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Jews and Science examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. Jews have been not only the ……続きを見る

The book, 'Moslem and Frank' is written by Gustave Louis Strauss. The book attempts to describe the famous Battle of Tours and Charles Martel's role as the Frankish leader. The Battle of Tours, also……続きを見る

History of the Austrian Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement, the fierce strife with the Turks, as wave after wave of Muslim invasion rolled ……続きを見る

1918: DAS ENDE EINER ÜBER 600 JAHRE ANDAUERNDEN DYNASTIE November 1918: Die Habsburgermonarchie liegt in Trümmern. Die Armee löst sich auf, und Kaiser Karl verlässt Schloss Schönbrunn durch die Hint……続きを見る

The events discussed in Rákóczi's Memoirs took place after those described in book 1 of Confessio Peccatoris, and the work was finished in his retreat at Grosbois in early 1717, not long after Confe……続きを見る

Der letzte Weg der Habsburger "Das Einzige, was wir im Leben mit Gewissheit wissen, ist, dass wir einmal sterben müssen", sagte einst Otto von Habsburg. Viele Mitglieder der Familie Habsburg haben s……続きを見る

The story of the vibrant and revolutionary soccer culture in Hungary that, on the eve of World War II, redefined the modern game and launched a new era. In the early 1950s, the Hungarian side was un……続きを見る

This book focuses on the end of four centuries of Ottoman rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1870s. After an introduction to the region and the political zeitgeist of the late 1860s and early 187……続きを見る

Across the medieval and early modern eras, new rulers were celebrated with increasingly elaborate coronations and inaugurations that symbolically conferred legitimacy and political power upon them. ……続きを見る

Opening with the ominous scene of one young school girl whispering an urgent account of Nazi horror to another over birthday cake, Ozsváth’s extraordinary and chilling memoir tells the story of her ……続きを見る

Uncovers the interplay of the physical and the aesthetic that shaped Viennese modernism and offers a new interpretation of this moment in the history of the West. Viennese modernism is often describ……続きを見る

„O carte pasionantă și minuțios documentată.“ – Le Figaro Littéraire „Dacă există o dinastie care să întrupeze Europa, aceea este Casa de Habsburg“, scrie Jean des Cars în debutul acestei cavalcade ……続きを見る

A memoir of brutality, heroism, and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of World War II One night in March of 1945, on the Austrian-Hu……続きを見る

A kastélyok és várak az emberi együttélés tanúbizonyságai, amelyek időszerűségükkel nemcsak a romantikusokat ihletik. Történelemmel telítve, fáradtsággal sok éven át föld ből, fából és kőből épített……続きを見る

2 Werke von Franz Joseph I. Kaiser von Österreich, König von Ungarn (1830-1916) Dieser Band enthält eine Sammlung von 2 Werken von Franz Joseph I. . Ein dynamisches Inhaltsverzeichnis ermöglicht den……続きを見る

This is a detailed description of the various Sufi orders and movements which entered into the Balkans, the Crimean peninsula and other parts of Eastern Europe following the Ottoman conquests. Many ……続きを見る

The Rise and Fall of Prussia by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Ewald Osers; 60,000 words) Sebastian Haffner regarded himself as “a Prussian with a British passport.” In this overvi……続きを見る

It was a wet, bad year on the Old Western Trail. From Red River north and all along was herd after herd waterbound by high water in the rivers. Our outfit lay over nearly a week on the South Canadia……続きを見る

In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism. Still, it preserved domestic peace and provided the conditio……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though the efforts of the famo……続きを見る

It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally ……続きを見る

The defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard Nixon) The Hungarian Revolution in 1956 is a story of extraordinary bravery in a fight for freedom, and……続きを見る

The second volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's ……続きを見る

The Vienna I Knew: Memories of a European Childhood by Joseph Wechsberg (80,000 words, 18 illustrations) Wechsberg’s memoir of pre-World War II mittel-Europa recounts with charm and irony life in th……続きを見る

Few periods illustrate so well the dilemma posed by the appearance of a revolutionary power; and the problems of organizing a legitimate order, as the decade after the Napoleonic Wars. Revolutionary……続きを見る

Married to Stefan Zweig by Friderike Zweig (translated from the German by Erna McArthur, with an introduction by Helen Epstein, a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life and a bibliography of works by and……続きを見る

Szemere György 0rásaiban a tiszántúli földesurak és a szabolcsi parasztok alakjai a hagyományos népies megvilágításban jelennek meg. A dzsentri pusztulása, a nemesi gőg és a polgári munka ellentéte ……続きを見る

The best places for Jews after 1867 were Budapest and Vienna. 1867 was the year Jews were given equal rights in Austro-Hungary as Christians had. The 1918 defeat of the Empire in World War I, and ……続きを見る

When The World Was Whole: Three Centuries of Memories by Charles Fenyvesi (76,000 words, 40 illustrations) In this family memoir, Charles Fenyvesi brings back to life his ancestors who loved and imp……続きを見る

Maria’s Story is a true account of a Polish teen’s trials and tribulations as a slave girl of the Nazis in the Second World War. Driven out of Krakow during the invasion by the German Army, Maria an……続きを見る