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subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, ...
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The Arcades Project is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique bourgeois society from the post-Napoleonic era to the present age and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "primal history" that underlies its ideological mask.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
Through the whole history, one senses the gradual rise of a national awareness. Snorri Sturluson is, without compare, the greatest historian of the Middle Ages.
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Above all, the book illuminates the niches protected and financed by the Catholic Church in which science and mathematics thrived.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
This important book further asserts that although fascist ideology was grounded in a revolt against the Enlightenment, it was not a reactionary movement.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
He displays everyday details regarding the lives of soldiers, statesmen, and ordinary citizens "Peter Green's The Year of Salamis is deservedly famous, combining scholarship and imagination with the ability to tell a stirring tale."—J.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
The classic history of Adolph Hitler's rise to power and his dramatic defeat.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
The Dutch army is central to all discussions about the tactical, strategic and organisational military revolution of the early modern period, but this is the first substantial work on the subject in English.
subject:"History / Europe / General" from books.google.com
Between 1915-1916 approximately one million Armenian Christians were killed under the auspices of the Ottoman government.