The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History (Oxford Handbooks)
Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale volume which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Such major themes a...
Die Arbeit behandelt einen wichtigen Ausschnitt aus der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Kantons Zurich. In den Aufstanden der bauerlichen Landgemeinden gegen die regierende Stadt zeigen sich brennpunktartig die politischen, wirtschaftlichen und rechtlichen Problemfelder im Verhaltnis zwischen Stadt und Land, das als -Systemkonflikt- verstanden wird. Bei der Losung der Konflikte wird von beiden Seiten gemeinsam eine Herrschaftsstruktur entwickelt, die als -dritter Weg- zwischen Demokratie und Absoluti...
'Effervescent' NEW YORKER 'A fresh, fast-paced history ... Riveting' MAYA JASANOFF 'Today the war news is available around the clock on TV screens, in print, and on the internet. Back then the best source of news was an intrepid band of young American newspaper correspondents whose exclusive dispatches brought home word of the coming cataclysm ... [Cohen writes with] prodigious research and sparkling prose. The book is a model of its kind' WALL STREET JOURNAL...
Kinderen van de minne? (Verhandelingen van de KVAB voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten. Nieuwe reeks, Volume 3)
by M. Carlier
Gazetteer of Historic Lincolnshire for Family and Local Historians
by S.J. Branson
My Sojourn through the Storms of Life!
by Nathan Francis Hodge and Vickie Hodge Holt
The Dutch Golden Age, the age of Grotius, Spinoza, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a host of other renowned artists and writers was also remarkable for its immense impact in the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. It was in fact one of the most spectacularly creative episodes in the history of the world. Jonathan Israel gives the definitive account of the emergence of the United Provinces as a great power, and explains the subsequent decline in the eighteenth century. He places the t...
Heritage of Kent
Documents the story of the violent revolution that signaled the end of the political power of the popes and resulted in the emergence of modern Europe. Days after his prime minister was assassinated in the middle of Rome in November 1848, Pope Pius IX found himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. Only two years earlier Pius's election had triggered a wave of optimism across Italy: he was seen as a youthful, benevolent new pope who would at last bring the Papal States into modern times and...
Longtemps meprisee ou declassee dans l'historiographie universitaire francophone, la biographie a progressivement retrouve ses lettres de noblesse a partir des annees 1970-1980. Ce retour de l'individu sur le devant de la scene s'est appuye sur l'experience acquise dans d'autres champs historiographiques, particulierement dans les pays anglo-saxons, et sur les avancees de l'histoire culturelle et des representations. En matiere de relations internationales, les biographies de diplomates - en nom...
Muslim Spain Reconsidered (New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys)
by Emeritus Professor Richard Hitchcock
What made Muslim Spain a unique and successful society? Richard Hitchcock explores the background to its powerful legacy in the formation of modern Spain, using a chronological framework while constantly keeping in view the shifting social patterns caused by the changing balance between town and country, major and minor dynasties, foreign groupings and repeated invasions from North Africa. You'll learn about the main historical developments in depth, such as the self-defeating independence of th...