Chronicles of the Investiture Contest - 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...

Bygone Alton

Der kurze Traum der Freiheit

Napoleons Erbe. Preußen am Beginn der ModerneAls Napoleons Armee 1806 die Schlacht bei Auerstedt gewann, war Preußen am Boden, ein hartes Besatzungsregime prägte die 'Franzosenzeit'. Doch mit den Idee...

L'Inquisition Espagnole

ISBN 9782012705425. Genre: Geschiedenis, Taalversie: Frans, Geschreven door: Bartolomé Bennassar

Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula

Since the turn of the millennium, the Arabian Peninsula has produced a remarkable series of adaptations of Shakespeare. These include a 2007 production of Much Ado About Nothing, set in Kuwait in 1898...

Television, History, and American Culture

In less than a century, the flickering blue-gray light of the television screen has become a cultural icon. What do the images transmitted by that screen tell us about power, authority, gender stereot...

On Anthologies

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, anthologies have shifted from playing a relatively minor role in academic culture to a position of dominance. The essays in this collection explore the s...

Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula

Since the turn of the millennium, the Arabian Peninsula has produced a remarkable series of adaptations of Shakespeare. These include a 2007 production of Much Ado About Nothing, set in Kuwait in 1898...

Charles Dickens's David Copperfield

Offers an introduction to Charles Dickens' work of the nineteenth century, ''David Copperfield''. This title considers issues such as autobiography and Victorian social conditions. It traces responses...