In this up-to-date succinct and highly readable volume Alan E. Steinweis presents a new synthesis of the origins development and downfall of Nazi Germany. After tracing the intellectual and cultural origins of Nazi ideology the book recounts the rise and eventual... Lees meer.

The production acquisition and use of consumer goods defines our daily lives and yet consumerism is seen as increasingly controversial. Movements for sustainable and ethical consumerism are gaining momentum alongside an awareness of how our choices in the marketplace... Lees meer.

A survey of the transformation of the Soviet Union from a largely agrarian economy to a world superpower. This book provides a comprehensive survey of Soviet economic development from 1917 to 1965 in the context of the pre-revolutionary economy. In these years the So... Lees meer.

Synthesis and thematic analysis of Russia s modernisation and her emergence as a Great Power. This is the first book to place Russia s long eighteenth century squarely in its European context. The conceptual framework is set out in an opening critique of modernisat... Lees meer.

The comprehensive 2005 study of rituals in early modern Europe argues that between about 1400 and 1700 a revolution in ritual theory took place that utterly transformed concepts about time the body and the presence of spiritual forces in the world. Edward Muir draws o... Lees meer.

An analytical and thematic account of a colourful period in Russian history accessible to undergraduates of European and Russian history as well as to the non-specialist reader. Covers Russia s political social cultural and intellectual life during its emergence as a... Lees meer.

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This book provides an account of the main features of French economic development between 1750 and 1914. Written in easily comprehensible jargon-free language it makes clear the areas of controversy among historians and presents succinct surveys of recent findings on... Lees meer.

This book is a major survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War. During these years Europe experienced startling rates of urbanization with the populations of numerous cities growing by 1000 percent or... Lees meer.

An Economic History of the Silk Industry 1830 1930 first published in 1997 is an ambitious historical analysis of the development of a major commodity. Dr Federico examines the rapid growth of the world silk industry from the early nineteenth century to the eve of th... Lees meer.

This eighth volume of Studies in Church History contains twenty-six papers read at two recent meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society. This eighth volume of Studies in Church History contains twenty-six papers read at two recent meetings of the Ecclesiastical... Lees meer.

An account of changes in children s work and welfare between 1780 and 1890. It examines some of the debates which have attached themselves to those changes and discusses the role of the state and of philanthropic organisation in bringing about change. This short book... Lees meer.

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This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation preservation and circulation of information chiefly on newly available and affordable paper constituted an information revolution . In commerce finance statecraft scholarly... Lees meer.

This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Roman Empire during the period AD 14-117 with accompanying maps and introductory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who ar... Lees meer.