In The Inner Life of Catholic Reform, Ulrich Lehner offers a longue duree overview of the sentiments and spiritual ideas of the 250-year long time span following the Council of Trent, known as Catholic Reform.
In The Inner Life of Catholic Reform, Ulrich Lehner offers a longue duree overview of the sentiments and spiritual ideas of the 250-year long time span following the Council of Trent, known as Catholic Reform.
"e;First we crushed our enemy, then saved him from starvation,"e; Walter Cronkite intoned in a 1963 episode of the CBS television series The Twentieth Century.
Roman Britain takes readers on an unforgettable journey through one of the most fascinating chapters of British history: the nearly four centuries during which Britain was part of the mighty Roman Empire.
Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the late Middle Ages.
Joseph & Hyrum: Two Brothers, One Restoration tells the powerful story of two brothers bound together by family, faith, sacrifice, and an unshakable conviction that God had again spoken from heaven.
The Cudgel War: and the Making of Early Modern Finland In November 1596, in the churchyard of a Finnish parish on Saint Catherine's Day, a district bailiff died and a rebellion began.
First published in 1988, this revised and updated fifth edition of the Directory of Irish Archives contains entries for some 250 repositories and organizations - educational, religious, cultural, and governmental - which hold records of historical significance.
This book offers the first systematic comparative analysis of memory politics concerning post-war camps in Poland for the German population (and those classified as German).
Markets of Pain offers a sweeping history of the business of licit opium--following cultivators, merchants, scientists, and policymakers--and shows how this potent crop reshaped global trade, medicine, and geopolitics.
This volume traces the experiences of seven African American abolitionists who travelled to Ireland during the tumultuous years after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Eli Stokes, William Allen, Isaac Davison, William Mitchell, William Troy, James Cheeney Thompson, and Robert Maxwell Johnson.
The Maamtrasna Murders Ireland's Most Devastating Miscarriage of JusticeOn the night of August 17, 1882, five members of the Joyce family were killed in their cottage above Lough Mask in the remote Gaeltacht community of Maamtrasna.
This book offers the first systematic comparative analysis of memory politics concerning post-war camps in Poland for the German population (and those classified as German).
A highly readable narrative of the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish Conquest, incorporating the perspectives of many Native groups, Black slaves, and the conquistadors.
In this work, Fred Drogula studies the development of Roman provincial command using the terms and concepts of the Romans themselves as reference points.
The life of politician and diarist Samuel Pepys spanned seven decades, meaning he bore witness to many groundbreaking events such as the execution of King Charles I in 1649 and the Glorious Revolution in 1688.
Based on unprecedented access to the Order's internal documents, this book provides the first systematic social history of the Orange Order - the Protestant association dedicated to maintaining the British connection in Northern Ireland.
Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the nineteenth-century ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Chicago, or have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half.
Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries.
The study and teaching of English literature is generally regarded as one of the central disciplines in the modern university, yet for much of its history it struggled to gain academic legitimacy and was frequently derided as 'a soft option'.
While the Big Three and their continental Allies fought against Nazi Germany, another war was under way on the continent: the war to shape the political landscape of post-war Europe.
A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the years following his death.
A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the years following his death.
Markets of Pain offers a sweeping history of the business of licit opium--following cultivators, merchants, scientists, and policymakers--and shows how this potent crop reshaped global trade, medicine, and geopolitics.
