European history

With The Divided Path, Allan Mitchell completes his superb trilogy on the German influence in France between the wars of 1870 and 1914.

Though Ireland is a relatively small island on the northeastern fringe of the Atlantic, 70 million people worldwide including some 45 million in the United States claim it as their ancestral home.

Allyson May chronicles the history of the English criminal trial and the development of a criminal bar in London between 1750 and 1850.

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.

As the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in understanding the end of the Cold War.

White reassesses Anglo-American trade with Soviet Russia immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution to show that, unlike diplomatic relations, commercial ties were not severed by ideological differences.

Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy?

Although Germanys short-lived colonial empire (1884-1918) was neither large nor successful, it is historically significant.

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.

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.

In Germany, more than anywhere else, Darwinism was a sensational success.

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.

In the early twentieth century, an elite group of modern-minded scientists in Germany, led by the eminent organic chemist Emil Fischer, set out to create new centers and open new sources of funding for chemical research.

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.

The Fascist regime under Mussolini regarded its youth as its best hope for the future.

Germany today has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the industrialized world, and social welfare principles play an essential role at all levels of the German criminal justice system.

Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval worlds greatest commercial hubs.

Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean.

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, womens role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized.

In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private property.

James Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the twentieth century.

Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.

Elite Romans periodically chose to limit or destroy the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community.

Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance.

One of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome and at the same time one of the most poorly understood, the Column of Marcus Aurelius has long stood in the shadow of the Column of Trajan.

Germany today has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the industrialized world, and social welfare principles play an essential role at all levels of the German criminal justice system.

Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval worlds greatest commercial hubs.

This book explores the largely unexamined history of Africans who lived, studied, and worked in the German Democratic Republic.

Medieval saints were thought to be able to provide miraculous cures for a wide variety of illnesses, and about one tenth of their miracles involved the restoration of sanity to those who had lost their minds.

In Greco-Roman Egypt, recipes for magical undertaking, called magical formularies, commonly existed for love potions, curses, attempts to best business rivals-many of the same challenges that modern people might face.

In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities, Lenny Urena Valerio offers a transnational approach to Polish-German relations and nineteenth-century colonial subjectivities.

The literature describing social conditions during the post-World War II Allied occupation of Germany has been divided between seemingly irreconcilable assertions of prolonged criminal chaos and narratives of strict martial rule that precluded crime.

Between 1933 and 1945, National Socialists enacted a focused effort to propagandize children's literature by distorting existing German values and traditions with the aim of creating a homogenous "e;folk community.

Carl Lavin was a high school senior when Pearl Harbor was attacked.

Going as far back as the thirteenth century, Britons mined and burned coal.

At the end of World War II, the Allies were unanimous in their determination to disarm the former aggressor Germany.

Protecting the Empire's Frontier tells stories of the roughly eighty officers who served in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, which served British interests in America during the crucial period from 1767 through 1776.

Hero of the Angry Sky draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.

In nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed.

When an independent Poland reappeared on the map of Europe after World War I, it was widely regarded as the most Catholic country on the continent, as "e;Rome's Most Faithful Daughter.

The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish thought and practice.

At midcentury, two distinct Polish immigrant groups-those Polish Americans who were descendants of economic immigrants from the turn of the twentieth century and the Polish political refugees who chose exile after World War II and the communist takeover in Poland-faced an uneasy challenge to reconcile their concepts of responsibility toward the homeland.

The May 1926 coup d'etat in Poland inaugurated what has become known as the period of sanacja or "e;cleansing.

Tea drinking in Victorian England was a pervasive activity that, when seen through the lens of a century's perspective, presents a unique overview of Victorian culture.

Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz.

During Poland's century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland's reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity.

The late first- and early second-century Roman senator and historian Cornelius Tacitus, whom Edward Gibbon described as "e;the first of the historians who applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts,"e; shaped the development of the modern understanding of history as a crucial vehicle for social analysis.

In Greco-Roman Egypt, recipes for magical undertaking, called magical formularies, commonly existed for love potions, curses, attempts to best business rivals-many of the same challenges that modern people might face.

In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities, Lenny Urena Valerio offers a transnational approach to Polish-German relations and nineteenth-century colonial subjectivities.

The Fascist regime under Mussolini regarded its youth as its best hope for the future.