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Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
The 'Fascist' Style of Rule, 2nd Edition
Series: Historical Connections
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany provides a succinct and provocative introduction to Italian fascism and German nazism. Incorporating recent historical research together with original and challenging arguments, Alexander J. De Grand examines:* the similarities and differences in the early development...
Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
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Monarchy, Aristocracy and State in Europe 1300-1800
Series: Historical Connections
Monarchy, Aristocracy and the State in Europe 1300 - 1800 is an important survey of the relationship between monarchy and state in early modern European history. Spanning five centuries and covering England, France, Spain, Germany and Austria, this book considers the key themes in the formation of...
Published September 6th 2000 by Routledge
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Impressionists and Politics
Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century
Series: Historical Connections
Impressionists and Politics is an accessible introduction to the current debates about Impressionism. Was the artistic movement really radical and innovative? Is the term "Impressionism" itself an adequate characterization of the movement of painters and critics that took the mid-nineteenth century...
Published March 15th 2000 by Routledge
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Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe
Series: Historical Connections
Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe is an important survey of the complex relationships between urban politics and regional and national politics in Europe from 1500 to 1789. In an era when the national state was far less developed than today, crucial decisions about economic, religious and...
Published February 23rd 2000 by Routledge
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Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England
Series: Historical Connections
Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England provides an accessible introduction to the culture of English popular politics between 1815 and 1900, the period from Luddism to the New Liberalism. This is an area that has attracted great historical interest and has undergone fundamental revision in...
Published May 6th 1998 by Routledge
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Catholic Politics in Europe, 1918-1945
Series: Historical Connections
The history of Catholic political movements has long been a missing dimension of the history of Europe during the twentieth century. Martin Conway explores the fascinating history of Catholic political movements in Europe between 1918 and 1945, demonstrating the crucial role which Catholics played...
Published May 21st 1997 by Routledge
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Politics and the Rise of the Press
Britain and France 1620-1800
Series: Historical Connections
Politics and the Rise of the Press compares the rise of the newspaper press in Britain and France, and assesses how it influenced political life and political culture. From its social, economic and political sources, to its importance for the middling ranks in eighteenth-century British society,...
Published September 11th 1996 by Routledge
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Population Politics in Twentieth Century Europe
Fascist Dictatorships and Liberal Democracies
Series: Historical Connections
Maria Sophia Quine demystifies the population policies of fascist regimes by looking at them in the wider context of how societies in general reacted to the profound economic changes brought by industrialization. Population Politics in Twentieth Century Europe: * provides an original, comparative...
Published November 1st 1995 by Routledge
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Environment and History
The taming of nature in the USA and South Africa
Series: Historical Connections
The influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new worlds into which Europeans have expanded over the past five hundred years. Using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, Beinart and Coates examine this neglected aspect of the history of settler...
Published July 12th 1995 by Routledge
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