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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
George Woodcock
George Woodcock (1912-1995)

literary critic, poet, historian, biographer, anarchist, peace activist

  • Sir William Borlase's Grammar School

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The anarchist prince
Mohandas Gandhi
William Godwin
Peter Kropotkin
Thomas Merton, monk and poet
Walking through the valley
Dawn and the darkest hour
The paradox of Oscar Wilde
Beyond the blue mountains
Gabriel Dumont
Aphra Behn
Dawn and the darkest hour
Letter to the past
Faces from history
Oscar Wilde
Herbert Read
The Canadians
Wyndham Lewis in Canada
Gabriel Dumont (The Canadians)
Amor De Cosmos
Ivan Eyre
Malcolm Lowry
100 great Canadians
Ghandi
Malcolm Lowry: the man and his work
The Canadians
Thomas Merton, monk and poet
Anarchism
The crystal spirit
The Doukhobors
A Social History of Canada
Colony and confederation
Introducing Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
Power to us all
The Marvellous Century
Traditionen der Freiheit
Who killed the British Empire?
The writer and politics
Peoples of the Coast
Two plays
Poets and critics
Introducing Sinclair Ross's As for me and my house
The monk and his message
The Egoist
The century thatmade us
Odysseus ever returning
Civil disobedience
Canada and the Canadians
Northern spring
The Anarchist Reader
The mountain road
Railways and society
Canadian poets, 1960-1973
Into Tibet
The walls of India
British Columbia
South Sea journey
Caves in the desert
The British in the Far East
Anarchism and Anarchists
British poetry today
Faces of India
George Woodcock's introduction to Canadian fiction
Mordecai Richler
Incas and other men
To the city of the dead
Kerala
Notes on visitations
Letter from the Khyber Pass, and other travel writing
Patrick Lane and His Works
Matt Cohen
Anarchy or chaos
Henry Walter Bates
Confederation betrayed
Moral predicament
Peoples of the coast
The benefactor
A George Woodcock reader
Taking it to the letter
Imagine the South
George Woodcock's introduction to Canadian poetry
The world of Canadian writing
Picture History of British Columbia
Orwell's message
A hundred years of revolution, 1848 and after
20th-century Fiction (Great Writers Library)
Hugh MacLennan's Barometer rising
The spirit wrestlers
Henry Walter Bates, naturalist of the Amazons
The centre cannot hold
Selected poems
The rejection of politics
Gabriel Dumont and the northwest rebellion
Neo-anarchism in the 1970s
The incomparable Aphra
Strange bedfellows
The meeting of time and space
Ravens and prophets
The Dry wells of India
Variations on the human theme
The sixties; writers and writing of the decade
British Columbia
No nation is a good nation
Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana & other poems
The Great Canadian Anecdote Contest
Introducing Hugh MacLennan's Barometer rising
The kestrel, and other poems of past and present
A choice of critics
Introducing Margaret Laurence's The stone angel
Powers of observation
The Hudson's Bay Company
El príncipe anarquista
New life to the land
The Orwell Tapes
Matt Cohen and his works
Patrick Lane and his works
Faces Form History
Memoirs of a Revolutionist (Collected Works of Peter Kropotkin)
Introducing Mordecai Richler's
Anima
Hugh MacLennan
Charles Heavysege and His Works
Into Tibet: the early British explorers
Skinned Activists Condemn the Horrors of the Fur Trade
Six poems
The island of demons
Introducing Hugh Maclennan's Barometer Rising
Collected poems
Selected poems of George Woodcock
The basis of communal living
A letter from George Woodcock
The Greeks in India
Malcolm Lowry
Above and below the 49th parallel
New Life to the Land
Asia, gods and cities
Thomas Merton
Alain-Fournier and the lost land
The University of British Columbia
Homes or hovels
Introducing Mordecai Richler's The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Introducing Margaret Laurence's the Stone Angel
20th Century Fiction (St.James Reference Guide to English Literature)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, a Biography
The Cherry Tree on Cherry Street
The sometime sahibs
The incomparable Aphra
New life to the land
The Canadian novel in the twentieth century
Dry Wells of India
New life to the land
Anima: Or, Swann grown old
Railways and society
A choice of critics
The sixties ; writers and writing of the decade. A symposium to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Canadian literature
The Canadian Metis
Northern spring
The sixties
Selected poems of George Woodcock
Gabriel Dumont (Canadians)
Twentieth Century Fiction (Great Writers Library)
Northern spring
Introducing Hugh MacLennan's Barometer rising
Now
Snowscapes
Henry Walter Bates, naturalist of the Amazons
Incas and other men
Malcolm Lowry: the man and his work
A Place to stand on
British Columbia
20th century fiction
The Canadian novel in the twentieth century
The world of Canadian writing
Selected poems of George Woodcock
Is Big Brother Still Watching
The white island
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
Ernest Scott
Ernest Scott (1867-1939)

historian, journalist, biographer

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Lapérouse
Terre Napoléon: A History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
Working in wood
Men and thought in modern history
A short history of Australia
Australia during the war
Terre Napoleón
Terre Napoléon
Working in Wood
History and historical problems
The life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N
Australian discovery. --
A short history of Australia
A short history of Australia
Australian discovery ..
The Canadian and United States transported prisoners of 1839
Australia Volume 7 Part 1 Australia
Terre Napoleón
Gabriele Hoffmann
Gabriele Hoffmann (born 1942)

journalist, historian of Modern Age, historian

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Heinrich Böll
Constantia von Cosel und August der Starke
Das Haus an der Elbchaussee
Frauen machen Geschichte
Max M. Warburg
Schätze unter Wasser
Versunkene Welten
Sozialdemokratie und Berufsbeamtentum
Die Schiffbrüchigen
Sommerhelden
Annas Atoll