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Certain Ideas of France: Essays on French History and Civilization by H. L. Wesseling 9780313323416
$107.38The title of this book is, of course, inspired by the famous opening words of General de Gaulle's Memoirs of the Second World War: All my life I have thought of France in a certain way. Wesseling brings together his essays dealing with a great variety of... -
From Polis to Empire--The Ancient World, c. 800 B.C. - A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary by Andrew G. Traver 9780313309427
$93.62Covering the very beginnings of Western civilization, this biographical dictionary introduces readers to the great cultural figures of the ancient world, including those who contributed significantly to architecture, astronomy, history, literature,... -
Allies and Italians under Occupation: Sicily and Southern Italy 1943-45 by I. Williams 9780230572591
RRP: $128.99$128.63Using original documents, the Allied Occupation of southern Italy, particularly Sicily and Naples, is illustrated by examining crime and unrest by Allied soldiers, deserters, rogue troops and Italian civilians from drunkenness, theft, rape, and murder to... -
Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century by D. Herzog 9780230285637
RRP: $128.99$115.93Tracing sexual violence in Europe's twentieth century from the Armenian genocide to Auschwitz and Algeria to Bosnia, this pathbreaking volume expands military history to include the realm of sexuality. Examining both stories of consensual romance and of... -
Nazi Crimes and the Law by Nathan Stoltzfus 9780521899741
RRP: $116.10$84.20This book examines the use of national and international law to prosecute Nazi crimes, the centerpiece of twentieth-century state-sponsored genocide and mass murder crimes, the paradigmatic instance of state-sponsored criminality and genocide in the... -
Power and the Nation in European History by Len Scales 9780521845809
RRP: $135.45$98.67Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But... -
Mapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germany: New Worlds in Print Culture by Stephanie Leitch 9780230620292
RRP: $58.04$58.01As the first book-length examination of the role of German print culture in mediating Europe's knowledge of the newly discovered people of Africa, South Asia, and the Americas, this work highlights a unique and early incident of visual accuracy and an... -
Looking East: English Writing and the Ottoman Empire Before 1800 by Gerald MacLean 9780230019676
RRP: $58.04$58.01Looking East examines how English encounters with the Ottoman Empire helped shape national identities and imperial ambitions. Engagingly written in an accessible style, this book demonstrates how the so-called 'conflict of civilizations' separating the... -
A History of the Protection of Regional Cultural Minorities in Europe: From the Edict of the Nantes to the Present Day by Antony Evelyn Alcock 9780312235567
RRP: $116.09$115.93Antony Alcock recounts four stages in the history of regional cultural minority protection: protection of religious minorities and the rise of cultural nationalism before 1914; attempts to assimilate minorities between the wars together with the League... -
Hitler: A Chronology of his Life and Time by Milan Hauner 9780230202849
RRP: $42.56$39.13This detailed reference guide, based on a vast amount of source data, traces every known detail of Hitler's career, with extensive quotation both from Hitler's own speeches and writings and from those of his contemporaries. This new edition features an... -
Radical Artisans in England and France, 1830-1870 by Iorwerth Prothero 9780521028127
RRP: $47.72$37.13The focus of this comparative 1997 study is on political radicalism at its high point around the middle of the nineteenth century, but broad topics such as trade unionism, co-operation, socialism and religion are also examined in depth. The author argues... -
How the Holocaust Looks Now: International Perspectives by Martin L. Davies 9780230001473
RRP: $116.09$115.93This collection offers a series of essays that explore the historical culture the holocaust has engendered in Europe, Israel and the USA, the politics of its reception and representation, the motivations for and effectiveness of commemorating it, and the... -
Radical Reform in Soviet Defence Policy: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990 by R. Allison 9780312075453
RRP: $58.04$58.01This book analyzes the determinants and scope of Soviet defense reform under Gorbachev from political, military, and economic perspectives.Book InformationISBN 9780312075453Author R. AllisonFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher... -
The Austrian School of Reform: Its Bases, Principles and Development--The Twenty Years Between the Two World Wars by Ernest Papanek 9780313202926
$123.09The study attempts to give Otto Gloeckel and his collaborators their due by telling their story of school reform, which, in connection with the historical happenings and strivings of the time, must be regarded as events of lasting importance.Book... -
The English Radical Tradition, 1763-1914. by Simon MacCoby 9780313202841
$72.19A collection of essays covering the period from the revolt of the American colonies to the World War of 1914.Book InformationISBN 9780313202841Author Simon MacCobyFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Recalling the Good Fight: An Autobiography of the Spanish Civil War by John Tisa 9780897890793
$50.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897890793Author John TisaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Britain and the Ruhr Crisis by E. O'Riordan 9780333764831
RRP: $116.09$115.93This book provides a comprehensive examination of British policy during the Ruhr occupation crisis of 1922-24. It explores Britain's attitude to reparations and to broader questions of postwar European reconstruction and stability, revealing the dilemmas... -
Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Capek and his Generation, 1911-1938 by Thomas Ort 9780230113626
$61.75In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and... -
Visiting Modern War in Risorgimento Italy by Jonathan Marwil 9780230108134
RRP: $58.04$58.01This book examines the social and cultural consequences of a war normally looked at for its role in the story of Italian unification - the convergence of French, Austrian, and Piedmont-Sardinian armies in northern Italy in 1859, referred to in Italy as... -
Making Liberalism Work: The Italian Experience, 1860-1914 by Susan A. Ashley 9780275980627
$107.38By most accounts, Italian-style liberalism failed. Explanations of its failure vary from economic backwardness or a political culture shaped by autocracy to claims that liberals ruined their chances by pursuing nothing but narrow middle class interests... -
Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century by D. Herzog 9780230542532
RRP: $116.09$115.93Tracing sexual violence in Europe's twentieth century from the Armenian genocide to Auschwitz and Algeria to Bosnia, this pathbreaking volume expands military history to include the realm of sexuality. Examining both stories of consensual romance and of... -
European Assemblies: The Experimental Period, 1949-1959 by Kenneth Lindsay 9780313208461
$72.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313208461Author Kenneth LindsayFormat HardbackPage Count 267Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Liberation: The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember by Anne Van Arragon Hutten 9780991998104
RRP: $14.13$12.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991998104Author Anne Van Arragon HuttenFormat PaperbackImprint Mokeham Publishing Inc.Publisher Mokeham Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 135g -
Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia by Eric Cooper 9780230361065
RRP: $128.99$128.63This is the first in-depth historical study of Byzantine Cappadocia. The authors draw on extensive textual and archaeological materials to examine the nature and place of Cappadocia in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth through eleventh centuries.Book... -
The German Melting Pot: Multiculturality in Historical Perspective by Wolfgang Zank 9780312213039
RRP: $116.09$115.93From medieval times until today Germany has been a cocktail of very different peoples and cultural groups. The components of the 'cocktail' have changed, but not Germany's character as such. The many cultural divides have often led to conflict, once even... -
Empire and Order: The Concept of Empire, 800-1800 by J. Muldoon 9780333650134
RRP: $116.09$115.93Empire is an evocative, yet little examined, word. It can mean the domination of vast territories, a Christian world order, a corrupt form of government, or a humanitarian endeavour. Historians relegate the concept of empire to the pre-modern world,... -
War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521-1622 by Karin J. MacHardy 9780333572412
RRP: $58.04$58.01This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years' War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views statebuilding as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority. It shows how selective court... -
Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Tradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century by Robert Black 9780521401920
RRP: $154.80$120.27Based on the study of over 500 surviving manuscript school books, this comprehensive 2001 study of the curriculum of school education in medieval and Renaissance Italy contains some surprising conclusions. Robert Black's analysis finds that continuity... -
Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-1949 by Carolyn Woods Eisenberg 9780521392129
RRP: $154.80$120.27In this fresh and challenging study of the origins of the Cold War, Professor Eisenberg traces the American role in dividing post-war Germany. Drawing upon many original documentary sources, she examines the Allied meeting on the Elbe, follows the Great... -
The Holstein Papers: The Memoirs, Diaries and Correspondence of Friedrich von Holstein 1837-1909 by Friedrich von Holstein 9780521179614
RRP: $39.98$30.70Friedrich von Holstein (1837-1909) was Bismarck's subordinate at the German Foreign Office. Since his death historians have combined to make him a monster of sinister and self-seeking policy. At various times von Holstein kept diaries, began memoirs, and... -
Russian Officialdom in Crisis: Autocracy and Local Self-Government, 1861-1900 by Thomas S. Pearson 9780521894463
RRP: $39.98$30.70This book is the first full account of the development of rural self-government in Russia from the emancipation of the serfs to its bureaucratisation in the counter-reforms of 1889-90. Through analysis of central and provincial perceptions of local... -
Childhood in Nineteenth-Century France: Work, Health and Education among the 'Classes Populaires' by Colin Heywood 9780521892773
RRP: $47.72$37.13The central theme of this book is the changing experience of childhood among the peasants and working classes of nineteenth-century France. Manual work and informal methods of education in the local community became less prominent at this stage of life,... -
Central Europe in the High Middle Ages: Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, c.900-c.1300 by Nora Berend 9780521781565
RRP: $122.55$94.87This groundbreaking comparative history of the early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland sets the development of each polity in the context of the central European region as a whole. Focusing on the origins of the realms and their development in the... -
The Maltese Cross: A Strategic History of Malta by Dennis Castillo 9780313323294
$135.94Malta is one of the smallest nations in the world, yet has one of the longest histories of any country. The accidents of geology and geography produced an island at the center of the Mediterranean with a large harbor and ample resources for the... -
Letters from Barcelona: An American Woman in Revolution and Civil War by G. Horn 9780230527393
RRP: $58.04$58.01Through the eyes of a young American female radical socialist, living and working in Barcelona during the Catalan Revolution and the Spanish Civil War, the dreams, the nightmares and the realities of European politics in the age of dictatorship are fully... -
The Routes to Exile: France and the Spanish Civil War Refugees, 1939-2009 by Scott Soo 9780719086915
RRP: $109.65$96.12As they trudged over the Pyrenees, the Spanish republicans became one of the most iconoclastic groups of refugees to have sought refuge in twentieth-century France. This book explores the array of opportunities, constraints, choices and motivations that... -
The Literary Heritage of Holderness by Phil Mathison 9780956299468
RRP: $11.60$10.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956299468Author Phil MathisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint DEADGOOD PublicationsPublisher DEADGOOD Publications -
Stalinist Planning for Economic Growth, 1933-1952 by John H. Moore 9780807873847
RRP: $92.88$83.60This volume extends the analysis developed in Zaleski's 1971 work. He provides details of the planning process and its outcome during the Stalinist years, including the long- and medium-range plans that were perceived as a means of stimulating greater... -
The Perfidy of Albion: French Perceptions of England during the French Revolution by Norman Hampson 9780333731482
RRP: $116.09$115.93Hampson describes how the French Revolution, which seemed to promise an era of Franco-British partnership, led to an even more bitter estrangement between the two nations. Both the British and French peoples saw the revolution of 1789 as offering the... -
Lineages of European Citizenship: Rights, Belonging and Participation in Eleven Nation-States by Dario Castiglione 9780333986837
RRP: $58.04$58.01Lineages of European Citizenship provides an historical analysis of the development of citizenship from the nineteenth to the Twentieth-century in Europe and the USA. The contributors focus on the role played by internal struggles for social and...