European history

In this established textbook, Wallace provides a succinct overview of the European Reformation, interweaving the influential events of the religious reformation with the transformations of political institutions, socio-economic structures, gender relations and cultural values throughout Europe.

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

In 1942, Hitler''s Nazi regime trained eight operatives for a mission to infiltrate America and do devastating damage to its infrastructure.

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.

Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies'' victory over the Nazis in World War II.

A full understanding of the historical process must include studies of the social and economic conditions of societies as well as biographies of the people on which a clear understanding of history is based-but not just the "e;great"e; people.

Jean-Baptiste Pierre LeBrun's life was marked by his intense interest in art, first as an artist, and then from 1770 until his death in 1813, as an art dealer/connoisseur and as a participant in the transformation of the Louvre into a national museum during the French Revolution.

An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention.

Modern Freemasonry in the United States and Great Britain celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2017 tracing its direct history from the Grand Lodge of England founded in 1717.

At risk of life and reputation, the reform journalist W.

This is a story of a young lad who chose college far away from his small home town of Washington, NJ.

This is a book that will change the American perception of the Pacific War.

The bible is indeed a world of the strange and mysterious when it comes to the variety of creatures that are presented in its texts.

This new study provides a concise, accessible introduction to occupied Europe.

The first part of the book reflects the context of life within the totalitarian systems of Communism and Nazism.

Divided Dynamism presents a cogent and comprehensive review of the political and unification policies of separated nations.

This concise, approachable introduction to Khrushchev explores the innovative theme of Khrushchev as reformer, arguing that the 'bumbling' nature of those reforms only partly reflected Khrushchev's uncertainty about how to act.

From 1095 to the end of the thirteenth century, the crusades touched the lives of many thousands of British people, even those who were not crusaders themselves.

On December 13, 1937, Japanese troops captured China's former capital, Nanjing.

Two thousand years ago, Antioch on the Orontes River was the third most important city in the Roman Empire.

This established study focuses on the most important phase of Irish migration, providing analysis of why and how the Irish settled in Britain in such numbers.

Three to Ride chronicles the events leading to the actions taken by British colonists in America against British troops, ultimately concluding in independence for the colonies.

Vesna Drapac provides an insightful survey of the changing nature of the Yugoslav ideal, demonstrating why Yugoslavism was championed at different times and by whom, and how it was constructed in the minds of outside observers.

We now live with the threat and the reality of political terror and terrorists.

This book outlines the World War II experiences of Carl E.

It was an incredible destiny for a man who repeatedly announced that he was "e;without ambition.

This is a concise but wide-ranging account of all aspects of the Scientific Revolution from astronomy to zoology.

Visionary, explorer, researcher, diplomat, humanist?

O'Hara presents the first general history of Britons' relationship with the surrounding oceans from 1600 to the present day.

Historical Archives and the Historians' Commission to Investigate the Armenian Events of 1915 demonstrates the vital importance of Ottoman and other relevant archives in Turkey for the study of the Armenian question.

The Continuing Legacy of Simone Weil analyzes the core work of Simone Weil and her views on the nature of the human condition, humanity's relationship with God, and the objective state of our world.

Seeking Freedom and Justice for Hungary is the story of the vigorous Catholic worker movement developed in Hungary after the devastations of World War I, unique in the history of twentieth-century Europe.

The author's father, when he was a senior Communist Party member in Belorussia, could have been implicated in the assassination of Mikhoels, the popular director of the State Jewish Theatre in the Soviet Union.

An autobiography unlike other literary forms shows the ego of an author.

A critical introduction to the mass political movements that came of age in urban England between the Great Reform Act of 1832 and the start of World War One.

Jeremy Black sets the politics of eighteenth century Britain into the fascinating context of social, economic, cultural, religious and scientific developments.

Providing a rounded and coherent history of crime and the law spanning the past 400 years, Histories of Crime explores the evolution of attitudes towards crime and criminality over time.

At its peak the Spanish empire stretched from Italy and the Netherlands to Peru and the Philippines.

Once teetering on the brink of oblivion, the British Liberal Party has again re-established itself as a major force in national and local politics.

This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic.

'The clearest and most detailed account of Stonehenge for a generation.

Violent conflict created a divide in Cyprus (1950-1974) that still exists to this day between Turkish and Greek Cypriots.

The book is about economic developments and policies in the first decade or so after the independence of the fifteen countries that emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

In 1941, Imperial Japan rapidly brought an end to the British Empire in Asia.

The intellectual, cultural, and political renaissance that characterized the Europe of Charlemagne was threatened severely by invasions from all sides.

Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone is an exhaustive examination of the controversial issue of comfort women, who provided sexual services to Japanese soldiers before and during World War II.

Henry VIII and the Anabaptists describes a bloody chapter in the reign of the infamous Tudor king.

This book describes the assimilation and acculturation of a small minority who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century and again in the twentieth century.

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It’s 1942 and Hitler’s armies stand astride Europe like a colossus.