European History
epub |eng | | Author:Gábor Klaniczay & Éva Pócs

The treasure-guarding devil (because this could be a possible interpretation of the word ‘guardian’) and the motif of giving him a coin appears in two other narratives. When Mrs. Csóti’s ...
( Category: European History November 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Svetozar Rajak, Konstantina E. Botsiou, Eirini Karamouzi & Evanthis Hatzivassiliou

The Soviets were not the only party that sought to profit from Yugoslavia’s internal difficulties—political emigration also had its plans. On 2 December 1970, Dragutin Haramija, president of Croatia’s Executive ...
( Category: European History November 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:José E. Alvarez [Álvarez, José E.]

The Madrid Front November 1936 ON NOVEMBER 1, 1936, the Nationalist drive toward Madrid was in full gear, with the prize of capturing the capital in sight. The First Bandera, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Victoria Panton Bacon

We only experienced one slightly alarming incident on the way at an early stage when there was a good deal of destroyer activity around us; one destroyer discharged a couple ...
( Category: European History November 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Timothy G. McMahon, Michael de Nie & Paul Townend

5.For a detailed study of the liberal view of Empire and the political and rhetorical opportunities it afforded Irish liberals and nationalists, see Jennifer Ridden, ‘Britishness as an imperial and ...
( Category: European History November 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-14 | Author:John Harris

( Category: European History November 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-06 | Author:Charles King

At the beginning of the 1920s, John Dos Passos had come downstairs to find the lobby of the Pera Palace in chaos. In the lounge, Hellenic, Italian, and French gendarmes ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-02 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Four Plymouth: Arrival in America “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” —Henry Miller While the majority of the passengers on the Mayflower ...
( Category: European History November 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-20 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Four The Culture of the Cold War “The reason we have such a high standard of living is because advertising has created an American frame of mind that makes ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vernon Bogdanor

( Category: England History November 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-14 | Author:David Head

SECTION 3 Modeling Piracy A Model of Piracy THE BUCCANEERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CARIBBEAN Virginia W. Lunsford The spate of attacks by pirates in recent years has taken the world ...
( Category: European History November 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey T. Leigh

The Licensing of Periodicals : Suspicion Tempered by Legality During the remainder of the 1850s, although the perception of the threat declined, the conduct of press policy reflected the same ...
( Category: European History November 23,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Christopher Prendergast

WORKS CITED AND RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING All translations of passages quoted in this chapter are my own, although excellent English translations of both Beaumarchais and Marivaux are available in the ...
( Category: European History November 23,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Shunsuke Tsurumi

____________ * The word ‘lynch’ is used here to designate cases in which a political group takes it upon itself to judge and administer physical punishment, usually a beating, to ...
( Category: European History November 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-25 | Author:Pilling, David

Chapter 15 Nowhere was there Peace The fall of Ely in July 1267 was the last act in a civil war that had rumbled on for over eight years. Inevitably, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 22,2020 )