European history

The experiences of men who fought at sea reveal the relationship between discipline, leadership, and the strength of the fleet.

A unique account of everyday life under the Third Reich and one man''s opposition to the Nazi regime.

Explores the complex relationship between art and religious belief in this important genre of painting.

The first comprehensive introduction in English to books, readers and reading in Byzantium and the wider medieval world surrounding it.

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

Contests over Berlin''s streets in the interwar period reveal the fragility of consumer capitalism, urban order, and liberal democracy.

Examines how thirteenth-century clergymen used pastoral care - preaching, sacraments and confession - to increase their parishioners'' religious knowledge, devotion and expectations.

Brings the voices of Roman slaves in early comedy to the history of theater and the history of slavery.

Captive Anzacs explores the experiences of the 198 Australians who became prisoners of the Ottomans during the First World War.

Reshapes the discourse surrounding the nature of British global power in this crucial period of transformation in international politics.

This innovative collection re-evaluates the function and significance of the written word in early medieval Europe.

A comprehensive overview of the efforts of state and non-state actors in the former Soviet Union to redress the past.

The first comprehensive study of the Brienne dynasty, a fascinating example of the international aristocracy in the central Middle Ages.

Re-evaluates the political integration and Christianization of Saxony following its violent conquest (772–804) by Charlemagne.

Examines the economic motivations and complications that drove ethnic cleansing in the post-World War II Sudetenland.

Re-assesses the phenomenon of Greek ''local history-writing'' and its role in creating political and cultural identity in a changing world.

Reform of the script was central to the humanist agenda - this book suggests a new explanation of its international success.

Showcases a powerful new approach to uncertainty in ancient history, using techniques from the social and natural sciences.

A new understanding of the transformative effect of vernacular writing on customary law in medieval France.

The inspiring story of 162 US paratroopers, dropped hopelessly off target, and the French villagers who assisted and supported them.

Explores foreign seamen''s employment in the British Royal Navy of the French Wars, and deconstructs the meanings of ''foreignness'' itself.

Examines how narratives of the 1919 Central European revolutions promoted a violent counterrevolutionary culture in interwar Germany and Hungary.

Demonstrates the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco.

Casts new light on of the ''official'' French nineteenth-century narrative by examining how historians and philosophers conceived of the country''s past.

A comprehensive diplomatic and military history of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, spanning the whole of the nineteenth century.

Utilising primary sources in Russian archives, relevant research on Russian and Soviet history and memoirs from contemporaries, this book examines the life of Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936).

Warfare, Raiding and Defence in early medieval Britain is an examination of warfare in the period AD400-850, often called the Dark Ages, which is roughly the period between the end of Roman rule and the arrival of large Viking armies.

In the 1930s, activists with France's Popular Front mobilized culture against fascism.

The collective biography of the only generation of economists who lived their entire professional life in GDR''s socialism.

From the moment that Prussia entered the world of the crusade movement and the zone of Western European external expansion in the thirteenth century, and was quickly dominated by the Teutonic Order, the new Prussian land created by the Order became a transitional area and a frontier country.

A comprehensive study of Renaissance painting in Perugia, from Pietro Perugino to Raphael Santi and artists working in their circles.

The book describes a novel approach to early cities that is transdisciplinary, scientific, historical, and based on social-science knowledge.

Using a transdisciplinary approach, this book examines how scientific understanding of the Earth has been created, transformed, and shared across time - combining perspectives from the history of science, sociology of knowledge, and cultural studies to explore the evolution of Earth sciences.

Poursuivant ses recherches sur ce qui a rendu possible l'Holocauste et les autres crimes nazis en Allemagne, Titus Milech presente des documents prives de sa famille (journaux intimes, lettres.

The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland.

Using a transdisciplinary approach, this book examines how scientific understanding of the Earth has been created, transformed, and shared across time - combining perspectives from the history of science, sociology of knowledge, and cultural studies to explore the evolution of Earth sciences.

This book offers a nuanced exploration of Donetsk and Luhansk regions prior to the 2014 Russian invasion.

The studies in this volume present some of the major “historiographical wars” over the medieval Balkan past fought by the historians of competing nation states in the region.

The studies in this volume present some of the major “historiographical wars” over the medieval Balkan past fought by the historians of competing nation states in the region.

In the summer of 1847, over four hundred ships arrived in the Gulf of St Lawrence, carrying Irish men, women, and children who were fleeing the starvation and misery of the Great Potato Famine.

Der Zweite Weltkrieg dauerte vom 1.

Es gibt über Venedig bekanntlich nichts mehr zu sagen, meinte einmal der irisch-amerikanische Schriftsteller Henry James.

Der Schwabische Reichskreis war eine feste Institution, ein Ort vorparlamentarischer Entscheidungsfindung unter de jure gleichberechtigten Mitgliedern aus Adel, Klerus und Reichsstadten.

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Als zentrales Medium für die Gesellschaft der Neuzeit stellt das Stammbuch in zahlreichen Disziplinen eine wichtige Quelle dar.

Eine Pionierin der modernen Wissenschaft zwischen West und Ost, zwischen Labor und Öffentlichkeit.

This collection explores the complexities of translation in the Ottoman Empire, examining the intersections of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish (elsine-i selase) that formed the linguistic backbone of Ottoman high culture and literature.