European History

The Renaissance examines Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It integrates views of major historians, interpretations, analysis and evaluation of primary sources, offering a concise introduction to the subject...

Using an interdisciplinary approach, John Jeffries Martin collects thirty four illustrated essays from leading field scholars, and presents a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, and the foundations this complex era laid for the modern world...

Using an interdisciplinary approach, John Jeffries Martin collects thirty four illustrated essays from leading field scholars, and presents a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, and the foundations this complex era laid for the modern world...

First published in 1911, this pioneering and ambitious work provides a history of the evolution of republican thought and practice in Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the twentieth century...

First published in 1911, this pioneering and ambitious work provides a history of the evolution of republican thought and practice in Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the twentieth century...

The Revolt of Snowballs unpicks a rare and turbulent event which occured in 1511 and investigates the meaning behind it. By putting Murano under the microscope, The Revolt of Snowballs provides a window into the cultural and political world of early modern Italy, and is essential reading for histori..

 This text investigates communist rule in East Germany from its establishment as a sphere of Soviet influence after World War II to its rapid collapse after the fall of the Berlin Wall...

 This text investigates communist rule in East Germany from its establishment as a sphere of Soviet influence after World War II to its rapid collapse after the fall of the Berlin Wall...

How did imperial Russia give way to the Soviet Union in 1917 and how did the USSR manage to collapse so quickly in 1991?  The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union examines the strengths, weaknesses, and contradictions of the first Marxist state, and reassesses the role of power, authority and legitimac..

How did imperial Russia give way to the Soviet Union in 1917 and how did the USSR manage to collapse so quickly in 1991?  The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union examines the strengths, weaknesses, and contradictions of the first Marxist state, and reassesses the role of power, authority and legitimac..

This new textbook draws on personal experience and literary sources, including memoirs, as well as available economic data and analyses, to illustrate the reality of everyday life and of economic policy making in the post-war Soviet Union. The author argues that the Soviet economic system was capabl..

This new textbook draws on personal experience and literary sources, including memoirs, as well as available economic data and analyses, to illustrate the reality of everyday life and of economic policy making in the post-war Soviet Union. The author argues that the Soviet economic system was capabl..