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Crowd Actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the Modern World
By Michael Davis. 2015
Crowd Actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the Modern World explores the lively and often violent…
world of the crowd, examining some of the key flashpoints in the history of popular action. From the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 to the Paris riots in 2005 and 2006, this volume reveals what happens when people gather together in protest.The Age of Reconnaissance
By J. H. Parry. 1981
It began with Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese voyages in the mid-fifteenth century and ended 250 years later when…
the "Reconnaissance" was all but complete. Dr. Parry examines the inducements--political, economic, religious--to overseas enterprises at the time, and analyzes the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands.Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac
By Anne Lawrence-Mathers. 2020
The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages. Exploring how scientifically-based meteorology spread and flourished…
from c.700–c.1600, this study reveals the dramatic changes in forecasting and how the new science of 'astro-meteorology' developed. Both narrower and more practical in its approach than earlier forms of meteorology, this new science claimed to deliver weather forecasts for months and even years ahead, on the premise that weather is caused by the atmospheric effects of the planets and stars, and mediated by local and seasonal climatic conditions. Anne Lawrence-Mathers explores how these forecasts were made and explains the growing practice of recording actual weather. These records were used to support forecasting practices, and their popularity grew from the fourteenth century onwards. Essential reading for anyone interested in medieval science, Medieval Meteorology demonstrates that the roots of scientific forecasting are much deeper than is usually recognized.From the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on…
its diverse populations. In one of the more quixotic episodes in this "Magyarization," large monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin-supposedly, the moment when the Hungarian nation was born. This exactingly researched study recounts the troubled history of this plan, which-far from cultivating national pride-provoked resistance and even hostility among provincial Hungarians. Author Bálint Varga thus reframes the narrative of nineteenth-century nationalism, demonstrating the complex relationship between local and national memories.Few figures in modern German history are as central to the public memory of radical protest than Ulrike Meinhof, but…
she was only the most prominent of the countless German women—and militant male feminists—who supported and joined in revolutionary actions from the 1960s onward. Sisters in Arms gives a bracing account of how feminist ideas were enacted by West German leftist organizations from the infamous Red Army Faction to less well-known groups such as the Red Zora. It analyzes their confrontational and violent tactics in challenging the abortion ban, opposing violence against women, and campaigning for solidarity with Third World women workers. Though these groups often diverged ideologically and tactically, they all demonstrated the potency of militant feminism within postwar protest movements.The Tudor Age (A history Of England Ser.)
By James Williamson. 1979
Ever since its first publication in 1953, James A. Williamson’s The Tudor Age has been lauded for its vivid and…
vigorous approach to the riches of its subject, the Tudor Age. The present volume is the second edition, originally published 1957, which contains an additional three-part appendix, and will appeal to students of the Tudor Age and general avid historians alike.“There are many things to admire in this volume...[Williamson] is to be congratulated upon his persistence in his declared intention of telling a story instead of describing the results of a post-mortem examination. After a brief introductory chapter in which he sets the early Tudor scene, he sustains his narrative throughout the entire book.”—S. T. Bindoff, History TodayWilliam the Silent: William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, 1533-1584
By C. V. Wedgwood. 1989
In this book, first published in 1944, the distinguished historian C. V. Wedgwood takes as her subject here the figure…
of William, Count of Nassau and Prince of Orange, who led the revolt of the Netherlands against the Spain of Philip II. The book is not only a masterpiece of biographical writing but a rich portrait of an age—a period of political, religious, and economic ferment that dramatically shaped the history of early modern Europe.‘A reliable and well-balanced history of great events. Miss Wedgwood tells simply and accurately a series of moving, romantic and most important events, the first effective stand made in Europe against Spain and the Inquisition, the foundation of the Dutch Republic on the basis of freedom; and she tells these great historical events in the form of a biography centered round the figure of one man.’—G. M. Trevelyan, [London] Sunday Times‘A very fine book. There is all the human interest of William’s life with all the historic importance for us of his achievement.’—A. L. Rowse, Observer‘Miss Wedgwood, an authority on the period, has told William’s life story persuasively, with singular economy and charm….Superior scholarship, penetrating insight, lucid prose.’—Geoffrey BruunTHE BEST ACCOUNT OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY WARFARE BY THE AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WARThis is an unrivalled account…
of sixteenth-century warfare, in which Sir Charles Oman traces the dramatic, far-reaching changes in the military strategy, tactics and organization of the period.Showing how warfare developed, he covers the Great Wars of 1949-1559; military events in Tudor England, including Henry VIII’s continental wars; the French Wars of Religion, 1562-98; the Dutch revolt and war of independence, 1568-1603; and the Turkish offensive against Christendom, from 1520 until the Peace of Sitva Torok in 1606.The battles, sieges and campaigns that Oman examines in detail clarify military development across the century, such as Ravenna (1512), the first battle won by dominance in artillery; Pavia (1525), a ‘victory by surprise’; Pinkie (1547), where an old-fashioned infantry army proved helpless against the combination of all arms; and Arques (1589), exemplifying the defence of a defile by very inferior number.Contemporary maps illustrate many of the actions, and add to the value of this brilliant and lucid history of the art of war.Sir Charles Oman was one of Britain’s foremost historians and a gifted writer. His books, noted for being both scholarly and accessible, include the two-volume History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages, the seven-volume A History of the Peninsular War and others.Early Modern Europe 1450-1789 (Cambridge History of Europe)
By Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. 2013
The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and…
the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections and cultural analysis. It features summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations and discussion questions to support the student. Enhanced online content and sections on sources and methodology give students the tools they need to study early modern European history. Leading historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks skilfully balances breadth and depth of coverage to create a strong narrative, paying particular attention to the global context of European developments. She integrates discussion of gender, class, regional and ethnic differences across the entirety of Europe and its overseas colonies as well as the economic, political, religious and cultural history of the period.Zoutleeuw: Guida turistica della città e percorsi pedonali
By Kathleen Reinders. 2019
La città di Zoutleeuw ha un numero considerevole di edifici protetti e di paesaggi da sogno. Il centro città conserva…
ancora la sua strada medievale intorno al Kleine Gete, ma verso la fine del XIXesimo secolo si è esteso verso sud, il cosiddetto Stationswijk, con alcune belle ville. La maggior parte dei monumenti si trova nel centro città.Letters From Khartoum: Written During the Siege
By Frank Power. 2018
It was in May, 1883, that Edmund Dwyer Gray, the chairman of the Freeman’s Journal, conceived the idea of making…
his paper a pioneer in providing its readers with foreign news. The Soudan, as it was then known, was in a state of wild unrest. The Mahdi’s followers had revolted, and British troops in and around Khartoum were having a bad time. The years 1884 and ‘85 were fraught with gravest apprehensions for their safety.No American or English journals had correspondents in any part of North Africa, and since a brief message had come through to London announcing the destruction of Col. William Hicks’ Army—annihilated on its way to attack the Mahdi’s headquarters—nothing had been learned of subsequent events. It was then that Mr. Gray seized the occasion, and made the Dublin Freeman’s Journal one of the most frequently-quoted publications of our time.The man he chose, Mr. Frank Power, known to his colleagues in Dublin’s Prince’s street as “Ghazi” Power, was the most dare-devil, resourceful and versatile member of his staff, equal to any emergency and avid for the ordeal that would try his mettle. His employer handed him a blank cheque, and told him to make all speed from Gravesend to Cairo, and, by hook or crook, to penetrate into Khartoum and dispatch all that he could gather about the state of affairs there and in the country around.The Government replies that followed were based on Freeman’s Journal despatches or telegrams to Whitehall, and all revealed the growing gravity of the situation. Before many weeks of 1885 had expired the tragic news came from Mr. Power that General Gordon and several of his staff had been butchered in January by the Mahdi’s mercenaries.Mr. Power’s letters brought the story of the siege down to July 31st, 1884, and the present volume consisting of Power’s letters to his family describing the siege of Khartoum was first published the following year.Engineered to Sell: European Émigrés and the Making of Consumer Capitalism
By Jan L. Logemann. 2019
The mid-twentieth-century marketing world influenced nearly every aspect of American culture—music, literature, politics, economics, consumerism, race relations, gender, and more. In…
Engineered to Sell, Jan L. Logemann traces the transnational careers of consumer engineers in advertising, market research, and commercial design who transformed capitalism from the 1930s through the 1960s. He argues that the history of marketing consumer goods is not a story of American exceptionalism. Instead, the careers of immigrants point to the limits of the “Americanization” paradigm. Logemann explains the rise of a dynamic world of goods and examines how and why consumer engineering was shaped by transatlantic exchanges. From Austrian psychologists and little-known social scientists to the illustrious Bauhaus artists, the emigrés at the center of this story illustrate the vibrant cultural and commercial connections between metropolitan centers: Vienna and New York; Paris and Chicago; Berlin and San Francisco. By focusing on the transnational lives of emigré consumer researchers, marketers, and designers, Engineered to Sell details the processes of cultural translation and adaptation that mark both the midcentury transformation of American marketing and the subsequent European shift to “American” consumer capitalism.Lo que no quise decir
By Sándor Márai. 2016
«No dejaré que los dos primeros capítulos de Confesiones de un burgués III lleguen al público extranjero. No quiero que…
lean esta triste confesión, esta acusación entre húngaros. En húngaro, para los húngaros, sí... Pero que los extranjeros no lo sepan.» Una entrada del diario de Márai de 1949 permitió confirmar a los especialistas del museo Petófi de Budapest lo que ya sospecharon cuando, entre el material del legado literario recibido en 1997, encontraron unos capítulos inéditos que, por deseo del propio Sándor Márai, se habían excluido de la tercera parte de Confesiones de un burgués, editada en Toronto en 1971 con el título ¡Tierra, tierra! Así, estos textos inéditos constituyen una parte crucial de la autobiografía de Márai puesto que giran en torno a dos fechas capitales: el 12 de marzo de 1938, cuando la Alemania nazi se anexionó Austria, y el 31 de agosto de 1948, cuando el gran autor húngaro, acompañado de su esposa y su hijo, abandonó su país, entonces ya un satélite de la Unión Soviética. «En aquellos diez años dejó de existir toda una forma de vida y toda una cultura», escribe. Combinando la confesión íntima con el análisis histórico, Sándor Márai evoca ese período crucial para Hungría y sondea una sociedad que se debate entre el deseo de independencia y los sueños de grandeza nacional, y que acabaría al servicio de la Alemania nazi. Este libro, una verdadera denuncia del fascismo y la barbarie, descubre a un humanista comprometido, un hombre consecuente que desea para su país una vía alternativa a la del estado totalitario. Obra de profunda integridad intelectual, Lo que no quise decir es el testimonio excepcional de uno de los grandes escritores europeos de siglo XX. Reseñas:«La lucidez incisiva de Márai está marcada por un profundo desencanto, una decepción inconsolable. Describe el hundimiento de los valores culturales de la burguesía húngara y el fracaso de la Europa intelectual y cultivada a la que pertenecía.»Lire «El propio Márai está presente en este nuevo libro [...]. Vemos al escritor que padece tragedias personales (en 1938 perdió al hijo esperado durante largo tiempo) y seguir la transición entre su vida de periodista de éxito y la de en un escritor que, fiel a sus principios, se quedó completamente solo y vivió sin ningún tipo de reconocimiento y éxito durante la segunda parte de su vida.»Litera «Un texto de gran fuerza, en el que Sándor Márai desmenuza la extinción de la filosofía humanista a manos de los nazis y del régimen estalinista.»Télérama1913. Un año hace cien años: Un año hace cien años
By Florian Illies. 2013
Con un estilo elegante y un fino sentido del humor, Florian Illies ha reunido un fascinante catálogo de anécdotas, apuntes,…
citas y extractos de diarios y otros textos de la época para recrear con extraordinaria naturalidad la magia y la emoción de un momento clave de la cultura europea, con múltiples ecos en nuestro comprometido presente. Los primeros años del siglo XX fueron un período especialmente fructífero para la creatividad humana. Europa era un hervidero de nuevas ideas y tendencias que surgían por doquier. Política, ciencia, música, pintura, arquitectura, literatura: en todos los campos se ponían en entredicho los valores tradicionales, y el sentimiento general era de cambio y revolución, un tiempo en el que todo parecía posible. En este original relato, el historiador y periodista Florian Illies nos transporta cien años atrás para describirnos qué pensaban y cómo actuaban algunos de los protagonistas de la escena europea a lo largo de 1913. Proust busca el tiempo perdido, Freud desnuda almas en su diván, Stravinski celebra la primavera, Kafka, Joyce y Musil toman el mismo día un café en Trieste... Y en el parque del castillo de Schönbrunn, Hitler y Stalin se pasean en lo que será su único encuentro. Así pues, el triunfo y la melancolía se funden, todo es pulsión creativa, pero, a su vez, el ser humano parece haber perdido la inocencia y, de alguna manera, se intuye el abrupto declive que se avecina. Después de 1913, claro está, Europa se precipita en el abismo. La crítica ha dicho...«Florian Illies es una suerte de narrador que deambula por la Historia creando, hábil y juguetonamente, un mosaico de 1913 a partir de acontecimientos reales y personajes históricos. [...] no elabora su obra desde la perspectiva de un erudito, sino desde la de un artista de la palabra, un narrador con un sentido de la dramaturgia y del efectismo muy desarrollado.»Die Welt«Illies hace desaparecer los cien años que existen entre 1913 y sus lectores actuales [...]. Qui quiera enfrentarnos a una sencilla verdad: un esplendor así, semejante riqueza, puede irse a pique de la noche a la mañana [...]. 1913 se convierte de este modo en el libro más fastuoso acerca de la crisis.»Süddeutsche Zeitung «Una de las mayores satisfacciones que proporciona este libro son sus relatos acerca de la tristeza, el aburrimiento, la inquietud y la sensación de que posiblemente todo sea en vano, por lo que en lugar de ir a trabajar por ahora será mejor meterse en la cama o viajar a la costa para calmar los nervios y la sobreexcitación.»Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung «Un collage delicado, a medio camino entre la empatía y la paciencia para los rompecabezas, una lectura apasionante que juega a hacer bromas con la historia del pensamiento.»Der SpiegelDiarios 1984-1989
By Sándor Márai. 2008
Diarios, 1984-1989, primer volumen de los diarios que se traduce al español, nos acerca al Sándor Márai más íntimo y…
desgarrador, al hombre que, reconciliado con la inminencia de la muerte, pasa revista a sus inquietudes más hondas y esenciales. Celebrado por su inusitado talento para reflejar en sus novelas el esplendor y crepúsculo del humanismo centroeuropeo, y testigo minucioso de los grandes acontecimientos que conmovieron Europa en la primera mitad del siglo pasado, Sándor Márai vio como su obra quedaba relegada al olvido tras abandonar la Hungría comunista en 1948. Después de un azaroso exilio que lo llevó a la ciudad californiana de San Diego, muy lejos de la vieja Europa, pasó sus últimos años en un aislamiento casi absoluto. Privado de su público natural, Márai escribió cinco de los seis tomos de sus diarios en el exilio, el último, redactado entre 1984 y 1989, es un testimonio apasionante y profundamente conmovedor de un hombre decidido a enfrentarse sin ambages con la muerte. Alternando recuerdos personales, instantáneas reveladoras de la vida cotidiana, con comentarios sobre diversos temas de actualidad y apuntes sobre la lectura y la tarea de escribir, el gran autor húngaro -que destaca por la potencia de su palabra y la perfecta lucidez de su mente- se convierte en observador implacable de su propio deterioro físico y narra, sin embellecerlo, el último drama de su existencia: la enfermedad y muerte de su amada esposa, Lola Matzner, con quien durante sesenta y dos años lo había compartido todo. Márai reflexiona sobre el luto y la soledad, cada vez más insoportable, al tiempo que se prepara para el momento final: «Estoy esperando el llamamiento a filas, no me doy prisa, pero tampoco quiero aplazar nada por culpa de mis dudas. Ha llegado la hora.» Escasas semanas después de esta anotación, Sándor Márai se quitaba la vida con un disparo. Reseñas:«Las escuetas y certeras anotaciones se leen con una angustia creciente, con tristeza y respeto.»Die Zeit «Lapidario, preciso, valiente y emocionante.»Neue Zürcher ZeitungThe fascinating royal and social history that inspired seasons 2 and 3 of The Crown, written by the show&’s historical…
consultant. In this eye-opening companion to seasons 2 and 3 of Netflix&’s acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer—and the show&’s historical consultant—Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama. Covering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, Lacey looks at the key social, political, and personal moments and their effects—not only on the royal family but also on the world around them. From the Suez Crisis and the U.S.–Soviet space race to the legacy of the Duke of Windsor&’s collaboration with Hitler, along with the rumored issues with the royal marriage, the book provides a thought-provoking insight into the historic decades that the show explores, revealing the truth behind the on-screen drama. Extensively researched and complete with beautifully reproduced photographs, this is a unique look behind the history that inspired the show and the years that would prove to be the making of the Queen.The Crown is now available to watch on Netflix.The Crown is produced by Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television for Netflix.Ireland Unhinged: Encounters With a Wildly Changing Country
By David Monagan. 2011
Ireland Unhinged: Encounters with a Wildly Changing Country looks back at the changes that the economic boon wreaked on the…
Irish countryside and what the future holds for the country. Connecticut-born David Monagan explores his adopted country through the eyes of a passionate transplant. "What is Ireland? Has it lost its soul?" Monagan keeps asking as he roams from Cork to Dublin Donegal and Belfast. His answers are loving searing and often laugh-out-loud funny.The Renaissance in Italy: A History
By Kenneth Bartlett. 2019
The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the…
best-known figures from the period—Michelangelo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Pope Julius II, Isabella d'Este, and so many others—engender a kind of wonder. How could so many geniuses or exceptional characters be produced by one small territory near the extreme south of Europe at a moment when much of the rest of the continent still labored under the restrictions of the Middle Ages? How did so many of the driving principles behind Western civilization emerge during this period—and how were they defined and developed? And why is it that geniuses such as Leonardo, Raphael, Petrarch, Brunelleschi, Bramante, and Palladio all sustain their towering authority to this day? To answer these questions, Kenneth Bartlett delves into the lives and works of the artists, patrons, and intellectuals—the privileged, educated, influential elites—who created a rarefied world of power, money, and sophisticated talent in which individual curiosity and skill were prized above all else. The result is a dynamic, highly readable, copiously illustrated history of the Renaissance in Italy—and of the artists that gave birth to some of the most enduring ideas and artifacts of Western civilization.A Concise History Of Modern Europe: Liberty, Equality, Solidarity
By David Mason. 2019
Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise…
history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on the enduring theme of revolution, David S. Mason explores the political, economic, and scientific causes and consequences of revolution; the development of human rights and democracy; and issues of European identity and integration. He deliberately avoids a detailed chronology of every country and time period, instead emphasizing the most crucial events in shaping contemporary Europe. Fourteen focused chapters address such topical issues as the Enlightenment; the French Revolution and Napoleon; the Industrial Revolution; the theories and impact of Marx and Darwin; the revolutions of 1848, 1917, and 1989; the unifications of Germany and Italy; European imperialism; the two world wars; the Cold War; the evolution and expansion of the European Union; and current issues confronting Europe. Any reader who wants to view the broad sweep of European history will find this book an engaging narrative, supplemented with maps, timelines, sidebars, photos, and a glossary.The French Revolution, 1788-1792
By I. M. Rawson, Prof. Salvemini.
“The first English translation of what has long been considered a classic in Europe…it is easy to see why the…
work has been held in such esteem abroad.”—The New YorkerTHE word ‘revolution’ may mean either the forcible overthrow of an established social or political order or any great change brought about in a pre-existing situation, even slowly and without violence.The word can be used in both senses for the upheaval that took place in France towards the end of the eighteenth century. In so far as it consisted in the violent destruction of the feudal and monarchical régime, the French Revolution may be said to have come to an end on September 21st, 1792, when the monarchy was formally abolished. But as the creation of a new social and political order it continued until the coup d’état of Brumaire, indeed, up to the time of the Consulate for Life, when nineteenth-century France appeared finally constituted.This book is concerned with the French Revolution as understood in the first sense. Its aim is to explain why and in what way the feudal monarchy was destroyed.In this endeavour it has been necessary to present the four revolutionary years in relation to a complex system of cause and effect the origins of which must be traced to former times, often centuries before the Revolution itself. A considerable part of the book, therefore, is devoted to social conditions, ideas and events chronologically remote from, but logically bound up with, the revolutionary period. The author’s aim has been, not to bring new facts to light, but simply to put before his readers, in a rapid synthesis, the conclusions he has reached in the course of extensive study of the subject.