'An instant classic' NIGELLA LAWSON'Sweeping, intimate, defiant and brimming with love' LOUISE KENNEDY'It is the roots that keep the trees from falling during a storm.
In this book of poetry, Martin Herskovitz, the son of Holocaust survivors, manifests a language of remembrance that describes not the desolation and destruction, but rather the possibility of grieving, of finding compassion and healing.
Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, this new edition of Russia's Long Twentieth Century is an accessible textbook that encourages students to start a lively conversation with Russia's storied past.
This book seeks to break free from Eurocentric historical perspectives of medieval-era travel through Egypt and Sinai by focusing on the testimonies of 4th to 15th-century travellers from the African continent, especially pilgrim diaries from the Arab Muslim Egyptian world.
Varied approaches to an overlooked timeperiod in the history and archaeology of the MediterraneanThisbook presents multidisciplinary perspectives on Greece, Corsica, Malta, andSicily from the fourth to the thirteenth centuries, an often-overlooked time inthe history of the central Mediterranean.
Growth of interest in the periodical literature of the past has emphasized increasingly the need for specialized hand lists, a need which the American Union List of Serials, the British Union Catalogue of the Periodical Publications in the University Libraries of the British Isles, and other existing indexes cannot answer.
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.
Deutsche und Polen teilen viele Erinnerungen, und doch erinnern sich die beiden Nachbarn auf unterschiedliche Weise an die gemeinsamen und vielfach auch geteilt erlebten Erfahrungen und Ereignisse aus mehr als einem Jahrtausend europäischer Geschichte.
In October 2021, Imperial War Museums (IWM) opened its new Holocaust Galleries in its London branch, replacing its first Holocaust Exhibition (from 2000) that had become a landmark in British Holocaust memory.
Until late in the eighteenth century, the peasantry of the German states had been dismissed contemptuously by the aristocracy and middle classes as brutish and virtually subhuman.
Clearly the favourite character of Canada's overseas troops during World War II, "e;Herbie"e; had a penchant for getting into some of the most bizarre predicaments imaginable.
In an exciting reinterpretation of the early nineteenth century, Leo Hirrel demonstrates the importance of religious ideas by exploring the relationship between religion and reform efforts during a crucial period in American history.
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.
In the brilliant world of Vienna at the turn of the century four men-Karl Renner, Otto Bauer, Max Adler, and Friedrich Adler-sought to develop political and economic resolutions to the racial and cultural tensions that were beginning to strain the bonds of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Many writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasized the virtues of early rural pioneers and life on the land as a general criticism of what they perceived to be the negative, alienating influence of Ontario's rapid urban and industrial expansion.
Die öffentliche Erinnerung an die Shoah hat einen Fundamentalismus besonderer Art hervorgebracht: die Forderung, von der bildlichen oder literarischen Darstellung dieses historischen Ereignisses abzusehen.
First published in 1923, Labour and the Industrial Revolution is an examination of opinions (1760-1832) on the right place of wage-earner under the State.
In Rebels in the Name of the Tsar (originally published in 1989), Daniel Field explores one of the most puzzling phenomena of late imperial Russia: the devotion of the common people to the person of the Tsar.
In Rebels in the Name of the Tsar (originally published in 1989), Daniel Field explores one of the most puzzling phenomena of late imperial Russia: the devotion of the common people to the person of the Tsar.
In eighteenth-century Britain, the study of history was understood first and foremost as the study of how states developed-and lost-their political coherence.
First published in 1923, Labour and the Industrial Revolution is an examination of opinions (1760-1832) on the right place of wage-earner under the State.
The National Democratic Party: Right Radicalism in the Federal Republic of Germany offers a comprehensive exploration of the emergence and impact of the NPD during the transformative postwar years of West Germany.
Marius: On the Elements is a groundbreaking exploration of twelfth-century scientific thought, revealing the remarkable intellectual rigor and experimental focus of its time.
The National Democratic Party: Right Radicalism in the Federal Republic of Germany offers a comprehensive exploration of the emergence and impact of the NPD during the transformative postwar years of West Germany.
