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During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "Soviet experiment" for themselves. S……続きを見る

Modern European intellectual history is thriving as never before. It has recovered from an era in which other trends like social and cultural history threatened to marginalize it. But in spite of en……続きを見る

During the 1970s, American foreign policy faced a predicament of clashing imperatives-US decision makers, already struggling to maintain stability and devise strategic frameworks to guide the exerci……続きを見る

Der amerikanische Bürgerkrieg (1861–1865) galt nicht allein der Frage der Moral und der Menschenrechte, sondern war auch eine Auseinandersetzung um wirtschaft-liche Interessen. Diese Kontroverse kos……続きを見る

In July 2011, Israel passed legislation outlawing the public support of boycott activities against the state, corporations, and settlements, adding a crackdown on free speech to its continuing block……続きを見る

Sir Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills Ye have been the Blackguard Enemies of th……続きを見る

Im Gegensatz zu der noch immer vertretenen Auffassung, Antisemitismus habe in der Selbstdarstellung und Wahrnehmung der NSDAP vor 1933 nur am Rande eine Rolle gespielt, zeigt Hannah Ahlheims Studie,……続きを見る

Thema dieses Bandes ist die Kolonisierung als Vorläufer der Globalisierung. Ausgehend von Italien, wurden zunächst Spanien und Portugal in der europäischen kolonialen Expansion aktiv, dann aber auch……続きを見る

Der neue Nazismus kommt metaphysischer daher als der alte. Es beginnt in den 1970er Jahren und verstärkt sich in den 1990ern: militante Fremden- und Minderheitenfeinde reichern ihre Propaganda mit E……続きを見る

**WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITING “A gripping narrative and a stunning piece of investigative journalism… [that] gives us the human side to the story of two young men who must ……続きを見る

In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger quantities of bison m……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le Titanic en moins d’une heure ! Lorsque le Titanic quitte le port de Southampton, le 10 avril 1912, les passagers qu’il compte à son bord sont loin de……続きを見る

[Previously published as ‘Went The Day Well’] A sweeping political, social, military and cultural overview of the United Kingdom on the eve, and then the day, of the greatest battle fought by Britis……続きを見る

Jan Hus (um 1370-1415) war für die katholische Kirche ein Häretiker. In Vielem versinnbildlicht er die Epoche des Spätmittelalters: In der Bemühung, die durch das Große Abendländische Schisma erschü……続きを見る

Banishing troublesome and deviant people from society was common in the early modern period. Many European countries removed their paupers, convicted criminals, rebels and religious dissidents to re……続きを見る

Das "lange" 19. Jahrhundert steht im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes. Die Französische Revolution, die Industrialisierung, die Zeit der Restauration, der Revolution von 1848, der deutschen Reichsgründung ……続きを見る

Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa: das Gespenst des organisierten Verbrechens. Die Demokratien der westlichen Industrienationen werden von den unheimlichen, im Verborgenen operierenden Mafia-Herrschern……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century Britons treasured objects of daily life that had once belonged to their dead. The love of these keepsakes, which included hair, teeth, and other remains, speaks of an intimacy wit……続きを見る

Vor allem amerikanische Geheimdienstberichte offenbaren die Komplizenschaft der Schweizer Geldinstitute mit den Nazis und berichten von den Guthaben der Holocaust-Opfer in Schweizer Bankkellern. Der……続きを見る

Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, the boo……続きを見る

This is the first comprehensive biography of a major, but neglected, figure of his age. John Theophilus Desaguliers made his mark on the eighteenth century in several diverse ways. He was an assista……続きを見る

The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that t……続きを見る

In the first half of the 18th century there was an explosion in the volume and variety of crime literature published in London. This was a 'golden age of writing about crime', when the older genres ……続きを見る

Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, is normally taken as the p……続きを見る

This volume seeks to address the questions of poverty, charity, and public welfare, taking the nineteenth-century London Foundling Hospital as its focus. It delineates the social rules that construc……続きを見る

This is a new biography of a Catholic martyr exploring the complicated and controversial story of her demise. The story of Margaret Clitherow represents one of the most important yet troubling event……続きを見る

New biography of one of the key figures in British history focusing on both his writing and legacy. Mark Nicholls is President and Librarian of St John's College, Cambridge. 続きを見る

It has long been suggested that poverty was responsible for a criminal underclass emerging in Britain during the nineteenth century. Until quite recently, historians did little to challenge this per……続きを見る

Heroism in the 19th and early 20th centuries is synonymous with military endeavours, imperial adventures and the 'great men of history'. There was, however, another prominent and influential strand ……続きを見る

Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe brings together a rich selection of essays which represent the most important historical research on religion, magic and superstition in early modern Eu……続きを見る