The seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past from its first inhabitants to the 2020s.
"Ante la ley", el clásico cuento de Kafka, muestra la potencia simbólica que la ley detenta en nuestra sociedad monista contemporánea: aun estando abierta la puerta de La Ley, el campesino no se anima a atravesarla.
During the long years of the Second World War, tea remained the cornerstone of British hospitality, drunk and enjoyed by civilians and members of the armed forces alike.
This book examines the cultural relations between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg monarchies in the seventeenth century and explores the central role of transnational aristocratic networks in cultural transfer processes between Spain and Central Europe.
Reginald Zelnik uses a single episode-a militant strike at the Kreenholm factory, Europe's largest textile plant-to explore the broad historical moment.
First Published in 1947, A History of England combines a concise record of events with an absorbing picture of England's evolution in the political, social, economic, and cultural spheres.
The Elements of Greek Philosophy (1922) is an overview of the basic principles of Ancient Greek philosophy, tracing the developments of Greek thought from Thales of Miletus to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
First published in 1990, Nationalism in France (now with a new preface by the author) is a concise history of the post-revolutionary period in France and provides at the same time an original study of the evolution of French Nationalism since 1789.
Although most perished, hundreds of thousands of Central European Jews escaped the Holocaust; tens of thousands of these Jewish refugees ended up in East Asia, Southeast Asia, or South Asia.
Beginning in 1948 with Paramount's Saigon and Universal's Rogue's Regiment, Hollywood has produced hundreds of features and made-for-television films about Vietnam and the ensuing conflict.
Elegant yet shattering Rendered in plainspoken yet devastating prose, Massons historical narrative is intercut with startling present-day moments This is haunting.
As utopias question social ills and express human wants and unfulfilled dreams, they offer insights into the problems, desires and ideals of a certain time.
This book aims to present a theoretical study of the concept of collaboration during the Second World War, which is understood as social behaviour and actions within specific conditions of military occupation, based on the theories of social behaviour and action by Max Weber and the theory of action by Pierre Bourdieu.
Originally published in 1951, this book discusses the cultural and social developments in Scandinavian countries from the beginning of the Dark Ages to the death of S.
Green Marble - Back Page By Ed Sims Set in a small town of Spencer, Indiana in the fifties, Chris and John, who were from totally different backgrounds, found their common interest in basketball.
A history of the largely forgotten peasant revolution that swept central and eastern Europe after World War Iand how it changed the course of interwar politics and World War IIAs the First World War ended, villages across central and eastern Europe rose in revolt.
