Denkmäler zu errichten ist dabei ein - entscheidendes - Merkmal der nationalen Identifikation. Helke Rausch leistet hierzu einen transnationalen Vergleich und eröffnet Denkmal-Topographien in den Metropolen Paris, Berlin und London.

In 1914 America was determined to stay clear of Europe's war. By 1917, the country was ready to lunge into the fray. The Path to War tells the full story of what happened.

Italy at the Banquet of Nations: Hegel in Politics and Philosophy -- Italy's Modernist Idealism and the Artistic Reception of Schopenhauer -- Aesthetic Decadence and Modernist Idealism: Schopenhauer's Literary-Artistic Legacy -- Avant-Garde ...

First published in 1961 and now with a new introduction, The Franco-Prussian War is acknowledged as the definitive history of one of the most dramatic and decisive conflicts in the history of Europe.

This is the first full-length book on the subject, and it reviews the major evidence from Athens, Sparta, Gortyn, and Hellenistic Egypt, as well as collating and analysing fragmentary evidence from the other Greek states.

Author Una McIlvenna brings the execution ballad to life in Singing the News of Death, uncovering the relationship between punishment and music throughout Europe from 1500-1900 with an unprecedented breadth of study and ambition.

"Terpstra weaves literary evidence, intelligent guesswork, and vivid historical imagination into an eminently readable micro-history that forms part of a growing body of scholarship that challenges long-held historical assumptions about ...

This major new textbook addresses fundamental questions about the nature of the state in early modern Europe through an analysis of the most important continental state, France.

Der Band befasst sich erstmals systematischer und in interdisziplinärer Perspektive mit kartographischen Konzeptionen der Raumherrschaft Habsburgs im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert.

In this book, the author draws on forty-five years of research to dispute this view, offering both a masterful synthesis of existing scholarship and new information concerning the role of the nobility in these changes.