European history

This volume focuses on Serbia's need to manage change while preserving community identities, a narrative that avoids the common depiction of Serbian culture as a hostile struggle between modernizers supporting foreign models and traditionalists advocating forms of national cultural patrimony.

In 1701, Frederick I crowned himself the first King in Prussia.

Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime reveals the primitive sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern Irish literature as central to Ireland's artistic production and the wider global cultural production of postcolonial literature.

This book offers an experiential perspective on the lives of Elizabethans-how they worked, ate, and played-with hands-on examples that include authentic music, recipes, and games of the period.

In May 1938, Hungary passed anti-Semitic laws causing hundreds of Jewish artists to lose their jobs.

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Dieses eBook: "Seufzer aus Österreich und seinen Provinzen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

This volume focuses on the circumstances of women's music-making in the vibrant and diverse environment of the Czech lands during the nineteenth century.

This book focuses on the gradual deterioration of the British-American relationship that led to the American Revolution.

These case studies offer new approaches to the analysis and interpretation of symbols in a variety of media and as expressed on a range of objects at different scales.

Der deutsch-amerikanische Historiker Jochen Hellbeck nimmt eine Neubewertung des Zweiten Weltkriegs vor und verändert unseren Blick auf die Entstehung des Holocaust.

To all thoughtful people World War I has brought to intention the importance of a knowledge of 19th Century European history.

British Malta, 1798-1835 explores the incorporation and early administration of Malta as a British protectorate, and later as a Crown colony.

A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacleIn the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex.

This volume is a collection of a variety of important records that will give readers insight into key themes into the history of what its criminal code called "e;the unnatural and detestable sin of buggery"e;- sex between males - in the Royal Navy.

In the late spring of 1718 near the village of Pozarevac (German Passarowitz) in northern Serbia, freshly conquered by Habsburg forces, three delegations representing the Holy Roman Emperor, Ottoman Sultan, and the Republic of Venice gathered to end the conflict that had begun three and a half years earlier.

When we think about the origins of European culture and history, the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey (c.

Das weiß-blaue Rautenwappen hat die Bogener Grafen bis heute im Bewusstsein der Öffentlichkeit gehalten.

The comparison of early Italy's and Japan's colonialism is without precedence.

El Diccionario medieval es un compendio de términos medievales, en el que, de forma clara y concisa, se explican conceptos de las artes, las ciencias, la vida cotidiana, la religión y la política de la Edad Media.

The 1940s remains an iconic period in world history and retains a fascination for so many.

"e;Aided by the bitter memories of the few survivors, Matthews devotes most detail to the victims, while noting that only one of his four villains could truly be said to have been brought to justice.

In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s.

A brief history of secret British and American World War II organizations, their training, tools, successes, and their legacy.

Questions about Lutherans and the Holy Spirit?

British Malta, 1798-1835 explores the incorporation and early administration of Malta as a British protectorate, and later as a Crown colony.

Read all about the royal women who were powerful in their own right, as well as through their husbands, sons, and grandsons.

Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Memoires d'Hadrien, her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian.

This fascinating urban anthropological analysis of Sarajevo and its cultural complexities examines contemporary issues of social divisiveness, pluralism, and intergroup dynamics in the context of national identity and state formation.

The British army between 1783 and 1815 – the army that fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars – has received severe criticism and sometimes exaggerated praise from contemporaries and historians alike, and a balanced and perceptive reassessment of it as an institution and a fighting force is overdue.

This volume assembles documents that illustrate the changing structure of the British publishing industry in the nineteenth century.

This book analyses the British government's use of cultural diplomacy in South Africa from 1960 to 1994.

Leading expert Gavin Mortimer tells the remarkable origin story of a wartime special forces unit that defied the odds.

This book re-evaluates the life and legacy of one of the most enigmatic and important political figures of the 20th Century: Charles Lindbergh.

In ›Die Erfindung der Bibel‹ tauchen Leser in die faszinierende und komplexe Welt der biblischen Entstehungsgeschichte ein.

Gottfried Menken (1768–1831) wirkt als Pfarrer in der Spätphase der Aufklärung.

This volume brings together key documents covering technologies of production that affected the British publishing industry during a significant period of change.

Weltgeistliche um 1400 – erfolgreich beim Pfründenerwerb und unterwegs im Auftrag ihres Braunschweiger Stifts und der welfischen Landesherren.

Der Protagonist, Georg, als neunzehnjähriger von der Wehrmacht eingezogen.

"e;Physically the book is well produced, has numerous maps where they need to be in the text and is well footnoted.

This book demonstrates how the Russian thought and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries influenced Jewish thought and Hebrew literature.

In socialist Eastern Europe, radio simultaneously produced state power and created the conditions for it to be challenged.

This is the first in-depth, English-language history of modern Serbia in nearly half a century.

This book examines the efforts of the government in Scotland to manage the increase of migrants travelling to Britain at the end of the nineteenth century.

This book examines the efforts of the government in Scotland to manage the increase of migrants travelling to Britain at the end of the nineteenth century.

The Middle Ages is described by Hallam himself as a series of historical dissertations, a comprehensive survey of the chief circumstances that can interest a philosophical inquirer during the period from the 5th to the 15th century.