This deceptively simple thesis dramatically challenges and revamps both scholarly and popular notions of Jewish life and learning in 19th-century Eastern Europe. While scholars of European women’s ...

Brandes considers the Polish striving for freedom as one of the important elements of the Polish national character but also an important element of 19th-century history: Everywhere in Europe where ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa were ... freed slaves became a powerful motive for setting up European Christian missions. Human compassion in Europe for the ...

in the 19th century, examples of queer lives from the stage profession are difficult to find. I’m a theatre historian at the University of Warwick, and for queer history month in February ...

The mid-19th century was a turbulent period in Welsh history. Popular risings and riots broke out across the country. Questions were raised in Westminster as to why the Welsh people were prone to ...

This survey course will examine the production and evolution of the fine arts during the nineteenth century. Through a chronological and thematic approach, this course will focus on European art ...