Alex and Mela Roslan and their children, an ordinary, brave Polish family rescue Jewish brothers from the Warsaw Ghetto, with whom they bond, keeping them safe through the Holocaust and into post-Holocaust years on an adventurous odyssey across Europea region seething with emergent antisemitism.
In the early 1820s, Thomas Harvie, a newly rich, arrogant Glasgow distiller, bought Westthorn estate on the eastern edge of the city close to the north bank of the River Clyde.
Continuity and Change in European Society (1974) surveys the political and social development of France, Germany and Italy against the background of a wider Europe, showing the complex relationship between political change and social continuity.
Covering the entire European system and its relations with the East and America, this first global history of tolerance in early modern Europe describes how the ideal of tolerance and its realisation transformed both the religious and political life of the modern world.
Continuity and Change in European Society (1974) surveys the political and social development of France, Germany and Italy against the background of a wider Europe, showing the complex relationship between political change and social continuity.
ENGThe Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon.
From humble beginnings in Perth in the early nineteenth century Matthew Gloag established a thriving whisky business that found favour with the royal household and the Scottish public alike.
Das menschliche Wohnen in der Welt ist seit jeher prekär und krisenhaft: Vor dem Hintergrund der Ökologischen Krise erzählt Gill Zimmermann eine Geschichte existenzieller Anpassungsfähigkeit.
ENGMore than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished.
This book presents the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between music, rhetoric and Christian Hebraism, by re-appraising the significance of the first German humanist Johannes Reuchlin's study of Kabbalah and cantillation in the light of Renaissance rhetoric.
This monograph examines the appropriation and ludification of the Germanic heroic tradition in video games as a digital medium, a process that unfolds on the margins of official discourse about the early Middle Ages.
This monograph examines the appropriation and ludification of the Germanic heroic tradition in video games as a digital medium, a process that unfolds on the margins of official discourse about the early Middle Ages.
This book offers a radical re-examination of the history of the Cornish language, challenging the long-held belief that it became extinct with the death of Dolly Pentreath in 1777.
This book offers a radical re-examination of the history of the Cornish language, challenging the long-held belief that it became extinct with the death of Dolly Pentreath in 1777.
Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists' attempts, successful and otherwise, to overcome their isolation and to connect with the major social and political movements of the twentieth century.
This book presents the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between music, rhetoric and Christian Hebraism, by re-appraising the significance of the first German humanist Johannes Reuchlin's study of Kabbalah and cantillation in the light of Renaissance rhetoric.
Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of his episcopacy in Tours.
Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists' attempts, successful and otherwise, to overcome their isolation and to connect with the major social and political movements of the twentieth century.
Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of his episcopacy in Tours.
Ausgehend von den Libri ordinarii einer Kirche, zeigt der interdisziplinäre Band im Spiegel der liturgischen Regiebücher des Ellwanger Chorherrenstifts die Umrisse des benediktinischen Erbes in der Kirche und in Ellwangen.
This comparative study of elite formation and social mobility in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries focuses on Bohemia and Transylvania as representatives of different administrative systems - Cisleithanian and Transleithanian - within the Habsburg Monarchy.
Die Forderung nach »Verständigung mit den Arabern« war eines der herausragendsten Kennzeichen des zentraleuropäischen Zionismus – das Buch entfaltet ein Panorama von Menschen, Motiven, Konzeptionen und Hoffnungen.
