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by Rossiter Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) and then spread throughout much of the Western world between the early 1960s and the mid-1970s, with London, New York City, and San Francisco...
by Richard Gould
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Refusal to Submit reflects on the personal sacrifices necessary to make political change. Author Richard Gould documents the Draft Resistance Movement and a young man’s coming of age during the Vietnam War. He details his decision to refuse to be drafted into the U.S. army and the events that follow—his...
How Britain Really Works
Understanding the Ideas and Institutions of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
'Absorbing . . . an intelligent and clear-eyed account of much that goes on in our country' Sunday Times
Getting to grips with Great Britain is harder than ever. We are a nation that chose Brexit, rejects immigration but is dependent on it, is getting older but less healthy, is more demanding...
by Wolfgang Menzel
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
THE century subsequent to the peace of Westphalia is distinguished as the age of Louis the Fourteenth, that monarch being the sun by which it was illumined, and whose splendor was reflected by all the courts of Europe. The first revolution against the middle ages was accomplished in him, by his subjection...
Dynasty and Piety
Archduke Albert (1598-1621) and Habsburg Political Culture in an Age of Religious Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The youngest son of Emperor Maximilian II, and nephew of Philip II of Spain, Archduke Albert (1559-1621) was originally destined for the church. However, dynastic imperatives decided otherwise and in 1598, upon his marriage to Philip's daughter, the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, he found himself...
The Alevis in Turkey
The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
This is the only volume dedicated to the Alevis available in English and based on sustained fieldwork in Turkey. The Alevis now have an increasingly high profile for those interested in the diverse cultures of contemporary Turkey, and in the role of Islam in the modern world. As a heterodox Islamic...
by Robert Tombs
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and attitudes. It considers the tendency to revolution...
Emigration and the Sea
An Alternative History of Portugal and the Portuguese
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese 'Discoveries' of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholic missions that planted Portuguese communities in every continent. Some were part...
Andrew Melville (1545-1622)
Writings, Reception, and Reputation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Andrew Melville is chiefly remembered today as a defiant leader of radical Protestantism in Scotland, John Knox’s heir and successor, the architect of a distinctive Scottish Presbyterian kirk and a visionary reformer of the Scottish university system. While this view of Melville’s contribution...
The Civil War in Yorkshire
Fairfax Versus Newcastle
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
During the English Civil Wars the streets and fields of Yorkshire were fought over for the control of the county. In the bitter confrontation between king and Parliament, Yorkshire was the key to control of the North. This historical guide tells the story of this Yorkshire war, using contemporary...
by Martin Bossenbroek
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) is one of the most intriguing conflicts of modern history. It has been labeled many things: the first media war, a precursor of the First and Second World Wars, the originator of apartheid. The difference in status and resources between the superpower Great Britain and...
The First World War
Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The Great War toppled four empires, cost the world 24 million dead, and sowed the seeds of another worldwide conflict 20 years later. This is the only book in the English language to offer comprehensive coverage of how Germany and Austria-Hungary, two of the key belligerents, conducted the war and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Challenging current perspectives of urbanisation, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience explores how our towns and cities have shaped and been shaped by cultural,spatial and gendered influences. This volume discusses gender in an urban context in European,North American...
by Steven B. Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
The Agony of Greek Jews tells the story of modern Greek Jewry as it came under the control of the Kingdom of Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In particular, it deals with the vicissitudes of those Jews who held Greek citizenship during the interwar and wartime periods. Individual...