European History
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European Racism: A History in Documents
European Racism collects more than 130 primary sources—from religious tracts, legal codes, and government edicts, to novel excerpts, paintings, illustrations, and songs—to help readers trace…
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A Youth in Germany
This is the first critical, contextualized edition in English of Eine Jugend in Deutschland (1933), the remarkable autobiographical account of Ernst Toller (1893–1939), one of…
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Hadji Murat
Based on historical events, Tolstoy’s beloved final novella tells the story of the rebel leader Hadji Murat—whom Tolstoy described as “the leading daredevil of the…
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Irish-English Relations: A History in Documents
In 1919, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland noted that “there is a path of fatality which…
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Spanish American Independence Movements: A History in Documents
The independence movements of Spanish America in the early nineteenth century constitute one of the main junctures in Latin American history. Not only did they…
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The Red Laugh and The Abyss
Leonid Andreyev’s The Red Laugh is an experimental depiction of war and its psychological effects, both on those who participate in the fighting and on…
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Investigating Cholera in Broad Street: A History in Documents
This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late summer of…
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The Odyssey
This new edition of Homer’s epic poem is designed with the needs of undergraduate students in mind. The selections, totalling almost half the full work,…
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Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents
Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West traces the history of medicine and medical practice from Ancient Egypt through to the end of the Middle…
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The Great Irish Famine: A History in Documents
In the fall of 1845, a mysterious blight ravaged Ireland’s potato harvest, beginning a prolonged period of starvation, suffering, and emigration that reduced the Irish…
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Coryats Crudities: Selections
The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryate’s five-month tour of Western Europe culminated in Coryats Crudities, one of the strangest travelogues published in early modern England.…
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The Trial of Charles I: A History in Documents
In January 1649, after years of civil war, King Charles I stood trial in a specially convened English court on charges of treason, murder, and…
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Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
“The art of travelling is only a branch of the art of thinking,” Mary Wollstonecraft wrote in one of her many reviews of works of…
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The Future of an Illusion
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, declared that religion is a universal obsessional neurosis in his famous work of 1927, The Future of an Illusion.…
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Beyond the Pleasure Principle is Freud’s most philosophical and speculative work, exploring profound questions of life and death, pleasure and pain. In it Freud introduces…
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Candide
The philosophical problem of evil—that a supposedly good God could allow terrible human suffering—troubled the minds of eighteenth-century thinkers as it troubles us today. Voltaire’s…