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.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
Tsarist Russia and Balkan Nationalism: Russian Influence in the Internal Affairs of Bulgaria and Serbia, 18791886 by Charles Jelavich examines the volatile relationship between Russian imperial policy and the rising nationalist movements of the Balkans in the wake of the Congress of Berlin.
Tsarist Russia and Balkan Nationalism: Russian Influence in the Internal Affairs of Bulgaria and Serbia, 18791886 by Charles Jelavich examines the volatile relationship between Russian imperial policy and the rising nationalist movements of the Balkans in the wake of the Congress of Berlin.
The Formation of the German Chemical Community (1720-1795) delves into the development of the chemical discipline in Germany during the 18th century, specifically focusing on the social and institutional conditions that led to the creation of a national community of chemists.
The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was an event of obviously transnational significance not only in the airborne particulates it deposited across the Northern hemisphere, but in the political and social repercussions it set off well beyond the Soviet bloc.
Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 7gathers an impressive range of scholarship that spans late antiquity through the Renaissance, reflecting the journal's distinctive breadth across periods, disciplines, and geographies.
Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 7gathers an impressive range of scholarship that spans late antiquity through the Renaissance, reflecting the journal's distinctive breadth across periods, disciplines, and geographies.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
The third volume in Studies in Rhetoric & Religion, Preaching Politics traces the surprising and lasting influence of one of American history's most fascinating and enigmatic figures--George Whitefield.
