Die Geschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs nachvollziehbar erklärt- Alle wichtigen Ereignisse, Wendepunkte und Hintergründe - Schlachten, Taktiken, Ideologien: vom Aufstieg des Nationalsozialismus über Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Hiroshima bis zur Gründung des Staates Israel 1948 - Anschaulich & verständlich mit innovativen Grafiken aufbereitet - Mit Kurzporträts wichtiger Persönlichkeiten - Zum 80.
Marius: On the Elements is a groundbreaking exploration of twelfth-century scientific thought, revealing the remarkable intellectual rigor and experimental focus of its time.
This publication in three volumes originated in papers delivered at two conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, DC.
The Germany between the two world wars, which produced some of the greatest literary lights of the century, also produced a forum worthy of them: the brilliantly edited, crusading, lef-oriented (but not party-affiliated) Weltbuhne.
Managed Casualty investigates the profound effects of World War II-era policies on Japanese-American families, focusing on their forced removal, internment, and eventual release.
Generals & Politicians: Conflict Between France's High Command, Parliament and Government, 19141918 by Jere Clemens King offers a penetrating study of how France's democratic institutions clashed and cooperated with military command during the First World War.
Managed Casualty investigates the profound effects of World War II-era policies on Japanese-American families, focusing on their forced removal, internment, and eventual release.
Generals & Politicians: Conflict Between France's High Command, Parliament and Government, 19141918 by Jere Clemens King offers a penetrating study of how France's democratic institutions clashed and cooperated with military command during the First World War.
This pioneering study of primary schools in the Russian countryside during the late tsarist period examines the contribution of education to the transition to modernity.
This pioneering study of primary schools in the Russian countryside during the late tsarist period examines the contribution of education to the transition to modernity.
This book examines and analyses the factors essential for the success of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, in which the southern provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands successfully broke away in a nationalist revolt and became the independent Kingdom of Belgium.
Conventional wisdom claims that the seventeenth century gave birth to the material and ideological forces that culminated in the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism.
This collection of nineteen essays, their previous publication dates scattered over a long career, is designed to indicate the velocity and variety of the inventiveness visible in medieval engineering and also to explore the relation of technology to the values of western medieval culture.
Steele at Drury Lane by John Loftis offers a comprehensive study of Richard Steele's pivotal role as both playwright and reformer in the early eighteenth-century London theater.
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.
Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime by Richard Herr offers a comprehensive examination of the social, economic, and political transformations that reshaped Spain's countryside in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The origins of many Scottish festivals, such as Beltane and Hallowe’en, lie deep in the pagan past, and although the significance of many festivals may now be long forgotten, they have continued to evolve and evolve to satisfy the needs of the time.
Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime by Richard Herr offers a comprehensive examination of the social, economic, and political transformations that reshaped Spain's countryside in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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.
A stimulating and provocative collection, these essays challenge received notions about the culture and history of medieval Russia and offer fresh approaches to problems of textual interpretation, the theory of the medieval text, and the analysis of alternative, nonverbal texts.