Now in its ninth edition, A History of Modern Germany provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of this complex country's history, beginning in 1871 and ending in the present day.
The Lion and the Star not only offers an informed glimpse into the intricacies of daily German life but also confirms the continuing danger of making sweeping generalizations about German Jews and non-Jews.
The eighteenth century was a time of significant change in the perception of marriage and family relations, the emphasis of reason over revelation, and the spread of political consciousness.
Since the Spanish withdrawal from their Saharan colonies in 1975, a determined guerrilla war was fought against the Moroccans by the Polisario who claimed the territory as their rightful country.
Die Republik Slowenien, seit 2004 ein Mitgliedsstaat der Europaischen Union, umfasst Gebiete, die bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs zur Habsburgermonarchie gehorten.
Situating key texts and writers in their proper historical context, this book presents a history of Swedish economic thinking from early modern times to the present day.
One of the most significant changes in the British House of Commons has been the development in 1979 of a system of select committees charged with monitoring government ministries.
Surrounded by potential adversaries, nineteenth-century Prussia and twentieth-century Germany faced the formidable prospect of multifront wars and wars of attrition.
At a time of great sacrifice in Canadian history, we are welcomed into the homes, the hearts, and the minds of mothers, sons, fathers, and friends as we follow Syd Smith and his high-school brotherhood of 13 when they answer the call to duty in 1941.
In 1941, the fortress city of Terezin, outside Prague, was ostensibly converted into model ghetto, where Jews could temporarily reside before being sent to a more permanent settlement.
Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests.
Erstmals werden hier das Werk und das wissenschaftspolitische Wirken des ebenso umtriebigen wie umstrittenen österreichischen Mediävisten Theodor Mayer (1883-1972) umfassend dargestellt.
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.
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.
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.
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.
