European history

This book approaches the history of railway building and its impact on economic change in a new way.

Nutzt es dem Volk, betrogen zu werden?

This book approaches the history of railway building and its impact on economic change in a new way.

The book presents the activity of the Jewish Labour Bund in the territory of post-Yalta Poland in the years 1944-1949.

Novel insights into Russian military thoughtfrom the Crimean War to the war in UkraineThe development of the Russian military's strategic thought is an understudied and thus misunderstood subject in the West.

This innovative take on construction toys explores the development and use of building-inspired playthings between 1830 and 1940 as they became the educational toys par excellence for industrialised and industrialising societies in Europe and elsewhere.

ENGThe Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon.

This book tells the story of an important yet little-known episode of 20th century history.

From humble beginnings in Perth in the early nineteenth century Matthew Gloag established a thriving whisky business that found favour with the royal household and the Scottish public alike.

In After Transformation, Maia Kotrosits offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present.

Rudolf Graf von Stillfried-Alcantara, der als preuischer Hof- und Staatsbeamter wahrend des 19.

Das menschliche Wohnen in der Welt ist seit jeher prekar und krisenhaft: Vor dem Hintergrund der Okologischen Krise erzahlt Gill Zimmermann eine Geschichte existenzieller Anpassungsfahigkeit.

ENGMore than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished.

This book tells the story of an important yet little-known episode of 20th century history.

Die Schulerbewegung gestaltete als Teil der 68er-Revolte Schulpolitik, Demokratie und Gesellschaft entscheidend mit.

Janvier 1974, au petit matin sur une route enneigee de Haute-Savoie, une poignee d'anciens resistants et resistantes piege un traitre qui avait echappe a l'Epuration et coulait des jours tranquilles entre l'Argentine et la Suisse.

Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions explores the traditions of two fascinating and contiguous cultures in north-western Europe.

Cyber feminism seeks to promote the rights of women who are victims of social media.

Cyber feminism seeks to promote the rights of women who are victims of social media.

English-born Francis Asbury was one of the most important religious leaders in American history.

This monograph examines the appropriation and ludification of the Germanic heroic tradition in video games as a digital medium, a process that unfolds on the margins of official discourse about the early Middle Ages.

This monograph examines the appropriation and ludification of the Germanic heroic tradition in video games as a digital medium, a process that unfolds on the margins of official discourse about the early Middle Ages.

This book offers a radical re-examination of the history of the Cornish language, challenging the long-held belief that it became extinct with the death of Dolly Pentreath in 1777.

This book is the first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities.

This book offers a radical re-examination of the history of the Cornish language, challenging the long-held belief that it became extinct with the death of Dolly Pentreath in 1777.

Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists' attempts, successful and otherwise, to overcome their isolation and to connect with the major social and political movements of the twentieth century.

Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions explores the traditions of two fascinating and contiguous cultures in north-western Europe.

Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of his episcopacy in Tours.

Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists' attempts, successful and otherwise, to overcome their isolation and to connect with the major social and political movements of the twentieth century.

This book is the first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities.

Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of his episcopacy in Tours.

Ausgehend von den Libri ordinarii einer Kirche, zeigt der interdisziplinare Band im Spiegel der liturgischen Regiebucher des Ellwanger Chorherrenstifts die Umrisse des benediktinischen Erbes in der Kirche und in Ellwangen.

This comparative study of elite formation and social mobility in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries focuses on Bohemia and Transylvania as representatives of different administrative systems - Cisleithanian and Transleithanian - within the Habsburg Monarchy.

Die Forderung nach Verstandigung mit den Arabern war eines der herausragendsten Kennzeichen des zentraleuropaischen Zionismus - das Buch entfaltet ein Panorama von Menschen, Motiven, Konzeptionen und Hoffnungen.

How can we attempt to understand the experience of those involved in ancient battles, sieges and campaigns?

Although slavery is illegal in all countries and banned by international law, there are an estimated 40 million slaves in the world today.

Aunque mucho se ha escrito sobre Hitler, faltaba una historia clara y concisa para no especialistas que pusiera al dia lo que verdaderamente sabemos sobre su vida y su personalidad: su infancia, sus influencias, su ambigua sexualidad, su actitud ante la religion, asi como la verdadera efectividad de sus politicas en una Alemania devastada por el desempleo y la hiperinflacion.

This comparative study of elite formation and social mobility in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries focuses on Bohemia and Transylvania as representatives of different administrative systems - Cisleithanian and Transleithanian - within the Habsburg Monarchy.

First published in 1957, Modern Italy examines the complex political and economic challenges Italy faced during the 1950s.

First published in 1957, Modern Italy examines the complex political and economic challenges Italy faced during the 1950s.

This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspects and outlining the social, political and ideological implications of the constructions and narrations of the past.

The Battle of Errozabal (Rencesvals) is the one of the most significant historical events of eighth century Vasconia and in all Western Europe.

This tenth volume in the series, comprising some fifty essays, offers a further wide-ranging selection of essays on different themes and personalities, grouped thematically, from portraits of key figures such as Stamford Raffles and Lord Lytton to the history of Japanese trade and investment in the UK, such as NSK at Peterlee and Mitsubishi Electric in Scotland, from scholars such as Basil Hall Chamberlain, to international Japanese banker Ogata Shijuro.