History - Europe - General

A History of Europe: From the Invasions to the Sixteenth Century is a comprehensive and detailed account of the political, social, and economic developments of Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the early modern era. Written by Belgian historian Henri Pirenne,...

Title: An architectural Tour in Normandy; with some remarks on Norman Architecture.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 items in all known...

Ephesiaca is a novel written by Ernestus Guhl and first published in 1843. The book is set in ancient Greece and tells the story of a young woman named Habrocomes who falls in love with a man named Anthia. However, their love is complicated...

This innovative study of memorial architecture investigates how design can translate memories of human loss into tangible structures, creating spaces for remembering. Using approaches from history, psychology, anthropology and sociology, Sabina Tanovic explores purposes behind creating contemporary memorials in a given location, their translation...

This important new collection of essays offers a wide readership both an up-to-date account of the present state of scholarship on early modern European witchcraft and an indication of the direction of new research. The contributors build on and respond to the issues raised...

Author: R. K. WebbISBN-10: 1434452409ISBN-13: 9781434452405Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2024Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d

Rather than a chronological account, this history contains discussions of topics ranging from economics and diplomacy to industrial capacity and armored doctrine. The author challenges claims that Italians were militarily incompetent by examining the influence of demography, natural resources, industrial capacity, and Italy's allies...

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,...

Based upon extensive archival material, this is a pioneering study of the impact of the famine that occurred in Greece during its occupation by German, Italian and Bulgarian forces in 1941 and 1942. Violetta Hionidou examines the politics of the food crisis, focusing on...

Author: R. J. B. BosworthISBN-10: 100928021XISBN-13: 9781009280211Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/2025Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

Author: David MotadelISBN-10: 1009262890ISBN-13: 9781009262897Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2025Pages: 301Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: David MotadelISBN-10: 1009262882ISBN-13: 9781009262880Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2025Pages: 301Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: Maria de Deus Beites MansoISBN-10: 9819779537ISBN-13: 9789819779536Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2025Pages: 475Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.66lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.13d

Interest in material culture has produced a rigorous body of scholarship that considers the dynamics of licensing, permissions, and patronage - an ongoing history of the estrangement of works from their authors. Additionally, translation studies is enabling new ways to think about the emergence...

Water Supply and Water Management in the Metal Ages gathers papers originally presented at the Metal Ages 2022 colloquium, hosted by the Archaeology Department of Bilkent University, Ankara and bringing together the UISPP's Scientific Commissions 'Metal Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean' and 'Archaeometry...

This revised edition, updated in January 2025, embarks on an epic journey through time with "The Great Siege," a captivating historical account of the monumental clash between the Knights of St. John and the mighty Ottoman Empire in the sweltering summer of 1565. This...

This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world. In this context, from the late Middle Ages onwards, resistance, rooted in the political and legal language of the 'old regime' that provided agents...

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,...

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingThe split between the two forms of Islam was already in the process of forming upon the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Muhammad had constructed around himself not only a potent new religious movement but also a powerful...

A true story of faith and fortitude. August 19th, 1968, an American family was on vacation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and were suddenly trapped in an unexpected war. This Russian and Warsaw Pact invasion later became known as Prague Spring. Caught in the Crosshairs of...

The Imperial Camel Corps had a short but eventful existence. Operating in the Western desert against the Senussi in Sinai, in the Palestine Campaign, and in Arabia, it played an important part in the actions associated with T.E.Lawrence. The deployment of this highly mobile...

Author: Oszkar JasziISBN-10: 1597407283ISBN-13: 9781597407281Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2009Pages: 516Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d

This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1935 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer in Merton, Surrey, England on 17th December 1873. The creative arts ran in...

Since 1776, more than 100,000 Swedish-speaking immigrants have arrived in Canada from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Ukraine, and the United States. Elinor Barr's Swedes in Canada is the definitive history of that immigrant experience. Active in almost every aspect of Canadian life, Swedish individuals 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Title: America and France. The influence of the United States on France in the XVIIIth century.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...

Title: The History of France under the Bourbons. A.D. 1589-1830.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 items in all known languages and...

The Irish Republic, Why? Official Statement Prepared For Submission To The Peace Conference (1919) is a historical document written by Laurence Ginnell. The book provides a detailed account of the events leading up to the Irish War of Independence and the establishment of the...

This book tells a story of Polish and Slovak Holocaust survivors returning to homes that no longer existed in the aftermath of the Second World War. It focuses on their daily efforts to rebuild their lives in the radically changed political and social landscape...

Despite intermittent turbulence and destruction, much of the Roman West came under barbarian control in an orderly fashion. Goths, Burgundians, and other aliens were accommodated within the provinces without disrupting the settled population or overturning the patterns of landownership. Walter Goffart examines these arrangements...

The Partitions of Poland were a key event in the power politics of the late ancien regime, and had major long term consequences for the balance of power in northern and eastern Europe. Over a period of twenty five years Catherine II (Russia), Frederick...

Tracing the political history of the Greek Orthodox Church as it emerged from the Ottoman period in a newly independent Greece, the author of this 1969 edition focuses on the period of revolution from 1821 to 1852. It was during this era that the...

Author: Anastasia StouraitiISBN-10: 1108971350ISBN-13: 9781108971355Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2025Pages: 307Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d

Author: Stuart CarrollISBN-10: 1009287346ISBN-13: 9781009287340Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/2025Pages: 499Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.01d

The Persians triumph at Marathon and proceed to conquer Greece. Hannibal annihilates the Roman army at Zama, paving the way for a magnificent Carthaginian empire that dominates the Western Mediterranean for centuries. The Spanish Armada obliterates the forces of Queen Elizabeth I, who is...

A multi-sensory urban history of Europe's bustling streets. Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion,...

Martin Luther wrote a number of Latin poems, mostly using traditional classical metres, over the course of his career. He used them to praise friends, insult adversaries and express his faith in times of distress. Up until now, Luther's Neo-Latin poetry has largely fallen...

Arabic Dialogues explores the motivations of historical Arabic learners and the effectiveness of the instructional materials they used. It analyses a corpus of phrasebooks published in nine languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian) over the period of the nineteenth century...

This Element examines the emergence of comprehensive plague management systems in early modern France. While the historiography on plague argues that the plague of Provence in the 1720s represented the development of a new and 'modern' form of public health care under the control...

Offers a new take on the identities and life histories of medieval people, in their multi-layered and sometimes contradictory dimensions.Author: Julie BarrauISBN-10: 1108824056ISBN-13: 9781108824057Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/02/2023Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d

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,...