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As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "absolutist" texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance……続きを見る

In Living with Conflict: A Challenge to a Peace Church, Susan Robson explores the discomforts and denials that can arise when an organization committed to doing good suspects that it is not living u……続きを見る

Exploring the successful Norman invasion of England in 1066, this concise and readable book focuses especially on the often dramatic and enduring changes wrought by William the Conqueror and his fol……続きを見る

This book is a project in comparative history, but along two distinct axes, one historical and the other historiographical. Its purpose is to constructively juxtapose the early modern European and C……続きを見る

This antiquarian book contains the fourth instalment of the final episode in the fantastic d'Artagnan Romances, "The Man in the Iron Mask". Thirty-five years after the events of the last episode, th……続きを見る

This vintage book contains Alexandre Dumas's 1916 historical novella, "The Prussian Terror". Set in 1866 during the Austro-Prussian War, this exciting and masterfully-retold story is highly recommen……続きを見る

This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's work "Karl-Ludwig Sand". It was first published as part of his eight-volume series "Celebrated Crimes" (1839-40), and recounts the story of a German ……続きを見る

This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's 1849 novel, "The Queen's Necklace". It is based on a famous case of fraud and royal scandal concerning Marie Antoinette's complicity in a plot to dec……続きを見る

This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's work "La Constantin". First published as part of his eight-volume series "Celebrated Crimes" (1839-40), it recounts the semi-fictionalised story of M……続きを見る

This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's historical work, "The Countess de Saint-Geran". It was first published as part of his eight-volume series "Celebrated Crimes" (1839-40), which contai……続きを見る

This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's work "Martin Guerre". It was first published as part of his eight-volume series "Celebrated Crimes" (1839-40), and recounts the unbelievable story of……続きを見る

This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's historical chronicle, "Nisida - 1825". One of the most notorious prisons in Italy, the Nisida was built on a small island just off the coast of Naple……続きを見る

This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's work "Mary Stuart". It was first published as part of his eight-volume series "Celebrated Crimes" (1839-40), and recounts the fascinating story of Ma……続きを見る

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC Level: A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested ser……続きを見る

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC Level: A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested ser……続きを見る

Animal Companions explores how eighteenth-century British society perceived pets and the ways in which conversation about them reflected and shaped broader cultural debates. While Europeans kept pet……続きを見る

This volume provides a new and nuanced appreciation of David Hume as a historian. Gone for good are the days when one can offhandedly assert, as R. G. Collingwood once did, that Hume “deserted philo……続きを見る

In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civ……続きを見る

The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was e……続きを見る

From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in liv……続きを見る

Immanuel Kant is rarely connected to rhetoric by those who study philosophy or the rhetorical tradition. If anything, Kant is said to see rhetoric as mere manipulation and as not worthy of attention……続きを見る

In Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France, Jonathan Dewald explores European aristocratic society by looking closely at one of its most prominent families. The Rohan were rich, powerful,……続きを見る

Kommentierte und erweiterte Ausgabe des Buches von 1918. Ergänzt durch eine umfangreiche Biografie und Bibliografie des Autors Georg Streng. Georg Streng schreibt in seiner Einleitung zu „Das Roset……続きを見る

L’histoire du Moyen-Âge s’ouvre en réalité par la victoire du christianisme et par la translation du siége  impérial à Byzance ; elle finit, avec le xve……続きを見る

Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the ……続きを見る

In 'Dancing in the time of war', Alasdair White looks at the social side of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and tells us why there were so many expatriates, notably British, in Brussels at the time, ……続きを見る

Jean Jaurès was a towering intellectual and political leader of the democratic Left at the turn of the twentieth century, but he is little remembered today outside of France, and his contributions t……続きを見る

In Contested Treasure, Thomas Barton examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries negotiated the overlapping jurisdictions and power relations of local lo……続きを見る

Napoleon was one of the world’s greatest generals.  He conquered from Spain to the borders of Russia and dominated the international scene of early nineteenth century Europe.  But what w……続きを見る

Was heute Dating- Apps, Tauschbörsen, Finanzmakler, Jobcenter und Carsharing- Anbieter übernehmen, leistete früher eine einzige Institution: das Adressbüro. Wer im 17. Jahrhundert etwas kaufen oder ……続きを見る