Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg
Readers in medicine, law, sociology and history will be interested in this tragic story of a weak-willed, but powerful Nazi leader who facilitated Hitler’s secret program to eliminate the handicapped, even though one of his own relatives died in the “euthanasia” scheme.
“Three women ruined the Kingdom: Eve, The Queen and the Countess of Derby.” This biography pieces together the life of Charlotte de La Trémoïlle, a Huguenot who defended Lathom House during a brutal siege and was the only woman sequestered by Oliver Cromwell’s Parliament.
Checking the Imbalance(s) of the Italian Judiciary
Can the Italian Judiciary face the challenges of a liberal world? This book reviews the changes needed to allow a liberal society to flourish and for citizens to trust the system.
Fourteen authors present their work on children in past societies, from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. These studies explore the lives and deaths of children, challenging our notions of the past. The past will never be the same after its children have entered the scene…
ChiMoKoJa
This initial volume of the biannual and peer-reviewed journal of the same name covers a variety of aspects of East Asian history, including the Russian East Asiatic Company in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-5 and the role of Japan during the early Cold War.
This volume presents an analysis of China from a global perspective within a broad temporal and spatial spectrum. It reveals the early relations established between the Roman Empire and China, the development of diplomatic relations, and the rise and resolution of conflicts.
Chinese, Kurds, Iranians and the Silk Road
This book explores the little-known history between China and the Kurdish people since the tenth century. It reveals Kurdish lands as key trade and cultural hubs on the Silk Road and uncovers a shared memory: China as an idealized world, a utopia embedded in Kurdish folklore.
Choir Stalls and their Workshops
This conference proceedings discusses the workshop context of medieval choir stalls in its broadest sense, given the relative lack of studies on the process and circumstances of the making of these complex objects.
Christ Among Them
This essay newly interprets the rise of the individual in Italy, 1180-1300. As the idea of a tangible Christ as neighbor became consistent, worship became a form of individualism, a Christian praxis that shaped the later Renaissance and Reformation.
Chymia
This book consists of selected papers on the history of alchemy, shedding light on little-studied medieval and early modern texts, important doctrines, and prominent figures like Paracelsus. It also offers new insights on the history of Spanish alchemy.
Civic Duty
This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries. It explores who provided services between 1500 and 1800, how they were rewarded, and how these responsibilities were shaped by conceptions of citizenship and collective interest.
Civilization at Risk
The evil of sex trafficking will not stop, but it can be discouraged and lives spared. All of the author’s proceeds for this book go directly to the Justice and Mercy Initiative at Bryan College to fight human trafficking.
Civilization at Risk
The evil of sex trafficking will not stop, but it can be discouraged and abated. As this book, Civilization at Risk: Seeds of War, shows, lives can be spared. All of the author’s proceeds go directly to Blazing Hope Ranch to support the rehabilitation of female victims.
Claiming the Ice
Ministers and their officials are the unsung heroes of Britain’s history in Antarctica. Exploring the twists and turns of policy over half a century, this work covers the whaling industry, territorial tensions, and how science ultimately came to underpin Britain’s aims.
Class, Culture and Community
The death of British Labour History as an academic discipline has been greatly exaggerated. This collection represents its revival, bringing together community, culture, class, and politics to explore the breadth and depth of working-class identity.
Classics For All
Venture beyond the toga epic. This collection explores antiquity’s surprising legacy in TV, computer games, and B-movies, revealing how Greece and Rome continue to shape even the most cutting-edge corners of modern pop culture.
Claude Duneton was a French writer whose greatest delight was the weekly language articles he wrote for Le Figaro littéraire from 1994 to 2010. The title, Le plaisir des mots, was fitting, since words—their meaning, etymology, and amusing history—were his grande passion.
This book investigates social policy in Iraqi Kurdistan, introducing a “clientelistic model of policy implementation.” It argues that politicians interfere, distributing social security benefits based on socio-political status, not socio-economic need.
Coalition Warfare
Associations of nations fighting for common causes are no novelty. This anthology includes scholarly research on coalition warfare, past and present, exploring commonalities and differences. This complex reality is of importance to historians, politicians, and commanders.
Coast to Coast
Histories of the Pacific are stories of contact and connection. Coast to Coast explores the networks of modernity that connected the peoples of the Pacific, Australia and North America through new transportation and communication from the mid-nineteenth century.