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This book explores how First World War commemoration events are
presented, reported and mediated on the websites of mainstream
daily newspapers from seven European countries. The book is the
result of a research group - DIREPA-EUROPE (Discours,
representations, passe de l'Europe), part of Lemel research network
- characterized by a shared interest in media discourse and online
newspapers. It presents a fluid analysis chain on the commemoration
discourse generated by the WWI Armistice Centenary in 2018, and
will be of interest not only to scholars of discourse and media
studies, but also of European history, cultural memory, journalism
and conflict studies.
The true story of a woman's incredible journey into the heart of
the Third Reich to find the man she loves. When the Gestapo seize
20-year-old Olga Czepf's fiance she is determined to find him and
sets off on an extraordinary 2,000-mile search across Nazi-occupied
Europe risking betrayal, arrest and death. As the Second World War
heads towards its bloody climax, she refuses to give up - even when
her mission leads her to the gates of Dachau and Buchenwald
concentration camps...Now 88 and living in London, Olga tells with
remarkable clarity of the courage and determination that drove her
across war-torn Europe, to find the man she loved. The greatest
untold true love story of World War Two.
With a broad chronological sweep, this book provides an historical
account of Roman law and legal institutions which explains how they
were created and modified in relation to political developments and
changes in power relations. It underlines the constant tension
between two central aspects of Roman politics: the aristocratic
nature of the system of government, and the drive for increased
popular participation in decision-making and the exercise of power.
The traditional balance of power underwent a radical transformation
under Augustus, with new processes of integration and social
mobility brought into play. Professor Capogrossi Colognesi brings
into sharp relief the deeply political nature of the role of Roman
juridical science as an expression of aristocratic politics and
discusses the imperial jurists' fundamental contribution to the
production of an outline theory of sovereignty and legality which
would constitute, together with Justinian's gathering of Roman
legal knowledge, the most substantial legacy of Rome.
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France,
from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless
new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by
bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army's first
recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending with the gilet jaunes
protests in the era of Emmanuel Macron, each chapter is an
adventure in its own right. Along the way, readers will find the
usual faces, events and themes of French history - Louis XIV, the
French Revolution, the French Resistance, the Tour de France - but
all presented in a shining new light. Graham Robb's France: An
Adventure History does not offer a standard dry list of facts and
dates, but a panorama of France, teeming with characters, full of
stories, journeys and coincidences, giving readers a thrilling
sense of discovery and enlightenment. It is a vivid, living history
of one of the world's most fascinating nations by a ceaselessly
entertaining writer in complete command of subject and style.
Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied
history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief,
accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles.
'Tremlett is a fascinating socio-cultural guide, as happy to
discuss Spain's World Cup win as its Moorish rule' Guardian
'Negotiates Spain's chaotic history with admirable clarity and
style' The Times Spain's position on Europe's south-western corner
has exposed it to cultural, political and actual winds blowing from
all quadrants. Africa lies a mere nine miles to the south. The
Mediterranean connects it to the civilizational currents of
Phoenicians, Romans, Carthaginians, and Byzantines as well as the
Arabic lands of the near east. Bronze Age migrants from the Russian
steppe were amongst the first to arrive. They would be followed by
Visigoths, Arabs, Napoleonic armies and many more invaders and
immigrants. Circular winds and currents linked it to the American
continent, allowing Spain to conquer and colonize much of it. As a
result, Spain has developed a sort of hybrid vigour. Whenever it
has tried to deny this inevitable heterogeneity, it has required
superhuman effort to fashion a 'pure' national identity - which has
proved impossible to maintain. In Espana, Giles Tremlett argues
that, in fact, that lack of a homogenous identity is Spain's
defining trait.
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the
history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But
Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds,
launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the
Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating
the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blitz of
thirty years, a handful of visionary and utterly ruthless empire
builders, with few resources but breathtaking ambition, attempted
to seize the Indian Ocean, destroy Islam and take control of world
trade. Told with Roger Crowley's customary skill and verve, this is
narrative history at its most vivid - an epic tale of navigation,
trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political
diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance,
courage and terrifying brutality. Drawing on extensive first-hand
accounts, it brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band
of conquerors - men such as Afonso de Albuquerque, the first
European since Alexander the Great to found an Asian empire - who
set in motion five hundred years of European colonisation and
unleashed the forces of globalisation.
The book highlights aspects of mediality and materiality in the
dissemination and distribution of texts in the Scandinavian Middle
Ages important for achieving a general understanding of the
emerging literate culture. In nine chapters various types of texts
represented in different media and in a range of materials are
treated. The topics include two chapters on epigraphy, on lead
amulets and stone monuments inscribed with runes and Roman letters.
In four chapters aspects of the manuscript culture is discussed,
the role of authorship and of the dissemination of Christian topics
in translations. The appropriation of a Latin book culture in the
vernaculars is treated as well as the adminstrative use of writing
in charters. In the two final chapters topics related to the
emerging print culture in early post-medieval manuscripts and
prints are discussed with a focus on reception. The range of topics
will make the book relevant for scholars from all fields of
medieval research as well as those interested in mediality and
materiality in general.
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016 Food and Health in Early
Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of
the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of
the interaction between the two: the relationship between evolving
foodways and shifting medical advice on what to eat in order to
stay healthy. It provides the first in-depth study of printed
dietary advice covering the entire early modern period, from the
late-15th century to the early-19th; it is also the first to trace
the history of European foodways as seen through the prism of this
advice. David Gentilcore offers a doctor's-eye view of changing
food and dietary fashions: from Portugal to Poland, from Scotland
to Sicily, not forgetting the expanding European populations of the
New World. In addition to exploring European regimens throughout
the period, works of materia medica, botany, agronomy and
horticulture are considered, as well as a range of other printed
sources, such as travel accounts, cookery books and literary works.
The book also includes 30 illustrations, maps and extensive chapter
bibliographies with web links included to further aid study. Food
and Health in Early Modern Europe is the essential introduction to
the relationship between food, health and medicine for history
students and scholars alike.
For nearly fifty years after the end of the Second World War,
Albania remained in almost total isolation from the rest of the
world. The hard-line communist dictatorship sealed the tiny
country's borders in an effort to preserve Albania and the ruling
regime from the threat posed by Western Powers and from
neighbouring countries and their territorial ambitions. When the
communist regime finally collapsed in 1992, Albania emerged into a
Balkans ravaged by civil war in neighbouring Yugoslavia, which
spread into the regions bordering Albania inhabited by significant
ethnic Albanian minorities. As the war ignited in Kosova, tens of
thousands of Albanian refugees fled into Albania, which itself was
suffering violent internal conflict. Albania had entered the
post-communist world in an impoverished and broken state, immersed
in civil strife between the new quasi-democratic government and the
opposition socialists, which culminated into virtual civil war in
1997 that pitted northerners against southerners with more than
4,000 deaths. Amidst the chaos, the disintegration of Yugoslavia
ignited a new Albanian national question that had lain dormant
since 1945. There were calls for the creation of a 'Greater
Albania' to incorporate Yugoslavia's Albanian minorities within the
'Mother' state, which was to also include an area of north-western
Greece which had historically been inhabited by ethnic Albanians
known as Chams. The Chams were forced to leave their homeland
following three distinct phases: the first during the Balkans Wars
1912-14; the second resulting from the Greek-Turkish population
exchanges in the 1920s; the third at the end of the Second World
War. The calls for a 'Greater Albania' alarmed Albania's neighbours
and the international community, who viewed it as a serious threat
to the stability of the entire southern Balkans. This resurgence of
pan-Albanian nationalism was, however, far more layered and complex
than was understood at the time, even by the various ethnic
Albanian groups and their vocal Diaspora. This collection of papers
and essays has not previously been published outside select
academic outlets. They appear here for the first time with the aim
of offering new perspectives on the underlying nature of
pan-Albanianism, its aspirations and the post-Cold War dynamics of
the Albanian world. These remain serious, unresolved problems in
the region at the present time.
Exam board: Pearson Edexcel; OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject: History
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This book is the first to present a comprehensive historical
picture of the modern Catholic concern with the body and sexuality.
The Catholic church is commonly believed to have always opposed
birth control and abortion throughout the centuries. Yet the
Catholic encounter with modern sexuality has a more complex and
interesting history. What was the meaning of sexual purity? Why did
eugenics matter to Catholicism? How did the Society of Jesus
interpret the idea of overpopulation? Why did Pius XI decide to
issue the notorious encyclical Casti connubii on Christian marriage
- the first modern papal pronouncement on birth control, abortion,
and eugenics? In answering these questions, Lucia Pozzi uncovers
new archival and unpublished records to dig into Catholic responses
to modern sexual knowledge, showing the Catholic church at times
resisting, but also often welcoming, scientific modernity.
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