Édith - European General 1

Come ha fatto una piccola città isolata, con una popolazione che non ha mai superato i 100.000 abitanti, anche nel suo periodo di massimo splendore, a trasformare la civiltà occidentale? L’acclamata……続きを見る

Ce volume réunit des travaux sur la littérature de la Renaissance en l'honneur de Daniel Ménager, professeur émérite à l'Université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense. Pour Daniel Ménager, les human……続きを見る

Edith Wharton's “Italian Backgrounds” is not merely a travelogue; it's a deeply insightful exploration of Italy's landscapes, art, and culture, viewed through the discerning eyes of a seasoned trave……続きを見る

Wien 1938: Der Arzt Hans Asperger beschreibt Symptome bei Kindern, die er unter die Diagnose "autistische Psychopathie" fasst. Er hatte bei Patienten Schwächen im sozialen Verhalten beobachtet. Im s……続きを見る

The contemporaneous movements for human rights that Soviet rights defenders and the Black Panthers waged during the 1960s are analysed in a comparative fashion here for the very first time. The book……続きを見る

Aqueles que não testemunharam do Holocausto, às vezes, têm dificuldade em perceber o quão profundamente isso afetou a vida na Europa durante os decénios de 30 e 40 do século XX. À medida que a Alema……続きを見る

"Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort" is a 1918 collection of articles written by American writer Edith Wharton. The articles are based on the time that she spent in France during the First W……続きを見る

Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance takes readers on a journey through early modern Italy that places women at the heart of the artistic and cultural developments of this transforma……続きを見る

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represen……続きを見る

The Rise of National Socialism in the Bavarian Highlands offers a microhistory of the town of Murnau between 1919 and 1933, a period which witnessed the rise of national socialism in Germany. Nation……続きを見る

Example in this ebook One of the important historic events of the present century is the revolution which took place in Portugal on the third day of October, 1910, when King Manuel II lost his thron……続きを見る

The next day the air was thundery with rumours. Nobody believed them, everybody repeated them. War? Of course there couldn't be war! The Cabinets, like naughty children, were again dangling their fe……続きを見る

The Byzantine emperor Leo VI (886–912), was not a general or even a soldier, like his predecessors, but a scholar, and it was the religious education he gained under the tutelage of the patriarch Ph……続きを見る

This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle, constructed in Paris by King Louis IX of France between 1239 and 1248 ……続きを見る