Covering the eleventh through sixteenth centuries, these essays suggest that influence and power may have paradoxically been available to women despite, and sometimes precisely because of, their subordinate position in society. Striking for its range of scholarship, this collection explores the power and independence, relationships and influence ......
Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007), of Catholic and peasant background, was teaching history in a Lyon girls' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the Resistance movement in opposition to the Nazis and their collaborators. Outwitting the ......
... the best study in English to date for an understanding of Georgian nationalism." -Religious Studies Review ... the standard account of Georgian history in English." -American Historical Review ... tour de force research... fascinating reading." -American Political Science Review Like the other republics floating free after the demise of the ......
Assessing Stalinist policy toward Jews, this book reveals the suppression of free expression of Jewish life, the forced assimilation of Soviet Jews, and the purging of Jews from official positions. It reveals the effort by Stalin to weed out Jews from prominent positions in the arts, sciences, and professional life.
Long before there were Jewish communities in the land of the tsars, Jews inhabited a region which they called medinat rusiya, the land of Russia. Focusing on the social and intellectual odysseys of merchants, and their varied attempts to combine Judaism and European culture, this book chronicles the story of these first modern Jews of Russia.
Tells the stories of three Jewish activists, who at different times and different places refused to be victims any longer and by political assassination sought to gain world attention to the plight of their people. This book offers information on how the killings were carried out, the international response, and the reaction of Jews.
Navalism, Industrial Development, and the Politics of Dualism
This detailed study charts the uneven growth of the Austrian navy from its high point following Archduke Ferdinand Max's administration and the War of 1866 to its ultimate dissolution after World War 1. In following this development, Lawrence Sondhaus not only relates the operational aspects of the Habsburg navy but also traces the growth of ......
The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. 1, 108th Series, 1990
Throughout early modern Europe, one of the most extraordinary royal fund-raising schemes was the seizure and sale of church property to finance foreign wars. The monarchs of Habsburg Spain extended these seizures to municipal property and used the revenue to maintain their empire. They sold charters of autonomy to hundreds of villages, thus ......
