History - Europe - General

Between the years 1815 and 1945, Europe achieved unrivaled global dominance, only to see it shattered by two world wars. This frenetic rise and fall was attended by immense societal change. In 1815, Europe remained largely agricultural and dependent upon horsepower. By 1945, the...

This book presents the newest research by archeologists and historians on the genesis of Christianization in Polish and some other Central and Eastern European lands in the early Middle Ages as well as analyses on various politics of memory related to the founding myths...

Provides an in-depth analysis of the history and circulation of penicillin in SpainBrings together scientific, medical, social, political and industrial historiesConsiders the circulation of penicillin and other antibiotics in terms of scientific exchange, industrial production and social perceptionAuthor: Mar僘 Jes俍 SantesmasesISBN-10: 3319888293ISBN-13: 9783319888293Publisher: Palgrave...

This book explores how the women's orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau has been remembered in both media and popular culture since the end of the Second World War. In particular it focuses on Fania Fenelon's memoir, Playing for Time (1976), which was subsequently adapted into a...

1. Introduction: Peripheral Visions - Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century; Joseph Clarke and John Horne.- Part I: Encounters.- 2. French Soldiers and the Revolutionary Origins of the Colonial Mind; Fergus Robson.- 3. Encountering the Sacred: British and French Soldiers in the...

1. Trade and Treaties: Balancing the Interstate system; Antonella Alimento & Koen Stapelbroek.- 2. Égalité, réciprocité, souveraineté. The role of commercial treaties in Colbert's economic policy; Moritz Isenmann.- 3. The Anglo-Portuguese Methuen Treaty of 1703: Opportunities and Constraints of Economic Development; José Luís Cardoso.-...

1. Introduction.- 2.The Weimar Republic 1: A Star is Born- 3. The Weimar Republic 2: The American Dream.- 4. The Third Reich 1: The "Loyal Citizen".- 5. The Third Reich 2: "A German Victory"?.- 6. After 1945: "The Good German".- 7. No More Heroes?...

Thousands of German construction companies worked under the Organisation Todt during the Second World War. This study enquires into the relation between the NS state and the construction industry and analyses the businesses' strategies and entrepreneurial room for manoeuvre. Focusing on German construction projects...

Der Sturz Napoleons j臧rt sich 2014 zum zweihundertsten Mal; und ebenso die Restauration der franzischen Monarchie unter den Bourbonen. Was bedeutet aber ?erhaupt "Restauration"? Volker Sellin lt den Begriff aus der Fixierung auf das Epochenjahr 1814 und interpretiert Restauration ?ergreifend als eine Politik der...

1. Introduction: Participatory Politics, Institutions, and Emotional Templating- Ute Frevert and Kerstin Maria Pahl2. Feeling Political in Public Administration: French Bureaucracy between Militancy and sens de l'État, 1789-2019- Francesco Buscemi3. Feeling Political in Parliament: Rules, Regulations, and the Rostrum, Germany 1849-1951- Philipp Nielsen4. Feeling...

The Conservative Milieu 1815 to 1856.- A Youth Between Defeat and Liberation 1806 to 1830.- Conservative Interpretation of Royal Church Policy.- Restoration, Revolution and Counter-Revolution 1830-50.- 'The Bond That Stands Above the Will of the Spouses' - Marriage Law Reform(s).- Conclusion: All That Is...

This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief. What began as observations of some startling narratives preserved in folklore archives where sex, violence and curses are recurring themes gradually led to questions as to how rural people envisaged...

Reading the Early Modern Diary traces the historical genealogy, formal characteristics, and shifting cultural uses of the early modern English diary. It explores the possibilities and limitations the genre held for the self-expression of a writer at a time which considerably pre-dated the Romantic...

Reading the Early Modern Diary traces the historical genealogy, formal characteristics, and shifting cultural uses of the early modern English diary. It explores the possibilities and limitations the genre held for the self-expression of a writer at a time which considerably pre-dated the Romantic...

Henry Miller and Modernism: The Years in Paris, 1930-1939 represents a major reevaluation of Henry Miller, focusing on the Paris texts from 1930 to 1939. Finn Jensen analyzes Miller in the light of European modernism, in particular considering the many impulses Miller received in...

This book addresses the many avenues that are still left unexplored when it comes to our understanding of the First World War in the Low Countries. With the ongoing the centenary of the Great War, many events have been organized in the United Kingdom...

Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields-Early Modern Studies and Black Studies-that traditionally have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of archival evidence that limits what we can...

*Includes pictures of Marx and important people in his life. *Explains Marx's social and economic theories and ideology. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." - Karl Marx...

'You have to die in Piedmont!' An old folk song, still played in the western Alps, tells of the French regiments that were coming from the Mongeneve Pass in order to attack a combined Austro-Sardinian force entrenched on the Assietta Plateau, 2,500 meters up...

The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe examines how the neutral European countries and the Soviet Union interacted after World War II. Amid the Cold War division of Europe into Western and Eastern blocs, several long-time neutral countries abandoned neutrality...

Exploring Continents takes readers on a journey through the unique features and diverse cultures of Earth's seven continents. The series delves into the history, geography, climate, flora and fauna, natural resources, economics, and more of each continent. It includes fascinating facts on a variety...

Exploring Continents takes readers on a journey through the unique features and diverse cultures of Earth's seven continents. The series delves into the history, geography, climate, flora and fauna, natural resources, economics, and more of each continent. It includes fascinating facts on a variety...

An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks details the events, personalities, ideas and disasters that have shaped the European continent. The book is broken down into...

Megalithic monuments are among the most striking remains of the Neolithic period of northern and western Europe and are scattered across landscapes from Pomerania to Portugal. Antiquarians and archaeologists early recognized the family resemblance of the different groups of tombs, attributing them to maritime...

Between April 1992 and December 1995, more than 100,000 people were killed in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The terrible atrocities committed in this period have been much discussed and studied and many prosecuted as acts of genocide, war crimes or crimes against...

A fascinating record of how London and Londoners were shaped by nearly 700 years of public executions. More frequent in London than in any other city or town in Britain, these morbid spectacles often attracted tens of thousands of onlookers at locations across the...

One of the prominent themes of the political history of the 16th and 17th centuries is the waxing influence officials in the exercise of state power, particularly in international relations, as it became impossible for monarchs to stay on top of the increasingly complex...

Less than Nations: Central-Eastern European Minorities after WWI represents the result of research that the author has carried over recent years, and was facilitated by the 2008 PRIN project and the 2010 Sapienza Research funds. The book analyses the conditions of national minorities after...

A captivating history of the defense of the insanity plea in England.Shortly before she pushed her infant daughter headfirst into a bucket of water and fastened the lid, Annie Cherry warmed the pail because, as she later explained to a police officer, "It would...

It is often taken for granted that modernity emerged in Europe and diffused from there across the world. This book questions that assumption and re-examines the question of European modernity in the light of world history. Bo Str th and Peter Wagner re-position Europe...

Author: Elizabeth JeffreysISBN-10: 0959363629ISBN-13: 9780959363623Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1986Pages: 418Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 9.90h x 6.90w x 1.00d

The French political philosopher and historian Fran ois Guizot (1787-1874) was one of the French Doctrinaires, thinkers who sought to avoid the interpretations of the Revolution advanced by either extreme of Left or Right. He argued that in order to understand the nature of...

Author: Tim SaundersISBN-10: 0850527376ISBN-13: 9780850527377Publisher: Pen & Sword MilitaryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2008Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.58h x 5.42w x 0.37d

The British offensive, which became known as Passchendaele, got underway on 31 July, 1917 with the objective of capturing fifteen miles of territory.The attack quickly lost momentum and, it was not until finally in November that the line managed to advance seven miles. With...

How is it that Czechoslovakia's separation into two countries in 1993 was accomplished so peacefully--especially when compared with the experiences of its neighbors Russia and Yugoslavia? This book provides a sociological answer to this question--and an empirical explanation for the breakup of Czechoslovakia--by tracing...

This book examines some of the salient historiographical and conceptual issues that animate current scholarly debates about the nature of the medieval contribution to modern Western political ideas. On the one hand, scholars who subscribe to the "Baron thesis" concerning civic humanism have asserted...

In recent decades, historians of early-modern European political thought have tended to neglect the concept of monarchy and monarchism, focusing instead on the development of republicanism during this period. Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment aims to correct this imbalance by illustrating that many...

Avner Ben-Zaken reconsiders the fundamental question of how early modern scientific thought traveled between Western and Eastern cultures in the age of the so-called Scientific Revolution. Through five meticulously researched case studies--in which he explores how a single obscure object or text moved in...

Slovakia split from Czechoslovakia and formed its own state on March 14, 1939. The Slovak State was born under the auspices of Hitler's Third Reich and became its first ally on September 1, 1939, when it took part in the invasion of Poland. The...

An in-depth illustrated chronicle of the rise and fall of one of history's most secretive brotherhoods, from its origins in the middle ages to its mysterious status today. With well researched text and evocative illustrations, this volume shows the historical legacy of the Templars...

The Battle of the Somme, which lasted from 1 July to 18 November 1916, is remembered as one of the most horrific and tragic battles of World War I. On the first day alone nearly 19,000 British troops were killed--the greatest one-day loss in...

EARLY seventeenth-century Europe was a dangerous place. The resulting Thirty Years War was to claim more lives proportionately than either the First or Second World Wars - not only from battle and the endemic violence of marauding armies, but also from famine and plague....

Renowned for its express locomotive Mallard setting a world speed record (126mph) for steam locomotives that endures to this day, the London & North Eastern Railway was the second largest of the 'Big Four' railway companies to emerge from the 1923 grouping and also...

Author: Giulia CalviISBN-10: 1108823300ISBN-13: 9781108823302Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2022Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

Over the past 250 years, energy transitions have occurred repeatedly--the rise of coal in the nineteenth century, the explosion of oil in the twentieth century, the nuclear utopianism of the 1950s and 1960s. These transitions have been as revolutionary as any political or economic...

Early modern Protestant scholars closely engaged with Islamic thought in more ways than is usually recognized. Among Protestants, Lutheran scholars distinguished themselves as the most invested in the study of Islam and Muslim culture. Mehmet Karabela brings the neglected voices of post-Reformation theologians, primarily...

Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe's triumphs and tragedies Winner of the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize - A Financial Times Best Book of 2023 "An irresistibly well-written book, fluent, witty,...

This book explores the relationship between democracy and the economy in contemporary political thought and policy-making. Using the concepts of economic, industrial and enterprise democracy, the author focuses on the history of Finland and Sweden during the latter part of the twentieth century. The...

This volume compiles texts from leading members of the military-scientific communities in Russia and Ukraine and illustrates how decisionmakers in these countries understand and debate the roles of information weapons and information influence in times of competition and times of conflict.Author: Michelle Grisé, Yuliya...

Information confrontation has become an important and distinct element of Russian strategy. Russia sees itself as being in a constant state of information confrontation with the West. The authors examine prevailing definitions and types of information confrontation, as well as the historical evolution of...