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Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galata-a Mediterranean and Black Sea port-to the Ottoman conquest, and its transformation into a hub of European trade and diplomacy as well as a pluralist society of the early modern period. Framing...

In this new collection of essays, Adam Michnik - one of Europe's leading dissidents - traces the post-cold-war transformation of Eastern Europe. He writes again in opposition, this time to post-communist elites and European Union bureaucrats. Composed of...

'The entire town is disguised', declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks - nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men - could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a...

"The Crime of My Very Existence" investigates a rarely considered yet critical dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. Drawing from a rich body of...

In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393664751Author David A BellPage Count 1056Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 2059g

This beautifully written history recentres the West and rekindles the past in a vivid narrative crafted for beginning students. Grafton and Bell tell the epic story of a West engaged in a continuing search for order across politics, society and culture,...

These essays now reprinted and prefaced by Jonathan Haslam, E.H. Carr's biographer, give the reader a representative sample of Carr's interests over several decades. They include fascinating picture portraits of figures, both major and minor, from the...

Should the negotiation of the post-World War II peace treaties in Europe have been pursued separately or should they have been approached within the framework of a general European settlement? The debate on this fundamental foreign policy issue, which...

What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the South had won the American Civil War? The...

Describes the effect on young Jews of Hitler's rise to power and recounts the experiences of those who attended an agricultural emigration training farm.Book InformationISBN 9780231065986Author Werner AngressFormat HardbackPage Count 187Imprint Columbia...

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism and an all-around outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully...

Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of...

Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place pressure on? Do they provide a critical capital, necessary for the political structuring of the EU, or...

Though there were at least seven men who wrote Atthides, none of their works has survived intact. This volume presents in translation for the first time all the fragments of the tthis, or local history, of the fourth-century Athenian politican and...

The subject of this book is Europe after the cold war. The European security landscape has changed considerably. The period from November 1989 to November 1990 can be compared with such decisive dates in twentieth-century European history as 1918 and...

The names Raoul Lufbery, Doug Campbell, Reed Chambers, Ham Coolidge, and the greatest American fighter ace of World War I, Eddie Rickenbacker, are those most closely associated with Uncle Sam's "Hat in the Ring" squadron, the 94th Aero Squadron, U.S. Air...

This book is about the men of the 79th Fighter Group on the "forgotten" Mediterranean front in World War II. It tells who they were, what they did, and because it is set in the broader context of the entire conflict in that theater is shows how the war...

In this book Foreign Direct Investments are defined as strategic investments by foreign economic agents who enter the transitional economy market by acquiring (partially or wholly) local enterprises. There is also the possibility of making a 'greenfield...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788776023225Author Birgitte Boggild JohannsenFormat HardbackPage Count 358Imprint NationalmuseetPublisher NationalmuseetWeight(grams) 1696g

The book presents a Cistersian Experience in Medieval Denmark.Book InformationISBN 9788772892269Author Brian Patrick McGuireFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848731145Author NomosFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832972257Author Alexander BadenochFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 562g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447104111Author Uberseegeschichte Gesellschaft Fur Uberseegeschichte Und Der Forschungsstiftung Fur EuropaischeFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447104029Author Maria BaramovaFormat HardbackPage Count 285Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 699g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781575911359Author Robert M. ZeckerFormat HardbackPage Count 329Imprint Susquehanna University PressPublisher Associated University Presses

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503541846Author Claire WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652295224Author Werner LovalFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 2008g

Contributions by 34 scholars are brought together here to create a volume in honor of the long and fruitful career of Guenter Kopcke who is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Articles...

Cities and urban societies have many faces. In this study, the pre-modern cities of Holland are presented as arenas where power relations between social classes are expressed in a more or less permanent appropriation of physical space and through...

From the Straits of Gibraltar to Sicily, the European northern Mediterranean nations to the shores of North Africa, the western Mediterranean is a unique cultural and sociopolitical entity which has had a singular role in shaping today’s global society...

First Published in 1984, Ideas into Politics contains new and exciting research on the ideologies that have shaped twentieth century Europe. It presents a rich spectrum of work, looking at reactionary and progressive ideas, at popular and official ideas,...

First published in 1967 Human Documents of the Victorian Golden Age presents a collection of ‘documents’, textual and pictorial, and human, illustrating and describing what the author calls, one of the most vigorous, vital, fertile periods in the history...

For centuries, the Alps were an almost insurmountable barrier on the way from Europe’s north to the south, and vice versa. The Romans replaced some of the ancient narrow transalpine mule tracks with their famous roadways. Paved roads were introduced in...

From Neolithic Orkney, Viking Shetland, and Druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, The Britannias explores the farthest reaches of Britain’s island topography, once known by the collective term “Britanniae” (the Britains). This...

This is a timely new study of the Great War, a hundred years on. The First World War not only provides an invaluable introduction to the topic but also deals with the changing perspectives of, and attitudes towards, the war and its place in national and...

This publication may be of especial interest for American readers in that, perhaps for the first time, the complex power and political relationships existing in Central Europe at the beginning of the early modern period, which led to the emergence of the...

In 1848, Francis Joseph became Emperor of the Hapsburg Monarchy, and the Russian army helped the Austrians take control of Hungary. The Austrian Council of Ministers ordered the arrest of all political and military officers of the Revolution and...

The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History fills a gap in recent studies of the great pan-European conflict, providing fresh translations of thirty-eight primary documents for the student and general reader. The selections are drawn from the standard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248400Author Stuart HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books