European History

This exciting new textbook offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the later Middle Ages, examining a period of huge crisis, conflict and religious change. Taking a thematic approach, and complete with maps, tables, illustrations, chronology, and an annotated bibliography, this book is the complete au..

Providing for the first time the Latin texts and English translations of the three surviving versions of Chrodegang's Rule, (Regula Originalis Chrodegangi, Institutio Canonicorum, Regula Longior Canonicorum) this volume offers an invaluable resource to scholars of mediaeval Christian communities. S..

The conversion of the lands on the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea by Germans, Danes and Swedes in the period from 1150 to 1400 represented the last great struggle between Christianity and paganism on the European continent, but for the indigenous peoples of Finland, Livonia, Prussia, ..

The collapse of the Soviet experiment was one of the major turning points in twentieth century history. During the period of 'perestroika' the Soviet Union took the first steps to becoming a civil society and started to re-examine it's Stalinist past. This new text examines the Gorbachev years, asks..

This hugely successful history of political and economic integration in Western Europe since the Second World War - and especially, but by no means exclusively, the European Community itself - was first published in 1991, to general acclaim. This edition is fully revised to take account of the devel..

This hugely successful history of political and economic integration in Western Europe since the Second World War - and especially, but by no means exclusively, the European Community itself - was first published in 1991, to general acclaim. This edition is fully revised to take account of the devel..

Historians in France assume that the restoration of Monarchy after the defeat of Napoleon was doomed. The first compact recent history of the period in English, this book reveals that although the French experimented with two Monarchies and a Republic (1814 - 48), there was substantial stability. Th..

Historians in France assume that the restoration of Monarchy after the defeat of Napoleon was doomed. The first compact recent history of the period in English, this book reveals that although the French experimented with two Monarchies and a Republic (1814 - 48), there was substantial stability. Th..

The Culture Of Western Europe..

A new and revised edition of Alan Sked’s groundbreaking book which examines how the Habsburg Empire survived the revolutionary turmoil of 1848.‘The Year of Revolutions', saw the whole of Europe convulsed in turmoil and revolt. Yet the Habsburg Empire survived. As state after state succumbed to the v..

This book charts the history of the last fifty years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867 to 1918. The author examines foreign and domestic policies and reveals the weaknesses inherent in the Empire...

This book charts the history of the last fifty years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867 to 1918. The author examines foreign and domestic policies and reveals the weaknesses inherent in the Empire...