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Independent Radicalism in Early Victorian Britain by Michael J. Turner 9780275973865
$107.90The reasons why people arise to express dissatisfaction with their present situation, and how they imagine and work towards an alternative, have enduring relevance. The reform campaigns of 19th-century Britain are of interest not only in their own right,... -
The Italian Police and the Rise of Fascism: A Case Study of the Province of Bologna, 1897-1925 by Jonathan Dunnage 9780275952686
$107.38Based on original research using official documents, this illuminating account of the role of the police in the rise to power of Mussolini reveals the internal workings of the Italian Liberal policing system, the tensions between its different branches,... -
Gaetano Salvemini: A Biography by Charles L. Killinger 9780275968731
$133.61An outstanding scholar and political figure, Gaetano Salvemini had a reputation as one of the most courageous figures of his age. As a member of the Italian Socialist Party he championed social and political reform as a party activist, political... -
Anglo-French Attitudes: Comparisons and Transfers Between English and French Intellectuals Since the Eighteenth Century by Christophe Charle 9780719096556
RRP: $38.70$34.42This collection of essays looks at cultural transfers and comparisons between English and French intellectuals. The contributions, which have been written by scholars from a variety of disciplines, address a broad range of issues, including the... -
The Great War Reporter: Journalism 1914-1916 by Richard Harding Davis 9780990713746
RRP: $19.35$17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990713746Author Richard Harding DavisFormat PaperbackImprint Archive LLCPublisher Archive LLCWeight(grams) 318g -
The Popular Front in Europe by Helen Graham 9780333484258
$42.92Out 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... -
Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish Formulae, c.500-1000 by Alice Rio 9780521514996
RRP: $116.10$87.27Legal formularies are books of model legal documents compiled by early medieval scribes for their own use and that of their pupils. A major source for the history of early medieval Europe, they document social relations beyond the narrow world of the... -
The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146-1246 by Martin Dimnik 9780521039819
RRP: $56.75$48.45Historians in pre-revolutionary Russia, in the Soviet Union, in contemporary Russia, and in the West have consistently relegated the medieval dynasty of Chernigov to a place of minor importance in Kievan Rus'. This view was reinforced by the evidence... -
The Making of Western Jewry, 1600-1819 by L. Kochan 9780230507012
RRP: $58.04$58.01In 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... -
The Fate of Holocaust Memories: Transmission and Family Dialogues by Chaya H. Roth 9780230606074
RRP: $58.04$58.01An innovative mix of history and psychological research, this book tells the story of one family of Holocaust survivors and reveals how each generation has passed on memories of the War and the Shoah to the next.Book InformationISBN 9780230606074Author... -
Republicanism and Anticlerical Nationalism in Spain by Enrique A Sanabria 9780230613317
RRP: $58.04$58.01This book analyzes attempts by radical Spanish republicans to construct an anticlerical-nationalist vision of Spain, focusing in particular on the the mass production by the 'anticlertical industry' of newspapers, novels, poems, cartoons, posters,... -
Making Spaniards: Primo de Rivera and the Nationalization of the Masses, 1923-30 by Alejandro Quiroga 9780230019683
RRP: $58.04$58.01The regime of Primo de Rivera in Spain was one of the major dictatorships of the interwar period. Making Spaniards examines how the military regime created nationalist doctrine, rituals and symbols and how these were transmitted throughout Spanish... -
Italian Fascism: History, Memory and Representation by Richard J. B. Bosworth 9780312217174
RRP: $116.09$115.93Bringing together scholars from the Italian and English-speaking worlds, Bosworth and Dogliani's edited book reviews the history of the memory and representation of Fascism after 1945. Ranging in their study from patriotic monuments to sado-masochistic... -
From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western Europe by Pierre Bonnassie 9780521112550
RRP: $47.72$36.61This book is first and foremost an extended examination and discussion of the enslavement of men and women by others of their society and in particular of the means and causes of the gradual end of slavery in early medieval Europe between 500 and 1200... -
Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945 by Kiran Klaus Patel 9780521168663
RRP: $54.17$42.16Originally published in 2005, Soldiers of Labor is a systematic comparison between the labor policies of the Nazi dictatorship and New Deal America. The main subject of the book is the Nazi Labor Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst), a public work scheme that... -
The Margraten Boys: How a European Village Kept America's Liberators Alive by Peter Schrijvers 9780230346635
RRP: $128.99$98.18Harrowing and redeeming, this is the history of a unique 'adoption' system. For generations, local families, grateful for the sacrifice of their liberators from Nazi occupation, have cared for not only the graves, but the memories, of over 10,000 US... -
Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250-1625 by Joan-Pau Rubies 9780521770552
RRP: $154.80$120.27This book, first published in 2000, offers a wide-ranging and ambitious analysis of how European travellers in India developed their perceptions of ethnic, political and religious diversity over three hundred years. It analyses the growth of novel... -
The Story of New Sweden as Told at the Quarter Centennial Celebration. June 25, 1895. (Edited by S. J. Estes.). by Stanley J Estes 9781241336189
RRP: $19.34$18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241336189Author Stanley J EstesFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical... -
Roosevelt and Franco during the Second World War: From the Spanish Civil War to Pearl Harbor by Joan Maria Thomas 9780230604506
RRP: $58.04$58.01This book examines the internal controversies of the Roosevelt administration in connection with Spain during World War II, the role of the President in these controversies, and the foundations of the policy that was followed from the outbreak of the... -
The New German Jewry and the European Context: The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora by Y.Michal Bodemann 9780230521070
RRP: $58.04$58.01Departing from the recent critical literature on the emergence of a new German Jewry, this volume proposes a new perspective on the post-1980s phenomenon of re-emerging Jewish culture in Germany as a case study for wider developments in Europe and the... -
Prague Sprung: Notes and Voices from the New World by David Leviatin 9780275945367
$84.53Based on a series of interviews, Leviatin presents the experiences of several generations of students and faculty members who studied and taught on the English Department of the oldest university in Central Europe, Charles University. The English... -
Britain and the German Question: Perceptions of Nationalism and Political Reform, 1830-1863 by Frank Lorenz Muller 9780333966150
RRP: $116.09$115.93Disraeli claimed that no country suffered more from the foundation of the German Reich than England. Bismarck's empire of 1871 did not, however, strike like a bolt from the blue. The question of German unity had been brewing for decades. Britain and the... -
Britain, Turkey and the Soviet Union, 1940-45: Strategy, Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean by Nicholas Tamkin 9780230221475
RRP: $58.04$58.01This book draws on the latest archival releases - including those from the secret world of British intelligence - to offer the first comprehensive analysis of Anglo-Turkish relations during the Second World War, with a particular emphasis on Turkey's... -
Accounting for Affection: Mothering and Politics in Early Modern Rome by Caroline Castiglione 9780230203310
$103.75Accounting for Affection examines the multifaceted nature of early modern motherhood by focusing on the ideas and strategies of Roman aristocratic mothers during familial conflict. Illuminating new approaches to the maternal and the familial employed by... -
Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe by Peter Burke 9780521828963
RRP: $96.75$71.88In this magisterial study, Peter Burke explores the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution, arguing that, from a linguistic point of view, 1450 to 1789 should... -
Napoleon: A Biographical Companion by David Nicholls 9780874369571
$75.54This illustrated A-Z encyclopedia provides easy access to information about the emperor Napoleon. Over 300 entries cover significant events, people, and other topics such as the principal Napoleonic campaigns, all the major battles including Waterloo and... -
The Brandy Trade under the Ancien Regime: Regional Specialisation in the Charente by Louis M. Cullen 9780521890984
RRP: $39.98$30.70In this 1998 study of the brandy trade and its merchants, Professor Cullen explores the development of cognac, the world's most famous spirit product, which emerged as a consequence of a chronic wine surplus. While Professor Cullen focuses on the brandy... -
Religion, Politics and Preferment in France since 1890: La Belle Epoque and its Legacy by Maurice Larkin 9780521522700
RRP: $39.98$30.70This book investigates the problems that committed Catholics allegedly faced if they sought careers in state employment under the Third French Republic. Using ministerial and Masonic archives, the book explores the broad divergence of practice between... -
Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609 by John K. Brackett 9780521522489
RRP: $39.98$30.70This book examines in detail the Florentine system of criminal justice under the reign of the first three Medici grand dukes, from 1537 to 1609. The author discusses the structure and functions of the court, the operation of the two city prisons, and the... -
Spain's First Carlist War, 1833-40 by M. Lawrence 9781349486526
RRP: $128.99$128.63Spain's First Carlist War was an unlikely agent of modernity. It pitted town against country, subalterns against elites, and Europe's Liberal powers against Absolute Monarchies. This book traces the individual, collective and international experience of... -
Censorship in Fascist Italy, 1922-43: Policies, Procedures and Protagonists by G. Talbot 9780230543089
RRP: $58.04$58.01This is the first comprehensive account of the diversity and complexity of censorship practices in Italy under the Fascist dictatorship. Through archival material it shows how practices of censorship were used to effect regime change, to measure and to... -
Irish Terrorism in the Atlantic Community, 1865-1922 by Jonathan Gantt 9780230538122
RRP: $116.09$115.93Using a transnational approach, this volume surveys the origins of Irish terrorism and its impact on the Anglo-Saxon community during an era of intense imperialism. While at times it posed sharp disagreements between Britain and the United States, their... -
The Undivided Sky: The Holocaust on East and West German Radio in the 1960s by R. Wolf 9780230576766
RRP: $58.04$58.01Radio was one of the major weapons used in the Cold War and The Undivided Sky gives a lively and comprehensive account of radio programming and audience responses in the divided Germany of the 1960s by looking at the reportage of major war-crimes trials... -
The Celtic and Roman Traditions: Conflict and Consensus in the Early Medieval Church by Caitlin Corning 9781403972996
RRP: $128.99$128.63This book is a survey of the relationship between the two Celtic and Roman traditions in Merovingian Gaul, Lombard Italy, and the British Isles during the period of the Easter controversy. It looks at baptismal liturgy, the style of tonsure, and the... -
Joan of Arc: Heretic, Mystic, Shaman by Anne Llewellyn Barstow 9780773408340
RRP: $77.34$76.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408340Author Anne Llewellyn BarstowFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g -
Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Frank Lorenz Muller 9781349930029
RRP: $64.49$64.31This volume brings together a fascinating selection of studies exploring the soft power tools used by heirs to the throne in order to enhance the communication of monarchies with their audiences during the nineteenth-century. How we perceive royals and... -
Ethics And Politics In Seventeenth Century France by Keith Cameron 9780859894661
RRP: $96.75$85.01This collection of twenty essays, of which five are in French, written by leading English and French literary and historical scholars, deconstructs the ethical and political framework supporting and circumscribing the actions of a powerful elite in... -
The History of Great Britain by Anne B. Rodrick 9780313319686
$77.85The very idea of Britain has changed with the gain and loss of empire, the assimilation and devolution of various portions of the country, and the introduction and then dismantling of a welfare state that was nothing short of revolutionary in the wake of... -
Margaret Thatcher: In Victory and Downfall, 1987 and 1990 by Bruce E. Geelhoed 9780275941482
$107.90This volume studies Margaret Thatcher and her influence on British politics with the American reader in mind. E. Bruce Geelhoed interprets Thatcher's strengths and weaknesses as a political leader and analyzes the important trends in modern British... -
Lord Palmerston, 1784-1865: A Bibliography by Michael Stephen Partridge 9780313282928
$93.62One of the great figures of 19th-century Britain, Lord Palmerston had an extensive career both as a domestic politician and as an international statesman. This volume is the first comprehensive bibliography of his life, both public and private. It...