Engelstalige boeken / English language books

Over the past fifty years, the history and culture of the Byzantine empire has ceased to be the preserve of a few scholars and is now taught and debated in universities all over the world. This book provides an introduction to the…

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Auteur : Michael Karpovich
Artikelnummer : BF5319
Categorie(ën) : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : Niet aanwezig
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Auteur : Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Artikelnummer : BF5317
Categorie(ën) : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 0691008094 / 9780691008097
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Progress through coercion in Russia.

This psychologically penetrating revisionist account of the life and rule of Rusia's 18th-century Tsar-reformer develops an important theme - that is, what happens when the drive for…

From the teenager in provincial Russia in 1875 to his premature death in Germany in 1904, the author wrote over 4,500 letters to a range of correspondents, including family and friends, his publisher and fellow writers - not to…

Russians have often been characterized as people with souls rather than selves. Self and Story in Russian History challenges the portrayal of the Russian character as selfless, self-effacing, or self-torturing by exploring the…

A political and intellectual biographical study of Lenin which focuses on those aspects of his thought and political activities that had a bearing on the accession of the Bolsheviks to power in Russia in 1917 and the creation of…

In 1648, when the treaties of Westphalia were signed, bringing to an end thirty years of fighting in central Europe, Strasbourg was a free city within the Holy Roman Empire--German in speech, Lutheran in faith. Because of its…

Pierre Goubert is perhaps the foremost contemporary historian of the French peasantry, and in this book he synthesises the work of a lifetime to produce a vivid, readable, and uniquely accessible account of rural life in…

The revolution of Catalonia in 1640 was a signal event in seventeenth-century Europe. Its causes and antecedents - essential for an understanding of the revolution itelf - form the basis of Professor Elliott's study of the Spanish…

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Auteur : Henry Kamen
Artikelnummer : BF5299
Categorie(ën) : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 0582490375 / 9780582490376
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Auteur : Norman Levine
Artikelnummer : BF5296
Categorie(ën) : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 0874361931 / 9780874361933
Uitgever : Clio…

Four hundred years after his death, Philip II remains one of the most controversial figures in history, admired and reviled in equal measure. He is a figure of global importance, the first ruler on whose territories the sun never…

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Auteurs : Geoffrey Parker / Lesley M. Smith
Artikelnummer : BF5297
Categorie(ën) : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 9780710205452
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The large stone temple structures on Malta are amongst the earliest such constructions in the world, long before the pyramids were built in Egypt. This super book forms a pictorial record of all the temples on Malta, whilst also…

Intellectual eminence apart, what did Kant, Clausewitz, Marx and Engels, and Tolstoy have in common? Professor Gallic argues that they made contributions to 'international theory' – to the understanding of the character and…

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Auteurs : Dale Hoak / Mordechai Feingold
Artikelnummer : BF8495
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This history of the Jews of the Netherlands and the role they have played in Dutch society was originally published in Dutch and widely acclaimed for the breadth of its coverage. It covers both the internal evolution of the Jewish…

A study in political culture.

Russian Conservatism and Its Critics provides the first account of Russia’s immemorial commitment to the theory and practice of autocracy, the most formative and powerful idea in Russia’s…

Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956.

During the 1930s, Stalin and his entourage rehabilitated famous names from the Russian national past in a propaganda campaign designed to…

All the Empty The Merchant Patrons of Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Russia had no precedent or rival. It is still the definitive account of the two great Moscow collectors who put together before 1914 the finest collection ever…