Comparing and contrasting the World Wars.
This will be a landmark in military history: a collaborative venture between historians from 20 different countries addressing every aspect of the two world……続きを見る
Published in the 200th Anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo a witty look at how the French still think they won, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in th……続きを見る
AU commencement d’octobre 1832, une voiture de voyage s’arrêta sur le sommet de cette longue descente qui conduit des plaines élevées de Moudon en Suisse, au niveau du lac de Gen……続きを見る
This work, first published in 1977, is a reissue of a trailblazing work; the first textbook of economic history to deal comprehensively with the economic development of the whole continent in this p……続きを見る
Diana Preston curates a spectacular and harrowing collection of voices from the Lusitania tragedy. Eyewitness accounts capture the ship's sinking in real-life detail as more than half the ship's cre……続きを見る
While many Scandinavian immigrant stories tell about rural life in America, this is a story of the faith and courage of a mother of nine children born in one of Chicago's Swedish communities.
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著者：Andrew Scull
出版社： Thames and Hudson Ltd
発売日： 2015年03月23日
The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the common-sense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that can seize hold of some of us: these are a part of our s……続きを見る
This volume contains a comprehensive treatise on the different gypsy societies of the world, based on the author's twenty years experience with gypsies in a variety of countries. This fascinating an……続きを見る
From where do the Western traditions come from?
From where comes my Anglo-Saxon name?
From where comes the name of my hometown?
Why Monday? Why is it called Monday? Sunday?
Did the Irish and the Bri……続きを見る
Am 31. März 1965 wird bei der gewalt- samsten Demonstration der Nachkriegszeit der Widerstandskämpfer Ernst Kirchweger tödlich verletzt. Es handelt sich um das erste politische Todesopfer der Zweite……続きを見る
Kein deutscher Staatsmann der vergangenen zwei Jahrhunderte wurde (und wird) von den Historikern so gegensätzlich beurteilt wie Otto von Bismarck, Preußens Ministerpräsident zwischen 1862 und 1890 u……続きを見る
The year 2014 marked the hundredth anniversary of the start of the first world war. We should know how this came about. After centuries of Imperial rule, in 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd fled into exile,……続きを見る
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since……続きを見る
Eight months into its maiden voyage to the Indies, the Dutch East India Company’s Batavia sank on June 4, 1629 on Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Australia.
Wendy van D……続きを見る
The object of the present compilation is to form a readable and instructive volume--a volume of startling incident and exciting adventure, which shall interest all minds, and by its attractions bege……続きを見る
At noon on Wednesday, 10th April 1912, the Titanic started from Southampton on her maiden voyage. Small enough was her experience of the sea before that day. Many hands had handled her; many tugs ha……続きを見る
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing tog……続きを見る
This book offers portraits of twenty of the secondary theologians of the Reformation period. In addition to describing a particular theologian, each portrait explores one problem in 16th-century Chr……続きを見る
There is a difficulty in writing a book of this character on Spain, which does not exist, we think, to the same extent with any other European country. In most European nations the official returns ……続きを見る
This little book, telling the story of our national usurpation by a foreign enemy during the beginning of the nineteenth century, appears at a moment when our nearest neighbours are suffering the sa……続きを見る
If we could see in a magic mirror the country now called Scotland as it was when the Romans under Agricola (81 A.D.) crossed the Border, we should recognise little but the familiar hills and mountai……続きを見る
It was the belief of Europe during the Middle Ages, that our globe was the centre of the universe.
The earth, itself fixed and immovable, was encompassed by ten heavens successively encircling one a……続きを見る
THE DAYS OF BRUCE must be considered as an endeavor to place before the reader an interesting narrative of a period of history, in itself a romance, and one perhaps as delightful as could well have ……続きを見る
In the year 476 an unfortunate young man, mocked with the great names of the founders of the City and of the Empire, Romulus Augustus, nicknamed Augustulus, was deposed from the throne of the Caesar……続きを見る
No name is more fraught with picturesque and romantic interest than that of the "Spanish Peninsula."
After finishing this rare bit of handiwork nature seems to have thrown up a great ragged wall, st……続きを見る
著者：Guenter Lewy
出版社： Oxford University Press
発売日： 1999年11月08日
Roaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlers, and fortune-tellers, the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order,……続きを見る
The reader will please observe that there seem to have been two things most closely interwoven with the life of England--RELIGION and MONEY have been the great evolutionary factors in her developmen……続きを見る
The reader will please observe that there seem to have been two things most closely interwoven with the life of England. RELIGION and MONEY have been the great evolutionary factors in her developmen……続きを見る
In an attempt to tell the story of a great nation in about 100 pages, it is needless to say there must be a rigid exclusion of all save essential facts. To those already familiar with the subject, t……続きを見る
