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The Making of Gratian's Decretum by Anders Winroth 9780521632645
RRP: £96.99£82.41This book offers perspectives on the legal and intellectual developments of the twelfth century. Gratian's collection of Church law, the Decretum, was a key text in these developments. Compiled in around 1140, it remained a fundamental work throughout... -
Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century by Martin Heinzelmann 9780521631747
RRP: £90.00£72.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589 by Donald Ostrowski 9780521590853
RRP: £90.00£72.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy by Nicholas Terpstra 9780521621854
RRP: £116.00£103.07Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 by David Warren Sabean 9780521583817
RRP: £130.00£104.66This work analyses shifts in the relations of families, households, and individuals in a single German village during the transition to a modern social structure and cultural order. The findings call into question the idea that the more modern society... -
The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna by Howard Louthan 9780521580823
RRP: £98.99£87.91The Quest for Compromise is an interdisciplinary study of the imperial court in late sixteenth-century Vienna, and a detailed examination of a fascinating moment of religious moderation. Against a backdrop of rising religious and confessional dogmatism,... -
Spanish Naval Power, 1589-1665: Reconstruction and Defeat by David C. Goodman 9780521580632
RRP: £104.00£88.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Pompidou Years, 1969-1974 by Serge Berstein 9780521580618
RRP: £104.00£88.31This is the latest volume to appear in the successful Cambridge History of Modern France series, and is the most authoritative account available of the presidency of Georges Pompidou. Pompidou consolidated the constitutional changes made by de Gaulle, to... -
The Balkan Economies c.1800-1914: Evolution without Development by M.R. Palairet 9780521580519
RRP: £127.00£113.82The Balkan Economies c. 1800-1914 is a strongly revisionist 1997 book which compares the economic progress of Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia in the century before World War I. Michael Palairet draws heavily on native-language primary... -
Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century by Albert Schram 9780521571593
RRP: £96.99£82.01This book relates the history of Italian railways with special regard to their relation with the Italian state from the 1840s, when the first lines were constructed, until nationalization in 1905. It shows that while the Italian state interfered... -
People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554 by Patrick Amory 9780521571517
RRP: £133.00£114.42The barbarians of the fifth and sixth centuries were long thought to be races, tribes or ethnic groups who toppled the Roman Empire and racist, nationalist assumptions about the composition of the barbarian groups still permeate much scholarship on the... -
Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison by Ian Kershaw 9780521563451
RRP: £85.00£67.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy: The Structure of Diplomatic Practice, 1450-1800 by Daniela Frigo 9780521561891
RRP: £90.99£77.49This 2000 volume was the first attempt at a comparative reconstruction of the foreign policy and diplomacy of the major Italian states in the early modern period. The various contributions reveal the instruments and forms of foreign relations in the... -
The Spanish Economy: From the Civil War to the European Community by Joseph Harrison 9780521557726
RRP: £23.99£18.09This book presents a concise survey of the Spanish economy from the end of the Civil War of 1936-9 to the present. In it the author analyses the transformation of Spain from a backward agrarian economy - committed by Franco and the country's military... -
Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy by Carl Ipsen 9780521554527
RRP: £104.00£88.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
War, Diplomacy and the Rise of Savoy, 1690-1720 by Christopher Storrs 9780521551465
RRP: £105.00£88.31This book deals with the crucial relationship between war and state formation in early modern Europe by considering the role of the Duchy of Savoy and the rise of this hitherto weak state into one of the regular members of the anti-French coalitions of... -
Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women by Elissa B. Weaver 9780521550826
RRP: £90.00£72.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rouen During the Wars of Religion by Philip Benedict 9780521547970
RRP: £36.99£30.33This book is the first modern study to examine the history of a single French community over the full course of the civil wars (1560-1600), and its account of local developments is enriched by frequent comparisons with events and conditions elsewhere in... -
Naples in the Eighteenth Century: The Birth and Death of a Nation State by Girolamo Imbruglia 9780521631662
RRP: £104.00£87.91In 1734 the kingdom of Naples became an independent monarchy, but in 1799 a Jacobin revolution transformed it briefly into a republic. In these few but intense decades of independence all the great problems of the age of the Enlightenment became... -
Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860 by Judith A. Miller 9780521628891
RRP: £36.99£30.33The grain trade, a crucial sector of the French economy, caused enormous concern throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Bread was the staple of French diets, so harvest shortfalls triggered unrest. The royal government had only the... -
State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000 by Matthew Innes 9780521594554
RRP: £116.00£103.07This book, first published in 2000, is a pioneering study of politics and society in the early Middle Ages. Whereas it is widely believed that the source materials for early medieval Europe are too sparse to allow sustained study of the workings of... -
The Brandy Trade under the Ancien Regime: Regional Specialisation in the Charente by Louis M. Cullen 9780521592482
RRP: £90.00£72.57In this 1998 study of the brandy trade and its merchants, Professor Cullen explores the development of cognac, the world's most famous spirit product, which emerged as a consequence of a chronic wine surplus. While Professor Cullen focuses on the brandy... -
A Nation Collapses: The Italian Surrender of September 1943 by Elena Agarossi 9780521591997
RRP: £90.00£72.17A Nation Collapses revises the traditional understanding of a critical moment in the history of World War II: the collapse of the Italian fascist regime and Italy's unconditional surrender in September 1943. Drawing on mostly unpublished documents, the... -
Crusade Propaganda and Ideology: Model Sermons for the Preaching of the Cross by Christoph T. Maier 9780521590617
RRP: £90.00£72.57This book, first published in 2000, presents an edition of seventeen ad status model sermons for the preaching of the crusades from the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The majority of these texts had never been printed before publication of... -
The March to the Marne: The French Army 1871-1914 by Douglas Porch 9780521545921
RRP: £39.99£33.26The relationship between the French army and the regime provides one of the central themes in the history of the Third Republic. From its foundation in 1870, the republic sought to integrate the army of Louis-Napoleon into a left-leaning, democratic... -
Stalin, Siberia and the Crisis of the New Economic Policy by James Hughes 9780521545693
RRP: £38.99£32.28This 1991 book makes an important contribution to the evaluation of the origins of Stalinism. Although it is widely acknowledged by Western scholars that the Soviet grain crisis of 1927-8 and Stalin's Siberian tour of January 1928 were crucial factors in... -
Generations in Conflict: Youth Revolt and Generation Formation in Germany 1770-1968 by Mark Roseman 9780521545686
RRP: £37.99£31.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950 by Norbert Finzsch 9780521534482
RRP: £48.99£41.07A major interdisciplinary study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe, this book resulted from discussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, poor relief, deviance, and crime,... -
The Chancellor as Courtier: Bernhard von Bulow and the Governance of Germany, 1900-1909 by Katharine A. Lerman 9780521530576
RRP: £44.99£38.14Bernhard von Bulow was the longest-serving Reich Chancellor of Imperial Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Appointed State Secretary of the Foreign Office in 1897 and Chancellor in 1900, he played a crucial role in the political history of the German... -
Marxism and the Failure of Organised Socialism in Spain, 1879-1936 by Paul Heywood 9780521530569
RRP: £30.99£25.45This is the first full-length study in English of the role of Marxist theory in the Spanish Socialist movement prior to the outbreak of Civil War in 1936. In particular, the author stresses the intellectual poverty of this aspect of leftwing politics in... -
Philip IV and the Government of Spain, 1621-1665 by R. A. Stradling 9780521530552
RRP: £44.99£38.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1529-1819 by Joachim Whaley 9780521528726
RRP: £38.99£32.28The emergence of religious toleration was one of the main features of the development of Western society after the Reformation. While previous research has concentrated largely on ideas of toleration, this study of the Lutheran Imperial City of Hamburg... -
The Fascist Revolution in Tuscany, 1919-22 by Frank Snowden 9780521528665
RRP: £30.99£25.45This 1989 book is a detailed study of the social origins of the fascist reaction in Tuscany, which played a key role in the rise of Italian fascism to power. Tuscan fascism was second to none in its violence, organisational strength, intransigence and... -
From Oxenstierna to Charles XII: Four Studies by Michael Roberts 9780521528610
RRP: £39.99£33.26The spectacular career of Gustav Adolf by no means established Sweden as a great power. In the four years after his death such a development became increasingly improbable. At Westphalia in 1648 the improbable became a fact; but the momentum of Swedish... -
Science, Technology, and National Socialism by Monika Renneberg 9780521528603
RRP: £42.99£36.59This 1993 book provides a survey of the development of scientific disciplines and technical projects under National Socialism in Germany. Each contribution addresses a different aspect which is important for judging the interaction between science,... -
Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria by Professor James van Horn Melton 9780521528566
RRP: £39.99£33.26Compulsory schooling is widely held to be a creation of modern industrial society. Yet already in the eighteenth century, Prussian and Austrian rulers attempted to introduce universal education in societies that were overwhelmingly rural and 'premodern'... -
Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia by Erich E. Haberer 9780521528498
RRP: £44.99£38.14Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia is a carefully researched study of 100 years of Russian-Jewish revolutionary history, exploring the origins and characteristics of Jewish participation in Russian revolutionary politics between 1790 and... -
Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany by Thomas Robisheaux 9780521526876
RRP: £39.99£33.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
From Mobilization to Civil War: The Politics of Polarization in the Spanish City of Gijon, 1900-1937 by Pamela Beth Radcliff 9780521526593
RRP: £36.99£30.33This is a social history of political polarisation as it evolved in one city over three and a half decades before the Spanish Civil War. As such it is a book about the long-term origins of the War as seen 'from below'. More broadly it is an analysis of... -
Joan Baptista Van Helmont: Reformer of Science and Medicine by Walter Pagel 9780521526555
RRP: £43.99£37.16Only comparatively recently have historians begun to recognize the importance and influence of Joan Baptista Van Helmont (1579-1644) in the history of medicine and chemistry. Van Helmont's theories on the nature of life, biological time, physiology and...