619円 The first volume in the acclaimed Squire Quartet., available for the first time on ebook. Thomas C. Squire, popular presenter of television documentaries, one time secret agent, a hedonist whose worldly success and self-confidence overshadow the lives of his family and friends, faces a mid-life c...

5,970円 Most histories of nineteenth-century music portray 'the people' merely as an audience, a passive spectator to the music performed around it. Yet, in this reappraisal of choral singing and public culture, Minor shows how a burgeoning German bourgeoisie sang of its own collective aspirations, media...

10,288円 The history of National Socialism as movement and regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentieth-century history, and one whose significance extends far beyond Germany or even Europe alone. This volume presents an up-to-date and authoritative introduction t...

496円 Dyer and Hassals A History of Modern Europe from the Fall of Constantinople to the War of Crimea A.D. 1453-1900 is an expansive, six volume history of Western Europe. Volume II discusses the affairs of Western Europe from 1525-1585 A.D., including the reign of Charles V, the Reformation and Count...

1,549円 Noch immer leiden zahlreiche Menschen unter belastenden Erinnerungen an den 2. Weltkrieg – vor allem die, die damals Kinder waren, aber auch deren Nachkommen. Hier wie für viele andere schwierige Lebenserfahrungen gilt: Wer sich erinnert, wer erzählt und echtes Zuhören erfährt, hat es leichter mi...

5,573円 This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) pr...

909円 "Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company" is a culturally and socially significant 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker) which was to play a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth and e...

1,780円 A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives. On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. His name was Yakov Yurovsky, and his prisoners were the I...

15,752円 Suitable for 19th and 20th century Europe/modern Europe undergraduate courses.This well-established and immensely successful book provides a standard introduction to the subject by one of Britain's most popular historians. Social, economic and social history are skillfully integrated within a fra...

450円 "I wanted to call them all by their names" appears on a memorial stone for the victims of the Stalinist repression in a park in St Petersburg just next to the Peter and Paul Fortress. It is a quote from "Requiem" a book of poetry by Anna Achmatowa (2). She wrote it for her son Lev who was incarce...

10,280円 First Published in 1989. Tackling the problem of Germany's role in the history of world politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is one of the most interesting tasks of historiography. Furthermore, the relationship between Britain and Germany is of central significance in understanding ...

12,933円 How did Nicholas II, Russia’s last Tsar, meet his death? Shot point blank in a bungled execution by radical Bolsheviks in the Urals, Nicholas and his family disappeared from history in the Soviet era. But in the 1970s, a local geologist and a crime fiction writer discovered the location of their ...