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Italy in the Making June 1846 to 1 January 1848 by G. F.-H. Berkeley 9780521158633
RRP: $47.72$36.61Originally published in 1936, this book forms the second part of an ambitious three-volume series on the movement towards Italian nationality and independence. Covering the period between June 1846 and January 1848, it provides a rigorous analysis of key... -
Symbolism, Decadence And The Fin De Siecle: French and European Perspectives by Patrick McGuinness 9780859896467
RRP: $96.75$85.53This is a comparative and interdisciplinary book exploring a variety of perspectives on the artistic culture of France, and its neighbours, in the period 1870-1914. Part One centres on France, and assembles essays on the prose, poetry and painting of... -
European Sexualities, 1400-1800 by Katherine Crawford 9780521839587
RRP: $96.75$70.61This is a major new survey of the social and cultural history of sexuality in early modern Europe. Within a frame that includes the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment, it weaves together statistical findings,... -
European Socialists and Spain: The Transition to Democracy, 1959-77 by Pilar Ortuno Anaya 9780333949276
RRP: $58.04$58.01Pilar Ortuno Anaya breaks new ground in the study of the international dimensions of the Spanish transition to democracy. She argues that specific individuals and organizations made a significant contribution to the democratization process. Dr Ortuno... -
German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past by A. Dirk Moses 9780521864954
RRP: $96.75$69.88This book analyzes how West German intellectuals debated the Nazi past and democratic future of their country. Rather than proceeding event by event, it highlights the underlying issues at stake: the question of a stigmatized nation and the polarized... -
The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century by Helmut Walser Smith 9780521895880
RRP: $96.75$65.57This book opens the debate about German history in the long term - about how ideas and political forms are traceable across what historians have taken to be the sharp breaks of German history. Smith argues that current historiography has become ever more... -
Tithe and Agrarian History from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century: An Essay in Comparative History by Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie 9780521090780
RRP: $39.98$30.70The tithe is a levy characteristic of the agrarian ancien regime, and is of great interest to historians of traditional societies such as pre-1789 France and other countries of Europe and Latin America until the beginning of the nineteenth century... -
Emotions in the Household, 1200-1900 by Susan Broomhall 9780230543119
RRP: $116.09$115.93Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Feminism and Motherhood in Western Europe, 1890-1970: The Maternal Dilemma by A. Allen 9780230602328
RRP: $116.09$115.93According to Allen, motherhood and citizenship are terms that are closely linked and have been redefined over the past century due to changes in women's status, feminist movements, and political developments. Mother-child relationships were greatly... -
Between Resistance and Collabration: Popular Protest in Northern France 1940-45 by Lynne Taylor 9780312222062
RRP: $116.09$115.93Between Resistance and Collaboration explores the various means by which the local population both protested the hardships brought about by the Nazi occupation of Northern France, often forcing the authorities to do something about them, and evaded the... -
The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States: History, Nationhood and the Search for Origins by R. J. W. Evans 9780230576025
$58.53An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate... -
Warlands: Population Resettlement and State Reconstruction in the Soviet-East European Borderlands, 1945-50 by Peter Gatrell 9780230576018
RRP: $58.04$58.01The displacement of population during and after the Second World War took place on a global scale and formed part of a longer historical process of violence, territorial reconfiguration and state 'development'. This book focuses on the profound... -
Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944-1948 by Peter Kenez 9780521857666
RRP: $96.75$74.91This 2006 book describes in detail the establishment of a Communist regime in Hungary. Hungary was the last ally of Nazi Germany, and as such suffered dreadful destruction in the course of the fighting during the last year of the war. The war discredited... -
The Politics of Cultural Policy in France by Kim Eling 9780333746691
RRP: $116.09$115.93The Politics of Cultural Policy in France offers a lively and iconoclastic account of cultural policy-making in France. Focusing on the policies of the Socialist governments of 1981-86 and 1988-93, the book suggests that policy towards the arts was... -
Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State: Surveillance and Accommodation under the New Economic Policy by Hugh D. Hudson, Jr. 9780230338869
RRP: $58.04$58.01This book combines social and institutional histories of Russia, focusing on the secret police and their evolving relationship with the peasantry. Based on an analysis of Cheka/OGPU reports, it argues that the police did not initially respond to peasant... -
Memorialization in Germany since 1945 by Bill Niven 9780230207035
$116.45Difficult Pasts provides a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Germany's rich memorial landscape. It discusses the many memorials to German losses during the Second World War, to the victims of National Socialism and to those of GDR socialism. With... -
Manhood and the Duel: Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture by J. Low 9781403961303
RRP: $128.99$128.63As cultural practice, the early modern duel both indicated and shaped the gender assumptions of wealthy young men; it served, in fact, as a nexus for different, often competing, notions of masculinity. As Jennifer Low illustrates by examining the... -
Weimar Culture Revisited by J. Williams 9780230109421
RRP: $58.04$58.01Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the everyday workings of Weimar culture to... -
Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars by Steven Casey 9780230007161
RRP: $58.04$58.01This book explores the 'mental maps' of leading political figures of the era of two world wars. Chapters focus on those giants whose ideas cast a compelling shadow: Lloyd George, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, Briand and Stresemann, as... -
Spanish and Portuguese Jewry:: A Classified Bibliography by Robert Singerman 9780313257520
$94.39This massive compilation represents the culmination of Robert Singerman's almost single-handed twenty-year project to bring under bibliographic control published material on one of Europe's most important centers of Jewish life and culture. With close to... -
Justice at Nuremberg: Leo Alexander and the Nazi Doctors' Trial by U. Schmidt 9780333921470
$116.45This book traces the history of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial of 1946-47, through the eyes of the Austrian emigre psychiatrist Leo Alexander, whose investigations helped the US prosecution. Schmidt provides a detailed insight into the origins of human... -
The Persistence of Medievalism: Narrative Adventures in Public Discourse by Angela Jane Weisl 9780312239688
RRP: $58.04$58.01The Persistence of Medievalism seeks to examine the ways medieval genre shapes contemporary public culture. Through an exploration of several contemporary cultural phenomena, this book reveals the narrative underpinnings of public discourse. The ways... -
Rasputin: A Life by Joseph T. Fuhrmann 9780275932152
$84.53In this rich and learned book. Fuhrmann presents a detailed biography of Rasputin well integrated with discussions of the religious social, and political context of the times. Even if the subject were not lurid and fascinating, this book would provide... -
Portrait of an Appeaser: Robert Hadow, First Secretary in the British Foreign Office, 1931-1939 by Lindsay Michie 9780275953690
$84.53This book relates the policy of appeasement to the personal beliefs and decisions of those responsible for foreign policy. Using Robert Hadow, First Secretary in the Foreign Office, as an example of an appeaser, this approach demonstrates how intelligent... -
Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698 by Anthony Cross 9780521782982
RRP: $116.10$72.39Peter the Great's visit to England in the first months of 1698 has been called 'the most picturesque episode in the history of Anglo-Russian relations', and lives on most vividly in popular memory for the devastation caused at Sayes Court, John Evelyn's... -
Socialism and War: The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis, 1936-1939 by Helen Graham 9780521392570
RRP: $116.10$76.15This book recovers the lost history of Spanish socialism during the turbulent years of the Civil War (1936-39). Just as the energy of the socialist movement had sustained the pre-war Second Republic as an experiment in reform, so too it underwrote the... -
Bazhanov and the Damnation of Stalin by Boris Bazhanov 9780821409480
$105.04On January 1, 1928, Bazhanov escaped from the Soviet Union and became for many years the most important member of a new breed-the Soviet defector. At the age of 28, he had become an invaluable aid to Stalin and the Politburo, and had he stayed in... -
The Making of Western Jewry, 1600-1819 by L. Kochan 9780333625972
$58.53In a broad sweep from Central Europe to Ireland and from the Sixteenth to the early Nineteenth-century, this work puts the Jewish community and its rabbinic and 'lay' leaders at the centre of Jewish history. Of surpassing value is Kochan's treatment of... -
Heimat, Region, and Empire: Spatial Identities under National Socialism by Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann 9780230391093
RRP: $58.04$58.01This collection brings together international scholars pursuing cutting-edge research on spatial identities under National Socialism. They demonstrate that the spatial identities of the Third Reich can be approached as a history of interrelated... -
The Scandinavian Reformation: From Evangelical Movement to Institutionalisation of Reform by Ole Peter Grell 9780521441629
RRP: $116.10$79.41When Martin Luther's protest began making an impact in Scandinavia in the 1520s, this region belonged to the religious and political periphery of Europe. A century later the Nordic countries had become of paramount importance to European Protestantism,... -
The Duke of Wellington: A Bibliography by Michael Partridge 9780313280757
$107.38A bibliography of works by and about the Duke of Wellington, this book lists manuscript and archival resources, newspaper articles, pamphlets, both published and unpublished books and iconography relating to the Duke's life and career.Book... -
The Unfinished Road: Jewish Survivors of Latvia Look Back by Gertrude Schneider 9780275940935
$107.38During the Holocaust, thousands of Jews from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and later Hungary were transported to Latvia, where they were concentrated in the Riga Ghetto and in extermination camps--joining the thousands of Latvian Jews who were... -
The History of Germany by Eleanor L. Turk 9780313302749
$78.37Every library should replace its outdated histories of Germany with this comprehensive and highly readable narrative history that traces Germany from antiquity through 1998. Unlike earlier studies written before unification, it offers up-to-date... -
The History of Italy by Charles L. Killinger 9780313314834
$77.85What is Italy? In 1814 Austrian Chancellor M. de Metternich dismissed it as a mere geographical expression, because political control of the peninsula had long been divided among self-governing cities, possessions of foreign dynasties, and the Vatican... -
IRA Man: Talking with the Rebels by Douglass McFerran 9780275955915
$84.53This is the compelling story of a former Jesuit who traveled to Ireland in order to better understand the IRA, its widespread support among Irish Catholics, and the country's continuing civil unrest. Author Douglass McFerran, an American, made many key... -
The Secret Trial of Imre Nagy by Alajos Dornbach 9780275943325
$107.38Among the various secret or staged processes in court that are all to some degree the focus of public attention, the process against Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Nagy of the 1956 Revolution is especially noteworthy. This volume contains the most... -
Russian Imperialism: Development and Crisis by Ariel Cohen 9780275964818
$50.94The fall of the Soviet Union was one of the most dramatic events of this century. It was also one of the most surprising. Evidence of the USSR's impending fall was abundantly available both in theory in the writings on empires and on the ground. Yet,... -
Distant Ties: Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and the Construction of the Baghdad Railway by Jonathan S. McMurray 9780275970635
$107.38As the first study to document the Baghdad Railway construction, rather than the rhetoric surrounding it, this work challenges nearly a century of scholarship on German imperialism and Ottoman decline--scholarship that has too often hinged on the alleged... -
A New, Peculiar State: Explorations in Soviet History, 1917-1937 by Andrea Graziosi 9780275966508
$107.90Using a variety of old and new archival sources to examine the emergence of the Soviet system (1917-1937), this combined approach offers chronologically coherent and original construction of some crucial stages and problems in Soviet history. The past... -
The Industrial Revolution by Peter N. Stearns 9780874368246
$89.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874368246Author Peter N. StearnsFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint ABC-CLIOPublisher ABC-CLIO