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Voices of Shakespeare's ...
Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life
_Voices of Shakespeare's England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life_ helps readers explore the era that produced, among other things, the world's greatest playwright. It brings together excerpts from over 50 primary documents written in William Shakespe...
(2010)
74 Reads
Daily Life in Victorian ...
What was life really like in Victorian England during its transition from provincial society into modern urban power? Discover the effects of increased women's rights, technological advances, and Charles Darwin's discoveries on everyday life. This volume offers a fas...
(2008)
754 Reads
Daily Life in Elizabetha...
_Daily Life in Elizabethan England: Second Edition_ offers a fresh look at Elizabethan life from the perspective of the people who actually lived it. With an abundance of updates based on the most current research, this second edition provides an engaging—and s...
(2009)
53 Reads
Britain and the Continen...
The Impact of the Norman Conquest
Matthew here describes the tangled web of interactions between the British kingdoms and Continental Europe during the period 1000-1300, and cogently assesses what advantage was taken of these opportunities on the broadest possible front
(2005)
49 Reads
Victorian Childhoods
The experiences of children growing up in Britain during Victorian times are often misunderstood to be either idyllic or wretched. Yet, the reality was more wide-ranging than most imagine. Here, in colorful detail and with firsthand accounts, Frost paints a complete ...
(2009)
36 Reads
Competing Voices from th...
Fighting Words
How better to understand history than through the words of those who lived it? Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution: Fighting Words presents documents that underscore the extraordinary richness of public discussion about key events and issues during the 1917 Russian Re...
(2009)
22 Reads
Gone To The Shops
Shopping In Victorian England
When Adam Smith wrote in 1776 that England was a nation of shopkeepers, he meant that commerce was a major factor in political decisions. Smith's observation was even more on-target for Victorian England: shopkeepers, shops, and shopping were a vital part of life. Th...
(2008)
21 Reads
Russia, 1762-1825
Military Power, the State, and the People
A study of the Russian Empire at the peak of its military power and success (1762-1825), this important book examines how a country with none of the obvious trappings of modernization was able to significantly expand its territory. Russia's military and naval victori...
(2008)
61 Reads
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, ...
For students and scholars of the Russian Revolution, there are pivotal questions that merit careful, comprehensive consideration: why did the Tsarist regime unravel in revolution? Why did the Bolsheviks come to power rather than some other party? How did Stalin&mdash...
(2010)
28 Reads
The Enlightenment
One of the few self-named historical movements, the Enlightenment in 18th- century Europe was a powerful intellectual reaction to the dominance of absolutist monarchies and religious authorities. Building upon the discoveries of the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenme...
(2008)
45 Reads
Britain in the First Mil...
by Edward James
Ideal for undergraduates, this survey of medieval Britain is a coherent narrative of events between the two great invasions from continental Europe. It is unique both for its broad historical perspective and for its wide geographic coverage: it spans the "long" millennium from...
(2000)
7 Reads
Britain and Europe 1789-...
At critical moments, Britain has played a crucial part in the political evolution of modern Europe, yet its stance has often been ambivalent: sometimes glad to be part of 'European civilization' but at other times rejoicing in the blessings of insularity. This book breaks new ...
(2005)
6 Reads
The History of the Czech...
The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia charts historical developments in the two nations to the opening decade of the 21st century. The book begins with an overview of the geography, climate, people, economy, and government of both the Czech and Slovak republics. Subse...
(2010)
2 Reads
Rulers and Subjects
Government and people in Russia 1801-1991
by John Gooding
No other European country has had a government as harsh and dictatorial as that of Russia. Its rulers, whether Tzarist or communist, have everything, and the ruled nothing. Why did Russians put up with such treatment, and why did only a brave and dedicated few try, usually aga...
(1996)
16 Reads
The History of Bulgaria
Now an Eastern European leader in the fields of science and technology, a nation with impressive renewable energy production capabilities and an extensive communication infrastructure, as well as a top exporter of minerals and metals, Bulgaria has grown both economically and p...
(2011)
155 Reads
China Abroad
Travels, Subjects, Spaces
by Elaine Yee L... and Julia Kuehn
Almost 2,000 British Prisoners of War were aboard the Japanese freighter Lisbon Maru when an American submarine torpedoed and sank her in October 1942. This book tells the story of those men, from the fighting in Hong Kong, through the sinking, and for some, to liberation and ...
(2008)
2 Reads
The History of Ukraine
by Paul Kubicek
Ukraine's struggle for a national identity plagued this former Soviet Union state long before the Cold War shook the world. Its central location between Eastern Europe and Western Asia invited many different cultures to settle the land, ultimately populating a powerf...
(2008)
24 Reads
The History of Russia
Second Edition
When first published, Charles ZieglerÕs The History of Russia was acclaimed as a source of information not easily found elsewhere, and as Òclear, balanced, and insightful,Ó by Rajan Menon of Lehigh University. Now ZieglerÕs remarkable volume returns, fully updated to be the wo...
(2009)
12 Reads
Culture in the Anteroom
The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer
by Johannes von... and Gerd Gemünden
Culture in the Anteroom introduces an English-speaking readership to the full range of Siegfried Kracauer's work as novelist, architect, journalist, sociologist, historian, exile critic, and theorist of visual culture. This interdisciplinary anthology---including pieces from M...
(2012)
23 Reads
Germany's Wild East
Constructing Poland as Colonial Space
by Kristin Kopp
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often ...
(2012)
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