European history

Uber Jahrhunderte herrschten die Habsburger uber Lander und Kronen und hinterlieen neben legitimierten Erzherzogen, Kaisern und Konigen auch eine Reihe von Nachkommen, die offiziell nicht existieren sollten: uneheliche Kinder, gewissermaen Randfiguren der Dynastie.

Was ware Bayern ohne seine Walder?

Con su estilo inconfundible, Carlo M.

Der Konfessionswechsel vom Deutschordensstaat zum Herzogtum Preuen 1525 erforderte landesweit lutherische Pfarrer, die noch rar waren und zudem von verarmten Gemeinden schlecht besoldet wurden.

Das Lehenswesen bildete die Grundlage der gesellschaftlichen Ordnung des mittelalterlichen Europas.

A stunning, deeply felt exploration of the struggle between ownership and belonging in England, by the best-selling author of The Book of Trespass Early one September, Nick Hayes brought his houseboat up the Thames into rural Oxfordshire, mooring opposite a strange tree that towered over the surrounding meadowland.

Jakub Gossa 1922 – 2004, Porucznik Batalionow Chlopskich, Zasluzony Nauczyciel i WychowawcaPrzezył cztery wyroki smierci.

In the winter of 1922, a White Russian general named Anatoly Pepelyayev led seven hundred volunteer soldiers from Vladivostok into the subarctic interior of Yakutia — the last armed expedition against Soviet authority on Russian soil.

A scholarly study of the late Ottoman Empire's unique experiment of modernization that provides an alternative understanding of nineteenth-century world history.

Be word and mind-focused.

This book offers the history of Christopher Columbus, from his uncertain origins and his formative years as a sailor to the voyages that forever changed world history.

This book offers a complete and humanised portrait of Hernán Cortés, from his origins as a poor hidalgo in 16th-century Spain to his role as architect of the new colonial order in New Spain.

This book is a carefully argued study of peasants and labor during the Somoza regime, focusing on popular movements in the economically strategic department of Chinandega in western Nicaragua.

This ground-breaking history reveals for the first time the true significance of the trade in enslaved Africans in Britain s development as a modern nation - based on a comprehensive, landmark investigation.

For decades, Western Europe prepared in secret for a war that never came.

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions.

The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204 allows students to understand and experience one of the greatest medieval atrocities, the sack of the Constantinople by a crusader army, and the subsequent reshaping of the Byzantine Empire.

Magic was a fundamental part of the Greco-Roman world.

In recent years, a number of classical scholars have turned their attention to prostitution in the ancient world.

In recent years, a number of classical scholars have turned their attention to prostitution in the ancient world.

This monograph explores British Conflict Related Metal Boxes (CRMBs) and the memories they contain that come directly from, or are influenced by, the First World War.

Honor Among Thieves examines associations of craftsmen in the framework of ancient economics and transaction costs.

German Colonialism Revisited brings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address a range of issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic people's creative reactions to and interactions with German colonialism.

Magic was a fundamental part of the Greco-Roman world.

This monograph explores British Conflict Related Metal Boxes (CRMBs) and the memories they contain that come directly from, or are influenced by, the First World War.

Although nearly forgotten today, the prophetic writing of Wilhelm Friess was the most popular work of its kind in Germany in the second half of the sixteenth century.

Eberhard Happel, German Baroque author of an extensive body of work of fiction and nonfiction, has for many years been categorized as a "e;courtly-gallant"e; novelist.

Roman siege warfare had its own structure and customs, and expectations both by the besieged and by the attacking army.

Honor Among Thieves examines associations of craftsmen in the framework of ancient economics and transaction costs.

East Germany's Socialist Unity Party aimed to placate a public well aware of the higher standards of living enjoyed elsewhere by encouraging them to participate in outdoor activities and take vacations in the countryside.

In the early 20th century, the diesel-electric submarine made possible a new type of unrestricted naval warfare.

In the early 20th century, the diesel-electric submarine made possible a new type of unrestricted naval warfare.

In ancient Rome, where literacy was limited and speech was the main medium used to communicate status and identity face-to-face in daily life, an education in rhetoric was a valuable form of cultural capital and a key signifier of elite male identity.

In ancient Rome, where literacy was limited and speech was the main medium used to communicate status and identity face-to-face in daily life, an education in rhetoric was a valuable form of cultural capital and a key signifier of elite male identity.

German Colonialism Revisited brings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address a range of issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic people's creative reactions to and interactions with German colonialism.

Becoming a Nazi Townreveals the ways in which ordinary Germans changed their cultural lives and their politics from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s.

Becoming a Nazi Townreveals the ways in which ordinary Germans changed their cultural lives and their politics from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s.

East Germany's Socialist Unity Party aimed to placate a public well aware of the higher standards of living enjoyed elsewhere by encouraging them to participate in outdoor activities and take vacations in the countryside.

From string-and-canvas deathtraps to sleek metal machines relive the dawn of British aviation'Gripping, exuberant, racy and deeply researched, here is the amazing tale of the flying machines.

Women in ancient Rome challenge the historian.

French composer Maurice Ravel was described by critics as a magician, conjurer, and illusionist.

The two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 48079 B.

French composer Maurice Ravel was described by critics as a magician, conjurer, and illusionist.

A detailed, pictorial history of the 1 1/2-ton Chevy truck and its use by the U.

A detailed, pictorial history of the 1 1/2-ton Chevy truck and its use by the U.

Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev.

Women in ancient Rome challenge the historian.

Although nearly forgotten today, the prophetic writing of Wilhelm Friess was the most popular work of its kind in Germany in the second half of the sixteenth century.

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions.

This book is a carefully argued study of peasants and labor during the Somoza regime, focusing on popular movements in the economically strategic department of Chinandega in western Nicaragua.