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Ending the Terror: The French Revolution after Robespierre by Bronislaw Baczko 9780521441056
RRP: $116.09$98.67Ending the Terror makes accessible a major revisionist assessment of a crucial moment in the history of the French Revolution. The months that followed the fall of Robespierre in July 1794 mark not only a turning point in the history of the Revolution:... -
Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages by Wendy Davies 9780521434195
RRP: $116.10$93.62This is a collection of original essays on the relationship between property and power, a fundamental theme in medieval history. It addresses four main issues: the meaning of power over property; the ways in which property conveyed power; the nature of... -
Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe by Professor Gabor Klaniczay 9780521420181
RRP: $154.80$126.61Medieval dynasties frequently relied upon the cult of royal saints for legitimacy. After the early medieval emergence of this type of sainthood, in the central Middle Ages most royal dynasties had saints in their family: Edward the Confessor, Olaf,... -
The German Idea of Militarism: Radical and Socialist Critics 1866-1914 by Nicholas Stargardt 9780521420105
RRP: $116.10$93.10This 1994 book examines the development of the modern idea of militarism from its inception in the 1860s until the outbreak of World War I. Often regarded as the archetypical militarist state, imperial Germany in fact witnessed a major controversy over... -
Religion, Politics and Preferment in France since 1890: La Belle Epoque and its Legacy by Maurice Larkin 9780521419161
RRP: $116.10$93.10This book investigates the problems that committed Catholics allegedly faced if they sought careers in state employment under the Third French Republic. Using ministerial and Masonic archives, the book explores the broad divergence of practice between... -
Artisans in Europe, 1300-1914 by James R. Farr 9780521418881
RRP: $85.13$74.57This book is a survey of the history of work in general and of European urban artisans in particular, from the late middle ages to the era of industrialization. Unlike traditional histories of work and craftsmen, this book offers a multi-faceted... -
The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages by Wendy Davies 9780521515177
RRP: $116.10$93.62This book is a collection of original essays on gift in the early Middle Ages, from Anglo-Saxon England to the Islamic world. Focusing on the languages of gift, the essays reveal how early medieval people visualized and thought about gift, and how they... -
European Proto-Industrialization: An Introductory Handbook by Sheilagh Ogilvie 9780521497381
RRP: $96.75$81.67This collection of essays provides an introduction to 'proto-industrialization': the growth of export-oriented domestic industries which took place all over Europe between about 1500 and 1800. Often these industries expanded alongside agriculture,... -
Spanish Agriculture: The Long Siesta, 1765-1965 by James Simpson 9780521496308
RRP: $127.70$113.92Spanish Agriculture: The Long Siesta, 1765-1965, first published in 1996, is a major study in English of Spanish agrarian history. James Simpson examines how traditional agriculture responded to population growth and the integration of commodity markets,... -
Nature and Society in Historical Context by Mikulas Teich 9780521495301
RRP: $109.65$98.70In general terms, one way of describing the world we live in is to say that it is made up of nature and society, and that human beings belong to both. This was the first volume to be published which addresses the historical contexts of the relations... -
Nazism and the Working Class in Austria: Industrial Unrest and Political Dissent in the 'National Community' by Timothy Kirk 9780521475013
RRP: $116.10$93.10The image of Hitler as a demagogic 'pied piper' leading astray the 'little people' of Austria is as misleading as it is powerful. Nazism and the Working Class in Austria is a case study of the ambiguous relationship between state and society in Austria... -
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: Comparisons and Contrasts by Richard Bessel 9780521471299
RRP: $64.50$56.75Can Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany be compared? Not long ago, the answer seemed obvious: they could be and they were. Nationalist rhetoric, hostility to the left and to parliamentary government, and the glorification of violence seemed to invite... -
Between Sorrow and Strength: Women Refugees of the Nazi Period by Sibylle Quack 9780521470810
RRP: $135.45$122.18Many refugees of the Nazi period have attracted considerable scholarly attention. Einstein, Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, among others, are all famous examples. In contrast, little is known about the lives of more typical refugees, their everyday lives in... -
Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s by Denise J. Youngblood 9780521466325
RRP: $50.30$41.64This book is a pathbreaking study of the 'unknown' Soviet cinema: the popular movies which were central to Soviet film production in the 1920s. Professor Youngblood discusses acting genres, the cinema stars, audiences, and the influences of foreign films... -
Society and the Professions in Italy, 1860-1914 by Maria Malatesta 9780521465366
RRP: $135.45$120.27This is the first social and cultural study of the principal 'free' professions in Italy between unification and the First World War. It is a major contribution both to our understanding of the history of the bourgeoisie in Italy and to the developing... -
Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia by Erich E. Haberer 9780521460095
RRP: $135.45$106.31Jews 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... -
Reform and Revolution in France: The Politics of Transition, 1774-1791 by Peter M. Jones 9780521453226
RRP: $110.93$93.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
International Health Organisations and Movements, 1918-1939 by Paul Weindling 9780521450126
RRP: $149.64$126.61This is a collection of original studies on the new international health and welfare organisations between the First and the Second World Wars. The diversity of such organisations and their many-sided activities make this a rich and complex area of... -
Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345 by S. C. Rowell 9780521450119
RRP: $141.90$120.27Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Genoa, Rapallo, and European Reconstruction in 1922 by Carole Fink 9780521411677
RRP: $116.10$104.53One of the largest twentieth-century summit meetings, the Genoa Conference of 1922, was a notable failure, due to the gulf between the Allies and Germany, between the West and Soviet Russia, and among the World War I victors and their small allies. This... -
The Scientific Revolution in National Context by Roy Porter 9780521396998
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The Scientific Revolution in National Context by Roy Porter 9780521395106
RRP: $92.88$83.46The 'scientific revolution' of the sixteenth and seventeenth century continues to command attention in historical debate. Controversy still rages about the extent to which it was essentially a 'revolution of the mind', or how far it must also be... -
The Role of Banks in the Interwar Economy by Dr. Harold James 9780521394376
RRP: $116.10$93.62Although international finance and banking has been the subject of much research and writing, the economic impact of banks on industrial structures and the relations between banking and industry in the twentieth century have remained a relatively... -
The Medieval Spains by Bernard F. Reilly 9780521394369
RRP: $96.74$85.00This book traces the political evolution of the Iberian peninsula from a group of late Roman imperial provinces to the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies of the Trastamara and Braganza dynasties of the mid-fifteenth century. The book is planned as a... -
Lille and the Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500-1582 by Robert S. DuPlessis 9780521394154
RRP: $135.45$122.18In the literature on the Dutch revolt - indeed, in the scholarship on revolution as a whole - the experience of the leading textile and trading centre of Lille stands out as singular. Although affected by powerful economic, political, and religious... -
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia by Paul Freedman 9780521393270
RRP: $135.45$120.27This 1991 book describes the history of peasants in Catalonia, the wealthiest and politically dominant part of the medieval Kingdom of Aragon, between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. It focuses on the period from 1000 to 1300, when free peasants who... -
Stalin's Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928-1931 by Hiroaki Kuromiya 9780521387415
RRP: $63.20$53.50This is the first political and social history in English of Stalin's industrial revolution during the first Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932. The rapid diversion of vast resources into industrialization severely squeezed national consumption, imposing a heavy... -
Enterprise and Technology: The German and British Steel Industries, 1897-1914 by Ulrich Wengenroth 9780521384254
RRP: $116.10$93.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Wurttemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797 by Sheilagh C. Ogilvie 9780521372091
RRP: $163.83$139.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
'Who Has the Youth, Has the Future': The Campaign to Save Young Workers in Imperial Germany by Derek S. Linton 9780521385374
RRP: $116.10$93.62Virtually all discussions of the problematic character of youth and society in twentieth-century Germany begin with the middle class Wandervogel and end with the Hitler Youth. In this revisionist study Derek S. Linton argues that youth emerged as an... -
Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929 by Lewis H. Siegelbaum 9780521362153
RRP: $141.90$120.27This is the first book to analyse the relationship between the Soviet state and society from the October Revolution of 1917 to the revolution under Stalin of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Professor Lewis Siegelbaum examines the ways in which the... -
Industrialisation and Everyday Life by Rudolf Braun 9780521353113
RRP: $116.10$93.10Industrialising und Volksleben by Rudolf Braun is widely regarded as a classic of modern social history, inspiring a whole series of profound debates about the transition from pre-industrial society to the modern world. Utilising evidence from an upland... -
Grace, Talent, and Merit: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany by Anthony J. La Vopa 9780521350419
RRP: $135.45$106.31Poor students experienced a kind of upward mobility that was not uncommon in old-regime Europe. They were also objects of controversy. and as such they reveal the many dimensions of the issue of opening careers to talent. At stake were socially and... -
The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy: Essays on Perception and Communication by Peter Burke 9780521320412
RRP: $116.10$93.62Based on archival material from the cities of Genoa, Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, and Naples, as well as on published sources, such as travel journals, and artistic representations, this volume presents an original view of the culture of early modern... -
Piety and Politics: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in England, Wurttemberg and Prussia by Mary Fulbrook 9780521276337
RRP: $49.01$40.39In the context of continuing debates over Protestantism, capitalism and the absolutist state, this book presents a fresh historical and theoretical analysis of religion and politics in early modern Europe. The author undertakes a systematic... -
The Papacy, 1073-1198: Continuity and Innovation by I. S. Robinson 9780521264983
RRP: $141.90$124.39Before the mid-eleventh century the pope was far from being the active leader of the Church that he is today: he restricted himself to the local concerns of the diocese of Rome and was virtually ignored by the outside world. This book is a study of the... -
The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750-2000 by Hugh McLeod 9780521202336
RRP: $51.59$42.91Christendom lasted for over a thousand years in Western Europe, and we are still living in its shadow. For over two centuries this social and religious order has been in decline. Enforced religious unity has given way to increasing pluralism, and since... -
Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy by Gigliola Fragnito 9780521202329
RRP: $65.78$55.50The 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... -
The French Who Fought for Hitler: Memories from the Outcasts by Philippe Carrard 9780521198226
RRP: $116.10$93.10Thousands of Frenchmen volunteered to provide military help to the Nazis during World War II, fighting in such places as Belorussia, Galicia, Pomerania, and Berlin. Utilizing these soldiers' memoirs, The French Who Fought for Hitler examines how these... -
Rome across Time and Space: Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas, c.500-1400 by Claudia Bolgia 9780521192170
RRP: $135.45$106.31Medieval Rome was uniquely important, both as a physical city and as an idea with immense cultural capital, encapsulating the legacy of the ancient Empire, the glorious world of the martyrs and the triumph of Christian faith. Rome across Time and Space...