History

Focusing on the relationship between the Soviet Union and the leading Afro-Asian neutralists, Professor Rubinstein studies Soviet policy and behavior in international organizations concerned with promoting the economic and social welfare of developing countries.

Anarchy followed the Hussite Revolution in Bohemia until George of Podebrady was elected king.

General Louis Eugene Cavaignac has been a symbol of reactionary violence ever since he crushed the insurgent workers of Paris in the "e;bloody June Days"e; of 1848.

Hubert Johnson examines eight departments in southeastern France from the outbreak of the French Revolution through the Federalist Revolt in 1793.

Treating the tumultuous period from 1901 to the late 1920s, this book describes social and political conflict in the cradle of agrarian fascism.

Here is the first political biography of Baron Franz Maria Thugut, the principal Austrian opponent of the French Revolution.

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The fundamental aims of this book are two: to explore the interaction between religion and secular society in the formation as well as the dissolution of just war doctrine; and to investigate just war doctrine as an ideological pattern of thought, expressive of a greater ideology.

The Arab Israeli Conflict is a fundamental research tool for students of the Middle East and for those responsible for U.

Professor Brucker contends that changes in the social order provide the key to understanding the transition of Florence from a medieval to a Renaissance city.

Professor Zolberg brings the factual material about the Ivory Coast's social, economic, and political development since 1961-1962.

The generally accepted historical viewpoint that the abolitionists were "e;meddlesome fanatics"e; is challenged here by a group of contemporary historians.

Why would a nation, in the midst of a vicious and unrestricted war, hesitate to employ a weapon guaranteed to inflict massive casualties on the enemy?

The first part of the book is an able survey of 'the Enlightenment' in eighteenth-century Spain.

This book is the history of a very remarkable family, that of Count Thomas of Savoy, whose seven sons and two daughters rose from relative obscurity to fame, fortune, and involvement in almost every major international conflict in western Europe during the fifty years following their father's death in 1233.

Professor Skendi, a native of Albania, traces the progress and setbacks of Albania's long struggle for national unity during this least-known period of its intricate history.

This study of Albert Ballin, a powerful member of the banking and commercial elite in Imperial Germany and manager of the Hamburg-American Line from 1899-1918, illuminates the political and social structure of the aristocracy and the upper middle class in the German Empire.

Cohen examines the struggle leading to the creation of the state of Israel, placing British evacuation of Palestine in the context of Britain's postwar weakness.

By delving into the religious, economic, social, and political attitudes and practices of the French bourgeoisie in the 18th century, Mrs.

This book examines an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Louis XV of France and the trial of his assailant, Robert-Francois Damiens, revealing the beginnings of the French Revolution in the ecclesiastical controversies that dominated the Damiens affair.

This book makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried to make the atom bomb a winning weapon,"e; an absolute advantage in negotiations with the Soviet Union.

Author of the only full-length eyewitness account of the 1917 Revolution, Sukhanov was a key figure in the first revolutionary Government.

The author discusses the role of French Catholicism in the internal and foreign affairs of modern France, with a detailed examination of French Catholic groups and their effect on temporal life.

In this, his last work, J.

Using new archival sources, this book shows that Prussia sought not the unity of Germany but its partition into five masses loosely enough joined to assure her control of the North.

This book gives a detailed analysis of the causes of the revolution of January 1964 in Zanzibar, and provides a study of the process of modernization in a plural society.

This book describes disagreements among the diplomats in Paris over the Russian problem, and it analyzes Allied policy toward Russia as it developed at the conference and led into a halfhearted intervention in Russia in 1919.

By focusing on the educational and skill training institutions Japan has developed to generate human resources for modern industry, this book represents a new contribution to the historical analysis of Japan's modern economic growth.

This book explores the economic impact of two major mid-nineteenth century reforms: the formation of the customs union between Austria and Hungary and the emancipation of the peasantry.

The author discusses the tragi-comic aspect of Chola kingship in relation to other Indian expressions of comedy, such as the Vidiisaka of Sanskrit drama, folk tales of the jester Tenali Rama, and clowns of the South Indian shadow-puppet theaters.

Chittorgarh Fort is not just a monument of stone and history—it is a living symbol of courage, sacrifice, and unbreakable spirit.

Royal Shadows: Untold Stories of Kings and Queens takes readers on a breathtaking journey into the hidden world of royalty — a world filled with power, ambition, betrayal, forbidden love, secret wars, and forgotten legends that shaped history forever.

This volume presents an analysis of Japan's powerful upper bureaucracy in the post-war period.

Originally published fifty years ago, Princeton, 1746-1896 has taken its place as one of the best institutional histories in America.

In this compelling narrative of antisemitism in German thought, Paul Rose proposes a fresh view of the topic.

The tangled affairs in Bavaria at the close of World War I constitute a unique and important part of the early Weimar Republic.

In addition to famine and disease, war had a considerable impact on rural society in early modern Europe.

This Ninth Edition of the standard work on Iran includes up-to-date statistics and current information on the country.

A closely documented, balanced account of the bitter political struggle in May and June of 1960 when thousands of Japanese rioted in protest against the revised treaty.

The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine.

Accompanying the gradual systematization of government and modernization of society in Russia during the reforms of the 1860s was a policy of Russification toward Finland and the Baltic provinces of Estland, Livland, and Kurland.

"e;The importance of Czartoryski could hardly be overestimated for the whole complex of 19th century political adjustments from Russia to Spain, England to the Dardanelles.

In this book Robert V.

Burr Litchfield traces the development of the patrician elite of Florence from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, the growth of a bureaucratic state in Tuscany during this period, and the changing relationship of the patricians to the state apparatus.

This comprehensive account of the economic development of Spain, available for the first time in English, is generally regarded as a major achievement in Spanish historiography.

Mussolini, in the thousand guises he projected and the press picked up, fascinated Americans in the 1920s and the early '30s.

With the same sense of historical responsibility and veracity he has exemplified in his studies on Voltaire, Ira O.

In Part I of Christianity and History, the author asks whether the committed Christian should be more conscious than the uncommitted of some meaning in history.

This work explores the background and first two years of the First Carlist War--a conflict that pitted conservative northern peasants against the liberal Madrid government in the largest and most sustained case of armed peasant resistance to modernization in nineteenth-century Europe.

Using many unpublished and other primary sources as well as interviews with aides and associates of Hindenburg, the author shows in Hindenburg and the Weimar Republic how this proud and cautious man, naive in politics and preoccupied with his reputation among his fellow generals, failed to act in crucial situations, or hesitated until action was futile.