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In the era of the Early Republic, Americans determined the meaning of their Revolution and laid the foundation for the United States’ later emergence as a world power. This bookprovides students wit……続きを見る

" La porte s'ouvrit : la divinité parut, éblouissante de beauté et de satisfaction. On eût dit un rayon argenté sortant d'un nuage d'azur ", rapporte un témoin. Dorothée de Courlande, duchesse de Di……続きを見る

What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from t……続きを見る

In 1932 Bolivia and Paraguay went to war over the Chaco region in South America. The war lasted three years and approximately 52,000 Bolivians and Paraguayans died. Moving beyond the battlefields of……続きを見る

Une plongée dans l'enfer de l'archipel des bagnes militaires français. Biribi était le nom donné, au XIXe siècle, aux bagnes militaires installés par l'armée française en Afrique du Nord pour se déb……続きを見る

Europe's critical infrastructure is a key concern to policymakers, NGOs, companies, and citizens today. A 2006 power line failure in northern Germany closed lights in Portugal in a matter of seconds……続きを見る

Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the Vatican as Islamic heresies, the Lead books of Granada, written on discs of lead and unearthed on a Granada……続きを見る

The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into……続きを見る

TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The b……続きを見る

The First World War in Computer Games analyses the depiction of combat, the landscape of the trenches, and concepts of how the war ended through computer games. This book explores how computer games……続きを見る

Between 1939 and 1945, over two hundred German and forty-five Allied servicemen were interned in neutral Ireland. They presented a series of extremely complex issues for the de Valera government, wh……続きを見る

By taking on a long-term perspective, a large geographical scope and moving beyond the homogeneous treatment of single people, this book fleshes out the particularities of urban singles and allows f……続きを見る

The Allies and the German Problem, 1941-1949 examines Allied policymaking during the Second World War and the military occupation of postwar Germany, demonstrating how the initial unity of the Allie……続きを見る

This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century. Seven lively essa……続きを見る

This book project traces the thought of several Roman Catholic Modernists (and one especially virulent anti-Modernist) as they confronted the intellectual challenges posed by the Great war from war ……続きを見る

This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England. Authori……続きを見る

Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together establish……続きを見る

This carefully researched history draws on archival sources as well as a wealth of new interviews with on-the-ground activists, political actors, international figures, and others to move beyond the……続きを見る

Nearly a decade and a half after 9/11, the study of international politics has yet to address some of the most pressing issues raised by the attacks, most notably the relationships between Al Qaeda'……続きを見る

Before the industrial revolution prolonged economic growth was unachievable. All economies were organic, dependent on plant photosynthesis to provide food, raw materials, and energy. This was true b……続きを見る

For more than forty years, scholars of the history and sociology of sport and recreation have studied how, no matter the time or place, sport is always more than just a game. In Playing for Change, ……続きを見る

The First and Second World Wars were two of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. In Canada, they claimed 110,000 lives and altered both the country’s domestic life and its internation……続きを見る

In some ways, Canadian history has always been international, comparative, and wide-ranging. However, in recent years the importance of the ties between Canadian and transnational history have becom……続きを見る

Lekker lezen ondanks dyslexie Dit ebook uit de serie PrismaDyslexie bevat het lettertype Dyslexie. De letters van dit lettertype zijn zodanig aangepast dat dyslectici minder moeite hebben ze van elk……続きを見る

Maanden voordat er een Rus op de Krim stond, voorspelde George Friedman dat het in Oekraïne mis zou gaan Europa was een slagveld in de eerste helft van de 20e eeuw. Friedman heeft het over ‘de 31 ja……続きを見る

Standaardwerk over buitenlands beleid van Nederland Nederland in de wereld geldt al sinds het verschijnen van de eerste editie in 1995 als een standaardwerk over onze buitenlandse betrekkingen. Van ……続きを見る

Historische kijk op grensconflicten in Europa, van het Ottomaanse Rijk tot het Rusland van Poetin 'Historicus zet crises in perspectief. Verplichte kost voor opgewonden standjes.' Trouw De rafelrand……続きを見る

Fernando Lameirinhas moet als kind zijn thuisland Portugal ontvluchten vanwege het dictatoriale regime van Salazar. De familie Lameirinhas komt via België in Nederland terecht. De muziek trekt: Fern……続きを見る

In this lively social history, first published in 1988, Lionel Rose explores in detail the plight of the street poor between 1815 and 1985. He describes the Victorian ‘Rogues and Vagabonds’ who made……続きを見る

Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime th……続きを見る