ISBN: 9780192801982 | Paperback
One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also i... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198833833 | Hardcover
The nineteenth-century prison, we have been told, was a place of 'hard labour, hard board, and hard fare'. Yet it was also a place of education. Schem... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780192801630 | Paperback
More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society,... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198706151 | Paperback
Alexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later. During his reign h... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780199580996 | Paperback
The Devil has fascinated writers and theologians since the time of the New Testament, and inspired many dramatic and haunting works of art. Today he r... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780192853974 | Paperback
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Kenneth Morgan's Very Short Introduction to Twentieth-Century B... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198219385 | Hardcover
A social history of Germany in the years following WWI, this book explores the devastating social and psychological consequences of Germany's defeat a... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198891505 | Hardcover
Few alphabets in the world are actively celebrated, and none more so than the Slavonic. Annually across Eastern Europe, the alphabet and its inventors... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198824541 | Hardcover
The Crusader States and their Neighbours is a region-wide military history of the Near East at the time of the early Crusades (1099-1187). It explores... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198702535 | Hardcover
The first extended history of the men who presided over medieval England's monasteries, examining monastic structures, lifestyles, and public relation... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780199689194 | Hardcover
St Edmund was medieval England's patron saint, and at his abbey, two major Latin miracle collections were compiled: one in the 1090s by Herman the Arc... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780192863119 | Hardcover
European empires were commonly depicted in bright color-coded maps printed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that conveyed the expanse of ... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198868965 | Hardcover
This book explores the different ways West Germans thought about and discussed being queer in the 1970s; a decade in the midst of the Cold War, sandwi... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198835073 | Hardcover
Between 270 and 535 AD the city of Rome underwent a dramatic transformation, from an imperial capital into the centre of western Christendom. This vol... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198215844 | Hardcover
This is a study of the evolution of British plans for the peace settlement to follow World War I. It charts the development of Britain's diplomatic st... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198202653 | Hardcover
There is perhaps no city in Britain so saturated in history and layered with historic imagery as Bath. This interdisciplinary study explores the evolu... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198803911 | Hardcover
What did the Treaty of Versailles mean to those who found themselves belonging to a new nation state? In this groundbreaking study, Alison Carrol draw... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780199661664 | Hardcover
What is the role of language in human cognition? Could we attain self-consciousness and construct our civilisation without language? Such were the que... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780197564226 | Hardcover
Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives a... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198794479 | Hardcover
Around 1600, the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers was England's most important trading company. This history shows how, as the broader trading lands... Meer informatie
