European History

An authoritative new two-volume publication cataloguing the German paintings before 1800 in the collection of the National Gallery, London   This ...

The Nasrid builders of the Alhambra the best-preserved medieval Muslim palatial city were so exacting that some of their work could not be fully ...

A fascinating story of the rise of individualism in the formerly German Western Territories of Poland after World War II and how this new culture p...

This book focuses particular attention on the six-month interrogation of the doomed poet, and it provides a critical evaluation of Soviet interpret...

Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding blac...

Now available in paperback for the first time, this book examines trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe bet...

In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published i...

Over the course of 150 years, Europe's protean technologies inspired and underpinned the globalizing ambitions of European nations. This book aims ...

Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political conte...

This collection of translated primary sources for Ottoman history shows how the major institutions of Ottoman government developed and functioned. ...

Kosher haggis, tartan kippot, and Jewish Burns' Suppers: Jews acculturated to Scotland within one generation and quickly inflected Jewish culture i...

Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name Détente, and perhaps a c...