History

Widely regarded as ancient Rome's greatest historian, Tacitus has shaped much of early modern and modern thought on Rome and its emperors.

How much power does the Soviet military exert on the politics of the Kremlin?

Although today in France church attendance is minimal, when death occurs many families still cling to religious rites.

This work presents the first five hundred of the over 2,000 documents that Robert I.

Marshalling historical materials to make a descriptive argument in social theory, this wide-ranging book compares the liberal revolution in France to the liberal revolutions in England and America and argues that the causes and outcomes of these upheavals were decisive in shaping later patterns of politics.

The description for this book, From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940, will be forthcoming.

Throughout the nineteenth century, legal barriers to Jewish citizenship were lifted in Europe, enabling organized Jewish communities and individuals to alter radically their relationships with the institutions of the Christian West.

A study of agrarian thought in prewar Japan, this bonk concentrates on the developing fissure between official and rural conceptions of nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Fruhgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,7, Universitat Osnabruck, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Hausarbeit untersucht den Einfluss der Metoken auf die athenische Gesellschaft zur klassisches Zeit des 4.

Ravenna a study offers a detailed exploration of a city whose influence shaped pivotal transitions in Italian and European history.

Thomas Nipperdey offers readers insights into the history and the culture of German nationalism, bringing to light much-needed information on the immediate prenational period of transition.

Measured by its capacity to endure, the Prussian nobility was the most successful in the modern history of continental Europe.

Select speeches of Kossuth presents a concentrated collection of political orations focused on national self determination, civil liberty, and constitutional governance.

Champions of the Cherokees is the story of two extraordinary Northern Baptist missionaries, father and son, who lived with the Cherokee Indians from 1821 to 1876.

The right and wrong uses of the bible examines the interpretation and application of Scripture within a climate of intellectual challenge and shifting belief.

Though central to the social, political, and cultural life of the nineteenth-century city, the urban volunteer fire department has nevertheless been largely ignored by historians.

The Land of Deepening Shadow: Germany-at-War offers a penetrating exploration of a nation engulfed in the turmoil of World War I.

At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina.

At the end of the sixteenth century, when painters, writers, and scientists from all over Europe flocked to Rome for creative inspiration, the city was also becoming the center of a vibrant and assertive Roman Catholic culture.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 2,0, Universität Siegen (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die mittelalterliche Geschichte, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit beschäftigt sich mit Otto von Freising, der einer der wichtigsten Geschichtsschreiber des Mittelalters war.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2,0, Universität Osnabrück, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Hausarbeit analysiert den Malleus Maleficarum (Hexenhammer) von Heinrich Institoris (ca.

Civilizing Women is a riveting exploration of the disparate worlds of British colonial officers and the Muslim Sudanese they sought to remake into modern imperial subjects.

Volume Four of this definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death includes 581 documents from 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812.

A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents Volume 8, Part 1: James A.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Sonstiges, Note: 1,7, Universitat Osnabruck, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Hausarbeit analysiert die Herrschaft Maria Stuarts in Schottland mit besonderem Fokus auf die Beziehung zu Elizabeth I.

Between 1870 and 1960, national boundaries became more evident on the demographic map of Western Europe.

During the remarkably long period (1724-1754) that Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, served as England's secretary of state, private interests and the exigencies of domestic politics rather than a rational assessment of England's stake in America determined colonial policy.

This is the story of the great coalition formed by the United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Russia to combat the Axis in World War II.

Since 1798, when Congress authorized John Adams to employ the navy to capture armed French vessels preying on American shipping on the Atlantic coast, U.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Sonstiges, Note: 1,7, Universität Osnabrück, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Hausarbeit analysiert das Rollenbild des Reformators Thomas Müntzer in der frühneuzeitlichen Publizistik der Wittenberger Theologen, exemplarisch an Luthers „Eyn Schrecklich geschicht und gericht Gotes über Thomas Müntzer“ und Melanchthons „Histori Thome Muntzers“.

Czechoslovak domestic politics, including the long-standing policy dilemmas stemming from the so-called Slovak question, are usually approached from a historical standpoint.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - Neuere Geschichte, Note: 1,7, Universitat Osnabruck, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Hausarbeit untersucht Entstehung, Entwicklung und Herausforderungen selbstverwalteter Betriebe in der Bundesrepublik der 1970er und 1980er Jahre am Beispiel der Arbeiterselbsthilfe (ASH) in Frankfurt.

In Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic, Donald Lateiner examines every major variety of Homeric nonverbal behavior, especially in the Odyssey.

In Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic, Donald Lateiner examines every major variety of Homeric nonverbal behavior, especially in the Odyssey.

Do ominous reports of an emerging "e;underclass"e; reveal an unprecedented crisis in American society?

Historians have frequently portrayed Italian anarchism as a marginal social movement that was doomed to succumb to its own ideological contradictions once Italian society modernized.

Why do artists, poets, philosophers, writers, and others who are usually classified as intellectuals leave the ivory tower to "e;dirty their hands"e; in the political arena?

Kenya's central highlands are the elevated portions of East Africa that European colonists entered from the beginning of the twentieth century to make Kenya a white settlement area.

The commonly held view that the interests of American business dominated U.

In this unusual and unique volume, Alexander Leitch provides a warm, often witty, and always informative reference book on Princeton University.

Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) is best known in the English-speaking world for the four posthumous books edited by Joseph Campbell and published in the Bollingen Series: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization, Philosophies of India, The Art of Indian Asia, and The King and the Corpse.

This book demonstrates how monarchy adjusted to the contours of modernity in remarkably diverse kinds of ways and contexts, preserving a central role in the configuration of the post-revolutionary world.

Written over a century ago when Japan was abandoning its rich traditions to embrace the hysteria of colonization, this classic written by Okakura Kakuzo helped preserve the masterpieces of Japanese art and culture by illuminating the spirit of the Japanese Tea Masters.

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The first three decades of the twentieth century in late-colonial Vietnam -- the period that also marked the transition between the dominant Confucian and nascent Western worldviews -- generated an abundance of political literature in that country.

From the moment Admiral Richard E.

In this fascinating autobiography, the late Massachusetts Governor and Senator Leverett Saltonstall shares stories from a political career that spanned nearly five decadesfrom the Massachusetts House of Representatives to the chambers of the U.

In Volume 34, covering May through July 1801, the story of Thomas Jefferson's first presidential administration continues to unfold.

The Shi'is of Iraq provides a comprehensive history of Iraq's majority group and its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority.

The Cherokees, the most important tribe in the formative years of the American Republic, became the test case for the Founding Fathers' determination to Christianize and "e;civilize"e; all Indians and to incorporate them into the republic as full citizens.