Adoption in the Roman World - Prijzen

Germania

'It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up w...

Colossus Reborn

In Stumbling Colossus, David Glantz explored why the Red Army was unprepared for the German blitzkrieg that nearly destroyed it and left more than four million of its soldiers dead by the end of 1941....

Deliverance at Diepholz

With candor and humor, American infantryman Jack Dower describes his narly fifteen months spent as an unwilling guest of the Third Reich after his company lost its way behind enemy lines near Anzio, I...

The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes...

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth SeriesSeries Number 40-The Monastic Order in Yorkshire, 1069–1215

This 1999 book explores the dramatic growth of the monastic order in Yorkshire from the foundation of the first post-Conquest abbey at Selby in 1069 to 1215. The first half examines the dynamics of mo...

The History of Byzantine Empire

This edition covers the history of the Eastern Roman Empire from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. The author gives the complete insight into the fascinating empire which was...

Cultuur, koningen en democraten

Cultuur, koningen en democraten is in korte tijd een standaardwerk geworden voor iedereen die geinteresseerd is in de relatie tussen de overheid en het culturele leven in Nederland. Het verhaal zet aa...

Der Schatz im Himmel

Victorian Environments

This collection will draw attention to new ideas in both Victorian studies and in the emerging area of literature and the environment. Adopting a broad interpretation of the term environment' the work...

Afghanistan

Boek Afghanistan, geschreven door Tanwir, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / General

Aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England

This collection of papers is a gift for all the members of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, who worked abroad under the direction of British, European and American medievalists or great...

The WI

Rising from the ashes of the First World War, the Women's Institute went on to become one of the most important movements for women in the twentieth century. The institute was initially organised by e...