General and world history

This volume presents pathbreaking studies on diverse human approaches to »the ocean«.

Richard Baxter (1615-1691) was arguably the greatest English Puritan of the seventeenth century.

The dramatic task of re-imagining clerical identity proved crucial to the Renaissance and Reformation.

Two focal areas are central in the 2015 Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute.

Die Zerstörung des Jerusalemer Tempels durch die Römer um 70 n.

In her work Rebekah Earnshaw provides an analysis of Creator and creation according to Calvin on Genesis.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the Cold War, which extends from 1945 to the final solution to the US -Soviet confrontation in 1990.

450 Jahre nach der Emder Synode von 1571 werden ihre Beschlüsse und Dokumente in heutigem Deutsch wiedergegeben.

The question of how theology shapes a Christian historian's reading of the past has been debated thoroughly in various academic periodicals.

Das Verhältnis zwischen Religion und Politik ist in jüngster Zeit wieder zu einem Thema von hoher öffentlicher und wissenschaftlicher Aufmerksamkeit geworden.

Images of peasant workers may be found throughout European history.

Mit diesem Wegweiser in der Hand durchwandert man Göttingens Straßen und entdeckt Häuser, in denen Berühmtheiten gewohnt, gelebt, gearbeitet haben: Wissenschaftler mit Weltgeltung: Robert Koch, Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg; große Schriftsteller: Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Tieck; mächtige Staatsmänner: König Georg V.

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Platz 1 der Sachbuch-Bestenliste von Die Zeit, Deutschlandfunk und ZDF: «Marina Münkler entwirft das Panorama einer revolutionären Epoche.

Häufig entsteht der Eindruck, die weithin befürwortete nordamerikanische ›World History‹-Bewegung sei im späten 20.

Why can't Christians agree about communion?

Handbook of Soviet Space-Science Research (1968) provides a comprehensive and authoritative English language summary of Soviet space-science research of the 1960s.

Die Frage »Was wäre geschehen, wenn …?

The Russian Workers' Republic (1921) is a result of the author's two-month travels through Soviet Russia.

The Russian Workers' Republic (1921) is a result of the author's two-month travels through Soviet Russia.

Noch in der späten Zarenzeit entwickelte sich Russland dank des Aufbaus einer modernen Erdölindustrie im Kaukasus zu einem der weltweit führenden Ölproduzenten und hat diese Stellung in der Sowjetzeit noch ausgebaut.

- While cotton was a world-changing good in the early modern period, for producers, merchants, and consumers, it was but one of many different fabrics.

Die Menschenrechte und der Kalte Krieg wurden rückblickend meist als Antipoden in der Geschichte betrachtet.

The medieval history of the Teutonic Knights can be gathered from a relatively rich corpus of materials.

The Italian reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1561) arrived in Zurich in 1556 after long years of fleeing from the Roman inquisition, and taught there as professor of Old Testament studies.

The »Juridicum« has served as the home for the formation and development of young lawyers for almost 50 years.

The medieval history of the Teutonic Knights can be gathered from a relatively rich corpus of materials.

Ancient Greece comes alive in this recreation of the daily lives of ordinary people-men and women, children and the elderly, slaves and foreigners, rich and poor.

Transoceanic and Transmedial Imaginaries in the Indian Ocean explores multiple aesthetic relations constantly in flux, which construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct the Indian Ocean.

After Nero's death and the following civil wars in 68-69 A.

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In 'Herrn Arnes Schatz - Krimi: Beruht auf wahren Begebenheiten' taucht Selma Lagerlöf tief in die düstere Welt von Mord, Verrat und Rache ein.

The newest volume of the Simon Dubnow Yearbook has one major theme: It looks at the 100th anniversary of the beginning of what came to be called the "Great Seminal Catastrophe" – World War I.

Durch das steigende Interesse an interkulturellem Austausch und interreligiöser Begegnung rückte auch das Interesse an der Geschichte christlicher Missionen in den letzten Jahren in den Fokus der Forschung.

Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination.

Orchestrating Warfighting provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the employment of corps and divisions from the First World War through to the early twenty-first century.

Der reformierte Theologe und Geschichtsschreiber Friedrich Lucae, 1644 im schlesischen Brieg geboren und 1708 als Pfarrer im hessischen Rotenburg an der Fulda gestorben, hinterließ autobiographische Aufzeichnungen, die hier erstmals in einer historisch-kritischen Edition vorgelegt werden.

Mit diesem Wegweiser in der Hand durchwandert man Göttingens Straßen und entdeckt Häuser, in denen Berühmtheiten gewohnt, gelebt, gearbeitet haben: Wissenschaftler mit Weltgeltung: Robert Koch, Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg; große Schriftsteller: Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Tieck; mächtige Staatsmänner: König Georg V.

This book offers a broad overview of the history of agricultural knowledge from the 19th century to the present day.

Explaining things is a well-known part of both history and everyday life.

This volume offers an unparalleled range of comparative studies considering both persecution and genocide across two thousand years of history from Rome to Nazi Germany, and spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Dimitry Shumsky´s study addresses the question of how the cultural-political background of the Jewish milieu in Prague, squarely aligned between its German and Czech roots, became the vital spark for Zionism during the Habsburg Monarchy.

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By the 12th century, European literature was rich with tales of a procession carrying a group of objects closely tied to the Passion of Christ--the Holy Grail, the lance that pierced Christ's side, the sword used to behead John the Baptist, and a dish from the Last Supper.

The phrase "e;silk road"e; evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia.

In the summer of 1942, Axis forces controlled almost the entire southern shore of the Mediterranean.

In the summer of 1942, Axis forces controlled almost the entire southern shore of the Mediterranean.

Forgetting about Spain's civil war (1936-9) and subsequent dictatorship was long seen as a necessary safeguard for the democracy that emerged after General Francisco Franco's death in 1975.

In ›Die Erfindung der Namen‹ taucht der Leser in eine faszinierende Welt ein, in der die Bedeutung von Namen nicht nur eine kulturelle Nuance ist, sondern eine grundlegende Rolle im menschlichen Dasein spielt.