Kategoria BISAC: History >> Western Europe - General

Das Grossherzogtum Berg einer von drei Staaten, die Napoleon Bonaparte auf dem Boden des Alten Reiches ins Leben rief und die mit dem Untergang seiner Herrschaft allesamt wieder von der politischen Landkarte verschwanden ist als Hintergrund fur die Frage nach Funktion, Wesen und Wirken napoleonischer Herrschaft bestens geeignet. Mit Hilfe der Verknupfung von Politik-, Verfassungs-, Verwaltungs- und Kulturgeschichte gibt Bettina Severin-Barboutie Antworten auf die Zusammenhange zwischen franzosischer Reformpolitik, dem Ausbau staatlicher Macht und der Modernisierung von Staat und...

This study explores the shifting boundaries and identities of historic and contemporary Jewish communities. The contributors assert that, geographically speaking, Jewish people rarely lived in ghettos and have never been confined within the borders of one nation or country. Whereas their places of residence may have remained the same for centuries, the countries and regimes that ruled over them were rarely as constant, and power struggles often led to the creation of new and divisive national borders. Taking a postmodern historical approach, the contributors seek to reexamine Jewish...

Conflict and Compromise, Volume 3: Finland examines historical and developmental patterns during the Swedish, Russian and post-independence periods of Finland's history. McRae outlines Finland's changing social structures, showing how the language groups have evolved within these structures in the twentieth century. He compares how Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking citizens perceive themselves and other language groups, as well as the similarities and differences in their views on political and social issues. Further, the book describes in detail the constitutional and...

Examining women's property rights in different societies across the entire medieval and early modern Mediterranean, this volume introduces a unique comparative perspective to the complexities of gender relations in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. Through individual case studies based on urban and rural, elite and non-elite, religious and secular communities, Across the Religious Divide presents the only nuanced history of the region that incorporates peripheral areas such as Portugal, the Aegean Islands, Dalmatia, and Albania into the central narrative.

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Towering above printers of his time and their successors for many years afterward was the figure of Robert Estienne, the great French lexicographer of the sixteenth century, whose contribution to knowledge and its dissemination is the subject of this authoritative book. The span of Robert Estienne's life (1503-1559) encompassed the historical epochs and events which shaped his career: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the invention of printing by movable type. His keen interest in the revival of ancient literatures and languages and his training in the art of printing pointed the road...