European history

The Battle of Errozabal (Rencesvals) is the one of the most significant historical events of eighth century Vasconia and in all Western Europe.

This book tells the history of the 'federal union', a concept that may be traced from the early Renaissance to the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community (1951), the predecessor of today's European Union.

Bringing together sources from many countries and many centuries, this study critically analyses the growth of national thought and of nationalism - from medieval ethnic prejudice to the Romantic belief in a nation's 'soul'.

Hunt for Nazis is the first comprehensive account of the post-1945 efforts to bring Nazi war criminals who had escaped to South America to justice.

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 modern research university originated in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century, largely due to the creation and expansion of the teaching and research laboratory.

Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility.

The Museum Vrolikianum in Amsterdam was famous amongst scientists and medical men all over Europe in the nineteenth century.

In the rolling hills of the Limburg Province, near the village of Margraten, they slowly loom up, row after row: thousands of white marble crosses and Stars of David.

The Pursuit of Justice is the first book to examine three separate instances of soldiers risking their lives during wartime to protest injustices being perpetrated by military authorities: within the United States Army during the American Civil War, the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and the British Army during World War II.

In The History of Hama, Ahmed bin Ibrahim Al-Sabuni opens for us the folded pages of the biography of one of Syria's most ancient cities, a city whose streets and urban centers are intertwined with the traces of the Hittites and the Pharaohs, the echoes of the Greeks and Romans, and the echoes of the Islamic conquests.

The Dutch Republic around 1600 was a laboratory of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.

The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities studies the value system of the French Catholic community the Filles de la Charite, or the Daughters of Charity, in the first half of the seventeenth century.

The varied career of Adam Easton (c.

Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that focus on operations and technology.

This volume interrogates the assumption that Visigothic practices and institutions were mere imitations of the Byzantine empire.

These five articles, first presented at the conference 'The Holocaust and other Genocides.

Genevra Sforza (ca.

From the end of the twentieth century onwards space has become a 'hot topic' in literary studies.

Dans cet essai biographique, Gregory Baudouin nous parle de Jean Moulin, l'homme, le prefet, le resistant, l'artiste mais aussi des villes ou il a vecu, de sa famille, des hommes et femmes qu'il a rencontres, qu'il a affrontes, qu'ils soient de la resistance, de la collaboration ou belligerants.

The lute's cultural impact throughout the Dutch Golden Age can be compared to that of the piano in the 19th century.

'This book speaks to two of the most diametrically opposed yet mutually supportive aspects of war: the ability to inflict horrific injury and the ability to heal Mayhew is to be commended on an outstanding addition to expanding our knowledge of an area rarely discussed by historians.

Only twelve years after German women had been granted voting rights, the German medievalist Elisabeth Busse-Wilson, a first-wave feminist activist and scholar, challenged centuries of silence about violence against women by taking on the case of the most famous European saint, the young Elisabeth of Thuringia (1207-1231).

Although the name Caucasus has been around for some 2000 years, and may suggest unity and coherence, the region these days is best known for the ethnic and religious divides resulting in recurrent bloody conflicts between the various minorities and the post-Soviet independent states.

Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility.

Constantijn Huygens was a poet, composer and connoisseur of art and the classics.

This is a translation and new edition of Masaniello.

The varied career of Adam Easton (c.

What was the perception of Greece in Europe during the later nineteenth century, when the attraction of romantic philhellenism had waned?

Medieval states are widely assumed to have lacked police forces.

Only twelve years after German women had been granted voting rights, the German medievalist Elisabeth Busse-Wilson, a first-wave feminist activist and scholar, challenged centuries of silence about violence against women by taking on the case of the most famous European saint, the young Elisabeth of Thuringia (1207-1231).

The landscape of the Netherlands has been changing constantly since the end of the last ice age, some 11,700 years ago.

This book presents a detailed study of the Hucpoldings, an elite group in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Italy.

The Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland represents the first study of the art of rhetoric in medieval Ireland, a culture often neglected by medieval rhetorical studies.

In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic was the centre of the world trade in exotic drugs and spices.

During the 1950s in Sweden, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication.

Not since Edward Wood's Giants and Dwarfs published in 1868 has the subject been the focus of a scholarly study in English.

This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monuments.

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.

The Museum Vrolikianum in Amsterdam was famous amongst scientists and medical men all over Europe in the nineteenth century.

This book considers for the first time the relationship between the river environment and the economic and political structures of northern Italy in the post-Roman period.

On 9 May 1950, France launched a revolutionary plan for supranational cooperation in Western Europe.

Do narratives make nations, and if so, did networks make this happen?

The rebels of the Dutch Revolt, their political thoughts and the media they used to express them, have long been a focus of historical attention.

Guided by the romantic compass of Turner, Byron, and Ruskin, Victorian travellers to the Dolomites sketched in the mountainous backdrop of Venice a cultural 'Petit Tour' of global significance.

Who were the shadow agents of Renaissance war?

Sacred Sisters focuses on five saints: the four female Irish saints who have extant medieval biographies (Darerca, Brigid, Ite, and Samthann), and Patrick, whose writings -- fifth-century Ireland's sole surviving texts -- attest to the centrality of women in Irish Christianity's development.

Tamura Yoshikazu is destined to die on the alien shores of the New Guinea warzone.

The Hollandsche Schouwburg is a former theatre in Amsterdam where, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, tens of thousands of Jews were assembled before being deported to transit and concentration camps.

Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle's works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth.