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by Maximilian Spinner
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject History Europe - Germany - Postwar Period, Cold War, grade: A, Central European University Budapest (Departmemt of Political Science), course: Political Change, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This essay compares the revolutionary...
Apostasy and Jewish identity in High Middle Ages Northern Europe
Are you still my brother?'
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The attitude of Jews living in the medieval Christian world to Jews who converted to Christianity or to Christians seeking to join the Jewish faith reflects the central traits that make up Jewish self-identification. The Jews saw themselves as a unique group chosen by God, who expected them to play...
by N. Birns
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers.
The Cultural Gradient
The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789-1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2002
Is there a sharp dividing line that separates Europe into 'East' and 'West'? This volume brings together prominent scholars from the United States, Canada, France, Poland, and Russia to examine the evolution of the concept of Europe in the two centuries between the French Revolution and the collapse...
by Jens-Uwe Guettel
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This book traces the importance of the United States for German colonialism from the late eighteenth century to 1945, focusing on American westward expansion and racial politics. Jens-Uwe Guettel argues that from the late eighteenth century onward, ideas of colonial expansion played a very important...
Paying for Hitler's War
The Consequences of Nazi Hegemony for Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
During World War II, Germany occupied much of continental Europe. Although the social and political history of this occupation has been studied extensively, the economics of the unprecedented transfer of resources has received surprisingly little attention. Allies, neutrals, and conquered nations...
Mitteleuropa
In German Thought and Action 1815–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Books begin as ideas. The suggestion for this one came from my mentor and friend, Hajo Holborn of Yale University. To him I am indebted for a series of challenging and rewarding experiences in the study of history. This work started as a routine dissertation on a limited subject, developed into a...
YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
This book is the first history of YIVO, the original center for Yiddish scholarship. Founded by a group of Eastern European intellectuals after World War I, YIVO became both the apex of secular Yiddish culture and the premier institution of Diaspora Nationalism, which fought for Jewish rights throughout...
The Dutch Wars of Independence
Warfare and Commerce in the Netherlands 1570-1680
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In The Dutch Wars of Independence, Marjolein ’t Hart assesses the success of the Dutch in establishing their independence through their eighty years struggle with Spain - one of the most remarkable achievements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Other rebellions troubled mighty powers of...
René Cassin and Human Rights
From the Great War to the Universal Declaration
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a...
Europeans in Australia
Volume Two: Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
'It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all – and even-handed.' - Alan AtkinsonThe second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement...
Wings for Our Courage
Gender, Erudition, and Republican Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de’ Medici murdered Alessandro de’ Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama, in Florentine history, and in the history of republican thought, because Lorenzino, a classical scholar, fashioned himself after Brutus as a republican...
by Francisco Morales Padrón, Armando García de la Torre
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Spanish Trinidad is the first ever history of the 300 year span of the Spanish period of Trinidad, written from a strictly Spanish perspective. From the encounter of Christopher Columbus with the first Trinidadian Amerindians during the summer of 1498, to the handover of the island to the British...
The Alcoholic Empire
Vodka & Politics in Late Imperial Russia
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2001
The Alcoholic Empire examines the prevalence of alcohol in Russian social, economic, religious, and political life. Herlihy looks at how the state, the church, the military, doctors, lay societies, and the czar all tried to battle the problem of overconsumption of alcohol in the late imperial period....