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Information and Frontiers: Roman Foreign Relations in Late Antiquity by A. D. Lee 9780521392563
RRP: $116.10$93.10During late antiquity the Roman empire faced serious threats from the peoples to the east and to the north. This book is concerned with the role played by information and intelligence in the empire's relations with these peoples, how well-informed about... -
Princes and Territories in Medieval Germany by Benjamin Arnold 9780521390859
RRP: $116.10$93.62This book addresses the most important question in pre-modern German political history: why did a multiplicity of states and territories emerge by the end of the Middle Ages instead of an incipient 'nation state' under the crown? The answer is found not... -
Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement: Soviet Reality and Emigre Theories by Catherine Andreyev 9780521389600
RRP: $43.85$36.61Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement deals with the attempt by Soviet citizens to create a Russian anti-Stalinist liberation movement during the Second World War. These Soviet citizens were mainly prisoners-of-war, forced labourers or part of the... -
Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians by Julia M. H. Smith 9780521382854
RRP: $141.90$119.75This book offers ideas about the processes of political and cultural change in the early Middle Ages. The main focus is on relations between the centre and periphery of the Carolingian empire, in particular on the development of Brittany as a territorial... -
The Bread of Affliction: The Food Supply in the USSR during World War II by William Moskoff 9780521374996
RRP: $127.70$113.40This book tells how the Soviet Union fed itself after the invasion by the Germans during World War II. The author argues that central planning became much less important in feeding the population, and civilians were thereby forced to become considerably... -
Economic Expansion in the Byzantine Empire, 900-1200 by Alan Harvey 9780521371513
RRP: $116.10$93.62In this book Dr Harvey shows that, if we broaden our comprehension of feudalism, the economic developments of the Byzantine Empire and of the medieval west were far more comparable than Byzantine historians have been prepared to admit. Previous... -
Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento: Essays in Honour of Denis Mack Smith by John A. Davis 9780521365925
RRP: $116.10$93.62Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento contains ten essays written in honour of Denis Mack Smith by leading British and Italian specialists. The volume is intended both as a tribute to Denis Mack Smith's outstanding contribution to Italian... -
Perspectives on Modern German Economic History and Policy by Knut Borchardt 9780521368582
RRP: $55.46$46.69This collection of essays covers themes central to German economic history while considering their interaction with other historical phenomena. Among the essays Borchardt considers Germany's late start as an industrial nation, the West-East developmental... -
Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century by Christopher F. Black 9780521364874
RRP: $116.10$93.62Confraternities were - and are - religious brotherhoods for lay people to promote their religious life in common. Though designed to prepare for the afterlife, they were fully involved in the social, political and cultural life of the community and could... -
Strikes, Wars, and Revolutions in an International Perspective: Strike Waves in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Leopold H. Haimson 9780521352857
RRP: $161.25$139.31The contributions to this 1989 volume are concerned with the patterns of continuity and change in industrial labour conflicts in major industrialized countries before, during, and in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. The articles have been... -
Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy: Shop-Floor Culture and State Policy, 1921-1929 by Chris Ward 9780521345804
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Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 by Lewis H. Siegelbaum 9780521345484
RRP: $117.38$99.45This is a study in English of a major and instructive episode in the history of the Soviet Union. The Stakhanovite movement commemorated the mining of 102 tons of coal by Aleksei Stakhanov on August 30-1, 1935, and it was an important symbol by which the... -
Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia by Susan K. Morrissey 9780521349581
RRP: $58.04$49.20In early twentieth-century Russia, suicide became a public act and a social phenomenon of exceptional scale, a disquieting emblem of Russia's encounter with modernity. This book draws on an extensive range of sources, from judicial records to the popular... -
The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750-1900 by William M. Reddy 9780521347792
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Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria by Professor James van Horn Melton 9780521346689
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From Bossuet to Newman by Owen Chadwick 9780521336765
RRP: $51.59$42.91The coming of modern historical research had religious consequences, especially in the more traditional churches to which history was very important and which themselves helped to create the historical sense. In this classic work, long unobtainable but... -
Germany in the Age of Absolutism by Rudolf Vierhaus 9780521326865
RRP: $96.75$76.91Rudolf Vierhaus's work is much more than a political history of Germany from the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Seven Years' War: His study reconstructs the historical structures that marked this age. He examines economic developments, the social... -
Joseph II: Volume 2: Against the World, 1780-1790 by Derek Beales 9780521324885
RRP: $174.15$148.88This second and final volume of Derek Beales's magisterial biography of the emperor Joseph II describes the period when he was sole ruler of the Austrian monarchy. Influenced partly by Enlightenment ideals, Joseph relaxed censorship, introduced... -
The Spinners and Weavers of Auffay: Rural Industry and the Sexual Division of Labor in a French Village by Gay L. Gullickson 9780521322805
RRP: $116.10$93.10The cottage industry of France enjoyed enormous growth from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Through an intensive analysis of the social and economic impact of the expansion of this female-dominated industry, Gay Gullickson broadens our... -
Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118 by Rosemary Morris 9780521319508
RRP: $56.75$47.94In Byzantium monks did not form a separate caste, apart from society. They were not only loyal to their own houses or monastic leaders, but also formed part of a nexus of social, economic and spiritual relationships which bound together the 'powerful' in... -
The Holstein Papers: The Memoirs, Diaries and Correspondence of Friedrich von Holstein 1837-1909 by Friedrich von Holstein 9780521179669
RRP: $67.07$57.26Friedrich von Holstein (1837-1909) was Bismarck's subordinate at the German Foreign Office. Since his death historians have combined to make him a monster of sinister and self-seeking policy. At various times von Holstein kept diaries, began memoirs, and... -
Tales from Another Byzantium: Celestial Journey and Local Community in the Medieval Greek Apocrypha by Jane Baun 9780521177498
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God and Gold in Late Antiquity by Dominic Janes 9780521158749
RRP: $51.59$42.91Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Jewish Identities in German Popular Entertainment, 1890-1933 by Marline Otte 9780521187503
RRP: $49.01$40.39At the turn of the century, German popular entertainment was a realm of unprecedented opportunity for Jewish performers. This study explores the terms of their engagement and pays homage to the many ways in which German Jews were instrumental in the... -
Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews by Jonathan Frankel 9780521181556
RRP: $51.59$42.91This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. The focal point is the Russian revolution of 1905, when the political mobilization of the Jewish youth took... -
The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism by Susanne Heim 9780521181549
RRP: $64.49$54.75During the first part of the twentieth century, German science led the world. The most important scientific institution in Germany was the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, including institutes devoted to different fields of scientific research. These researchers... -
Enlightenment and the Creation of German Catholicism by Michael Printy 9780521181518
RRP: $49.01$40.39This book tells the story of how eighteenth-century German Catholics rethought the Church. Educated German Catholics envisioned a Church that would solidify the link between religion, civilization, and morality. The first account of the German Catholic... -
Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon by Robin Vose 9780521181495
RRP: $50.30$41.64With their active apostolate of preaching and teaching, Dominican friars were important promoters of Latin Christianity in the borderlands of medieval Spain and North Africa. Historians have long assumed that their efforts to convert or persecute... -
Gender in Early Modern German History by Ulinka Rublack 9780521179973
RRP: $50.30$41.64Why 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?... -
The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany by Annika Mombauer 9780521179805
RRP: $51.59$42.91Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence by Thomas Kuehn 9780521178471
RRP: $49.01$40.39This study, based on Florentine repudiations of inheritance, reveals that inheritance was not simply an automatic process where the recipients were passive, if grateful. In influential European societies of the past, it was in fact a process that... -
Economic Change and the National Question in Twentieth-Century Europe by Alice Teichova 9780521176521
RRP: $50.30$42.16The authors in this collection of essays address the largely neglected but significant economic aspects of the national question in its historical context during the course of the twentieth century. There exists a large gap in our understanding of the... -
Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West by James D. Tracy 9780521172653
RRP: $47.72$39.64How did state power impinge on the religion of the ordinary person? This perennial issue has been sharpened as historians uncover the process of 'confessionalization' or 'acculturation', by which officials of state and Church collaborated in ambitious... -
Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities by Timothy Reuter 9780521168632
RRP: $58.04$49.72This is a collection of influential and challenging essays by British medievalist Timothy Reuter, a perceptive and original thinker with extraordinary range who was equally at home in the Anglophone or German scholarly worlds. The book addresses three... -
Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century by Hamish Scott 9780521154635
RRP: $58.04$49.72This volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the forces which shaped politics and culture from 1680 to 1840 in Germany, France and Great Britain. The contributors, all leading specialists in the field, explore... -
Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy by Trevor Dean 9780521153836
RRP: $51.59$42.91In this important study, Trevor Dean examines the history of crime and criminal justice in Italy from the mid-thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth century. The book contains studies of the most frequent types of prosecuted crime such as violence, theft... -
European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War by Neville Wylie 9780521153621
RRP: $56.75$47.94This collection provides a comprehensive English-language survey of the conduct of neutral and non-belligerent states during the war. Instead of narrowly focusing on the few neutrals that survived the war intact, the volume broadens our understanding of... -
Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization by John U. Nef 9780521135849
RRP: $49.01$40.39Four hundred years ago the pattern of human life and thought was strikingly different from our own. What main features led to the change in that pattern? Professor Nef, a distinguished historian, suggests that economic history cannot alone give the... -
Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Guy Halsall 9780521133654
RRP: $49.01$40.39Although the topic of humour has been dealt with for other eras, early medieval humour remains largely neglected. These essays go some way towards filling the gap, examining how early medieval writers deliberately employed humour to make their cases. The... -
Muscovy and Sweden in the Thirty Years' War 1630-1635 by B.F. Porshnev 9780521124478
RRP: $50.30$41.64This is an English translation of important writings on the Thirty Years' War by the great Soviet historian B. F. Porshnev. Little is known of the Muscovite contribution to the conflict and Paul Dukes - arguably Britain's senior historian of ancien...