History - Europe - General

In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante's Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci's Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and Torquato...

"History Of Friedrich II of Prussia - Volume VIII" from Thomas Carlyle. Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era (1795-1881).Author: The Perfect Library, Thomas CarlyleISBN-10: 1508747873ISBN-13: 9781508747871Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2015Pages: 62Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...

In the first half of the 20th century, throughout the Balkans and Middle East, a familiar story of destroyed communities forced to flee war or economic crisis unfolded. Often, these refugees of the Ottoman Empire - Christians, Muslims and Jews - found their way...

Illustrated study into the deployments and appearance of Roman legionary, auxiliary, and allied units in the Western half of the Empire in the turbulent decades between 200 and 300 AD. Fully illustrated with specially chosen color plates, this book reveals the uniforms, equipment and...

A Short History Of The First Beginning And Progress Of The Protestant Religion: Gathered Out Of The Best Protestant Writers, By Way Of Question And Answer (1742) is a book written by Richard Challoner. It is a historical account of the origins and development...

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...

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric....

Title: Journal of a Ramble in Scotland. By Charles Lesingham Smith.]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...

Title: A Tour to Great St. Bernard's and round Mont Blanc. With descriptions copied from a journal kept by the author; and drawings taken from nature, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is...

Title: The History of Rome ... Translated ... by George Baker ... A new edition, carefully corrected and revised.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...

""A Biographical History Of The Eby Family: Being A History Of Their Movements In Europe During The Reformation"" is a book written by Ezra E. Eby and published in 1889. The book is a comprehensive account of the Eby family's movements in Europe during...

Heroic Serbia is a book written by Victor Berard in the year 1900. The book is an account of the history and culture of Serbia, a country that had been under Ottoman rule for centuries until its independence in 1878. Berard describes the heroic...

European states were overwhelmed with information around 1500. Their agents sought to organize their overflowing archives to provide trustworthy evidence and comprehensive knowledge that was useful in the everyday exercise of power. This detailed comparative study explores cases from Lisbon to Vienna to Berlin...

How David Hume and Adam Smith forged a new way of thinking about the modern state What is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized in recent political theory, this question persistently animated the best minds of the Enlightenment. Recovering David Hume and Adam Smith's long-underappreciated...

Expert contributors write on the experiences of civilians who lived through occupation and bloodshed in the First World War; the Russians who lived or died during the the devastating civil war in 1917-1922, leading eventually to the terrors of Stalinism; the Spaniards of many...

How did women contribute to the French Army in the World Wars? Drawing on myriad sources, historian Andrew Orr examines the roles and value of the many French women who have been overlooked by historians--those who worked as civilians supporting the military. During the...

Europe: 1945 to the Present examines the tumultuous history of Europe from the end of World War II through the present. Beginning with the post-war scene, and ending with a discussion of the European Union and its current plans for expansion, the narrative takes...

In the year 987, Hugh Capet ascended to the throne of France, marking the dawn of the Capetian Dynasty and a pivotal turning point in medieval history. But how did a modest duke from the ?le-de-France transform a fragmented realm into the foundation of...

This book explores the transformation of the state in Wallachia, an Ottoman tributary principality, between 1740 and 1800, by focusing on three administrative techniques: regulations, paperwork (registers, identification certificates), and weights and measures. The implementation by the central power of regulations, bookkeeping, certificates, and...

The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes. Analysing the canon and iconography of each pantheon, Bouwers shows how the commemoration of war and celebration of nationhood...

The English Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in the nation's history. 1 in 28 people perished and countless more were badly maimed. What was it like to live through such troubled times?A Much-threatened Village explores what the war meant for the people of...

Author: Christoph Cornelissen, Jessica SpenglerISBN-10: 0192871420ISBN-13: 9780192871428Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2025Pages: 496Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.17lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.37w x 0.91d

Author: Mary FulbrookISBN-10: 100916094XISBN-13: 9781009160940Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2025Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

A documentary history of racism in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present. Author: Lisa ToddISBN-10: 1554814855ISBN-13: 9781554814855Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/12/2024Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbs

Griesinger's comprehensive history of the Jesuits is an essential resource for scholars and researchers in the field of religious history. This meticulously researched volume covers the order's founding to the present day, and sheds new light on its impact on society and culture.This work...

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,...

The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its...

This is the contemporary account of Jakob Walter, a Westphalian conscript in Napoleon's Grande Arm e. Walter took part in the Emperor's campaigns against Prussia, Austria and finally, the disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. This is what it really meant to "march with the...

In this highly acclaimed study, Billie Melman recovers the unwritten history of the European experience of the Middle-East during the colonial era. She focuses on the evolution of Orientalism and the reconstruction - through contact with other cultures - of gender and class. Beginning...

""Journal of a Three Years' Residence in Abyssinia"" is a book written by Samuel Gobat, first published in 1834. The book is a personal account of Gobat's experiences during his three-year stay in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) as a missionary for the Church Missionary Society....

This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius' China Root Epistle. Ostensibly his appraisal of a fashionable herbal remedy, the China Root Epistle concentrates on Vesalius' skeptical appraisal of traditional Galenic anatomy, which was based on animal...

Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1978.Author: John Wilson BetlyonISBN-10: 0891305882ISBN-13: 9780891305880Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1980Pages: 184Format: Paperback

This volume explores the history of nineteenth-century diplomacy and in a new and innovative way. Drawing on the diplomats' many and varied encounters between their own individual and professional circles and the "wider world," this study discusses diplomacy as a part of the cultural...

Author: Peter HayesISBN-10: 0521772885ISBN-13: 9780521772884Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2025Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.19h x 6.36w x 0.81d

Research into the Mesolithic has recently undergone important transformations, making it one of the most dynamic fields of archaeological research today. These changes are the result of a combination of factors: new and exciting discoveries, the impact of innovative scientific methods, and the introduction...

The church annexes of late antique Cyprus were bustling places of industry, producing olive oil, flour, bread, ceramics, and metal products. From its earliest centuries, the church was an economic player, participating in agricultural and artisanal production. More than a Church brings together architecture,...

Author: Jim GilhoolyISBN-10: 1036910091ISBN-13: 9781036910099Publisher: Robert the Bruce Heritage Centre, RentonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2025Pages: 206Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.06lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.69d

How architectural monuments survived and historical preservation was reinvented during the destructions of the twentieth century. The twentieth century was highly destructive, but from its landscapes of ruins was born a new architectural type: the cultural monument. In the wake of World War I,...

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,...

During World War II at least 13.5 million people were employed as forced labourers in Germany and across the territories occupied by the German Reich. Most came from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, the Baltic countries, France, Poland and Italy. Among them were 8.4 million...

Surviving Hitler and Mussolini examines how far everyday life was possible in a situation of total war and brutal occupation. Its theme is the social experience of occupation in German- and Italian-occupied Europe, and in particular the strategies ordinary people developed in order to...

As the last Holocaust survivors die, their testimonies make the transition from memory to history. In this compelling volume, Yehudi Lindeman, Director of the Living Testimonies Video Archive in Montreal, shares compelling stories of survival and triumph collected from years of interviews with those...