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Ingeborg Bachmann hat mit ihrer Lyrik, ihren Erzählungen, Hörspielen und Romanen die deutschsprachige Literatur nach 1945 geprägt wie wenige andere. Ebenso fesselnd sind ihre Person und ihre großen,……続きを見る

Der Roman war die literarische Form des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es war ein Jahrhundert, das allzu oft kaum zu begreifen war, das dringend nach Beschreibung verlangte und doch jeder Beschreibung spottete. ……続きを見る

Alejado de la biografía tradicional de los grandes hombres, Manuel Rivero Rodríguez propone una mirada renovada sobre Felipe II. El llamado "rey prudente" no fue servidor de un Estado ni artífice de……続きを見る

West German Ostpolitik, the Soviet Union, and East-West Détente in Europe explores how the détente policy changed the character of the Cold War. The Moscow files, now opened for the first time show ……続きを見る

Covering political, military, economic and social history, Norway in the Second World War is the most authoritative book on the subject in the English language. This innovative study describes how t……続きを見る

Nearly 400 years have passed since the naval ship Vasa sank in Stockholm in 1628, and more than sixty years since its salvage in 1961. Today, Vasa stands as an iconic symbol – a ship, a shipwreck, a……続きを見る

Between 1940 and 1945, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) carried out sabotage and organised resistance across occupied Europe. Over 5 years, SOE sent over 500 agents into Norway to carry ……続きを見る

"This impressive . . . study charts the history of [post WWII] humanitarian relief . . . demonstrating how the institutions of the family became politicized." ( Library Journal) During the Second Wo……続きを見る

As the first book-length examination of the role of German print culture in mediating Europe's knowledge of the newly discovered people of Africa, South Asia, and the Americas, this work highlights ……続きを見る

Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges th……続きを見る

Čo sa stane, keď sa jazyk viery začne používať ako nástroj moci a "ochrana spoločnosti" sa zmení na ospravedlnenie prenasledovania? Táto kniha mapuje znepokojivý posun, pri ktorom sa náboženská slob……続きを見る

This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (Vienna,……続きを見る

A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing t……続きを見る

Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy. It is not unusual for nations recovering from wars to incentivize their……続きを見る

This volume reflects the latest historiographical discussion about the decline, transformation, heritagisation, and re-invention of industrial cities in Europe during the late 20th century. It argue……続きを見る

L’eugénisme prend son essor dans les années 1880 et connaît son apogée après son premier congrès international de 1912. Pensé comme une biomédecine préventive, il se présente comme un remède à l’ang……続きを見る

'Magisterial - an outstanding book that shines a bright light one of the most important, interesting and under-studied cities in European history. A masterpiece.' Peter Frankopan 'A wonderful new hi……続きを見る

Mit Blick auf das heutige Russland zeichnet dieses Buch einen spezifisch russischen Weg im Rahmen der Geschichte Europas nach. Es schildert die Grundlinien und Grundprobleme der russischen Geschicht……続きを見る

This book takes as its object of investigation an array of traumatic heritage sites and spaces of memory, including museums, former detention camps, and sites of commemoration, in Europe, Argentina,……続きを見る

Frans Hals (1582/83-1666) is rightfully considered one of the most important seventeenth-century Dutch painters. His portraits are admired for their virtuoso brushwork and their seemingly spontaneou……続きを見る

Grand, extravagant, magnificent, scandalous, corrupt, political, personal, fractious; these are terms often associated with the medieval and early modern courts. Moreover, the court constituted a fo……続きを見る

Between 1899 and 1902 the Dutch public was captivated by the war raging in South Africa between the Boer republics and the British Empire. Dutch popular opinion was on the side of the Boers: these d……続きを見る

The twentieth century has been called, not inaccurately, a century of genocide. And the beginning of the twenty-first century has seen little change, with genocidal violence in Darfur, Congo, Sri La……続きを見る

This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Floris Cohen, Lorraine Daston and Ingrid Rowland, survey the rise of the humanities……続きを見る

Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognised that……続きを見る

The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organizations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, wage war and seize territorial possessions. Bu……続きを見る

When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published, his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seven……続きを見る

One of the main challenges in labour relations in Europe is the ongoing decentralisation of collective bargaining from national and sectoral levels to company levels. Decentralisation might be an an……続きを見る

This much-awaited second volume investigates the changes in subject, method and institutional context of the humanistic disciplines around 1800, offering a wealth of insights for specialists and stu……続きを見る

Gifts, from objects to hospitality and from poems to support, are a means of establishing and maintaining social ties. This study focuses on the nature of seventeenth- century Dutch social relations……続きを見る