European history

Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals discusses the English periodical and how it shapes and expresses early conceptions of authorship in the eighteenth century.

The pluralization of Christian religion was the defining fact of cultural life in sixteenth-century Europe.

Guns had an enormous impact on the social, economic, cultural, and political lives of civilian men, women, and children of all social strata in early modern England.

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.

Antonio Lopez Garcia's Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting is the first book to give the famed Spanish artist the critical attention he deserves.

When William Bradford Huie, a reporter for H.

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understanding the world even as the fictive qualities of poisoning frustrate attempts at certainty.

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

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.

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.

'A necessary book and I can think of no writer better qualified to write it' Cal Flyn What if Chernobyl was just the beginning?

In pursuing how fourteenth-century English texts engage with philosophical, intellectual, and theological questions, the work of Denise N.

How the United States helped restore a Europe battered by World War II and created the foundation for the postwar international orderSeventy years ago, in the wake of World War II, the United States did something almost unprecedented in world history: It launched and paid for an economic aid plan to restore a continent reeling from war.

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumJewish Responses to Persecution: Volume II, 1938-1940 is the second volume of the five-volume set within the series "e;Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context.

Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market, democratic society?

Ollam ("e;ollav"e;), named for the ancient title of Ireland's chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomas O Cathasaigh, Henry L.

In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predictable as the change in the seasons.

Seeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship.

Seeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship.

The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernNamed one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review  • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 •  A Kirkus Best Book of 2019  “Damrosch brings the Club’s redoubtable personalities—the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie—to vivid life.

The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman, called “gripping" and "fascinating" by William Taubman in the New York Times  “[Popoff] tells Grossman’s story with sensitivity and a keen understanding of his world, drawing on little-known archival collections to produce what must be considered the definitive biography.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the core concepts of national identity articulated by Iberian writers during the period between 1900 and 1925.

A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history.

The momentous changes in the Soviet Union brought about by glasnost' and perestroyka have far-reaching implications that continue to grip the attention of the international community.

The writings of three early modern Jewish historians highlight the divided allegiances of a Jewish diaspora living in and between the Spanish and Ottoman empiresIn 1492, the year that marked the start of Spain's transatlantic expansion, the Spanish monarchs expelled their Jewish subjects and triggered a mass Jewish migration to the lands of the Ottoman Empire.

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

Europe's crucial contribution to the achievement of American independence.

Stalinism is the name that is used to identify the political and economic systems introduced and implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union from the time that Stalin became the supreme power in the Russian Communist Party in 1927 to his death in 1953.

Stalinism is the name that is used to identify the political and economic systems introduced and implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union from the time that Stalin became the supreme power in the Russian Communist Party in 1927 to his death in 1953.

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

For over four years, Washington responded to war in Bosnia by handing the problem to the Europeans to resolve and substituting high-minded rhetoric for concerted action.

Shot and Left for Dead: Robert Adrain, The Irish Revolutionary Who Invented Modern StatisticsRobert Adrain arrived in America in 1798 as a wounded fugitive, shot by one of his own men at the Battle of Antrim, hunted by a former employer, fleeing a failed rebellion with his wife and infant daughter.

A continent divided.

The Celts did not decorate their world.

Alexander the Great charts the extraordinary arc of history's most legendary conqueror, from a young king crossing the Hellespont to a broken god dying in Babylon.

The Sword and the Steppe: A Complete History of the Magyar PeopleFrom the frozen rivers of the Siberian taiga to the sunlit plains of Central Europe, the Magyar people made one of history's most extraordinary journeys, and then did something even more remarkable: they stayed.

A History of Medieval Astrology analyses the contributions of the Krakow Astronomy and Astrology School, part of the University of Krakow - one of the fastest growing universities in 15th-century Europe.

A History of Medieval Astrology analyses the contributions of the Krakow Astronomy and Astrology School, part of the University of Krakow - one of the fastest growing universities in 15th-century Europe.

Dieses Buch zeichnet die entscheidende Schlacht von Waterloo nicht nur als militärisches Ereignis, sondern als Wendepunkt der europäischen Geschichte.

For a brief but extraordinary century, a single empire stretched from the Pacific coast to the gates of Europe-and trade flowed as never before.

Wenn man heute auf die friedlich vorbeiziehenden Containerschiffe im Nord-Ostsee-Kanal blickt, ahnt man kaum, dass diese Wasserstraße einst das gefährlichste geopolitische Projekt Europas war.

En la decada de 1570, en el Nuevo Reino de Granada (el territorio que a grandes rasgos corresponde a la actual Colombia), varios hombres pertenecientes a una generacion de mestizos surgida recientemente buscaron ocupar posiciones de poder en Santafe y Tunja, las dos poblaciones mas importantes de esa jurisdiccion administrativa.

Im Sommer 1816 lief die französische Fregatte Méduse vor der Küste Westafrikas auf eine Sandbank.

Am späten Abend des 9.

Wenn wir heute an den Schwarzwald denken, sehen wir Kuckucksuhren, dunkle Tannen und idyllische Touristenpfade.

From Corsican cliffs to Austerlitz's fields, Napoleon Bonaparte transformed revolutionary chaos into continental empire through artillery genius and administrative reform.

In den Städten Italiens begann im 15.

No disponíamos hasta ahora de un libro que explicase de manera completa la historia de la esclavitud de los moriscos granadinos, un vacío que llena el presente volumen, que relata la caída en esclavitud de gran parte de ellos, ricos y pobres, ancianos y niños, hombres y mujeres, arrastrados por el torbellino de una guerra declarada a sangre y fuego.

Aus einfachen Anfängen auf Korsika stieg Napoleon Bonaparte zum mächtigsten Mann Europas auf.

Between the 14th and 19th centuries, Europe was gripped by a period of extreme cooling known as the Little Ice Age.