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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052016566Author Yves BouvierFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052015989Author Daniele PasquinucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052015606Author Morten RasmussenFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052014845Author Katrin RueckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052013541Author Marta PetricioliFormat PaperbackPage Count 365Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899750638Author Ulrike TischlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Meidenbauer, Martin, Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH & Co. KGPublisher Meidenbauer, Martin,...

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...

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...

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...

Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this volume introduces the dynamics of power and culture in the early modern European court. Exploring the...

As federal funding for public broadcasting wanes and support from corporations and an elite group of viewers and listeners rises, public broadcasting's role as vox populi has come under threat. With contributions from key scholars from a wide variety of...

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...

A Physician Under the Nazis are the memoirs of the first forty years (1909-1948) of the life of Henry Glenwick. It focuses on his experiences as a physician in Russian-occupied Ukraine after the outbreak of World War II, his return to the Warsaw ghetto,...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645273356Author Kristine Mlis SpanierFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Pogo BooksWeight(grams) 249g

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

The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages. Exploring how scientifically-based meteorology spread and flourished from c.700-c.1600, this study reveals the dramatic changes in forecasting and how the new...

How do groups of people fashion shared identities in the modern world? Following two communities of German-speaking Mennonites, one composed of voluntary migrants and the other of refugees, across four continents between 1870 and 1945, this transnational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847114185Author Andrea TilattiFormat HardbackImprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 155g

During the 1970s and 1980s, the study of intellectual and cultural history was often denigrated for its alleged elitist and canonical nature. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. Enriched by the methods and insights of such neighboring areas of...

This is the first academic biography of the scientist and politician Jacob Moleschott (1822-1893). Based on a vast range of primary sources in German, Italian, Dutch, French, and Latin, it not only sheds new light on the history of materialism in the...

Firm Heart and Capacious Mind: The Life and Friends of Etienne Dumont is the first full-length biography of a Renaissance man, the statesman/publicist/jurist/political writer/man of letters who was hailed by Goethe, Macauley and Stendhal as one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847111559Author Jens Ivo EngelsFormat HardbackPage Count 187Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R Unipress

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591601Author Karl F HelleinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 195g

Plays make active partners of those who see or read them. Students using scripts and related activities think, feel, and imagine as they make connections to dramatic and historic events. This anthology pulls together several complete scripts as well as...