Written by one of the 20th Century's foremost historians of Iberia, Harold Livermore was a prize-winning author and one of the first anglophone scholars to research the annals of Spain and Portugal.
Im Jahr 1527 erschütterte ein Ereignis Europa, das sowohl die politische als auch die religiöse Landschaft für immer verändern sollte: Der Sacco di Roma – die brutale Plünderung der Ewigen Stadt durch die Truppen Kaiser Karls V.
The untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revolutionaries during the closing decades of the Cold WarIn the 1970s and 1980s, Prague became a favorite destination for the world's most prominent terrorists and revolutionaries.
With Brexit complete, the European Union unbalanced, and populist national conservatism on the march across the continent, winds of rebellion continue to blow from Central Europe, where Hungarys dynamic leader Viktor Orbn has been building a political alternative to neoliberal statism.
*SHORTLISTED FOR A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD*From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications'Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding' NAOMI KLEIN'Mishra has made a powerful contribution to the moral history of the world' ANDREW O'HAGAN'Urgent' HISHAM MATAR'Brilliant' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEMemory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe s civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era.
The untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revolutionaries during the closing decades of the Cold WarIn the 1970s and 1980s, Prague became a favorite destination for the world's most prominent terrorists and revolutionaries.
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.
Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding-Moore MM was a British heiress who became a highly decorated volunteer nurse and ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War.
With Brexit complete, the European Union unbalanced, and populist national conservatism on the march across the continent, winds of rebellion continue to blow from Central Europe, where Hungarys dynamic leader Viktor Orbn has been building a political alternative to neoliberal statism.
"e;This microhistory of the birth, life, and death of an American cruiser offers valuable insight into the early years of World War II, including the procedures, processes, and personnel of the Navy, naval life, and naval warfare.
Prophets and Witches offers an exploration of female prophecy and witchcraft during the political and religious upheavals of the English Revolutionary period from 1640 to 1660.
The author's aim in these essays, which complement his pioneering books on natural history, has been to find out more about the different categories of people who engaged in this field in the past, and to piece together how the subject has been shaped by changes in society as a whole.
This volume draws on the recently discovered and extraordinarily rich scrapbook compiled by prosecuting solicitor Francis Hobler about the 1840 murder of Lord William Russell to consider public engagement with the issues raised from discovery of the murder itself through the ensuing legal processes.
Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: 'private' European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the benediction of polities.
A new analysis of the difficulties in normalising opposition in the Irish Free State, this book analyses the collision between nineteenth-century monolithic nationalist movements with the norms and expectations of multiparty parliamentary democracy.
Wie konnte eine Philosophie, die für die moralische Autonomie und die Freiheit des menschlichen Willens eintritt, in einem System strenger Disziplin und Gehorsam zur tragenden Kraft werden?
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller'The star of her generation' - Dan Snow, host of History Hit'Bursting with ideas and images' - Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl'Utterly, utterly brilliant' - Tracy Borman, author of The King's WitchAt eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots.
