European history

Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "e;Rappaccini's Daughter"e; tells of a beautiful girl who has, from birth, absorbed the poison from the flowers of her father's garden.

"Deutscher Geist" und "Reich der Geister": Das war im 19 Jahrhundert beileibe kein Widerspruch.

The lands Germany ceded to Poland after World War I included more than one million ethnic Germans for whom the change meant a sharp reversal of roles.

No part of the Nazi movement contributed more to Hitler's success than the Sturmabteilung (SA)-the notorious Brown Shirts.

Here for the first time are gathered together the extant letters of George Faulkner, Irish printer in eighteenth-century Dublin.

The Berlin newspaper Der Angriff (The Attack), founded by Joseph Goebbels in 1927, was a significant instrument for arousing support for Nazi ideas.

The involuntary soldiers of an unmilitary people such were the forces that American military planners had to pit against hardened Axis veterans, yet prewar unpreparedness dictated that whole divisions of such men would go to war under the supervision of tiny professional cadres.

An examination of the SOE, its accomplishments, and the Canadian connection to the organization.

A gripping account of East Germany in the late '70s and early '80s, and of one man's fated struggle for freedom.

Angeregt von der gesellschaftlichen Diskussion über die Wurzeln des Antisemitismus in Lettland, verfolgt die Autorin die Geschichte der jüdischen Minderheit im Gouvernement Kurland und in Riga in der Zeit zwischen der Dritten Teilung Polens 1795 und der Zwangsaussiedlung der Juden aus Kurland 1915.

Oberschlesien: Es gilt einen Brennpunkt der Geschichte des 20.

The impact of the British Empire on the history of the Upper Ottawa Valley is explored through the experiences of early emigration-assisted 19th-century Scottish immigrants.

Mit dem Königreich Westphalen (1807-1813) wurde in Deutschland erstmals ein moderner Verfassungsstaat aufgebaut, der die Rechte des Monarchen und der Stände gesetzlich verankerte.

In the Balkans today Communism, with its dynamic drive for power and sense of mission, is charging against the Balkan peasant mass, a patient, religious, tradition-bound people tilling their beloved soil.

*The book that inspired the major Channel 4 documentary airing this summer!

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From 1800 to 1922 the Irish Question was the most emotional and divisive issue in British politics.

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Ob Revolverschüsse auf Reichskanzler Bismarck und Kaiser Wilhelm I.

The Spanish Civil War, begun in July 1936, was a preliminary round of World War II.

Vor 150 Jahren, am 1.

Originally published in 1998, when for two centuries Taylor & Francis had been committed to the publication of scholarly information.

The impact of the British Empire on the history of the Upper Ottawa Valley is explored through the experiences of early emigration-assisted 19th-century Scottish immigrants.

Kann man Hitlers Weltanschauung durch die Lektüre von "Mein Kampf" auf die Spur kommen?

Autrefois, la waide, ou pastel, était au cœur de la richesse de la Picardie et du sud-ouest de la France, offrant un bleu profond qui embellissait les étoffes recherchées à travers toute l’Europe.

Als Fortsetzer des Kirchenvaters Hieronymus befasst sich Prosper Tiro als einer von wenigen zeitgenossischen Autoren mit der Geschichte des Westromischen Reichs in der ersten Halfte des 5.

Die Geschichtswissenschaft wirft derzeit mit Hilfe verschiedener Historikerkommissionen einen zweiten Blick auf die personellen und institutionellen Kontinuitäten und Brüche im Nachkriegsdeutschland.

This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.

When Spain exploded into civil war in July 1936, a conflict whose roots were deep in the Spanish past became the arena for the violent political passions that divided Europe north of the Pyrenees.

This book analyses the transformation in 16th- and 17th- century English economic life that overturned the traditional restraints of the medieval economy for the commercial ethos that governs the modern world, and the resulting imbalance which opened the way to the environmental breakdown of today.

Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned.

Author, journalist and BBC presenter Ed Stourton delves into the Hodder & Stoughton archives to tell the human story of 150 years of publishing.

The 1980s was a decade of enormous global change.

Nach den Vorstellungen Himmlers sollte sich die SS eine Führungsposition im deutschen Sport erkämpfen und als selbsterklärte, rassische Elite der Volksgemeinschaft auch mithilfe des Sports ihren Eliteanspruch unter Beweis stellen.

This book spotlights the trajectories of young women and men navigating the turmoil of the early twentieth century.

This book presents corresponding images and essays of fifty early modern artefacts of encounters between European explorers and indigenous peoples, addressing relationships and material exchanges that extend beyond this framework to encompass diverse interactions across early modern societies.

This book spotlights the trajectories of young women and men navigating the turmoil of the early twentieth century.

This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.

"Die Menschen sind friedliebend und weigern sich, den Hitlergruß zu bringen.

This book examines the making and remaking of borders and boundaries primarily relating to Ireland.

Eine Geschichte über Hochschulpolitik und Konkurrenzkampf im Zeichen des Nationalsozialismus.