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Estonia

a modern history

With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe's least populous nations -- yet it boasts one of the continent's fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Neil Taylor charts Estonia's long, arduous journey ...

American imperatives

the Cold War and other matters

What was the Cold War? In a fundamental challenge to prevailing orthodoxy, Anders Stephanson argues that the conventional view since 1989 is essentially wrong, that it leads to the wrong kind of questions and ultimately serves to obscure the US-centred nature of the entire process ...

Utopia

from the novel to revolution

Until the Age of Enlightenment, utopia was a literary genre without concrete political effects. However, in France, in the decades leading up to 1789, its status gradually changed. The ideal of a community of property and labour, not yet called communism, was taken more seriously ...

Louis Bonaparte

Roi rebelle et mélancolique

La vie de Louis Bonaparte s'organise, tout à fait malgré lui, en trois grands moments : frère chéri et protégé de l'Empereur, il entre dans la carrière militaire, suit son aîné en Italie, puis en Égypte ; général en 1803, il est fait grand connétable ...

The Celtic revolution

in search of two thousand forgotten years that changed our world

From the Iron Age to the High Middle Ages, the Ancient Celts were an engine of change for the whole of Europe. Here, Simon Young travels back in time to the moments when this ancient people defined indelibly the ancient, medieval and modern world. On ...

Technologies of the marvellous in ancient Greek religion

This book investigates the ways that technological, and especially mechanical, strategies were integrated into ancient Greek religion. By analysing a range of evidence, from the tragic use of the deus ex machina to Hellenistic epigrams to ancient mechanical literature, it expands the existing vocabulary of ...

An economic history of the Iberian Peninsula, 700-2000

This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Beginning with the development of the old medieval kingdoms, it goes on to explore two countries, Portugal and Spain, which during the early modern period possessed vast empires and played ...

Procopius of Caesarea

the Persian wars : translation, with introduction and notes

Procopius was the major historian of the reign of Justinian and one of the most important historians of Late Antiquity. This is the first stand-alone English translation of his work Persian Wars. It offers a new translation, which has at its basis one published fifty ...

The Roman elite and the end of the Republic

the boni, the nobles and Cicero

The boni, the wealthy, but largely non-political, section of the Roman elite, have hitherto escaped scholarly attention. This book draws a detailed and rounded picture of the boni, their identity, values and interests, also tracing their - often tense - relationship to the political class, whose inner ...

The Merovingians in historiographical tradition

from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries

The merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of Western Europe. The memory of the first dinasty of Frankish kings, their origin myths, accomplishments, and failures were used by generations of chroniclers, propagandists, and historians to justify a wide range of social ...

A new imperial history of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700

from Russian to global history

A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700 proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the spaces, societies, and institutions that existed on the territory of today's Northern Eurasia. This is not the story of a certain present-day state or people evolving through ...

The 'Catalan hermaphrodite' and the Inquisition

early modern sex and gender on trial

This book examines the life of Maria Duran, who was born with female genitalia, but was accused of being a man and subsequently put on trial for sorcery by the Portuguese Inquisition during the 18th century. François Soyer uses Maria's story to open a ...

Proxy wars from a global perspective

non-state actors and armed conflicts

Proxy warfare is a growing international phenomenon. Although states have used proxies in armed conflicts for centuries, evolving regional and global security architecture is now forcing states to radically change the way contemporary conflicts are fought. Based on ten case studies, this reassesses exactly how ...

Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend

British campaigns, travellers and attitudes towards Spain since 1489

This book traces and analyses the relationship between Britain and Spain in its various forms since 1489. So often viewed as antagonistic rivals in history, the two countries are here compared and contrasted in order to shed light on their international connection and how this ...

Geopolitics in Central Europe

uperpower competition and regional dynamics

The geopolitical landscape of Central Europe has undergone considerable transformation in the last two decades. While the pre-Global Financial Crisis period saw a focus on strengthening ties with Western Europe and the USA, the post-crisis period has seen reorientation towards Asia, in particular China. This ...

Armenians in the Byzantine Empire

identity, assimilation and alienation from 867 to 1098

Armenians in the Byzantine Empire is a new study exploring the relationship between the Armenians and Byzantines from the ninth through eleventh centuries. Utilising primary sources from multiple traditions, the evidence is clear that until the eleventh century Armenian migrants were able to fully assimilate ...

Sufis in medieval Baghdad

agency and the public sphere in the late Abbasid caliphate

This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258. It argues that Sufis played an important role in creating a public sphere that existed between ordinary subjects and the government. Drawing on Arabic sources and secondary literature, it ...

Theodore Metochites

patterns of self-representation in fourteenth-century Byzantium

The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century Byzantine Empire. A close advisor to the emperor Andronikos II and restorer of the famous monastery of Chora in Constantinople, Metochites left various writings including orations, poems, essays and ...

Los aviones de caza soviéticos

1936-1941

El estado socialista liderado por Stalin quiso contar con los mejores cazas para defender la URSS de cualquier agresión. A mediados delos años treinta, N. Polikarpov logró diseñar el biplano I-15 "Chato", que tuvo su debut en combate sobre los cielos de la península durante ...

Antes las cúpulas del Kremlin

Moscú, 1941

En este volumen, segunda parte de "Radiografía de Barbarroja", Fernando Paz analiza la situación producida tras los grandes triunfos de la Wehrmacht en el verano de 1941. Sorprendentemente, el Ejército Rojo, que debería haber sido liquidado antes de la línea del Dniéper, continúa en pie ...