European history

Machiavelli believes republicans must be prepared to defend strict limits on elite power even when elites are ''good''.

Provides a rich examination of how Turkish immigrants and their children created spaces of belonging in West German society.

Reinterpretation of the Danube frontier in Late Antiquity, drawing on literary, archaeological, and numismatic sources.

An exploration of how petty theft in the nineteenth-century German countryside contributed to the modern-day legal system and property laws.

The book traces nearly two thousand years of architectural transformations to St Paul''s Basilica, one of Rome''s principal churches.

The notion of ''representative democracy'' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?

Explores the development of a ''European security culture'' from the Congress of Vienna to the First World War.

This business history elucidates the international history of the interwar period by putting the armaments sector front and center.

Shows that modernism was concocted out of surprising sources, and that one of them was Toryism during 1900–1920.

The book explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, arguing that people used images to assert the value of artworks.

Systematically explores the changing size and structure of the population of classical Athens and the implications for economic history.

Provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation until the modern era.

A nuanced range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of emotions in moral and political reactions to mass violence.

Examines Europe''s first significant national policies on social welfare in the late nineteenth century, which had major implications for state-society relations.

Argues that freed slaves exerted a profound influence on the transformation of Roman values under the Principate.

Paying for Hitler''s War is a comparative economic study of twelve Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.

Examines the complex interactions between English and Irish neighbours in the ''four obedient shires'' and how this shaped English identity.

This comparative study of post-war European socialism explores the problems of socio-economic and political reconstruction across the Iron Curtain.

The story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution.

Explores the treatment of Byzantium by the historiographies of the polities that have emerged from its remains since the Enlightenment.

Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.

A century-long struggle to make a borderland population into loyal Germans or Poles drove nationalist activists to radical measures.

Challenges the divide between political and literary history, in an analysis of a major polemical text from mid-ninth century Europe.

Explores the tremendous discoveries historical archaeologists have made about English life in the Americas during the seventeenth century.

This book examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and the turbulent experience of German modernity for Germans and foreign tourists.

Explores the ways poets address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in the First World War and beyond.

This book presents a new perspective on the Italian Renaissance court by examining the circulation, collection and exchange of art objects.

Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

This book gives a detailed account of how two major Austrian banks profited from their service to the Nazi regime.

This innovative book reveals children''s experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century''s biggest conflicts.

The 1848 Revolutions in Europe that marked a turning-point in the history of political thought are examined here in a pan-European perspective.

Eastern Eurpoe in the Cold War enjoyed its sexual liberation.

Discusses the birth pangs of democracy in post-communist Romania, and its difficult transition from a state of non-law to a rule-of-law state.

The first modern history of the 1975 European referendum, ranging across 1970s Britain to assess why voters said ''Yes to Europe''.

Offers a fresh perspective on recent human rights history by reconstructing debates around dissent and human rights across four countries.

A compelling and revisionist account of Florence''s economic, literary and social history in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death.

Presents the first comprehensive study of the ''Byzantine Google'' and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century.

The first study in English of Vitruvius'' De architectura to take the work seriously as a literary and cultural product.

This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England.

A new account of a vital period in the history of ethics, focusing on the content of morality.

Drawing on archival sources and eyewitness accounts, this book explores Soviet Russians'' experience of Nazi rule in German-occupied northwest Russia.

This extraordinary selection of objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds illuminates the rich cultures of medieval history.

A pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies describing and analysing key aspects of ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations.

The first book that compares the Confederate South and Southern Italy in two contemporaneous civil wars during 1861–1865.

The first exploration of how Mussolini employed population settlement inside the nation and across the empire to strengthen Italian sovereignty.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

Mining new sources, Klein tells the dramatic story of Italy''s Jews, from emancipation to Fascism, the Holocaust, and postwar myth-making.

Explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe.

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Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age.