European history

Designed to combine the bombing capability of the B-26 Marauder with the versatility of the ground-attack A-20 Havoc, the A-26 Invader would become the USAAF's attack bomber par excellence.

The armored divisions were the shock force of the US Army's combat formations during the fighting in Northwest Europe in the final year of the war.

The design development and combat history of some of the most technologically advanced fortress networks in Germany and France.

An in-depth examination of the United States' invasion of two Pacific islands, featuring a variety of illustrations throughout.

Gordon Rottman details the bitter 26-day struggle for this key Pacific island during World War II.

A slim, yet detailed volume on the downfall of the Teutonic Knights, featuring battlescene maps and illustrations throughout.

The castles built by the Crusaders, Hospitallers, Venetians and Genoese in Cyprus, Greece, the Aegean, and on the Black Sea served to defend against a complex array of constantly changing threats.

An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence.

This is the second and final volume of the Wickwires' definitive biography of Cornwallis.

Stark examines the importance of publishers and the book industry in the rise of twentieth-century Germanys radical right-wing cultural movements.

Taking the Hard Road is an engaging history of growing up in working-class families in France and Germany during the Industrial Revolution.

Lumans studies the relations between Nazi Germany and the German minority populations of other European countries, examining these ties within the context of Hitlers foreign policy and the racial policies of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler.

In Germans to the Front, David Large charts the path from Germanys total demilitarization immediately after World War II to the appearance of the Bundeswehr, the West German army, in 1956.

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How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country?

A UNC Press Enduring Edition UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print.

Flaherty examines the passage, revision, and implementation of privacy and data protection laws at the national and state levels in Sweden, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States.

Hibbard begins by setting court Catholicism in the context of English court alignments on domestic and foreign policy.

The Low Countries -- an area roughly embracing the present-day Netherlands and Belgium -- formed a patchwork of varied economic and social development in the Middle Ages, with some regions displaying a remarkable dynamism.

Ranum analyzes the canons of writing history and describes the lives and achievements of the royal French historiographers.

This introductory text provides a concise overview of the history of Byzantium, from AD 285, when it first separated from the Western Roman Empire, to 1461, when the last Byzantine splinter state disappeared.

Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791 plunges students into the intellectual and political currents that surged through revolutionary Paris in the summer of 1791.

The Threshold of Democracy re-creates the intellectual dynamics of one of the most formative periods in Western history.

Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward the recognition of God as Creator and to demonstrate the compatibility of the biblical record with the new science.

Interventions in other states on behalf of their subject populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state practice, one which breaches the old principle of sovereignty.

Interventions in other states on behalf of their subject populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state practice, one which breaches the old principle of sovereignty.

This special edition of History of Universities, Volume XXXV/1, studies and reappraises the often ignored history of eighteenth-century Oxford, caught as it is between the upheavals of the Stuart century and the reformation of the Victorian era.

This special edition of History of Universities, Volume XXXV/1, studies and reappraises the often ignored history of eighteenth-century Oxford, caught as it is between the upheavals of the Stuart century and the reformation of the Victorian era.

A major new interpretation of the impact of ancient Rome on our culture, this study charts the effects of two diametrically opposed views of Roman antiquity: the virtuous republic of self-less citizen soldiers and the corrupt empire of power-hungry tyrants.

Writing Welsh History is the first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years.

Investigating a wide range of problems in the development of English law, this collection of original essays honors the contributions of Samuel D.

Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy?

Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of wars significance to the history of the Great War.

In this magisterial and pathbreaking work, Csaba Bks shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungarys international relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1932, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany.

In tenth- and eleventh-century England, Anglo-Saxon Christians retained an old folk belief in elves as extremely dangerous creatures capable of harming unwary humans.

An acknowledged authority on German history and memory, Alon Confino presents in this volume an original critique of the relations between nationhood, memory, and history, applied to the specific case of Germany.

Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment.

Jones offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of the development and decline of the German Democratic party and the German Peoples party from 1918 to 1933.

Anti-democracy in England 1570-1642 is a detailed study of anti-democratic ideas in early modern England.

Anti-democracy in England 1570-1642 is a detailed study of anti-democratic ideas in early modern England.

In the late nineteenth century, Germans spearheaded a worldwide effort to preserve the material traces of humanity, designing major ethnographic museums and building extensive networks of communication and exchange across the globe.

The division of the late Roman Empire into two theoretically cooperating parts by the brothers Valentinian and Valens in 364 deeply influenced many aspects of government in each of the divisions.

Since the sudden collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe in 1989, scholars have tried to explain why the Soviet Union stood by and watched as its empire crumbled.

Were movies in the East Bloc propaganda or carefully veiled dissent?

This first work in English to focus on Constant as a political theorist shows that his thinking was molded by the French Revolution of 1789 and by Napoleons regime.

No example demonstrates the fluidity of the past within the German Democratic Republic more powerfully than the history of the Prussian state.

Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England details the relationship between transnational mobility and the development of Tudor Catholicism.

Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England details the relationship between transnational mobility and the development of Tudor Catholicism.