The Nineteenth Century: Europe 1789-1914 (Short Oxford History of Europe)

By T. C. W. Blanning

Within the 19th century Europe replaced extra quickly and extra significantly than in the course of any past interval. those six specifically commissioned chapters by means of eminent historians supply the coed and basic reader a special method of knowing some of the most advanced classes of recent historical past, addressing all of the significant matters in Europe's political, social, monetary, cultural, overseas, and Imperial history.

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Frommer's Ireland 2015 (Color Complete Guide)

Written by means of a veteran journalist, Frommer’s eire 2015 exhibits tourists easy methods to event the rustic the best way the locals do. This vintage Frommer’s sequence comprises special costs; candid experiences of the easiest eating places, sights and motels in each funds (from hostels to guest-accepting castles); and dozens of exact maps. We additionally contain recommendation the vacationer board wouldn’t approve of: which websites to pass, tips on how to steer clear of the crowds, and the way to stretch your shuttle funds extra, even if you’re on a lavish honeymoon or backpacking it. Erin cross Bragh!

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Sixty Years of WHO in Europe (A EURO Publication)

This ebook tells the tale of the WHO nearby workplace for Europe from its beginnings to its nation in 2010. a fashion of preserving alive and handing at the historical past of this workplace and its important paintings, it covers 5 WHO local administrators for Europe and hundreds of thousands of committed employees, let alone the loads of programes and guidelines they helped to create and perform. An prior booklet lined the 1st forty years intimately; this ebook focuses extra at the final two decades. it's a tale of the way the neighborhood place of work has spent the previous 60 years operating to aid increase the health and wellbeing of the folks within the significant region that it serves.

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The Reformation, 1520-1559 (The New Cambridge Modern History, Volume 2) (2nd Edition)

By G. R. Elton

This can be the second one, amended and enlarged variation of a well-recognized average paintings, first released in 1958. Like its predecessor, it describes the open conflicts of the Reformation from Luther's first problem to the uneasy peace of the 1560s. Reforming routine in the entire imperative international locations are mentioned opposed to the history of constitutional improvement and the political struggles of the ruling dynasties. Europe's kin with the skin international are given due prominence. the second one version accommodates the result of a few thirty years of additional examine and fills the various gaps, in particular within the historical past of vital Europe, which beset the 1st version. All chapters that stay from 1958 were revised, a few very considerably, whereas different contributions are thoroughly new. the one different quantity of the recent Cambridge historical past deliberate to seem in a moment version is quantity I: The Renaissance scheduled for 1991.

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