The King's Last Field, Gustavus Adolphus, Wallenstein, and the Battle That Broke the Thirty Years' War At noon on the sixteenth of November 1632, a Swedish king rode into fog and gunsmoke to save his faltering center, and never rode out again.
The Generalissimo's Fortune: Life, Career, Assassination, and Aftermath of Albrecht von Wallenstein In the winter of 1583, a boy was born into a minor, impoverished Bohemian family with nothing to recommend him but a name.
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo secreto de hombres fue lanzado tras las líneas enemigas para encender la chispa de la resistencia en la Europa ocupada.
From Reagan to the Twenty-First Century explores one of the most transformative periods in modern American history, tracing the United States from the conservative resurgence of the 1980s to the political, economic, technological, and cultural conflicts of the modern era.
This book attempts to map the vernacular diffractions of longing in Spain and Portugal in order to explore their political, aesthetic and social role in the national and cultural imagination of the past two centuries.
This book attempts to map the vernacular diffractions of longing in Spain and Portugal in order to explore their political, aesthetic and social role in the national and cultural imagination of the past two centuries.
Following his excommunication by Pope Francis, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò accuses Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) of being a heretic to the true Catholic Church.
The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896-1939 reveals the complex relationship between nationhood, national language, and national cinema in Europe before World War II.
In Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, the punishment did not always fit the crime, as this fine old illustrated history of wrath and righteousness shows.
Desde sus origenes humildes hasta su dominio del mundo mediterraneo, Roma construyo mucho mas que un imperio: forjo un modelo de sociedad basado en valores, organizacion y sentido del deber.
UNCOVER LONDON'S PAST, BROUGHT TO LIFE THROUGH ITS LOST AND FORGOTTEN TREASURES, LANDMARKS, CUSTOMS AND STORIESLondon is a city steeped in history; a place where the past lingers in every shadow.
In Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, the punishment did not always fit the crime, as this fine old illustrated history of wrath and righteousness shows.
This book chronicles Greece's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century as it both shaped and was shaped by one of its most distinguished political figures, Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza.
While there had technically been people studying the ancient Egyptian world since around 400 BCE, the first Western scholars arrived in Egypt the medieval period.
This book chronicles Greece's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century as it both shaped and was shaped by one of its most distinguished political figures, Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of women's activities in various spheres of life in medieval Poland and its neighbouring countries, seeking to move beyond the commonly accepted perspective of queens and higher nobility from the social elite to rural women, townswomen and poor noblewomen.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of women's activities in various spheres of life in medieval Poland and its neighbouring countries, seeking to move beyond the commonly accepted perspective of queens and higher nobility from the social elite to rural women, townswomen and poor noblewomen.
This book examines merchant networks from the unique perspective of moving backward in time from a specific outcome-the founding of an American commission house in Brazil in the early 1800s-to uncover a century-and-a-half's worth of the transnational networking that led to its existence.
This book presents an alternative argument to the established opinion that witchcraft began to decline in the eighteenth century and that by the early twentieth century at the latest, it had largely ceased to exist.
This book presents an alternative argument to the established opinion that witchcraft began to decline in the eighteenth century and that by the early twentieth century at the latest, it had largely ceased to exist.
This conceptual Atlas of Medieval and Renaissance Thought, Philosophy and Science presents visual overviews, thematic outlines, surveys and summaries of the many thematic aspects of this long period of European intellectual history, c.
Set within the complex social world of Hospitaller Malta, this book explores how early modern Mediterranean childhood was understood, regulated, and experienced.
While there had technically been people studying the ancient Egyptian world since around 400 BCE, the first Western scholars arrived in Egypt the medieval period.
Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first centuryEric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has proved an enduring and controversial book.
Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first centuryEric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has proved an enduring and controversial book.
Few countries serve as a more useful case study for understanding the global tension between liberal and illiberal conceptions of democracy than Poland.
This volume examines the growth of high-end literary pornographic productions that took place towards the final quarter of the nineteenth century and were largely published on the continent where control of production was lax.
