The Last Word?

Jeffrey Grey

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 106
• Official history is a misunderstood genre of historical writing, which attracts much negative comment from (non-official) historians but about which v... Lees meer

Liberalism and Social Reform

David Gordon

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 55
• This book examines the heroic spirit of French industrial capitalism prior to World War I, and the role certain industrialists played in ensuring the ... Lees meer

Tea in China

John C Evans

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• Tea is one of the world's most popular beverages, and the birthplace of tea is China. Until the 1830s, China was the only producer of tea, and today i... Lees meer

The Persistence of Youth

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• This volume is a collection of fifteen first-person accounts of growing up during the Nazi era. The selections cover a broad range of personalities an... Lees meer

Uneasy Alliance

Mikhail Alexandrov

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 66
• Based on sources still unavailable in the West, this first English language study of Russian-Kazakh relations provides unorthodox interpretations of m... Lees meer

Diplomats Without a Country

James T McHugh, James S Pacy

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 86
• Diplomats representing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania continued to perform their functions even after annexation of their countries by the Soviet Unio... Lees meer

The French Revolution in Culture and Society

Norwood Andrews, Alfred Cismaru, David G Troyansky

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• This volume examines the issue of the timing of cultural change, problems of Revolutionary anticipations and reverberations, and the relationship betw... Lees meer

Ritual and Record

John M Carter, Arnd Kruger

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• This volume expands the debate over the origins and purposes of sports records. Developing the thesis of Allen Guttmann, Carter and Kruger explore the... Lees meer

British Empiricism and Early Political Economy

John a Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 109
• Gregory King (1648-1712) was an engraver, herald, surveyor, and Secretary to the Commissioners for the Public Accounts, but he is best known for his 1... Lees meer

Schoolmaster to an Empire

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 1
• Brunton's memoir opens a window on life and times in Meiji Japan from 1868 to 1876, a crucial period in that country's transformation from a medieval ... Lees meer

The Supranational Politics of Jean Monnet

Frederic J Fransen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 87
• Although previous advocates of European Unity proposed the replacement of the balance of power model of international relations, Jean Monnet was the f... Lees meer

Ambivalent Embrace

Rodrigo Botero

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 78
• For nearly two centuries interaction between Spain and the United States was characterized by cultural and political differences, mutually perceived c... Lees meer

Accommodation and Resistance

Edward Rice Maximin

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 2
• In this careful historical analysis, Edward Rice-Maximin documents the reactions of the French Left to the First Indochina War, 1944-1954. Unlike prev... Lees meer

Family Dynasty, Revolutionary Society

Laurence H Winnie

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 82
• This study analyzes the family life and public careers of six generations of a notable Parisian family, the Cochins. Bourgeois merchants in the 17th a... Lees meer

Through the Pale Door

Frederick S Frank

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 11
• Through the Pale Door is a bibliographical guide to the primary sources and central texts of American Gothic literature. It surveys and defines the Go... Lees meer

Tsar Paul and the Question of Madness

Hugh Ragsdale

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• Drawing on archival studies, revisionist historians have taken issue with the traditional view that Tsar Paul I was mad and was assassinated because o... Lees meer

Prophecy of Berchán

Benjamin T Hudson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• This book gives a text, an English translation, and a commentary on a medieval verse history of the kings of Ireland and Scotland from the ninth to th... Lees meer

The Jacobean Union

Andrew Nicholls

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 64
• In arguing that the early Stuarts maintained a consistent yet uncomplicated policy of encouraging cooperation among their subjects, this work offers a... Lees meer

Russia and Italy Against Hitler

J Calvit Clarke

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• Russia and Italy Against Hitler uncovers the complex web of ideology, economics, military cooperation, and diplomacy binding Italy and the USSR togeth... Lees meer

Royalist Political Thought During the French Revolution

James L Osen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 47
• This book treats two basic subjects: (1) royalist explanations of the causes of the French Revolution, and (2) royalist defenses of royalist political... Lees meer

The Politics of Anti-Japanese Sentiment in Korea

Sung-Hwa Cheong

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 24
• Unlike other Asian countries liberated from Japanese rule by the United States, postwar South Korea was occupied by American military forces until 194... Lees meer

Because They Were Jews

Meyer Weinberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• In Because They Were Jews , Meyer Weinberg examines the history of antisemitism in twelve representative countries from ancient times to the present. ... Lees meer

The Homosexual and Society

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 18
• This bibliography pulls together a scattered literature of popular periodical articles, monographs, and sources from the legal press to create a pictu... Lees meer

Engine of Mischief

Jim Tuck

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• Tuck's work is an attempt at the rehabilitation of Karl Radek, a sidekick of Lenin's who fell victim to Stalin's vengeance in the 1930s. Though not a ... Lees meer