European History

Sergei Witte served as finance minister and later prime minister of Russia during the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II, and was in large part responsible for the development policies which saw Russia transformed from a peasant economy into an industrial nation. This is the first biography of ..

Like other majority Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union, the republic of Dagestan, on Russia's southern frontier, has become contested territory in a hegemonic competition between Moscow and resurgent Islam. This book presents a path breaking study of this volatile state far from the world's g..

Like other majority Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union, the republic of Dagestan, on Russia's southern frontier, has become contested territory in a hegemonic competition between Moscow and resurgent Islam. This book presents a path breaking study of this volatile state far from the world's g..

If any modern democratic leader has believed in the "great man'' theory of history and acted self-consciously in accordance with it, it was surely de Gaulle. On both occasions when he came to power it was in his own right, as a ``providential figure'', not as the representative of a political or soc..

If any modern democratic leader has believed in the "great man'' theory of history and acted self-consciously in accordance with it, it was surely de Gaulle. On both occasions when he came to power it was in his own right, as a ``providential figure'', not as the representative of a political or soc..

Provides an essential and original introduction to the challenges facing Germany in its recent past and the problems still confronting it today...

Bringing together case studies from across Europe, this book offers an in-depth analysis of family violence between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It raises important questions regarding absolute power, sovereignty and its familial manifestation, and the role of gender in domestic violence,..

Bringing together case studies from across Europe, this book offers an in-depth analysis of family violence between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It raises important questions regarding absolute power, sovereignty and its familial manifestation, and the role of gender in domestic violence,..

_x005F_x000D_ Donations, Strategies and Relations in the Latin West and Nordic Countries presents, for the first time, a longue durée perspective on the dynamics of donations and the interplay between individual motivations, strategic behaviour and the legal setting of inheritance law. This collecti..

In this authoritative new interpretation of Dutch society in the Golden Age, J.L. Price discusses the processes by which it was produced and offers an analysis of its unique character. His arguments represent a major contribution to early modern history...

Opening at the height of the Renaissance, the book chronicles the dawning of a new age on the European continent. Koenigsberger paints a detailed picture of the Reformation and its significance as increasingly powerful nations began to intrude on their subjects’ public and private lives. He gives ac..

Opening at the height of the Renaissance, the book chronicles the dawning of a new age on the European continent. Koenigsberger paints a detailed picture of the Reformation and its significance as increasingly powerful nations began to intrude on their subjects’ public and private lives. He gives ac..