作者: Lionel Gossman

Recognized by historians and politicians as a model for European unity, Switzerland is nonetheless a difficult country to understand as a whole. Whereas individual Swiss cities have strong identities …

In the wake of Glasgow’s transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse, the ‘Second City of the Empire, ” a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an …

Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf in Syria marked an …

Originally published in 1968. The contribution of eighteenth-century Englishmen to the study of medieval life and literature is fairly well known, but it is commonly assumed that in France, the cente …

Originally published in 1963. Moliere’s plays rank among the great comic achievements in the history of the stage. Yet few attempts have been made to understand them as expressing the historical cont …

Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat fathe …

A disproportionate number of the great publishing houses of the English-speaking world – -Blackie, Blackwood, Collins, Constable, Macmillan, Millar, Murray, Nelson, Smith and Elder, Strahan — were f …