European History

Bringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the Briti...

The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it approached its en...

Germany's changing historical memory of World War II and its aftermath, as reflected in the official and public remembrance of the German war dead,...

The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of ...

In the network of Nazi camps across wartime Europe, prisoner of war institutions were often located next to the slave camps for Jews and Slavs; so ...

The Russian internet is a hotbed for memes and viral videos: the political, satirical and simply absurd compete for attention in Russia while the W...

In Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, historian Tabitha Stanmore will transport readers to a time when magic was used day-to-day as ...

In 1918 a famed general of the Russian White Army battled through the Red Army to save Emperor Nicholas IIbut he arrived too late. The Romanovs had...

The original edition of Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, published in 2005, was a pathbreaking work of early modern literary history, exploring wo...

'An entertaining and insightful human story of obsession about books.' Daily Telegraph'A lively tale of historical innovation, the thrill of the bi...

A close-up history of the Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private   In the decades leading up to the dissolution...

A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic metho...

The importance of collective behavior in early medieval EuropeBy the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of...

The impressive collection of 18th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes important works by Boucher, Chardin, David, Fr...

'An entertaining and insightful human story of obsession about books.' Daily Telegraph'A lively tale of historical innovation, the thrill of the bi...

Design of analog multipliers discusses what an analog multiplier and its related types is, how different types of analog multipliers are implemente...

Who Killed My Father rips into Frances long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French politi...

A cultural history of speech in medieval Italy The Unruly Tongue, a cultural history of speech in medieval Italy, offers a new account of how the p...

By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy ...

By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy ...

First published in 1968, The Bourbon Tragedy marks the fall of the ancient French monarchy on August 10, 1792. The Bourbon Royal Family was impriso...

This book reappraises the origins of the European Union through the lens of the private experts who advised Western governments on war and peace th...

This book provides a new perspective on the historical importance of a series of provincial rebellions in France after the Revolution of 1830 and d...

A journey through Europes old towns, exploring why we treasure thembut also what they hide about a continents fraught history  [A] fascinating chro...

First published in 1956, Nationalism and Liberty explores the possibility of nationalism being compatible with respect for individual liberty and d...

This book examines the language policies in the constitutions, legal statutes, and regulations of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islan...

This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, roles, myths, mythology, and lived experiences of Vikin...

Up until recently, Europes three imperial monarchies the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires were seen as moribund political entities, unable t...

European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus...

This book investigates environmental issues traced through the epistolography of the late Byzantine period, which spans roughly the end of the twel...