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America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe's Cultural Treasures by Michael J. Kurtz 9780521133401
RRP: £39.99£33.26The Nazi war on European culture produced the greatest dislocation of art, archives, and libraries in the history of the world. In the ruins of the Reich, Allied occupiers found millions of paintings, books, manuscripts, and pieces of sculpture, from the... -
The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum 9780521123556
RRP: £26.99£22.80The siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II, one that individuals and the state began to commemorate almost immediately. Official representations of 'heroic Leningrad' omitted and distorted a great deal... -
The State in Early Modern France by James B. Collins 9780521113144
RRP: £59.00£52.21A new edition of James Collins's acclaimed synthesis that challenged longstanding views of the origins of modern states and absolute monarchy through an analysis of early modern Europe's most important continental state. Incorporating recent scholarship... -
State, Society and University in Germany 1700-1914 by Charles McClelland 9780521102063
RRP: £44.99£38.54This is a comprehensive history of the German university system in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the evolution of the universities from their moribund state in 1700 to their rise to the pinnacle of world prestige and scientific... -
Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100 by Leonora Neville 9780521101172
RRP: £39.99£33.26The imperial government over the central provinces of the Byzantine Empire c.950-1100 was both sovereign and apathetic, dealing effectively with a narrow set of objectives, chiefly collecting revenue and maintaining imperial sovereignty. Outside these... -
People and Politics in France, 1848-1870 by Roger Price 9780521100137
RRP: £49.99£42.44This 2004 book is about politicisation and political choice in the aftermath of the February Revolution of 1848, and the emergence of democracy in France. The introduction of male suffrage both encouraged expectations of social transformation and aroused... -
The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: New Perspectives on the Economic and Social History of Seventeenth-Century Spain by I. A. A. Thompson 9780521105255
RRP: £38.99£32.28This is a collection of revisionist essays on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile by Spanish historians. Since the 1970s an explosion of historical scholarship in Spain, employing new techniques, approached and sources, has... -
Studies on Byzantine Literature of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by Alexander Kazhdan 9780521105224
RRP: £37.99£31.31Byzantine literature is often regarded as little more than an agglomeration of stereotyped forms and generic conventions which allows no scope for individual thought or expression. Accordingly, histories of Byzantine literature tend to focus on the... -
Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533 by Andrew Gillett 9780521096386
RRP: £39.99£33.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945 by Bernhard Rieger 9780521093149
RRP: £39.99£33.26This book examines the obsession for new technology that swept through Britain and Germany between 1890 and 1945. Drawing on a wide range of popular contemporary writings and pictorial material, it explains how, despite frequently feeling overwhelmed by... -
Studies in Numismatic Method: Presented to Philip Grierson by C. N. L. Brooke 9780521091336
RRP: £44.99£38.54Coins are one of the most abundant sources for our study of the past, yet their value as historical evidence is relatively neglected because of a general lack of knowledge of numismatic techniques. This volume of essays, offered by a circle of friends,... -
Family Forms in Historic Europe by Richard Wall 9780521091305
RRP: £49.99£42.44The family forms of historic Europe have been fascinating in their variety. Their importance for the historical development of our continent would be difficult to exaggerate; for our relationship with the peoples of the other continents of the world as... -
German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914-1918 by Matthew Stibbe 9780521027281
RRP: £48.99£41.07This is the first major study of German attitudes towsrds England during the Great War, 1914-18, continuing the story of Anglo-German antagonism where previous studies have ended. In particular it focuses on the extremity of anti-English feeling in... -
The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna by Howard Louthan 9780521027120
RRP: £33.99£28.38The 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,... -
Heinrich Bruning and the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic by William L. Patch, Jr. 9780521025416
RRP: £36.99£30.33Scholars have long debated whether Heinrich Bruning, head of the German government from 1930 to 1932, was the 'last democratic chancellor'of the Weimar Republic or the trailblazer of the Nazi dictatorship. His memoirs (published in 1970) damaged his... -
The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-1620 by Charles H. Parker 9780521025409
RRP: £36.99£30.33By 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... -
Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait by William J. Courtenay 9780521025102
RRP: £39.99£33.26This 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... -
Henry IV and the Towns: The Pursuit of Legitimacy in French Urban Society, 1589-1610 by S. Annette Finley-Croswhite 9780521025072
RRP: £33.99£28.38This 1999 book is a serious study of Henry IV's relationship with the towns of France, and offers an in-depth analysis of a crucial aspect of his craft of kingship. Set in the context of the later Wars of Religion, it examines Henry's achievement in... -
A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945 by Michael P. Richards 9780521025065
RRP: £44.99£37.16The years 1936-1945 in Spain saw catastrophic civil war followed by fierce repression and economic misery. Families were torn apart and social relations were disrupted by death, exile and defeat. Society became traumatized so deeply that people avoided... -
The State, War and Peace: Spanish Political Thought in the Renaissance 1516-1559 by J. A. Fernandez-Santamaria 9780521089128
RRP: £34.99£29.35This is a comprehensive study in English of political thought in Spain during the Renaissance. In the early sixteenth century Castile experienced two major constitutional crises caused by the accession of a Habsburg ruler (shortly to become Holy Roman... -
Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women by Elissa B. Weaver 9780521039024
RRP: £38.99£32.28This book is a study of convent theatre in Italy, an all-female tradition. Widespread in the early modern period, but virtually forgotten today, this activity produced a number of talented dramatists and works worthy of remembrance. Convent authors,... -
The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756-1775 by H. M. Scott 9780521038249
RRP: £49.99£42.04Throughout the nineteenth century, international relations in Europe were dominated by five great powers - Britain, France, Russia, Austria and Prussia. The creation of this system has been located traditionally in the long struggle with revolutionary... -
Royalty and Diplomacy in Europe, 1890-1914 by Roderick R. McLean 9780521038195
RRP: £44.99£37.16This 2001 book examines the diplomatic role of royal families in the era before the outbreak of the First World War. It argues that previous historians have neglected for political reasons the important political and diplomatic role of monarchs during... -
Naples in the Eighteenth Century: The Birth and Death of a Nation State by Girolamo Imbruglia 9780521038157
RRP: £39.99£33.26In 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... -
Politics and History in the Tenth Century: The Work and World of Richer of Reims by Jason Glenn 9780521038126
RRP: £48.99£41.07This book stands at the intersection of recent work in historiography and the study of political culture in the early Middle Ages. It takes the autograph manuscript of a tenth-century monk, Richer, as a point of entry into the author's world, and asks... -
An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800-1920: Demographic, Economic and Social Transition by Michael Wintle 9780521037396
RRP: £43.99£37.56An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800-1920 provides a comprehensive account of Dutch history from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, examining population and health, the economy, and socio-political history. The Dutch... -
The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300 by Brian A. Catlos 9780521036443
RRP: £49.99£42.44This is a revisionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule during the Spanish 'reconquest'. It looks beyond the obvious religious distinctions and delves into the subtleties of identity in the thirteenth-century Crown of Aragon, uncovering a... -
Upland Communities: Environment, Population and Social Structure in the Alps since the Sixteenth Century by Pier Paolo Viazzo 9780521034166
RRP: £43.99£37.16This book follows the social, economic and demographic transformations of the Alpine area from the late Middle Ages. Its aim is to reassess the image of the upland community which emerges from the work of historians, geographers and social... -
Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s by Richard Bessel 9780521009225
RRP: £38.99£32.28This collection of essays offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War. In a shift of perspective, it does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a... -
From General Estate to Special Interest: German Lawyers 1878-1933 by Kenneth F. Ledford 9780521030205
RRP: £42.99£36.59The history of German lawyers in private practice from 1878 to 1933 helps answer questions about the inability of German liberalism to withstand National Socialism in 1933. Lawyers connect the procedural focus of legal thinking with procedural notions of... -
Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France: Liberte, Egalite, Fiscalite by Michael Kwass 9780521030199
RRP: £44.99£38.14Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France, first published in 2000, offers a lucid interpretation of the Ancien Regime and the origins of the French Revolution. It examines what was arguably the most ambitious project of the... -
Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia by Richard L. Gawthrop 9780521030120
RRP: £39.99£33.26How did as small and backward a state as Prussia transform itself to compete successfully in war against states with far greater human and financial resources? Richard Gawthrop finds the answer to this perennial question in the creation of a unique... -
Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe by Peter Burke 9780521862080
RRP: £90.99£77.09This groundbreaking 2007 volume gathers an international team of historians to present the practice of translation as part of cultural history. Although translation is central to the transmission of ideas, the history of translation has generally been... -
Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition, c.900-1200 by Scott G. Bruce 9780521860802
RRP: £90.00£72.17Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism explores the rationales for religious silence in early medieval abbeys and the use of nonverbal forms of communication among monks when rules of silence forbade them from speaking. After examining the... -
Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean Economy by Joshua Holo 9780521856331
RRP: £90.00£72.57Using primary sources, Joshua Holo uncovers the day-to-day workings of the Byzantine-Jewish economy in the middle Byzantine period. Built on a web of exchange systems both exclusive to the Jewish community and integrated in society at large, this economy... -
Jewish Identities in German Popular Entertainment, 1890-1933 by Marline Otte 9780521856300
RRP: £90.00£72.17At 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... -
Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000 by Hans J. Hummer 9780521854412
RRP: £96.99£82.41How exactly did political power operate in early medieval Europe? Taking Alsace as his focus, Hans Hummer offers an intriguing new case study on localised and centralised power and the relationship between the two from c. 600-1000. Providing a panoramic... -
Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages: Arguments about Marriage in Five Courts by Charles Donahue, Jr. 9780521877282
RRP: £89.99£81.04This is a study of marriage litigation (with some reference to sexual offenses) in the archiepiscopal court of York (1300-1500) and the episcopal courts of Ely (1374-1381), Paris (1384-1387), Cambrai (1438-1453), and Brussels (1448-1459). All these... -
Solidarity without the State?: Business and the Shaping of the Swiss Welfare State, 1890-2000 by Matthieu Leimgruber 9780521875400
RRP: £90.00£72.57This book presents the first comprehensive history of the interplay of public and private provision that made the Swiss 'three-pillar' pension system into a model for the World Bank and other pension reformers during the last two decades of the twentieth... -
Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400-1800 by Charles H. Parker 9780521868662
RRP: £75.00£61.57Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age is an interdisciplinary introduction to cross-cultural encounters in the early modern age (1400-1800) and their influences on the development of world societies. In the aftermath of Mongol expansion across...