En samling af 20 artikler, essays og kritiske studier om Danmark i 1600-tallet. I første del belyses sider af periodens generelle sociale og retlig...

This publication describes the gender roles of Danish women and their legal place in the unusual system of practice that existed in the late Middle...

A collection of articles dealing with the reception of classical texts in the Middle Ages. The book was published in celebration of Professor Birge...

In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century uses diaries, personal correspondence, newspapers, and legislative records to exami...

This volume contains eighteen contributions to the increasingly detailed discussion about neolithic and bronze-age Europe. It touches on the arriva...

Foreign language competences are vital not only for the individual European citizen, but in a more encompassing perspective, for mobility, socio-ec...

Lumberman Larry Gorman was no respecter of borders -- nor of anything else, it seems. From the time he was a young man growing up on Prince Edward ...

The incredible, moving story of Wiremu Maopo, the last of his line in a large South Island family, who joined the second Maori Contingent and went ...

This book offers a thorough description and analysis of the terrible plague epidemic that ravaged the Baltic region in the years between 1709 and 1...

Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over forty years, using resources that span the globe. This latest book represents h...

Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over forty years, using resources that span the globe. This latest book represents h...

This book tells the story of Rose Zwi's forebears who were Lithuanian Jews caught up in the sweeping history of the first half of the century in Eu...

In the last decades, many countries in Latin America underwent a transition from dictatorship to democracy. Truth commissions were an essential ins...

Maps and illustrations are included, as are a chronology of the Wars for Independence, suggestions for further reading, and a thorough index.

Maps and illustrations are included, as are a chronology of the Wars for Independence, suggestions for further reading, and a thorough index.

With insightful readings of his source material -- which includes Norse sagas, Eddic literature and church homilies -- Arnved Nedkvitne sheds light...

The New Zealand Division's capture of the French town of Le Quesnoy was its last and most successful action in the First World War. Breaking throug...

Las Vegas, New Mexico, is the subject and muse of this provocative case study of "place", exploring the history and geography but most centrally wa...

Delivered at Cambridge University between 1895 and 1899, Lectures on the French Revolution is a distinguished account of the entire epochal chapter...

The University of Alberta Libraries houses one of the most outstanding collections of Austrian, Habsburg and Central European materials in North Am...

"[Wolpert and Kapparis's] anthology . . . stands apart in a number of key ways. Virtually all of the translations, which are of very high quality, ...

"[Wolpert and Kapparis's] anthology . . . stands apart in a number of key ways. Virtually all of the translations, which are of very high quality, ...

This book presents extraordinary, little-known tales of the infamous bandits and highwaymen who plied their trade in early California.

The book is a story teller's collection of history, legends and myths about Big Island Pond and its surrounding communities. The Pond, which is rea...

This groundbreaking volume offers a historical comparison between the events leading up to World War I and current global tensions related to the e...

Published in 1516, Poul Ræff's "Iudeorum Secreta", a translation of Johannes Pfefferkorn's The Confession of the Jews, was a landmark in the develo...

Let them speak to me no more of Rome, and let Greece be silent lest she stand accused of knowing nothing but what she has derived from Egypt. Frede...

For 50 years, until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Soviet Union ran a campaign of repression, imprisonment, political trials and terror against ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed, much of its Jewish population emigrated. But those who remained were often disconnected from Judaism. It was into ...