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Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806
Häftad, 2011
399 kr
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The Holy Roman Empire has always caused tremendous confusion for students of European history, and this book sets out to provide a clear account of this remarkable organisation - comparable in many ways only to the modern European Union - and its profound impact during its three centuries of …
Enlightenment
Av Roy Porter
Häftad, 2001
428 kr
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The eighteenth-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ignorance and superstition, it formulated the ideals which still inform our society today: a belief in reason, criticism, freedom of thought, religion and …
Russian Revolution, 1900-1927
Häftad, 2009
399 kr
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This popular, concise and highly readable study discusses the key themes and debates about the Russian Revolution. Robert Service's lively analysis examines:- state and society under the Romanovs from 1900- The February and October Revolutions of 1917- The final years of the Romanov dynasty and the …
Golden Age Spain
Av Henry Kamen
E-bok, 2004
514 kr
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For over a century Spain controlled the greatest empire the world had ever seen, and its collapse provoked, both then as it does now, a range of analyses over which there has been little agreement. In the second edition of this successful text, Henry Kamen asks: was the Golden Age of Spain in the …
Villagers and Lords in Eastern Europe, 1300-1800
Häftad, 2012
428 kr
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This new study provides an up-to-date survey of social and economic developments in early modern Eastern European rural societies. Markus Cerman revises the traditional images of mighty lords and poor, powerless 'serf peasants', discussing the theories which led to the assumption that serfdom …
Terror in the French Revolution
Av Hugh Gough
Häftad, 2010
428 kr
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We now live with the threat and the reality of political terror and terrorists. The French Revolution was the first occasion when a democratic government used terror as a political weapon, executing thousands of people for political crimes. What caused reasonable people to implement such a brutal …
German Reformation
E-bok, 2017
514 kr
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Over the past twenty years, new approaches to the history of the Reformation of the Church have radically altered our understanding of that event within its broadest social and cultural context. In this classic study R. W. Scribner provided a synthesis of the main research, with a special emphasis …
German Democratic Republic
E-bok, 2012
466 kr
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A clear, concise and thought-provoking introduction to the history of East Germany which engages critically with key debates and advances new interpretations of the origins, development and demise of the GDR. Peter Grieder also offers an original conceptualization of the GDR as a totalitarian …
Brandenburg-Prussia, 1466-1806
The Rise of a Composite State
E-bok, 2011
466 kr
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Karin Friedrich locates the composite state of Brandenburg-Prussia in its historical, political, religious and economic context, from the demise of the Teutonic Knights in the fifteenth century to the Napoleonic crisis. Synthesising debates in German, English and Polish historical writing, the …
Cold War 1945-91
Av Michael Dockrill, Michael F. Hopkins
E-bok, 2005
466 kr
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Michael Dockrill''s concise study of the early years of the Cold War between the Western Powers and Soviet Union has been widely acclaimed as an authoritative guide to the subject. In this second edition, he and Michael Hopkins bring the story up to the events of 1991, and also expand coverage of …
Brandenburg-Prussia, 1466-1806
The Rise of a Composite State
Häftad, 2011
428 kr
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Karin Friedrich locates the composite state of Brandenburg-Prussia in its historical, political, religious and economic context, from the demise of the Teutonic Knights in the fifteenth century to the Napoleonic crisis. Synthesising debates in German, English and Polish historical writing, the …
Communal Age in Western Europe, c.1100-1800
Towns, Villages and Parishes in Pre-Modern Society
Av Beat Kümin
Häftad, 2013
428 kr
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An essential introductory survey of the towns, villages and parishes in which people lived in the medieval and early modern periods. Beat Kumin assesses the similarities, differences and the wider significance of these communities for European society prior to 1800.
Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science
Av John Henry
Häftad, 2008
428 kr
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This is a concise but wide-ranging account of all aspects of the Scientific Revolution from astronomy to zoology. The third edition has been thoroughly updated, and some sections revised and extended, to take into account the latest scholarship and research and new developments in historiography.
German Democratic Republic
Häftad, 2012
428 kr
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A clear, concise and thought-provoking introduction to the history of East Germany which engages critically with key debates and advances new interpretations of the origins, development and demise of the GDR. Peter Grieder also offers an original conceptualization of the GDR as a totalitarian …
Fall of Soviet Communism, 1986-1991
Av Jeremy Smith
E-bok, 2017
466 kr
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The fall of communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states in December 1991 was one of the most significant events of the 20th century. In the last years of Soviet rule, images of mass protests on the streets of Moscow, Tbilisi and Vilnius, bloodshed in Baku, striking …
European Imperialism, 1860-1914
Häftad, 1994
486 kr
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This study surveys the growth of European intervention outside Europe between 1860 and 1914. It treats its subject, 'imperialism', as a process of increasing contact, influence and control, rather than as the nature and consequences of colonial rule. The problems of defining 'imperialism' are …
Formation of the First German Nation-State, 1800–1871
Häftad, 1996
471 kr
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Many accounts of German unification focus on war, diplomacy and Bismarck and on the crucial ten years up to 1871. John Breuilly, in addition to paying attention to those issues extends the analysis back to 1800. He also takes into account social, economic and cultural developments, bringing to the …
Outbreak of the First World War
1914 in Perspective
Av D. Stevenson
Häftad, 1997
399 kr
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This book examines why, in 1914, a Balkan conflict escalated into a general European war. It focuses on the decision-making of each Power during the July-August crisis, and analyses the role of domestic politics, economics, cultural factors, militarism, imperialism, and the international political …
Khrushchev Era
De-Stalinization and the Limits of Reform in the USSR 1953-64
Av Don Filtzer
Häftad, 1993
471 kr
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The Khrushchev Era examines the major political, social, and economic reforms of Nikita Khrushchev, from the 'Secret Speech' and Khrushchev's limited, but at the time earth-shattering critique of Stalin, to his ill-fated reorganizations of the Communist Party, agriculture, and industry. Besides …
Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II
Häftad, 1996
471 kr
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This lively and concise book uses a dual approach to introduce students and non-specialists to Wilhelmine Germany (1888-1918). It surveys social, economic, political, cultural and diplomatic developments in an age of tumultuous upheaval. It also explains why historians have so often reversed the …
German Reformation
Häftad, 2003
458 kr
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Over the past twenty years, new approaches to the history of the Reformation of the Church have radically altered our understanding of that event within its broadest social and cultural context. In this classic study R. W. Scribner provided a synthesis of the main research, with a special emphasis …
Interpretations of the Two Germanies, 1945-1990
Häftad, 2000
471 kr
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The two Germanies, arising from the unpromising ashes of defeated Nazi Germany, came to represent opposing models of state and society. The Federal Republic established itself as a remarkably stable democracy and successful social market economy: the German Democratic Republic developed an …
Renaissance
Av Peter Burke
Häftad, 1997
428 kr
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In this study Peter Burke distances himself from the traditional interpretation of the Renaissance as essentially Italian, self-consciously modern and easily separable from the Middle Ages. He emphasises the survival of medieval traditions and the process of the creative adaptation of classical …
French Revolution
Class War or Culture Clash?
Häftad, 1997
399 kr
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Few historical events have inspired so much controversy and debate as the French Revolution. The origins, nature and effects of the Revolution have been the themes of a voluminous literature, especially since the 1950s, and there has been sharp disagreement among historians about them. This book …
Stalinism
Av Graeme Gill
Häftad, 1998
399 kr
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Drawing on research based on access to the recently-opened Soviet archives, this new edition provides a valuable thematic account of the nature of Stalinism. The author surveys the arguments about the origins of the Stalinist phenomenon and discusses the way in which the different faces of …
Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe
Av Geoffrey Scarre, John Callow
Häftad, 2001
387 kr
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The figure of the witch still has the ability to exert a powerful fascination on the modern mind. The vision of the elderly crone begging for charity at the crossroads, an object of fear and revulsion for her local community, has combined with the memory of prolonged judicial persecution and …
