Examining the political culture in Austria-Hungary in the latter half of the 19th century, this study analyzes the centrifugal forces that arose from ethnic nationalism, dispersing the Austrian-Hungarian "state idea". It also aims to provide an explanation of developments in post-1989 Europe...
Examining the political culture in Austria-Hungary in the latter half of the 19th century, this study analyzes the centrifugal forces that arose from ethnic nationalism, dispersing the Austrian-Hungarian "state idea". It also aims to provide an explanation of developments in post-1989 Europe...
This book seeks to launch a new research agenda for the historiography of Dutch foreign relations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so in two important ways. First, it broadens the analytical perspective to include a variety of non-state actors beyond politicians and diplomats. ..
In this volume the author correlates the development of ideas with trends in the Cultural Revolution and against this background it is possible to understand why debates over general philosophy gave way to conflicts over specific sciences in the aftermath of the first Five Year Plan and why there wa..
Spain 1914-1918 explores a crucial episode in the history of Spain and of Europe. Romero offers insightful analysis of a society in transition from tradition to modernity, and from oligarchy to mass politics...
At the beginning of the seventeenth century Spain was the foremost power in Europe. Yet during the hundred years that followed, it suffered an acute decline, economically and politically. Graham Darby traces the course of Spain's eventful history down to the inglorious end of the Habsburg monarchy a..
At the beginning of the seventeenth century Spain was the foremost power in Europe. Yet during the hundred years that followed, it suffered an acute decline, economically and politically. Graham Darby traces the course of Spain's eventful history down to the inglorious end of the Habsburg monarchy a..
A succinct analysis of the causes and course of the Civil War xxx;going up to Franco's new Spain. For the Second Edition there is a fuller examination of the politics of the Second Republic and there is also a more detailed account of the military conduct of the war and of the extent of internationa..