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Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century: Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century: An Introduction by Florence Feiereisen 9780199759392
$128.90Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century seeks to understand recent German history and contemporary German culture through its sounds and musics, noises and silences, using the means and modes of the emerging field of Sound Studies. German soundscapes... -
Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History by Steven J. Zipperstein 9781631492693
RRP: $42.88$34.83So shattering were the after-effects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was "nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself". In three days of violence, 49 Jews were... -
Deqiqa Estifanos: Behigg Amlak by Prof Getatchew Haile 9780970666321
RRP: $38.90$31.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970666321Author Prof Getatchew HaileFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Getatchew Haile PublishersPublisher Getatchew Haile PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust: Challenging Histories by Dan Stone
RRP: $74.08$65.09This book contains essays on Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust by distinguished scholar Professor Dan Stone.It examines issues such as race science and the racial state, Nazi race ideology, slave labour, concentration camps, British reaction to the rise... -
The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries by Christopher Hill
$52.75The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marked the end of "God's cause"-a struggle for liberty and republican freedom. While most accounts of this period concentrate on the court, Christopher Hill focuses on those who... -
The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England: From Bondage to Freedom Mark Bailey 9781783271283
RRP: $56.53$55.97An exciting, fresh look at one of the most important questions of medieval scholarship - the decline of serfdom and its implications. Scholars from various disciplines have long debated why western Europe in general, and England in particular, led the... -
Dandyism in the Age of Revolution: The Art of the Cut Elizabeth Amann 9780226187259
RRP: $76.05$73.38From the color of a politician's tie, to exorbitantly costly haircuts, to the size of an American flag pin adorning a lapel, it's no secret that style has political meaning. And there was no time in history when the politics of fashion was more fraught... -
A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern by Corinna Treitel
RRP: $92.63$82.62Germany's painful entry into the modern age elicited many conflicting emotions. Excitement and anxiety about the "disenchantment of the world" predominated, as Germans realized that the triumph of science and reason had made the nation materially... -
The Anglo-Saxon Chancery - The History, Language and Production of Anglo-Saxon Charters from Alfred to Edgar by Ben Snook
RRP: $156.00$149.39An exploration of Anglo-Saxon charters, bringing out their complexity and highlighting a range of broad implications. More charters survive from Anglo-Saxon England than texts of any other type. In a society in which the ownership of land was... -
Britain's Colonial Wars, 1688-1783 by Bruce Lenman 9780582424012
RRP: $179.38$146.76From Europe to India and America, Britain's Colonial Wars relates empire to the fortunes of war. In less than a century, between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the settlement following the War of the American Revolution, the modern British state was... -
Gaelic in Modern Scotland: Policies, Movements, Ideologies by Wilson McLeod
RRP: $204.75$186.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474462396Author Wilson McLeodFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Snowdonia - Park Under Pressure: The Story of Snowdonia National Park and the Snowdonia Society by Rob Collister 9781906095017
RRP: $23.38$18.99The story of the Snowdonia National Park and the Society, dedicated to conserving and enhancing its unique landscape, is one which will fascinate and inform those who live and work within it as well as being of interest to visitors, be they picnickers or... -
The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring by Paulina Bren
RRP: $50.68$45.36The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its... -
The London Restaurant, 1840-1914 by Brenda Assael 9780198817604
$186.01This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The quotidian nature of eating out during the working day or evening should not be allowed to obscure the significance of the... -
A Century of Lancashire: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Chris Makepeace
RRP: $29.23$22.52This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Lancashire during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader... -
The British and the Hellenes: Struggles for Mastery in the Eastern Mediterranean 1850-1960 by Robert Holland 9780199239771
$50.86The Greek revolt against Turkish rule in the 1820s, and the ensuing establishment of an independent Hellenic Kingdom, was the principal precursor of an age of nationalism in the eastern Mediterranean world. Amongst the Great Powers, Great Britain... -
Devastation: Volume I: The European Rimlands 1912-1938 by Mark Levene
$98.79From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia,... -
Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia by Andrew Baruch Wachtel 9780804731812
RRP: $54.58$47.07This book focuses on the cultural processes by which the idea of a Yugoslav nation was developed and on the reasons that this idea ultimately failed to bind the South Slavs into a viable nation and state. The author argues that the collapse of... -
The Americanisation of Ireland: Migration and Settlement, 1841-1925 by David Fitzpatrick
RRP: $68.23$59.46Irish emigration to America is one of the cliches of modern Irish history; much less familiar is the reverse process. Who were the people who chose to return to Ireland? What motivated them? How did this affect Irish society? While many European... -
St Samson of Dol and the Earliest History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales by Lynette Olson
RRP: $156.00$149.39New essays shed light on the mysterious St Samson of Dol and his Vita. The First Life of St Samson of Dol (Vita Prima Samsonis) is a key text for the study of early Welsh, Cornish, Breton and indeed west Frankish history. In the twentieth century it... -
The Diary of Samuel Rogers, 1634-1638 Tom Webster 9781843830436
RRP: $117.00$111.44Rogers's diary offers a direct and personal expression of the meaning of English Puritanism on the eve of the civil war. Samuel Rogers began his diary just before his twenty-first birthday. He was a godly minister from godly stock - his grandfather,... -
European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century by Professor Thomas F. X. Noble
RRP: $87.75$77.18The "long twelfth century"-1050 to 1215-embraces one of the transformative moments in European history: the point, for some, at which Europe first truly became "Europe." Historians have used the terms "renaissance,""reformation,"and "revolution" to... -
How to Do it: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians by Rudolph M. Bell
RRP: $156.00$150.17Hope to conceive a boy? Tie a tourniquet around your husband's left testicle. Pregnant and fear a weak or malformed baby? Frequent hearty laughter should reduce the risk. And if you're a teenager of good repute, avoid dancing at all costs and stay away... -
A People's Church: Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050–1300 by Agostino Paravicini Bagliani 9781501716775
RRP: $60.45$53.35A People's Church brings together a distinguished international group of historians to provide a sweeping introduction to Christian religious life and institutions in medieval Italy. Each essay treats a single theme as broadly as possible, highlighting... -
Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and Slavery by P. J. Marshall
RRP: $185.25$142.90Edmund Burke was both a political thinker of the utmost importance and an active participant in the day-to-day business of politics. It is the latter role that is the concern of this book, showing Burke engaging with issues concerning the West Indies,... -
The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini's Italy by Victoria De Grazia 9780674271067
$43.02A New Statesman Book of the YearWinner of the Helen and Howard R. Marraro PrizeWinner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies"Extraordinary...I could not put it down."-Margaret MacMillan"Reveals how ideology corrupts the truth, how... -
Old Ochiltree by Alex F. Young 9781840336023
RRP: $17.55$15.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336023Author Alex F. YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm -
George III: King and Politicians 1760-1770 by Peter D. G. Thomas 9780719064296
RRP: $38.98$34.75The eighteenth-century was long deemed 'the classical age of the constitution' in Britain, with cabinet government based on a two-party system of Whigs and Tories in Parliament, and a monarchy whose powers had been emasculated by the Glorious Revolution... -
Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche
RRP: $37.03$23.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541697454Author Peter FritzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 141mm * 30mm -
Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864 by Mary Poovey 9780226675244
RRP: $54.60$53.41This study examines one of the conditions that made the development of a mass culture in Victorian Britain possible: the representation of the population as an aggregate - a social body. Drawing on both literature and social reform texts, the author... -
Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution by Peter Ackroyd 9781250070241
RRP: $46.80$28.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070241Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)... -
Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall by Thomas Fleischman 9780295747309
RRP: $76.05$66.53The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita than West Germany and the UK, while also... -
States of Emergency: Cultures of Revolt in Italy from 1968 to 1978 by Robert Lumley
RRP: $48.73$48.24The student protests of 1968, followed by the Hot Autumn factory strikes of 1969, shook the foundations of the Italian Republic. They also prepared the way for a whole decade of intense and widespread social conflict-a decade in which militant social... -
Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000 by Helmut Walser Smith 9780871404664
RRP: $62.38$52.32For nearly a century, conventional historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression, its nineteenth-century ascent accompanied by militarism and brought to a murderous apex in the Third Reich. Not so, asserts... -
Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Sandra Cavallo 9780582317482
RRP: $97.48$93.29This new collection of essays brings together brand new research on widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe. The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the Editors which looks generally at the conditions and constructions of widowhood in this... -
The English Countryside between the Wars: Regeneration or Decline? Paul Brassley 9781843832645
RRP: $156.00$150.17A revisionist look at the true state of rural England between the two world wars. England is the country, and the country is England, as Stanley Baldwin famously said in 1924, but what kind of country was it? There are persistent memories of... -
Nazi Ideology before 1933: A Documentation by Barbara Miller Lane
RRP: $31.18$27.77This volume brings together a hitherto scattered and inaccessible body of material crucial to the understanding of the evolution of Nazi political thought. Before the publication of this volume, scholars had virtually ignored the extensive writings and... -
Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938 by Carole Fink
RRP: $60.43$55.93When the Cold War ended between 1989 and 1991, statesmen and scholars reached back to the period after World War I when the victors devised minority treaties for the new and expanded states of Eastern Europe. This book is a study of the entire period... -
Slav Outposts in Central European History: The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs by Gerald Stone
RRP: $62.38$56.12While many think of European history in terms of the major states that today make up the map of Europe, this approach tends to overlook submerged nations like the Wends, the westernmost Slavs who once inhabited the lands which later became East Germany... -
Churchill and India: Manipulation or Betrayal? Kishan S Rana 9781032354965
RRP: $77.98$68.37Churchill and India. It is a story where much is known but much remains concealed. A brilliant orator and a powerful leader, Winston Churchill stood against the tide of history. But how does postcolonial history view him? This book studies the...