Why did Syrian political life continue to be dominated by a particular urban elite even after the dramatic changes following the end of four hundred years of Ottoman rule and the imposition of French control?
Founded by Cosimo de' Medici in the early 1460s, the Platonic Academy shaped the literary and artistic culture of Florence in the later Renaissance and influenced science, religion, art, and literature throughout Europe in the early modern period.
In this collection of essays, a group of distinguished American and British historians explores the relations between the American Revolution and its predecessors, the Puritan Revolution of 1641 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Under the premise that local history can illuminate aspects of the past in ways that few works of broad historical synthesis can ever hope to equal, Christopher Friedrichs draws a comprehensive portrait of the small German city of Nordlingen during a turbulent century and a half of early modern history.
Gary Kates reconstructs the history of the Cercle Social, a group of writers and politicians who wielded considerable influence during the French Revolution and whose pioneering interest in women's rights and land reform made their club one of the most progressive in Revolutionary Paris.
A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly unstable Austro-Hungarian empire and scenes of intense cultural activity.
In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifting narrative surface, such as wordplay, narrative disruption, and the self-conscious reworking of the poetic tradition, are thematically significant.
In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siecle Vienna--draws together a series of essays that reveal the changing place of history in nineteenth-and twentieth-century cultures.
Allan Wildman presents the first detailed study of the Army's collapse under the strains of war and of the front soldiers' efforts to participate in the Revolution.
In recent years, a long-established view of the Roman Empire during its great age of expansion has been called into question by scholars who contend that this model has made Rome appear too much like a modern state.
Mitchell believes that the history of the French Third Republic remains incomplete until one understands the German impact on France after the Franco-Prossian War.
In a study important to the fields of women's studies and English literature, as well as to the religious and social history of Britain, Deborah Valenze argues the significance of a cottage-based evangelicalism that responded to the transformation of England in the nineteenth century.
This book examines an important type of Spanish-American essay one that deals with the problems of a developing civilization and places its focus on the history of ideas rather than on literature per se, pointing up the hemispheric pattern of intellectual development in most of the major Spanish-American countries and revealing a general pattern in cultural development.
Confirming what historians have long suspected that the influence of a court confessor could be crucial for the formation of policy Bireley explores the relationship between Ferdinand and Lamormaini during the Thirty Years War.
White combines an intensive study of medieval law with insights from anthropology, religion, and social history to create a picture of French society in the Middle Ages which is impressive in its breadth and illuminating in its detail.
Though Greece is traditionally seen as an agrarian society, cattle were essential to Greek communal life, through religious sacrifice and dietary consumption.
German violation of Belgian neutrality escalated the 1914 hostilities into a world war, and disagreement about Belgiums future did much to block a compromise peace.
Although the varying attitudes toward the English crown and the order of English society were central to the differences between the loyalists and the militants, disagreements involved many questions other than political ones, including the role of the Jesuits in the English mission and the nature of church government.
The purpose of this study was to discover what was typical in the history and character of the state during the period of the Civil War and the readjustment that followed.
Adas explores the relationship between millenarianism and violent protest by focusing on five case studies representing a wide range of social, political, and economic systems.
Commander of the French Third Army at the Battle of the Marne, commander of the Allied Eastern Army in 1916-17, and high commissioner to Syria and Lebanon in 1924-25, Sarrail was one of the most controversial figures of the Third French Republic because of his deep involvement with domestic politics.
In this prodigiously researched study, the author concentrates on the reaction to the trials by various segments of the American public largely in terms of the legality of the tribunal, the composition of the court, the justice of the verdicts, and the implications for the future.
Leffler argues that American officials did not disregard European developments after World War I but, rather, they sought to settle the war debt and reparations controversies, to stabilize European currencies, and to revive European markets.
Soloway examines the origins of the modern birth control movement in England in the wider context of the dramatic decline in fertility that first became apparent in the 1880s.
Bonwick brings together related elements that have been treated separately on previous occasions English radicals as personalities, their relations with one another, their connections with Americans; the imperial controversy between England and the colonies; the movement for parliamentary reform in England; and the campaign for civil rights for Dissenters.
From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States.
In this first full-length biography of Ferrari, Lovett traces his intellectual development in Milan and describes his twenty years of voluntary exile in Paris.
This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,3, FernUniversität Hagen (Historisches Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Klangvolle Verfasser sind uns aus der Blütezeit des Bodenseeklosters Reichenau überliefert.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - 1848, Kaiserreich, Imperialismus, Note: 1,0, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Seminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Nationalismus in der Habsburgermonarchie wirkte spaltend; einigende Faktoren waren supranational und historisch wie beispielsweise die Dynastie, die Armee, die Verwaltung und die Kirche.
Este libro, titulado Sociedad, cultura y religión en la Edad Media, es una obra colectiva que reúne diversas investigaciones presentadas originalmente en el XIII Coloquio de Estudios Medievales de 2023.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,3, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Streben nach Macht: Hoch- und spätalterliche Machtstrategien.
