The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire" explores the rapidly growing literature on the rise and fall of the United States. The author argues that after 1945 the US has definitely been the most……続きを見る
Epopea aventuro en miskompreno, tiu serio de psikologiaj mallongaj rakontoj, esploras la fajna signifo de la sensignifa signifoj preteratentis kompreni mem. Ĉu Facila Al Fari: Malvarma Koncepto, kaj……続きを見る
The Revolutions of 1989 is a collection of both classic and recent articles examining the causes and consequences of the collapse of communism in East and Central Europe, the most important event in……続きを見る
This book is a collection of diplomatic documents describing the development of British relations with the Nordic countries between the end of the Second World War and the defeat of the Labour Gover……続きを見る
著者:Kamilla Elliott
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2012年12月01日
Examples from British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries show how portraits became a new mode of identity for the middle class.
Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamp……続きを見る
著者:Bruce Adams
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2005年01月10日
This book presents a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the 20th century. Anecdotes and jokes were a hidden form of discursive communication in the Soviet era, lampoon……続きを見る
著者:Oliver Hilmes
出版社: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH
発売日: 2010年06月14日
Ganz große Oper: Die Geschichte der Familie Wagner
Oliver Hilmes entschlüsselt den Wagner-Kosmos, indem er die Nachkommen der schillernden Komponisten-Witwe porträtiert und ihren Kampf um die Macht ……続きを見る
Although the unification of Italy in 1870 initially defined the nation's geographic boundaries, Italians faced the new challenge of determining their nation's social, political, and cultural identit……続きを見る
This major new collection of essays by leading scholars of Renaissance Italy transforms many of our existing notions about Renaissance politics, economy, social life, religion, medicine, and art. Al……続きを見る
著者:David Moon
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年09月25日
In February 1861 Tsar Alexander II issued the statutes abolishing the institution of serfdom in Russia. The procedures set in motion by Alexander II undid the ties that bound together 22 million ser……続きを見る
著者:Panikos Panayi
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年09月25日
Weimar and Nazi Germany presents the history of the country in these periods in a unique way. Examining the continuities and discontinuities between the Third Reich and the Weimar Republic, it also ……続きを見る
This book provides an accessible study of the neglected but highly important series of wars fought for control of the Baltic and Northeastern Europe during the period 1558-1721. It is the first comp……続きを見る
著者:David H. Close
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年09月25日
The book draws extensively on research on modern Greece in recent decades, and on the many perceptive commentaries on recent events in the Greek press. It adopts both an analytical and chronological……続きを見る
著者:Peter Davies
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年09月25日
The Nazi regime in Germany was terrible enough without even accounting for the policy of collaboration. So what extra does collaboration say about Hitler and his plans for Europe? Peter Davies explo……続きを見る
著者:Lee Mcgowan
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年09月25日
The Radical Right has represented a major element in German politics and society throughout the history of the united country (i.e. since the 1870s), though the understandable concentration on the T……続きを見る
A highly topical analysis of European Nationalism from the French Revolution through to the aftermath of the First World War, when the nationalist issues and problems that dominate the political lan……続きを見る
著者:Harry Browne
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年09月25日
This study offers a succinct analysis of a critical period in Spain's history. It assesses the causes and course of the Civil War and covers Franco's New Spain. For the Second Edition there is a ful……続きを見る
著者:M.S. Anderson
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年09月25日
This study examines the early years of the post-medieval European states and the growth of a recognisably 'modern' system for handling their international relations. M S Anderson gives much of his s……続きを見る
Examining such issues as the welfare state, the politics of unemployment and government-industry relations, this work looks at the developments in western European politics up to and during the 1980……続きを見る
著者:John Hiden
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年09月25日
It is often assumed that the Weimar Republic was bound to fail due to the harsh terms of the Versailles Settlement. Professor Hiden dispels this simplistic view and shows that it was a complex set o……続きを見る
Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and polit……続きを見る
Beautifully written, intelligent and provocative reflections on the world scene as Ascherson looks first at the painful business of being English in a period of decline marked by public nastiness an……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Forrest
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
The Spanish Civil War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the modern era. This book covers:
* its background with the fall of the monarchy and the Second Republic
* Franco and Fascism
* the confli……続きを見る
著者:Micah Alpaugh
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Historians of the French Revolution have traditionally emphasised the centrality of violence to revolutionary protest. However, Micah Alpaugh reveals instead the surprising prevalence of non-violent……続きを見る
著者:Jennifer Siegel
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
From the late imperial period until 1922, the British and French made private and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To financ……続きを見る
'A book that takes you on an intimate journey through Eastern Europe at a time when the dust was still settling from the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Eva Hoffman travels from the Baltic to the Black……続きを見る
著者:Sean A. Forner
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Focusing on a loose network of public intellectuals in the immed……続きを見る
When our children turn on the home's television sets, they will often flip through the channels to see the news or some nature channel. After seeing the video clips of film taken in other parts of t……続きを見る
著者:John Fennell
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年10月13日
John Fennell's history of thirteenth-century Russia is the only detailed study in English of the period, and is based on close investigation of the primary sources. His account concentrates on the t……続きを見る