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This book provides readers with an introduction to the complex era from 1878 to the end of World War I.About the Author Norman Stone is currently Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara, TUrkey, where he is Director of the...

A family's recently discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this fascinating and deeply moving account of Jewish family life before, during and after the Holocaust. Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey reveal how the Kaufmann-Steinberg family...

This book questions conventional accounts of the history of European integration and British business. Integration accounts normally focus on the nation-state, while Neil Rollings focuses on business and its role in the development of European...

Anti-Semitism, as it has existed historically in Europe, is generally thought of as having been a phenomenon of the political right. To the extent that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century leftist movements have been found to manifest anti-Semitism,...

This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being. From its origins in the eighteenth century to its wide scope in the early twenty-first, this search for emotional health and welfare has cost...

More than sixty years after the advent of the National Socialist genocides, the question still remains: how could a state-sponsored terror that took the lives of millions of men, women, and children, persecuted as Jews or Gypsies, happen? Now available...

In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author...

This new textbook examines the spectacular transformation that the French economy has undergone over the past century. Jean-Pierre Dormois offers a general introduction to the major trends as well as recent transformations of French society, and an...

This major new history of European women's professional activities and organizational roles during the 'long' nineteenth century examines what women could and could not do if they sought activity, purpose, or recognition beyond their own homes. Linda L...

Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its regular bastions, redefined the identity...

West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052019994Author Lars MagnussonFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint European Interuniversity PressPublisher European Interuniversity PressWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052011868Author Anne DulphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint European Interuniversity PressPublisher European Interuniversity PressWeight(grams) 380g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052010656Author Hans-Ake PerssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782875741219Author Jean-Dominique DurandFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires...

Au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des millions d'etrangers se trouvent sur le sol allemand : anciens travailleurs forces, rescapes des camps nazis ou deracines aux profils multiples. La plupart d'entre eux sont rapatries apres la capitulation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782807601031Author Giuliana LaschiFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint PIE - Peter LangPublisher PIE - Peter LangWeight(grams) 450g

Charles Whiting tells the dramatic story of General George Patton's final months, following him over the Rhine to help deliver the fatal blows to Hitler's Third Reich, to his death, in bed, in December 1945.Book InformationISBN 9781862271494Author...

This is a remarkable account of the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European cultural life in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis, sufficiently...

Crowning Glories integrates Louis XIV's propaganda campaigns, the transmission of Northern art into France, and the rise of empiricism in the eighteenth century - three historical touchstones - to examine what it would have meant for France's elite to...

Before Josef Stalin's death in 1953, the USSR had, at best, an ambivalent relationship with noncommunist international organizations. Although it had helped found the United Nations, it refused to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and...

From summer 1941 onwards, Romania actively pursued at its own initiative the mass killing of Jews in the territories it controlled. 1941 saw 13,000 Jewish residents of the Romanian city of Iasi killed, the extermination of thousands of Jews in Northern...

The Palatine Family and the Thirty Years' War examines the experience of exiled royal and noble dynasties during the early modern period through a study of the rulers of the Electorate of the Palatinate during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). By...

Emotions make history and have their own history. Exploring the emotional worlds of the German people, this book tells a very different story of the twentieth century. Ute Frevert reveals how emotions have shaped and influenced not only individuals but...

Henry Vizetelly (1820-94), whose two-volume Glances Back through Seventy Years is also reissued in this collection, was an English journalist based in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, which concluded with the downfall of Napoleon III and the end of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374623Author Trevor WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

A History of the Georgian People (1971) begins with an account of the early history and ethnographic background of Georgia, and goes on to cover the country’s political history from 1000 to 1800 and Russian conquest. There are chapters on the social...

Starting from manuscripts compiled for local priests in the Carolingian period, this book investigates the way in which pastoral care took shape at the local levels of society. They show what illiterate lay people learned about their religion, but also...

The last couple of years have seen the eurozone lurch from crisis to calamity. With Greece, Portugal and Ireland already driven to the brink of economic catastrophe, and the threat that a number of other EU countries are soon to follow, the consequences...

When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in March 1933, he initially devoted most of his attention to finding a solution to the Great Depression. But the pull of war and the results of FDR's foreign policy ultimately had a deeper and more...

Many will recognize the name of Tadeusz Bobrowski-Joseph Conrad's uncle-a Polish landowner living in the Ukraine. A member of one of Tsar Alexander II's regional committees charged with abolishing serfdom, Bobrowski angered many of his fellow landowners...

What is historical archaeology? What are the challenges facing archaeologists looking at the remains of the last 500 years? What are the issues for archaeology itself in today's rapidly-changing economic and political circumstances? How can we develop a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598488Author Charles R FayFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 354g

The Cossack revolution of 1648 redrew the map of Eastern Europe and established a new social and political order that endured until the early nineteenth century, with the full integration of Ukraine into imperial states. It was an era when Ukrainian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451494306Author Peter HeatherFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1066g