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.
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.
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.
When the German edition of Steiners masterful analysis of Switzerlands political system was first published in 1970 as Gewaltlose Politik und kulturelle Vielfalt, it was greeted by the American Political Science Review as a laudable departure from conventional comparative series.
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.
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.
Eightytwo percent of German boys and girls between the ages of ten and eighteen belonged to Hitlerjugend Hitler Youth or one of its affiliates by the time membership became fully compulsory in 1939.
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.
Originally published in 1924 and available here in English for the first time, The Enemys House Divided is Charles de Gaulles analysis of the major errors that led the Germans to disaster in World War I.
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.
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.
Building the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore the erection of its dome.
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.
Richard Soloway offers a compelling and authoritative study of the relationship of the eugenics movement to the dramatic decline in the birthrate and family size in twentieth-century Britain.
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.
From the Russian revolutions of 1917 to the end of the Civil War in 1920, Woodrow Wilson's administration sought to oppose the Bolsheviks in a variety of covert ways.
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?
Richard Soloway offers a compelling and authoritative study of the relationship of the eugenics movement to the dramatic decline in the birthrate and family size in twentieth-century Britain.
Catholics and Treason takes the narratives generated by the contemporary law of treason as it applied to Roman Catholics, during and after the Reformation of the Church in the sixteenth century, and uses them to explore the Catholic community's writing of its own history.
Catholics and Treason takes the narratives generated by the contemporary law of treason as it applied to Roman Catholics, during and after the Reformation of the Church in the sixteenth century, and uses them to explore the Catholic community's writing of its own history.
Building the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore the erection of its dome.
From the Russian revolutions of 1917 to the end of the Civil War in 1920, Woodrow Wilson's administration sought to oppose the Bolsheviks in a variety of covert ways.
In this comprehensive portrait of the women of Chechnya in modern war, Paul Murphy challenges conventional thinking on why they fight and are willing to kill themselves in the name of Allah.
Paths out of the Apocalypse uses violence as a prism through which to investigate the profound social, cultural, and political changes experienced by (post-) Habsburg Central Europe during and immediately after the Great War.
Paths out of the Apocalypse uses violence as a prism through which to investigate the profound social, cultural, and political changes experienced by (post-) Habsburg Central Europe during and immediately after the Great War.
This book asks how English authors of the early to mid twentieth-century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work, and explores this response as an expression of anxieties about, and aspirations within, England itself.
This book asks how English authors of the early to mid twentieth-century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work, and explores this response as an expression of anxieties about, and aspirations within, England itself.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,0, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Geschichtswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Kleine‘ Könige?
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2, Universität Bayreuth (Mittelalterliche Geschichte), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie wurde Alterität und Identität von Pilger*innen im späten Mittelalter wahrgenommen, konstruiert und dargestellt?
A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics.
In this comprehensive portrait of the women of Chechnya in modern war, Paul Murphy challenges conventional thinking on why they fight and are willing to kill themselves in the name of Allah.
Neighbours, Distrust, and the State overturns many of our ideas about how the poorer working class lived together, and thought about each other, from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
