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The Knights Templar
The History and Myths of the Legendary Military Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
This book is an essential exploration into the history of a legendary group of Crusaders, which are prominently featured in Dan Brown's recent best seller, The Da Vinci Code. The Knights Templar rose from humble beginnings to become the most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages. Formed...
by J. Riley-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
As one of the greatest of the military orders that were generated in the Church, the Order of the Hospital of St John was a major landowner and a significant political presence in most European states. It was also a leading player in the settlements established in the Levant in the wake of the crusades....
by Stephen J. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The period 1618-1648 was one of the most complex in European history. Religion interacted with rebellion and dynastic rivalry in a series of conflicts in central Europe known collectively as the Thirty Years War. This book guides the reader through the period by surveying the narrative of events and...
History of the Habsburg Empire
Rise and Decline of the Great Dynasty: The Founder - Rhodolph's Election as Emperor, Religious Strife in Europe, Charles V, The Turkish Wars, The Polish War, Maria Theresa, The French Revolution & European Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
History of the Austrian Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement, the fierce strife with the Turks, as wave after wave of Moslem invasion rolled up the Danube, the long conflicts and bloody persecutions of the Reformation, the thirty years' religious...
The Origins of Nationalism
An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe...
FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. II
Social Classes and Political Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2016
Feudalism — which was essentially a political and military system — was above all a personal set of mutual obligations between lord and vassal. At its heart was the oath of loyalty. Before witnesses, a vassal placed his clasped hands between those of the lord and pledged to become "his man," a...
by Joachim Whaley
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Voltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as 'neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire' is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German historians traditionally despised it because it had allegedly impeded German unification. Since 1945 scholars have been more positive but the empire's history...
Birth of the Leviathan
Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 1997
For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while...
by Miklós Molnár
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001
This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the elections of 1988. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people which became a great power in the region and then fought...
How the Jews Defeated Hitler
Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted the Germans but actually played a major role...
Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age
The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (r.1520-1566) dominated the eastern Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds - and the imagination of his contemporaries - very much as his fellow sovereigns Charles V, Francis I and Henry VIII in the west. He greatly expanded the Ottoman empire, capturing Rhodes, Belgrade,...
by Daniel Goffman
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
Despite the fact that its capital city and over one third of its territory was within the continent of Europe, the Ottoman Empire has consistently been regarded as a place apart, inextricably divided from the West by differences of culture and religion. A perception of its militarism, its barbarism,...
by M. Spiering
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Why are the British so Euro-sceptic? Forget about tedious treaties, party politics or international relations. The real reason is that the British do not feel European. This book explores and explains the cultural divide between Britain and Europe, where it comes from and how it manifests itself in everyday life and the academic world.
Cyprus
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
In the troubled island of Cyprus, the national interests and rivalries of Greece and Turkey still collide, the population remains divided between the Greek and Turkish communities and the country is still a cat's paw of outside powers - especially the USA and the now resurgent Russia - as it has been...