European history

In 1532, James V instituted the College of Justice, an incorporated group of expert lawyers and administrators who were to exercise supreme Scottish civil jurisdiction.

This is not merely a history of the beverage industry; it is a fascinating anthropological and historical study that delves into the collective consciousness of 20th-century Egypt.

This book explores the relationship between the justice system and local society at a time when the Industrial Revolution was changing the characteristics of mid Wales.

It is rare to write about history as it unfolds.

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 71 = A, Oxford Brookes University, course: The Nazi Dictatorship, 1933-1945, language: English, abstract: Free from any apologetic or debunking fuss, the essay depicts the complex relationship between the Nazi state and the Catholic and Protestant Churches during the Third Reich.

The Elect Methodists is the first full-length academic study of Calvinistic Methodism, a movement that emerged in the eighteenth century as an alternative to the better known Wesleyan grouping.

Fur Generationen war Mittagszeit das, was der eigene Kirchturm anzeigte.

Maria Zambrano is widely regarded as one of the most original Spanish thinkers of the twentieth century.

It is rare to write about history as it unfolds.

This book provides an analysis of the Welsh immigrant community in the Ballarat/Sebastopol gold mining district of Victoria, Australia during the second half of the nineteenth century.

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.

After outlining conventional accounts of Wales in the High Middle Ages, this book moves to more radical approaches to its subject.

Don Quixote is an epic and classic Spanish novel written by Miguel de Cervantes.

In the present era of warring and debate relating to Britain's intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq, this volume highlights how contemporary are the arguments of Henry Richard in the 19th century, and how progressive were his efforts for Wales, for education and for the Welsh language.

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

This is the first monographic study of the Semanario Erudito, one of the most important learned periodicals of late eighteenth-century Spain.

From the late Bronze Age through the Roman period, Celtic communities across Europe developed sophisticated systems integrating celestial observation with agricultural practice.

In 1901, the year the six Australian colonies federated to become one country, revolution was being plotted across the world.

This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain.

Part two of the defining work on Hitlers elite fanatical boy soldiers continues with the survivors of the bloody fighting in France regrouping to make a final stand in the Ardennes and Hungary before Germany was overcome by the Allies.

Valerio Zurlini is widely regarded as one of the most refined and poetic voices in postwar Italian cinema.

Part two of the defining work on Hitlers elite fanatical boy soldiers continues with the survivors of the bloody fighting in France regrouping to make a final stand in the Ardennes and Hungary before Germany was overcome by the Allies.

Zwischen Waterloo und den vergessenen Pestfeldern Mitteleuropas lag, fur wenige Jahrzehnte, ein stiller Rohstoffmarkt: menschliche Knochen.

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.

This book maps the remarkable story of Austria's transition from Empire to modern Republic, and the language that reflects that violent history within Europe's own turbulent past.

This volume presents studies of some of the key artistic manifestations in Catalonia in recent times, a period of innovation and experimentation, and addresses issues concerning literature, film, theatre and performance art.

Just in time for 75th anniversary commemorations of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, this latest addition offers a complete visual history of the attack, its aftermath, and the salvage efforts that followed.

Riveting, first-person accounts that put the reader in the cockpit.

Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics: French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century brings an original perspective on French cinema's 'return to work' in the early twenty-first century, focusing on the transformation of cinematic activism in view of the rapid dissolution of class narratives and solidarities.

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

This is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain.

At Novgorod's excavated cultural layers, wooden street planking dates to specific years through dendrochronology, birchbark documents preserve household correspondence, and pollen records trace centuries of forest clearance in the surrounding hinterland.

Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment.

The first of two volumes on the social history of Wales in the period 1870-1948, People, Places and Passions concentrates on the social events and changes which created and forged Wales into the mid-twentieth century.

Riveting, first-person accounts that put the reader in the cockpit.

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.

A collection of essays illustrating the thought on the crucial decade of the 1670s in Britain.

This book relates to one of Wales's most important institutions of higher education, covering its history from its creation in 1884 as the University College of North Wales, its incarnation as the University of Wales, Bangor and to its 125th anniversary in 2009.

Middle English devotional compilations - consisting of a series of texts or extracts of texts that have intentionally been put together to constitute new and unified devotional texts - have often been approached as complex collections of source texts that need to be linked with their originals.

The World War II fighter-pilot storyOn the very first day of the invasion of Sicily, three months into his combat career, Allan Knepper flew his P-38 Lightning fighter in a squadron sent out to sweep the island and interdict German ground targets.

A collection of essays exploring the impact on Welsh culture of one of the most exciting periods in history, the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject History of Germany - 1848, Empire, Imperialism, grade: 1, Charles University in Prague, language: English, abstract: In my thesis I examine German colonial policies in South West Africa towards the natives from their first engagement in the area in 1883 up to the end of the Herero war in 1907.

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.

Just in time for 75th anniversary commemorations of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, this latest addition offers a complete visual history of the attack, its aftermath, and the salvage efforts that followed.

Ancient Classical authors have painted the Druids in a bad light, defining them as a barbaric priesthood, who 2,000 years ago perpetrated savage and blood rites in ancient Britain and Gaul in the name of their gods.

At Paphos on Cyprus, the goddess of love had no face.

This is an engaging, best-selling volume reproduced with text panels that provide brief biographies of historical figures and descriptions of major historical sites in Wales.

The aim of this volume is to tell a story of Welsh industrial history different from the one traditionally dominated by the coal and iron communities of Victorian and Edwardian Wales.

Gerald of Wales (c.