Describes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic.
Describes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic.
This work of historical sociology revisits and analyses the earlier part of the Third Republic (1870-1914), when France granted citizenship rights to Indians in Pondicherry. It explores the nature of this colonial citizenship and enables comparisons with British India, especiall…
This book is a study of a community under attack, and its goal is to describe, analyze, and illuminate the response of that community to a series of unexpected and deeply threatening developments. Just a few years after achieving full civil emancipation in 1871, the Jews of Germ…
Updated to take account of the latest research, this new edition guides the reader through a momentous period in history, from the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
Updated to take account of the latest research, this new edition guides the reader through a momentous period in history, from the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
"At once a book about Oxford and Heidelberg universities and about the character of European society on the eve of the World War I, Our Friend "The Enemy" challenges the idea that pre-1914 Europe was bound to collapse. Weber brings Britain and Germany's preeminent universities a…