Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast

In 1764 a peasant woman was once killed and partly eaten whereas tending sheep. ultimately, over 100 sufferers fell prey to a mysterious creature whose lethal potency mesmerized Europe. Monsters of the Gévaudan revisits this spellbinding story and provides the definitive cause of its mythic prestige in French folklore.

The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe (e-Duke books scholarly collection.)

For sixty years, various teams in Europe have positioned forth interpretations of worldwide warfare II and their respective international locations’ roles in it in line with their very own political and mental wishes. The clash during the last has performed out in varied arenas, together with movie, memoirs, lawsuits, and textbooks.

EUROPA DEL SUR Y AMÉRICA LATINA (Historia) (Spanish Edition)

En estas páginas un conjunto de historiadores de los angeles Europa del sur —España, Portugal e Italia— y de América latina —Brasil, Argentina y México— abordan l. a. evolución de sus respectivas historiografías a través de cuatro ámbitos: los angeles historia de los conceptos, los angeles historia social, los angeles historia política y l. a. historia económica.

The Holocaust, Religion, and the Politics of Collective Memory: Beyond Sociology

This system of extermination Nazis referred to as the ultimate answer took the lives of roughly six million Jews, amounting to approximately 60 percentage of ecu Jewry and a 3rd of the world's Jewish inhabitants. learning the Holocaust from a sociological point of view, Ronald J. Berger explains why the ultimate answer occurred to a selected humans for specific purposes; why the Jews have been, for the Nazis, the crucial enemy.