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Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945 by Joshua D. Zimmerman 9780521145947
RRP: $43.85$36.61The Jews of Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945 brings to light the Italian-Jewish experience from the start of Mussolini's prime ministership through the end of the Second World War. Challenging the myth of Italian benevolence during the... -
Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 39: 2019 by Myrzinn Boucher-Durand 9780674257795
RRP: $36.06$28.57This volume of the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium offers a wide range of articles on topics across the field of Celtic Studies. It includes the Colloquium keynote given by Prof. Barbara Hillers which studied the literary use of folklore,... -
The Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Westminster Blood Relic by Nicholas Vincent 9780521571289
RRP: $116.10$93.10The first extended study of relics of the Holy Blood: portions of the blood of Christ's passion preserved supposedly from the time of the Crucifixion and displayed as objects of wonder and veneration in the churches of medieval Europe. Inspired by the... -
Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649-1571 by John H. Pryor 9780521428927
RRP: $51.59$42.91When maritime transport and communication depended on muscle and wind-power, the Mediterranean Sea functioned as a symbiotic force between the civilisations which surrounded it, at once the major dividing barrier and the major connecting element. In this... -
Childhood in Modern Europe by Colin Heywood 9780521685252
RRP: $32.24$27.32This invaluable introduction to the history of childhood in both Western and Eastern Europe between c.1700 and 2000 seeks to give a voice to children as well as adults, wherever possible. The work is divided into three parts, covering in turn, childhood... -
Neolithic Bodies by Penny Bickle 9781785709012
$60.75As a result of recent methodological and theoretical developments in approaches to the human body in archaeological contexts, the theme has recently become a particularly dynamic research area. This volume, building on the Neolithic Studies Group... -
Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries by Professor David Sorkin 9780691205250
RRP: $36.12$30.99The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the... -
Scientific Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the Emergence of Modern Science During the Early Modern Period and the Life of Galileo Galilei by Captivating History 9781950924363
RRP: $25.79$17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950924363Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia by Benjamin Frommer 9780521008969
RRP: $47.72$32.83National Cleansing examines the prosecution of over one hundred thousand suspected war criminals and collaborators by Czech courts and tribunals after the Second World War. As the first comprehensive history of postwar Czech retribution, this 2005 book... -
The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Christopher Ealham 9780521173209
RRP: $51.59$42.91This 2005 book explores the ideas and culture surrounding the cataclysmic civil war that engulfed Spain from 1936 to 1939. It features specially commissioned articles from leading historians in Spain, Britain and the US which examine the complex... -
Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe: Selections from Quaderni Storici by Edward Muir
$36.62"An excellent introduction to and sampling of the developing genre of microhistory...In essence these historians begin their analysis `from below,' viewing the ordinary peoples ignored in the annals of European history."--'Catholic Historical Review.'... -
With Napoleon in Russia: The Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza by Armand A. Caulaincourt 9780837186894
$62.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837186894Author Armand A. CaulaincourtFormat HardbackPage Count 422Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
A Warrior Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721 by Henrik O. Lunde 9781612002422
RRP: $32.25$28.26There has been a recent trend in history to interpret the rise and fall of great powers in terms of economics, or demographics, or geography. This is not always true, as this book proves, because sometimes pure military skill can propel a nation to... -
The ‘Labour Hercules’: The Irish Citizen Army and Irish Republicanism, 1913–23 by Jeffrey Leddin 9781788550741
$46.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788550741Author Jeffrey LeddinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
Serbia: A Modern History by Marko Attila Hoare 9781787385474
RRP: $83.85$74.12This is the first in-depth, English-language history of modern Serbia in nearly half a century. It covers the period from the Serbian state's revolutionary rebirth in the early nineteenth century, under the rebel leaders Karadorde Petrovic and Milos... -
Russia and Germany: Century of Conflict Walter Laqueur 9780887383496
RRP: $59.33$52.68Despite changes in the international constellation since Russia and Germany initially appeared in 1965, the relationship between these two nations remains the most important single issue in European politics and East-West affairs. This study of what... -
Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World War by Ludivine Broch 9781107039568
RRP: $116.10$105.35Should 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 -... -
English Convents in Catholic Europe, c.1600-1800 by James E. Kelly 9781108479967
RRP: $116.10$104.53In 1598, the first English convent to be founded since the dissolution of the monasteries was established in Brussels, followed by a further twenty-one foundations, which all self-identified as English institutions in Catholic Europe. Around four... -
Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World by Patrick Wormald 9780521174091
RRP: $51.59$42.91Did the laity have a part in the Carolingian Renaissance? If so, how were lay elites, and through them the laity at large affected? This fascinating and wide-ranging volume examines these questions through a study of lay involvement in literary and... -
Commemorating the Irish Civil War: History and Memory, 1923-2000 by Anne Dolan 9780521819046
RRP: $116.10$93.10After civil war, can the winners commemorate their victory, hailing their conquering heroes with the blood of their former comrades still fresh on their boots? Or should they cover themselves in shame and hope that the nation soon forgets? In this book,... -
Lawrence of Arabia: An Encyclopedia by Stephen Ely Tabachnick 9780313305610
$89.33This encyclopedia, the first work of its kind, includes more than 800 alphabetically arranged entries on subjects related to Lawrence and his works. Covered are such topics as Lawrence's knowledge of Islam, the details of his military campaigns, his... -
Close Files and European Order: The Field of Battle 1700-1720 by Simon Macdowall 9781008925717
RRP: $20.64$18.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008925717Author Simon MacdowallFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 210g -
The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945 by Richard Steigmann-Gall 9780521823715
RRP: $103.20$68.62Analyzing the previously unexplored religious views of the Nazi elite, Richard Steigmann-Gall argues against the consensus that Nazism as a whole was either unrelated to Christianity or actively opposed to it. He demonstrates that many participants in... -
Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 Ce by Walter Pohl
RRP: $119.97$109.21This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book deals with the... -
Ernst Roehm by Eleanor Hancock 9780230120501
RRP: $64.49$58.01The first biography of Ernst Julius Roehm - German military officer, commander of the Nazi Stormtroopers, and homosexual.Book InformationISBN 9780230120501Author Eleanor HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 273Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave... -
Fair Shares for All: Jacobin Egalitarianism in Practice by Jean-Pierre Gross 9780521563185
RRP: $116.10$99.45This study explores the egalitarian policies pursued in the provinces during the radical phase of the French Revolution, but moves away from the habit of looking at such issues in terms of the Terror alone. It challenges revisionist readings of... -
Beating the Fascists?: The German Communists and Political Violence 1929-1933 by Eve Rosenhaft 9780521089388
RRP: $51.59$42.91In this book Eve Rosenhaft examines the involvement of Communists in political violence during the years of Hitler's rise to power in Germany (1929-33). Specifically, she aims to account for their participation in `street-fighting' or 'gang-fighting'... -
History and Memory by Jacques Legoff 9780231075916
RRP: $36.12$32.20-- Gerald Prince, University of PennsylvaniaIn this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and... -
Marc Bloch: A Life in History by Carole Fink 9780521373005
RRP: $90.29$82.17This is the first biography of Marc Bloch (1886-1944), historian, soldier in both world wars, and leader of the Resistance, who was captured, tortured, and died a heroic death. Based largely on Bloch's private letters, diaries and papers, as well as on... -
Encountering Islam on the First Crusade by Nicholas Morton 9781107156890
RRP: $78.69$71.00The First Crusade (1095-9) has often been characterised as a head-to-head confrontation between the forces of Christianity and Islam. For many, it is the campaign that created a lasting rupture between these two faiths. Nevertheless, is such a... -
Czartoryski and European Unity by Marian Kukiel 9780691626956
RRP: $61.92$48.50"The importance of Czartoryski could hardly be overestimated for the whole complex of 19th century political adjustments from Russia to Spain, England to the Dardanelles...Thorough and well-constructed, this definitive study will have a very considerable... -
A Silence That Speaks by Susan Soyinka 9780957561403
RRP: $16.76$15.20Susan's mother, Lucy Fowler nee Smetana, was a Viennese Jew who fled to Nottingham, England, in 1938 to flee Nazi persecution. She lost most of her immediate family, but spoke little of her experiences for decades. In 1995, Susan learned for the first... -
Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism by Peter Baehr 9780521532709
RRP: $49.01$40.39A distinguished group of historians and political theorists examine the complex relationship between nineteenth-century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism, paying especial attention to the careers of Napoleon I and III, and of Bismarck. An... -
The Making of Bourgeois Europe: Absolutism, Revolution and the Rise of Capitalism in England, France and Germany by Colin Mooers 9780860915072
RRP: $21.92$18.31This defence of the concept of bourgeois revolution reasserts the importance of basic historical materialist precepts to an understanding of the rise of European capitalism. In a wide-ranging analysis of British, French and German history - from... -
From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich by Peter Hayes 9780521039918
RRP: $55.46$47.20From 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... -
Contesting the Reformation C. Scott Dixon (Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland) 9781405113267
RRP: $37.35$32.84Contesting the Reformation provides a comprehensive survey of the most influential works in the field of Reformation studies from a comparative, cross-national, interdisciplinary perspective. Represents the only English-language single-authored synthetic... -
Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic: Spheres of Maritime Power and Influence, c. 700-1453 by Magdalena Skoblar
RRP: $161.25$116.46The Adriatic has long occupied a liminal position between different cultures, languages and faiths. This book offers the first synthesis of its history between the seventh and the mid-fifteenth century, a period coinciding with the existence of the... -
The Fall of Napoleon: Volume 1, The Allied Invasion of France, 1813-1814 by Michael V. Leggiere 9780521875424
RRP: $59.34$53.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bicester and Chesterton by Bicester Local History Society
RRP: $16.76$12.73This fascinating book of over 200 old photographs provides a glimpse of life in the market town of Bicester and the nearby village of Chesterton over the last 100 years. The quieter pace of village life in the last years of the nineteenth century is also... -
An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938 by Peter Paret 9780521035705
RRP: $37.40$29.48The conflict between National Socialism and Ernst Barlach, one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century, is an unusual episode in the history of Hitler's efforts to rid Germany of 'international modernism'. Barlach did not passively...