Nationalizing the Past. Historians as Nation Builders in Modern Europe, Paperback - ***

Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exc...

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Focuses on comparative European politics. This title reflects key events and changes including the impact of the world financial and economic crisi...

In this short and timely book, Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the many ways in which the medieval past has been manipulated to promo...

This thoroughly revised edition of the best-selling textbook provides an in-depth survey of current historical Jesus studies. Beginning with a brie...

Reducere. The nineteenth century saw the emergence both of history as an independent scientific discipline and of national history as a means to legitimize t...

DescriptionOccult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches--their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals--was a popular one f...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 31 Halftones, black and white; 5 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 514Publication date: 2019D...

The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written...

This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the soc...

This edited volume examines the role of religion in diplomacy in early modern Europe since the Reformations. It addresses three main areas where qu...

Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Weste...

In rural China, an informal wave of building jump-started by economic and social transformations over the past 40 years has rendered some villages ...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, M...

DescriptionOver one hundred years since it premiered on cinema screens, D. W. Griffith's controversial photoplay The Birth of a Nation continues to...

Endorsed for Edexcel, Revolutions in early modern and modern Europe covers Paper 1 and both Paper 2 options for Route C of the Edexcel AS and A lev...

Contributor(s): Author: John Lewis GaddisWhat is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a scienc...

The origin of capitalism and modern industrialism--and, not unrelated, the birthplace of Marxism--modern Europe provided the perfect conditions for...

Reducere. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing toge...

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

DescriptionThis fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to reflect ...

"A Cultural History of Early Modern Europe examines the relationships that developed in cities from the time of the late Renaissance through to the...

America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a s...

Reducere. In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two...

The edited book brings together country experts on populism, ethno-territorial politics, and party competition. It consists of twelve empirical cha...

Migrating Memories charts the transnational story of German speakers from Romania during a turbulent century in modern European history. From uneas...

"Feeling Exclusion investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and c...

Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe examines the important roles of women who campaigned with armies from 1500 to 1815. This included...

Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries.Publishe...

Thousands were executed for incompatible religious views in 16th-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comp...

Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tas...

Reducere. History does not simply happen. Most often it is the result of years of graduate training, assiduous research, and careful writing. Without histori...

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. Jan Glete examines this military ch...

In this lively and ambitious book, James Sheehan charts what is perhaps the most radical shift in Europe’s history: its transformation from war-tor...

From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering wor...

This series is for the Cambridge International AS History syllabus (9489) for examination from 2021. Written by an experienced author team that inc...