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by Hugh Agnew
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this first up-do-date, single volume history of the Czechs, Agnew provides an introduction to the major themes and contours of Czech history for the general reader—from prehistory and the first Slavs to the Czech Republic's entry into the European Union.
by Alexander Mikaberidze
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Presented here, for the first time in any language, are more than 800 detailed biographies of the senior Russian officers who commanded troops in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, together with 440 b&x portraits. This amazing study spans the critical years of 1792 to 1815, but also includes...
Law and Conscience
Catholicism in Early Modern England, 1570–1625
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book examines the Catholic elaboration on the relationship between state and Church in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Among the several factors which have contributed to the complex process of state-formation in early modern Europe, religious affiliation has certainly been one of the...
Spain, 1833-2002
People and State
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007
This book provides a cultural history of Spanish politics from the civil war of 1833 to the Spanish adoption of the Euro in 2002, a period dominated for the most part by violent military interventions in the political process, a succession of weak, unstable, but repressive governments, and the ever-present...
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by Lt.-Col. Randolph Leigh
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This book is not intended as a definitive history of this phase of the American effort in Europe, but to record the highlights of that great project.
Obviously no one person could gather and evaluate all the material for a book on the Services of Supply of the United States Army in the European...
Weimar and Nazi Germany
Continuities and Discontinuities
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Weimar and Nazi Germany presents the history of the country in these periods in a unique way. Examining the continuities and discontinuities between the Third Reich and the Weimar Republic, it also contextualises these two regimes within modern German and European history. After a broad introduction...
EU Civilian Crisis Management
The Record So Far
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
The European Union has been deploying civilians in conflict and postconflict stabilization missions since 2003, and the scope of civilian missions is likely to increase in the future. This volume offers a general overview and assessment of the EU's civilian operations to date, as well as a more in-depth...
Canopies Of Blue:
The U.S. Airborne Experience In The Pacific In WWII As A Case Study In Operational Art And Multi-Role Flexibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
As America’s collective memory of the Second World War fades, popular history books and the entertainment industry have filled the knowledge gap with accounts from the European Theater. A resurgence in works focusing on the war in the Pacific has surfaced in recent years, but the topic still requires...
New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War
Unexpected Transformations?
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This collection of essays makes a significant contribution to the historiography of the end of the Cold War.
Research on the causes and consequences of the end of the Cold War is constantly growing. Initially, it was dominated by fairly simplistic, and often politically motivated, debates revolving...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This book provides an overview of the establishment, dispersion and effects of human rights in Europe during the Cold War.
The struggle for human rights did not begin at the end of the Second World War. For centuries, political associations, religious societies and individuals had been fighting...
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...
Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe
A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Through a blend of history and historiography, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides a clear and concise introduction to gender history in the region. The detailed examples and engaging language make this a useful overview for students not only of gender history, but also of European...
by Neil Kent
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Neil Kent's book sweeps through Sweden's history from the Stone Age to the present day. Early coverage includes Viking hegemony, the Scandinavian Union, the Reformation and Sweden's political zenith as Europe's greatest superpower in the seventeenth century, while later chapters explore the Swedish...
Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology
The Humanist Tradition in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach’s life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of 1933. It deals specifically with...