Selected as an 'Outstanding Academic Title' in the 2008 CHOICE awards, The Victorian Studies Reader gathers together, in one volume, some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture.
This second collection of studies by Peter Golden continues his explorations of the TArk Empire (mid-sixth to mid-eighth centuries), the stateless polities that appeared after its collapse, and of the Khazar Qaghanate (mid-seventh century to ca.
Looking at the dark history of Italian fashion by focusing on the impact of 1930s Fascism, this is the second edition of Eugenia Paulicelli's classic text.
This book examines how British politicians, national and local newspapers, writers and commentators discussed the mass killing and deportation of Armenians during the period 1915-1923.
Originally published in 1931 and as a fifth edition in 1952, this book became a classic survey of European history which focusses on the pan-European features and tendencies of the Middle Ages.
The external economy of British North America has attracted considerable scholarly attention in the last two generations, and the papers reprinted here, in this second collection from Jacob Price, make important contributions to quantification, conceptualisation and debate.
Originally published in 1938, and as a third edition in 1974, this volume presents the results of original research into the economic aspects of the transition from the medieval manuscript to the modern printed book.
The studies in the present selection of Giles Constable's work concentrate on culture and spirituality in the 11th and 12th centuries, though they also touch on the early and late Middle Ages.
Although the importance of domestic servants in eighteenth-century England has long been recognized, The Domestic Servant in Eighteenth-Century England (first published in 1956, reviving the 1980 edition here) is the first attempt to investigate comprehensively what was the largest occupational group at that time.
This book explores the military events and diplomatic games in the later years of the Second World War through which Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Partisans resistance movement gained the support of the Allies and, eventually, control over Yugoslavia itself.
Eine "Legende" war er, weil er mit dem Renommee seines "Friedensvereins" vor 1918 nach 1920 die Interessen der deutschen Minderheit in Dänemark mit großem Eifer vertrat: Grenzrevision und kulturelle Autonomie.
In einer Ära politischer Umwälzungen und zerbrechender Imperien erhebt sich Tepedelenli Ali Pascha zu einer der schillerndsten und kontroversesten Persönlichkeiten des späten Osmanischen Reiches.
In a time of war, danger lurks beneath the water--and in the depths of the human heartAs the German war machine devours the Netherlands, the only way Cilla van der Zee can survive the occupation is to do the unthinkable--train to become a spy for the Nazis.
