Mit dem Königreich Westphalen (1807-1813) wurde in Deutschland erstmals ein moderner Verfassungsstaat aufgebaut, der die Rechte des Monarchen und der Stände gesetzlich verankerte.
In the Balkans today Communism, with its dynamic drive for power and sense of mission, is charging against the Balkan peasant mass, a patient, religious, tradition-bound people tilling their beloved soil.
Within the American antislavery movement, abolitionists were distinct from others in the movement in advocating, on the basis of moral principle, the immediate emancipation of slaves and equal rights for black people.
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Nationalism comprehensively surveys the sub-disciplinary area of religious nationalism, an interaction between religion and nationalism.
Historical and systematic in its treatment, this work reviews the idea of progress in Western thought as it relates to civilization, in a more comprehensive survey than is to be found in previous writings on the subject.
Life in Canada is shaped by the seasons - marked, celebrated, enjoyed, and sometimes dreaded in ways that respond directly to the changing cycles in nature.
Royal recognition in Canada is accorded through a variety of honours and awards, including the Royal Victorian Order, Medal, and Chain; Vice-Regal and Commissioners' Commendations; and Vice-Regal and Commissioners' Recognition Badges.
2016 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award - Shortlisted2015 Speaker's Book Award - ShortlistedExplore the history of tourism in the Nipissing Passageway, from Mattawa to Georgian Bay, beginning with Champlain's voyage in 1615.
A report in 1833 by a committee of three respected Kingston colonials called for the construction of a limestone penitentiary on Hatter's Bay to the west of the town.
Maps for Family and Local History shows how three great land surveys can provide information on ancestral homes, as well as fascinating historical snapshots of specific areas.
Die Absicht der Autorin ist es nicht, die Geschichte der revolutionaren Bewegungen zu schreiben, die in der ersten Halfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts stattfanden und mit den Ausbruchen des Jahres 1848 endeten, sondern deren Zusammenhang mit der umfassenderen allmahlichen Umwalzung zu beleuchten, die das wesentlich agrarische Deutschland in ein wesentlich industrielles verwandelte, was zugleich eine Verwandlung der Weltanschauung bedeutete.
Autrefois, la waide, ou pastel, était au cœur de la richesse de la Picardie et du sud-ouest de la France, offrant un bleu profond qui embellissait les étoffes recherchées à travers toute l’Europe.
Desde la caída de los regímenes comunistas, Washington ha expandido su influencia sobre la mayor parte de los antiguos países comunistas – desde el Báltico por Europa Oriental a los Balcanes y más allá al Asia Central y Meridional, mediante guerras, invasiones y operaciones encubiertas.
This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.
La celebracion del Bicentenario de nuestra Independencia tuvo para Quito una especial significacion y convoco la remembranza, recuperacion y revision de toda una antigua memoria colectiva, en busca de entender, desde las realidades de hoy, la dimension admirable de esas luchas, la riqueza de ideas que se gesto alrededor de ellas y el proceso general de constitucion del Estado Nacional ecuatoriano, que arranco en medio del fuego y la sangre de aquellos combates.
This book addresses the rise of the concept of the "e;Global Anglophone"e; in contemporary literary studies, both as an intellectual category and as a field designation.
This book is the second in a two-volume set examining the social history of the Hanjiang River region in southern China from the Song Dynasty to the modern era.
This social history explores the lives of urban commoners in early modern Kyoto during the dramatic political shift from famine to revolution in the final decades of the Tokugawa regime, through an extensive survey of the detailed record changes from 1843 in response to these crises.
This book is the second in a two-volume set examining the social history of the Hanjiang River region in southern China from the Song Dynasty to the modern era.