The Magic Circle of Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague
Author: Peter Marshall
First published under the title The Theatre of the World, this is a captivating portrait of the crucible of magic, science and religion at the court of the doomed dreamer Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague. In the late 16th ... |
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A Tale of War Passion and Loss
Author: Andrew Tarnowski
The shot Count Hieronim Tarnowski fired on his wedding night in 1914, on the eve of the First World War, was like a tocsin that sounded the doom of his ancient Polish family. When in August 1939 his daughter Sophie saw b ... |
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Author: J.C.H. Blom & E. Lamberts
Remaining politically and culturally fragmented, with its inhabitants speaking Dutch, French, Frisian and German, the Low Countries offer a fascinating picture of European history en miniature. For historical reasons, pa ... |
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Women Travellers in the Balkans
Author: John B. Allcock & Antonia Young
Revised and Updated with a New Introduction During the 19th century the Balkan countries became the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public at large. This vision of the area has been created in large meas ... |
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Early Industrial Development in Sweden and Russia, 1600-1900
Author: Maria Agren
This volume presents the findings of a joint team of Swedish and Russian scholars examining the social organization of work in early modern iron industry in their respective societies. The comparison was carried out agai ... |
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The Politics of Time in a 'model' Bulgarian Village
Author: Deema Kaneff
In the decades since the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe, time has been a central resource under negotiation. Focusing on a local community that was considered a model in the socialist period, the author explores ... |
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Europe 1789-1914
Author: T.C.W. Blanning
The complete Short Oxford History of Europe (series editor, Professor TCW Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackl ... |
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A New Cultural History 500-1000
Author: Julia Smith
This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, i ... |
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An Autobiographical Essay
Author: Jan Kott
In the first English translation of Still Alive, the renowned Polish essayist and theater critic Jan Kott recounts his perilous odyssey through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century, ... |
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The Struggle for Survival
Author: Stanislav J Kirschbaum
Slovakia's declaration of independence in January 1993 marked the reemergence of a state about which remarkably little is known. Slovakia has struggled throughout most of its history to establish a separate identity, fro ... |
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Prelude to the First World War
Author: Warfare and History
The Balkan Wars of 1912 - 1913 opened an era of conflict in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, which lasted until 1918, and which established a basis for problems which tormented Europe until the end of the ce ... |
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In the Shadow of War and Peace
Author: Tom Gallagher
Can the Balkans ever become a peace penisula like Scandinavia? With enlightened backing, can it make common cause with the rest of Europe rather than being an arena of periodic conflicts, political misrule, and economic ... |
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From the Ottomans to Milosevic
Author: Tom Gallagher
Examining two centuries of Balkan politics, from the emergence of nationalism to the retreat of Communist power in 1989, this is the first book to systematically argue that many of the region's problems are external in o ... |
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The Consequences of Appeasement
Author: Nader Mousavizadeh
The war in the former Yugoslavia has shamed the leading nations of the world. Unspeakable crimes against humanity have been committed in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, yet American and European policymakers have cravenly s ... |
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Economics and Politics from the Middle Ages Until the Early Twentieth Century
Author: Daniel Chirot
Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world, and useful to ... |
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Voters and Voting in England under the Early Stuarts
Author: Derek Hirst
Contested elections became a fact of political life for the first time in early-17th-century England as the gentry pressed for seats in a parliament which was growing increasingly important. Dr Hirst examines politics fr ... |
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Habitat, Heritage and History
Author: E.Estyn Evans
The history of Ireland has been conceived in two ways: as the history of the English in Ireland or as the history of Gaelic Ireland, but both kinds have been concerned with personalities and institutions rather than with ... |
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Author: Ian Dyck
This is the first rural and cultural study of the great English countryman William Cobbett (1763-1835). It binds Cobbett's radical career to his rural heritage and to the experiences and politics of agricultural workers ... |
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The Experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1100-1300
Author: R.R. Davies
This book, a revised and extended version of Professor Davies's 1988 Wiles Lectures, explores the ways in which the kings and aristocracy of England sought to extend their domination over Ireland, Scotland and Wales in t ... |
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Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980
Author: Annabel Gregory & Kenneth Wachter Roderick Floud
In historical accounts of the circumstances of ordinary people's lives, nutrition has been the great unknown. Nearly impossible to measure or assess directly, it has nonetheless been held responsible for the declining mo ... |
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