Overview :This is a wide-ranging intellectual history of how, in the 18th century, Europe came to be conceived as divided into "Western Europe" and "E... Read More
Overview :On the cusp of the twentieth century, in the most cosmopolitan city in the world, there a sensation that entranced the city's populace as no... Read More
Overview :At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, ... Read More
Overview :Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia c... Read More
Overview :This book studies the nature of Venetian rule over the Slavs of Dalmatia during the eighteenth century, focusing on the cultural elaboration... Read More
Overview :While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas feat... Read More
Overview :In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria and went into exile. That same year, the fairy tale opera Die ... Read More
Overview :The modern enterprise of anthropology, with all of its important implications for cross-cultural perceptions, perspectives, and self-conscio... Read More
Overview :In the summer of 1785, in the city of Venice, a wealthy 60-year-old man was arrested and accused of a scandalous offense: having sexual rela... Read More