European history

While over the past four hundred years numerous opinions have been voiced as to Shakespeare's identity, these eleven essays widen the scope of the investigation by regarding Shakespeare, his world, and his works in their interaction with one another.

This work explores the experiences of Hans Werner Richter and Alfred Andersch, authors who served in the German army during World War II, were captured by U.

Many popular French films of the 1930s captured the world and brought it into neighborhood cinemas for filmgoers who craved adventure.

In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared British bid to use Spanish Florida as a base from which to attack the United States, and with the further hope of acquiring that territory for America.

Aside from Letters from Ireland and Endowed Schools of Ireland, Harriet Martineau wrote an additional thirty-eight articles about Ireland for London's Daily News between 1852 and 1866, plus another thirteen articles for Household Words, Atlantic Monthly, Once a Week, Westminster Review, and New York Evening Post.

Beyond Belief: Surviving the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France presents a demographic study of the behaviors of Protestants and Catholics in a town in southeastern France between 1650 and 1715.

During the years of Weimar and the Third Reich, Toller was one of the more active of the "e;other Germany's"e; left-wing intellectuals.

Barcelonan Okupas: Squatter Power!

Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida revisits the cultural and social milieu in which laMovida, an explosion of artistic production in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was articulated discursively, aesthetically, socially, and politically.

Christian mystic, astrologer, and spiritualist, Charles Carleton Massey (1838-1905) underwent an eclectic spiritual journey that resulted in a series of articles, letters, and booklets that have largely been neglected by modern society.

Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century is a richly detailed thematic study of the history of the piano in Russian society from its beginnings with the European artisans who settled in St.

During World War II 51,000 Italian prisoners of war were detained in the United States.

Robert Loraine was born in a period when technology exploded into a world whose keyword was Progress.

Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World explores the representation of political, economic, military, religious, and juridical power in texts and artifacts from early modern Spain and her American viceroyalties.

In film history, director-cinematographer collaborations were on a labor spectrum, with the model of the contracted camera operator in the silent era and that of the cinematographer in the sound era.

Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I dialogues with the variety of texts recently published to commemorate the Great War.

In serving more than fifty years in public life, Palmerston placed his stamp upon nineteenth-century Britain.

What was British imperialism and was it an important element of modern globalization?

Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8-11, 2013.

A World War II naval history of the aging destroyer Borie's desperate Halloween Eve battle with a German U-boat.

The cultural highlights of the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) have long been overlooked.

The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness significant advancement in the production and, crucially, the consumption of culture in Italy.

Drafted while events were fresh in his mind in 1942-1943, Alabama-born American diplomat George Platt Waller's memoir chronicles his war-time experience in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

For hundreds of years, Barcelona and Madrid have shared a deep rivalry.

Does fiction do more than just represent space?

The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670-1789 explores the French monarchy's role in financing criminal prosecutions in the royal courts of the realm-the payment of criminal frais de justice in the vocabulary of the ancien regime-between 1670 and 1789 (that is, from the codification of criminal judicial procedure in the early period of Louis XIV's personal rule to the outbreak of the French Revolution).

The chapters constituting this book are different in subject and method, striking testimony to the range of Paulson's interests and the versatility of his critical powers.

Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin have shown that flanerie is anything but an aimless stroll.

For nearly five months, starting in mid-September 1944, American GIs battled for the Hurtgen Forest, a 50-square mile tract of extremely inhospitable terrain.

The process of shaping and asserting cultural identity in viceregal Spanish America occurred as much through the medium of pictures as through the medium of writing.

Mormonism and the Emotions: An Analysis of LDS Scriptural Texts is an introductory Latterday Saint (LDS) theology of emotion that is both canonically based and scientifically informed.

Many popular French films of the 1930s captured the world and brought it into neighborhood cinemas for filmgoers who craved adventure.

Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel's participation in eighteenth-century "e;inquiries after happiness,"e; an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of wellbeing in early modern and Enlightenment Europe.

Legitimizing the Queen deals with a genre particular to the Middle Ages: the specula principum (mirror of prince).

"e;A visionary and a madman"e; was how one British statesman, Lord Carteret, described Theodore von Neuhoff.

Despite the ease with which scholars have used the term "e;memory"e; in re-cent decades, its definition remains enigmatic.

Plutarch''s ''Parallel Lives,'' written at the beginning of the second century A.

Plutarch''s Parallel Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.

The New Cold War at Sea exposes the growing maritime partnership between China and Russia, revealing how their increasingly coordinated naval strategies-from the Arctic to the Pacific-might threaten U.

One man could have enabled the most audacious terrorist threat against America prior to 9/11 and helped the Nazis win World War II-the Nazi spy pastor, Carl Krepper.

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

Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas.

The World Today Series: Western Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Western Europe, past and present.

This is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe, past and present.

In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution.

Mackin''s memoirs are a haunting portrayal of war in the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front.

It was a stunning strategic victory of World War II–and one of the most fantastic breaks for the Allies.

Black Sheep One is the first biography of legendary warrior and World War II hero Gregory Boyington.