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Ritual in Early Modern Europe by Edward Muir 9780521841535
RRP: $85.13$74.57The comprehensive 2005 study of rituals in early modern Europe argues that between about 1400 and 1700 a revolution in ritual theory took place that utterly transformed concepts about time, the body, and the presence of spiritual forces in the world... -
Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe by Charles G. Nauert 9780521839099
RRP: $94.16$82.77In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces humanism's emergence in the unique social and cultural... -
The European Revolutions, 1848-1851 by Jonathan Sperber 9780521839075
RRP: $94.16$83.28Reaching from the Atlantic to Ukraine, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, the revolutions of 1848 brought millions of people across the European continent into political life. Nationalist aspirations, social issues and feminist demands coming to the... -
The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors by Robert Bireley 9780521820172
RRP: $116.10$93.10Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940 by Mona L. Siegel 9780521839006
RRP: $117.38$99.96While French schoolteachers of the late nineteenth century have been widely celebrated for converting 'peasants into Frenchmen', their interwar counterparts have enjoyed little such acclaim. Both contemporary critics and subsequent scholars have... -
Gender in Early Modern German History by Ulinka Rublack 9780521813983
RRP: $116.10$105.04Why did parents prosecute their children as witches? Why did a sixteenth-century midwife entice a burgher woman to pretend that she was giving birth to puppies? How did the life of a transsexual woman in early eighteenth-century Hamburg come to its end?... -
Business and Politics in Europe, 1900-1970: Essays in Honour of Alice Teichova by Prof. Dr. Terry Gourvish 9780521823449
RRP: $135.45$106.31This book reflects an increased interest in establishing connections between the political history and the business history of Europe in the twentieth century. The book includes research on the interactions of politicians, businessmen and their... -
Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000-1200 by Adam J. Kosto 9780521792394
RRP: $141.90$120.27This study examines the role of written agreements in eleventh- and twelfth-century Catalonia, and how they determined the social and political order. By tracing the fate of these agreements - or convenientiae - from their first appearance to the late... -
Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642 by David Parrott 9780521792097
RRP: $161.25$133.73It is assumed widely that 'war made the state' in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study of the French army during the ministry of Cardinal Richelieu (1624-42) shows how the expansion of the war effort was not matched by army reform but by a reliance... -
Money and Security: Troops, Monetary Policy, and West Germany's Relations with the United States and Britain, 1950-1971 by Hubert Zimmermann 9780521782043
RRP: $67.08$59.28This study links two fundamental political structures of the Cold War era, the transatlantic security system and the international monetary system. Central to this issue is a problem which soured relations between the Federal Republic and its allies from... -
Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans by Carina L. Johnson 9780521769273
RRP: $116.10$93.62This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the cultural and intellectual changes wrought by the... -
Italian Vices: Nation and Character from the Risorgimento to the Republic by Silvana Patriarca 9780521761017
RRP: $116.10$93.62Why do Italians believe that they have a national character and that this character is a major reason for their political woes? Why is their self-image so frequently derogatory? In this meticulous study of the role of national character in Italian... -
The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-1620 by Charles H. Parker 9780521623056
RRP: $116.10$99.45By the time of the Calvinist Reformation, the cities of Holland had established a very long tradition of social provision for the poor in the civic community. Calvinists however intended to care for their own church members, who were by definition... -
Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860 by Judith A. Miller 9780521621298
RRP: $135.45$106.31The 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... -
Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Rachel G. Fuchs 9780521621021
RRP: $96.74$85.51This book is a major history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing the destitute from England to Russia, paying... -
France and the Great War by Leonard V. Smith 9780521661768
RRP: $96.74$85.00France and the Great War tells the story of how the French community embarked upon, sustained, and in some ways prevailed in the Great War. In this 2003 book, Leonard Smith and his co-authors synthesize many years of scholarship, examining the origins of... -
Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy by Gigliola Fragnito 9780521661720
RRP: $116.10$105.04The opening of the archive of the former Congregation of the Holy Office in Rome (the office of the 'Inquisition') yielded an extraordinary wealth of documentation, altering dramatically many long-standing views on the repressive activity of the Roman... -
Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Linda L. Clark 9780521658782
RRP: $37.40$33.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New by Daniel T. Reff 9780521600507
RRP: $32.24$27.32Drawing on anthropology, religious studies, history, and literary theory, Plagues, Priests, and Demons explores significant parallels in the rise of Christianity in the late Roman empire and colonial Mexico. Evidence shows that new forms of infectious... -
Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait by William J. Courtenay 9780521642125
RRP: $141.90$120.27This study of the social, geographical and disciplinary composition of the scholarly community at the University of Paris in the early fourteenth century is based on the reconstruction of a remarkable document: the financial record of tax levied on... -
The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest 1661-1701 by Guy Rowlands 9780521641241
RRP: $135.45$113.92The 'personal rule' of Louis XIV witnessed a massive increase in the size of the French army and an apparent improvement in the quality of its officers, its men and the War Ministry. However, this is the first book to treat the French army under Louis... -
Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century by Martin Heinzelmann 9780521636384
RRP: $51.59$42.91For over 1400 years the Histories of Gregory of Tours (538-594) - the principal work of Merovingian history - have been understood as a 'history of the Franks' and as an objective portrayal of history, albeit told by a naive narrator succeeding only in... -
Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930 by Anthony L. Cardoza 9780521593038
RRP: $141.90$119.75This book provides a full account of the Italian nobility in the post-unification era. It challenges interpretations which have stressed the rapid fusion of old and new elites in Italy and the marginality of the nobility after 1861, and instead... -
Clement V by Sophia Menache 9780521592192
RRP: $149.64$132.96Clement V, the first 'Avignon' pope, led the Church during nine critical years, 1305-14. Elected two years after the outrage committed upon Boniface VIII at Anagni, Clement saw as his main goal the restoration of harmonious relations with the leading... -
Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100 by Lisa M. Bitel 9780521592079
RRP: $92.87$82.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Royalty and Diplomacy in Europe, 1890-1914 by Roderick R. McLean 9780521592000
RRP: $125.12$105.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Early Humiliati by Frances Andrews 9780521591898
RRP: $135.45$122.18This book is the first major study in English of a group of late twelfth-century religious enthusiasts, the early Humiliati, who were condemned by the Church as heretics in 1184. However, in a remarkable transition, they were reconciled seventeen years... -
The First Crusaders, 1095-1131 by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith 9780521590051
RRP: $116.10$93.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Shaping of German Identity: Authority and Crisis, 1245-1414 by Len Scales 9780521573337
RRP: $161.25$133.73German identity began to take shape in the late Middle Ages during a period of political weakness and fragmentation for the Holy Roman Empire, the monarchy under which most Germans lived. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, the idea that... -
Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of Retribution by William Beik 9780521573085
RRP: $96.75$77.43This lucid and wide-ranging survey is the first study in English to identify a distinctive urban phase in the history of the early modern crowd. Through close analysis of the behaviour of protesters and authorities in more than fifteen... -
The Development of the French Economy 1750-1914 by Colin Heywood 9780521557771
RRP: $30.95$26.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Christianity under the Ancien Regime, 1648-1789 by W. R. Ward 9780521556729
RRP: $37.40$33.31Focusing on policy, rather than religious institutions, Professor Ward offers a brief, but comprehensive, account of religious belief and practice of all kinds in Europe between the Westphalia settlements in 1648 and the French Revolution. The book is... -
The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932-1938 by R. J. Overy 9780521552868
RRP: $63.21$56.89The performance of the German economy between the Great Crash and the Second World War has been the subject of intense academic debate. The problems of economic growth were acute in inter-war Germany, and the depression of the early 1930s intensified... -
The Spanish Economy: From the Civil War to the European Community by Joseph Harrison 9780521552813
RRP: $50.31$45.56This 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... -
Emigration from Europe 1815-1930 by Dudley Baines 9780521552707
RRP: $50.31$45.56Why did 60 million people leave Europe for overseas destinations in the hundred years after the Napoleonic Wars? What were the social and economic causes and effects of this mass migration? Why did some people emigrate and not others, and why did so many... -
Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993: Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery by Ivan Berend 9780521550666
RRP: $92.88$84.48In this wide-ranging account, Ivan Berend traces the post-war fortunes of the countries lying between Germany and the former Soviet Union. Professor Berend draws both on his academic expertise and personal involvement in many of the events which he... -
The Economic Organization of War Communism 1918-1921 by Silvana Malle 9780521527033
RRP: $63.20$53.50This book examines the origins, development and reasons for change of the first Soviet economic system. Programmes are compared with outcomes and theory with practice in the fields of nationalization, workers' control and management, money and planning,... -
Assimilation and Community: The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Jonathan Frankel 9780521526012
RRP: $47.72$39.64The early and middle decades of the nineteenth century in Europe (1815-81) have long been regarded as the major period of assimilation in post-medieval Jewish history. Moreover the established historiography dealing with those years has tended to focus... -
Edward Gibbon and Empire by Rosamond McKitterick 9780521525053
RRP: $56.75$47.94This book examines Gibbon's interpretations of empire and the intellectual context in which he formulated them against a background of the eighteenth- and late twentieth-century knowledge of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Gibbon's ideas of empire,... -
Family Power in Southern Italy: The Duchy of Gaeta and its Neighbours, 850-1139 by Patricia Skinner 9780521522052
RRP: $63.20$52.98This 1995 book explores how political power was exerted and family identity expressed in the context of reconstruction of the noble families of the medieval duchies of Gaeta, Amalfi and Naples. Localised forms of power, and the impact of the Norman...