D.A. - Western Europe 1

München 38 steht als Chiffre für Appeasement gegenüber Aggressoren. Denn auf der Münchner Konferenz gaben die Westmächte den Drohungen Hitlers nach und überließen ihm das Sudetenland. Knapp ein Jahr……続きを見る

In 1373, John of Gaunt set off from Calais on a great raid to strike at the heart of France. Driven by the high ideals of chivalry,the raiders left with epic pageantry. However, the reality soon ove……続きを見る

Femke Halsema is een van de meest geliefde en verguisde bestuurders van Nederland. Sinds haar aantreden als burgemeester van de hoofdstad staat ze weer volop in de belangstelling. Uit gesprekken met……続きを見る

Step into the rugged charm of the Western genre 〓 with "10 Timeless Tales of the Wild West" 〓✨. This collection brings you an incredible mix of classic Western storytelling, filled with gripping a……続きを見る

When people attend classical music concerts today, they sit and listen in silence, offering no audible reactions to what they're hearing. We think of that as normal-but, as Darryl Cressman shows in ……続きを見る

In essence the Celts were not an urban people, their mitre was for lakes, glens and groves. Their special points were islands and Tor. In Ireland the only modern Celtic state, the population is stil……続きを見る

Quelle fut la perception et l’interprétation du national-socialisme comme idéologie et comme pratique du pouvoir dans l’Europe francophone et germanophone entre le début des années 1920 et la fin de……続きを見る

Originally published in 6 volumes, "The History of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688" has gone through over 100 editions. David Hume saw English history as an evol……続きを見る

Von den Trümmern des Zweiten Weltkriegs bis in die Gegenwart – dieses kurzweilige Buch bietet einen erhellenden Überblick über die bewegte Geschichte Österreichs seit 1945. Wie positionierte sich di……続きを見る

William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini, two of the foremost radicals of the nineteenth century, lived during a time of profound economic, social, and political transformation in America and Eur……続きを見る

The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the lives, places, and stories of women in the Iberian Atlantic between 1500 and 1800. Distinguished contributors such as Ida Altman, Matt……続きを見る

Teaching a Dark Chapter explores how textbook narratives about the Fascist/Nazi past in Italy, East Germany, and West Germany followed relatively calm, undisturbed paths of little change until isola……続きを見る

When the Bloomsbury critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell introduced an aesthetically conservative English public to recent Parisian avant-garde painting, they explained its disconcerting imagery by way ……続きを見る

The book surveys the role of Portuguese and Sephardic merchants in the contraband tobacco trade in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Atlantic world. It offers a historical-geographic……続きを見る

Quelle fut la perception et l’interprétation du national-socialisme comme idéologie et comme pratique du pouvoir dans l’Europe francophone et germanophone entre le début des années 1920 et la fi n d……続きを見る

Quelle fut la perception et l’interprétation du national-socialisme comme idéologie et comme pratique du pouvoir dans l’Europe francophone et germanophone entre le début des années 1920 et la fin des……続きを見る

Claudio Magris is one of Italy’s – and Europe’s – most renowned thinkers and writers. He is considered an authority on central European literature and culture and is frequently interviewed about his……続きを見る

This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world ju……続きを見る

This book analyzes the history of the black market in Poland before the 1940s and the development of black-market phenomena in post-war Poland. The author evaluates the interrelation between black-m……続きを見る

The organization of several thousand Irish American men into a military outfit, which then attempted to invade Canada from within the United States, is a significant historical event that remains la……続きを見る

This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Middle English held at Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna (Philological School of Higher Education) in Wrocław, Poland, ……続きを見る

This book seeks to identify the most important problems in post-World War II Polish-Italian relations. The fundamental reflections come in two parts, in chronological-problematic order, from 1945 to……続きを見る

In the Fall of 1918 it became clear the Polish-Ukrainian ethnic borderlands would become a battlefield for the two nations. Both wanted to incorporate the disputed territory. On November 1st 1918, U……続きを見る

**"Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-‘new’ present . . . All medieval history i……続きを見る

A Journal of the Plague Year. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. 続きを見る

Cet essai porte sur la censure des livres et, plus spécifiquement, sur sa mise en scène. Il ambitionne d’apporter des éléments de compréhension à un phénomène résolument contemporain par une mise en……続きを見る

Dégénérescence signifie au sens littéral « perdre les qualités de sa lignée ». Cette œuvre majeure de Max Nordau n’est pas seulement une attaque moralisatrice contre l’art « dégénéré ». Elle dévoile……続きを見る

Step into the rich tapestry of Nandom, a resilient community in West Africa, as this meticulously researched work uncovers the origins, traditions, and evolution of its people. Addressing a historic……続きを見る

Hace quinientos años, el 24 de febrero de 1525, los arcabuces de la infantería española barrieron a la flor y nata de la caballería francesa en la batalla de Pavía, vanas sus armaduras, inútil su ar……続きを見る

“May be the best historical portrait of life in the Red Army yet published . . . [researched] with****extraordinary patience and a wonderful ear for nuance.” ーAnne Applebaum, The New York Review of……続きを見る