Bismarck Av Jonathan (walter H. Annenberg Professor Of Modern European History University Of Pennsylvania) Steinberg

<p><b>The first full-length history of college teaching in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, this book sheds new light on the ongoing tension between the modern scholarly ideal¿scientific, objective, and dispassionate¿and...

First published over thirty years ago, War in European History is a brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Europe, from the Norse invasions to the present day. Far more than a simple military history, the book serves...

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus¿s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three...

Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator''s fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries.Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously...