European history

Since the Middle Ages, bears have most frequently been seen as objects.

Based on an extensive body of Russian and German sources, this book reconstructs the fate of the approximately 1.

Rachel Bromwich's magisterial edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein has long won its place as a classic of Celtic studies.

This is the first book-length treatment of the 'turncoat' John Poyer, the man who initiated the Second Civil War through his rebellion in south Wales in 1648.

Wales's development as a post-Roman successor state is established in this groundbreaking study of medieval warfare and society.

Wie zwingt man ein Land, das seit Jahrhunderten aus stolzen, unabhangigen und dezentralen Kantonen besteht, in das starre Korsett eines zentralistischen Einheitsstaates?

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This is a study of the landed gentry of north Wales from the Edwardian conquest in the thirteenth century to the incorporation of Wales in the Tudor state in the sixteenth.

The Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans was the first large open-air folk museum in Britain.

This volume addresses the question of how the memories of contemporary witnesses can be taught in primary schools.

Based on an extensive body of Russian and German sources, this book reconstructs the fate of the approximately 1.

This book tells the story of the Basque children who came to Wales during the Spanish Civil War.

After Dunkirk the British Army was broken, the country isolated and invasion imminent.

This is the first book on John Edward Lloyd (1861-1947), widely regarded as the founder of the modern academic study of Welsh history.

This book surveys the economy of Wales from the first Norman intrusions of 1067 to the Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536.

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

Dixie Kiefer's reputation for durability began at the U.

The Glossa Ordinaria, the medieval glossed Bible first printed in 1480/81, has been a rich source of biblical commentary for centuries.

Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016The wave of unrest which took place in 1840s Wales, known as 'Rebeccaism' or 'the Rebecca riots', stands out as a success story within the generally gloomy annals of popular struggle and defeat.

This book examines the traditions attached to the Holy Grail from its first appearance in medieval romance through its transformation into an object of mystical significance in modern literature and film.

Dixie Kiefer's reputation for durability began at the U.

This book discusses responses to the challenges faced by two different Iberian imperial systems in their struggle to sustain territorial integrity and economic interests in the face of international competition.

This is a ground-breaking history of school and college inspection in Wales.

Dieses Sachbuch bietet eine Einführung in Geschichte und Verlauf des russisch-ukrainischen Kriegs.

This book examines the intellectual trajectories of international mid-career scholars working on the Second World War and the Holocaust in France across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural studies.

Dieses Sachbuch bietet eine Einführung in Geschichte und Verlauf des russisch-ukrainischen Kriegs.

This book is a pioneering comparison of Wales with another small people, the Slovenes, over the formative period for national development in modern Europe.

Work on the miners' Lock-Out of 1926 tends to focus on the perspective of the National Union of Mineworkers, while nothing has been written which attempts to examine, for example, how miner's wives coped for six months without pay.

This is the first book on one of Wales's greatest leaders, arguably 'first prince of Wales', Bleddyn ap Cynfyn.

This is the first general history of early modern Wales for more than a generation.

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This book examines the intellectual trajectories of international mid-career scholars working on the Second World War and the Holocaust in France across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural studies.

Although a young doctor when he volunteered for the Spanish Civil War in late 1936, New Zealander Douglas Jolly swiftly acquired a reputation as one of the most gifted and energetic surgeons of the Republican Armys medical services.

This book uses, principally but not only, a case study of the Denbighshire town of Ruthin to discuss both the significance of Englishness versus Welshness and of gender distinctions in the network of small Anglo-Welsh urban centres which emerged in north Wales following the English conquest of 1282.

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject History of Europe - Newer History, European Unification, grade: 2,0, University of California, Berkeley (Department of History), course: U.

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 interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as the site of potential intellectual exchange, and demonstrates an anchoritic spirituality in synch with the wider medieval world.

Works which have sought to look specifically at the Welsh in Australia have been few in number and characterised by a concentration on prominent individuals and cultural/religious societies, thus excluding many facets of immigrant life.

Barry Island was one of the most cherished leisure spaces in twentieth-century south Wales, a playground of generations of working-class day-trippers.

This study is the first thorough analysis of the extent of the opposition to the Great War in Wales, and is the most extensive study of the anti-war movement in any part of Britain.

In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M.

How did the Welsh travel beyond their geographical borders in the Middle Ages?

This is the first book-length treatment of the 'turncoat' John Poyer, the man who initiated the Second Civil War through his rebellion in south Wales in 1648.

The main focus of this book is on the contribution of Welsh scientists, engineers and facilities in Wales to the British nuclear programme - especially the military programme - from the Second World War through to the present day.

A study of the thirty-five Carnegie libraries built in towns and industrial communities in Wales before the First World War.

German Heavy Anti-Tank Unit 653 was equipped with the heaviest tank destroying vehicles of the German armed forces.

This book is an investigation of the foundation and evolution of romance in Iceland.

This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the Dialogues on Painting, published by the Florentine-born Spanish painter and art theorist Vicente Carducho (1568-1638) in 1633.

With the rapid development of the cognitive sciences and their importance to how we contemplate questions about the mind and society, recent research in the humanities has been characterised by a 'cognitive turn'.