European History

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...

This study provides a comprehensive introduction to the nations of Central and Eastern Europe over a half century of turbulent change. Detailed chapters on each country of the region describe the features of the country's communist regime and its collapse...

This book analyses the processes of revolution and state reconstruction that took place in the Republican zone during the Spanish civil war. It focuses on the radical anarchists that sought to advance the revolutionary agenda. Their activity came into conflict with the libertarian organisations comm..

This collection of essays constitutes a magnificent monument to recent scholarship on the Second Republic and the Civil War. It is indispensable for a full understanding of the period.' - Raymond Carr..

_x005F_x000D_ Revolutionary Europe 1780–1850 provides a continent-wide history of the key political events of this turbulent period. Jonathan Sperber focuses on the lives of ordinary people and considers the broader social and economic developments. In particular he examines the relationships betwee..

This concise and up-to-date assessment of Richelieu's career provides an enthralling introduction to the character and exercise of his power. Richelieu governed France for 18 years until his death and until the mid-20th century was viewed by Anglo-Saxon historians as cold, clever and ruthless. Recen..

This concise and up-to-date assessment of Richelieu's career provides an enthralling introduction to the character and exercise of his power. Richelieu governed France for 18 years until his death and until the mid-20th century was viewed by Anglo-Saxon historians as cold, clever and ruthless. Recen..

Richelieu and Mazarin compares these two striking, but very different, statesmen and evaluates their careers and achievements in the light of modern research...

Robespierre was one of the most powerful and the most feared leaders of the French Revolution. John Hardman describes the career of this ruthless political manipulator, and in the process explores the dynamics of the French revolutionary movement and the ferocious and self-destructive rivalries of i..

Robespierre was one of the most powerful and the most feared leaders of the French Revolution. John Hardman describes the career of this ruthless political manipulator, and in the process explores the dynamics of the French revolutionary movement and the ferocious and self-destructive rivalries of i..

First published in 2003, Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, is the first comprehensive reference to the vital world of medieval Spain. _x000D_ With nearly 1,000 signed A-Z entries and written by renowned specialists in the field, this comprehensive work is an invaluable tool for students, scholars, a..

The years of late Stalinism are one of the murkiest periods in Soviet history, best known to us through the voices of Ehrenburg, Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn. This history of Russia from the end of the war to the Thaw is by a respected young historian, who draws upon newly-opened archives...