History - Europe - General

In the Catholic countries of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe, communities of monks and nuns were growing in number and wealth. They constructed vast buildings, dominated education, and played a large part in the practice and patronage of learning, music, and the arts. This...

What is it exactly that made for the greatness of Western Civilization? Why did it have its ups and downs ... and where do things seem headed today? Ultimately, this two-volume series is as much a political-moral teaching as it is a presentation of...

Women in contemporary Greek society have been conventionally depicted as oppressed and socially inferior, circumscribed in behavior and segregated from the world of men. In 1967 Ernestine Friedl's classic article, "The Position of Women: Appearnce and Reality," argued that this view was overly simplified...

The Church of St. Polyeuktos is one of the most magnificent, but also most peculiar architectural achievements in Byzantine Constantinople. The accidental rediscovery of the building during construction work in Istanbul in the 1960s is legendary and considered one of the most sensational finds...

Cultural encounters form a dominant theme in the study of Iron Age Europe. This was particularly acute in regions where urbanising Mediterranean civilisations came into contact with 'barbarian' worlds. This volume presents preliminary work from the ENTRANS Project, which explores the nature and impact...

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Modern Times, Absolutism, Industrialization, grade: very good, University of Essex (Department of History), course: Comparative Nationalism in Europe, language: English, abstract: Armed uprisings, revolutions or civil wars do not...

The late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century saw a final resurgence of the concept of Fortuna. Shortly thereafter, this goddess of chance and luck, who had survived for millennia, rapidly lost her cultural and intellectual relevance. This volume explores...

The mass of existing material on this subject is so great that I have not attempted to make a survey of the whole of European ' Witchcraft \ but have confined myself to an intensive study of the cult in Great Britain. In order,...

Essays that investigate issues of race, class, consumption, and the body in an array of urban places, across a broad period from the late Renaissance to the present. This volume explores the intersection of cities and the natural environment in an array of urban...

The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.Author: Robert Nisbet BainISBN-10: 1498065783ISBN-13: 9781498065788Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 398Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.82d

This bibliography is an exhaustive, objective and unique list of sources in the study of an event the historical significance of which becomes continually more apparent. The list consists of over two thousand entries from books and pamphlets, periodical articles, motion pictures and monitored...

This survey history of modern Europe is designed as a text for home schoolers. It contains twenty chapters detailing the events that brought Europe into the current age. With clear and concise analysis the student will get a thorough understanding of the progress of...

This collection focuses on the cultural history of the police as an institution from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Contrary to most studies on the law and the state, Police Forces demonstrates how profoundly modern democracies are enveloped by more informal and less...

The Thirty Years War--the first great pan-European war, and until the twentieth century the most terrible--ravaged Germany, but myth, propaganda, and historical controversy have obscured its true nature. Another perspective is provided by the private diaries, memoirs, and chronicles of soldiers and citizens who...

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 book offers a cultural history of the travels of energy in the English language, from its origins in Aristotle's ontology, where it referred to the activity-of-being, through its English usage as a way to speak about the inherent nature of things, to its...

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,...

Title: The Dead Cities of the Zuyder Zee, a voyage to the picturesque side of Holland. From the French of H. Havard, by A. Wood.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of...

A pioneering investigation into the secret world of wartime Persia (Iran), meticulously sourced and based on six years of extraordinarily wide and deep research in the German, British, and American archives. This study exposes the problems, pressures, and personalities among the competing German intelligence...

How did beer become one of the central commodities associated with the German nation? How did a little-known provincial production standard - the Reinheitsgebot, or Beer Purity Law - become a pillar of national consumer sentiments? How did the jovial, beer-drinking German become a...

Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights....

The U.S.-European relationship remains the closest and most important alliance in the world. Since 1945, successive American presidents each put their own touches on transatlantic relations, but the literature has reached only into the presidency of Lyndon Johnson (1963-9). This first study of transatlantic...

From 1938 until 1943 - before the German occupation and accompanying Holocaust - Fascist Italy drafted and enforced a comprehensive set of anti-Semitic laws. Notwithstanding later rationalizations, the laws were enforced and administered with a high degree of severity and resulted in serious, and...

Get a sweeping overview of world history, from ancient monarchies to the present day, with this concise yet comprehensive synopsis. Written with accessibility and brevity in mind, this book distills the most important events and figures across history into one engaging read. Perfect for...

An essential work for any serious student of history, Hutton's book provides a comprehensive overview of the major changes and upheavals that shaped the Christian church during the 17th and 18th centuries.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is...

A year after John Bradstreet's raid of 1758--the first and largest British-American riverine raid mounted during the Seven Years' War (known in North America as the French and Indian War)--Benjamin Franklin hailed it as one of the great "American" victories of the war. Bradstreet...

Russia's manipulation of Ukraine, which culminated in the 2022 invasion, demonstrated that Russia was willing to resort to all means necessary to secure a regional sphere of influence that included Ukraine. But events could have taken a different direction. Using the concept of national...

Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of "earning" their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring to die repentantly at the hands of divinely-instituted government, perpetrators hoped to escape eternal...

While Iceland is the second largest inhabited island in Europe, with only 313,000 inhabitants in 2007, the Icelanders form one of the smallest independent nations in the world. Around two-thirds of the population lives in the capital, Reykjav?, and its suburbs, while the rest...

"His lordship's Arabian," a phrase often heard in eighteenth-century England, described a new kind of horse imported into the British Isles from the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States of North Africa. Noble Brutes traces how the introduction of these Eastern blood horses transformed...

In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belarussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was one of millions swept up in the...

Warriors and Peasants depicts the lives of the Don Cossacks in late Imperial Russia. The dual identity of the Cossacks, that of the steppe and of the settled Slavic areas, is emphasized as the key to their unique culture. The book explores how that...

Italy emerged from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 with the feeling that it had been denied its just rewards by ungrateful allies and that its victory was thus mutilated. Integrating this vengefulness into his diplomacy in the 1920s, Mussolini undertook a policy of...

Inter-communal Discord and British Rule 1878-1954 Violence and a Settlement 1955-60 Constitutional Breakdown 1960-64 Holding Back Turkey 1964-67 Negotiations and the Greek Junta 1968-74 Turkish Military Intervention and the Geneva Conferences 1974 From Guide Lines to the First UN Plan 1975-87 The Set of...

This edited volume focuses on civil-military relations before and during great power conflicts, and comprises historical case studies of modern supreme leadership.Author: James LaceyISBN-10: 103245153XISBN-13: 9781032451534Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2023Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.70d

Here is a masterpiece of historical narrative that stretches from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age, as it tells the story of Europe, East and West. Norman Davies captures it all--the rise and fall of Rome, the sweeping invasions of Alaric and Atilla,...

The early Middle Ages is not a period traditionally associated with free speech. It is still widely held that free speech declined towards the end of Antiquity, disappearing completely at the beginning of the Middle Ages, and only re-emerging in the Renaissance, when people...

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Second part of the official Order of Battle of the British Army in the Great War lists the Territorial Army and Yeomanry divisions on the Western Front and in Egypt, Gallipoli and Palestine.Author: Major A. F. BeckeISBN-10: 1847347398ISBN-13: 9781847347398Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Facsimile reprints of the Order of Battle of the British Army in the Great War 1914-1918. These give details of every division with its component brigades, battalions, artillery, engineers, medical support etc., units and record any changes. There are also organisational tables for divisions...

Author: Charles DouieISBN-10: 1843421291ISBN-13: 9781843421290Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2001Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: H. G. WellsISBN-10: 1515037401ISBN-13: 9781515037408Publisher: Createspace Independent...