Adria - European General 1

For over half a century, the "Out of Africa" theory has dominated our understanding of human origins - the idea that all modern humans descended from a single migration out of Africa around 60,000 y……続きを見る

This is a study of the 35,000 antifascists who joined the International Brigades in order to defend the Second Spanish Republic and of their encounters with civil-war Spain. Dr Adrian Pole offers th……続きを見る

Ontdek de verborgen schatten van het 19e-eeuwse Frankrijk! Reize door Frankrijk van Adriaan van der Willigen neemt je mee op een onvergetelijke reis door het hart van Frankrijk, waar geschiedenis en……続きを見る

Blickt man auf die Regentschaft des ersten rumänischen Königspaars zurück, so kann Carol I. (1866-1881 Fürst, 1881-1914 König von Rumänien) und Elisabeth/Elisabeta (1869-1881 Fürstin, 1881-1914 Köni……続きを見る

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and sel……続きを見る

Popular newspapers played a vital role in shaping British politics, society and culture in the twentieth century. This book provides a concise and accessible historical overview of the rise of the t……続きを見る

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive edition of the Church Histories by John Diakrinomenos and Theodore Lector. It contains the original texts along with translations into English and ……続きを見る

Pourquoi trois jeunes horlogers sont-ils morts le 14 novembre 1918 à Granges ? Ils ont été abattus par des balles de l'armée suisse, alors qu'ils participaient à la Grève générale, comme 250 000 aut……続きを見る

The articles here concern the period from the end of the Roman Empire up to the 10th-11th centuries and the lands between the Loire and the Rhine, most particularly the Low Countries. Rural history ……続きを見る

Post-communism, Democracy, and Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union explores how the downfall of communism brought about a difficult transition for Eastern a……続きを見る

L’impero carolingio (753-877) fu la prima grande entità politica sorta in Europa dopo la caduta dell’impero romano d’Occidente che avesse l’aspirazione a rinnovarne l’eredità almeno spirituale: non ……続きを見る

Many remarkable things about Fife's origins never understood before are set out in detail here – a must read for all Fifers and those with an interest in the County. Drawn together for the first tim……続きを見る

In "Irish Witchcraft and Demonology," St John Drelincourt Seymour offers a meticulously researched exploration of the rich tapestry of Irish folklore, witchcraft, and the sociocultural phenomena sur……続きを見る

«Ghetto» è una parola ideologicamente connotata quanto poche altre, le cui origini s’intrecciano con la storia di due città: Venezia, dove indicava il quartiere ebraico obbligatorio istituito nel 15……続きを見る

This volume, an original combination of biography, cultural history, and media studies, investigates the first moment in history when philanthropy was used as a self-standing claim to fame and phila……続きを見る

In AD 9 half of Rome's Western army was ambushed in a German forest and annihilated. Three legions, three cavalry units and six auxiliary regiments - some 25,000 men - were wiped out. It dealt a bod……続きを見る

Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania: Life under the Totalitarian Gaze offers personal accounts and theoretical insight into the Cold War era when little information about life beyond the Iron Curt……続きを見る

A náci Németországban Schutzstaffelnek nevezték. A világ a rettegett SS-ként ismerte meg – a Harmadik Birodalom leghűségesebb és legkönyörtelenebb erőszakszervezeteként. Kezdetben csak egy politikai……続きを見る

Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was the greatest architect Britain has ever known. But he was more than that. A founder of the Royal Society, he mapped the moon and the stars, investigated the problem ……続きを見る

Throughout the 'long 19th century', the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a similar vision for imperial state renewal, with the goal of avoid……続きを見る

This is the first full-length work to be published about the spectacular failure of the German intelligence services in Persia (Iran) during WWII. Based on archival research it analyzes a compelling……続きを見る

Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousn……続きを見る

The classical Athenian 'state' had almost no formal coercive apparatus to ensure order or compliance with law: there was no professional police force or public prosecutor, and nearly every step in t……続きを見る

Gazetted into the 9th Foot as an ensign in 1808, Peter Le Mesurier saw action from the earliest days of the Peninsular War almost to its end. The ‘Fighting Ninth’ were in the thick of it, and his le……続きを見る

In this book Han Thomas Adriaenssen offers the first comparative exploration of the sceptical reception of representationalism in medieval and early modern philosophy. Descartes is traditionally cre……続きを見る

It’s been a State secret for more than 70 years: The official line in the UK has always been that it never happened – but this new work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on Brit……続きを見る

Global War, first published in 1946 and updated in 2014, is an eminently readable, month-by-month account of the major political and military events of the six years of the Second World War (1939-19……続きを見る

The SS was one of the most important institutions of Third Reich Germany, yet it is also among the least well understood. From the end of 1935, the SS had control over all police and internal securi……続きを見る

Hadrian Cook’s new account of the New Forest in southern England, provides an historical narrative of the occupation and use of a vast area that was, for centuries, important as a Royal Hunting Fore……続きを見る

Warrant for Genocide provides a unique, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the underlying causes of the World War I Armenian genocide. It traces genocide to the origin and history of the lo……続きを見る