Politik & Geschichte

San Francisco de Asís

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Auffällige Religiosität: Gebetsheilungen, Besessenheitsfälle und schwärmerische Sekten in katholischen und reformierten Gegenden der Schweiz

Jolanda Cécile Schärli

The Honoured Society

Petra Reski

In the early hours of an August morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both victims ...

Caught in the Crossfire

Russell Findlay

Scotland's deadliest gang war of a generation - the Daniel family versus the Lyons - was sparked by a cocaine theft from a house party which unleashed a decade of murderous violence. Deva...

Between Silk and Cyanide

Leo Marks

In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a cryptopgraher of genius. I...

Blood in the Snow, Blood on the Grass

Douglas Boyd

D-Day, 6 June 1944; a day that has gone down in history as one of the most crucial steps towards Allied victory of the Second World War. But what is known of the thousands of young Frenchmen and w...

Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean

Kristen Block

Almost Free

Eva Sheppard Wolf

Der Dreißigjährige Krieg

Helmut Neuhold

Im Jahre 1618 brach eine Katastrophe über Deutschland und weite Teile Europas herein, deren Ausmaß und Folgen sich niemand zuvor hätte vorstellen können. Der später so genannte "Dreißigj...

Understand Chinese Mythology

Te Lin

Missionary Discourses of Difference

E. Cleall

Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes:...

Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen

Jacob Burckhardt

Vom Königsbett zum Schafott

Barbara Beck

Im Schatten der Schwarzen Sonne

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

Gypsy Jane

Jane Lee

Violence in America

Sir Leonard

The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815

K. Candlin

The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood regio...

1812

Nicole Eustace

Stupid Life

Mike McQueen

A Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World

<p>This volume commemorates the 65th birthday of William Vernon Harris (on September 13, 2003), when a group of his former students agreed to honor him with a collection of essays that would...