Sewage And Sewer Gases, And On The Ventilation Of Sewers" by H. Letheby, published in 1858, offers a detailed look into the sanitation challenges and engineering solutions of Victorian London. This...

“Songs From Bohemia” by Daniel O'Connell is a collection of poems reflecting the spirit and sensibilities of the late 19th century. The poems evoke a sense of place and history, transporting readers to the heart of Bohemia through vivid imagery and lyrical language. This...

Cassell's Emigrants Handbook, originally published in 1852, is a practical guide for individuals and families contemplating emigration from Europe in the mid-19th century. This handbook offers essential information about various destinations, including details on travel arrangements, employment opportunities, cost of living, and social conditions...

Spies, nukes, revolutions, moustaches - and the long, absurd war that shaped the world without ever officially starting.After the Freeze is a bold, unfiltered history of the Cold War - told not with tweed-jacket nostalgia, but with teeth, wit, and a blowtorch aimed at...

It was Niccolò Machiavelli who essentially removed ethics from government. He did it with this book when he asserted that The Prince (president dictator prime minister etc.) does not have to be concerned with ethics as long as their motivation is to protect the...

America is an exceptional country, and Americans are an exceptional people. Certainly, we all have our flaws and have equally made our share of mistakes. The title of this book makes the point. Our opinions change and the song lyrics, at least to me,...

Discover the legendary Amazons like never before in "Amazonians Simplified" by Solomon Hathaway. Delve into the ancient myths surrounding these fearless all-women warriors of Greek lore, celebrated for their prowess in battle and independence. Hathaway's insightful exploration unveils their captivating history, from their mythical...

An Outline of Ecclesiastical History from the Caesars to the Great Occidental Schism including the Great Schism between the Greek Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Church, the Crusades, and the Hundred Years War. Author: E. M. Sr. SchorbISBN-13: 9798218230807Publisher: Hill House New YorkLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

It may be asked, perhaps, what I hope from this work? I do not hope, I admit, that governments will be convinced of the inutility of capital punishment, still less that they will abandon its employment. Truth glides slowly into the mind of power,...

Regarding the size of the investigated area, the Copper Age site at Balaton szod in Hungary is on par with Catal Hoyuk, one of the largest excavated settlements of the prehistoric world. The chronological, spatial and cultural relationship between Boleraz and Baden, initially regarded...

This study is the first comprehensive assessment of Russia's commercial relations with the outside world in the seventeenth century and of the relationship between trade and economic growth. Based on exhaustive research in some thirty archival repositories, it represents the first systematic quantification of...

Catholic Church And Christian State - A Series of Essays on the Relation of the Church to the Civil Power is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...

Letters Concerning the Spanish Nation - Written at Madrid During the Years 1760 and 1761 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1763. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions,...

History of Latin Christianity - Including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas V. is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1867. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and...

The diaries and letters of Sir George Jackson from the Peace of Amiens to the Battle of Talavera - Edited by Lady Jackson. Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1872. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different...

The Diary of a Citizen of Paris During 'The Terror' - Vol. I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...

A complete work, unique in its kind, in which the myths and legends of ancient Greece are examined and illustrated with precision and accuracy. An accurate analysis that starts from the primordial Deities passing through the Titans, the Giants, the Cyclops, the Gods of...

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European history in the 19th and 20th centuries is complex and fascinating. The Chronicles of Rhenania relate the lives, during that period, of ordinary people dealing with constantly changing military occupation, administration and language. The stories go on to show how some of the...

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Pauline Wengeroff was born in 1833 into a pious Jewish family in Bobruisk in the Pale of Settlement (now Belarus); she died in 1916 in Minsk. Her life, as recounted in this biography, based in part on Shulamit Magnus's award-winning critical edition of Wengeroff's...

The Coveted is part of my exile theme stories, only steeped in the Dark Ages. Is it an adult fairy tale? A sad tragedy of times past? Or a parable of human nature that in changing remains the same, where innocent people are caught...

Author: Author UnknownISBN-10: 1626542171ISBN-13: 9781626542174Publisher: Echo Point Books & MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2015Pages: 276Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.17lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.88d

Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges, to explore similarities, and to emulate the Chinese, though they were also critical of some local...

""How To Employ Capital In Western Ireland: Being Answers To A Few Practical Questions Upon The Manufacture Of Beet Sugar, Flax And Chicory"" is a book written by William Digby Seymour in 1851. The book provides a comprehensive guide on how to invest capital...

The Neolithic and Copper age monuments in Europe, consisting of stone temples and circles, standing stones, henge monuments, long barrows, megalithic graves, buildings and pyramids, are the most impressive remains of past societies and present striking features of the prehistoric landscape. This volume is...

Edited by Pierre Allard, Françoise Bostyn, François Giligny and Jacek LechThis book includes papers from the Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe session held at European Association of Archaeologists 12th Annual Meeting Cracow, Poland, 19th-24th September 2006.Author: Pierre AllardISBN-10: 1407303716ISBN-13: 9781407303710Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford...

The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.Author: A. Rupert...

Compiled by a team of international experts, this volume showcases the best of the huge abundance of literature written in Latin in Europe from about 1500 to 1800. A general introduction provides readers with the context they need before diving into the 19 high-quality...

Title: History of the Norman Kings of England. From a new collation of the contemporary chronicles.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million...

""America and the World War"" is a non-fiction book written by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. The book was published in 1915, before the United States entered World War I. The book is a collection of speeches and essays that...

Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created, communicated, and governed via the new European Heritage Label scheme.Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted across ten...

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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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...