This book offers a radical re-examination of the history of the Cornish language, challenging the long-held belief that it became extinct with the death of Dolly Pentreath in 1777.
Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists' attempts, successful and otherwise, to overcome their isolation and to connect with the major social and political movements of the twentieth century.
Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of his episcopacy in Tours.
Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists' attempts, successful and otherwise, to overcome their isolation and to connect with the major social and political movements of the twentieth century.
Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of his episcopacy in Tours.
Ausgehend von den Libri ordinarii einer Kirche, zeigt der interdisziplinare Band im Spiegel der liturgischen Regiebucher des Ellwanger Chorherrenstifts die Umrisse des benediktinischen Erbes in der Kirche und in Ellwangen.
This comparative study of elite formation and social mobility in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries focuses on Bohemia and Transylvania as representatives of different administrative systems - Cisleithanian and Transleithanian - within the Habsburg Monarchy.
Die Forderung nach Verstandigung mit den Arabern war eines der herausragendsten Kennzeichen des zentraleuropaischen Zionismus - das Buch entfaltet ein Panorama von Menschen, Motiven, Konzeptionen und Hoffnungen.
Aunque mucho se ha escrito sobre Hitler, faltaba una historia clara y concisa para no especialistas que pusiera al dia lo que verdaderamente sabemos sobre su vida y su personalidad: su infancia, sus influencias, su ambigua sexualidad, su actitud ante la religion, asi como la verdadera efectividad de sus politicas en una Alemania devastada por el desempleo y la hiperinflacion.
This comparative study of elite formation and social mobility in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries focuses on Bohemia and Transylvania as representatives of different administrative systems - Cisleithanian and Transleithanian - within the Habsburg Monarchy.
This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspects and outlining the social, political and ideological implications of the constructions and narrations of the past.
This tenth volume in the series, comprising some fifty essays, offers a further wide-ranging selection of essays on different themes and personalities, grouped thematically, from portraits of key figures such as Stamford Raffles and Lord Lytton to the history of Japanese trade and investment in the UK, such as NSK at Peterlee and Mitsubishi Electric in Scotland, from scholars such as Basil Hall Chamberlain, to international Japanese banker Ogata Shijuro.
When the Allied Forces arrived in the Netherlands after Operation Market Garden, the country's long-awaited liberation from National Socialist occupation finally came in the summer of 1945.
Rene de Challant, whose holdings ranged from northwestern Italy to the Alps and over the mountains into what is today western Switzerland and eastern France, was an Italian and transregional dynast.
The diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) have a special place among the Jewish-Dutch testimonies of the Shoah, so much so that Etty Hillesum studies has become its own field.
Rereading Huizinga: Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later explores the legacy and historiographical impact of Johan Huizinga's 1919 masterwork a century after its publication.
Fosterage was a central feature of medieval Irish society, yet the widespread practice of sending children to another family to be cared for until they reached adulthood is a surprisingly neglected topic.
The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture is a contribution to the revival of early modern women's writings and cultural production in English that began in the 1980s.
The replacement of the Roman Empire in the West with emerging kingdoms like Visigothic Spain and Merovingian Gaul resulted in new societies, but without major population displacement.
This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspects and outlining the social, political and ideological implications of the constructions and narrations of the past.
When the Allied Forces arrived in the Netherlands after Operation Market Garden, the country's long-awaited liberation from National Socialist occupation finally came in the summer of 1945.
Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence explores the lived experience of Catholic women and men in the post-Reformation century.
