The Chinese in Europe

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
A study of Chinese immigrant communities in Europe. Separate chapters report on research on the Chinese in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Further chapters explore networks, self-organizations and migration patterns and discuss issues of identity, language, integration, and community building.

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Coercion, Capital and European States, A.D.990-1990

Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Presents an account and an explanation of the evolution of European states during the present millennium. This work addresses problem that concerns the great variety in the kinds of state that have prevailed in Europe since AD 990. The final part of the book then applies these insights to the history of Third […]

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Christianity and Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1830

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Christianity and revolutionary Europe, 1750-1830 provides a comprehensive and accessible summary of the role of the Churches during this turbulent period in European history. How did the Churches survive the political and intellectual challenges posed by the French Revolution, despite institutional upheaval and the widespread questioning of dogma and tradition? Nigel Aston […]

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Medicine Before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
An introductory history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth century.

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The Living Unknown Soldier

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
On 1 February 1918, a soldier was found wandering through the Lyon-Brotteaux railway station. He had no idea who he was, nor any memory of his name. He was registered by the authorities as Anthelme Mangin and committed to an insane asylum.

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The Portable Enlightenment Reader

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
The Age of Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an exultant intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers […]

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U. S. S. R. Year Book

Publisher: Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.
U. S. S. R. Year Book

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Christianity under the Ancien Regime, 1648-1789

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
In the middle of the seventeenth century religious belief and practice were intrinsic parts of everyday life and very difficult to escape. Professor Ward offers a brief, but comprehensible, account of Christianity in Europe between the Westphalia settlements 1648 and the French Revolution in 1789. The focus of the book, however, is […]

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The New Cambridge Medieval History

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
A comprehensive, authoritative account of European history c. 1415–c. 1500.

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Between Past and Future

Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press
An edited collection of papers on the experience of the Roma in eastern and central Europe since the collapse of Communism.

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