European History

This bilingual catalog (in English and Greek) accompanied an exhibition organized by the Gennadius Library on the occasion of the bicentenary of th...

African slaves were brought into Brazil as early as 1530, with abolition in 1888. During those three centuries, Brazil received 4,000,000 Africans,...

An estimated 200,000 men of German birth enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, far more than any other contemporary foreign-born populat...

Dissenting Daughters reveals that devout women made vital contributions to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in t...

Das Generalgouvernement, der östliche Teil des deutsch besetzten Polen, war der zentrale Tatort des Holocaust. Hier lebten nach dem Überfall der We...

This book analyzes the impact of abusive regimes of power on womens lives and on their self-expression through close readings of life writing by wo...

The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanis...

An introduction to the raucous yet educational gap year tours of Europe taken by wealthy British aristocrats in the eighteenth and early nineteenth...

As the first in a larger series of publications which preserve and make accessible primary sources from various archives and other materials relate...

Auch wenn im Zuge des Iconic-Turns Historiker vermehrt auf Bildquellen zurückgriffen, so blieben die verbreitetsten Bildmedien der poströmischen Z...

The Viking Age, from c.750 to 1050 CE, was an era of major social change in Scandinavia. By the end of this period of sweeping transformation, Scan...

For some legal philosophers, if a law is procedurally correct, enacted in ways constitutionally recognised and agreed upon, then the content is of ...

Augustus: How the Roman Empire came aboutThe reign of Augustus, the first of the Roman emperors, has been seen, both by contemporaries and over the...

Italian literature emerged around 1600 at the intersection of poetological and religious attempts at standardization and under the attentive watch ...

Since the end of the USSR, post-Soviet Jewry has evolved into an ethnically and culturally diverse Russian speaking community. This process is taki...