The Playboy King

Paul D Quinlan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 52
• The love story between King Carol II of Romania and his long-time mistress, Magda Lupescu, was a subject of great interest in the first half of the 20... Lees meer

The Homosexual and Society

Robert B Marks Ridinger

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 18
• This bibliography pulls together a scattered literature of popular periodical articles, monographs, and sources from the legal press to create a pictu... Lees meer

British Empiricism and Early Political Economy

John Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 109
• Gregory King (1648-1712) was an engraver, herald, surveyor, and Secretary to the Commissioners for the Public Accounts, but he is best known for his 1... Lees meer

The Supranational Politics of Jean Monnet

Frederic Fransen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 87
• Although previous advocates of European Unity proposed the replacement of the balance of power model of international relations, Jean Monnet was the f... Lees meer

Personal Policy Making

Eliezer Tauber

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 96
• Without the Canadian mediation between the two world blocs in 1947, UN resolution 181(II) to partition Palestine would likely have failed to secure th... Lees meer

Chinese Nationalism in Perspective

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 91
• Wei and Liu argue that Chinese nationalism is a multifaceted concept. At different historical moments and under certain circumstances, it had differen... Lees meer

The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism

Robert F Haggard

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 77
• The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism examines the question of where to locate the ideological break between classical liberalism and the underlying... Lees meer

Young Guard!

Isabel A Tirado

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• Tirado provides a fascinating and valuable account of the beginnings of an organized youth movement in revolutionary Russia and the founding of the Ko... Lees meer

A Policy Calculated to Benefit China

Stephen J Valone

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• Stephen Valone takes the first in-depth look at the China arms embargo (1919-1929) and places it in the larger context of United States foreign policy... Lees meer

The Maori and the Crown

Dora Alves

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 68
• When early explorers and settlers arrived in New Zealand, they found the islands already populated by the Polynesian Maori people. This account detail... Lees meer

Liberalism and Social Reform

David M Gordon

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 55
• This book examines the heroic spirit of French industrial capitalism prior to World War I, and the role certain industrialists played in ensuring the ... Lees meer

A Lust for Virtue

Philip F Riley

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 88
• Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch co... Lees meer

Triumph and Downfall

Margot Louria

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 75
• This study shows how, contrary to traditional thought, the U.S. government assumed a leadership position in world affairs and introduced innovative po... Lees meer

Through the Pale Door

Frederick S Frank

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 11
• Through the Pale Door is a bibliographical guide to the primary sources and central texts of American Gothic literature. It surveys and defines the Go... Lees meer

Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy

Victor Roudometof

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 89
• The rise of nationalism in the Balkans is viewed as part of a world-historical process of globalization over the last five centuries. Victor Roudometo... Lees meer

Certain Ideas of France

H L Wesseling

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 98
• The title of this book is, of course, inspired by the famous opening words of General de Gaulle's Memoirs of the Second World War: All my life I have ... Lees meer

A North-South Mind in an East-West World

Richard Dauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 110
• How did a top American diplomat's contrarian views on U.S. Cold War foreign policy remain largely ignored over the course of four administrations? Dau... Lees meer

Philadelphia's Enlightenment, 1740-1800

Nina Reid-Maroney

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 81
• Rather than treating the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment as defining opposites in 18th century American culture, this study argues that the impe... Lees meer

Frederick III

Patricia Kollander

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 50
• Many German historians regard Emperor Frederick III (1831-1888) as a liberal sovereign who could have saved German history from its tragic course. Rec... Lees meer

Disputed Pleasures

Thomas S Henricks

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• This work explores the development of English sport during the eight centuries preceding the industrial era. Focusing on outdoor activities that invol... Lees meer

Lothian

David P Billington

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• This is the story of Philip Kerr and a group of Oxford graduates that founded The Round Table ( Journal of International Affairs ) in 1910 and influen... Lees meer

Royalist Political Thought During the French Revolution

James L Osen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 47
• This book treats two basic subjects: (1) royalist explanations of the causes of the French Revolution, and (2) royalist defenses of royalist political... Lees meer

The Free Germany Movement

Kai P Schoenhals

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History
• Although much has been written on the failed attempt of German officers and conservative politicians to overthrow Hitler during World War II, the Germ... Lees meer

The Politically Correct Netherlands

Herman Vuijsje

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World History | nr. 76
• In the 1960s, the Netherlands became known as an anarchists social laboratory, producing one of the earliest examples of political correctness. Strong... Lees meer