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Title: Under the volcano : empire and revolution in a Sicilian town Author(s): RIALL, Lucy Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: 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: Freedom and the Construction of Europe Author(s): SKINNER, Quentin; VAN GELDEREN, Martin Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity ...
Title: In the Doorway to Development: An enquiry into market oriented structural changes in Norway ca. 1750-1830 Author(s): HUTCHISON, Ragnhild Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Set within the growing literature on European economy in the late 18th and early 19th century, this book furnishes a “pre-history” to Norway’s rapid structural transformation and accelerated economic growth after the ...
Title: Gewalt und Politik im Europa des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts Author(s): HAUPT, Heinz-Gerhard Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Unterbinden kollektive Gewaltaktionen politische Kommunikation oder werden sie in ihren Farmen und Ergebnissen Teil der politischen Diskussion? Diese auch in den Sozialwissenschaften und der politische Theorie relevante ...
Title: Our Man in Rome: Henry VII and his Italian Ambassador Author(s): FLETCHER, Catherine Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: 1527. Gregorio 'The Cavalier' Casali is Henry VIII's man in Rome. An Italian freelance diplomat, he charmed his way into the English service before he was twenty. But now he faces an almighty challenge. Henry wants a divorce ...
Title: Die Stimme der Entmündigten Geschichte des indigenen Journalismus im kolonialen Algerien Author(s): ZESSIN, Philipp Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Der Kolonialismus brachte für die indigene Bevölkerung immer auch eine starke Beschränkung der Teilnahme am öffentlichen Diskurs, etwa in den Medien. Am Beispiel des indigenen Journalismus in Algerien zeigt Philipp Zessin, ...
Title: Regional Histories and Historical Regions: The concept of the Baltic Sea region in Polish and Swedish historiographies Author(s): GRZECHNIK, Marta Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: This book takes as its point of departure an enthusiasm for Baltic Sea region history which appeared in some European countries after the fall of the Iron Curtain. In search for the historiographical traditions and earlier ...
Title: Richelieu Author(s): D'ALBIS, Cécile Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Il est très difficile de connaître un homme dont ses flatteurs ont dit tant de bien, et ses ennemis tant de mal », écrivait Voltaire. Cardinal et ministre de Louis XIII pendant près de vingt ans, Richelieu a dirigé la ...
Title: Chancen und Grenzen wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung im Prozess der Globalisierung: Die Kupfermontanregionen Coquimbo (Chile) und Mansfeld (Preußen/Deutschland) im Vergleich 1830-1900 Author(s): ZACHÄUS, Alf Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Drei Transformationsprozesse bestimmten die Entwicklung des modernen Kapitalismus im 19. Jahrhundert maßgeblich: Von dynamischen Wirtschaftsregionen gingen Innovationsschübe aus, die eine Reihe industrieller Revolutionen ...
Title: Ciemna strona panstw narodowych: czystki etniczne w nowoczesnej Europie Author(s): THER, Philipp Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Niezaleznie od tego, czy czystki etniczne traktujemy jako jedna z najwazniejszych cech, odrózniajacych wiek ubiegly od poprzednich (stulecie wypedzen), czy za wazniejsza uznamy role USA (American Century), totalitaryzmy, ...
Title: Written Culture in a Colonial Context. Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 Author(s): DELMAS, Adrien; PENN, Nigel Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: 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: The Dynamiters: Irish nationalism and political violence in the wider world, 1867–1900 Author(s): WHELEHAN, Niall Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: In the 1880s a New York-based faction of militant Irish nationalists conducted the first urban bombing campaign in history, targeting symbolic public buildings in Britain with homemade bombs. This book investigates the ...
Title: La Invención de Edmundo O’Gorman Author(s): AVILÉS FLORES, Pablo; CHEIRIF WOLOSKY, Alejandro; DELMAS, Adrien Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Il y a certainement quelque chose d’ironique à organiser un colloque sur Edmundo O’Gorman à Paris, Paris qu’il qualifiait volontiers de temple de l’orthodoxie de l’histoire pour mieux se déclarer lui-même hétérodoxe. Non ...
Title: Historische Nationsforschung im geteilten Europa 1945-1989 Author(s): KOLAR, Pavel; REZNIK, Milos Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Dabei werden Autoren, Werke, Schulen und Paradigmen in den Blick genommen, die an die Phänomene „Nation und Nationalismus“ aus einer – im weiteren Sinne – historischen Perspektive herangehen, die „Nation“ als eine historisch ...
Title: A Europe Made of Money: The emergence of the European Monetary System Author(s): MOURLON-DRUOL, Emmanuel Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: A Europe Made of Money is a new history of the making of the European Monetary System (EMS), based on extensive archive research. Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol highlights two long-term processes in the monetary and economic ...
Title: Storia internazionale dell’età contemporanea Author(s): ROMERO, Federico Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: A survey of international politics and visions of the international system from the late 19th century to the present. Interweaving international, transnational and economic history, it recounts the mains trend and events ...
Title: The Rise of Fiscal States: A global history, 1500-1914 Author(s): YUN-CASALILLA, Bartolome; O’BRIEN Patrick K.; COMÍN COMÍN, Francisco Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country ...
Title: Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe: Comparing cultures of remembrance, c. 1790-1840 Author(s): BOUWERS, Eveline G. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Drawing on a wide range of sources, Eveline G. Bouwers probes the construction and reception of remembrance cultures across early-nineteenth-century Europe. By way of an in-depth analysis of public pantheons (i.e. buildings ...
Title: El amigo alemán: El SPD y el PSOE de la dictadura a la democracia Author(s): MUÑOZ SÁNCHEZ, Antonio Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: A mediados de los años sesenta, el SPD decidió asumir hacia la dictadura de Franco una estrategia pragmática y posibilista. En su opinión, la política de aislamiento que defendía la Internacional Socialista desde hacía ...
Title: Mass Violence and the End of the Dutch Colonial Empire in Indonesia Author(s): LUTTIKHUS, Bart; MOSES, A. Dirk Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: A recent strand of research in genocide studies emphasizes the intimate connections and the porous boundary between imperial and colonial violence and genocidal practices. So far, the British and German settler colonies ...