A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry - Jacob Katz

Reducere. DescriptionEminent social historian Jacob Katz examines the rise and transformation of Jewish communal leadership in Central Europe. It is a story ...

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Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers IncAuthor(s): Norman Robert BennettNumber of pages: 350Publication date: 1985Dimensions: 161 x 239 x 33Cover t...

Reveals how constructions of sovereignty shed light on a host of concerns including regional and sectional tensions; territorial expansion and juri...

Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs's novel Imperium in Imperio in 1...

Reducere. Can a house divided against itself hope to stand?Rowland Sinclair doesn't fit with his family. His conservative older brother, Wilfred, thinks he's...

Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of th...

Reducere. Introducing Detective Inspector Tom Harper in a brand-new historical mystery series. June 1890. Leeds is close to breaking point. The gas workers a...

The renowned historian Ivan Berend discusses populist demagoguery through the presentation of 18 politicians from 12 European countries from World ...

This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early tw...

Reducere. About the AuthorMichael Phillips is a bestselling author with more than seventy of his own titles. In addition to his own work, Phillips has helped...

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. Lond...

Volume 1 surveys late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history, focusing on the profound impact of the Enlightenment. It co...

This book of thirteen conversations introduces us to the life of an exceptional person--theatre critic, Germanist, and long-time chair of the Open ...

Tracing a mid-nineteenth-century revolution in understandings of old and second-hand books, David McKitterick reveals a transformation in values th...

Reducere. Atop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of Ame...

DescriptionThe new arrival of a woman named Mary Todd wedges a rift between Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, but they must resolve their differenc...

Bringing together an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume considers the emerging field of the history of emotion a...

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This collective volume enhances the discourse on the ideological prerequisites for the emergence of Balkan nationalisms. The Balkans offer classic ...

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AwardsLukas Prize ProjectDescriptionIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminat...

The first study to examine both the experience and representation of Christmas during the formative period of the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...

In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Helsinger reframes lyric poetry as a social form. Taking nineteenth-century poetry as her focus, she explores v...

Irish Imperial Networks: Migration, Social Communication and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century India - Barry Crosbie

In A Nation Divided by History and Memory a prominent Hungarian historian sheds light on how Hungary's historical image has become split as a conse...

Reducere. In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily, "Morgen" Journal, published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungari...

This book searches for an understanding of the historiography of planning in a European dimension. Scholars from Eastern and Western, Southern and ...

Publisher: Central European University PressAuthor(s): Tomasz (Reader in Modern history, University of St Andrews) KamusellaIllustration(s): 42 Map...

This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was foster...

Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of 'modernity' that took place in the Eas...

This original collection of essays examines for the first time the place of 'saints' and sanctity in nineteenth-century Britain. -- .Illustrations:...

Reducere. Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Ranci re's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Re...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Jo EllisIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 92Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 126 x 202 x 13Cover ...

Reducere. While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social ...

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century thought about t...

This volume explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. It traces how understandings of literac...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the Babylonian period to the twentieth century, strictly observant Jews have depended on a non-Jew, or "shabbes goy" to perform wor...

A seasonal tale of betrayal and the search for justice - before an innocent man dies...Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Anne PerryNum...

In the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant population supported three German-language weekly newspapers in Arkansas. Most traces of the c...

Reducere. This volume brings together a series of lectures A. V. Dicey first gave at Harvard Law School on the influence of public opinion in England during ...

Excerpt: "Presently the evenness of his breathing told her he was asleep. For a long time she lay on her back just as he had left her, mulling over...

Reducere. Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System In this engaging new study, John D. Wong examines the Canton trad...

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Reducere. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have got a partner in a ballroom? What would y...

This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproductio...

A groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpetriere Hospital in Paris.