At the end of the Cold War, the Balkan states of South East Europe were in crisis. They had emerged from two decades of hardline communism with their economies in disarray and authoritarian leaders poised to whip up nationalist feelings so as to cling on to power. The break up of Yugoslavia followed in 1991 along with prolonged instability in Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. The Balkans After The Cold War analyzes these turbulent events, which led to violence on a scale not seen in Europe for nearly 50 years and offers a detailed critique of Western policy towards the region. This volume follows on from the recently published Outcast Europe: The Balkans, 1789 - 1989 - from the Ottomans to Milosevic, also by Tom Gallagher.

Verschenen t.g.v. tent. (Haltern; Bremen) met opstellen van meerdere auteurs en rijk geill.

Beschouwing over de verschillende versies van een zeventiende-eeuws verhaal.

Set van drie losse delen (alleen te koop als set); verschenen in de reeks `Unvergessene Heimat. Stadte, Landschaften und Menschen auf alten Fotos`.

Prachtig platenboek, oorspronkelijk verschenen in het Duits.

Set van twee delen (alleen te koop als set) met veel reproducties van prenten en tekeningen, enkele in kleur.

National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writers point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a self-portrait of his or her native country, defining the characteristics that embody its sense of nationhood. The countries have been selected to represent every continent and every type of state, large and small, and together they make up two-thirds of the worlds population. They range from mature democracies to religious autocracies and one-party states, from countries with a venerable history to those who only came into being in the 20th century. In order to get to grips with the national and cultural differences that both enliven and endanger our world, we need above all to understand different national viewpoints to read the always engaging and often passionate accounts given in this remarkable and unusual book.

De culturen van vóór het Inka-rijk in het centrale Andesgebied en in de Peruaanse kuststreek.

Dieptepsychologische bespreking van de Griekse held Hercules en het beeld van hem in verleden en heden.

The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Most studies of generalship have focused on individual character and behaviour. While these are not neglected in this remarkable book, its central argument is that, like warfare itself, generalship is a cultural enterprise, providing a key to understanding a particular era or place, as much as it is an exercise in power or military skill. Through portraits of four generals - archetypal hero Alexander the Great, anti-hero Wellington, the unheroic Ulysses S. Grant and the false heroic of Hitler - John Keegan propounds the view of heroism in warfare as inextricable linked with the political imperative of the age and place. He demonstrates how the role of the general alters with the ethos of the society that creates him and concludes that there is no place for heroism in a nuclear world. The Mask of Command is a companion volume to John Keegan's classic study of the individual soldier, The Face of Battle: together they form a masterpiece of military and human history.

Met een historisch overzicht van Josef Wodka en een documentatiei van de geschiedenis van de paus door Ludwig Freiherr von Pastor; rijk geill.vnl. in z-w.