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The Secret Police and the Revolution: The Fall of the German Democratic Republic by Edward Peterson 9780275973285
€99.53The opening of the secret files of the East German Ministry of State Security after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 enabled this study. Most interesting are the reports from the thousands of spies at the local level, the analysis at the local and... -
Recalling the Good Fight: An Autobiography of the Spanish Civil War by John Tisa 9780897890786
€99.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897890786Author John TisaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Catalan Nationalism: Past and Present by Albert Balcells 9780312126117
RRP: €107.09€106.95This book, the first study of Catalan nationalism to appear in English, outlines the history of Catalonia, showing how the national and cultural identity of the region persisted despite persecution. This provides the necessary background for the analysis... -
Dictionary of Modern Italian History by Frank J. Coppa 9780313229831
€86.36Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313229831Author Frank J. CoppaFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne by Frank Lestringant 9780745616971
RRP: €53.55€53.53Mapping the origins and evolution of the word 'cannibal', Lestringant describes the symbolic uses of cannibalism by authors, political theorists and theologians. In a wide-ranging discussion he surveys the myth and the reality of the cannibal, and... -
Prussia: The History of a Lost State by Rudolf Von Thadden 9780521108836
RRP: €36.88€28.32This is a series of reflective essays which pose fundamental and deceptively simple questions about Prussia, which for over fifty years has ceased to exist as a political entity but which continues to exert a strong and unusual influence upon German... -
Sketches of the Nineteenth Century: European Journalism and its Physiologies , 1830-50 by Martina Lauster 9780230518032
€53.99This book discusses the visual and verbal city sketches which proliferated during the 'journalistic revolution' of the 1830s and 1840s. It shows how sketches transformed models of visual and printed media and of life science into a unique kind of... -
Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953 by Jay Howard Geller 9780521833530
RRP: €89.25€62.13This is the story of the reemergence of the Jewish community in Germany after its near total destruction during the Holocaust. In western Germany, the community needed to overcome deep cultural, religious, and political differences before uniting. In... -
The Origins of Polish Socialism: The History and Ideas of the First Polish Socialist Party 1878-1886 by Lucjan Blit 9780521089685
RRP: €36.88€27.19This is a study of the men and women who pioneered socialist and Marxist ideas among the Poles in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century, and the dramatic history of the underground party, 'Proletariat', which they formed. It opens with an... -
A History of The Croats - The Years 1102 to 1606: From the reign of the Árpáds to the end of the Croatian-Ottoman Hundred Years' War by Ante Mrkonjic 9780646880518
€109.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646880518Author Ante MrkonjicFormat HardbackPage Count 908Imprint Ante MrkonjicPublisher Ante MrkonjicWeight(grams) 2359g -
Wallenstein: The Enigma of the Thirty Years War by Geoff Mortimer 9780230272125
RRP: €107.09€106.95Albrecht Wallenstein was a legendary military commander and generalissimo of the Habsburg forces, yet was eventually assassinated on the orders of Emperor Ferdinand II. This accessible modern biography of Wallenstein for the English-speaking reader... -
Germanic Origins. a Study in Primitive Culture. by Francis Barton Gummere 9781240909148
RRP: €27.31€23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240909148Author Francis Barton GummereFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,... -
Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging by Maria Paula Diogo 9780230279643
€27.67Over the course of 150 years, Europe's protean technologies inspired and underpinned the globalizing ambitions of European nations. This book aims to show how technology mediated European influence in the rest of the world and how this mediation in turn... -
The Reformation in Germany by C. Scott Dixon 9780631202523
RRP: €126.08€110.13The Reformation in Germany provides readers with a strong narrative overview of the most recent work on this topic. It addresses the central concerns of Reformation historiography as well as providing a distinct interpretation of the movement. The book... -
Catholic Nationalism in the Irish Revival: A Study of Canon Sheehan, 1852-1913 by Ruth Fleischmann 9780333689431
RRP: €107.09€106.95Canon Sheehan's writings provide valuable insight into Ireland's difficult process of cultural reconstruction after independence. This astute observer of Irish society was pessimistic about the future of religion. Though himself a man of European... -
Film, Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War: Resistance and Guerrilla 1936-2010 by Mercedes Maroto Camino 9780230240551
RRP: €53.54€53.51Film, Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War reconstructs the legacy of the Spanish Civil War through an investigation of the anti-Franco guerrilla of the 1940s and 1950s. The book explores the memory of Spanish resistance fighters and their... -
'By the Banks of the Neva': Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia by Anthony Cross 9780521552936
RRP: €142.80€111.66This 1996 book offers a fascinating investigation into the lives and careers of the British in eighteenth-century Russia and, more specifically, into the development of a vibrant British community in St Petersburg during the city's first century of... -
Juan Carlos of Spain: Self-Made Monarch by Charles Powell 9780333547267
RRP: €107.09€106.95Widely acknowledged as a key figure in Spain's remarkable transition to democracy following General Franco's death in 1975, King Juan Carlos consolidated his reputation as a champion of democracy by aborting the attempted military coup of 23 February... -
The Most Ancient of Minorities: The Jews of Italy by Stanislao G. Pugliese 9780313318955
€99.53A volume of essays that examine more than 2,000 years of Italian Jewish history, from ancient Rome to contemporary developments concerning assimilation, literature, and the recent trial of a former SS captain implicated in crimes against humanity. The... -
The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact by Gail M. Schwab 9780313293399
€99.53The essays in this collection, drawn from a Hofstra University bicentennial conference on the French Revolution, seek to come to terms, often from conflicting points of view, with the complex relationship between events and their representations. The... -
Neville Chamberlain and British Rearmament: Pride, Prejudice, and Politics by John Ruggiero 9780313310508
€99.53A reexamination of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy, this study challenges prevailing images of Chamberlain as a tragic hero-a man of peace, naively impressed by the dictators, who did his best under difficult circumstances to prepare his country... -
Historical Dictionary of Poland, 1945-1996 by Piotr J. Wrobel 9780313297724
€86.36Located between the former Soviet Union and Germany Poland has the potential to become a political and economic bridge between the East and the West. It is crucial to European security and stabilization. Yet, the list of reference books on recent Polish... -
The Hitler Library: A Bibliography by Philipp Gassert 9780313314957
€86.36Making a unique collection accessible to scholars, The Hitler Library is a complete bibliography of Hitler's books currently in the Rare Book Reading Room of the Library of Congress. Pointing to seldom used sources in social and political history,... -
The Supranational Politics of Jean Monnet: Ideas and Origins of the European Community by Frederic J. Fransen 9780313318290
€77.98Although previous advocates of European Unity proposed the replacement of the balance of power model of international relations, Jean Monnet was the first to try to do so along Franco-German rather than Franco-British lines. He concluded that... -
Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689 by Ronald H. Fritze 9780313283918
€87.07A ready reference for general readers, undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, and scholars, this volume contains 320 entries by 80 experts, covering a broad range of topics, plus a lengthy chronology and extensive bibliography. The entries are... -
Ambivalent Embrace: America's Troubled Relations with Spain from the Revolutionary War to the Cold War by Rodrigo Botero 9780313315701
€99.06For nearly two centuries interaction between Spain and the United States was characterized by cultural and political differences, mutually perceived conflicts of national interest, and an asymmetry of power. Botero identifies the period from 1945 to 1953... -
At the Very Least She Pays the Rent: Women and German Industrialization, 1871-1914 by Barbara Franzoi 9780313244872
€66.59During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, German cultural attitudes of paternalism and partriarchy heavily influenced the entrance of women into the labor force. To make German working women visible in their nation's economic and social... -
God, Britain, and Hitler in World War II: The View of the British Clergy, 1939-1945 by A. J. Hoover 9780275965396
€77.98Many Britains had distinct religious or theological interpretations of World War II. They viewed Fascism, especially the German National Socialism, as a form of modern paganism, a repulsive worship of Leader, Race, and State-a form of idolatry. However,... -
Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State: Volume Five, Modern Origins, Developments, and Perspectives against the Background of Machiavellism^LBook II: Modern Major Isms (17th-18th Centuries) by A. London Fell 9780275956899
€99.53Focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries, this volume centers around six ideological isms that the author seeks to exploit as well as deconstruct. The six isms are absolutism, constitutionalism, rationalism, empiricism, liberalism, and conservatism-all of... -
Hitler Slept Late and Other Blunders That Cost Him the War by James P. Duffy 9780275936679
€99.06In this surprising reinterpretation of Hitler's impact on the outcome of World War II, James Duffy reveals that the war was not won through American strength and ingenuity alone. Rather, it was lost due to Hitler's phenomenal military blunders... -
The Two Germanies and Military Security in Europe by Christoph Bluth 9780333968932
RRP: €53.54€53.51This original study based on documents, hitherto not discussed in literature of the Cold War, adds a significant new perspective to an important episode in Cold War History. The subject of this book is the policy of the two Germanies towards the talks on... -
Britain, France and the Entente Cordiale Since 1904 by Antoine Capet 9780230009028
RRP: €53.54€53.51This collection gathers many of the best-known names in the field of Anglo-French relations and provides an authoritative survey of the field. Starting with the crucial period of the First World War and ending with the equally complex question of the... -
Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic by Benjamin C. Fortna 9780230232969
RRP: €53.54€53.51An exploration of the ways in which children learned and were taught to read, against the background of the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic. This study gives us a fresh perspective on the transition from empire to republic by showing... -
The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds by Mark Cornwall 9780312231514
€108.14This is a major new contribution to the historiography of the First World War. It examines the lively battle of ideas which helped to destroy Austria-Hungary. It also assesses, for the first time, the weapon of 'front propaganda' as used by and against... -
Rigorism: The Influence of Willpower Upon History by Lennart Svensson 9780645212648
RRP: €15.41€13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645212648Author Lennart SvenssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Manticore PressPublisher Manticore PressWeight(grams) 245g -
Organization of Lithic Technology in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Europe by Sarah Milliken 9780860549383
€47.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860549383Author Sarah MillikenFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint British Archaeological ReportsPublisher BAR Publishing -
The Rise of Professional Women in France: Gender and Public Administration since 1830 by Linda L. Clark 9780521027885
RRP: €36.88€28.32This history of professional women in positions of administrative responsibility illuminates women's changing relationship to the public sphere in France since the Revolution of 1789. Linda L. Clark traces several generations of French women in public... -
The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Courtrai, 11 Jul - A Contribution to the History of Flanders` War of Liberation, 1297-1305 by J.F. Verbruggen 9780851158884
€127.20On 11 July 1302, below the town walls of Courtrai, the most splendid army of knights in Christendom, the flower of the French nobility, was utterly defeated by Flemish rebels, common workers and peasants. The French knights, products of a lifetime's... -
The Popular Front in Europe by Helen Graham 9780333406601
RRP: €53.54€53.51Out of the social and economic turmoil of Europe in the 1930s, the Popular Front emerged as the spearhead of the left's bid to stop fascism in its tracks. Fifty years on from the birth of the Popular Front this edited collection assesses the impact of... -
The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe 1589-1715 by Paul Kleber Monod 9780300090666
€43.55In the sixteenth century, the kings of Europe were like gods to their subjects. Within 150 years, however, this view of monarchs had altered dramatically: a king was the human, visible sign of the rational state. How did such a momentous shift in...