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Elections, Mass Politics and Social Change in Modern Germany: New Perspectives by Larry Eugene Jones 9780521429122
RRP: £51.99£44.39This collection of essays presents the work on Germany's stormy and problematic encounter with mass politics from the time of Bismarck to the Nazi era. The authors - sixteen scholars from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany - consider... -
The Pre-industrial Urban System: France 1740-1840 by Bernard Lepetit 9780521417341
RRP: £122.00£103.07This is a landmark publication in the urban study of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which appears here for the first time in English. Highly acclaimed in the original French edition, it provides a synoptic view of the evolution of the French... -
The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution by Christopher R. Browning 9780521417013
RRP: £90.00£72.17The Nazi Holocaust haunts the modern imagination as one of the most compelling examples of the human capacity for organised atrocity on a mass scale. This authoritative account of the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy from 1939 to 1942 seeks to answer some... -
Family and Social Change: The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community by Angelique Janssens 9780521416115
RRP: £110.00£98.15This book is a quantitative study into the influence of the process of industrialisation on the nature and strength of family relationships in a Dutch community between 1850 and 1920. The study makes use of the unique and unusually rich source of Dutch... -
The European Nobility, 1400-1800 by Jonathan Dewald 9780521415125
RRP: £66.99£58.27This book is the first comprehensive history of the European nobility between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. Designed to introduce students and non-specialists to the subject, it explains all the principal themes and problems in an... -
Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy by Trevor Dean 9780521411028
RRP: £90.00£76.49Drawing on a wide body of internationally-renowned scholars, including a core of Italians, this volume focuses on new material and puts crime and disorder in Renaissance Italy firmly in its political and social context. All stages of the judicial process... -
The Corporation under Russian Law, 1800-1917: A Study in Tsarist Economic Policy by Thomas C. Owen 9780521391269
RRP: £90.00£72.17This study analyses the legal framework imposed on corporations by the imperial Russian Government. It stresses the dual nature of the bureaucracy's policy toward modern capitalist enterprise: encouragement for the sake of economic development, and... -
The Armada of Flanders: Spanish Maritime Policy and European War, 1568-1668 by R. A. Stradling 9780521405348
RRP: £96.99£82.41The Flanders armada, took shape in response to the use of seapower by the Dutch rebels, and evolved into the most effective unit in Spain's defence establishment. In combination with its privateering auxiliaries, this elite striking force dominated the... -
The Jew Accused: Three Anti-Semitic Affairs (Dreyfus, Beilis, Frank) 1894-1915 by Albert S. Lindemann 9780521403023
RRP: £90.00£72.57Three Jews, Alfred Dreyfus, Mendel Beilis, and Leo Frank, were charged with heinous crimes in the generation before World War I, Dreyfus of treason in France, Beilis of ritual murder in Russia, and Frank of the murder of a young girl in the United States... -
The Reformation in National Context by Robert Scribner 9780521401555
RRP: £90.00£72.17This collection of essays by prominent historians of the Reformation explores the experience of religious reform in 'national context', discussing similarities and differences between the reform movements in a dozen different countries of... -
Peasantry and Society in France since 1789 by Annie Moulin 9780521395342
RRP: £75.00£60.02This book examines the social, economic and cultural evolution of the peasantry in France and its place in French society since 1789. Within an overall chronological framework, Annie Moulin analyses the changes experienced by the peasantry, which as a... -
The Political Economy of Shopkeeping in Milan, 1886-1922 by Jonathan Morris 9780521391191
RRP: £110.00£99.14From the mid-1880s a shopkeeper movement developed in Milan, centred around a shopkeeper newspaper, a federation of shopkeeper trade associations, and a shopkeeper bank. In 1904 shopkeeper representatives initiated a sequence of events that led to the... -
The Making of a Saint: The Life, Times and Sanctification of Neophytos the Recluse by Catia Galatariotou 9780521390354
RRP: £90.00£72.57Every case of sanctification is unique - as unique as the holy man or woman at its centre. Yet at the same time the problem posed is a general one: how does an individual become a Saint? In this bold and pioneering study the author answers the question... -
Russian Officialdom in Crisis: Autocracy and Local Self-Government, 1861-1900 by Thomas S. Pearson 9780521361279
RRP: £90.00£72.57This book is the first full account of the development of rural self-government in Russia from the emancipation of the serfs to its bureaucratisation in the counter-reforms of 1889-90. Through analysis of central and provincial perceptions of local... -
Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany by Thomas Robisheaux 9780521356268
RRP: £90.00£72.57For the rural societies of Germany the early sixteenth century was a time of massive upheavals. In this probing study of village life, based upon rich manuscript sources from the old County of Hohenlohe, Thomas Robisheaux seeks to understand how petty... -
Stalin, Siberia and the Crisis of the New Economic Policy by James Hughes 9780521380393
RRP: £110.00£93.23This 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... -
Perspectives on Modern German Economic History and Policy by Knut Borchardt 9780521363105
RRP: £85.99£76.51This 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... -
The Fascist Revolution in Tuscany, 1919-22 by Frank Snowden 9780521361170
RRP: £90.00£72.57This 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... -
Bonapartism and Revolutionary Tradition in France: The Federes of 1815 by R. S. Alexander 9780521361125
RRP: £90.00£72.57Bonapartism and Revolutionary Tradition in France is a study of the personnel, organisation and activities of the Federes, the massive paramilitary political associations that supported Napoleon during the Hundred Days. In tracing federe backgrounds the... -
Historical Studies in International Corporate Business by Alice Teichova 9780521356008
RRP: £90.00£72.17This 1989 book is the sequel to Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective (1986), in which the same editorial team continues the historical exploration of a vital but often misconstrued commercial phenomenon. The contributory essays, each... -
The Russian Revolutionary Movement in the 1880s by Derek Offord 9780521327237
RRP: £90.00£72.17The book deals with the various revolutionary groups active in Russia in the 1880s. The first chapter attempts a definition of Populism, examines the main strategies on which revolutionary activity was based in the 1870s, traces the development of the... -
Capital Cities at War: Volume 2, A Cultural History: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919 by Dr Jay Winter 9780521870436
RRP: £88.00£80.26This is the second volume of a pioneering two-volume comparative history of the capital cities of Britain, France and Germany during the Great War. Leading historians explore these wartime cities, from the railway stations where newcomers took on new... -
Missiles for the Fatherland: Peenemunde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile by Michael Bang Petersen 9780521283403
RRP: £33.99£28.38Missiles for the Fatherland tells the story of the scientists and engineers who built the V-2 missile in Hitler's Germany. This text was the first scholarly history of the culture and society that underpinned missile development at Germany's secret... -
The Power of the Past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm by Pat Thane 9780521275279
RRP: £30.99£25.45Modern industrial societies are the creation of forced of change embedded in their pre-industrial and pre-capitalist past, forces which have shaped their economic structures, their politics of domination and resistance, their social ideas and... -
Human Rights in the Twentieth Century by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann 9780521194266
RRP: £85.00£72.57Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the... -
Power and Patronage in Early Medieval Italy: Local Society, Italian Politics and the Abbey of Farfa, c.700-900 by Marios Costambeys 9780521178303
RRP: £43.99£37.56Founded around the beginning of the eighth century in the Sabine hills north of Rome, the abbey of Farfa was for centuries a barometer of social and political change in central Italy. Conventionally, the region's history in the early Middle Ages revolves... -
Design for a New Europe by John Gillingham 9780521866941
RRP: £59.99£50.83How did the process of European integration break down; how can it be repaired? In European Integration, 1950-2003, John Gillingham reviewed the history of the European project and predicted the rejection of the European constitution. Now the world's... -
Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700 by Gianvittorio Signorotto 9780521283144
RRP: £30.99£26.43This 2002 book attempts to overcome the traditional historiographical approach to the role of the early modern papacy by focusing on the actual mechanisms of power in the papal court. The period covered extends from the Renaissance to the aftermath of... -
The Norman Kingdom of Sicily by Donald Matthew 9780521262842
RRP: £79.99£70.59This book is an introductory account of the kingdom of Sicily established in 1130 by Roger II, a 'Norman' king, and ruled by Roger, his own son and grandsons until 1194 when the kingdom was conquered by his son-in-law, Henry VI of Hohenstaufen. The... -
The Republic of de Gaulle 1958-1969 by Serge Berstein 9780521252393
RRP: £110.00£98.15The Republic of De Gaulle offers a comprehensive account - the fullest yet available in English - of the eleven years that followed the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958. Serge Berstein analyses the new constitutional and political system that... -
The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century by Nina Rowe 9780521197441
RRP: £90.00£73.17In the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagoga and Ecclesia - paired female personifications of the Synagogue defeated and the Church triumphant - became a favoured motif on cathedral facades in France and Germany. Throughout the preceding centuries,... -
A Concise History of Switzerland by Clive H. Church 9780521194440
RRP: £74.99£63.70Despite its position at the heart of Europe and its quintessentially European nature, Switzerland's history is often overlooked within the English-speaking world. This comprehensive and engaging history of Switzerland traces the historical and cultural... -
Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 by Guy Vanthemsche 9780521194211
RRP: £94.99£80.43While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising country has long been neglected. Recently, many studies have examined the repercussions of their respective empires on... -
German History in Modern Times: Four Lives of the Nation by William W. Hagen 9780521191906
RRP: £74.99£66.29This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture and political power, contrasting German with Western... -
The Wandering Heretics of Languedoc by Caterina Bruschi 9780521182270
RRP: £39.99£33.26How should historians read sources which record inquisitorial trials in the Middle Ages? How can we understand the fears felt by those on trial? By analysing six volumes of depositions in the trial of Cathar and Waldensian heretics in Languedoc between... -
Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice by Elizabeth Horodowich 9780521178365
RRP: £38.99£32.28While historians typically describe the state as emerging through a wide variety of processes and structures such as armies, bureaucracies, and administrative organizations, this book demonstrates that a crucial but unrecognized component of... -
War and Peace in Ancient and Medieval History by Philip de Souza 9780521174145
RRP: £39.99£33.26This is a major study of the ideas and practices involved in the making and breaking of peace treaties and truces from Classical Greece to the time of the Crusades. Leading specialists on war and peace in ancient and medieval history examine the creation... -
Literacy in Lombard Italy, c.568-774 by Nicholas Everett 9780521174107
RRP: £44.99£38.54Italy had long experienced literacy under Roman rule, but what happened to literacy in Italy under the rule of a barbarian people? This book examines the evidence for the use of literacy in Lombard Italy c. 568-774, a period usually considered as the... -
Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought: The Interpretation of Mary and Martha, the Ideal of the Imitation of Christ, the Orders of Society by Giles Constable 9780521305150
RRP: £105.00£82.41This volume concentrates on the changes in religious thought and institutions in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and includes not only monks and nuns but also less organised types of life such as hermits, recluses, crusaders, and penitents. It is... -
From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk: Weimar and Nazi Family Policy, 1918-1945 by Michelle Mouton 9780521145749
RRP: £28.99£24.42Fearing that the future of the nation was at stake following the First World War, German policymakers vastly expanded social welfare programs to shore up women and families. Just over a decade later, the Nazis seized control of the state and created a...