Hakutulokset: modern history
yhteensä 204 hakutulosta
Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century
Anglo-Prussian Relations 1701–1713
In 1701, Frederick I crowned himself the first King in Prussia. This title required a process of royal status construction in conjunction with other European rulers, and Frederick …
Cultures of Memory in Asia
A collection of works by Asian scholars looking at different ways in which relatively recent traumas have been memorialized in their various countries, often while the traumas …
Kerney's Compendium of Ancient and Modern History. For the Use of Schools
The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power …
Jewish Self-Defense in South America
Jewish Self-Defense in South America charts the ways in which Jewish youth in Argentina and Uruguay organized self-defense groups in the wake of an anti-Semitic wave that swept the …
Coalition Navies during the Korean War
This book presents a detailed assessment of the role of navies in the Korean War. It highlights that, despite being predominantly a land war, navies played a vital part. Moreover, …
How the World Hunger Problem Was not Solved
The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern’ inputs like high-yielding seeds, …