By R M Whiteside, A Wilson, S Blackburn (auth.), R M Whiteside, A Wilson, S Blackburn, S E Hörnig, C P Wilson (eds.)

ISBN-10: 185333877X

ISBN-13: 9781853338779

ISBN-10: 9401122407

ISBN-13: 9789401122405

By Charles Young

The early stories of Harald Fairhair, King of the Vikings. released in 1911, those tales come from Viking sagas and different resource files and inform of the raiding, sea roving, exploration and ruling an unlimited Viking civilization.

By Angel Smith

ISBN-10: 0810858495

ISBN-13: 9780810858497

ISBN-10: 0810862670

ISBN-13: 9780810862678

For years Spain used to be below a dictatorship till democracy was once recovered in 1978 lower than the shape of a constitutional monarchy. In 1986 it joined the ecu Union and has skilled an monetary and cultural renaissance. this present day, Spain has the 7th greatest economic system within the world.

The moment variation of the Historical Dictionary of Spain is an unrivalled reference advisor to Spanish historical past and politics from the center a while to the current. With its chronology, introductory essay, and over 700 dictionary entries on significant Spanish organisations, together with political events, exchange unions, and country our bodies; a number of the areas and languages which include Spain, together with Catalonia and the Basque kingdom; and significant figures in Spanish tradition and the humanities, the Historical Dictionary of Spain permits readers to simply keep on with the main adjustments Spain has gone through

By Geoffrey Parker

ISBN-10: 0521084628

ISBN-13: 9780521084628

The e-book of the military of Flanders and the Spanish street in 1972 marked the beginning of the "new army history", which emphasised army organization--mobilization, pay, provide, morale and, exceptionally, logistics--rather than army "events" reminiscent of sieges and battles. regularly pointed out considering the fact that its first book in English (with translations into Spanish and Dutch), this revised up-to-date moment version comprises new assets and references yet another way continues to be devoted to the unique variation. First version Hb (1972): 0-521-08462-8 First variation Pb (1975): 0-521-09907-2

By Sabine Urban (auth.), Sabine Urban (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3322838234

ISBN-13: 9783322838230

ISBN-10: 3409132376

ISBN-13: 9783409132374

By Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Mertins, Peter Heisig, Jens Vorbeck (auth.), Professor Dr.-Ing. Kai Mertins, Dipl.-Sozw. Peter Heisig, Dipl.-Psych. Jens Vorbeck (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3662044668

ISBN-13: 9783662044667

ISBN-10: 3662044684

ISBN-13: 9783662044681

By Rosamond McKitterick

ISBN-10: 052136292X

ISBN-13: 9780521362924

This quantity of the hot Cambridge Medieval heritage covers many of the interval of Frankish and Carolingian dominance in western Europe. It used to be one in every of amazing political and cultural coherence, mixed with an important, very varied and formative advancements in each sphere of lifestyles. Adopting an interdisciplinary process, the authors research the interplay among rulers and governed, how energy and authority really labored, and the society and tradition of Europe as an entire. the quantity is split into 4 elements. half I encompasses the occasions and political advancements within the complete of the British Isles, the west and east Frankish kingdoms, Scandinavia, the Slavic and Balkan areas, Spain, Italy, and people features of Byzantine and Muslim historical past which impinged at the west among c. seven-hundred and c. 900. components II, III and IV disguise issues and subject matters bearing on church and society, and cultural and highbrow advancements.

By Donald Stoker

ISBN-10: 0203674049

ISBN-13: 9780203674048

ISBN-10: 0415349990

ISBN-13: 9780415349994

This edited quantity explores conscription within the Napoleonic period, tracing the roots of ecu conscription and exploring the numerous equipment that states used to acquire the manpower they had to prosecute their wars. The lev?e-en-masse of the French Revolution has frequently been stated as a ‘Revolution in army Affairs’, yet was once it actually a ‘revolutionary’ holiday with prior eu practices of elevating armies, or an intensification of the scope and scale of practices already inherent within the ecu army process? This overseas number of students display that ecu conscription has a ways deeper roots than has been formerly stated, and that its intensification through the Napoleonic period was once extra an ‘evolutionary’ than ‘revolutionary’ switch. This publication might be of a lot curiosity to scholars of army heritage, Strategic stories, Strategic background and ecu background.

By Christian De Boissieu (auth.), Donald E. Fair, Robert Raymond (eds.)

ISBN-10: 9048144698

ISBN-13: 9789048144693

ISBN-10: 9401583501

ISBN-13: 9789401583503

The papers amassed during this quantity are these offered on the eighteenth Colloquium prepared by means of the Societe Universitaire Europeenne de Recherches Financieres (SUERF), which happened in Dublin in may possibly 1994. The Society is supported through a good number of important banks and com­ mercial banks, through different monetary and company associations and by way of own subscriptions from teachers and others attracted to financial and monetary difficulties. considering that its institution in 1963, it has constructed as a discussion board for the trade of data, learn effects and concepts between teachers and practitioners in those fields, together with significant financial institution and treasury officers liable for formulating and utilizing financial and monetary guidelines, nationwide and overseas. a massive task of SUERF is to organise and behavior Colloquia on matters of topical curiosity to its participants. The titles, locations and dates of past Colloquia for which volumes of the gathered papers have been released are famous at the final web page of this volume.

By Sabine Urban (auth.), Sabine Urban (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3409134344

ISBN-13: 9783409134347

ISBN-10: 3663100065

ISBN-13: 9783663100065

The present paintings is the fourth quantity within the sequence "Europe's financial Future", edited by way of Strasbourg's Robert Schuman college, below the path of Professor Sabine city, head of the CESAG-IECS examine middle. This sequence intends to research the ecu scenario - now not via idealized versions of operation or summary schemas - fairly according to concrete observations, both as regards to the activities and the lifetime of the ecu citizen as of Europe's company and associations. The stories which are awarded listed here are no longer, even if, easily descriptions; they consult with exact conceptual frameworks and nourish long term mirrored image. The authors of this paintings are professors of universities representing a variety of horizons: ltaly, Finland, Austria, the USA and Britain, let alone from the center of Europe, Germany and the Netherlands. The authors percentage the typical event of getting served as vacationing professors at Robert Schuman collage (IECS Strasbourg) through the 1995-96 educational yr. This quantity, like its predecessors, displays the variety which characterizes Europe, wealthy and stimulating yet, even as, tough to manage.