Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Emigre Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath.
Towards Economic Freedom (1937) presents the fundamentals of economics in their historical perspective, and reduces economic theory to its simplest terms.
Offers an in-depth exploration of the author's life, work, and enduring legacy, examining his personal struggles, literary achievements, and social reform efforts.
A Financial Times Summer Read 2025A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'Essential reading' - Telegraph'Not just well timed but admirably powerful' - The Guardian'A calm, sensitive, soothingly sociological book' - The Sunday Times'Will change how you see Britain' - Robert Ford, author of Brexitland________Underdogs is a surprising journey into the heart of the misunderstood white working class.
The Nine Magazines of Kodansha (1934) is the autobiography of the Japanese publisher Seiji Noma, owner of the Kodan Company, publishing several million-selling magazines and a daily paper.
Salvage from the Sea (1977) offers a fascinating insight into the interesting but complex and highly specialised profession of marine salvage and its associated disciplines.
First published in 1985, The European Crisis of the 1590s (now with a new preface by Peter Clark on the current literature on crisis and catastrophe) investigates in depth for the first time the origin and scale of the critical problems of the 1590s and their impact on European society.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
The well-known story of the Beothuk is that they were an isolated people who, through conflict with Newfoundland settlers and Mi'kmaq, were made extinct in 1829.
Entre totes les vergonyes de l'horror nazi, n'hi ha una que ha passat força desapercebuda: la «concentració» d'alemanys d'origen jueu en les anomenades judenhaus, abans de les deportacions massives.
Originally published in 1932, A History of the Public Library Movement in Great Britain and Ireland is concerned with the rise and progress of the public library as it stood at that time.
Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class - especially discussion of the working class - to a broad audience across scholarship and social debate.
Die Gründung Ludwigsburgs war weit mehr als nur der Bau einer neuen Stadt – sie war das ambitionierte Projekt eines visionären Herzogs, der seine Macht und seinen Einfluss in Stein und Marmor manifestieren wollte.
Bringing together contributions from social, political, and urban historians, this collection examines social movements in Western European cities from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Für die Entwicklung einer administrativen Entschädigungspraxis der nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Deutschland waren Papierdokumente von zentraler Bedeutung.
Die vielfältigen Begleiterscheinungen von Klimawandel und Artensterben werden geologisch mit dem Anbruch eines neuen Erdzeitalters, dem Anthropozän, identifiziert.
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Meeresriffe – die "Regenwälder der Meere", in denen sich biologische Vielfalt, geologische Pracht und ökologische Bedeutung vereinen.
This volume explores how narratives and iconographic codes in literature, art, music, material culture and social, political, and economic discourses were appropriated and thereby - sometimes radically - transformed by religious agents, and how religious narrations, discourses and iconographic practices were reimagined and used (up to radical deconstruction) in non-religious contexts as well as in different or transformed religious contexts.
