Author: Pavlac, Brian A. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This engaging text offers a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical infor...
Author: Finnis, Jane Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: He lay sprawled in the farm cart, as still as a statue. His flushed face and the bloodstains on his cloak grew lurid in the red sunset. He looked half dead, and I said to myself, I doubt if he'll live...
Author: Payne, Stanley G. Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book focuses on the short but crucial period that led to the collapse of the Spanish Republic and set the stage for the ensuing civil war. Stanley G. Payne, an internationally known scholar of mo...
Author: Eisenstein, Elizabeth Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change offers a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. O...
Author: Biscop, Sven / Coelmont, Jo Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines how the European Union can pursue a grand strategy and become a distinct global actor in a world of emerging great powers. At the grand strategic level, its sheer economic size mak...
Author: Biscop, Sven / Coelmont, Jo Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book examines how the European Union can pursue a grand strategy and become a distinct global actor in a world of emerging great powers. At the grand strategic level, its sheer economic size mak...
Author: Turner, David M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides the first major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources - in...
Author: MacLean, Charles Publisher: Canongate Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: For more than 2000 years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Its society was viable, even Utopian; but in the nineteenth century the island was discovered by missionaries, do-gooder...
Author: Bentley, Michael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention. This important new study moves away from conventional biography and presents an original portrait of the mental world inhab...
Author: Bossy, John Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Christians are supposed to love their neighbours, including their enemies. This is never easy. When feud and honour are common realities, it is even harder than usual. This book sketches the history o...
Author: Wrigley, E. A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: By the early nineteenth century England was very different economically from its continental neighbours. It was wealthier, growing more rapidly, more heavily urbanised, and far less dependent upon agr...
Author: Elliott, Dyan Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication wit...
Author: Soll, Jacob Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jacob Soll traces the origins of Enlightenment criticism to the practices of learned humanists and hard-pressed literary entrepreneurs. This learned and lively book is also a tour de force of historic...
Author: Burman, Thomas Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Addressing Christian-Muslim relations generally, as well as the histories of reading and the book, Burman offers a balanced and hands-on picture of the ways Europeans read the sacred text of Islam....
Author: Spaeth, Donald A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores popular support for the Church of England during a critical period, from the Stuart Restoration to the mid eighteenth century, when Churchmen perceived themselves to be under attack...
Author: Burckhardt, Jacob Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Burckhardt's the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance in the 19th century. The book is about political and economic changes taking place in the West of his day. Burckhardt has tr...
Author: Cromartie, Alan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An innovative account of English constitutional ideas from the mid-fifteenth century to the time of Charles I, showing how the emergence of grand claims for common law, the country's strange unwritten...
Author: Knowles, David / Brooke, C. N. L. / London, Vera C. M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first of two volumes, now covering the heads of religious houses in England and Wales from the tenth-century reform to the death of Edward III, 940-1377. This first volume, by the great ma...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is the long-awaited continuation of Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales 940-1216, edited by David Knowles, C. N. L. Brooke and Vera London, which itself is now reissued with substan...
Author: Earenfight, Theresa Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The King's Other Body: María of Castile and the Crown of Aragon is both a biography of Alfonso V's queen and Lieutenant General of Catalunya and an analysis of her political partnership with Al...
Author: Lagrou, Pieter Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume, in Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare series, examines how France, Belgium and the Netherlands emerged from the military collapse and humiliating Nazi occupation...
Description: A profound malaise haunts Europe. On the one hand, everyone is aware that the continent is no longer in the forefront of anything, that it daily loses ground to other regions of the world, in economic...
Author: Dalrymple, Theodore Publisher: Encounter Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A profound malaise haunts Europe. On the one hand, everyone is aware that the continent is no longer in the forefront of anything, that it daily loses ground to other regions of the world, in economic...
Author: Verhulst, Adriaan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For more than fifty years no synthesis has been written which systematically examines the growth and development of cities in north-west Europe. Adriaan Verhulst takes as his subject the history of ur...
Author: van Nierop, Henk Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the spring of 1575, Holland's Northern Quarter--the waterlogged peninsula stretching from Amsterdam to the North Sea--was threatened with imminent invasion by the Spanish army. Since the outbreak o...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Writing National Histories examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists, has been used to 'legitimate' the nation-state, focusin...
Author: Sharland, Elizabeth Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Covent Garden, the cultural heart of London, is notorious for its history, ghosts, and the Old Market. Discover the special places unique to this area. It would be interesting to read about the lat...
Author: Eisenstein, Elizabeth Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change offers a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. O...
Author: Sinclair, Upton Publisher: Frederick Ellis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This novel embraces the period from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to the Nazi Blood Purge of 1934. Wm. Schuman, Professor of Political Science at Williams College said "There is nothing I have read, i...
Description: An exhaustive study of how Jews imagined the idea of Europe and how it existed in their collective memory from the Enlightenment to the present
Author: Sinclair, Upton Publisher: Frederick Ellis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Presidential Agent, written in 1944 is the fifth in the magnificent and epic eleven book Lanny Budd Series written by Upton Sinclair and covering the period of 1937 and 1938. Upon publication, Viking ...
Author: Chakrabarty, Dipesh Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of c...
Author: Elliott, Dyan Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication wit...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Dutch revolt against Spanish rule in the sixteenth century was a formative event in European history. This important volume brings together the latest scholarship from leading experts in the field...
Author: Sinclair, Upton Publisher: Frederick Ellis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Wide is the Gate, written in 1943, is the fourth of the epic eleven part classic Lanny Budd Series written by Upton Sinclair. Wide is the Gate followed the 1943 Pulitzer Prize Winning Dragon's Teeth. ...
