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The World Today Series: Western Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Western Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country expertly covering the region's geography, people, history,...

This timely volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to explore the ways that women responded to situations of immense deprivation, need, and victimization under Hitler's dictatorship. Paying acute attention to the differences...

Ukraine and Europe challenges the popular perception of Ukraine as a country torn between Europe and the east. Twenty-two scholars from Europe, North America, and Australia explore the complexities of Ukraine's relationship with Europe and its role the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789979542087Author E JakobssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 377Imprint Arman Jakobsson (FI)Publisher Arman Jakobsson (FI)Weight(grams) 488g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789979545224Author Professor Armann JakobssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Arman Jakobsson (FI)Publisher Arman Jakobsson (FI)Weight(grams) 546g

This work addresses the much-ignored history of British policy towards Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland following the creation of nation states in Central Europe at the end of the First World War. Lojko convincingly argues that the absence of trust in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464622546Author Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijWeight(grams) 162g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464249972Author Gustav LandauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 197Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijWeight(grams) 264g

This volume addresses the problem of change and continuity in religious traditions from the perspective of cognitive science. Relying on the rapidly growing body of scientific knowledge about the human mind, the authors examine cross-culturally recurrent...

This is the first of three volumes from the project 'Authority and Persuasion: the Role of Commonplaces in Western Europe (c.1450-c.1800)'. The project was launched by the universities of Copenhagen, Durham and Groningen and involved scholars from a...

This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference entitled "Lay Bibles in Europe 1450-1800". The conference took place in Amsterdam in April 2004 and was organized by "Biblia sacra", a joint Dutch-Flemish research group. The clamor for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788788415889Author Constanze RassmannFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Jysk Arkaeologisk SelskabPublisher Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab

On 8 November 1639, Willem Leyel leaves Denmark as commander of the ship "Christianshavn". The destination is the Danish possession Tranquebar with the fortress Dansborg on the south-western coast of India from which he is to manage the trading...

Ancient tradition challenges the view that mankind is ever progressing from ape-like origins towards an apotheosis of humanity. The study of history tends to confirm the contrary thesis of a gradual descent from a golden age to an age of iron. Yet...

Prague has been a center of university education for centuries, and in this book, Josef Petran and Lydia Petranova guide us through the history and architecture of Prague's diverse universities, enlightening us about academic life and the integral role...

Prompted by a visit to the Acropolis and its Museum, an amazing journey to the ancient world and its secrets begins. A curious student overwhelms a veteran archaeologist with his questions and, together, they try to discover the hidden secrets of the...

The book gives a specific understanding also of the relationship between nationalism and religion in the post-communist period, by analyzing the recent canonization of Levski. The processes described, although with a chronological depth of almost two...

This book presents compelling essays by leading Hungarian and foreign authors on the variety of social movements and the parties that seek influence and power in Hungary, a country mired in deep political crisisBook InformationISBN 9786155053054Author...

Offers a state of the art reassessment of the importance and consequences of the events associated with 1968, the year that radically influenced the landscape of the post-1945 world. In the context of the ColdWar, 1968 was a transnational moment of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847106920Author Mihai I. SpariosuFormat HardbackPage Count 383Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 682g

Politische Symbole verkorpern Grunduberzeugungen. Die einheitsstiftende und verbindende Bedeutung erhalten sie durch ihre gefuhlsmassige Aufnahme bei demjenigen, fur den sie bestimmt sind: dem Staatsvolk. Fur die rechtshistorische Forschung eroffnen die...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783799581431Author Deutsches Historisches Institut ParisFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Jan Thorbecke VerlagPublisher Jan Thorbecke VerlagWeight(grams)...

Under Italian Fascism, African-Italian mulattoes and white Italians living in Egypt posed a particular threat to the pursuit of a homogenous national identity. This book examines novels and films of the period, showing that their attempts at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035820214Author Tom O ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 449g

Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, 'Creating Irish Tourism' charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country's emergence as a major European tourist destination a century...

In the 1880s two Edinburgh architects began to survey, measure and sketch the castles of Scotland, travelling the length and breadth of the country on trains, bicycles and on foot. Together they produced the five magnificent volumes of The Castellated...

'P. S. O'Hegarty (1879-1955)' provides an informative and lively biography of the Irish nationalist P.S. O'Hegarty, a major historical figure in the modern separatist movement. At the same time the book explores important issues within nationalism and...

A century ago, the Soviet Union faced a catastrophic famine, brought on by the disruptions of the First World War and the Russian Revolution, draconian Soviet economic policies, and a severe drought. As millions of people faced starvation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197775370Author Jasmin MujanovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 340g

The shape of today's landscape has been heavily influenced by human intervention since the 19th century. Changes in agriculture, industrialization and state spatial planning promoted the change in land use. The ideal-typical separation between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783525301678Author Anorthe KremersFormat HardbackPage Count 199Imprint Vandenhoeck & RuprechtPublisher Vandenhoeck & RuprechtWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515112468Author All Professors of Physiology Richard DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 267Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515102025Author Sven Leif Ragnar de RoodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515098632Author Joachim BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 343Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447059657Author Michael A AttalidesFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 7070g

This collection of essays explores the ways in which memories of social, political and military conflicts have been transmitted by twentieth- and twenty-first-century European historiography, culture and media, and the diverse representations, or...

Situated at the confluence of history, media and cultural studies, this book reconstructs the often deeply discordant and highly selective memories of the Holocaust in Italy in the postwar era. The author's core method is one of reception analysis,...

Taking conflict as its collective theme, this book brings together the work of early modern specialists to offer a range of insights into the political, social and religious climate in Savoy between 1400 and 1700. The contributors focus on the broader...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503585093Author Laurent HermentFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503580098Author Sara TrevisanFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 440g