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Exploring The Caucasus In The 21st Century: Essays On Culture, History And Politics In A Dynamic Context (Amsterdam Contribution
by Francoise Companjen Laszlo Maracz Lia Versteegh

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Situated between Russia, Turkey, and Iran and comprising part of the Russian Federation along with Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, the Caucasus region is best known for ethnic and religious divides that have resulted in bloody conflic read more
Charlemagne's Survey Of The Holy Land: Wealth, Personnel, And Buildings Of A Mediterranean Church Between Antiquity And The Midd
by Michael Mccormick

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Michael McCormick rehabilitates a neglected source from Charlemagne's revival of the Roman empire: the report of a fact-finding mission to the Christian church of the Holy Land. It preserves the most detailed statistical portrait before the Domesday Bo read more
Neutral Rights And Obligations In The Anglo-Boer War (1908)
by Robert Granville Campbell

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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. read more
Worlds Made By Words: Scholarship And Community In The Modern West
by Anthony Grafton

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In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common i read more
The End Of The West: The Once And Future Europe (Public Square)
by David Marquand

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Has Europe's extraordinary postwar recovery limped to an end? It would seem so. The United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Italy, and former Soviet Bloc countries have experienced ethnic or religious disturbances, sometimes violent. Greece, Ireland, and Spa read more
The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, And Catholics From London To Vienna (Jews, Christians, And Muslims From The Anci
by David Sorkin

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In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, or demonized as the source of a godless liberalism in conflict with religious faith. In The Religious En read more
The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Pedro II of Aragon
by Ernest E. Jenkins

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Nationalizing The Past: Historians As Nation Builders In Modern Europe (Writing The Nation: National Histriographies And The Mak
by Chris Lorenz Stefan Berger

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Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exciting new volume compares how national historians in Europe have handled the opposing pulls of fact and fict read more
Political Thought In The Age Of Revolution 1776-1848: Burke To Marx (European Culture And Society)
by Michael Levin

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In the years of revolution between 1776 and 1848, stress and transition produced some fundamental reflections on politics and society. This introductory text considers how a cluster of key European thinkers, including Burke, Hegel, Tocqueville and read more
Political Thought In The Age Of Revolution 1776-1848: Burke To Marx (European Culture And Society)
by Michael Levin

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In the years of revolution between 1776 and 1848, stress and transition produced some fundamental reflections on politics and society. This introductory text considers how a cluster of key European thinkers, including Burke, Hegel, Tocqueville and read more
Europe Between Democracy And Dictatorship: 1900 - 1945 (Blackwell History Of Europe)
by Conan Fischer

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Fischer offers a captivating analysis of Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century, from the optimism at the turn of the century to the successive waves of destruction of the First and Second World Wars.
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Charles Stewart Parnell And His Times: A Bibliography (Bibliographies Of British Statesmen)
by Alan O'day Neil C Fleming

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Charles Steward Parnell (1846-1891) wrote remarkably little about himself, but he has attracted the attention of many writers, politicians, and scholars, both during his lifetime and ever since. His controversial and provocative role in
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The Rise Of Regional Europe (Historical Connections)
by Christopher Harvie

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In the 1970s and 1980s, there was a steady transfer of power in mainland Europe to powerful regional authorities and these, in their turn, started to build up a form of intra-European cooperation. With the acceleration of European integration, the rise of read more
Human Rights In The Twentieth Century (Human Rights In History)
by Stefan-ludwig Hoffmann

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Has there always been an inalienable "right to have rights" as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the po read more
Ockham And Political Discourse In The Late Middle Ages (Cambridge Studies In Medieval Life And Thought: Fourth Series)
by Takashi Shogimen

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The English Franciscan William of Ockham (c.1285-1347) was one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in late medieval Europe. Fresh scholarship has shown his profound impact on logic, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of language read more
The Dynastic State And The Army Under Louis Xiv: Royal Service And Private Interest 1661-1701 (Cambridge Studies In Early Modern
by Guy Rowlands

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This book presents a new interpretation of the development of the French army during the "personal rule" of Louis XIV. Based on massive archival research, it examines the army not only as a military institution but also as a political, social and ec read more
Reassessing Jewish Life In Medieval Europe
by Robert Chazan

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This book reevaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, governmental exploitation and expropriation, and unceasing popular violence. Robert Chazan argues that, while read more
European Neutrals And Non-Belligerents During The Second World War
by Neville Wylie

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This collection provides the most comprehensive English-language survey of the conduct of neutral and non-belligerent states during the war for fifty years. The essays focus on how individual neutral governments perceived international developments and re read more
Guilds, Innovation And The European Economy, 1400-1800
by Maarten Prak S. R. Epstein

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For a long time guilds have been condemned as a major obstacle to economic progress in the pre-industrial era. This re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy challenges that view by taking into account fresh research on inn read more
Cultures Of Power In Europe During The Long Eighteenth Century
by Brendan Simms Hamish Scott

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This volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the forces which shaped politics and culture from 1680 to 1840 in Germany, France and Great Britain. The contributors, all leading specialists in the field, explore critically read more