This volume of eight essays examines the role that religious traditions, practices and beliefs played in women's involvement in the British and American campaigns to abolish slavery during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It focuses on women who belonged to th…
The idea of the long eighteenth century (1660-1832) as a period in which religious and political dissent were regarded as antecedents of the Enlightenment has recently been advanced by several scholars. The purpose of this collection is further to explore these connections betwe…
On July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was executed in the courtyard of the Third Reich's military headquarters in Berlin for attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. A member of the unsuccessful plot to overthrow the Nazi government -- codenamed Operation V…
Introduction -- War, atrocities, resistance -- The coup against Hitler -- From failing hands : the coup in Paris -- Paris, July 20, 1944 : the SS locked down -- The resistance's last hope : Rommel against Hitler -- Hitler's revenge -- Did a Prussian save Paris? -- To destroy the…
Discusses the resistance against the Nazis that developed in the year that followed Operation Valkyrie, the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.
A brilliant examination of German disobedience to Hitler after the failed July 20, 1944 assassination attempt by Colonel Stauffenberg, considering its extent, nature, and effect on the conduct of the war.
This book explores the experience of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in northern Virginia between the 1730s and 1865, examining their beliefs and the ways in which these beliefs were affected by wider social attitudes and internal theological disputes.