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Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much dar

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In this work C. A. Patrides examines the Renaissance vision of a comely method and proportion" throughout the universe, whether in the vertical arrangement of the created order "from the Mushrome to the Angels" or the horizontal progress of history along a linear path from the Creation to the Last Judgment. Originally published in 1982. The Princ

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This collection examines premodern history and art in East-Central Europe viewed from the perspective of gender and women's history. It gathers Czech art and other historians of all generations in order to introduce this segment of history writing to global academia.

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This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities the sexualities of rulers, and those who were ruled by their sexualities and how these case studies might contribute to our broader knowledge of premodern gender and sexualities.

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This study examines the acquisition and use of texts by the parish clergy in a late medieval German diocese. The author identifies a broad theological awareness and an emerging professional identity among the clergy, upending traditional views and contributing to our understanding of their role as communicators and cultural mediators.

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This study provides a political biography of Prince George E. Lvov, the first prime minister of Russia after the fall of the Romanovs. The author uses the career of Prince Lvov to examine the development of liberalism and the advent of a civil society in late Imperial Russia.

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Princely Power in the Dutch Republic offers a vivid analysis of the role of patronage in the Dutch Golden Age. It is based on the highly illuminating private diaries of William Frederick of Nassau (1613-1664). -- .

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This anthology is a comparative primary source collection of focus on France and the British Isles in a period critical to their development as great powers. It takes a fresh approach to the history of these two pre-industrial states, with the emphasis being on the regions and nations of which they were composed rather than the monolithic states.

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Presents the history of life behind bars, from medieval times to the end of corporal and capital punishment in the 1950s. This title reveals the stories of real prisoners including the unknown, the notorious and the celebrated, and features dramatic material from The National Archives.

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Most people in the middle ages shared communal living space and lived most of their lives publicly in the midst of other people. This work traces what this meant for men and women growing sense of individuality.

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During the 1840s, the United States and England were in conflict over two unsettled territories along the undefined Canadian-American border. This title presents an account of the Maine and Oregon boundary treaties.

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During the second half of the seventeenth century the entire intellectual framework of educated Europe underwent a radical transformation. A secularized view of humanity and nature was replacing faith in the direct operation of God's will in the temporal world, while a growing confidence in human reason and the Scientific Revolution turned back the

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This book examines the history of the Protestant denominations in Europe that attempted to bring their churches to Spain just prior to the creation of Spains First Republic (187374), when religious liberty briefly existed.

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This work covers the Prussian Army of the Napoleonic Wars. It describes the organization, equipment, tactics and uniforms of the Artillery, Engineer and Medical branches; the staff; and colours and standards of pre-1806, post 1806 and 1815.

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This book is a study of the early history of psychoanalysis in Britain. It examines the early development of psychoanalytic theories and techniques, provides a revisionist interpretation of their origins, and analyzes some of the first practitioners.