The Jews in Australia explores what makes the Australian Jewish community different from other Jewish communities around the world. It traces the communitys history from its convict origins in 1788 through to today's vibrant Jewish culture in Australia... Zobraziť viac
The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies provides a much-needed critical introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas and theories which have prompted the rethinking of history that has gathered... Zobraziť viac
Does the development of new technology cause an increase in the level of surveillance used by central government? Is the growth in surveillance merely a reaction to terrorism, or a solution to crime control? Are there more structural roots for the... Zobraziť viac
This book explores the legal and social position of women in the west from classical antiquity through the early middle ages. Arjava argues that from the viewpoint of most women, late antiquity was not a period of radical change, and that the influence... Zobraziť viac
This commentary differs from most others in that it does not attempt to repeat all the critical materials which can be found in the larger, major series. Rather it brings to the interpretation of John, materials more literary and rhetorical in nature.... Zobraziť viac
Looking at the historical context as well as the political trajectory of the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, a key figure in the Iranian revolution of 1978–9, Sussan Siavoshi explains how he went from the nominated successor of Khomeini to an opponent of... Zobraziť viac
Volume 2 Part 2 of Rashdall's Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages (1895) is a study of England's medieval universities focusing on Oxford and Cambridge. The origins, constitutions, curriculum, institutional development, and college systems of... Zobraziť viac
Old Norse mythology is elusive: it is the label used to describe the religious stories of the pre-Christian North, featuring... Zobraziť viac
The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third Reich... Zobraziť viac
This magisterial account traces the history of Western thinking about strategy from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius onwards, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Heuser explores themes ranging... Zobraziť viac
Since Russia has re-emerged as a global power, its foreign policies have come under close scrutiny. In Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin, Andrei P. Tsygankov identifies honor as the key concept by which Russia's international relations are... Zobraziť viac
The great novelist Joseph Roth, in the last years of Weimar Germany, set out to explore the Jewish communities scattered across Europe and America. He wrote about them in his characteristically ironic, tightly-packed and understated style, and brought... Zobraziť viac
This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines. This volume brings Byzantium - often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world - to the forefront of European historyDeconstructs... Zobraziť viac
1968: The World Transformed provides an international perspective on the most tumultuous year of the Cold War. Zobraziť viac
Synthesis of current research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods. Zobraziť viac
Decisions for War focuses on the choices made by small coteries in Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France, Britain and elsewhere to address a common yet perplexing question: why did World War I happen? Several of the usual causes for the war are... Zobraziť viac
General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident-and may very... Zobraziť viac
Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale?... Zobraziť viac
Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, only entering politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall... Zobraziť viac
"Vergessen Sie das Kind, es wird nicht leben." Mit diesen Worten wird Eva Umlaufs Mutter Anfang 1945 in Auschwitz konfrontiert. Ihre Tochter ist mit zwei Jahren eine der Jüngsten im Lager, ist, abgemagert und todkrank. Eva Umlauf wird sich später nicht... Zobraziť viac
