Regionalgeschichte

Social Attitudes and Political Structures in the Fifteenth Century

This volume includes papers on political, religious, social and economic history and the history of ideas during the 15th century. The papers challenge existing conceptions and open new avenues of...

Urkundenbuch zur Geschichte des Fürstenthums Grubenhagen

Georg Max

Alberta pottery industry, 1912-1990

Anne Hayward

This study focuses on the economic and social impact of the pottery industry, both locally and nationally. Drawing on the rich primary sources of company records and catalogues, existing factory b...

One Day in My Life by Bobby Sands

Bobby Sands Trust

Bobby Sands was 27 years old when he died. He spent almost nine years of his life in prison because of his Irish republican activities. He died, in prison, on 5 May 1981, on the sixty-sixth day of...

The Church of the Covenant 1637-1651

Walter Makey

The troubles of mid-seventeenth-century Scotland were the final episode in a long revolutionary process which had begun more than a century earlier. The changes of the intervening years – most o...

People and Power in Scotland

Few Scottish historians are better known than T. C. Smout and fewer still more deserving of the high esteem in which they are held. He has made an outstanding contribution to Scottish historical s...

The Glasgow Enlightenment

This text presents the selected proceedings of a conference sponsored by the 18th-century Scottish Studies Society. It looks at the achievements of intellectual and academic figures who made Glasg...

Church and Theology in Enlightenment Scotland

John R. McIntosh

Works on Scottish church history have sometimes been described as parochial, partisan, outdated or unscholarly. John McIntosh remedies this. He diverts attention from the Moderate Party in the eig...

Image and Identity

This volume looks at the way that perceptions of Scottish identity have changed through the centuries, from early medieval to modern times.'The idea of Scotland as a single country, correspond...

The The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720

Alastair J. Mann

This volume examines the Scottish book trade from c.1500 to c.1720, looking at booksellers, bookbinders, stationers and printers and their relationship to the forces of authority. The scale of the...

Lockout Dublin 1913

Padraig Yeates

On 26 August 1913 the trams stopped running in Dublin. Striking conductors and drivers, members of the Irish Transport Workers' Union, abandoned their vehicles. They had refused a demand from ...

Heimatverein Goldene Mark (Untereichsfeld) e.V.

Günther Wiegand / Gudrun Pischke

Im Jahr 2000 bestand der Heimatverein Goldene Mark (Untereichsfeld) e. V. fünfzig Jahre.Die aus diesem Anlaß herausgegebene Festschrift enthält neben einem ausführlichen und kenntnisreichen Be...

Heinrich Werner - Komponist von Goethes "Heidenröslein"

Karin Richter

In diesem Buch erzählt Karin Richter die faszinierende Lebensgeschichte Heinrich Werners, jenes unbekannten, unbelohnten, vergessenen deutschen Komponisten, der mit seiner zauberhaften Melodie zu...

Scotichronicon

Walter Bower

Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon--'a history boo...

The Reign of James VI 

Julian Goodare / Michael Lynch

The reign of James VI (1567–1625) remains one of the most enigmatic in Scottish history. There are long periods within it that resemble black holes in our knowledge. This study is a concerted at...

Die Berliner Salons

Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger

Das Buch präsentiert dem historisch-literarisch interessierten Leser die Geschichte der Berliner Salons, von den ersten Salons um 1780 bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg 1914. Die Autorin zeigt, wie die li...

Civil War in China

Suzanne Pepper

Many books have tried to analyze the reasons for the Chinese communist success in China's 1945_1949 civil war, but Suzanne Pepper's seminal work was the first and remains the only comprehe...

Das Inferno von Breslau

Gerda Kante

Die Autorin, 1934 in Breslau geboren, jetzt wohnhaft im Südharz/Niedersachsen, erinnert sich an die ersten Kinderjahre in ihrer schlesischen Heimatstadt. Sie wuchs als jüngste Tochter (ein Nachz...

A Compact History Of Ireland

Sarah Healy

This book provides in succinct, accessible form, a thematic rather than strictly chronological account of Irish history. It begins with a comprehensive historical portrait which presents the whole...

Die Weimarer Lähmung

Ralph Hammerthaler

Der Schreck lähmt die Glieder: Weimar soll, so haben die Kulturminister der Europäischen Union beschlossen, im Jahr 1999 "Kulturstadt Europas" sein. Was tun? Die Politiker sind uneins, d...