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The Expansion of Europe, 1250-1500 by Michael North 9780719080210
RRP: £25.00£18.32Later medieval Europe saw a great deal of change and expansion of different kinds. This geographically broad textbook explores these events in a series of core chapters on the different countries, covering the Holy Roman Empire, East-Central Europe,... -
Europe in Crisis: Intellectuals and the European Idea, 1917-1957 by Mark Hewitson 9781782389248
RRP: £27.95£22.58The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of... -
Religion and Governance in England's Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601-1698 by Haig Z. Smith
RRP: £34.99£31.79This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New... -
The Lion and the Poppy: British Veterans, Politics, and Society, 1921-1939 by Niall Barr 9780313324741
£83.24In the years following World War I, the British Legion became a symbol for service, tradition, and stability in British life. In the war's aftermath, many veterans organizations on the continent became violently politicized. However, the competing groups... -
Europe and the Making of Modernity: 1815-1914 by The late Robin W. Winks
RRP: £85.99£42.64This brief textbook chronicles the political, economic, and social changes that revolutionized Europe during the nineteenth century. Designed to allow professors to assign supplemental readings of their choice, and including chronologies, supplemental... -
Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century France by Rosalind H. Williams
RRP: £31.00£24.43In "Dream Worlds", Rosalind Williams examines the origins and moral implications of consumer society, providing a cultural history of its emergence in late nineteenth-century France.About the AuthorRosalind H. Williams is Dean for Undergraduate Education... -
From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich by Peter Hayes 9780521782272
RRP: £105.00£82.41From Cooperation to Complicity is a study of the Degussa corporation, a firm which played a pivotal role in the processing of plundered precious metals in Nazi-occupied Europe and controlled the production and distribution of Zyklon B, the infamous... -
A Stagnating Metropolis: The Economy and Demography of Stockholm, 1750-1850 by Johan Soderberg 9780521531337
RRP: £33.99£28.38This book analyses a peculiar phase in the history of Stockholm which has not previously been systematically investigated. Between 1750 and 1850 the Swedish capital experienced long-term stagnation, characterized by de-industrialization and slow... -
Robespierre by Colin Haydon 9780521026055
RRP: £39.99£33.26Two centuries after the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre is still regarded as its towering figure. Perceived by some as the champion, indeed the incarnation, of the Revolution's purest and noblest ideals, among others he will always be... -
Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought by Joel Kaye 9780521793865
RRP: £34.99£29.35This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitated to step outside the sphere of intellectual culture in... -
Families and States in Western Europe by Quentin Skinner 9780521128018
RRP: £24.99£21.18This collection of essays traces the relationship between families and states in the major countries of Western Europe since 1945, examining the power of states to shape family life and the capacity of families to influence states. Written by an... -
Poland in the Second World War by Josef Garlinski 9780333392584
£90.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333392584Author Josef GarlinskiFormat HardbackPage Count 387Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 681g -
The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia by Wendy Lower 9780759120785
RRP: £59.00£51.45The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia examines the contents and context of a rare diary written by a Jewish man from Nazi-occupied Poland. Serving as both a record and an artifact of Samuel Golfard's life, the diary details his attempt... -
Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians Across Europe's Battlegrounds by Ian Almond
£49.50When Englishman and Turk fell side by side in the killing fields of the Crimea, it was not the first time that Christian and Muslim blood was shed, and intermingled, in the cause of battling a common foe. It is fashionable today to talk of a 'clash of... -
Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire: New Evidence, New Approaches (4th-8th centuries) by Marianne Saghy
RRP: £26.95£25.00Do the terms `pagan' and `Christian,' `transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting `pagans' and `Christians' in Late... -
Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609 by John K. Brackett 9780521404051
RRP: £90.00£72.17This book examines in detail the Florentine system of criminal justice under the reign of the first three Medici grand dukes, from 1537 to 1609. The author discusses the structure and functions of the court, the operation of the two city prisons, and the... -
Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944-1948 by Peter Kenez 9780521747240
RRP: £26.99£21.89This 2006 book describes in detail the establishment of a Communist regime in Hungary. Hungary was the last ally of Nazi Germany, and as such suffered dreadful destruction in the course of the fighting during the last year of the war. The war discredited... -
Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation by Ole Peter Grell 9780521894128
RRP: £39.99£33.26This volume offers a re-interpretation of the role of tolerance and intolerance in the European Reformation. It questions the traditional notion of a progressive development towards greater religious toleration from the beginning of the sixteenth century... -
The Italian Garden: Art, Design and Culture by John Dixon Hunt 9780521033923
RRP: £22.99£21.06Italian gardens vary widely according to their historical date and geographic location. This collection of essays approaches Italian gardens of all periods, from the Middle Ages to modern times, and it ranges widely throughout the peninsula, from Genoa... -
Dacia: Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe by Ion Grumeza 9780761844655
RRP: £47.00£41.20This book tells the little known story of Dacia, the powerful and rich land that became Transylvania and Romania. This kingdom was once the cornerstone of Eastern Europe. By A.D. 1, Dacia was the third largest military power in Europe, after the Romans... -
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807 by Professor A. R. Disney 9780521843188
RRP: £79.00£70.59The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'etre and no obvious political roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on... -
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins 9781541788558
RRP: £38.00£23.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541788558Author Simon JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 152mm *... -
The Third Reich's Intelligence Services: The Career of Walter Schellenberg by Katrin Paehler 9781107157194
RRP: £107.00£96.48This is the first-ever analytical study of Nazi Germany's political foreign intelligence service, Office VI of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and its head, Walter Schellenberg. Katrin Paehler tells the story of Schellenberg's career in policing and... -
Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World War by Ludivine Broch 9781107039568
RRP: £90.00£81.03Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories of resistance, collaboration and deportation in Vichy France through the prism of the French railwaymen -... -
Spain Since 1939: From Margins to Centre Stage by Stanley Black
£33.26Spain since 1939 provides students with a comprehensive guide to one of the most exciting historical narratives of the twentieth century: Spain's development from poverty and isolation after the Civil War to its current role as a key player on the... -
Louis XV and the Parlement of Paris, 1737-55 by John Rogister 9780521403955
RRP: £90.00£72.57This is a lively narrative account, based on previously unused material, of the events that marked the troubled relationship between Louis XV, the clergy of France, and the Parlement of Paris in the mid-eighteenth century. The author shows how religious... -
The European Union: An Introduction by Mark Corner 9781780766850
£25.15The EU is one of the most notoriously complex international organisations. It is the only supranational organisation where nation-states agree to share sovereignty in some areas but not in others. At the heart of the EU debate across Europe are two... -
John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes by John Skylitzes 9780521767057
RRP: £122.00£103.07John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and... -
The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property by Dr. Harold James 9780521027304
RRP: £30.99£23.80The Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest financial institution, played an important role in the expropriation of Jewish-owned enterprises during the Nazi dictatorship, both in the existing territories of Germany, and in the area seized by the German army... -
A History of Prussia by H.W. Koch 9780582481909
RRP: £71.99£69.50In little more than two centuries Prussia rose from medieval obscurity and the devastation of the Thirty Years War to become the dominant power of continental Europe. Her rulers rose from Electors to Kings, and from Kings to Emperors. It is a dramatic... -
Modernism and Eugenics by Marius Turda 9780230230835
RRP: £44.99£44.97Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincingly demonstrates that between 1870 and 1940 eugenicists were not only preoccupied with rescuing the... -
The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History by Hilary Earl 9780521456081
RRP: £105.00£80.43Based on extensive archival research, this book offers a historical examination of the arrest, trial and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen - the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the Eastern... -
Croatia and the Rise of Fascism: The Youth Movement and the Ustasha During WWII by Goran Miljan 9780755600014
£34.23During World War II, Croatia became a fascist state under the control of the Ustasha Movement - allied with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Here, Goran Miljan examines and analyzes for the first time the ideology, practices, and international connections... -
Salisbury Soldiers: The Great War by Richard Broadhead 9780752444284
RRP: £16.99£13.34This detailed history provides not only the details for all those from the area who fell in the Great War but also personal information, including letters and photographs, for every man featured. Intended to be the antithesis of the dry lists of names... -
Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding by Alon Confino 9780521736329
RRP: £19.99£17.13Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history. As the main research interests of Holocaust scholars are frequently covered terrain - the anti-Semitic ideological campaign, the... -
City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100-1600 by Bruno Blonde
RRP: £30.99£25.45The Low Countries was collectively one of the earliest and most heavily urbanised societies in European history. Present-day Belgium and the Netherlands still share important common features, such as comparatively low income inequalities, high levels of... -
The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco
RRP: £89.50£78.09The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an... -
Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages: England, Normandy and Northern France by Julie Barrau
RRP: £90.00£75.52How did medieval people define themselves? And how did they balance their identities as individuals with the demands of their communities? Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages intertwines the study of identities with current... -
Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919-1936 by Ricky W. Law
RRP: £26.99£24.08In 1936, Nazi Germany and militarist Japan built a partnership which culminated in the Tokyo-Berlin Axis. This study of interwar German-Japanese relations is the first to employ sources in both languages. Transnational Nazism was an ideological and... -
Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929-1933 by Pamela E. Swett 9780521039970
RRP: £44.99£38.14Neighbors and Enemies provides an interpretation of the collapse of Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic, which ended with the naming of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in January 1933. This study focuses on individual workers in Berlin and their...