Louis Brandeis, war Anfang des Jahrhunderts einer der angesehensten Verfassungsrichter Amerikas. Er war der Erste, der die Macht der Banken anprangerte und ihnen eine einzigartige Stellung im weltweiten Wirtschaftsgefüge zuordnete. Die Theorie der sogenannten Finanzoligarchie so…
Louis Brandeis, war Anfang des Jahrhunderts einer der angesehensten Verfassungsrichter Amerikas. Er war der Erste, der die Macht der Banken anprangerte und ihnen eine einzigartige Stellung im weltweiten Wirtschaftsgefüge zuordnete. Die Theorie der sogenannten Finanzoligarchie so…
Film is increasingly engaging the attention of students of history at all levels. In its manifold forms from the newsreel to the 'feature', it is a major source of evidence for, and an important influence upon, contemporary history, and a vivid means of bringing the recent past …
In Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant seven leading scholars examine the historical writings of seven medieval Muslim historians whose works provide the core chronographical texts for reconstructing the events of the crusading period, 1097-1291. Each chapter…
"In Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant seven leading scholars examine the historical writings of seven medieval Muslim historians whose works provide the core chronographical texts for reconstructing the events of the crusading period, 1097-1291. Each chapte…
The Middle Byzantine Historians, which continues the same author's Early Byzantine Historians, is the first book to analyze the lives and works of every significant Byzantine historian from the seventh to the thirteenth century. Written for general readers as well as professiona…
This book is an intellectual biography of the Venetian historian and theologian Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623). It analyses Sarpi's natural philosophy, religious ideas and political thought. Kainulainen argues that Sarpi was influenced by Neostoicism, Neoepicureanism and the sixteenth-…
How empire shaped us
Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain's imperial past. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the historical imagination? How has it endured even as its subject slips further into…
How empire shaped us
Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain's imperial past. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the historical imagination? How has it endured even as its subject slips further into…