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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837180083Author Richard F. StaarFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Professor Tout has published in an enlarged form four lectures which he gave before the University of Rennes. His main purpose is to lay stress on the common civilization and close affinities of the two nations through the ages, despite the antagonism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837175072Author Max CaulfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 375Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837166001Author Herman AusubelFormat HardbackPage Count 404Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837152226Author Leon HowardFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837196855Author James W. CortadaFormat HardbackPage Count 390Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837190020Author G. D. H. ColeFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This work, based on the annual published lists of book titles, contains in addition all relevant material which has appeared in article form in some 120 British and Commonwealth journals, together with references to book reviews in the same periodicals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837175157Author Frank GallagherFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

After a brief description of the early history of the Co-operative movement, the author turns to the Rochdale Pioneers and the foundations they lay for a co-operative community of a non-Owenite type.Book InformationISBN 9780837171166Author Jack...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837179490Author Esm Cecil Wingfield-StratfordFormat HardbackPage Count 361Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The debut publication in a new Series devoted to the body as an object of historical study, Sight Correction provides an expansive analysis of blindness in eighteenth-century Britain, developing a new methodology for conceptualizing sight impairment...

How have Malta and Cyprus - both EU members - transitioned from colonial island states to independent democracies? With the assistance of primary documentation this book traces the difficult path of these two states to becoming independent liberal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645905984Author History TitansFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint Creek Ridge PublishingPublisher Creek Ridge PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645445633Author History TitansFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Creek Ridge PublishingPublisher Creek Ridge PublishingWeight(grams) 100g

"Media Events That Shaped The New Croatia" reviews the public affairs aspects of how a 1996 UN Mission to Serbia/Croatia used Special Event Media planning to win the peace in a little known corner of the world called Vukovar. U.S. Ambassador...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578612119Author Secret Society of JacobitesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Ingram - Global ConnectPublisher Ingram - Global ConnectWeight(grams)...

Italy emerged from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 with the feeling that it had been denied its just rewards by ungrateful allies and that its victory was thus mutilated. Integrating this vengefulness into his diplomacy in the 1920s, Mussolini...

This book is a major study of visual representations of Europe, from the classical world to the present day, in maps, icons, the arts and graphic images of all kinds. Europe has been variously represented as the demi-goddess Europa, a bull, a horse, a...

The English Franciscan Roger Bacon (c.1214-92) holds a controversial but important position in the development of modern science. He has been portrayed as an isolated figure, at odds with his influential order and ultimately condemned by it. This major...

Major study of the role of European Christian democratic parties in the making of the European Union. It radically re-conceptualises European integration in long-term historical perspective as the outcome of partisan competition of political ideologies...

The historical and geographical significance of the Baltic Sea as a Russian gateway to the West has sometimes overshadowed its reciprocal significance as a German window on the East, but in the period after the First World War the Baltic was to become of...

Few studies of the history of provincial France have hitherto spanned the conventional medieval/early-modern divide, and David Potter's detailed examination of war and government in Picardy, a region of France hitherto neglected by historians, has much...

The Croix de Feu and its successor the Parti Social Francais stood at the centre of political conflict in the turbulent final years of the French Third Republic. Membership peaked at 750,000 in 1937, and at the time the movement was widely regarded as...

The traditional interpretation of the crisis of the Spanish Old Regime is to see it as a revolution carried out by an ascendant bourgeoisie. Professor Cruz challenges this viewpoint by arguing that in Spain, as in the rest of continental Europe, a...

The Continuity of Feudal Power is an analytic study of a family of the Neapolitan aristocracy during the early modern period, with particular focus on the time of Spanish rule (1503-1707). The Caracciolo marquis of Brienza were a branch of one of the...

Despite a century of debate and criticism, Marxism as a mass ideological practice has remained an elusive topic. This book examines Marxist socialism as a mode of understanding and self-understanding treasured and transmitted by thousands of anonymous...

Prior to the Thirty Years War, almost all of Bohemia's population lay outside the Catholic fold, yet by the beginning of the eighteenth century the kingdom was clearly under Rome's influence. Few regions in Europe's history have ever experienced such a...

Robbing the Jews reveals the mechanisms by which the Nazis and their allies confiscated Jewish property; the book demonstrates the close relationship between robbery and the Holocaust. The spoliation evolved in intensifying steps. The Anschluss and...

How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures did they think they might encounter: angels, devils, witches, dogheaded people? This fascinating book...

During the first part of the twentieth century, German science led the world. The most important scientific institution in Germany was the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, including institutes devoted to different fields of scientific research. These researchers...

This book provides the first English-language history of the postwar labor migration to West Germany. Drawing on government bulletins, statements by political leaders, parliamentary arguments, industry newsletters, social welfare studies, press coverage,...

This study is the first to systematically investigate Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204 - in the Nicaean state (1204-61) and during the early period of the restored empire...

A genuinely comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies in the first half of the twentieth century. Taking public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical...

The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarized debate. The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalin's archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment of the Soviet leader. In this groundbreaking...

This 2004 book is about politicisation and political choice in the aftermath of the February Revolution of 1848, and the emergence of democracy in France. The introduction of male suffrage both encouraged expectations of social transformation and aroused...

Between 350 and 850 Constantinople emerged as both the greatest city of the Mediterranean world and a monastic centre of unparalleled importance. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, including a rich body of hagiographical evidence, this study documents...

In the early ninth century, a critical time in Rome's transformation from ancient capital to powerful bishopric to new state capital, Pope Paschal I undertook a building campaign to communicate his authority and Rome's importance as an ancient and...

Few countries in Europe have undergone such rapid social, political and economic changes as Finland has during the last fifty years. David Kirby here sets out the fascinating history of this northern country, for centuries on the east-west divide of...

How did state power impinge on the religion of the ordinary person? This perennial issue has been sharpened as historians uncover the process of 'confessionalization' or 'acculturation', by which officials of state and Church collaborated in ambitious...