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Cathedrals of Consumption
European Department Stores, 1850-1939
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Originally published in 1999, Cathedrals of Consumption examines the history of the department store. After many decades in which it was almost exclusively historians of retailing and company biographers who were interested in the phenomenon, the department store has now come to attract the attention...
Seabed Prehistory
Investigating the Palaeogeography and Early Middle Palaeolithic Archaeology in the Southern North Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Archaeological investigation of Early Middle Palaeolithic flint tools, including hand axes, and faunal remains in the North Sea. This volume also examines submerged and buried landscapes. The methods used to recover artifacts and other remains and to explore these buried landscapes are also described....
by Annelou van Gijn, John Whittaker, Patricia C. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
This volume is the outcome of collaborative European research among archaeologists, archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historians and agronomists, and frequently uses experiments in archaeology. It aims to establish new common ground for integrating different approaches and for viewing agriculture from...
by Catherine Frieman, Berit Valentin Eriksen
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
For more than a century flint daggers have been among the most closely studied and most heavily published later prehistoric lithic tools. It is well established that they are found across Europe and beyond, and that many were widely circulated over many generations. Yet, few researchers have attempted...
by David M. Goldfrank
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The Crimean War (1853-56) between Russia, Turkey, Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia was a diplomatically preventable conflict for influence over an unstable Near and Middle East. It could have broken out in any decade between Napoleon and Wilhelm II; equally, it need never have occurred....
An Empire Divided
Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2006
Between 1880 and 1914, tens of thousands of men and women left France for distant religious missions, driven by the desire to spread the word of Jesus Christ, combat Satan, and convert the world's pagans to Catholicism. But they were not the only ones with eyes fixed on foreign shores. Just as the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
This volume challenges the traditional view that the First World War represents a pivotal turning point in the long history of monarchy, suggesting the picture is significantly more complex. Using a comparative approach, it explores the diverse roles played by monarchs during the Great War, and how...
Air War Over Europe
1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2003
Chaz Bowyer, arguably the most authoritative air historian of his generation, tackles the broad sweep of air operations in the European theatre in this book. Initially, the Luftwaffe attempted to dominate the skies, and very nearly succeeded. The valiant defence of the UK by the RAF in the Battle...
Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War
Veterans and the Limits of State Building, 1903–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
The Yugoslav state of the interwar period was a child of the Great European War. Its borders were superimposed onto a topography of conflict and killing, for it housed many war veterans who had served or fought in opposing armies (those of the Central Powers and the Entente) during the war. These...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This book explores the manifold ways of knowing—and knowing about— preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds. Its contributors examine how people across the social spectrum assayed the various...
A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe
Display, Acquisition and Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Jon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury and taste in early modern Europe.
In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was viewed as a refining influence...
Witness to War Crimes
The Memoirs of a Peacekeeper in Bosnia
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
The early 1990s saw Europe’s first conflict for almost 40 years when bitter fighting broke out in the former Yugoslav republic. Colonel Colm Doyle of the Irish Army found himself in the midst of this appalling civil war when in October 1991 he became first a European Community Monitor and almost...
by Major Matthew G. St. Clair USMC
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This paper analyzes the participation of the US Twelfth Air Force in the Mediterranean theater of operation from 1943 to 1944 and also studies the coalition and joint operations required in the air campaign. Coalition and joint warfare provides numerous command, control, and coordination problems...
Medicine and Warfare
Spain, 1936–1939
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This original work examines the differences in medical advances on the two sides of the Spanish Civil War. Covering all aspects of medical treatment during the war, Coni covers new ground with great aplomb and delivers a book which will interest scholars involved with medical history as well as those interested in contemporary European history.