Gustavus Adolphus (1594--1632) dominated his age: he made Sweden the leading power of Northern Europe, was the principal upholder of the Protestant cause ...

Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama offers a selection of essays exploring Greek epic, drama, and their reception and adaption by other ancient ...

This second volume of John Rule's major two-volume portrait of Georgian England is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of eighteenth-century society ...

A clear and concise guide to the Eastern Question - the problem facing the European states of how to react to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. A L MacFie's ...

The Wilhelmine period is a crucial period of German history and the focus of great historical controversy; greater understanding of this period is also ...

The Russian church is central to an understanding of early Russian and Slav history, but for many years there has been no accessible, up-to-date introduction ...

During the twentieth century, the medium of film has developed as a means of understanding the complexity of modern life. Since 1968, film theory has concentrated ...

This eagerly awaited volume, the first of its kind by western scholars, describes the development amongst the diverse inhabitants of the immense landmass ...

The mass migration of the Boer farmers from Cape Colony to escape British domination in 1835-36 - the Great Trek - has always been a potent icon of Africaaner ...

Serfdom and Slavery compares the two forms of legal servitude in cultures in Western civilization, in Europe and the New World from ancient times to ...