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He never commanded an army in the field.

Die Geschichte der Folter ist eine Geschichte der Macht.

Im November 1918 existierte Osterreich-Ungarn nicht mehr.

Als Martin Luther 1517 seine Thesen an die Schlosskirche zu Wittenberg schlug, war er nicht der Erste, der die Missstande der Kirche anprangerte.

Der erste Angriff mit Giftgas traf nicht nur die Lungen der Soldaten, sondern auch das Vertrauen in die Rationalitat des Krieges.

Die spanische Inquisition begann nicht in fernen Gerichtssalen, sondern am eigenen Tisch, im Gesprach mit dem Nachbarn, beim fluchtigen Blick zur Kirche.

The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States.

The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States.

Der Ubergang vom Feld zur Fabrik war kein sanfter.

Ein Name wird aus einem Brief gestrichen.

'Absorbing and exhilarating .

For most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built environment after themselves.

Step through the gates of one of the world's most famous cemeteries — and learn to read it the way its Victorian visitors once did.

Triple Award Winner, including Silver Nautilus Book Award and Independent Publisher Bronze Medal for Memoir, and Next Generation Book Award Finalist for SpiritualityTo the chagrin of her parents, Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, the author became a Buddhist at 19, nearly tearing her family apart.

Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon--'a history book for Scots'.

Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon--'a history book for Scots'.

Social and economic changes included an increase in production of food and raw materials, in turn sustaining the remarkable growth of towns and cities over this period.

In the summer of 1411, the ageing Donald of Isla, Lord of the Isles, invaded mainland Scotland with a huge, battle-hardened army, only to be fought to a bloody standstill on the plateau of Harlaw, fifteen miles from Aberdeen, a town he had threatened to sack.

Paul Hopkins, an authority on early Jacobitism, sets the Massacre of Glencoe in its true context.

This is the second volume of a three-volume study of Scottish social change and development from the eighteenth century to the present day, originally published by John Donald in association with the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland.

Academic writing in Britain and Ireland has tended to treat the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales as discrete subjects of study.

This collection of essays presents historical approaches to the links which have existed for over 800 years between Scotland and one of the areas of continental Europe closest to her: the Low Countries.

In 1730, Edmund Burt was sent to Scotland to work as a contractor for the government.

James III is the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland.

Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon--'a history book for Scots'.

This study examines the political ambitions and influences of the Balliol dynasty in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Scotland, England and France.

The economic crises since 2008, the tensions concerning the Euro, the Greek question and the refugee problem have fuelled a strong "e;Eurosceptic"e; movement.

Der Historiker Ortwin Pelc, zuletzt am Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte tätig, hat sich in vielfältiger Weise um die Landesgeschichte Schleswig-Holsteins verdient gemacht.

Superpower detente during the Nixon-Ford Administration led to the formation of an East-West regime aimed at conflict control and systemic stability.

In the spring of 1798, a French army crossed into Switzerland and shattered a political order five centuries in the making.

All over the world people associate the bagpipes with Scotland.

The Search for Salvation is an innovative and interdisciplinary study of lay faith in Scotland in the later Milddle Ages, examining both the religious ideas and practices of the people, and the ways in which these were shaped by images in literature, art, and church writings.

Can a building possess a soul, or is it merely an elaborate monument to the vanity of the men who cut the stone?

David I was never expected to become king, but on succeeding to the Scottish throne in 1124 he quickly demonstrated that he had the skills, ruthlessness and ambition to become one of the kingdom's greatest rulers.

In 1644 a massive Scottish army of Scottish Covenanters moved over the border into England, claiming they were not invading their neighbour but acting to save its liberties, by helping ensure that the absolutist King Charles I did not win the civil war he was fighting with the English parliament.

This impressive collection of essays is based on a two-year seminar series of the Research centre in Scottish History at the University of Strathclyde.

These essays constitute the first radical reassessment since the nineteenth century of the role of architecture as an expression of lordship and status among Scottish secular and ecclesiastical elites in the period c.

On the cusp of memory and history, the story of Scotland's twentieth-century is contested territory: international yet parochial; prosperous yet ailing; and, passionate yet temperate.

In this study of the reign of James II of Scotland, the king is viewed in the context of the Stewart monarchy, from his struggles to overcome his early adversity and the legacy of his father's style of kingship, to the serious political crises of his reign.

This is the second volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course.

Between the early eighteenth and the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Scottish society was transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and major changes in agriculture and rural society.

This book examines the role of religion in the story of Oliver Cromwell's invasion and subsequent occupation of Scotland.

The popular Arthurian legends, such as the grail quests of Perceval and Galahad, and the love of Lancelot for Queen Guenevere, have largely overshadowed Scotland's own Arthurian romance.

This is the first volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course.

The constitutional and religious settlement in Scotland after the revolution of 1688 largely determined the nature of Scottish politics and of Anglo-Scottish relations up to the union of 1707.

Like all the Hebrides, North Uist has a fascinating history and a landscape scattered with historic sites, from Neolithic burial chambers, Iron Age forts and medieval churches to battle-sites and townships forged in the days of kelp trade and deserted during the subsequent traumas of clearance and emigration.

Jordan Fantosme was a twelfth-century cleric, teacher and poet, possibly a member of the royal or baronial court, writing for King Henry II.

The lifestyle of a Renaissance prince and his court was a work of art in itself: a dazzling spectacle which propagated the power, dignity and fame of the monarch.

The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times.

This book analyses the origins, development and impact of British Army recruiting in the Scottish Highlands in the period from 1739 to 1815.