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Jehan Creton accompanied Richard II on his expedition to Ireland in 1399 and witnessed his capture by Henry Lancaster, who usurped the throne to reign as Henry IV. Creton's account is of crucial importance for historians of the period, as he contradicts...

Sixty years after the end of World War II, the political and social fallout from the War is alive and divisive, as scholars in this volume show. One example is how former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine prevented...

The eleventh and early twelfth centuries were a period of intense debate over ecclesiastical reform in western Europe. This book examines the debates from a new perspective, exploring the ways in which contemporary political writers conveyed messages...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957647220Author Sir JensFormat PaperbackPage Count 686Imprint First Break PublishingPublisher First Break PublishingWeight(grams) 903gDimensions(mm)...

This study offers a complete picture of planned social housing in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. In each of these countries, vigorous efforts are being made to achieve a more satisfying life for all groups of society. Based on the intelligent...

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...

Syphilis was a prevalent affliction in the era of the Americas' colonization, creating widespread anxiety that is indicated in the period's literature across numerous fields. Reflecting Spaniards' political prejudices of the period, it was alternately...

A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe contends that Robinson Crusoe contains a secret satire, written against one person, that has gone undetected...

The 1648 Treaty of Westphalia marked the emergence of the nation-state as the dominant political entity in Europe. This book traces the development of the nation-state from its infancy as a virtual dynastic possession, through its incarnation as the...

In 1685, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes made Catholicism the only recognized religion in France and criminalized the practice of Calvinism, throwing the minority Protestant population into crisis. A Peddler's Tale personifies these events in the...

This lively new book examines the origins of modern intimacy and domestic life. Focusing on Paris in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author explores the emergence and development of ideas such as 'sociability', 'comfort' and 'the home. On...

Andras Gero examines how Hungarian nationalists and communists used illusionism and the impact of this trend on Hungarian literature, politics, and culture. The author finds that illusionism has its roots in both realism and utopianism.Book...

The first monograph on English medieval county courts, this book provides a major revision of traditional conceptions of the character of these courts and the organization of English society from the twelfth to the fourteenth century. THe county courts...

This Dictionary provides an encyclopedic overview of Estonia from the 12th Century to the present, with two-thirds devoted to the past 100 years, and one-quarter covering the past decade and half. The only such work on Estonia in English, it consists of...

The 250 years covered by Silver, Trade, and War marked the era of commercial capitalism, that bridge between late medieval and modern times. Spain, peripheral to western Europe in 1500, produced American treasure in silver, which Spanish convoys bore...

In this book, Milos Pojar traces the development and transformation of the opinions about Jews and Judaism of the first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk. Pojar describes the key events and ideas that shaped Masaryk's attitudes: his first contacts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871049718Author Stephen SlemonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Dangaroo PressPublisher Dangaroo Press

Leading experts review the theory and historiography of fascism, discussing how developments within the social sciences have changed research practices and how genocide, religion, ideology, political violence, and gender work withing the study's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853459989Author Clement LeibovitzPage Count 319Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University Press

The history of Sweden in the seventeenth century is perhaps one of the most remarkable political success stories of early modern Europe. Little more than a century after achieving independence from Denmark, Sweden - an impoverished and sparsely-populated...

Gyula Szvak selects essays from the proceedings of the international seminars that took place between 1998 and 2008 under the auspices of the Russian Studies Center, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. Among the contributors are Nicholas V. Riasanovsky,...

The Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) is a unique cultural organization established to rehabilitate Czechoslovakia's image abroad, which, in 1958, had become tarnished by communism. Founded by Czechoslovak intellectuals, SVU promotes...

Moda Polska (Young Poland) emerged between 1890 and 1918. It was a unique movement in which Polish intellectuals attempted to combine native forms of expression with the ideals of European modernism to create artistically innovative and inherently Polish...

Hans Staden's sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinamba Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor's eyewitness account known as The True History shows both why it was so popular at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998399645Author Stephen G BeusFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Harmony Street PublishersPublisher Harmony Street PublishersWeight(grams) 133g

In this engaging, clever, and provocative account, Attila Marjan offers a disquieting analysis of the complex challenges Europe faces in the global marketplace. Marjan, an expert at the center of the European project, surveys global trends, common...

This is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country, dealing with its geography, people, history, political system,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228862079Author Peter ChuranFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 635g

General Charless Nogues, resident general of Morocco from 1936 to 1943, restored the precepts of colonial rule established two-decades earlier by Lyautey, France's most illustrious soldier-administrator, providing the protectorate with purpose,...

Maria Ormos focuses on the Horthy Period and assesses the immeasurable human and material costs caused by Arrow-Cross rule and the Soviet dominate provisional wartime administration. This book clarifies all the historical factors that affected Hungarian...

This book examines an important type of Spanish-American essay--one that deals with the problems of a developing civilization--and places its focus on the history of ideas rather than on literature per se, pointing up the hemispheric pattern of...

Stelian Tanase includes excerpts from his diary recounting the surveillance of his activities during the late years of the Ceausescu regime. Tanase's book also includes a unique documentary collection of archival documents contained in the files of the...

This volume contains the letters of Konstancija Brazeniene written in Lithuania, East Germany, and Siberia between 1944 and 1946. It reveals a remarkable portrait of survival during the Cold War and post-Cold War period and adaptation to changing...

During the Enlightenment, people from the middling sort organised themselves into 56 patriotic societies in Denmark, Norway, and the German duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. The number of members totalled several thousand. They undertook educational and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951456675Author Clive CrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint The Social Market FoundationPublisher The Social Market Foundation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851245904Author Michael Barratt BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Continuity and Change in Contemporary Europe focuses on the dramatic events in Eastern and Western Europe over recent years, events which have not produced the 'golden age' which many people expected when the Berlin Wall came down. In fact, Europe in the...

Expanding Class is the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundred-year period. In examining the lives of workers in one of Europe's more idiosyncratic industrial regions, Don...

The Historical Dictionary of Greece is a scholarly introduction for librarians, students, policy makers, and travelers to the country with the longest history among European nations. Greece is the birthplace of so many contemporary institutions, a source...

Few states have fought as hard or as long to be established as that of the Republic of Bulgaria. The Bulgarians have over the centuries created their own principalities, kingdoms, and republics only to have them crushed by stronger entities, including...