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In this beautifully illustrated study of intellectual and art history, Dorothy Johnson explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depiction of myth.

One of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome and at the same time one of the most poorly understood, the Column of Marcus Aurelius has long stood in the shadow of the Column of Trajan.

Throughout the Cold War, the United States encountered unexpected challenges from Italy and France, two countries with the strongest, and determinedly most anti-American, Communist Parties in Western Europe.

Elite Romans periodically chose to limit or destroy the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community.

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.

Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia E.

Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers.

On 16 July 1941, Adolf Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories.

Classical music was central to German national identity in the early twentieth century.

How was it possible that almost all of the nearly 300,000 British and American troops who fell into German hands during World War II survived captivity in German POW camps and returned home almost as soon as the war ended?

Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers.

During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military.

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Neuzeit, Absolutismus, Industrialisierung, Note: 1,7, FernUniversität Hagen (Fakultät für Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Initialzündung des französischen Militarisierungsprozesses, der gesamtgesellschaftliche Ausmaße annehmen sollte, war die Entstehung der Nationalgarde, da hier erstmals die Sphären des Bürgerlichen mit denen des Militärischen in Berührung kamen.

Between 1945 and 1948, more than a quarter of a million Jews fled countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and began filling hastily erected displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria.

In the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, West German industrialists faced a major crisis in their public image.

Hurstfield analyzes American responses diplomatic, military, intellectual, and popular to the plight of the French nation during World War II, as the constitution of the Third Republic was suspended, Petain ruled in Vichy, the Germans administered Occupied France, DeGaulle organized the Free French movement, and an internal French resistance slowly gathered strength.

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.

Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Neueste Geschichte, Europäische Einigung, Note: 2,0, Universität Wien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit wird ihren Fokus auf die Vergewaltigungen im Bosnienkrieg haben.

Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Romes increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world.

Examining the history of nationalisms pervasive influence on modern politics and cultural identities, Lloyd Kramer discusses how nationalist ideas gained emotional and cultural power after the revolutionary upheavals in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

In this intellectual history, Minkah Makalani reveals how early-twentieth-century black radicals organized an international movement centered on ending racial oppression, colonialism, class exploitation, and global white supremacy.

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

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the late nineteenth century.

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 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.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Neueste Geschichte, Europäische Einigung, Note: 1,7, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit beschäftigt sich mit einem elementaren Aspekt der sowjetischen Lebensgestaltung, der Kindererziehung.

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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In the years of expanding state authority following the Black Death, English common law permitted the leasing of parishes by their rectors and vicars, who then pursued interests elsewhere and left the parish in the control of lay lessees.

In this book, James Sickinger explores the use and preservation of public records in the ancient Athenian democracy of the archaic and classical periods.

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

Linking historiography and political history, Victor Feske addresses the changing role of national histories written in early twentieth-century Britain by amateur scholars Hilaire Belloc, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, J.

Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962.

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.

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the late nineteenth century.

An account of the problems facing German veterans after WWII and the ways in which they were addressed in the decade following Germanys defeat.

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.

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

The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany.

All nations make themselves up as they go along, but not all make themselves up in the same way.

With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britains mainland American colonies.

Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems.

In this intellectual history, Minkah Makalani reveals how early-twentieth-century black radicals organized an international movement centered on ending racial oppression, colonialism, class exploitation, and global white supremacy.

When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations.

During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military.

This book examines writing in English, Irish, and Spanish by women living in Ireland and by Irish women living on the continent between the years 1574 and 1676.