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Congress of Berlin and After

By: William Norton Medlicott

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First Published in 1963. The diplomatic history of the Near Eastern settlement which followed the peace of San Stefano has escaped the detailed treatment given in recent years to earlier stages of the Eastern crisis of 1875-1881; some phases of the settlement have been examined in the recent monographs but the full story of the negotiations is still, to a large extent, unknown.

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Routledge

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1136243240

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9781136243240

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV

Volume 4

By: William Milligan Sloane

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The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV

Volume 4

By: William Milligan Sloane

Reproduction of the original: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV by William Milligan Sloane

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3752425954

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9783752425956

A German Reader in Prose and Verse

By: William D. Whitney

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A German Reader in Prose and Verse

By: William D. Whitney

Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.

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3846047449

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The Austrian Mind

An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938

By: William M. Johnston

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The Austrian Mind

An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938

By: William M. Johnston

Part One of this book shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. Part Two examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. Part Three explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism. Interacting with positivistic science, this reverence for the ephemeral inspired such pioneers ad Mach, Wittgenstein, Buber, and Freud. Part Four describes the vision of an ordered cosmos which flourished among Germans in Bohemia. Their philosophers cultivated a Leibnizian faith whose eventual collapse haunted Kafka and Mahler. Part Five explains how in Hungary wishful thinking reinforced a political activism rare elsewhere in Habsburg domains. Engage intellectuals like Lukacs and Mannheim systematized the sociology of knowledge, while two other Hungarians, Herzel and Nordau, initiated political Zionism. Part Six investigates certain attributes that have permeated Austrian thought, such as hostility to technology and delight in polar opposites.

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Univ of California Press

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0520341155

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9780520341159

Death and a Maiden

Infanticide and the Tragical History of Grethe Schmidt

By: William David Myers

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Death and a Maiden

Infanticide and the Tragical History of Grethe Schmidt

By: William David Myers

On the feast of St. Michael, September 1659, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl left her family's rural home to work as a maid in the nearby city of Braunschweig. Just two years later, Grethe Schmidt found herself imprisoned and accused of murdering her bastard child, even though the fact of her pregnancy was inconclusive and no infant's body was found to justify the severe measures used against her. The tale spiraled outward to set a defense lawyer and legal theorist against powerful city magistrates and then upward to a legal contest between that city and its overlord, the Duchy of Brunswick, with the city's independence and ancient liberties hanging in the balance. Death and a Maiden tells a fascinating story that begins in the bedchamber of a house in Brunswick and ends at the court of Duke Augustus in the city of Wolfenbettel, with political intrigue along the way. After thousands of pages of testimony and rancorous legal exchange, it is still not clear that any murder happened. Myers infuses the story of Grethe's arrest, torture, trial, and sentence for "suspected infanticide" with a detailed account of the workings of the criminal system in continental Europe, including the nature of interrogations, the process of torture, and the creation of a "criminal" identity over time. He presents an in-depth examination of a criminal system in which torture was both legal and an important part of criminal investigations. This story serves as a captivating slice of European history as well as a highly informative look at the condition of poor women and the legal system in mid-seventeeth century Germany. General readers and scholars alike will be riveted by Grethe's ordeal.

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Cornell University Press

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1609090144

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Congress of Berlin and After

Congress of Berlin and After

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV

A German Reader in Prose and Verse

A German Reader in Prose and Verse

The Austrian Mind

The Austrian Mind

Death and a Maiden

Death and a Maiden

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