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Conquerors' Road: An Eyewitness Report of Germany 1945 by Osmar White 9780521537513
RRP: €30.94€26.18Re-issued in 2003, this highly acclaimed and beautifully written book by one of Australia's finest chroniclers of the Second World War tells the devastating story of war from the inside. Based largely on the author's own war diary and the articles he... -
Biology, Medicine and Society 1840-1940 by Charles Webster 9780521533317
RRP: €51.16€43.07During the period 1840-1940 biology and medicine were transformed, and took on major implications for social amelioration and population growth. New biological disciplines such as genetics and psychology consciously used scientific explanation to... -
The Hessian Mercenary State: Ideas, Institutions, and Reform under Frederick II, 1760-1785 by Charles W. Ingrao 9780521533225
RRP: €47.59€39.58In 1776 Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse-Cassel dispatched 19,000 'auxiliaries' to assist the British in the American Revolution. While Frederick's action continues to color Americans' view of him, his 'enlightened' use of the funds from the soldier trade... -
The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888-1918 by Isabel V. Hull 9780521533218
RRP: €53.54€45.86This volume analyzes the immediate civilian and military entourage of the last German Kaiser. Its purpose is to lay bare the internal structures which combined to produce the peculiar, and ultimately fatal, decisions taken by Germany's leaders from 1888... -
Classes, Estates and Order in Early-Modern Brittany by James B. Collins 9780521533140
RRP: €47.59€39.58This book uses the Breton experience to address two fundamental historiographical issues: the meaning of absolutism and the nature of early-modern French society. It abandons the old framework that opposed orders to classes, and instead seeks to find the... -
Paths of Continuity: Central European Historiography from the 1930s to the 1950s by Hartmut Lehmann 9780521531214
RRP: €57.11€48.18Paths of Continuity examines the impact of the Third Reich on the German historical profession before and after 1945. The essays look at ten prominent historians whose lives and work spanned the period from the 1930s to the 1960s. Their response to the... -
The Baltic and the Outbreak of the Second World War by John Hiden 9780521531207
RRP: €45.21€37.26This book is the first to highlight the importance of the Baltic region in the approach to war in 1939. Amid the welter of publications on the origins of the Second World War none has sought hitherto to focus on the Baltic region, where peace finally and... -
Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century by Christopher F. Black 9780521531139
RRP: €47.59€39.58Confraternities 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... -
The Nation's Image: French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art by Jane Fulcher 9780521529433
RRP: €47.59€39.58French grand opera, this book argues, was a different and more complex kind of theater than we ordinarily suppose. Focusing on the period of grand opera's rise, its dominance, and its final decline, Professor Fulcher shows that it was a subtly used tool... -
The Origins of the Stalinist Political System by Graeme Gill 9780521529365
RRP: €57.11€48.18The Origins of the Stalinist Political System offers new and challenging perspectives on Soviet political development from October 1917 until the outbreak of war in June 1941. Explanations of the emergence of a Stalinist political system have hitherto... -
Russian National Income, 1885-1913 by Paul R. Gregory 9780521528481
RRP: €36.88€33.65This book presents estimates of the growth of the tsarist economy during the 'industrialization era', 1885-1913. The performance of the tsarist economy is compared with that of Soviet Russia during the plan era and of other industrialized countries... -
Violence and the Great Estates in the South of Italy: Apulia, 1900-1922 by Frank M. Snowden 9780521527101
RRP: €47.59€39.58Until Italian unification, vast areas of Apulia were an uninhabited sheep walk. In the late nineteenth century this frontier area was settled and agro-business established. In the quasi-colonial context of the South of Italy, the relations between... -
Preserving the Monarchy: The Comte de Vergennes 1774-1787 by Munro Price 9780521527064
RRP: €47.59€39.58The comte de Vergennes is best known as one of the great foreign ministers of modern French history, but for much of the 1780s he was also first minister in all but name. This 1995 book was the first to deal in depth with the critical part he played in... -
Baptism and Change in the Early Middle Ages, c.200-c.1150 by Peter Cramer 9780521526425
RRP: €51.16€43.07The liturgy of the medieval church has been little studied in its relation to medieval thought and society. It has often been taken for granted that the Latin liturgy was understood by the priest, but to his congregation was only a spectacle of authority... -
The Origins of Detente: The Genoa Conference and Soviet-Western Relations, 1921-1922 by Stephen White 9780521526173
RRP: €46.40€38.41The Genoa Conference of April-May 1922 saw the first serious and sustained attempt to negotiate a modus vivendi between the newly established Soviet government in Moscow and the western capitalist countries that surrounded it. Drawing upon a wide range... -
Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934 by George O. Liber 9780521522434
RRP: €51.16€43.07In the early 1920s the Bolsheviks, who were overwhelmingly urban, proletarian, and Russian, believed that rapid industrialization would dissolve the non-Russian national identities and create a solid base of support for the new political order. By the... -
Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel by Lee Palmer Wandel 9780521472227
RRP: €107.10€85.88This 1995 book is an effort to recover the participation of ordinary Christians in the enterprise of Reformation through an exploration of the meaning of acts of iconoclasm: what they tell us about the role of images in Christianity and about ordinary... -
The Reformation and Rural Society: The Parishes of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, 1528-1603 by C. Scott Dixon 9780521483117
RRP: €115.42€97.59What 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... -
In and out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany by R. Po-chia Hsia 9780521470643
RRP: €124.95€112.70During the 1920s much attention was paid to the history of Jews in Germany since the Enlightenment and the subject became popular again, with renewed emphasis, after 1945. Many historians were deeply committed to understanding and explaining the tragic... -
Urbanization and Crime: Germany 1871-1914 by Eric A. Johnson 9780521470179
RRP: €107.10€85.88This 1995 book contributes to both modern German history and to the sociological understanding of crime in modern industrial and urban societies. Its central argument is that cities, in themselves, do not cause crime. It focuses on the problems of crime... -
Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927 by Niall Ferguson 9780521470162
RRP: €148.75€123.37Few economic events have had a more profound or enduring impact than the German hyperinflation of 1923, still remembered popularly as a root cause of Hitler's rise to power. Yet many historians have argued that inflationary policies were, on balance,... -
The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe by Adriaan Verhulst 9780521469098
RRP: €44.02€37.78For more than fifty years no synthesis has been written which systematically examines the growth and development of cities in north-west Europe. Adriaan Verhulst takes as his subject the history of urban settlements and towns in the region between the... -
Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900-1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism by Peter Gatrell 9780521466196
RRP: €58.30€49.35This book provides an economic historian's perspective on major questions that confront all students of Russian history: how stable were the economic and administrative structures of late-imperial Russia, and how well prepared was Russia for war in 1914?... -
Christianity and Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1830 by Nigel Aston 9780521460279
RRP: €85.67€75.80Christianity and Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1830, first published in 2003, provides a comprehensive and accessible summary of the role of the churches during this turbulent period in European history. How did the churches survive the political and... -
From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Carlos M. N. Eire 9780521460187
RRP: €166.60€142.06This book reveals the workings of a culture that cherished death, and invested its resources in the pursuit of heaven. In sixteenth-century Spain, the social and economic debts of the living were extended to the dead, and society's central paradigms... -
Lay Theology in the Reformation: Popular Pamphleteers in Southwest Germany 1521-1525 by Paul A. Russell 9780521520294
RRP: €45.21€37.26This book examines the coming of the Protestant Reformation from the viewpoint of eight common people, who were sufficiently disturbed by the events of 1521-5 to write treatises, letters, dialogues, and sermons, which they published. Their works are... -
The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century Leon and Castile by Simon Barton 9780521497275
RRP: €151.13€135.45This 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... -
Conflict over Convoys: Anglo-American Logistics Diplomacy in the Second World War by Kevin Smith 9780521497251
RRP: €107.10€86.36Conflict over Convoys examines the Battle of the Atlantic from the perspective of Anglo-American diplomacy, deepening our understanding of Allied grand strategy, British industrial policy, and operations TORCH and OVERLORD. Failure to build and maintain... -
Opposing Fascism: Community, Authority and Resistance in Europe by Tim Kirk 9780521483179
RRP: €36.88€30.29This innovative volume draws together a series of perspectives on the everyday experience of Europeans in the 'age of fascism'. The contributions go beyond the conventional stereotypes of organized resistance to examine the tensions and ambiguities... -
History and Biography: Essays in Honour of Derek Beales by T. C. W. Blanning 9780521473309
RRP: €107.10€86.36For 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... -
Spanish Agriculture: The Long Siesta, 1765-1965 by James Simpson 9780521525169
RRP: €58.30€48.87Spanish Agriculture: The Long Siesta, 1765-1965, first published in 1996, is a major study in English of Spanish agrarian history. James Simpson examines how traditional agriculture responded to population growth and the integration of commodity markets,... -
An Island for Itself: Economic Development and Social Change in Late Medieval Sicily by Stephan R. Epstein 9780521525077
RRP: €58.30€49.35This study of late medieval Sicily develops a critique of theories of dependence through trade, and a new interpretation of the late medieval economy. It thus addresses current debates on the origins of modern Italian economic dualism, and on the... -
A Past Renewed: A Catalog of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 by Catherine Epstein 9780521440639
RRP: €124.95€112.70A Past Renewed portrays the generation of German-speaking refugee historians who settled in the United States after fleeing Hitler's Europe. Bio-bibliographical entries on eighty-eight refugee historians document their scholarly contributions, historical... -
The Transatlantic Century: Europe and America, 1890-2010 by Mary Nolan 9780521871679
RRP: €60.69€53.99This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy, Mary Nolan charts the rise of American influence in Eastern and Western... -
The Remaking of France: The National Assembly and the Constitution of 1791 by Michael P. Fitzsimmons 9780521454070
RRP: €107.10€86.36How did the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity evolve out of the corporate structure of the Old Regime in France? This 1994 study investigates the evolution of a new ideal in polity in 1789 and the reaction of French society to it. Concentrating... -
Medieval Economic Thought by Diana Wood 9780521452601
RRP: €89.24€78.41This book is an introduction to medieval economic thought, mainly from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, as it emerges from the works of academic theologians and lawyers and other sources - from Italian merchants' writings to vernacular poetry,... -
Crime, Disorder, and the Risorgimento: The Politics of Policing in Bologna by Steven C. Hughes 9780521444507
RRP: €107.10€96.90This 1994 book provides a meticulous examination of the ideology, structure, and functions of papal police as they operated in the city and province of Bologna in the period before Italian unity. In doing so, it also offers an important new perspective... -
The Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration, 1948-1967 by Yaacov Ro'i 9780521522441
RRP: €57.11€48.18In this important 1991 study of Soviet Jewry, Yaacov Ro'i examines the cultural, social, political and international context of the movement for emigration, from the establishment of the state of Israel to the outbreak of the Six Day War. A discussion of... -
Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization: The Consolidation of the Modern System of Soviet Production Relations 1953-1964 by Donald A. Filtzer 9780521522410
RRP: €46.40€38.41This 1992 book is a comprehensive study of the position of Soviet industrial workers during the Khrushchev period. Dr Filtzer examines the main features of labour policy, shop-floor relations between workers and managers, and the position of women... -
Neighbourhood and Community in Paris, 1740-1790 by David Garrioch 9780521522311
RRP: €48.78€40.73In the second half of the eighteenth century, Paris was the second largest city in Europe, with a population of some half a million. Contemporary writers described it as anonymous and chaotic, and so it must have seemed to many new arrivals from the...