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Ostpolitik, 1969-1974: European and Global Responses by Carole Fink 9780521899703
RRP: €107.10€67.94Studies of the Cold War transcend a narrow focus on four decades of superpower rivalry, recognizing that leaders and governments outside of Washington and Moscow also exerted political, economic, and moral influence well beyond their own borders. One... -
Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom by Robert Chazan 9780521100564
RRP: €44.02€34.25During the course of the twelfth century, increasing numbers of Jews migrated into dynamically developing western Christendom from Islamic lands. The vitality that attracted them also presented a challenge: Christianity - from early in its history - had... -
Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity by Rosamond McKitterick 9780521886727
RRP: €113.05€80.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600 by Philip L. Reynolds 9780521867368
RRP: €142.80€110.94This 2007 book analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages - through property deeds, marital settlements, dotal charters, church court depositions, wedding liturgies, and other indicia of marital consent. The authors... -
Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia by Susan K. Morrissey 9780521865456
RRP: €124.95€92.93In early twentieth-century Russia, suicide became a public act and a social phenomenon of exceptional scale, a disquieting emblem of Russia's encounter with modernity. This book draws on an extensive range of sources, from judicial records to the popular... -
Letters From The Pyrenees by Don Luis Mendez De Haro Y Guzman 9780859896924
RRP: €23.80€19.55In 1659, Luis de Haro met with Cardinal Jules Mazarin in the Pyrenees to conclude a peace treaty and marriage agreement that would end over twenty years of war between Spain and France. The hitherto unpublished letters which Haro sent to Philip IV from... -
Gone To The Shops: Shopping In Victorian England by Kelley Graham 9780275989989
€77.98When Adam Smith wrote in 1776 that England was a nation of shopkeepers, he meant that commerce was a major factor in political decisions. Smith's observation was even more on-target for Victorian England: shopkeepers, shops, and shopping were a vital... -
Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition by Anthony Kaldellis 9780521876889
RRP: €142.80€110.94This text was the first systematic study of what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural. Through close readings of the sources, Professor... -
Making Sense of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta's Experiments with Revolution, 1889-1900 by Davide Turcato 9780230301795
RRP: €53.54€53.51Can we make sense of anarchism or is that an oxymoron? Guided by the principle that someone else's rationality is not an empirical finding but a methodological presumption, this book addresses that question as it investigates the ideas and action of one... -
Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe: Comparing Cultures of Remembrance, c. 1790-1840 by Eveline Gerdina Bouwers 9780230294714
RRP: €53.54€53.51The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes. Analysing the canon and iconography of each pantheon, Bouwers shows how the... -
Nationalising and Denationalising European Border Regions, 1800-2000: Views from Geography and History by Hans Knippenberg 9780792360667
RRP: €105.91€86.36Over the 19th and 20th centuries, the political map of Europe changed considerably. At the end of this period, there were remarkably contrasting tendencies concerning the functions and densities of borders. The borders inside the European Union lost... -
Making Sense of Constitutional Monarchism in Post-Napoleonic France and Germany by Markus J. Prutsch 9780230316492
RRP: €53.54€53.51Focusing on the genesis of 'constitutional monarchism' in the context of the French Restoration and its favourable reception in post-Napoleonic Germany, this study highlights the potential and limitations of a daring attempt to improve traditional forms... -
Colima of New Spain in the Sixteenth Century. by Carl Ortwin Sauer 9780837188911
€77.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837188911Author Carl Ortwin SauerFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Literature and Nationalism in Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918 by Stanislaw Eile 9780312231590
RRP: €107.09€106.95The selected period of Polish literature is undoubtedly focal in the development of modern nationalism in Poland, as it contains the years of struggle for survival under foreign rule. Romantic poetry and its idea of national messianism is at the core of... -
Frederick III: Germany's Liberal Emperor by Patricia Kollander 9780313294839
€99.06Many German historians regard Emperor Frederick III (1831-1888) as a liberal sovereign who could have saved German history from its tragic course. Recent historians, however, have challenged the long-held view that liberalism's failure in 19th century... -
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778: A Bibliography by Karl W. Schweizer 9780313282935
€45.68William Pitt the elder was a complex, controversial, and ambiguous statesman, an enigma to contemporaries and historians alike. Although he was acclaimed in his own lifetime as a great war leader, revisionist scholarship in the past two decades has... -
The Titanic: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography by Eugene L. Rasor 9780313312151
€72.29Promoted as virtually unsinkable, the ultimate luxury liner, the largest ship in the world, the RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912, taking some 1,500 people to their death. Aboard the ship were the wealthy and famous as well as hundreds... -
George Grenville, 1712-1770: A Bibliography by Rory T. Cornish 9780313282812
€71.82Was George Grenville an arrogant pedant, the man who blundered into the Stamp Act, or was he the head of one of the most effective and efficient administrations of the early years of the reign of George III? In this comprehensive re-examination of the... -
Societies in Upheaval: Insurrections in France, Hungary, and Spain in the Early Eighteenth Century by Linda S. Frey 9780313255922
€77.98As nation states consolidated their power in the early modern period, Europe witnessed tragic economic dislocations, oppression, and wars leading to waves of terrorism and revolution that mirror our contemporary world situation in striking ways. Current... -
Algerian War and the French Army, 1954-62: Experiences, Images, Testimonies by Martin S. Alexander 9780333774564
RRP: €107.09€106.95The Algerian War 1954-62 was one of the most prolonged and violent examples of decolonization. At times horribly savage, it was an undeclared war in the sense that no formal declaration of hostilities was ever made. Bringing to an end one hundred and... -
The African-German Experience: Critical Essays by Carol A. Blackshire-Belay 9780275950798
€99.06A collection of critical and theoretical essays that seek to take an in-depth look at the socio-political and historical roots of the African-German presence in today's Germany. The essays examine the African Germans and otherness, with vivid... -
European Colonial Rule, 1880-1940: The Impact of the West on India, Southeast Asia, and Africa by Rudolf Von Albertini 9780313212758
€100.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313212758Author Rudolf Von AlbertiniFormat HardbackPage Count 581Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Spain and the Process of European Integration, 1957-85 by Na Na 9780312235765
RRP: €107.09€106.95This book examines the process of Spanish integration into the European Community, from 1962, when Spain under the Franco regime applied to the European Community, to 1985, when democratic Spain became a member of the EEC. It aims to prove that, first,... -
Making Common Cause: German-Soviet Secret Relations, 1919-22 by Vasilis Vourkoutiotis 9780230006447
RRP: €53.54€53.51Using German and previously closed or underutilized Soviet archives, this work brings to date the historiography of one of the most important aspects of twentieth-century international relations: the steps by which Germany and Soviet Russia would find... -
Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siecle France: Gender, Politics, and National Identity by Venita Datta 9780521186520
RRP: €28.55€18.12In Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siecle France Venita Datta examines representations of fictional and real heroes in the boulevard theater and mass press during the fin de siecle (1880-1914), illuminating the role of gender in the construction of national... -
First Millennium Papers: Western Europe in the first millennium AD by M. Biddle 9780860545163
€87.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860545163Author M. BiddleFormat PaperbackPage Count 307Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing -
'Who Has the Youth, Has the Future': The Campaign to Save Young Workers in Imperial Germany by Derek S. Linton 9780521894456
RRP: €36.88€28.32Virtually all discussions of the problematic character of youth and society in twentieth-century Germany begin with the middle class Wandervogel and end with the Hitler Youth. In this revisionist study Derek S. Linton argues that youth emerged as an... -
Beyond the Terror: Essays in French Regional and Social History 1794-1815 by Gwynne Lewis 9780521893824
RRP: €36.88€28.32Richard Cobb is one of the most active and influential English historians of France. During a long career of research and writing, his interest has ranged from the Revolution to Vichy. He is especially renowned for his seminal work on the popular... -
The French State in Question by H. S. Jones 9780521890991
RRP: €36.88€28.32The French State in Question places the idea of the state back at the heart of our understanding of modern French history and political culture, and challenges the accepted view of the Third Republic as a 'weak' state. At its core is an examination of a... -
Strength through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich by Shelley Baranowski 9780521833523
RRP: €89.25€63.99Based on extensive archival research, this book was the first major one on the Nazi leisure and tourism agency, Strength through Joy (KdF). The Third Reich aimed to unify Germans in preparation for war and the acquisition of 'living space'. Strength... -
Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914 by Manfred F. Boemeke 9780521622943
RRP: €142.80€110.94These essays explore the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914 - in the era bounded by the mid-century wars in Europe and North America and the First World War. The concept of 'total war', which was prefigured in aspects... -
Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy by K. J. P. Lowe 9780521621915
RRP: €142.80€111.66This well-illustrated book analyses convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles. The book uses a comparative methodology of 'connected differences' to examine the intellectual and imaginative... -
Historical Studies in International Corporate Business by Alice Teichova 9780521528696
RRP: €36.88€28.32This 1989 book is the sequel to Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective (1986), in which the same editorial team continues the historical exploration of a vital but often misconstrued commercial phenomenon. The contributory essays, each... -
The Imperfect Peasant Economy: The Loire Country, 1800-1914 by Gregor Dallas 9780521526906
RRP: €44.02€33.77This book shows how a rural household economy of small-holders in one of the least isolated areas of France, the Loire Country, managed to survive the challenges of the nineteenth century. Rather than taking the view that this system was an anachronism... -
Women Clerks in Wilhelmine Germany: Issues of Class and Gender by Carole Elizabeth Adams 9780521526845
RRP: €36.88€28.32This book discusses the emergence of white-collar work for women and the motivations for organisation and political attitudes of German women clerks and white-collar workers before the First World War. In addition, the book explores issues concerning... -
Making Democracy in Spain: Grass-Roots Struggle in the South, 1955-1975 by Joe Foweraker 9780521522816
RRP: €36.88€28.32This book, exploring the making of democracy in Spain during the twenty long years before the death of Franco, seeks out the beginnings of democratic struggles at the grass roots of civil society. Rather than one more account of the transition to... -
The German Experience of Professionalization: Modern Learned Professions and their Organizations from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Hitler Era by Charles E. McClelland 9780521522533
RRP: €36.88€28.32Modern learned professions (medicine, law, teaching, engineering, and others) developed in central Europe just as vigorously as in England or America. Yet their close relationship with state power - more typical of the world development of professions... -
The Damascus Affair: 'Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840 by Jonathan Frankel 9780521482462
RRP: €142.80€110.94In February 1840, an Italian monk and his servant disappeared in Damascus. Many Jews in that city were charged with ritual murder and tortured until they confessed. The case turned into a cause celebre across much of the western world, even becoming a... -
Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 by David Warren Sabean 9780521386920
RRP: €49.97€38.89This landmark study of family relations in a village in southern Germany is the product of deep reflection on anthropological approaches to historical problems. David Sabean is concerned to recover the tenor of marital relationships within a particular... -
Stalin's Cold War: Soviet Foreign Policy, Democracy and Communism in Bulgaria, 1941-48 by Vesselin Dimitrov 9780230521384
RRP: €53.54€53.51This work offers a major new interpretation of the Stalin's role in the gestation of the Cold War. Based on important new evidence, Dimitrov reveals Stalin's genuine efforts to preserve his World War II alliance with the US and Britain and to encourage a...