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Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento: Essays in Honour of Denis Mack Smith by John A. Davis 9780521526456
RRP: £30.99£23.80Society 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... -
Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France by Henry Phillips 9780521892995
RRP: £30.99£23.80Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France brings together the social, religious and intellectual history of the Grand Siecle and focuses on the involvement of the Church in a variety of cultural domains, including literature, art, censorship and... -
The Politics of Left-Wing Violence in Italy, 1969–85 by David Moss 9780333481998
£33.26This is an account of the nature and parabola of left-wing political violence that began in Italy in the late 1960s. It covers not only the patterns of recruitment, organization and activity among armed groups, but also the responses elicited from... -
Memory and Massacre: Revisiting Sant' Anna di Stazzema by Paolo Pezzino 9780230340787
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book recounts the massacre at Sant'Anna di Stazzema and examines its after effects. During the Nazi occupation of Italy, SS officers were charged with destroying anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi partisans. Paolo Pezzino not only reconstructs the events,... -
The Jacobites at Urbino: An Exiled Court in Transition by Edward Corp 9780230220041
RRP: £44.99£44.97Following the Glorious Revolution the court of the exiled Stuarts was for many years based in France, until after the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715, it was forced to move, eventually to be established in Rome. This book provides the first study... -
Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946-1991 by M. Wayne Northcutt 9780313263569
£72.57This unique guide to the French Fourth and Fifth Republics is a comprehensive reference work that includes over 250 entries on a variety of topics--ranging from politics and economics to foreign and defense policy to social and cultural history. It is an... -
The Nazi Occupation of Crete: 1941-1945 by G. C. Kiriakopoulos 9780275952778
£83.24For four years, the people of Crete suffered savage punitive reprisals for their heroic resistance to the barbaric Nazi invaders. Thousands died at the execution wall or from starvation and imprisonment. But their freedom-loving spirit would not let them... -
Women, Equality, and the French Revolution by Candice E. Proctor 9780313272455
£83.24This volume represents the first book-length study of attitudes toward women in revolutionary France. Based on extensive research in the libraries and archives of Paris, the book examines the impact of the Revolution's ideology of liberty and equality... -
Waiting for Jerusalem: Surviving the Holocaust in Romania by I. C. Butnaru 9780313287985
£83.64In this volume, the first English-language account of the underground Jewish resistance in Romania, I. C. Butnaru examines the efforts that resulted in some 300,000 Romanian Jews surviving the Holocaust. After detailing the rise of the fascist Iron... -
Family Dynasty, Revolutionary Society: The Cochins of Paris, 1750-1922 by Laurence H. Winnie 9780313313615
£83.24This study analyzes the family life and public careers of six generations of a notable Parisian family, the Cochins. Bourgeois merchants in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Cochins earned nobility through the office of alderman (^D'echevin) of Paris... -
Americans in Paris, 1900-1930: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography by William G. Bailey 9780313264429
£92.10Bailey is an accomplished bibliographer. . . . His annotations document the scintillating Paris of the early 1900s in smooth prose. Contents are arranged in eight broad topical groups, like `Writers and Their Crowds,' with author and subject indexes. . ... -
Inheritance of Empire: Britain, India, and the Balance of Power in Asia, 1938-55 by A. Martin Wainwright 9780275947330
£83.24This book considers the forces that shaped India's postwar position as a major power. It examines the growth and development of India's defense infrastructure from the eve of the Second World War in 1938 through the transfer of power and partition in... -
The Age of Napoleon by Susan P. Conner 9780313320149
£52.67Hegel called him an idea on horseback, a description that suggests Napoleon Bonaparte's complexity, as well as the extent to which he changed France, Europe, and the world. Napoleon has been called a visionary, a pragmatist, a cynical opportunist, an... -
Daily Life of the Ancient Romans by David Matz 9780313303265
£60.35Use this fascinating reference resource to find out what it meant to be a typical Ancient Roman. Using plenty of anecdotal material written by Romans themselves, this volume explores the ins and outs of daily living for ordinary people, from their homes,... -
Working in East Germany: Normality in a Socialist Dictatorship 1961-79 by Jeannette Madarasz 9780230001602
RRP: £44.99£44.97Working in East Germany explores economic tendencies, political relationships and social situations that combined to create a specific socio-political habitat in East Germany after the building of the Berlin Wall. Conditions were peculiar to say the... -
The Lure of Fascism in Western Europe: German Nazis, Dutch and French Fascists, 1933-1939 by Dietrich Orlow 9780230608658
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book breaks new ground by analyzing the reciprocal relationship between a fascism that had reached the power phase (Nazi Germany) and fascist movements in two neighbouring countries which were attempting to come to power in their respective... -
The Elusive Quest For European Security: From EDC to CFSP by Simon Duke 9780312224028
£90.27From EDC to CFSP provides a detailed overview of the various attempts to incorporate a security and defense role in the European integration process. The book considers why attempts to include it have been elusive, and assesses what progress has been... -
The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe by David Parrott 9780521514835
RRP: £85.00£63.70This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whereas previous accounts have emphasised the growth of state-run armies during this period, David Parrott... -
The Enlightenment by Ronald S. Love 9780313342431
£48.28One of the few self-named historical movements, the Enlightenment in 18th-century Europe was a powerful intellectual reaction to the dominance of absolutist monarchies and religious authorities. Building upon the discoveries of the Scientific Revolution,... -
Under the Shadow of the Swastika: The Moral Dilemmas of Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Europe by Rab Bennett 9780333656020
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book is a study in the ethics of war. It is the only work which focuses on the moral dilemmas of resistance and collaboration in Nazi-occupied Europe, including a detailed examination of Jewish resistance. It presents a comprehensive guide to the... -
Events That Changed Russia since 1855 by Frank W. Thackeray 9780313328152
£60.35Since Alexander II ascended to the Russian throne in 1855 and implemented a series of modernizing reforms, including the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, Russia has found itself in the throes of continuous upheaval, caught between the autocratic... -
Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners by Retha M. Warnicke 9780230391925
RRP: £44.99£44.97This fascinating study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. Collected here are accounts of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Anne Seymour, Lettice Dudley, and Jane and Alice More. Warnicke rescues these women... -
Missiles for the Fatherland: Peenemunde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile by Michael Bang Petersen 9780521882705
RRP: £90.00£61.97Missiles 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 Third English-Waldeck Regiment in the American Revolutionary War by Bruce E Burgoyne 9780788413018
RRP: £20.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788413018Author Bruce E BurgoyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 376g -
Charles Stewart Parnell and His Times: A Bibliography by N. C. Fleming 9780313282911
£95.31Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) wrote remarkably little about himself, but he has attracted the attention of many writers, politicians, and scholars, both during his lifetime and ever since. His controversial and provocative role in Irish and British... -
Civil War and World War in Europe: Spain, Yugoslavia, and Greece, 1936-1949 by Philip B. Minehan 9780230117877
RRP: £44.99£44.97A comparative history of the Spanish, Yugoslav and Greek Civil Wars 1936-1949 from the standpoints of politics, socioeconomic structures, national questions, international conjunctures and foreign interventions. From the shifting nexus of relations... -
Building Postwar Europe: National Decision-Makers and European Institutions, 1948-63 by Anne Deighton 9780312125806
RRP: £89.99£89.87Controversy surrounds the construction of postwar European institutions. Did West European states simply respond to American pressure and Cold-War politics? How important was federalist idealism, as opposed to economic and power political factors to... -
Structure and Mobility: The Men and Women of Marseille, 1820-1870 by William Hamilton Sewell, Jr. 9780521116169
RRP: £36.99£28.78First published in 1985, Structure and Mobility was intended to be a sociological portrait of Marseille during the epochal changes of the nineteenth century. Working principally from marriage registers of the period, Professor Sewell brought together a... -
Rethinking the Atlantic World: Europe and America in the Age of Democratic Revolutions by Manuela Albertone 9780230206786
RRP: £44.99£44.97This unique collection of essays provides a re-evaluation of the term 'Atlantic', by placing at the core of the debate on republicanism in the early modern age the link between continental Europe and America, rather than assuming British political... -
Communism's Collapse, Democracy's Demise?: The Cultural Context and Consequences of the East German Revolution by Lawrence H. McFalls 9780333628171
RRP: £89.99£89.87Based on original research, this book explores East German political culture and its role in the revolution of 1989 and in reunification. Specifically the book shows how a set of common values stabilised the communist regime until the 1980s, how the... -
The Counter-Reformation, 1550-1600. by Beresford James Kidd 9780313221934
£55.96A history of the 16th century conservative Catholic movement which sought to secure the traditions of the church against Protestant innovations and the liberalizing effects of the Renaissance.Book InformationISBN 9780313221934Author Beresford James... -
The Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries by Leopold H. Haimson 9780521526975
RRP: £41.99£32.68This book presents the life histories, drawn from a series of interviews conducted in the 1960s, of three prominent survivors of the Menshevik party: Lydia Dan, Boris Nicolaevsky, and George Denike. Each of these figures played an important role in the... -
European Political Facts, 1848-1918 by Chris Cook 9780333151006
£90.27In compiling this volume the editors have aimed to gather together, in one volume, as many of the important political facts as possible for a critical period of European history. In addition this book has also been designed as a companion volume to the... -
Children of Victory: Young Specialists and the Evolution of Soviet Society by David L. Ruffley 9780275976743
£55.96Born after 1940 and finishing higher education between 1965 and 1982, a generation of Russia's best, brightest, and most privileged came of age in the Brezhnev era. Using recently declassified archival material to uncover bother personal and professional... -
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939: The Baltic Case by I. L. Vizulis 9780275934569
£83.24This volume analyzes the effects of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 on the Baltic States and Eastern Europe. This Nazi-Soviet non-aggression treaty catapulted into worldwide consciousness this summer as a 370-mile human Freedom chain denied its... -
The Hunchback's Tailor: Giovanni Giolitti and Liberal Italy from the Challenge of Mass Politics to the Rise of Fascism, 1882-1922 by Alexander de Grand 9780275968748
£83.64Alongside Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George, Giovanni Giolitti (1842-1928) stands out as one of the major liberal reformers of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe. In the first complete English-language study of Giolitti, De Grand examines... -
German Incertitudes, 1914-1945: The Stones and the Cathedral by Klemens Von Klemperer 9780275970178
£83.24The history of modern Germany has all too readily been seen in terms of an historical process that inevitably led to the horrors of National Socialism. As there are no certitudes in life, however, so there are none in German history. In this book,... -
Paradise on Earth: Some Thoughts on European Images of Non-European Man by Henri Baudet 9780837189734
£74.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837189734Author Henri BaudetFormat HardbackPage Count 87Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Churchill: A Concise Bibliography by Buckley Barry Barrett 9780313314506
£60.35At the close of the 20th C., the formal end of a period strongly influenced by Winston S. Churchill as well as other political giants such as Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse-Tung, and FDR, scholars continued to discuss and evaluate Churchill and will continue to... -
One King, One Law, Three Faiths: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Metz by Patricia Miskimin 9780313307287
£65.53Miskimin's work considers the religious feuding, hostility, and occasional cooperation of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews in 17th-century Metz. In a series of pointed chapters, she shows how the French Crown benefited from religious disagreement in the...