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This work examines a trade that covered the backs of sailors and soldiers, that shirted labouring men and skirted... Læs mere
It is the only work which focuses on the moral dilemmas of resistance and collaboration in Nazi-occupied Europe, including a detailed examination of Jewish resistance.
The German attack on merchant shipping in the Second World War, known as the Battle of the Atlantic, was countered partly by code-breaking... Læs mere
Examines the crucial influence of merchants and markets on the economic growth and industrialization of the English wool textile industry in the eighteenth century.
This book reconstructs the worldview of a Lutheran merchant from the city of Augsburg in the seventeenth century. Yet, despite its individual focus, the book explores universal institutions of early modern Europe: patriarchy, hierarchy, honor, community, and confession.
John Fisher, 1469-1535 was a figure of European stature during the Tudor age. This study places him in the context of sixteenth-century Christendom, focusing not just on his resistance to Henry VIII, but also on his active engagement with the renaissance and reformation.
This book examines British policy-makers' attitudes to cooperation with the USSR and shows how views of internal developments in the USSR and of Stalin... Læs mere
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is often considered an 'aberration' where monarchy was reduced by the nobility to impotence, and which... Læs mere
Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe considers the various attitudes of European religious and... Læs mere
This book focuses on a key period in Latin American history, the transition from colonial status, via the revolutions for independence, to national organization.
This new edition of the well established European Political Facts provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive work of reference on Europe in the twentieth... Læs mere
The surrender of Hong Kong to the Japanese in December 1941 started the collapse of British power in the Far East. New light is shed on the multi-faceted Anglo-American relationship, the significance of Britain's 'imperial mentality', and China's claim to the colony.