History - Europe - General

A topical and authoritative investigation of the Irish language and identity in Northern Ireland. The phrase 'our own language' has come to symbolize the importance of the Irish language to Irish identity for many Nationalists in Northern Ireland. However, different interests compete to have...

This volume concerns the origins, organisation and method of British, American and Soviet propaganda during the 1950s. Drawing upon a range of archival material which has only been accessible to researchers in the last few years, the authors discuss propaganda's international and domestic dimensions,...

Walter Hallstein was among the great European visionaries. This is the first book length study of one of the key shapers of the European Community in its early years. The range of contributors include those who worked with Hallstein and have personal recollections of...

Almost a decade after the opening of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the GDR and the end of the Cold War, Germany has begun to cope with the political, economic, social and nationalistic challenges unification has posed to its institutions and way of...

A collection of articles presented at the XLVI Applied Econometrics Association conference on exchange rates held in Heigerloch Castle, Germany), in 1995. The book consists of three parts examining the experience of the exchange rate in Europe. In the first part some aspects of...

The book is a tribute to Johan Jorgen Holst, Norway's late Minister of Foreign Affairs. It considers the outstanding issues of our time: the high politics of East/West confrontation and the post-Cold War readjustment in Europe. Holst contributed significant ideas to the handling of...

Author: Zoltan D. BaranyISBN-10: 1349228664ISBN-13: 9781349228669Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1993Pages: 243Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58d

Author: Stephen White,Ben EklofISBN-10: 1349228192ISBN-13: 9781349228195Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/1993Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d

Author: Robert B. McKleanISBN-10: 1349222127ISBN-13: 9781349222124Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 287Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d

Author: Louise Willmot,Gregor SchollgenISBN-10: 134921759XISBN-13: 9781349217595Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1991Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d

Author: R. AllisonISBN-10: 1349217247ISBN-13: 9781349217243Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.59d

The book examines the history of Czechoslovakia in the seventy years since its founding by T.G.Masaryk. It analyses the profound changes which took place during the First Republic, the Nazi occupation, postwar liberation and communist rule, including both the Stalinist years, the Prague Spring...

Author: Daniele JolyISBN-10: 134921289XISBN-13: 9781349212897Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1991Pages: 181Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d

Author: Simon P. VilleISBN-10: 1349209376ISBN-13: 9781349209378Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1990Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

Author: Peter T. BradleyISBN-10: 1349203238ISBN-13: 9781349203239Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1989Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.59d

Major specialists on Europe, the Americas, and Japan explore why democracies succeeded and failed over the past hundred years. Each essay applies the perspective of the social historian - a focus on mentalities, social movements, and the relationship between states and societies - to...

No Asylum is a quantitative assessment of the incidence of state repression via the peculiar institution of forced psychiatric hospitalization of evidently healthy Soviet dissidents. The book explains who was targeted and why, as the State used psychiatry to attempt to deflect, defuse, discredit...

Analyzes the nature of power in the USSR and its evolution since the Bolshevik Revolution. The main thrust of this work, however, is in tracing the fragmentation of power since Gorbachev introduced his reforms and examining the changes in the power structure as a...

The essays are devoted to the four "eights" in Czech history: 1918, when the Republic was founded; 1938, when its western parts were handed over to Hitler; 1948, when the Communists took power; and 1968, when an effort to create "socialism with a human...

Author: Chris Cook,John PaxtonISBN-10: 1349033103ISBN-13: 9781349033102Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1981Pages: 195Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

In compiling this volume the editors have aimed to gather together, in one volume, as many of the important political facts as possible for a critical period of European history. In addition this book has also been designed as a companion volume to the...

""Statement Of The Origin, Organization And Progress Of The Russian-American Telegraph Western Union Extension, Collins������� Overland Line"" is a historical book written by O. H. Palmer in 1866. The book provides a detailed account of the development and progress of the Russian-American Telegraph Western...

One Year At The Russian Court: 1904-1905 is a historical memoir written by Renee Elton Maud, published in 1918. The book gives an account of Maud's experiences during her time as a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Alexandra of Russia. The book covers the period...

Author: Paloma Aguilar,Leigh A. PayneISBN-10: 1137562285ISBN-13: 9781137562289Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2016Pages: 110Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.31d

Nazi Germany and Southern Europe, 1933-45 is about transnational fascist discourse. It addresses the cultural and scientific links between Nazi Germany and Southern Europe focusing on a hybrid international environment and an intricate set of objects that include individual, social, cultural or scientific networks...

As the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Years War approaches, Geoff Mortimer provides a timely re-assessment of its origins. These lie mainly neither in religious tensions in Germany nor in the conflicts between Spain, France and the Dutch, but in the...

Art and literature during the European fin-de-siècle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar...

Bringing together an international team of specialists, this volume considers the place of royal heirs within their families, their education and accommodation, their ability to overcome succession crises, the consequences of the death of an heir and finally the roles royal heirs played during...

This collection of essays argues that there is an pre-history, that is, a longer tradition of the transnationalization of historical culture and historical science. It seeks to substantiate the claim that history writing reflected the globality of its time as much as followed the...

An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different...

The volume undertakes a comparative analysis of the various discursive traditions dealing with the connection between modernity and historicity in Southeastern and Northern Europe, reconstructing the ways in which different "temporalities" produced alternative representations of the past and future, of continuity and discontinuity, and...

Europe's critical infrastructure is a key concern to policymakers, NGOs, companies, and citizens today. A 2006 power line failure in northern Germany closed lights in Portugal in a matter of seconds. Several Russian-Ukrainian gas crises shocked politicians, entrepreneurs, and citizens thousands of kilometers away...

Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3,000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first century, Persistent Piracy is an important contribution to the history of the state formation as well as the history of violence...

Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical culture of isolation and acceptance. This groundbreaking work examines training and combat experiences of soldiers working in Battalion Aid Stations and those who...

This collection uses Theodore Roosevelt to form a fresh approach to the history of US and European relations, arguing that the best place to look for the origins of the modern transatlantic relationship is in Roosevelt's life and career.Author: H. KrabbendamISBN-10: 1137286482ISBN-13: 9781137286482Publisher: Palgrave...

Based on narrative, iconographical, and liturgical sources, this is the first systematic study to trace the story of the ritual of royal self-coronations from Ancient Persia to the present. Exposing as myth the idea that Napoleon's act of self-coronation in 1804 was the first...

Published in 1867, this book discusses the Crimean War from a pro-Turkish perspective. Sir Adolphus Slade (1804-77) covers the history of Ottoman military development as well as the origins of the Eastern Question, and the events leading to the outbreak of war. As a...

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) is best remembered for establishing the First French Empire, declaring himself Emperor of the French in 1804. His military campaigns across Europe sparked the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) and profoundly shaped European political and economic activities during the early nineteenth century. These...

The Abbé Giovanni Mariti wrote an account of the condition of Cyprus in 1769, almost 100 years after the final conquest of the island by the Ottoman Turks. Mariti travelled widely around the island in the seven years during which he served there as...

John Cam Hobhouse's 1859 publication provides a detailed account of his travels around Italy between 1816 and 1854. The two volumes contain informative descriptions of the places, people and politics of nineteenth-century Italy, and the reader will gain fascinating insights into the close relationship...

This is a magisterial new account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions...

From Artisan to Worker examines the largely overlooked debate over the potential reestablishment of guilds that occurred from 1776 to 1821. The abolition of guilds in 1791 overturned an organization of labor that had been in place for centuries. The disorder that ensued -...

Karen Offen offers a magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the debates around relations between women and men, how they are constructed, and how they should be organized, that raged in France and its French-speaking neighbors from 1870 to 1920. The 'woman question' encompassed subjects...

From their crystallisation in the late fifth century to their ultimate decline in the eighth, the Merovingian kingdoms were a product of a vibrant Mediterranean society with both a cultural past and a dynamic and ongoing dialogue between the member communities. By bringing together...

With its roots in ancient Greece, Roman law and Christianity, European legal history is the history of a common civilisation. The exchange of legislative models, doctrines and customs within Europe included English common law and has been extensive from the early middle ages to...

The political culture of absolute monarchy that structured French society into the eighteenth century is generally believed to have emerged late in the sixteenth century. This new interpretation of the origins of French absolutism, however, connects the fifteenth-century conciliar reform movement in the Catholic...

By many measures, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had the strongest economy in the Eastern bloc and was one of the most important industrial nations worldwide. Nonetheless, the economic history of the GDR has been primarily discussed as a failure when compared with the...

This groundbreaking book explores the migration of Calvinist refugees in Europe during the Reformation, across a century of persecution, exile and minority existence. Ole Peter Grell follows the fortunes of some of the earliest Reformed merchant families, forced to flee from the Tuscan city...

This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease, and growing economic inequality on the Italian peninsula displaced hundreds of thousands of families during this period. In order to handle the...

Vegetius' late Roman text became a well known and highly respected 'classic' in the Middle Ages, transformed by its readers into the authority on the waging of war. Christopher Allmand analyses the medieval afterlife of the De Re Militari, tracing the growing interest in...