Kategoria BISAC: History >> Western Europe - General

Building her exploration around the central figure of Claes Jansz Vischer, an Amsterdam-based publisher closely tied to the Dutch West India Company, Sutton shows how printed maps of Dutch Atlantic...

A en croire nombre d'essayistes du XIXe siecle, c'est l'opinion publique, et elle seule, qui aurait fait tomber du trone l'homme qui l'a confondue avec sa propre ambition. La reine du monde a-t-elle cesse de soutenir Napoleon, le fossoyeur et le continuateur de la Revolution, provoquant la chute du regime faconne par et pour lui? Deja complexe, cette question devient meme controversee des lors que l'on porte le regard en direction des territoires conquis en 1794 par les armees revolutionnaires, puis annexes au vaste Empire francais. Les Belges, les Rhenans et les Luxembourgeois vivant sous...

Presbyterianism has shaped Scotland and its impact on the world. Behind its beliefs lie some distinctive practices of governance which endure even when belief fades. These practices place a particular emphasis on the detailed recording of decisions and what we can term a 'systemic' form of accountability.

This book examines the emergence and consolidation of such practices in the eighteenth century Church of Scotland. Using extensive archival research and detailed local case studies, it contrasts them to...

The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East as a form of diaspora . It discusses the ways in which migrants from Russia in the east to Greenland in the west were conscious of being connected not only to the people and traditions of their homelands, but also to other migrants of Scandinavian origin in many other locations.

Rather than the movements of armies, this book concentrates on the movements of people and the shared...

Das antike Griechenland und insbesondere dessen kulturelles Zentrum, Athen, wird nicht erst seit Hannah Arendts "Vita Activa" als Wiege europaischer Kultur und Politik angesehen. Diese Sicht auf den antiken Stadtstaat ist das Ergebnis einer fruhneuzeitlichen Neubewertung: Wahrend politische Theoretiker der italienischen und franzosischen Renaissance Athen als politisches oder soziales Vorbild verwarfen, veranderte sich die Einstellung zur attischen Polis in der zweiten Halfte des 17. Jahrhunderts zuerst in Frankreich im Umfeld der von Kardinal Richelieu unterstutzen Academie francaise, und...

Published for the first time, Khrushchev's secret conversations, consultations, and notes document his attitude toward the West. A key issue in the period under consideration was the fate of East Germany. Other important issues include the disarmament overtures made toward the US/NATO, efforts to form an "anti-imperialist" front with the nations of the Third World, and Khrushchev's support for anti-colonialist forces.

Published for the first time, Khrushchev's secret conversations, consultations, and notes during the early phase of the Berlin Crisis that he initiated show us a politician filled with strong emotions who aimed at the domination of West Berlin and the "ruin" of NATO, thereby openly challenging the Western powers. However, he was not ultimately prepared to risk the nuclear war he had threatened.

This book starts with our popular Princess Diana accident Introduction and then to Joan of Arc's market square burning scaffold at Rouen, France in 1431. Read of:

- her military successes at the head of the French army and how she got there;

- her king making, capture, enemies and medieval courtroom drama.

- the English/French politics that charged her as a heretic.

- the variation from history as to how she was actually killed and how we proved it.

The book compares historical paintings against our military level drawing of her actual death...

In addition to famine and disease, war had a considerable impact on rural society in early modern Europe. Myron Gutmann studies this impact through a systematic analysis of military, economic, and demographic variables as they affected the Basse-Meuse area in Eastern Belgium and the Netherlands between 1620 and 1750.

Originally published in 1980.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original...