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Last Years of Austria-Hungary
A Multi-National Experiment in Early Twentieth-Century Europe
Häftad, 2005
471 kr
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The emergence of central Europe and the Balkans as a major area of interest and international concern in post-Cold War Europe have given the fall of the Habsburg Empire and the consequences of that fall considerable contemporary resonance. The Empire was an experiment in multi-national politics, …
Administration Of The Roman Empire
241BC–AD193
Av David Braund
Häftad, 1988
487 kr
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In this collection specialist authors consider the growth and workings of the Roman Empire from the end of the first war with Carthage, to the accession of Septimus Severus, through such aspects as Roman governors, cities, non-urban areas and client kings.
Roman Political Life, 90BC-AD69
Häftad, 1985
440 kr
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Essays designed to illuminate the nature of politics at the end of the late Republic and during the first dynasty of the Principate.
Intelligence and International Relations, 1900-1945
Av Christopher Andrew, Jeremy Noakes
Häftad, 1987
595 kr
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The essays in this volume assess the influence of intelligence on the Second World War and open up a number of other important areas for research. Studies of the growth of the imperial intelligence network cast new light on subjects ranging from Canadian surveillance of Vancouver Sikhs to signals …
Privateering and Colonization in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Raleigh in Exeter 1985
Häftad, 1985
309 kr
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Colonisation by the European powers has always had its seamier side and the first attempt to settle English people on the North American mainland - by one of Queen Elizabeth's favourite courtiers, Sir Walter Raleigh - was no exception. The hunt for prize ships and cargoes was a major attraction for …
First Portuguese Colonial Empire
Av Malyn Newitt, Anthony Disney m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
471 kr
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The four essays in this book examine aspects of Portugal’s first overseas empire, the maritime and commercial empire that was founded in the fifteenth century and which, during the sixteenth century extended from Brazil to China.
The Compromising of Louis XVI
The Armoire de Fer and the French Revolution
Häftad, 1989
487 kr
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In November 1792, an iron wall-safe, or armoire de fer, was discovered hidden within a wall in the Tulieries palace. It contained secret correspondence which Louis XVI had kept from the outbreak of the Revolution until he overthrew on 10 August. The discovery of the armoire de fer gravely …
The Failure of Political Extremism in Inter-War Britain
Häftad, 2005
440 kr
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The period between the two World Wars saw the emergence of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in most European countries, and the development of powerful communist and fascist movements in most others. The book examines the reasons why such movements did not flourish in Britain.
From Valois to Bourbon
Dynasty, State and Society in Early Modern France
Häftad, 2005
487 kr
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In August 1589 Henri III, the last of the Valois Kings of France, was assassinated by a Dominican monk, Jacques Clement. This ill-fated and much maligned son of Henri II and Catherine de Medici was succeeded by the first of the Bourbons, Henri IV and King of Navarre. This collection of studies by …
Nazism 1919–1945 Volume 4
The German Home Front in World War II: A Documentary Reader
Häftad, 1998
471 kr
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Volume 4 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary is the most substantial study of the German home front in World War II available in English. It illuminates the nature of Nazism and the regime it established by documenting politics and life in wartime Germany: government and party, …
Saxon Shore
A Handbook
Häftad, 1989
454 kr
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This volume presents a summary of the latest state of knowledge of each of the ten forts that originally girdled the south-eastern corner of England from Brancaster on the Wash to Portchester on Portsmouth Harbour.
Satire and Society in Ancient Rome
Häftad, 1989
543 kr
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These essays explain how satire can, and cannot, be used as a source for Roman social history: the possibilities and the limitations.
The Civilian in War
The Home Front in Europe, Japan and the USA in World War II
Häftad, 1992
518 kr
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A collection of essays by specialist authors covering both belligerent and occupied countries: Britain, Germany, the United States, the former Soviet Union, Japan, Italy, Poland, France and the Netherlands. It explores the impact of the Second World War on the civilian population by looking at such …
Landscape and Settlement in Britain, AD 400-1066
Häftad, 1995
487 kr
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This book examines recent views on the emerging settlement patterns of early medieval Britain and their relation to land use, drawing on both archaeological and documentary sources. Simon Esmonde Cleary takes the study from the later Romano-British into the post-Roman period; Christopher Holdsworth …
Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland
James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches
Av Lawrence Normand, Gareth Roberts
Häftad, 2000
728 kr
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This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge and …
Roman Domestic Buildings
Häftad, 1996
832 kr
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From the hovels of peasants to the palaces of monarchs, this book provides an architectural picture of Roman society through a study of domestic buildings.
Phlegon of Tralles' Book of Marvels
Häftad, 1997
578 kr
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The Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D. by Phlegon of Tralles, a Greek freedman of the Roman emperor Hadrian. This remarkable text is the earliest surviving work of pure sensationalism in Western …
Roman Public Buildings
Häftad, 1995
672 kr
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Roman Public Buildings was first published in the Exeter Studies in History series in 1989. It examines the development of Roman architecture and the significance of different types of buildings for the political, social and economic history of the period. A glossary of technical terms is included.
The Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 1
1917-1940
Av Edward Acton, Tom Stableford
Häftad, 2005
672 kr
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This is the first volume of a new integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. The Soviet story—the revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Cold War, and the dramatic collapse under Gorbachev—looms large in history syllabuses across the …
The Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 2
1939-1991
Av Edward Acton, Tom Stableford
Häftad, 2007
672 kr
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Volume Two of this new documentary history of the Soviet Union comprises over 270 documents and is organised into four chronologically distinct parts, subdivided thematically; it runs from the fraught diplomatic and military preamble of the Great Patriotic War to the final fracturing of the USSR …
Nazism 1919–1945 Volume 1
The Rise to Power 1919–1934: A Documentary Reader
Av Noakes, Jeremy Noakes m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
403 kr
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Volume 1 of this series of documents with commentary covers the period from the founding of the Nazi Party in 1919 to Hitler's assumption of the office of Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor of 1 August 1934. The documents in the four volumes of this series are drawn from a wide range of sources - official …
Nazism 1919–1945 Volume 2
State, Economy and Society 1933–39: A Documentary Reader
Häftad, 2000
471 kr
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Volume 2 of this series of documents with commentary covers the domestic aspects of the regime between 1933 and 1939: the political stystem, the economy and society, propaganda and indoctrination, policies towards youth and women, the SS system of terror, antisemitism and popular attitudes towards …
Nazism 1919–1945 Volume 3
Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination: A Documentary Reader
Häftad, 2001
471 kr
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This is a new edition of Volume Three of the four volume collection of documents on Nazism 1919-1945, with substantial revisions to three chapters and the inclusion of many new documents, an index and a revised bibliography. The volume contains the most systematic documentation available in English …
Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland
James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches
Av Lawrence Normand, Gareth Roberts
Inbunden, 2000
2641 kr
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This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge and …
The Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 2
1939-1991
Av Edward Acton, Tom Stableford
Inbunden, 2007
2120 kr
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Volume Two of this new documentary history of the Soviet Union comprises over 270 documents and is organised into four chronologically distinct parts, subdivided thematically; it runs from the fraught diplomatic and military preamble of the Great Patriotic War to the final fracturing of the USSR …
Government, Party and People in Nazi Germany
Häftad, 1980
386 kr
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Examines the relationship of the Nazi Party with the civil service and the working class. The effectiveness of the machinery of the party is also analysed and an assessment made of its impact on public opinion.
The Inheritance of Historiography, 350-900
Av Christopher Holdsworth, T. P. Wiseman
Häftad, 1986
488 kr
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To what extent did the historians of the early Middle Ages inherit the aims and methods of Greek and Roman historiography? How far were they influenced by classical coventions about literary genre, rhetorical technique and political subject-matter? A conference held in Exeter in 1985 brought …
'Into Another Mould'
Aspects of the Interregnum
Av Ivan Roots
Häftad, 1998
471 kr
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The first edition of this volume, published in 1981 under the title Into Another Mould, contemplated three aspects of the interregnum 1642-60: the suggested or even attempted reforms of local government; the politics of the New Model Army; the strains, new and old, between and within the …
Figuring Out Roman Nobility
Juvenal's Eighth 'Satire'
Häftad, 1997
507 kr
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Juvenal is a central author on courses in Classical Studies and has an important place on courses in comparative literature, both in the UK and USA. This new book by John Henderson shows how the eighth Satire, a brilliant piece of writing, makes fun of traditional Roman family values, and in the …
Roman Life
Rutilius Gallicus on Paper and in Stone
Häftad, 1998
488 kr
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Rutilius Gallicus was chief of police, poet and courtier of the Roman Emperor Domitian. He is a unique figure in that he can be studied in detail through both text and inscription, thereby fusing literature with history, and linking poetry with epigraphy. His recovery from a critical illness was …
