History - Europe - General

Author: Fabien MontcherISBN-10: 1009340484ISBN-13: 9781009340489Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2025Pages: 345Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Author: Yiannis KokosalakisISBN-10: 1009218840ISBN-13: 9781009218849Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2025Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d

The European left seemed to be in rude health during the 1970s. Never had so many political parties committed to representing the working class been in power simultaneously across the continent. New forms of mobilisation led by female, immigrant, and young wage-earners seemed to...

Analyzes the central Balkans' Bronze Age, exploring cultural, economic, social relations, and chronology.This book presents a detailed assessment of the chronological, cultural, economic and social relations in the territory of the central Balkans (today's Serbia without Voivodina, western Bulgaria and the northern part of...

Author: Guy PerryISBN-10: 131664751XISBN-13: 9781316647516Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2024Pages: 239Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d

This book takes as its object of investigation an array of traumatic heritage sites and spaces of memory, including museums, former detention camps, and sites of commemoration, in Europe, Argentina, and Colombia, to investigate how various traumatic pasts can be preserved and transmitted through...

Origins of the Modern World sets out an analytical framework that is accessible to students while providing a global approach to world history. Remarkable in its presentation of global narratives in such a brief text. Marks's book has a strong emphasis on economic and...

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,...

For Humanity's Sake is the first study in English to trace the genealogy of the classic Russian novel, from Pushkin to Tolstoy to Dostoevsky. Lina Steiner demonstrates how these writers' shared concern for individual and national education played a major role in forging a...

Josip Broz Tito was a remarkable figure in the history of Communism, the Second World War, the Balkans and post-war Eastern Europe. He was the only European besides Lenin to lead a successful Communist revolution and became one of the most renowned Communist leaders...

Allan Fea (1860-1956) went to Grove Hall School, Highgate, became a researcher in the India Office Library and then Private Secretary to Field Marshal Lord Strathnairn before a career in the Bank of England, 1880-1900. His history of hiding places features many illustrations. The...

Most of the people living in Europe today are descended from the many tribes that migrated into the Roman Empire, beginning in about 200 BC. The book examines the history of these Nordic, Germanic, Arabic, Magyar and Slavic tribes, from the time of the...

The fall of the Soviet communist regime in 1991 offers a challenging contrast to other instances of democratic transition and change in the last decades of the twentieth century. The 1991 revolution was neither a peaceful revolution from below as occurred in Czechoslovakia nor...

This study is the first to systematically investigate Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204 - in the Nicaean state (1204-61) and during the early period of the restored empire of the Palaiologoi. The book...

This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) prevented both...

The essays in this 1982 volume result from a conference held at Stanford University in 1978, assembled to assess the overall character and significance of the prerevolutionary Russian experiment with the principle and practice of local self-government, the zemstvo, over half of its existence,...

What are the mainsprings of international rivalry and conflict and how are they to be uncovered - by international relations theory, history or by the practice of diplomacy? Cyprus is ideal for thoroughly testing theory and practice. The island has been at the epicentre...

An enchanting history of the otherworld of elves and fairies, from the nature spirits of Iceland and Ireland to Avalon and Middle Earth Originating in Norse and Celtic mythologies, elves and fairies are a firmly established part of Western popular culture. Since the days...

This book addresses the intersection between gender and colonialism primarily in German colonialism. Author: Elisabeth KrimmerISBN-10: 1032458569ISBN-13: 9781032458564Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 332Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Author: Beatrice de GraafISBN-10: 1108816207ISBN-13: 9781108816205Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/27/2025Pages: 518Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.05d

The authors identify four pathways that Russia might take in reconstituting its armed forces after the end of the Russia-Ukraine war. They examine how historical Russian defense reforms; the performance of the Russian armed forces in the Ukraine conflict; and political, economic, demographic, technical,...

This book is about the Cannes Medical Conference of April 1919 and its long-lasting impacts in the humanitarian space. In the aftermath of the First World War, as the world order was being redesigned, this conference served to shift the Red Cross movement towards...

Ethnicizing Europe focuses on the dynamics of interethnic violence in Europe between the two world wars. The new international system that was enshrined by the Versailles peace treaties after World War I did not bring stability to East-Central Europe. Rather, it resulted in a...

Ethnicizing Europe focuses on the dynamics of interethnic violence in Europe between the two world wars. The new international system that was enshrined by the Versailles peace treaties after World War I did not bring stability to East-Central Europe. Rather, it resulted in a...

This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as...

This fascinating volume explores the history and culture of two of Europe's most enigmatic and intriguing peoples: the Goths and the Huns. Author A. A. Paton examines the origins, social structures, and military tactics of these ancient groups, and provides insights into their impact...

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,...

In the sixteenth century Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian missionaries attempted to convert the native populations of central Mexico. The native peoples generally viewed the new religion in terms very different from that of the missionaries. As conflict broke out after 1550 as Spaniards invaded...

Volume two of Ney's early career The second volume of Bulos' account of Marshal Ney's early career is Ney: Marshal of France. It picks up the story in 1799 and concludes in 1805. Ney's star is rising and he is more and more coming...

Title: How we went to Rome in 1857. By C. F. M. i.e. Caroline Fuller Maitland.]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...

This fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to reflect the newest scholarship. Global issues have been threaded throughout the book, while still preserving the clear thematic structure of previous editions. Thus readers will find expanded...

NB blurb exists for Latin version so don't send this one out of house.Author: Ludolf Von SuchemISBN-10: 1108061826ISBN-13: 9781108061827Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2013Pages: 158Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.37d

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This collection brings together selections from Martin Luther's extensive writings on women, the vast majority of which are translated here into English for the first time. It includes chapters on Eve and the nature of women, the Virgin Mary, Biblical women, marriage, sexuality, childbirth,...

Author: Maddalena AlviISBN-10: 1009600818ISBN-13: 9781009600811Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/2025Pages: 310Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: Jared PoleyISBN-10: 100939357XISBN-13: 9781009393577Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2025Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d