European history

Assault guns (Sturmgeschutz in German) were armored fighting vehicles similar to tanks, with the chassis and tracks of a panzer but without the rotating turret, which allowed the mounting of a larger gun.

Essay from the year 2005 in the subject History of Europe - Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, grade: 2,0, University of Birmingham, language: English, abstract: I.

Gangsters, aviators, hard-boiled detectives, gunslingers, jazz and images of the American metropolis were all an inextricable part of the cultural landscape of interwar France.

This is a major contribution to the study of medieval Wales by a group of outstanding British historians, writing in honour of one of Wales s most distinguished scholars and the biographer of Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.

This book argues that Nietzsche's political thought and his own proposed model of governance is Bonapartist in conception: autocratic will in the guise of popular rule.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2025 AND A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A dazzlingly inventive work of literature Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'A wonderful, epic braiding of history, geography and personal memoir' James Rebanks, author of English Pastoral _____________________________________________________________________At the heart of this book is a highway.

How does an organized criminal syndicate successfully empty an impregnable, heavily fortified national cash depot of fifty-three million pounds?

This book features cutting, edge, interdisciplinary research on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War by established and new scholars from across the world.

The McCarthys knew death was coming when they heard a woman weeping in the dark.

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This book identifies antipathy as an emotion of key concern in Victorian literature and culture by studying discourses and representations of antipathy in fictional and non-fictional texts.

Written as an act of protest in a Welsh-speaking community in north-west Wales, Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future.

Cardiganshire County History Volume 2 is published by the University of Wales Press on behalf of the Ceredigion Historical Society, in association with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

The eighteenth-century bishops of the Church of England and its sister communions had immense status and authority in both secular society and the Church.

Now republished with minor corrections, this volume provides the first comprehensive collection of charters, letters and other documents issued by native rulers of Wales from the early twelfth century to the Edwardian conquest of 1282-3 that extinguished independent rule.

The idea of the "e;Army of Unification"e; is a central point of reference in the history of the Bundeswehr.

The evangelical or Methodist revival had a major impact on Welsh religion, society and culture, leading to the unprecedented growth of Nonconformity by the nineteenth century, which established a very clear difference between Wales and England in religious terms.

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject History of Europe - Modern Times, Absolutism, Industrialization, grade: ECTS 8, University of Groningen, course: M.

This book investigates how discourses of colonial policy and nation explicitly overlapped in Portugal during the 1930s and 1940s.

Women's Lives presents essays on the ways in which the lives and voices of women permeated medieval literature and culture.

In an extended account of national identity, this companion volume to People, Places and Passions provides the first detailed study of the sexual and spiritual life of Wales in the period 1870-1945.

Written to celebrate the prestigious career of Professor Denys Pringle, this collection of articles produced by many of the leading archaeologists and historians in the field of crusades studies offers a compilation of pioneering scholarship on recent studies on the Latin East.

This book investigates how discourses of colonial policy and nation explicitly overlapped in Portugal during the 1930s and 1940s.

This volume explores medieval anchoritism (the life of a solitary religious recluse) from a variety of perspectives.

An organized women's suffrage movement operated continuously in Britain for more than sixty years, from the mid 1860s until the achievement of equal voting rights with men in 1928.

It is astonishing how deeply the figure of Ophelia has been woven into the fabric of Spanish literature and the visual arts - from her first appearance in eighteenth-century translations of Hamlet, through depictions by seminal authors such as Espronceda, Becquer and Lorca, to turn-of-the millennium figurations.

Geoffrey of Monmouth, a twelfth-century cleric, was the first person to compose a detailed and continuous history of Britain from its origins to the domination of the Anglo-Saxons.

After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain has two broad aims.

This collection of essays brings together established scholars of Lusophone Goan literature from India, Brazil, Portugal and Great Britain.

This new book examines all of the available source materials, dating from the ninth century to the present, that have associated Arthur with sites in Wales.

The Welsh criminal justice system is unique.

Soul-Health explores the connection between reading and healing.

Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world.

The New Area Studies enable a rethinking of world history and a more critical approach to traditional historical writing.

As well as outlining the shape of Welsh religious history generally, this volume describes the development of Calvinistic Methodist thought up to and beyond the secession from the Established Church in 1811, and the way in which the Evangelical Revival impacted the Older Dissent to create a vibrant popular Nonconformity.

Wie kann das Dach einer gut besuchten stadtischen Eissporthalle mitten im bayerischen Winter plotzlich und ohne jede Vorwarnung in sich zusammenbrechen und funfzehn Menschen unter hunderten Tonnen Stahl und Eis begraben?

Sefydlwyd Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant yn wreiddiol yn 1822 dan yr enw Coleg Dewi Sant, Llanbedr Pont Steffan, a dyma’r sefydliad colegol addysg uwch hynaf yng Nghymru.

This book reclaims for Wales the history and culture of a music that eventually emerged as jazz in the 1920s, its tendrils and roots extending back to slave songs and abolition campaign songs, and Swansea's long-forgotten connection with Cincinnati, Ohio.

A radical thinker and humanitarian employer, Owen made a major contribution to nineteenth-century social movements including co-operatives, trade unions and workers' education.

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David was originally founded in 1822 as St David's College, Lampeter.

Pamphleteering was a vital component of the popular political discussion opened up by the French Revolution of 1789, but while the English pamphlet wars have been exhaustively explored, Welsh pamphlet literature has been ignored.

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the ability and pluck to face fear and move on.

On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the turning points of World War II.

In the early hours of 26th June 1942, six airmen from 102 Squadron return from Bremen in their Halifax, Q for Queenie, having taken part in the third Thousand Bomber Raid.

A revelatory history of sex, gender, and science from Linnaeus to DarwinWhat did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex?

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the ability and pluck to face fear and move on.

To meet William Morgan is to encounter the eighteenth-century world of finance, science and politics.