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Christian Meier
Christian Meier (born 1929)

historian of classical antiquity, opinion journalist, historian

  • Heidelberg University

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Caesar
Die Ohnmacht des allmächtigen Dictators Caesar
Der Historiker und der Zeitgenosse
Alte Geschichte in neuer Zeit
Von Athen bis Auschwitz
The political art of Greek tragedy
The Greek discovery of politics
Athen
Die Nation die keine sein will
Das Gebot zu vergessen und die Unabweisbarkeit des Erinnerns
Jacob-Burckhardt-Gespräche auf Castelen, Bd. 16
Politik und Anmut
Res publica amissa
Kannten die Griechen die Demokratie?
A culture of freedom
Die Welt der Geschichte und die Provinz des Historikers
Introduction à l'anthropologie politique de l'antiquité classique
40 Jahre nach Auschwitz
Deutsche Einheit als Herausforderung
Die politische Kunst der griechischen Tragödie
Die parlamentarische Demokratie
Entstehung des Begriffs Demokratie
Trauma deutscher Aussenpolitik
Das Verschwinden der Gegenwart
Zur Vorgeschichte des dritten (Moskauer) Konzils
Begegnung der Zeiten
Der 24. Parteikongress der KPdSU und die deutsche Frage
Die Probleme einer Europäischen Sicherheitskonferenz aus der Sicht der Staaten des Warschauer Vertrages und des "Zehnerausschusses"
Wandel ohne Geschichtsbewusstsein
Die DDR und die europäische Sicherheitskonferenz
Die Entstehung des Politischen bei den Griechen
Christian Meier zur Diskussion
Sprache in Not?: Zur Lage des heutigen Deutsch (German Edition)
Wissenschaft und Philosophie, Bd. 23: Begegnung der Zeiten
Die Juden in der europäischen Geschichte
Historische Methode
Politik und Anmut
Die Okzidentale Stadt nach Max Weber
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003)

politician, historian of Modern Age, historian, journalist, essayist, military officer, intelligence officer, opinion journalist

  • University of Oxford, Charterhouse School

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The Last Days of Hitler
Hidden life
Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645
The Goebbels diaries
Europe's physician
Yamaṿ ha-aḥaronim shel Hiṭler
Lisle Letters
Jacob Burckhardt
The rise of Christian Europe
The European witch-craze of the 16th and 17th centuries
Catholics, Anglicans, and Puritans
Letters from Oxford
Religion, the Reformation and social change
Princes and artists
From Counter-Reformation to Glorious Revolution
The Invention of Scotland
Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans
Renaissance essays
The Romantic movement and study of the history
The European Witch-Craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
History and imagination
From Counter-Reformation to Glorious Revolution
The European Witch-Craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The secret world
Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645
Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans
Milton and Clarendon
The age of expansion
History & imagination
Hitler's War Directives 1939-1945
Religion, the Reformation and Social Change and Other Essays
Crimes, Follies & Misfortunes
Renaissance Essays
The crisis of the seventeenth century
The rise of Christian Europe
History & imagination
Queen Elizabeth's first historian: William Camden and the beginnings of English "civil history"
Invention of Scotland
Christ Church, Oxford
Hitler's table talk, 1941-44
Historical essays
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire
Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645. --
The crisis of the seventeenth century; religion, the Reformation, and social change
History and imagination
The gentry, 1540-1640
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
George Buchanan and the ancient Scottish constitution
The European witch-craze of the 16th and 17th centuries and other essays
George Buchanan and the ancient Scottish constitution
De la Réforme aux Lumières
Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645
The gentry, 1540-1640
Collected Essays 5
Hermit Of Peking
Hitler's world policy
The Hermit of Peking
Renaissance essays
Invention of Scotland - Myth and History
Religion, the Reformation and social change. --
Catholics, Anglicans, and Puritans
Archbishop Laud
Clarendon & the practice of history
History and the Enlightenment
Archbishop Laud
Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645
The gentry, 1540-1640
History, professional and lay
History and Imagination
The age of expansion: Europe and the world 1559-1660
Essays in British history, presented to Sir Keith Feiling. --
The Goebbels diaries
World Through Blunted Sight
The Elizabethan aristocracy
Archbishop Laud
Religion, the Reformation and social change, and other essays
War der Nationalsozialismus ohne Beispiel?
The Crisis of the 17th Century
Essays in British history
History, professional and lay
The Philby affair: espionage, treason, and secret services
The Gentry,1540-1640 (Economic Historical Review Supplement)
Theodore De Mayerne
Oliver Cromwell and his parliaments
History and the Enlightenment
Golden Age Of Europe
One hundred letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper
Religion, the Reformation and social change and other essays
The Scottish enlightenment
The European witch-craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and other essays
Religion, the Reformation and social change
The plunder of the arts in the seventeenth century
Letters from Oxford
The European witch-craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
The European witch-craze of the 16th and 17th centuries
The age of expansion
Crisis of the 17th Century
Hitler's place in history
Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
The gentry, 1540-1640
Men and Essays
German intelligence service and the war
Rise of Christian Europe
Archbishop Laud 1573-1645
Essays in British history
Princes and artists
Men and events
The past and the present
The general crisis of the 17th century
The Romantic movement and the study of history
Jewish and other nationalism
The European witch-craze of the 16th and 17th centuries
LETTERS FROM OXFORD
The golden age of Europe
Larousse encyclopedia of modern history, from 1500 to the present day
Religion, the Reformation, and social change, and other essays
Men and events
Historical essays
The rise of Christian Europe
Las Conversaciones Privadas De Hitler
Essays in British history, presented to Sir Keith Feiling
Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645. --
Historia de las civilizaciones. 8
Jewish and other nationalism
History and the Enlightenment
The European witch-craze of the 16th and 17ty centuries
The crisis of the seventeenth century
1914
Religion, the Reformation, and social change, and other essays
Antonia Grunenberg
Antonia Grunenberg (born 1944)

political scientist

  • University of Tübingen, Goethe University Frankfurt

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Hannah Arendt und Martin Heidegger
Bürger und Revolutionär
Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger
Hannah Arendt.
Totalitäre Herrschaft und republikanische Demokratie
Antifaschismus, ein deutscher Mythos
Perspektiven politischen Denkens
Die Lust an der Schuld
Einschnitte
Aufbruch der inneren Mauer
Der Schlaf der Freiheit
Raum der Freiheit
Einspr uche: Politik und Sozialstaat im 20. Jahrhundert. Festschrift f ur Gerhard Kraiker
Die Massenstreikdebatte
Christine Schlegel
Welche Geschichte wählen wir?
Edmond Privat
Edmond Privat (1889-1962)

peace activist, journalist, poet, Esperantist, historian, playwright, esperantologist

  • University of Geneva

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The life of Zamenhof
Vivo de Zamenhof
Esperanto in fifty lessons
Esperanto at a glance, the international language
L'insurrection polonaise de dix-huit-cent trente et ses echos a l'Occident
Bon voisinage
Vie de Gandhi
Historio de la lingvo esperanto ..
The clash of loyalties
Trois expériences fédéralistes
The English
Les Américains, des colons aux penseurs
Esprimo de sentoj en Esperanto
L' Europe et l'oddyssée de la Pologne au 19è siècle
Le choc des patriotismes
Esperanto at a glance
L'Europe et l'oddyssée de la Pologne au 19è siècle
L'Europe et l'odyssée de la Pologne au XIXe siècle
Shi jie yu shi
Życie dra Ludwika Zamenhofa
Karlo
Barry Gustafson
Barry Gustafson (born 1938)

historian, academic, political scientist

  • University of Glasgow, University of Auckland

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Kiwi Keith
From the cradle to the grave
His Way
Michael Joseph Savage
Labour's path to political independence
The first 50 years
Social change and party organization
Social Change and Party Reorganization (Sage professional papers in contemporary political sociology ; ser. no. 06-013)
"If you ever need a friend, you have one"
Geraint H. Jenkins
Geraint H. Jenkins (born 1946)

historian

  • Aberystwyth University, Swansea University

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'Doc Tom' Thomas Richards (Dawn Dweud)
Thomas Jones yr almanaciwr, 1648-1713
Cewri'r bêl-droed yng Nghymru
Digymar Iolo Morganwg, Y
Literature, religion and society in Wales, 1660-1730
A Concise History of Wales (Cambridge Concise Histories) (Cambridge Concise Histories)
The foundations of modern Wales
Protestant dissenters in Wales
The University of Wales
Cof Cenedl IV
Cof Cenedi (Cof Cenedi)
Gwnewch Bopeth Yn Gymraeg'
Bard of Liberty
A Rattleskull Genius The Many Faces Of Iolo Morganwg
A Rattleskull Genius
Cof Cenedl XII
The Welsh Language and Social Domains (CYMRU - A Social History of the Welsh La)
Cof Cenedl Xi (Cof Cenedl)
Y Gymraeg Yn Ei Disgleirdeb - Yr Iaith Gymraeg Cyn Y Chwyldro Diwydiannol
Cof Cenedl XI
Cof Cenedl
Hanes Cymru yn y cyfnod modern cynnar, 1530-1760
The Swans go up!
The Foundations of Modern Wales Wales 1642-1780 (History of Wales)
Cof Cenedl III
The Welsh Language Before the Industrial Revolution
Cadw Ty Mewn Cymyl Tystion
Discovering Welsh History
The Foundations of Modern Wales 1642-1780 (History of Wales, Vol 4)
Cymru A'r Cymry 2000
A Concise History of Wales (Cambridge Concise Histories)
Cof Cenedl VIII
The Welsh language before the Industrial Revolution
Prifysgol Cymru
Cadw tŷ mewn cwmwl tystion
Birthmarks
Darganfod Hanes Cymru
Stand Out 4
Language and community in the nineteenth century
Univ of Wales Ill History
Politics and society in Wales, 1840-1922
The History of Wales
Degrees of influence
Stand Out 3
Let's do our best for the ancient tongue
Hiwmor Tri Chardi Llengar
Cof Cenedl
Stori Sydyn
Yr Elyrch
Piano Technique and Interpretation Before 1830
Upper Rhondda
Cof Cenedl XXI - Ysgrifau ar Hanes Cymru
Concise History of Wales
Iaith carreg fy aelwyd
Proud to be a Swan
It Helps
Proud to Be a Swan - the History of Swansea City AFC 1912-2012
'Gwnewch bopeth yn Gymraeg'
Stand Out 2
Jenkins Ya
R Father A3 Showcard
Secret Life of Billie's Uncle Myron
Cof cenedl 23
Literature, Religion and Society in Wales 1660-1730. Studies in Welsh History Series
The Welsh language and its social domains, 1801-1911
Papers
Cof Cenedl XXII
R Father A3 Poster
Political Economy of Terrorism
Stand Out Basic
Dewch I Chwarae Karate
Baja Oklahoma
Churches Gift to the World
Bard of Liberty
Cof Cenedl XXIV - Ysgrifau Ar Hanes Cymru
Cof Cenedl
Jesus from Scratch
Mass in B Minor : (bwv 232)
Out of the Asylum
It Governance
Wildlife in Danger
Cyfres Darlith Goffa J. E. Caerwyn a Gwen Williams 2009
J. P. Stern
J. P. Stern (1920-1991)

Germanist, literary scholar, linguist, philosopher, translator, historian, man of letters

  • University of Cambridge

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Hitler
The World of Franz Kafka
The World of Franz Kafka
Friedrich Nietzsche
A study of Nietzsche
Idylls & realities
Nietzsche
On realism
Thomas Mann
International gas trade in Europe
The heart of Europe
The dear purchase
Re-interpretations
The mind of Nietzsche
Thomas Mann
London German Studies (Publications)
London German Studies III (Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies, Vol 38)
Benito Prez Galds Fortunata And Jacinta
Re-interpretations
Ernst Jünger
Lichtenberg
A study of Nietzsche
A Study of Nietzsche
History and allegory in Thomas Mann's 'Doktor Faustus'
Lichtenberg
Ernst Jünger
Lichtenberg: a doctrine of scattered occasions
Nietzsche
Ernst Jünger, a writer of our times
Über Literatur und Ideologie
Re-interpretations: seven studies in nineteenth-century German literature
Thomas Mann
Nietzsche on Tragedy
Re-interpretations
Thomas Mann
Nichʻe
Re-interpretations
Ernst Junger
Edward Waldo Emerson
Edward Waldo Emerson (1844-1930)

physician, physicist

  • Harvard Medical School, Harvard University

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Emerson in Concord
Life and letters of Charles Russell Lowell
The early years of the Saturday Club, 1855-1870
Henry Thoreau as remembered by a young friend
Henry Thoreau, as remembered by a young friend, Edward Waldo Emerson
Charles Eliot Norton
Life and letters of Charles Russell Lowell, captain Sixth United States Cavalry, colonel Second Massachusetts Cavalry, brigadier-general United States Volunteers
The Early Years of the Saturday Club 1855 to 1870
The winning game
Henry Thoreau
A Correspondence Between John Sterling And Ralph Waldo Emerson
A History of the gift of painless surgery
The Early Years Of The Saturday Club
Emerson in Concords
Address on Oliver Wendell Holmes, April 27, 1909
Letters to Edwin B. Hill
The man as doctor
Emerson in Concord
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, addresses and poems of Edward Waldo Emerson
Emerson in Concord