European History

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This unique volume undertakes the ambitious and entirely new task of analyzing, through comparison, the importance of power, violence and mass death in the fourteenth, seventeenth and twentieth centuries. In this way, Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times makes progress towa..

_x005F_x000D_ In the aftermath of the First World War, the victorious powers argued that democracy would bring peace to Europe because this was the only effective way for legitimate states, with governments based on the consent of the governed, to be organized. What the victorious statesmen failed t..

Real Lives of the Sixteenth Century presents a global history through four pairs of biographies of eight different rulers. Each pair illustrates similar situations in different geographical regions and introduces students to key historical concepts such as feudalism, dynasticism, religious syncretis..

This book provides a reassessment of the processes by which western Europe was reborn out of the devastation of 1945. Concentrating on the first postwar decade David Ellwood gives a detailed account of the practicalities of reconstruction - how it was done, what it cost, who paid for it, and what th..

This book provides a reassessment of the processes by which western Europe was reborn out of the devastation of 1945. Concentrating on the first postwar decade David Ellwood gives a detailed account of the practicalities of reconstruction - how it was done, what it cost, who paid for it, and what th..

This text discusses the relationship between Russia, Iran and Turkey since the collapse of the Soviet empire. These nations are the main rivals for influence in the Caucasas and Central Asia, with China a distant factor...

This is a fascinating collection of essays focusing on humanism and thought and other key aspects of Renaissance culture such as philology, political thought and scholastic and platonic philosophy. An essential read for all students of this era...

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Studying the period 1870 to 1990 and offering an opinion on future developments, this book examines threats to European stability from such countries as Germany and Russia. Topics covered range from Bismarck, Hitler and Stalin to the growth of the superpowers...

A thematically arranged text illustrating popular resistance to Nazism in Germany from 1930-1945, and the effect of Nazism on everyday life. Housden combines a lucid, synthesised analysis together with a wide selection of source material...