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Reformations Compared: Religious Transformations across Early Modern Europe by Henry A. Jefferies 9781009468596
RRP: €95.20€85.88Reformations Compared presents a collection of comparative studies of the Reformation as it reverberated across Europe in the sixteenth century. Each chapter is focused on two or more comparable geographical spaces, isolating the variables that help... -
Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494–1559 by Susan Broomhall 9781009462686
RRP: €59.49€59.32The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict conventionally known as the Italian Wars that engulfed much of Europe and the Mediterranean between 1494 and 1559. Through its considered attention to the interventions of women... -
Senses of Space in the Early Modern World by Nicholas Terpstra 9781009462624
RRP: €59.49€59.32How did early moderns experience sense and space? How did the expanding cultural, political, and social horizons of the period emerge out of those experiences and further shape them This Element takes an approach that is both global expansive and locally... -
Frankish Jerusalem: The Transformation of a Medieval City in the Latin East by Anna Gutgarts 9781009418324
RRP: €101.15€91.15Focusing on Jerusalem under Frankish rule following the Crusader conquest of 1099, this book sheds light on the dynamic socio-economic factors that shaped Jerusalem's gradual urban transformation. In exploring the extensive corpus of medieval property... -
Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494–1559 by Susan Broomhall 9781009415958
RRP: €20.23€17.52The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict conventionally known as the Italian Wars that engulfed much of Europe and the Mediterranean between 1494 and 1559. Through its considered attention to the interventions of women... -
Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe by Martin Conway 9781009370851
RRP: €101.15€91.15Social justice has returned to the heart of political debate in present-day Europe. But what does it mean in different national histories and political regimes, and how has this changed over time? This book provides the first historical account of the... -
Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions: A Global History, c. 1750–1830 by Jan C. Jansen 9781009370547
RRP: €101.15€91.15The political upheavals and military confrontations that rocked the world during the decades around 1800 saw forced migrations on a massive scale. This global history brings this explosion into full view. Rather than describing coerced mobilities as an... -
The Church of St. Polyeuktos at Constantinople by Fabian Stroth 9781009517065
RRP: €59.49€59.32The Church of St. Polyeuktos is one of the most magnificent, but also most peculiar architectural achievements in Byzantine Constantinople. The accidental rediscovery of the building during construction work in Istanbul in the 1960s is legendary and... -
The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition: From the Sixth to the Sixteenth Centuries by Yaniv Fox 9781009285018
RRP: €101.15€91.63The Merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of western Europe. The memory of the first dynasty of Frankish kings, their origin myths, accomplishments, and failures were used by generations of chroniclers,... -
Frontiers of Empire: Max Sering, Inner Colonization, and the German East, 1871–1945 by Robert L. Nelson 9781009235365
RRP: €101.15€91.15How did the homesteads and reservations of the Prairies of Western North America influence German colonization, ethnic cleansing and genocide in Eastern Europe? Max Sering, a world-famous agrarian settlement expert, stood on the Great Plains in 1883 and... -
Cross Purposes: Catholicism and the Political Imagination in Poland by Magdalena Waligorska 9781009230957
RRP: €107.10€96.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009230957Author Magdalena WaligorskaFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen and Political Screening during the Allied Occupation by Mikkel Dack 9781009216333
RRP: €101.15€91.63In the wake of World War II, the victorious Allied armies implemented a radical program to purge Nazism from Germany and preserve peace in Europe. Between 1945 and 1949, 20 million political questionnaires, or Fragebögen, were distributed by American,... -
The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Krakow Ghettos during World War II by Helene J. Sinnreich 9781009100083
RRP: €89.25€81.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009100083Author Helene J. SinnreichFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany by Joel F. Harrington 9780521894180
RRP: €46.40€38.41This book examines the impact of the Protestant Reformation on both the ideal and practice of marriage in sixteenth-century Germany. Combining extensive archival work with a broad synthesis of scholarly research in legal, theological, and social history,... -
Clement VI: The Pontificate and Ideas of an Avignon Pope by Diana Wood 9780521894111
RRP: €45.21€37.26Which of the two sides of Clement prevailed the 'official' or the personal? The book attempts to answer this question by examining his ideas and actions in connection with some of the major issues of the reign: for example, his attempts to solve the... -
The Reformation and Rural Society: The Parishes of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, 1528-1603 by C. Scott Dixon 9780521893213
RRP: €51.16€43.07What was the effect of the Reformation movement on the parishioners of the German countryside? This book examines the reform movement at the level of its implementation - the rural parish. Investigation of the Reformation and the sixteenth-century parish... -
After the Civil War: Making Memory and Re-Making Spain since 1936 by Michael Richards 9780521899345
RRP: €101.15€84.00The Spanish Civil War was fought not only on the streets and battlefields from 1936 to 1939 but also through memory and trauma in the decades that followed. This fascinating book reassesses the eras of war, dictatorship and transition to democracy in... -
Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy: Shop-Floor Culture and State Policy, 1921-1929 by Chris Ward 9780521894272
RRP: €51.16€43.07In Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy Chris Ward uses a wide range of published and unpublished Soviet sources to examine key aspects of life on the shop floor of the Russian cotton mill in the 1920s. He reveals the existence of a... -
Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy by Carl Ipsen 9780521894258
RRP: €40.45€33.77Mussolini believed that numbers were the key to strength. Between 1922 and 1945 the Fascists attempted to translate that belief into policy by introducing a structured programme to increase the population in Italy. This included campaigns to increase the... -
Inessa Armand: Revolutionary and Feminist by R.C. Elwood 9780521894210
RRP: €36.88€30.29Inessa Armand was the first Director of the Women's Section of the Russian Communist Party (the Zhenotdel). She was one of the most important women in the pre-revolutionary Bolshevik Party, and second only to Aleksandra Kollontai in the ranks of early... -
Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933 by Michael Berkowitz 9780521894203
RRP: €36.88€33.65This 1996 study of the Zionist movement in Germany, Britain, and the United States recognizes 'Western Zionism' as a distinctive force. From the First World War until the rise of Hitler, the Zionist movement encouraged Jews to celebrate aspects of a... -
Lille and the Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500-1582 by Robert S. DuPlessis 9780521894173
RRP: €57.11€48.18In 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 Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis by Joseph Canning 9780521894074
RRP: €47.59€39.58This is a full-scale study of the political thought of the Italian jurist, Baldus de Ubaldis (1327-1400). Baldus shared with his teacher and colleague, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, the greatest fame and influence amongst the Commentators, the school of... -
The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century Leon and Castile by Simon Barton 9780521894067
RRP: €58.30€49.35This volume examines the nature of aristocratic society in the Spanish kingdom of Leon and Castile in the twelfth century. Drawing on an extensive range of original sources, many of them unpublished, it highlights the unrivalled wealth, status and power... -
New Directions in Soviet History by Stephen White 9780521893435
RRP: €40.45€33.77In this volume, scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, using a breadth of source material including Soviet archives and the local press, present recent thinking and research on Soviet history. New Directions in Soviet History opens with a provocative... -
Louis XV and the Parlement of Paris, 1737-55 by John Rogister 9780521893367
RRP: €45.21€37.26This is a lively narrative account, based on previously unused material, of the events that marked the troubled relationship between Louis XV, the clergy of France, and the Parlement of Paris in the mid-eighteenth century. The author shows how religious... -
From Ostpolitik to Reunification: West German-Soviet Political Relations since 1974 by Avril Pittman 9780521893336
RRP: €40.45€33.77With the signing of the Moscow Treaty in 1970, West German-Soviet relations came to the forefront of world politics. Two decades later, the historic opening of the Berlin Wall and German reunification once again focused world attention on the Federal... -
Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular by Simon Ditchfield 9780521893206
RRP: €60.68€51.67This book brings together for the first time detailed analyses of Tridentine liturgical reform, Counter-Reformation sanctity and the late Renaissance 'revolution' in historical method. It redraws traditional historical boundaries, and offers an original... -
History and Biography: Essays in Honour of Derek Beales by T. C. W. Blanning 9780521893176
RRP: €45.21€37.26For too long, too many historians have been too much concerned with impersonal forces, underlying structures and long-term developments. Now, 'people' are back. In a post-modern age it is easier to appreciate the decisive role played by individuals, as... -
Family and Social Change: The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community by Angelique Janssens 9780521892155
RRP: €51.16€43.07This 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... -
Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon by Robin Vose 9780521886437
RRP: €107.10€86.36With 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... -
Poland under Communism: A Cold War History by A. Kemp-Welch 9780521884402
RRP: €76.16€66.78This book was the first English-language history of Poland from the Second World War until the fall of Communism. Using a wide range of Polish archives and unpublished sources in Moscow and Washington, Tony Kemp-Welch integrates the Cold War history of... -
Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945 by Bernhard Rieger 9780521845281
RRP: €115.42€98.07This 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... -
The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigres and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945 by Michael Kellogg 9780521845120
RRP: €108.28€92.21This book examines the overlooked topic of the influence of anti-Bolshevik, anti-Semitic Russian exiles on Nazism. White emigres contributed politically, financially, militarily, and ideologically to National Socialism. This work refutes the notion that... -
France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality, and Globalization since 1980 by Dr Timothy B. Smith 9780521844147
RRP: €85.68€77.93France is in crisis. In this provocative account, Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is collapsing inward on itself, the result of good intentions, bad policies, and vested interests who employ the rhetoric of 'solidarity' to... -
The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History, and the Limits of the Law by Devin O. Pendas 9780521844062
RRP: €124.95€98.07The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was the largest, most public, and most important trial of Holocaust perpetrators conducted in West German courts. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Devin O. Pendas provides a comprehensive history of this... -
The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714-1837 by Brendan Simms 9780521842228
RRP: €115.42€98.07For more than 120 years (1714-1837) Great Britain was linked to the German Electorate, later Kingdom, of Hanover through Personal Union. This made Britain a continental European state in many respects, and diluted her sense of insular apartness. The... -
Berlin - Washington, 1800-2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities by Andreas W. Daum 9780521841177
RRP: €107.10€86.36This collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation-states in the modern era. Each of the cities has assumed, at times, a mythical quality and they have been seen as... -
Sweeping the German Nation: Domesticity and National Identity in Germany, 1870-1945 by Nancy R. Reagin 9780521841139
RRP: €107.10€85.88Is cleanliness next to Germanness, as some nineteenth-century nationalists insisted? This book explores the relationship between gender roles, domesticity, and German national identity between 1870-1945. After German unification, approaches to household... -
The Reform of the Frankish Church: Chrodegang of Metz and the Regula canonicorum in the Eighth Century by M.A. Claussen 9780521839310
RRP: €124.95€98.07Chrodegang of Metz (c. 712-766) was a leading figure of the late Merovingian and early Carolingian Church. Born to one of the principal aristocratic families in Austrasia, he served as referendary of Charles Martel, and was appointed bishop of Metz in...