Allan T Mitchell

Sherlock Holmes and The Menacing Moors

A call from an old comrade has Holmes chasing a reported agent of Satan between the towering tors and bottomless bogs of Dartmoor only to find the limits of his own confidence and his Public's esteem. Only Watson stands his friend but even his patience is stretched. Sherlock's retreat to the bees of...

Unrepentant Patriot: The Life and Work of Carl Zuckmayer

"Carl Zuckmayer’s illustrious career as one of Central Europe’s most prolific and popular playwrights during the years of the Weimar Republic after 1918 was cut short by the Nazi seizure of power in Germany in 1933. His plays were banned during the following twelve years, and he was forced to flee i...

The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914

"The breadth of [this] comparative study of French and German railroad development - the largest and most important railway systems on the continent - is a signal achievement... A brief sketch of the book's trajectory does justice neither to the wealth of detail nor to the arresting insights that fu...

Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Metropolis

More Menacing than the Menacing Moors, the Great Metropolis harbours evil and deviltry far more sinister than Dartmoor could offer - it is not for nothing that Watson describes London as the great cesspool draining the Empire of its dregs. Its evil stems from the hearts of the most heartless of men,...

Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

This book will help you get past the initial learning curve quickly so that you can get started using SSIS to transform data, create a workflow, or maintain your SQL Server. Offering you hands-on guidance, you'll learn a new world of integration possibilities and be able to move away from scripting ...

Fleeing Nazi Germany: Five Historians Migrate to America

Thousands of European intellectuals fled from fascism to America in the days leading up to World War II. They had tremendous obstacles, but many of them found success and made meaningful contributions. Historian Allan Mitchell knew five notable scholars of history who escaped, and he recounts in viv...

Revolution in Bavaria, 1918-1919: The Eisner Regime and the Soviet Republic (Princeton Legacy Library)

The tangled affairs in Bavaria at the close of World War I constitute a unique and important part of the early Weimar Republic. This study of the 1918 revolution, based on archival sources such as cabinet protocols and bureaucratic records, traces in detail the overthrow of the Wittelsbach dynasty a...

Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child

Becoming Human argues that human identity was articulated and extended across a wide range of textual, visual, and artifactual assemblages from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. J. Allan Mitchell shows how the formation of the child expresses a manifold and mutable style of being. To be human ...

Everyman in Europe: Essays in Social History The Preindustrial Millennia

Everyman in Europe: Essays in Social History The Industrial Centuries

Everyman in Europe:Essays in Social History: Essays in Social History

Everyman in Europe: Essays in Social History

The Nazi Revolution

Professional SQL Server 2005

The Nazi Revolution: Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nation

The Nazi Revolution: Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nation