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This book examines the social and cultural meanings of mental illness and psychiatric hospitalisation in early twentieth-century Greece. Although Greek psychiatrists were trained in countries such a……続きを見る

Leading expert Mark Galeotti explores the undeclared war in the Donbas in 2014, illuminating the long-running Russia-Ukraine crisis. The emerging and undeclared struggle for Ukraine's south-eastern ……続きを見る

The word 'workhouse' has a grim resonance even today, conjuring up a vision of the darker side of Victorian Britain. Almost every town had at least one workhouse, and most people dreaded ending up t……続きを見る

The unassuming stone farmhouse, where John and Ann Rose and their seven children lived, stood amid 230 acres of verdant land on the eastern side of the Emmitsburg Road about two miles south of Getty……続きを見る

Scopri il lato oscuro della giustizia romana con "Il processo di Verre" di Ettore Ciccotti! Un viaggio avvincente nel cuore della Roma antica, dove il potere e la corruzione si intrecciano in un dra……続きを見る

Scopri l'epica storia di un eroe dimenticato che ha cambiato il corso della storia! In "Marcantonio Colonna alla battaglia di Lepanto", Alberto P. Guglielmotti ci trasporta nel cuore di una delle ba……続きを見る

Die Natur- und Umweltgeschichte betont zumeist die ganz langen Linien zeitlicher Entwicklungen oder die rasanten Veränderungen seit den 1950er Jahren. Der Zäsurcharakter des 19. Jahrhunderts, das ei……続きを見る

Paris, 3 novembre 1793. Olympe de Gouges meurt sur l’échafaud. Une fin tragique qui met un terme à une existence qui l’a conduite de Montauban, où elle est née, au cœur des salons et de la vie intel……続きを見る

LE GRANDI STORIE DELLA STORIA: 200 EVENTI CHIAVE DALL'UOMO DI NEANDERTHAL AI GIORNI NOSTRI SPIEGATI PER IMMAGINI Dalla Preistoria alle crisi geopolitiche di oggi, Masato Tanaka trasforma la storia i……続きを見る

Ours is an age of precarity, as fear and anxiety have come to define the twenty-first century. Politically, economically and socially, the neoliberal orthodoxy has become globally dominant and, as a……続きを見る

The Editor in Chief of The Economist illuminates what global issues mattered in the last century--and how the ways in which we deal with them will shape our lives in the next The attacks on Septembe……続きを見る

This book considers the position and historiography of the western Balkans in modern Europe. It challenges the linear narrative that the region was 'Europeanised' in the twentieth century - that is,……続きを見る

#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • A “fantastic” (Mark Ruffalo), fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but connects it to the climate crisis, poverty, and f……続きを見る

« L’or brillait comme une promesse, mais il sentait aussi la mort. » À la fin du XIXᵉ siècle, des milliers d’hommes et de femmes quittèrent tout pour rejoindre les contrées glacées du Klondike et de……続きを見る

Split into two volumes, volume 1 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power pl……続きを見る

This is the first book to investigate how constitutional monarchy could survive in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, during which many monarchies were overthrown by revolutions or coups d’ét……続きを見る

Explore the rise and fall of a legend. Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire offers an unprecedented insight into the life of a man labelled conqueror, emperor, lover and tyrant. Thoroughly re……続きを見る

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Scott Jennings is a Patriot from the Great State of Kentucky... A Revolution of Common Sense was directly inspired by my Inaugural Address and the many Common Sense acti……続きを見る

International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)ーincluding nuclear, biological, and chemical weaponsーrest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the N……続きを見る

Recounts the harrowing experiences of the 1-320th Field Artillery "Top Guns" Battalion as they navigated the challenges of serving as provisional infantrymen in the hostile Arghandab Valley during 2……続きを見る

This reassessment of Chateaubriand’s literary and political achievements, offered as an intellectual biography of the writer, is centred on the concept of change and Chateaubriand’s emotional suspic……続きを見る

The works of Giorgio Scerbanenco repeatedly articulate and explore the implications of new forms of criminality that emerged in Italy’s post-war transformation towards its «economic miracle». An ind……続きを見る

This book analyses the concept of patriotism and the contestation over its meaning in key public debates in Poland over the last twenty-five years. It focuses on the strategies used to define, re-sh……続きを見る

Das Buch hat die Darstellung deutsch-jüdischer Identität in ausgewählten Prosatexten des zeitgenössischen, deutsch-jüdischen Autors Maxim Biller zum Thema. Seit 1989 ist jüdisches Leben in Deutschla……続きを見る

This anthology presents the work of several authors from different academic disciplines. Film and literature experts, sociologists, historians and theatrologists analyse the Polish memory of the Naz……続きを見る

In the early months of the German occupation during WWII, many of Europe’s major cities witnessed anti-Jewish riots, anti-Semitic incidents, and even pogroms carried out by the local population. Who……続きを見る

The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part two (1832-1864) analyses the growing importance……続きを見る

Der Zweite Weltkrieg in der Luft Warschau, Rotterdam, Coventry: Die Namen dieser Städte stehen beispielhaft für die zerstörerischen Angriffe der deutschen Luftwaffe im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Ab 1942 erl……続きを見る

Written by a leading expert on modern Russia, this is an illustrated introduction to the bitter campaigns in Chechnya. In this new edition of his popular 2014 work, Mark Galeotti traces the progress……続きを見る

Questo testo è un'ispirazione per chiunque voglia avvicinarsi alla figura di Gesù: aiuta a comprenderla ed a contestualizzarla nella sua relazione con l'umanità. Quanto al genere, sarebbe facile ins……続きを見る