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Gale Researcher Guide for: Early Socialism

By: Frederic J. Baumgartner

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Early Socialism

By: Frederic J. Baumgartner

Gale Researcher Guide for: Early Socialism is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

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Gale, Cengage Learning

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1535863978

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9781535863971

Longing For The End

A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization

By: Frederic J. Baumgartner

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Longing For The End

A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization

By: Frederic J. Baumgartner

Jonestown, Waco, and Heaven's Gate resonate in the contemporary mind in the same way that Masada or Mount Tabor resonated in the minds of others long past. The members of these movements believed that the end of the world was at hand and that they had to act through violence or suicide to ensure its occurrence. Frederic Baumgartner explores the long, often violent, history of millennialism as it has affected Western civilization. From ancient Zoroastrians to Concerned Christians of 1998, a belief in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the new age has motivated hundreds of sects and cults, some of which have burned out in an orgy of violence to become a permanent part of Western history.

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286

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312238347

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9780312238346

Declaring War in Early Modern Europe

By: F. Baumgartner

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Declaring War in Early Modern Europe

By: F. Baumgartner

A noteworthy development in recent history has been the disappearance of formal declarations of war. Using primary sources, this book examines the history of declaring war in the early modern era up to the writing of the US Constitution to identify the influence of early modern history on the framing of the Constitution.

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Springer

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0230118895

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9780230118898

From Spear to Flintlock

A History of War in Europe and the Middle East to the French Revolution

By: Frederic J. Baumgartner

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A History of War in Europe and the Middle East to the French Revolution

By: Frederic J. Baumgartner

This is a fast-paced survey of the history of war in the Eurasian world from classical Greece to the French Revolution. Defining the period as the era of pre-industrial warfare, Frederic Baumgartner describes the broad differences, as well as the similarities, in the armies through those 2,000 years. He suggests that the Greek hoplite, the Roman legionary, the nomadic horse archer, the medieval knight, the Swiss pikeman, the early musketeer, and other military types have more in common with each other than with the soldier of the twentieth century. Although he concentrates on the wars and military systems of western Europe, Baumgartner devotes considerable attention to those societies that had a significant impact on European warfare. The Byzantine Empire, the Arabs, the Central Asian nomads, and the Ottoman Turks are examined as are the countries of eastern Europe. Naval history is well integrated into the work with special attention given to galley warfare in the Mediterranean between Christendom and Islam. Fortification and siegecraft are also discussed extensively. Baumgartner has produced a significant original synthesis of scholarship on military history. It is not a series of biographies of great commanders or studies of the tactics of great battles, although a number of battles are examined in some detail to illustrate the tactics, fighting style, or weapons system typical of a particular era. Baumgartner is more concerned with illuminating the close relationship between social and economic change and military change throughout history. This work will be useful as a textbook for a college-level course in military history or as supplemental reading for classes in Western civilization.

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Praeger

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0275939553

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9780275939557

Behind Locked Doors

A History of the Papal Elections

By: Frederic J. Baumgartner

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Behind Locked Doors

A History of the Papal Elections

By: Frederic J. Baumgartner

Since the early seventeenth century, whenever a pope has died, the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church have convened in Rome behind locked doors to elect a successor--and all eyes focus on The Eternal City. The Papal Conclave is an event like no other. Highly secretive and conducted behind the doors of the Sistine Chapel, it happens only a few times every century. Cardinals meet en masse in their scarlet robes. Throngs of the faithful stand watch in St. Peter’s Square. Finally, white smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel signaling the election of a new pontiff. In Behind Locked Doors, Frederic J. Baumgartner evokes the high drama of this event while simultaneously providing a comprehensive and rigorous history of the papal elections. Behind Locked Doors is a fascinating look at the death of popes and the centuries-old transfer of Vatican power from one man to the next.

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1403969620

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Early Socialism

Gale Researcher Guide for: Early Socialism

Longing For The End

Longing For The End

Declaring War in Early Modern Europe

Declaring War in Early Modern Europe

From Spear to Flintlock

From Spear to Flintlock

Behind Locked Doors

Behind Locked Doors

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