European history

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Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia.

Traditionally, there has been a long and sustained interest in studying the history of economic ideas in France.

The development of Europe accelerated from the middle of the 17th century with the formation of the nation states and the growth of empires.

The Great Irish Famine of 1845-51 was both one of the most lethal famines in modern history and a watershed in the development of modern Ireland.

For over a century Spain controlled the greatest empire the world had ever seen, and its collapse provoked, both then as it does now, a range of analyses over which there has been little agreement.

How was poverty measured and defined, and how has this influenced our judgement of the change in poverty in Britain during the first sixty years of the twentieth century?

The Falklands War of 1982 was a small war, but one with large resonances.

How did the Protestants gain a monopoly over the running of Ireland and replace the Catholics as rulers and landowners?

The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity.

The untold story of film as a chemical cousin to poison gas and nuclear weapons, shaped by centuries of violent extraction.

Charles Fourier has generally been studied in relation to particular segments of his teaching.

This book is the first scholarly study to explore economic relations between brewers and publicans in the brewing industry over a century.

France was interwar Poland's main ally, and the biggest source of the country's foreign investment.

Covering Western history from the ancient world to the current era of globalization, The Modernization of the Western World describes the forces of social change and what they have meant to the lives of the people caught up in them.

Charles Fourier has generally been studied in relation to particular segments of his teaching.

Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust.

The Russian "e;House"e;: An Examination of Post-Soviet Russian Culture in the Times of Putin examines Russian society as considered by the Russian people.

For forty-three years, Francis I of Austria ruled a vast heterogenous Empire that came to dominate the continent of Europe.

About three weeks after Japanese troops captured Nanjing when the worst of the atrocities was over, American diplomats were allowed to return to the city to re-open their embassy on January 6, 1938.

A quest for belonging through the forsaken landscapes of BritainWhen Steven Lovatt s grandmother died, he lost not only a beloved family member but also his last link to the way of life she had represented: rooted in place, socially democratic, ecologically rich.

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Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 argues that British women's history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape but also the political significance of women's writing.

The history of Sweden in the seventeenth century is perhaps one of the most remarkable political success stories of early modern Europe.

A sequel to her seminal book on Chaucer's House of Fame, Sheila Delany's elegant and innovative study of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women explores what it meant to be a reader and a writer, and to be English and a courtier, in the late fourteenth century.

Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature, 1652-1771 demonstrates how British travel narratives of the long eighteenth century distinguished between Mughal and American "e;Indians.

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history.

The power exercised by the mother on the son in Mediterranean cultures has been amply studied.

Samuel Johnson, from early boyhood, lived with the knowledge that his homely face, large and ungainly body, loud voice, and odd mannerisms put people off.

In this provocative account Tia DeNora reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context.

A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history’s most maligned rulers: France’s Louis XVI  “The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch.

In no other country in Europe has national identity been so closely bound to memories of the war.

Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style illustrates the story of the evolution of Italian values, virtues, and vices is a narrative of longing, exhilaration, and devastation, a journey of the spirit that all human beings necessarily undertake but navigate with varying degrees of success.

Out of Nowhere is an exploration of the remarkable yet virtually unknown body of art that has emerged out of a historic region in the geographical heart of Europe known as Carpathian Rus', or simply Ruthenia.

The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe explores the pivotal events of 1989 that reshaped the global political landscape, focusing on the role of the Soviet Union in the collapse of Eastern European Communist regimes.

The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe explores the pivotal events of 1989 that reshaped the global political landscape, focusing on the role of the Soviet Union in the collapse of Eastern European Communist regimes.

Body of State offers a translation of Marco Baliani's acclaimed dramatic monologue, Corpo di stato, concerning the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the terrorist Red Brigades.

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele.

This biography covers both the literary and political career of John Morley, later Lord Morley of Blackburn (1838-1923).

Imperial Designs is the first text in English to deal comprehensively with the subject of the Italian colonial experience in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture.

Islam and Papal Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe traces the influential history of another book: Riccoldo da Montecroce's Contra legem Sarracenorum.

This book offers the first major analysis of William Wilberforce's clerical networks, demonstrating that while a devoted Anglican, he was deeply intertwined with evangelicals of various ecclesiastical traditions.

From Pearl Harbor to D-Day and beyond and all-star examination of the conflict that shaped the modern world from World War II Magazine.

Between 1558 and 1604, more than 400 subjects of Queen Elizabeth I found themselves in contact with the Spanish Inquisition.

This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regime's history in the 1970s, and its opening up to the West.

In the late 1950s crime and its treatment had never been of greater public interest.

This book integrates Soviet and post-Soviet Russian history into a coherent whole by focusing on the culture, role models, habits and behavior patterns that provide continuity between various political regimes, systems, and rulers from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin.

Garments and accessories are prominent in almost all of William Shakespeare's plays, from Hamlet and Othello to A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night.

This book explores the foundation and work of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) and other entertainment organisations such as CEMA and Stars in Battledress.