European history Books

Die Rheinlande Von Der Schweizer Bis Zur Holländischen Grenze, Schwarzwald, Vogesen, Haardt, Odenwald, Etc ist ein historischer Reiseführer von Karl Baedeker. Dieses Buch bietet detaillierte Beschreibungen und praktische Informationen für Reisende,...

Codice Penale Per Gli Stati Di S.M. Il Re Di Sardegna, published in 1859, offers a detailed look into the penal code of the Kingdom of Sardinia. This historical document provides invaluable insights into the legal framework, social norms, and...

Immergetevi nel cuore della cultura popolare italiana con il sedicesimo volume dell'"Archivio Per Lo Studio Delle Tradizioni Popolari". Curato da Giuseppe Pitrè e Salvatore Salomone-Marino, questo volume offre uno sguardo approfondito sulle...

Choix de Poésies de P. de Ronsard presents a curated selection of poems by Pierre de Ronsard, a prominent figure in 16th-century French Renaissance poetry. This collection, originally published in 1862, offers readers a glimpse into Ronsard's rich...

Chronicon Centulense is a historical chronicle focusing on the Abbey of Saint-Riquier, also known as Centula. Written in Latin and covering events primarily during the medieval period, this chronicle provides valuable insights into the religious, social,...

This volume contains the statutes passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. A vital resource for legal scholars, historians, and anyone interested in the legislative history of the UK, "The Statutes of the United...

Chronica Do Felicissimo Rei' Dom Emanuel is a historical chronicle detailing the reign of King Manuel I of Portugal. Written by Damião de Goés, a prominent Portuguese humanist and historian, this work offers a detailed account of Manuel I's life,...

Criminal Trials, Volume 2, part 1 offers a detailed look into significant legal cases from the early 19th century in Great Britain. Compiled by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, this volume provides invaluable insights into the judicial...

Die Entstehungsgeschichte Des Entwurfes Eines Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuches Für Das Deutsche Reich, by Felix Vierhaus, provides a detailed account of the historical development of the draft for the German Civil Code. This comprehensive work includes an...

Patrologiæ Cursus Completus [Series Græca], Volume 152 is a comprehensive collection of writings from the Holy Fathers, Doctors, and Ecclesiastical Writers, both Latin and Greek. Edited by Jacques-Paul Migne, this volume forms part of an extensive...

Historical Records of the Buffs, East Kent Regiment, 3rd Foot offers a detailed account of the regiment's formative years from 1572 to 1704. Formerly known as the Holland Regiment and Prince George of Denmark's Regiment, this volume, compiled by Captain...

Annali Universali di Medicina, Volume 95, offre uno sguardo approfondito sulla medicina del XIX secolo in Italia. Questa collezione di articoli, originariamente pubblicata come parte di una rivista medica più ampia, fornisce preziose informazioni...

Les Principes De L'analyse Mathématiques, Volume 1: Exposé Historique Et Critique, by Pierre Boutroux, offers a detailed exploration of the principles of mathematical analysis, providing both historical context and critical examination...

In Mussolini and Fascist Italy Martin Blinkhorn explains the significance of the man, the movement and the regime which dominated Italian life between 1922 and the closing stages of the Second World War.  He examines:   those aspects of...

Swiss architect and urban planner, the second director of the Bauhaus Dessau, Hannes Meyer, spent about six years in the USSR-from 1930 to 1936. This book presents the first in-depth study of Hannes Meyer's activities during the years of early Stalinism...

The first study to document how the Civil War brought about a bitter cultural and political conflict between Great Britain and the United States, a conflict that ignited a global struggle for racial equality and human rights.This study tells for the...

Utilizes Greek tragedy to investigate the fundamentally arbitrary and violent nature of justice.A purely political understanding of justice does not convey the cosmological origins of the ancient conception of justice, Dikē, in Aeschylus's Oresteia...

A survey of the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian debates and mystical discussions about Muhammad's heavenly journey that took place in early medieval Spain.This book demonstrates how Muhammad's heavenly journey, as discussed throughout the eleventh and...

Focuses on key aspects of Robert Esposito's thought and explores the ways in which some major contemporary thinkers have been crucial interlocutors in their elaboration.Political Ontology, Community, and Institutions offers a broad view of the current...

Two manuscripts in one book:Celtic History: An Enthralling Overview of the CeltsCeltic Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Celtic Myths, Gods and GoddessesWhether you're already familiar with the Celts or whether you've never even heard of them, The...

En esta obra explico las visiones del profeta judío Daniel, quien viviera durante el tiempo de la deportación judía por parte del imperio babilonio. Su libro no es abordado por los rabinos en sus estudios, en cambio, en la escatología cristiana, sus...

RUВ 1975 году известный экономист, лауреат Нобелевской премии Милтон Фридман опубликовал книгу Бесплатных завтраков не бывает. Но масса людей с этой идеей не согласны и они говорят, что а в СССР многое важное было совсем бесплатным!Обсуждению именно...

This book examines female migration between Eastern and Western Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Bringing together contributions from scholars working in diverse disciplines, the book focuses on the social, economic, and cultural...

Military general, intelligence agent, aristocrat, author, historian, major player in the pre-Soviet Russian reactionary right, Alexander Dmitrievich Nechvolodov (1864-1938) yet remains a relatively obscure figure in the Western world's memory of the...

A small market town in rural Wiltshire became a leading centre for manufacturing in the century after 1840. This is Swindon, a creation of the Great Western Railway which built its trains there. Behind Swindon's international reputation in engineering,...

Between 1936 and 1939 several thousand men and women from Britain chose to leave the safety of their homes and involve themselves in another country's civil war. The country was Spain, where a military uprising had been launched against...

Learning about our ancestors' occupations helps to give us an understanding of their daily lives. This book covers dozens of historic trades - accounting for around 90% of the Victorian population, in fact - giving succinct details about the trade, how...

Studio Electrophonique tells the story of the Sheffield home studio that helped launch the careers of some of the biggest names in British pop: The Human League, Heaven 17, Pulp, ABC and more.

Investigating the functioning of travel in political culture by using early modern small states as a case study, this book examines the complex relationship between Jacobitism, educational travel, and small state diplomacy.

Year 1966 analyzes the breakthrough moment in the culture of the Polish People's Republic when revolutionary social and cultural changes slowed down in the mid-1960s, leading to a turn towards the idea of a nation as a field of ideological dispute...

This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empire deployed new ways and means to integrate existing...

During much of the twelfth century the Crusaders dominated the military scene in the Levant. The unification of Egypt and Syria by Saladin gradually changed the balance of power, which slowly begun to tilt in favour of the Muslims. This book examines the...

Using a topical approach and presenting the English translation and the Latin text of excerpts from The Chronicles of Saint Benedict of Cassino, this volume examines how the Cassinese historians narrated that tragic period and at the same time mentioned...

By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Höss was history's greatest mass murderer, having personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is the first...

No doubt, the feminist movement has come a long way, even though many of its aims have not been realized or, in fact, are still debated by its supporters and critics. It is sobering andinstructive to look back and examine the aspirations, achievements...

The image of women in Russian culture has undergone profound changes: from the origins of modern Russian literature in the eighteenth century until the Revolution of 1917, when women were a source of fascination for Russian writers, to the socialist...

Scholarly interpretations of the collapse of communism and developments thereafter have tended to be primarily concerned with people's need to rid themselves of the communist system, of their past. The expectations, dreams, and hopes that ordinary...

There are several important studies on Allied efforts to re-educate German civilians after the fall of Nazism. The simultaneous major program of the U. S., Britain and Soviet Union to influence the future of German politics and society through the...

The position of Russia has always been difficult. In spite of the Revolution in 1917, the legal, economic, social and political inequalities between men and women have remained severe. For more than seventy years the official propaganda of the Soviet...

This revised and enlarged edition brings the successful original volume of 1984 right up to date, taking into account the most recent developments. Each section begins with an introduction that provides the context for the following documents. There is...

Germany's landmark 1998 election saw for the first time in the Republic's fifty-year historyan incumbent Chancellor and his entire government replaced. In this collection fourteen distinguished scholars, from both sides of the Atlantic, have come...

This book focuses on the popular fiction of Weimar Germany and explores the relationship between women, the texts they read, and the society in which they lived. A complex picture emerges that shows women talking center stage, not only in the fiction but...

This book responds to the frequently heard call for more comparative history .It does so by focusing on the problem of reconstruction in the national experience of the United States and Germany during three crucial periods: 1865-1945-1989. Accordingly, a...

Noted Franciscan scholars Regis J. Armstrong, J. A. Wayne Hellmann, and William Short spearheaded a collabrative effort of translators, scholars and technicians to publish this series. Many of these texts had been published in critical, scholarly...

The author presents a short history of a rather complex idea that began around the year 1800. Though the United States was often viewed by the people of Germany as a land of opportunity, a portion of the intelligentsia, with which this book is...