Product Description: Exmoor is a moorland plateau in Devon and Somerset. The National Park includes not only Exmoor but also the Brendon Hills to the east and the Vale of Porlock to the north. Wildlife in the park includes wild ponies, red deer and buzzards soaring overhead.

Product Description: The Religion of the Poor is a major work of early modern history, an ambitious survey of Catholic missions into the European countryside from 1500-1800. Louis Chatellier analyzes the impulses to missionary activity at the end of the Middle Ages, and outlines in detail the development of missionary activity after the Council of Trent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Uses archival material to illuminate Nicholas's character, discussing his childhood, reign, political beliefs, and family

Product Description: The death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the accession of his more progressive younger brother as Regent of France might have brought some hopeful changes to Louisiana, France's tiny, struggling outpost on the Gulf of Mexico. However, the continuation of the debilitating regime of the merchant Antoine Crozat and the extreme impoverishment of the French Treasury Following the disastrous wars of Louis XIV meant that no radical changes were possible...read more

The President of the European Commission discusses the strategy behind the plan to unite, both economically and politically, the nations of Europe

Traces the intellectual history of modern Russia, looks at the changing attitudes of the Soviet government towards the intellectuals, and discusses the new policy of glasnot openness

Product Description: The publication of the following material on the history of Vpered represents the fulfilment of a duty both to the founders of the International Institute of Social History and to Nadezhda Nikolaevna Kolachevskaia and Valerian Valerianovich Kolachevskii, who handed over to the Institute so long ago as 1936 the papers of their late husband and father, Valerian a Nikolaevich Smirnov...read more