The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans

from global imperial power to absolutist States

The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, especially under their charismatic leaders Charles V and Suleyman I, were major empires of the early-modern period. Both exercised global power as, respectively, leaders of the universal 'res publica Christiana' and 'dar-es Islam'. However, both lost supreme ...

Deterrence through strength

British Naval power and foreign policy under Pax Britannica

The notion of a Pax Britannicaoa concept implying that Britain's overwhelming strength enforced global peace in the era that began with Napoleon's defeat in 1815o largely ended with the British Empire itself. Although most historians still view this period as a departure from ...

Missions d'évangélisation et circulation des savoirs

XVIe-XVIIIe siècle

Quels furent les savoirs utilisés, diffusés et produits par les missionnaires catholiques, à partir du milieu du XVIe siècle, aussi bien en Europe, qu'en Amérique, en Asie et en Afrique ? Dans quelle mesure l'entreprise d'évangélisation des âmes, jugées par les missionnaires comme ...

Empress Eugénie and the arts

politics and visual culture in the Nineteenth Century

Reconstructing Empress Eugenie's position as a private collector and a public patron of a broad range of media, this study is the first to examine Eugenie (1826-1920), whose patronage of the arts has been overlooked even by her many biographers. The empress' patronage and ...

Horatio Nelson

Leadership. Strategy. Conflict

The most famous admiral in history, Horatio Nelson's string of naval victories helped secure Britain's place as the world's dominant maritime power, a position she held for more than a century after Nelson's death. A young officer during the American Revolution ...

Armies of the Napoleonic wars

an illustrated history

The Napoleonic Wars saw almost two decades of brutal fighting, from the frozen wastelands of Russia to the wilderness of the Peninsula, and from Egypt to the bloody battlefield of Waterloo. Fighting took place on an unprecedented scale across Europe, and over the entire period ...

Lawrence of Arabia

leadership, strategy, conflict

Thomas Edward Lawrence, more popularly known as Lawrence of Arabia, was one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century, immortalized on stage and screen, whose exploits in the Middle East in the second half of World War I helped shape the campaign in ...

French foreign légionnaire 1890-1914

Following the close of the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of the Third Republic, France embarked upon a new wave of colonialism, acquiring addition territories in Southeast Asia, including Tonkin and Annam which, together with Cambodia and Cochinchina, formed French Indochina. In North Africa their ...

The face of the Third Reich

portraits of the nazi leadership

Who were the men who helped Hitler establish the Third Reich and then carry out some of the worst atrocities in modern history? In fifteen chilling profiles, Joachim Fest examines the lives of the most infamous Nazi leaders. They include Hermann Goering: the self-styled 'Iron ...

Bill Slim

leadership, strategy, conflict

'Bill' Slim was one of the greatest British generals of World War II. In a career that stretched from 1914 until 1958, Bill Slim's greatest triumphs came in India and Burma in the long war against the Japanese. Thrust into a desperate situation, he ...

Battlefield Angels

saving lives under enemy fire from valley forge to Afghanistan

Author, journalist, and USS Midway Museum spokesman Scott McGaugh reveals the riveting stories of the men and women who save lives on the front lines in Battlefield Angels in this first book about battlefield medicine in the US military. Told from the point of view ...

Solo la verdad

antología fundamental

Hasta su asesinato en octubre de 2011, Anna Politkovskaya escribía para el periódico ruso Novaya Gazeta. Logró fama internacional por su cobertura de la guerra de Chechenia y de la corrupción estatal en Rusia. Esta es la selección definitiva de sus mejores textos publicados entre ...

Eisenhower

leadership, strategy, conflict

Dwight Eisenhower represented a fundamentally new type of military commander in the 20th century: commander as manager rather than the traditional warrior commander. Armies had become so large and military coalitions so dependent on politics that this new type of commander emerged. Eisenhower never fought ...

Why did the United States invade Iraq?

This edited volume presents the foremost scholarly thinking on why the US invaded Iraq in 2003, a pivotal event in both modern US foreign policy and international politics. In the years since the US invasion of Iraq it has become clear that the threat of ...

Casualidades, coincidencias y serendipias de la historia

Sorpréndase con las casualidades que abundan en la historia, los descubrimientos realizados por azar, todas las chiripas, las carambolas en las que ha intervenido la suerte, las coincidencias más inverosímiles que han provocado consecuencias inesperadas... Conozca el descubrimiento azaroso de la sacarina y las predicciones ...

Errores, lapsus y gazapos de la historia

Esta obra abarca todo tipo de hechos, sucesos y anécdotas singulares: lapsus históricos, meteduras de pata verbales y escritas, erratas y gazapos de todo tipo, despistes, disparates y, en general, cualquier tipo de errores no intencionados, protagonizados por personajes famosos o no de todos los ...

Kursk 1943

la mayor batalla de carros de la historia

An account of Denmark

with Francogallia and some considerations for the promoting of agriculture and employing the poor

This Liberty Fund edition of "An Account of Denmark", with its related texts, is the first modern edition of Molesworth's writings. This volume presents not only "An Account", a text that for most of the eighteenth century was recognized as one of the canonical ...

A brief history of Britain 1851-2010

a nation transformed

From the Great Exhibition to the Credit Crunch - the transformation of Britain from the world's greatest nation to the present day. In 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, it was the high water mark of English achievement - the nation at ...

Hitler and America

In February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted that Germany would need some time to catch up. The Americans, he said, had shown the way in developing the ...