European History

First published in English in 1938 this book gives an account of Italian history in the years immediately following the first world war, culminating in the triumph of Mussolini. Arguing that Mussolini succeeded because he was much more ruthless than his opponents, he concludes that this is something..

The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book...

The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book...

Bringing new material to view, and with eight new maps, the complex and often turbulent history of Russia over the course of 2,000 years is brought to life in a series of 176 maps by one of the most successful historian writers today...

The harrowing history of the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of 333 detailed and graphic maps. This revised edition includes a new section which gives an insight into the layout and organisation of some of the most significant plac..

The harrowing history of the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of 333 detailed and graphic maps. This revised edition includes a new section which gives an insight into the layout and organisation of some of the most significant plac..

With a wealth of chronologies, tables and maps, together with discursive chapters on key issues and a guide to the historiography, this handy book is an indispensable resource for all wgho wish to understand the complex history of central and eastern Europe...

From Commedia dell’Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came the forces that helped create and influence Opera, Ballet, Pantomime, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lopes de V..

The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 explores the links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the North and Baltic Seas. The collection takes as its central question how shippers and merchants were able to connect regi..

Challenging current perspectives of urbanisation, this volume discusses gender in an urban context in European, North American and colonial towns from the 14th to the 20th century. Organised into six parts covering economy, space, civic identity, material culture, emotions and the colonial world, it..

Geographically and temporally wide-ranging, this collection treats the Renaissance not as a static concept but as one of ongoing change within an international framework, taking as its unifying theme the idea of exchange and interchange through the movement of goods, ideas, disease and people and ac..

First published in English in 1973, The Royal Touch explores the supernatural character that was long attributed to royal power. Throughout history, both France and England claimed to hold kings with healing powers who, by their touch, could cure people from all strands of society from illness and d..