The Oxford Illustrated History of ... of the book consists of chapters on the history of Christianity from 1800 to the present in Great Britain and Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa ...

Morus (Shocking Bodies), professor of history at Aberystwyth University, gathers a fabulous series of essays from more than a dozen science historians that show science interacting with and being ...

Written by eleven contributors of international standing, this book offers a readable and authoritative account of Europe’s turbulent history from the French Revolution ... This book provides a better ...

Gellately (Florida State), who has written extensively on European totalitarianism and particularly ... new horrors are still being uncovered. Note: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich ...

This first volume of a new series, The Oxford History of Modern Europe, deals with the external relations of the European Great Powers from the Revolution of 1848 to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and ...

In this case, The Oxford Illustrated History ... what science found out, the history that emerges is sometimes disjointed and out of order. Discussions of the modern view of the universe, which ...

against the phantom Jewish conspiracy in Europe"; and Richard Bessel's searing presentation of the war's "unnatural deaths... [the] grisly catalogue of brutality, callousness, inhumanity ...

It is impossible not to be impressed by Christ Church, the grandest of all of the Oxford colleges ... many of today’s universities. History, particularly modern history, was the dominant ...