To be one of "e;the middling sort"e; in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce.
The Wilhelmstrasse: A Study of German Diplomats Under the Nazi Regime by Paul Seabury offers a sobering examination of one of the twentieth century's most troubling institutional stories: the fate of Germany's venerable Foreign Office under Hitler.
Politics and Religion in Seventeenth-Century France: A Study of Political Ideas from the Monarchomachs to Bayle, as Reflected in the Toleration Controversy explores the evolving and contested concept of toleration within the complex interplay of religion and politics during a pivotal era in French history.
The remarkable history of the women who worked for Special Operations Executive across occupied Europe In the wake of the Nazi invasion of Europe, the tentative sparks of resistance in occupied countries were fanned by Britain's Special Operations Executive.
Political Institutions and Social Change in Continental Europe in the Nineteenth Century examines the profound transformations in governmental and political institutions during a period of rapid societal change.
Political Institutions and Social Change in Continental Europe in the Nineteenth Century examines the profound transformations in governmental and political institutions during a period of rapid societal change.
Samuel Johnson's Parliamentary Reporting: Debates in the Senate of Lilliput by Benjamin Beard Hoover reexamines a long-neglected body of Johnson's early prose and restores it to a central place in his literary development.
The Wilhelmstrasse: A Study of German Diplomats Under the Nazi Regime by Paul Seabury offers a sobering examination of one of the twentieth century's most troubling institutional stories: the fate of Germany's venerable Foreign Office under Hitler.
This is a full-scale intellectual biography of the French utopian socialist thinker, Chales Fourier (1772 - 1837), one of the great social critics of the nineteenth century.
This is a full-scale intellectual biography of the French utopian socialist thinker, Chales Fourier (1772 - 1837), one of the great social critics of the nineteenth century.
Samuel Johnson's Parliamentary Reporting: Debates in the Senate of Lilliput by Benjamin Beard Hoover reexamines a long-neglected body of Johnson's early prose and restores it to a central place in his literary development.
Politics and Religion in Seventeenth-Century France: A Study of Political Ideas from the Monarchomachs to Bayle, as Reflected in the Toleration Controversy explores the evolving and contested concept of toleration within the complex interplay of religion and politics during a pivotal era in French history.
French society at the turn of the twentieth century was deeply preoccupied with the conduct and management of its young people, especially those who had broken the law.
The Prytaneion: Its Function and Architectural Form explores one of the most significant yet architecturally elusive civic structures in ancient Greece.
"Der große Krieg in Deutschland", eines der umfangreichsten Prosawerke Ricarda Huchs, erschien in den nun wieder vorliegenden drei Bänden zwischen 1912 und 1914 im Leipziger Insel-Verlag.
Vicki Tolar Burton argues that John Wesley wanted to make ordinary Methodist men and women readers, writers, and public speakers because he understood the powerful role of language for spiritual formation.
The Prytaneion: Its Function and Architectural Form explores one of the most significant yet architecturally elusive civic structures in ancient Greece.
Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon offers a penetrating examination of ancient Greek military strategies, focusing particularly on the techniques and philosophies of Spartan warfare.
By the mid-sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a result of the oppressive policies of Pope Paul IV and his successors.
A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940 provides a compelling historical analysis of the struggle for shorter working hours as a crucial aspect of labor movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The abdication crisis of 1936 demolished the wall of silent deference that had protected the British royal family from press comment and intrusion since the days of Queen Victoria.
