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by Denys Hay
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The second edition of this highly successful textbook analyses the structure of later medieval society in Europe, identifies its main groups and their political programmes, and examines their impact on the political, economic and social history of the major European states. There are many additions...
An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World
The Travels of Muhammad ibn ‘Uthmān al-Miknāsī, 1779-1788
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book provides translated selections from the writings of Muhammad Ibn Othman al-Miknasi (d. 1799). The only writings by an Arab-Muslim in the pre-modern period that present a comparative perspective, his travelogues provide unique insight with in to Christendom and Islam.
Translating excerpts...
Eastern Question 1774-1923, The
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
A clear and concise guide to the Eastern Question - the problem facing the European states of how to react to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. A L MacFie's study shows how the question was a major factor in shaping the policies of all the major powers from the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-74 down to the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
by Jem Duducu
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Sparked by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars became one of the largest European conflicts in history as Napoleon fought to expand his French Empire. The wars were instrumental in the formation of Europe as we know it today, and confirmed Britain’s dominance as a seafaring nation. It was...
Dubrovnik
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Since emerging as a settlement in the seventh century, Dubrovnik has faced Venetian aggressors, Ottoman plotters, a terrible earthquake in 1667 and, finally, the will of Napoleon. In 1991–92 the city survived the besieging Yugoslav army, which heavily damaged but did not destroy its cultural heritage.
This...
by Major General Haywood S. Hansell Jr. USAF
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This book seeks to recount the air experience and development before World War II, to describe the objectives, plans and effects of strategic air warfare in Europe and in the Pacific, and to offer criticism, opinion, and lessons of that great conflict.
MAJOR GENERAL HAYWOOD S. HANSELL, JR.,...
Reading The Enemy’s Mail:
Origins And Development Of US Army Tactical Radio Intelligence In World War II, European Theater
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This thesis traces the development of American radio intelligence at the operational and tactical levels from its beginnings in World War I through the end of World War II. It shows that signals intelligence is useful to the tactical and operational level commander. The study recommends the Army rethink...
An Evaluation Of The Aerial Interdiction Campaign Known As The “Transportation Plan” For The D-Day Invasion
Early January 1944 To Late June 1944
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The various airmen leading the air war had great differences of opinion regarding what to target in the European theater of operations in support of Operation Overlord. The central leadership figures were Lt. General Carl Spaatz, USSTAF commander, and Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, AEAF...
Archives of Empire
Volume I. From The East India Company to the Suez Canal
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have carefully selected a diverse range of texts...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
For decades, the creationist movement was primarily situated in the United States. Then, in the 1970s, American creationists found their ideas welcomed abroad, first in Australia and New Zealand, then in Korea, India, South Africa, Brazil, and elsewhere—including Europe, where creationism plays...
by Timothy Darvill, Julian Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
A digital reprint which makes available again the first publication of the Neolithic Studies Group, containing papers given to a special colloquium on the `structures' of Neolithic Europe. Contributions include: Neolithic houses in mainland Britain and Ireland - a skeptical view (Julian Thomas); Houses...
Cultural Borders of Europe
Narratives, Concepts and Practices in the Present and the Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and political representation as well...
Political Action in Václav Havel's Thought
The Responsibility of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Political Action in Vaclav Havel’s Thought: The Responsibility of Resistance, by Delia Popescu, examines resistance to oppression and individual responsibility in political action, all in the context of Vaclav Havel’s political philosophy. The famous anti-communist dissident, acclaimed playwright,...
Waterloo
Myth and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
More has probably been written about the Waterloo campaign than almost any other in history. It was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars and forms a watershed in both European and world history. However, the lethal combination of national bias, wilful distortion and simple error has unfortunately led...