F.F - Western Europe 1

Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise……続きを見る

Die Bundesrepublik befindet sich mitten in einer "Zeitenwende" und steht vor tiefgreifenden Umbrüchen. In Politik und Medien kursieren viele irreführende Interpretationen der jüngeren Wirtschafts- u……続きを見る

Packed with illustrations, a compact guide to the fortifications on the front lines and how they evolved over the course of the First World War. Following the early battles of 1914 along the Marne a……続きを見る

Mit dem Ende der Siebzigerjahre begannen die großen Weltdeutungen zu bröckeln. Der Marxismus, die Erzählung vom Fortschritt durch Naturbeherrschung und andere Fortschrittsideen lösten sich langsam, ……続きを見る

Ze overleefden alles. De crisisjaren, de oorlog – waarin ze vochten, trouwden, onderdoken. Ze groeiden op in het interbellum, maakten de Watersnoodramp mee, de opkomende welvaart, emancipatie en cor……続きを見る

Jeder weiß, dass es ihn gibt. Jeder meint, ihn zu besitzen. Dabei hat ihn nie jemand gesehen: den Geschmack, unseren Sinn für das Schöne, Glücksantenne und Tastsinn unserer Sehnsucht. Ulrich Raulff ……続きを見る

In The Republic of Men, Geoff Read explores the intersection of gender bias and the eight most important political parties in interwar France, breaking new scholarly ground in profound ways. The fir……続きを見る

This book reexamines the origins and growth of the medieval inquisition which provided a framework for the large-scale operations against religious dissidents. In the last quarter of the twelfth cen……続きを見る

Though the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study themーleast of all in th……続きを見る

The children of Philip III of Spain (1578--1621) and Margarita de Austria (1584--1611) inherited great potential power: the abilities to declare war or make peace, to advocate religious doctrine, an……続きを見る

Sheds new light on European and regional book markets, the development of a public sphere and the impact of new media on intellectual, social, religious and political change. How do you become a cit……続きを見る

This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world ju……続きを見る

The book describes the fate of Poles in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Poland did not exist for over a hundred years on the political map of Europe at that time, and the Poles ……続きを見る

The book discusses how the most severe abuses of political power, traditionally termed from the ancient times as ‘tyranny’, were presented in 16th century political philosophy, propaganda, and liter……続きを見る

The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries……続きを見る

The book offers a comprehensive model of religious culture of peasants of the Lesser Poland in the early modern times. Its principal research topic is the influence of religion on the life and attit……続きを見る

A vivid and visceral portrayal of the most famous naval battle in history, focusing on the human cost of war, by a brilliant military historian **'A striking success' The Times 'Fresh, original and ……続きを見る

The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, w……続きを見る

Hace quinientos años, el 24 de febrero de 1525, los arcabuces de la infantería española barrieron a la flor y nata de la caballería francesa en la batalla de Pavía, vanas sus armaduras, inútil su ar……続きを見る

This book takes a new look at sacred music written in present-day central Germany during the Thirty Years War (1618-48), and in doing so reveals distinct connections between religious works and the ……続きを見る

Packed with illustrations, a compact guide to the fortifications on the front lines and how they evolved over the course of the First World War. Following the early battles of 1914 along the Marne a……続きを見る

At its height the Roman Empire stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, maintained by an army of modest size but great diversity. In popular culture these soldiers are often portra……続きを見る

Discalced Carmelite convents are among the most influential wellsprings of female spirituality in the Catholic tradition, as the names of Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux and Edith Stein attest. ……続きを見る

In "Das Reich und die Hansestädte" ergründet Ferdinand Frensdorff die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen dem Heiligen Römischen Reich und den einflussreichen Hansestädten des Mittelalters. Mit einem ana……続きを見る

Jacques Rivière, eine fast mythische Figur der französischen Kultur, machte unter anderem Marcel Proust berühmt und die "Nouvelle Revue Française" zur bedeutendsten Zeitschrift Frankreichs. Sein Tag……続きを見る

This wide-ranging collection of articles by some of the most renowned names in the subject explores the tumultuous events of the final year of the First World War. In 2018, the world commemorated th……続きを見る

Helmut Puff invites readers to visit societies and spaces of the past through the lens of a particular temporal modality: waiting. From literature, memoirs, manuals, chronicles, visuals, and other d……続きを見る

How the development of legal and financial institutions transformed Britain into the world’s first capitalist country Modern capitalism emerged in England in the eighteenth century and ushered in th……続きを見る

An illustrated account of the crucial part played by tanksーand other armored vehiclesーin gaining a foothold after the D-Day landings. Tanks were the beasts of the Second World War, machines design……続きを見る

A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history **“A fresh and illuminating framework for understanding our past and imagining our futu……続きを見る