European history

For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain was the dominant world power, its strength based in large part on its command of an Empire that, in the years immediately after World War I, encompassed almost one-quarter of the earth's land surface and one-fifth of its population.

With the arrival of Clement V in 1309, seven popes ruled the Western Church from Avignon until 1378.

This introductory overview of the Low Countries' history traces their development since Roman times, providing equal weighting to the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Drawing on novel archival evidence that sheds light on Anglo-Italian diplomatic relations and the French-Italian contest for power in the Adriatic, this book recounts the story of decadent poet Gabriele D'Annunzio's occupation of Fiume.

In this introductory guide, Knud Jespersen traces the process of disintegration and reduction that helped to form the modern Danish state, and the historical roots of Denmark's international position.

When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides.

Drawing on novel archival evidence that sheds light on Anglo-Italian diplomatic relations and the French-Italian contest for power in the Adriatic, this book recounts the story of decadent poet Gabriele D'Annunzio's occupation of Fiume.

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A bold new account of Europe's plight as it faces political fracture, economic stagnation and external challenges from the U.

The third edition of this acclaimed textbook on peace-making after the First World War advances that the responsibility for the outbreak of a new, even more ruinous, war in 1939 cannot be ascribed entirely to the planet's most powerful men and their meeting in Paris in January 1919 to reassemble a shattered world.

In 1930, 757,000 Jews lived in Romania; they constituted the third largest Jewish community in Europe.

The Archaeology Hotspots series offers reader-friendly and engaging narratives of the archaeology in particular countries.

Small though it may be, Unitarian Universalism has had a big impact not only on its members but also on the world around it.

An international community of Reformed churches emerged during the sixteenth century.

The Russo-Ukraine War is a vital learning opportunity for military strategists across the globe.

Witchcraft has proven an important, if difficult, historical subject to investigate and interpret over the last four decades or so.

The Lithuanian people have undergone historic changes quite different from those of other European nations.

Reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of chivalric whitenessThe Other Faces of Arthur reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of whiteness in the global North Atlantic: Scandinavia, Britain, Iberia, and North Africa.

Even a brief glance at the maps of what has, or might have, been called Germany through the ages reveals a kaleidoscope of alterations in shape and composition.

Although in its infancy, the history of women in Wales and Scotland before and during the Reformation is now thriving.

Abandoning the traditional narrative approach to the subject, Richard Rex presents an analytical account which sets out the logic of Henry VIII's shortlived Reformation.

Environmental history - the history of the relationship between people and the natural world - is a dynamic and increasingly important field.

Britain since 1945 is an ideal introductory text for students of British Studies, cultural studies and modern British history.

Sean Maloney reveals how Vladimir Putin has aggressively leveraged nuclear signaling to manipulate NATO and deter Western intervention in Ukraine.

Over the past twenty years, new approaches to the history of the Reformation of the Church have radically altered our understanding of that event within its broadest social and cultural context.

Sean Maloney reveals how Vladimir Putin has aggressively leveraged nuclear signaling to manipulate NATO and deter Western intervention in Ukraine.

The first account of Britain’s convoys during the Napoleonic Wars—showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory   During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by Britain’s warships.

American military attaches document the impact of airpower during the Spanish Civil War, featuring intervention by some of the strongest air forces in the world in a prelude to World War II.

An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story   The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings and queens could determine the course of history.

Starting in the early 1900s, male and female elementary schoolteachers in Italy gained increasing awareness of the role of social workers in the fight against illiteracy and in creating civic consciousness based on widespread, qualified education.

Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which Tanya Kevorkian defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than style and genre development.

Philadelphia was the most dynamic city in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British America.

Political Vanity aims to illuminate the central debates over the historical, moral, and political legitimacy of market capitalism as though still profoundly theological in character.

The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue.

Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation.

For thirty years, Mark as Story has introduced readers to the rhetorical and narrative skill that makes Mark so arresting and compelling a story.

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Volume 4 of The Annotated Luther series presents an array of Luthers writings related to pastoral work.

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One of the most persistent, if vexing, issues is the state of affairs in the ancient land of Palestine.

The modern and contemporary legacy of Luther's theology is a vital topic of continuing investigation, assessment, and construction.

No one can read far in the Old Testament without encountering numerous acts of violence that are sanctioned in the text and attributed to both God and humans.

A selection of the most important sources for the cultural and political context of the early Roman Empire and the New Testament writings, Roman Imperial Texts includes freshly translated public speeches, official inscriptions, annals, essays, poems, and documents of veiled protest from the Empire’s subject peoples —all introduced by Mark Reasoner.

Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings has become the gold standard for use in seminary and college environments.

Britain's War for the Mediterranean provides a definitive study on British warmaking in the Mediterranean during the War of the First Coalition.

Early Christian spirituality is a topic of enduring fascination today among scholars and general readers alike.

When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides.

This book is a valuable resource for understanding the character, development, and consequences of fascist dictatorships.

A refreshed reissue of the 1952 classic Treasure on Earth.

Engaging Bonhoeffer documents the extraordinary impact of Dietrich Bonhoeffers life and writing on later thought.