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"The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" is a one-of-a-kind autobiography. Up until its publication in 1782, only two autobiographies had ever been written, and both were written by devout religious saints. Highly scandalous yet witty in nature, calling Rousseau's work an "autobiography" is a loose...

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The Danube has been a border and a bridge for migrants and goods since antiquity. Between the 17th and the 19th centuries, commercial networks were formed between the Ottoman Empire and Central and Eastern Europe creating diaspora communities. This gradually led to economic and...

The overthrow of the Chilean president Allende in 1973 and the military dictatorship of Pinochet ignited one of the largest social movements of the 20th century. This volume analyzes the impact of the Chilean crisis in Western and Eastern Europe, and offers new insights...

The study analyses the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance's (CMEA) discussions on the advisability of opening contacts with the EC in the first half of the 1970s. The European allies were able to force their positions towards the USSR. Based on newly declassified archival...

The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...

A young British soldier who went to war on two wheels When the Great War broke out, the author of this book decided to leave his university studies and join the struggle. What attracted him immediately was the potential to combine his military service...

Author: J. H. Luxford, Maj J. H. LuxfordISBN-10: 1843426773ISBN-13: 9781843426776Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2003Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d

The current dogma concerning the origins of the First World War supports the militarist myth that wars are caused by stupid, evil, aggressive nations on the other side of the world who refuse to get along with the intelligent, good, peaceful people on this...

Two fronts. Seven Guardians. One deadly fight for the future of Christianity. Book Three of the Resurrection Chronicles tells of the Muslim invasion of Europe and of the Guardian's tireless efforts to stop the Umayyad Caliphate. From the dark forest camps of the Eifel...

*Includes pictures *Describes the organization, its history, its rituals, and the theories surrounding it *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Not the greatest master can go even one step for his disciple; in himself he must experience each stage of developing...

Borislav Chernev, through an insightful and in-depth analysis of primary sources and archival material, argues that although its duration was short lived, the Brest-Litovsk settlement significantly affected the post-Imperial transformation of East Central Europe. Author: Borislav ChernevISBN-10: 1487524498ISBN-13: 9781487524494Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Jason S. Ridler draws on interviews and declassified records to paint a vivid picture of the influence and achievements of a Canadian leader in Cold War military research.Author: Jason S. RidlerISBN-10: 1442647477ISBN-13: 9781442647473Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2015Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.10h x...

This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Iceland contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.Author: Sverrir Jakobsson, Gudmundur HalfdanarsonISBN-10: 1442262907ISBN-13: 9781442262904Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield...

This updated second edition of Historical Dictionary of Switzerland features the nation's multicultural and democratic traditions and institutions, its complex history, and its people's involvement in past and present world affairs.Author: Leo SchelbertISBN-10: 1442233516ISBN-13: 9781442233515Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/2014Pages: 662Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.35lbsSize:...

Army of the Sky addresses the development of military aviation from 1904 to 1914 in order to explore the relationship of modernization and Russian Imperial officer culture. Utilizing archival material, army reports, the military and popular press, published tracts, and comparative literature, this book...

""The Rape of Poland: Pattern of Soviet Aggression"" is a historical book written by Stanislaw Mikolajczyk that sheds light on the Soviet Union's invasion of Poland during World War II. The book provides a comprehensive account of the events that led to the invasion,...

The destroyers of World War II were the workhorses of the fleet, but their contributions have been largely forgotten in the passage of time. Even during the war, official reports listed the names of all battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers participating in an operation,...

The book celebrates Professor Kristiansens's life and achievements with 88 papers by colleagues and friends from all over the world; they are divided into following sections: Beyond Academia; Landscape, Demography and Subsistence Economy; Rituals, Hoardsand Wetlands; Rock Art; Graves and Burial Monuments; Materiality and...

Few scholars have provided as much insight into the struggle of leaders, ideas, and policies as Paul W. Schroeder. Constantly challenging conventional views, and drawing upon a masterly command of the sources and literature, Schroeder provides new answers to old questions about international history...

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

The work of motivation and consumer researcher Ernest Dichter was a milestone in the psychological creation of the modern consumer. This collection contextualizes Ernest Dichter within twentieth-century consumer culture and it charts the rise of psychological approaches to consumption in post-war Europe and North...

As a rule, an author's correspondence possesses only a secondary interest, but Jacob Burckhardt's letters are of primary interest to students of history because of the nature of the man and of his major writings. It was in his letters, rather than in his...

Title: The Defence of the Settlers of Honduras against the representations of Colonel George Arthur ... To which is added, an account of the descent of the Spaniards on the settlement in 1798.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library...

Title: The Scenery of Sicily. Engravings. After drawings by peter De Wint, from sketches by William Light.]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...

Title: Some notes of the history of the Parish of Whitchurch, Oxon.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...

Title: The Gossiping Photographer on the Rhine.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 formats: books, journals,...

Title: Italy: remarks made in several visits from the year 1816 to 1854.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...

This volume of essays examines one of the crucial periods in the evolution of the European rural economy and society, assessing the effects of the Second World War on the European countryside, and the impact of food and agricultural problems on the outcome of...

In this book, Robert Maniura explores the role and importance of the miraculous image in the art and devotional practices of Renaissance Italy. Using the records of Giuliano Guizzelmi, a Tuscan lawyer, he focuses on his stories of miracles of local shrines, including Santa...

Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in Europe's economic transformation during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then...

Roosevelt's Road to Russia is a historical book written by George N. Crocker. The book is a detailed account of the diplomatic efforts made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to establish a relationship with the Soviet Union during World War II. The author provides...

The position of women in Austrian society, politics, and in the economy follows the familiar trajectory of Western societies. They were expected to accept their "proper place" in a male patriarchal world. Achieving equality in all spheres of life was a long struggle that...

In Europe it was called the Age of Discovery. To the rest of the world, it often meant slavery, epidemic disease, cultural genocide, and wholesale social and economic changes. What happened in the period when Europe first came in contact with the rest of...

Race and empire tells the story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British...

In order to describe how the elites in two political systems grappled with the potentially explosive influx of foreign labor, Gary Freeman analyzes and compares the ways in which the British and the French governments responded to immigration and racial conflict over a thirty-year...

In the Nazi genocide of European Jews, words preceded, accompanied, and made mass murder possible. Using a multilayered approach to connect official language to everyday life, historian Thomas Pegelow Kaplan analyzes the role of language in genocide. This study seeks to comprehend how the...

Which of the two sides of Clement prevailed the 'official' or the personal? The book attempts to answer this question by examining his ideas and actions in connection with some of the major issues of the reign: for example, his attempts to solve the...

French grand opera, this book argues, was a different and more complex kind of theater than we ordinarily suppose. Focusing on the period of grand opera's rise, its dominance, and its final decline, Professor Fulcher shows that it was a subtly used tool of...

Frontiers of Heresy is among the first major English-language contributions to the history of the Spanish Inquisition since Henry Charles Lea completed his classic curvey eighty years ago. Focusing on the lands beyond Castile, Professor Monter analyzes the activities of the Holy Office during...

Writers of imperial fiction in the period 1840-1914 created a strong image of the British Empire that was often confused with the empire as it actually existed. Even in the 1940s, many people in Britain and the British Dominions still accepted the stereotypical view...

Hegel came to maturity as a philosopher during the first years of the nineteenth century, developing through prodigious intellectual struggles a highly original conception of dialectic as a method for rationally comprehending traumatic historical change. At the same time, he continued a process begun...

Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously renegotiated, they catered for basic human needs as...

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query: Enlightenment is an event in the history of...

The testament to a tragedy. Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the story...

Author: Steve W. Ferguson, William K. PascalisISBN-10: 0887407501ISBN-13: 9780887407505Publisher: Schiffer PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/1997Pages: 360Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.70lbsSize: 11.32h x 8.80w x 1.28d

The Balkan Wars 1912-1913 This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1....

Winner of the 2003 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize, a fresh reinterpretation of the origins of modern international relations.Author: Benno TeschkeISBN-10: 1844673723ISBN-13: 9781844673728Publisher: VersoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2009Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.26w x 0.69d