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Mediating Power-Sharing
Devolution and Consociationalism in Deeply Divided Societies
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book focuses on the design and operation of power-sharing in deeply divided societies.
Beyond this starting point, it seeks to examine the different ways in which consociational institutions emerge from negotiations and peace settlements across three counter-intuitive cases – post-Brexit...
The Dresden Firebombing
Memory and the Politics of Commemorating Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The firebombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European bombing war. In just over two days in February 1945, over 1,300 heavy bombers from the RAF and the USAAF dropped nearly 4,000 tonnes of explosives on Dresden's civilian centre. Since the end of World War II, both the death toll and...
by George Saintsbury
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Originally published in 1897, "The Flourishing Of Romance And The Rise Of Allegory" is a fascinating treatise by English writer George Saintsbury on Romance. Contents include: "The function of Latin", "Chansons De Geste", "The Matter of Britain", "Antiquity...
Anchoritism in the Middle Ages
Texts and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This volume explores medieval anchoritism (the life of a solitary religious recluse) from a variety of perspectives. The individual essays conceive anchoritism in broadly interpretive categories: challenging perceived notions of the very concept of anchoritic ‘rule’ and guidance; studying the...
Letters Home
From a World War Ii “Black Panther” Artilleryman
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
During World War II, nothing connected a serviceman and his sweetheart back home like a handwritten letter. It was a link to hometo the life a soldier had left behind. In Letters Home, Philip M. Coons shares the almost daily letters that his father, Harold M. Coons, wrote to his mother, Margaret Richman...
Love and Sacrifice
A World War Brings Double Tragedy to an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Love and Sacrifice is the never-before-told true story of a father and son killed in World War II.
The reader follows the Reed family journey through the first half of the 20th century as they travel the country and globe in military service. Their stories are told through loving letters among...
The Radical Tradition (Routledge Revivals)
A Study in Modern Revolutionary Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Originally published in 1978, Richard Gombin’s book traces the recurrent attitudes in the history of the European revolutionary movement which have criticized socialist and communist parties for their authoritarian and bureaucratic tendencies, and which have stressed spontaneity and decentralization...
by Mark Hewitson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
The German Empire before 1914 had the fastest growing economy in Europe and was the strongest military power in the world. Yet it appeared, from a reading of many contemporaries' accounts, to be lagging behind other nation-states and to be losing the race to divide up the rest of the globe. This book...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Through a range of case studies from eastern and western Europe, this book breaks new ground in investigating the extent to which European peoples living within Europe were also subjected to the ideologies and practices of colonialism.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2000
Until the dramatic fall of Communist regimes in the East placed the possibility of revolution on the agenda once again, sudden and decisive political change had appeared a largely anachronistic phenomenon in Europe. Looking back over the twentieth century, it is plausible to argue that the twentieth,...
by Malcolm Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
An examination of the ceaseless controversies surrounding ideas of nation and nationalism, showing that they are very far from dead in twenty-first century Europe. Beginning by defining these terms and setting out theories and concepts clearly and concisely, this book analyses the impact of nationalism...
Individuality and Modernity in Berlin
Self and Society from Weimar to the Wall
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Moritz Föllmer traces the history of individuality in Berlin from the late 1920s to the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. The demand to be recognised as an individual was central to metropolitan society, as were the spectres of risk, isolation and loss of agency. This was true under...
Perspectives on the Entangled History of Communism and Nazism
A Comnaz Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The collective work deals with the problems of if, how, and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism should and could be situated within one coherent narrative. As historical phenomena, can Communism and Nazism fruitfully be compared to each other? Do they belong to the same historical...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This book examines how rural Europe as a hybrid social and natural environment emerged as a key site of local, national and international governance in the interwar years. The post-war need to secure and intensify food production, to protect contested border areas, to improve rural infrastructure...