New Approaches to European History - Böcker

Major reinterpretation of the Holocaust which surveys the destruction of the European Jews within the broader context of Nazi violence against other groups. Christian Gerlach reveals the close interrelationship between warfare, occupation, policin...

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France had the second largest empire in the world after Britain, but one with very different origins and purposes. Over more than four centuries, the French empire explained itself in many different ways through many different colonial regimes. Be...

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Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. The second edition has been updated and revised throughout in content, style, and interpretations, and new materi...

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What is the Enlightenment? A period rich with debates on the nature of man, truth and the place of God, with the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. But did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, for...

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The production, acquisition, and use of consumer goods defines our daily lives, and yet consumerism is seen as increasingly controversial. Movements for sustainable and ethical consumerism are gaining momentum alongside an awareness of how our cho...

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This major new survey treats the most important trends during the latter years of the Ottoman Empire. In this second edition, Donald Quataert has updated his lively and authoritative text and revised the bibliographies. This accessible narrative w...

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A new edition of James Collins's acclaimed synthesis that challenged longstanding views of the origins of modern states and absolute monarchy through an analysis of early modern Europe's most important continental state. Incorporating recent schol...

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Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as ...

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This new edition of James Collins's acclaimed textbook has been revised throughout, incorporating the extensive recent scholarship on the French state. It examines the recent debates on 'absolutism'; presents fresh interpretations of the Fronde an...

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A pioneering comparative history of British, French, Dutch, Belgian, and Portuguese decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the social, cultural, and political impacts of Eur...

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Placing Stalinism in its international context, David L. Hoffmann presents a new interpretation of Soviet state intervention and violence. Many 'Stalinist' practices - the state-run economy, surveillance, propaganda campaigns, and the use of conce...

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The production, acquisition, and use of consumer goods defines our daily lives, and yet consumerism is seen as increasingly controversial. Movements for sustainable and ethical consumerism are gaining momentum alongside an awareness of how our cho...

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Analytical and thematic account of a colourful period in Russian history accessible to undergraduates of European and Russian history, as well as to the non-specialist reader. Covers Russia's political, social, cultural and intellectual life durin...

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Analytical and thematic account of a colourful period in Russian history accessible to undergraduates of European and Russian history, as well as to the non-specialist reader. Covers Russia's political, social, cultural and intellectual life durin...

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This book is the first comprehensive history of the European nobility between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. Designed to introduce students and non-specialists to the subject, it explains all the principal themes and problems in an aut...

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This textbook deals with the history of work in general and of artisans in particular in Europe from 1300 to 1914. It focuses on many aspects of artisan culture, including economic and guild life, and it also discusses social, rebellious, ceremoni...

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This study provides an accessible and authoritative account of poverty and deviance during the early modern period, informed by those perspectives on the role of the poor themselves in the provision of welfare services characteristic of much recen...

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This book is the first comprehensive history of the European nobility between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. Designed to introduce students and non-specialists to the subject, it explains all the principal themes and problems in an aut...

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Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. The second edition has been updated and revised throughout in content, style, and interpretations, and new materi...

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This textbook deals with the history of work in general and of artisans in particular in Europe from 1300 to 1914. It focuses on many aspects of artisan culture, including economic and guild life, and it also discusses social, rebellious, ceremoni...

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This lucid and accessible book examines Ottoman relations with Europe in Early Modern times. The Ottoman Empire has consistently been regarded a place apart, divided from the West by culture and religion. This new study argues the Ottoman Empire s...

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This lucid and accessible book examines Ottoman relations with Europe in Early Modern times. The Ottoman Empire has consistently been regarded a place apart, divided from the West by culture and religion. This new study argues the Ottoman Empire s...

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Christianity and Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1830, first published in 2003, provides a comprehensive and accessible summary of the role of the churches during this turbulent period in European history. How did the churches survive the political and...

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James Melton's lucid and accessible 2001 study examines the rise of 'the public' in eighteenth-century Europe. A work of comparative synthesis focusing on England, France and the German-speaking territories, this was the first book-length, critica...

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This book, first published in 2003, offers students an accessible and succinct summary of key developments in the confrontation between the Churches and the Enlightenment. The text is supported by illuminating illustrations, maps, and a helpful gl...

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Part of the New Approaches to European History series, this 2001 title provides an inter-disciplinary study of the rise of 'the public' in eighteenth-century Europe. James Melton's lucid and accessible account will be of interest to students of so...

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This masterful synthesis provides a much-needed, complete survey of European colonialism from 1700 to decolonization in the twentieth century. Written by an award-winning author, this advanced undergraduate and graduate level textbook bridges, for...

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This is the 2005 second edition of a comprehensive study of the French wars of religion. Focusing on the social history of religion, it argues that this conflict was fomented by religious tensions among the population at large. The text has been u...

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In this second edition, Jonathan Sperber has updated and expanded his study of the European Revolutions between 1848-1851. A wide-reaching conclusion and a detailed bibliography make the book ideal both for classroom use and for a general reader w...

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The updated edition of Charles Nauert's classic account includes a section dealing with the place of women in humanistic culture and an updated bibliography, It charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and in...

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