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In this text, Hungarian historians explore such subjects as the development of the original settlement of Budapest into a town; the effects of transferring the university and state administration to Buda and Pest; and the evolution of the capital into the country's cultural centre. ... Read more

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The second volume of the survey covers northern, central and eastern Europe - Denmark, Sweden, Brandenburg-Prussia, the Austro-Bohemian lands, Hungary, Poland-Lithuania and Russia. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Making of America monographs collection. ... Read more

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In Spanish / En Español. From back cover: "Veinte generaciones de indiscutibles perturbados se interponen en los seiscentos años que nos separan desde nuestra coetánea Carlota hasta el fiel amante de Inés de Castro", señala Franciso Herrera Luque en esta obra donde se aniliza psiquiátricamente la ascendencia patológica de algunos principes y reyes de nuesto siglo, remontándose esta búsqueda a los comienzo del siglo VIII. El objectivo: demostrar en forma experimental un axioma de la teoría genética cuando afirma la continuidad ininterrumpida del plasma germinal.La obra está concebida y desarrollado dentro de un marco estricatamente científico; pero, por la índole del tema y por la intención del autor de presentarlo con llaneza y con numerosas notas explicativas, es una obra accesible al público no especializado en Psiquiatría.En este acucioso estudio aparecen, en trágica y alucinante sucesión más de cuatrocientos personajes: desde don Pelayo, inmerso en las brumas legendarias dela alto medioevo hasta hombres de nuestro siglo como Alfonso XIII, Carlota de Méjico y el emperador Francisco José. Veremos a doña Juana la Loca en su trágico deambular por los pueblos de Castilla, llevando consigo el cadáver de su marido Felipe el Hermoso y a su antepasado Pedro el Cruel de Portuagal desenterrando el cadáver de Inés de Castro, para sentarla en el trono y hacerla reinar después de morir. En este estudio se señala el morbo que afectó a la Casa de Austria española, a los Borbones y a los Habsburgos. Aparecerán los Trastamara y los Valois. San Luis rey de Francia y su biznieta Margarita de Borgoña. Todos en trágica concatenación hasta justificar el título del libro: La Huella Perenne. ... Read more

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Since the early Middle Ages, the Royal and princely families of Europe have conferred a wide range of Orders of Knighthood and Chivalry both to reward loyal service to the Crown or Royal Family and to strengthen the bonds of loyalty which existed between sovereign and subject. Although many ancient Orders have fallen into disuse over time, many European states continue to award Orders for distinguished service.

Badges of the highest quality are worn to show membership of an Order. The manufacture, and the materials used in creating these badges are exquisite and these decorative objects are studied and collected widely. In this volume, expert medal collector Peter Duckers describes the range of European Orders conferred before 1945, some of which stretch back hundreds of years. A brief introduction to a fascinating subject, this is an ideal reference book for anyone interested in collecting these rare and valuable objects. ... Read more

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Are you online and ready for global smart card and database genealogy for virtual travelers? Here’s how to search family history for nations bordering the Baltic Sea, the Balkans countries, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.

The nations listed in this guide (all faiths) include Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Armenia, Assyria, Greece, Lebanon, Syria, and many other lands in the Middle East, the Balkans—Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Eastern Europe—Hungary, and more.

Collecting details about people is moving toward smart card technology and its offspring. The new wave in genealogy is authentication technology. Authentication begins with new-wave technology used to gather population registers.

Compare the new technology to the old method of door-to-door census taking, tombstone tracings, and city directory publishing. No, genealogists are not using smart cards this year, but smart card technology is being used to compile population registers in Europe.

The future holds a new wave of technology used for authentication for banking transactions being applied to other areas. Currently this technology is used for collecting details for population registrars such as census taking.

The application for research is of interest to family historians, librarians, and governments. It’s already in use by private industry for electronic authentication.

Family history is now about intelligent connections, whether it’s a population registrar, census detail, or electronic identity for banking. Smart card genealogy began in 1998 in Finland with governments seeking to put census and population registers in an electronic form that would be available to researchers, and these applications are going global.

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Both a work of scholarship, and a treasury of information, for anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution. The author chooses as his starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in 1494, which sowed the dragon's teeth of all the successive European wars; the French invasion was to accelerate the trend towards new armaments and new methods of warfare. The author describes the development of the handgun and the pike, the use and style of staff-weapons, mace and axe and war-hammer, dagger and dirk and bayonet. He shows how armour attained its full Renaissance splendour and then suffered its sorry and inevitable decline, culminating in the Industrial Revolution, with its far-reaching effects on military armaments. Above all, he follows the long history of the sword, queen of weapons, to the late eighteenth century, when it finally ceased to form a part of a gentleman's every-day wear. Lavishly illustrated.EWART OAKESHOTT was one of the world's leading authorities on the arms and armour of medieval Europe. His other works on the subject include Records of the Medieval Sword and The Sword in the Age of Chivalry. ... Read more

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Overwhelmingly detailed
Overwhelmingly detailed for the average reader looking for some introductory information about European weaponry. Great wealth of references for the advanced researcher.I only hope that the drawings were much more detailed and the photographs in color. I wish someone (maybe the publisher) decides to make an updated edition with color photography and a much modern, reader-friendly, layout

an absolute must-have for the budding hoplologist
I got this book thinking it would be a good reference for arms and armor of the High Middle Ages and Renaissance time periods, and it most certainly delivered on that expectation.But it is so much more!The writing is fabulous, I ended up reading this book chapter by chapter (jumping around a bit).Ewart Oakeshott's passion for history and medieval armaments is very apparent in his writing, and he has created a truly beautiful book here.Bear in mind though, this book is directed at a very specific time period with a specific perspective (focusing on the development of arms and armor of the noblesse and professional military men), which means it's not for everyone... ... Read more

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Longmans+AP student= A+ on AP Exam
Longmans Guide to AP European History is an excellent way to study for this advanced placement exam.I am currently a high school sophmore and I used it to study for my placement test.It is incredibly informative, reliable, and an all-around good and thourough guide to European History.It made studying incredibly easy and it was very complete and not hard to understand or study with.Its a great idea to order it from here because it is an incredible aid for the Test. ... Read more

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The history of the Rothschild family began in the Frankfurt ghetto; it was there that Meyer Amschel was born, in 1743 or 1744, there that he brought up his family, and there in the Judengasse (though by then the ghetto had been dissolved) that he died in 1812. In the succeeding centuries the family has established itself and its banking and financial enterprises widely throughout the world. To mark the 250-year connection the Jewish Museum Frankfurt mounted the exhibition "The Rothschilds: A European Family" as part of the city's 1200th anniversary celebrations. This catalogue of the exhibition, a companion as much as a catalogue of objects, follows the principal themes of the family's history, recorded in a wide-ranging display of objects, documents and photographs. ... Read more

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Despite its widely acknowledged importance in and beyond the thought of the Romantic period, the distinctive concept of the symbol articulated by such writers as Goethe and F. W. J. Schelling in Germany and S. T. Coleridge in England has defied adequate historical explanation. In contrast to previous scholarship, Nicholas Halmi's study provides such an explanation by relating the content of Romantic symbolist theory - often criticized as irrationalist - to the cultural needs of its time. Because its genealogical method eschews a single disciplinary perspective, this study is able to examine the Romantic concept of the symbol in a broader intellectual context than previous scholarship, a context ranging chronologically from classical antiquity to the present and encompassing literary criticism and theory, aesthetics, semiotics, theology, metaphysics, natural philosophy, astronomy, poetry, and the origins of landscape painting. The concept is thus revealed to be a specifically modern response to modern discontents, neither reverting to pre-modern modes of thought nor secularizing Christian theology, but countering Enlightenment dualisms with means bequeathed by the Enlightenment itself. This book seeks, in short, to do for the Romantic symbol what Percy Bysshe Shelley called on poets to do for the world: to lift from it its veil of familiarity. ... Read more

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Good things come in small packages!
This thin volume actually contains several photos of European royalty that I've never seen before!Quite the little jewel! ... Read more

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A collection of travel writing by continental writers about Cork, Ireland from medieval times to the present. ... Read more