Title:Under the volcano : empire and revolution in a Sicilian town
Author(s):RIALL, LucyDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Nelson was created Duke of Bronte and received the vast estate in 1799 as a gift from Ferdinand IV, King of the Two Sicilies. It was a standard, if especially ostentatious, form of military reward and reflected both the ...
Title:The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century. Competition and Convergence
Author(s):MAUCH, Christof; PATEL, Kiran KlausDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The two countries - the world’s leading "rising powers" ...
Title:The United States and the European Trade Union Movement, 1944-1951
Author(s):ROMERO, FedericoDate:1992Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book is a fresh and solidly documented study of U.S. postwar policy toward the reconstruction of European trade unions. Using Italy as a case study, Federico Romero demonstrates the weaknesses of the American strategy ...
Title:Världens historia i årtal. Från 1500 till idag
Author(s):LUNDBERG, Björn; SANDELIN, Hugo; SKODO, AdmirDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Det här är en fullmatad översikt över världens historia från 1500 till idag. Boken rymmer 500 år som myllrar av liv. Under perioden händer mycket av det som mest format och färgat vår civilisation: världsomseglingar görs, ...
Title:Verordnete Lust: Sexualmedizin, Psychoanalyse und die "Krise der Ehe", 1870-1930
Author(s):PUTZ, ChristaDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen Mediziner/-innen, Sexualforscher/-innen und Psychoanalytiker/-innen, Störungen der sexuellen Lust bei Männern und Frauen als Krankheiten zu erforschen und zu therapieren. Angetrieben ...
Title:Written Culture in a Colonial Context. Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900
Author(s):DELMAS, Adrien; PENN, NigelDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The circulation of manuscripts and books between different continents played a key role in the process of the first globalization from the 16th century onwards. This book explores the extent to which the control over the ...
Title:Young Hegelians Before and After 1848: When theory meets reality
Author(s):SORENSEN, Michael KuurDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book shows that the 1848 revolutions played a key role in the development of the political thought of the Young Hegelians, Arnold Ruge, Bruno Bauer, Moses Hess and Karl Marx. They all developed revolutionary ideas in ...
