European history

The extraordinary story of the deserters of the Second World War.

In the Law under the Swastika, Michael Stolleis examines the evolution of legal history, theory, and practice in Nazi Germany, paying close attention to its impact on the Federal Republic and on the German legal profession.

Max Arthur, bestselling author of the hugely popular 'Forgotten Voices' series, recaptures the day-to-day lives of working people in the Edwardian era.

To coincide with the Channel 4 series to be aired at the end of this year - David Starkey's 'Monarchy' charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians, right up until the present day monarchs of the 20th Century.

This multiauthor volume presents thirteen case studies that showcase the scientific, analytical, and often archaeological study of historic buildings that is known in German as Bauforschung.

This multiauthor volume presents thirteen case studies that showcase the scientific, analytical, and often archaeological study of historic buildings that is known in German as Bauforschung.

In Torture and the Law of Proof John H.

"e;This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of fairly extensive revisions.

Queen Victoria was one of the most complex cultural productions of her age.

From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached.

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

Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an ascetic medieval saint examining her every desire?

How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives.

In Europe's Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H.

In the Law under the Swastika, Michael Stolleis examines the evolution of legal history, theory, and practice in Nazi Germany, paying close attention to its impact on the Federal Republic and on the German legal profession.

From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London.

Essay aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2,0, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Historisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Übung: Quellenkritik Mittelalter, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wer war Ludwig der Fromme?

Jack Pease was at the heart of the British Liberal government from 1908 to 1915, holding the position of Chief Whip through two general elections, and a member of the Cabinet confronting domestic tumult, international tensions, and war.

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

Excommunication was the medieval churchs most severe sanction, used against people at all levels of society.

Excommunication was the medieval churchs most severe sanction, used against people at all levels of society.

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.

In the latter part of the eleventh century a revolutionary group within the Western Church, centered in the papacy, attempted to overthrow the early medieval system of church-state relations by which the church in each country was under control of the kings and other secular rulers.

Why do some elites survive while others do not?

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.

In a new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, Alfred J.

From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London.

"e;This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of fairly extensive revisions.

How the English Reformation was Named analyses the shifting semantics of 'reformation' in England between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.

In a new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, Alfred J.

Different people feel different emotions when they are diagnosed with cancer.

Different people feel different emotions when they are diagnosed with cancer.

How the English Reformation was Named analyses the shifting semantics of 'reformation' in England between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The essays in this volume, taken together, span the era of British history from 1780 to the present that has engrossed the attention of Brian Harrison in a career of more than fifty years.

The essays in this volume, taken together, span the era of British history from 1780 to the present that has engrossed the attention of Brian Harrison in a career of more than fifty years.

Designs on Democracy examines a pivotal period in the formation of the modern profession of architecture in Britain.

Designs on Democracy examines a pivotal period in the formation of the modern profession of architecture in Britain.

Why are relations between minorities and the police in France so fraught?

Why are relations between minorities and the police in France so fraught?

These essays discuss principal and much-debated issues in European agrarian history within the context of the general economic history of northwestern Europe.

In the late 1950s, against the unfolding backdrop of the Cold War, American and European leaders began working to reshape Western Europe.

Steven L.

Second lieutenant Dick Curtis arrived in Italy in May 1944–twenty years old and part of a shipment of P-51 Mustang fighter pilots so desperately needed that they were rushed into combat with less than thirty hours of flight time in their new high-performance aircraft.

In mid-1943 James Megellas, known as “Maggie” to his fellow paratroopers, joined the 82d Airborne Division, his new “home” for the duration.

A COMBAT ACE’S ACCOUNT OF PILOTING THE GREATEST SINGLE-SEAT FIGHTER IN WORLD WAR II

World War II marked the end of an era; fighter pilots still flew by the seat of their pants, and George Loving recaptures the exhilarating world of aerial combat in all its stark terror and fiery glory.

British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment.

British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment.

Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid: Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology presents a new examination of memory, ethnic identity, and politics within the fictional world of this Roman epic, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil's characters, settings, and narrative and the political context of the early Roman Empire.

As he prepared to embark for India in 1774, Alexander Mackrabie's excitement at the sights to be seen and novelties to be experienced was palpable.

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.