2017 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Winner Over a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe endured natural catastrophes from all the elements-earth, wind, fire, and water-as well as a collapsing sugar industry, civil unrest, and political intrigue.
2017 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Winner Over a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe endured natural catastrophes from all the elements-earth, wind, fire, and water-as well as a collapsing sugar industry, civil unrest, and political intrigue.
Taking as a key turning point the self-fashioning of the first Roman emperor Augustus, author Jennifer Finn revisits the idea of "e;universal history"e; in Polybius, Justin, and Diodorus, combined with the Stoic philosophy of determinism present in authors like Plutarch and Arrian.
Taking as a key turning point the self-fashioning of the first Roman emperor Augustus, author Jennifer Finn revisits the idea of "e;universal history"e; in Polybius, Justin, and Diodorus, combined with the Stoic philosophy of determinism present in authors like Plutarch and Arrian.
An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626-1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century.
Volume 8 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual series, the premier series published in the history of the discipline, explores national anthropological traditions in Britain, the United States, and Europe and follows them into postnational contexts.
Eberhard Happel, German Baroque author of an extensive body of work of fiction and nonfiction, has for many years been categorized as a "e;courtly-gallant"e; novelist.
'Thoroughly researched and extremely readable' THE TIMES'Fascinating, gripping, revelatory' KATE WILLIAMS'An epic and clever history' GARETH RUSSELL'I know no rival to this book in its presentation of a major dynasty in English history' DIARMAID MACCULLOCHTHOMAS MADE ENGLAND.
Wie werden Ideologie, Etablierung und Herrschaft des Nationalsozialismus in den deutsch- und franzosischsprachigen Raumen Europas vom Beginn der 1920er bis zum Ende der 1940er Jahre wahrgenommen, bewertet und erklart?
This book analyses poetry and prose written by combatant and non-combatant Irish writers during the First World War, focusing on key works influenced by Irish, English and European literary traditions.
Cet ouvrage part du postulat que le degre d'effervescence memorielle est proportionnel au degre de violence subie dans le passe ou de silence impose et percu comme une injustice non reparee.
Since the end of the nineteenth century, Ireland has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of its cultural, political, constitutional and religious identities, resulting in an unparalleled questioning of the dominant discourses and narratives that have seemingly defined the nation.
This collection of studies examines different aspects of Romanian diplomacy in the 20th century, thus highlighting the activity of various diplomats, seeking to explain the changes produced within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs following political transformations in Romania, and aiming to analyse different topic and "e;dossiers"e; related to foreign policy, as well as the negotiated perspectives of career diplomats, ministers of foreign affairs, and politicians regarding the directions of foreign policy or the "e;dossiers"e; of national interest and security.
Seit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges und der Erweiterung der Europaischen Union gerat der Ostseeraum als historische Einheit immer starker in das Blickfeld von Wissenschaft und Offentlichkeit.
Das Buch stellt erstmals die architekturhistorischen Deutungen der mittelalterlichen Kathedrale zusammen, welche die Forschung in den letzten rund 150 Jahren erarbeitet hat.
Dieser Band reflektiert die Folgen des Wiener Kongresses fur Westeuropa, insbesondere aus der Perspektive der europaischen Groregion Saarland-Lothringen-Luxemburg-Rheinland-Pfalz-Wallonie.
Das Buch stellt erstmals die architekturhistorischen Deutungen der mittelalterlichen Kathedrale zusammen, welche die Forschung in den letzten rund 150 Jahren erarbeitet hat.
Dieser Band reflektiert die Folgen des Wiener Kongresses fur Westeuropa, insbesondere aus der Perspektive der europaischen Groregion Saarland-Lothringen-Luxemburg-Rheinland-Pfalz-Wallonie.
Seit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges und der Erweiterung der Europaischen Union gerat der Ostseeraum als historische Einheit immer starker in das Blickfeld von Wissenschaft und Offentlichkeit.