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The Carolingian World by Marios Costambeys 9780521563666
RRP: €113.05€86.36At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe - from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. As the... -
Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages by Takashi Shogimen 9780521143981
RRP: €36.88€28.32The English Franciscan William of Ockham (c.1285-1347) was one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in late medieval Europe. Fresh scholarship has shown his profound impact on logic, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of... -
Anglo-French Relations 1898 - 1998: From Fashoda to Jospin by Philippe Chassaigne 9780333912614
RRP: €107.09€106.95From the Fashoda incident in 1898 to the current Blair-Jospin 'entente', this book reviews one century of Franco-British relations. Friend or foe? Partner or rival? Model or counter-model? The two countries continually wavered between two extremes. Yet,... -
Gender and Cancer in England, 1860-1948 by Ornella Moscucci 9780230554238
€107.42This volume focuses on gynaecological cancer to explore the ways in which gender has shaped medical and public health responses to cancer in England. Rooted in gendered perceptions of cancer risk, medical and public health efforts to reduce cancer... -
A History of Franco-German Relations in Europe: From "Hereditary Enemies" to Partners by Carine Germond 9780230604520
RRP: €107.09€106.95This book surveys Franco-German relations from the French Revolution to the 1990s, collecting the most current research from area specialists.Book InformationISBN 9780230604520Author Carine GermondFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Palgrave... -
War and Society in the Seventeenth Century by Sir George Clark 9780521135825
RRP: €36.88€28.32Sir George Clark discusses war as a factor for good and ill in European society in the seventeenth century. In particular, he shows how war helped to determine the emergence of modern Europe from a society geographically, politically and doctrinally... -
Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Archaeological Gazetteer by Denys Pringle 9780521102636
RRP: €32.12€27.19This book contains a descriptive gazetteer of all the secular buildings (including industrial sites) known by their surviving remains to have existed within the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. The site descriptions take the form of brief notes with full... -
May '68: Coming of Age by D. L. Hanley 9780333466988
€52.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945-1951 by Richard Vinen 9780521522762
RRP: €36.88€28.32This 1995 book is a general study of politics and society in the Fourth Republic and is founded on extensive primary research. It approaches the period in terms of successful conservatism rather than thwarted reform, maintaining that conservatism in... -
The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds by Mark Cornwall 9780333804520
€107.42This 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... -
Paper Liberals: Press and Politics in Restoration Spain by David Ortiz 9780313312168
€99.06The death of General Francisco Franco in November of 1975 ended thirty-six years of fascist-style dictatorship in Spain. The subsequent transition to liberal parliamentary government was remarkably smooth, particularly when compared to the recent... -
The Dreyfus Affair by Leslie Derfler 9780313317910
€65.28On October 15, 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery captain attached to the French General Staff, was arrested on charges of having betrayed his country by selling military secrets to the Germans. He was convicted of treason by military court-martial... -
Contemporary Italy: A Research Guide by Martin J. Bull 9780313291371
€45.68A unique bibliographic and historiographic guide to the study of contemporary Italy, this book points to over 650 texts that have shaped the academic and scholarly study of postwar Italy. It is the first guide to include a genuine mix of English-language... -
Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany by Pamela E. Swett 9780230271685
RRP: €107.09€106.95Although we associate the Third Reich above all with suffering, pain and fear, pleasure played a central role in its social and cultural dynamics. This book explores the relationship between the rationing of pleasures as a means of political... -
The German Question and the International Order, 1943-48 by Nicolas Lewkowicz 9780230248120
RRP: €53.54€53.51An analysis of the German Question's influence on the origins of the Cold War, arguing that the legal and diplomatic intercourse between the Allies regarding the treatment of the German Question brought forward the elements of intervention and... -
The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution by Alfred Cobban 9780521661515
RRP: €89.25€61.65Alfred Cobban's The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution is one of the acknowledged classics of post-war historiography. This 'revisionist' analysis of the French Revolution caused a furore on first publication in 1964, challenging as it did... -
Calvinist Churches in Early Modern Europe by Professor Andrew Spicer 9780719054877
RRP: €101.15€89.14For ordinary people, the impact of the Reformation would have centred around local parish churches, rather than the theological debates of the Reformers. Focusing on the Calvinists, this volume explores how the architecture, appearance and arrangement of... -
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe by Donatella Calabi 9780521845472
RRP: €142.80€110.94As transfer points between different economic and cultural zones, cities are crucial to shaping processes of cultural exchange. Urban culture embraces cultural traits borrowed or imported from afar and those of local neighbourhoods, professions and... -
Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress by Richard Weikart 9780230618077
RRP: €107.09€106.95In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler's evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of... -
The Image of the Popular Front: The Masses and the Media in Interwar France by Simon Dell 9780230003286
RRP: €107.09€106.95During the 1930s Europe was convulsed by political violence. The National Socialists rose to power in Germany and Fascists campaigned in Britain, Spain and France. Yet Europe was also transformed in this decade through new applications of film,... -
Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region 1740-1815 by Colin A. Jones 9780521021883
RRP: €36.88€28.32This book is a case study, based on the Montpellier region in southern France, which analyses charity and poor relief from 1750 to the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, and the effect of the French Revolution on the treatment of the poor. The breadth... -
The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys: A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Globetrotter by Kees Boterbloem 9780230553187
RRP: €53.54€53.51Dutch Sailmaker and sailor Jan Struys' (c.1629-c.1694) account of his various overseas travels became a bestseller after its first publication in Amsterdam in 1676, and was later translated into English, French, German and Russian. This new book depicts... -
The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen 9780674283060
€65.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674283060Author Marcus Lee HansenFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 771g -
The English Village by William Pearson Baker 9780837155524
€66.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837155524Author William Pearson BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Societal Breakdown and the Rise of the Early Modern State in Europe: Memory of the Future by Dmitry Shlapentokh 9780230603752
RRP: €53.54€53.51Shlapentokh asserts that asocial behavior in both medieval France and the contemporary West is not a marginal occurrence but rather a mainstream phenomena, and one that can often be stopped by strong force as the only antidote to social chaos.Book... -
Settler Self-Government 1840-1900: The Development of Representative and Responsible Government; Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and Commonwealth; Volume IV by David Fieldhouse 9780313273261
€87.07As the previous volumes in this series have shown, Britain's system of unfederal government had, by 1840, passed a cultural crossroads. There had been a parting of the ways in which the old representative system that had provided rule for colonies... -
The Politics of Developed Socialism: The Soviet Union as a Post-Industrial State by Donald Kelley 9780313252433
€66.59In his new study, Kelley looks at the emergence of what Soviet theorists call a developed socialist society and at the recent political, economic, and social developments, up to and including those of the early days of the Gorbachev administration, that... -
Nationhood from Below: Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century by Maarten Van Ginderachter 9780230272477
RRP: €53.54€53.51Nationalism was ubiquitous in nineteenth-century Europe. Yet, we know little about what the nation meant to ordinary people. In this book, both renowned historians and younger scholars try to answer this question. This book will appeal to specialists in... -
Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images D. Koslin 9780312293772
RRP: €118.99€111.53In this wide-ranging study of costume history contributors explore fashion, textiles, and the representation of clothing in the middle ages. Essays combine the perspectives of archaeology, art history, economics, religion, costume history, material... -
Germany since Unification: The Development of the Berlin Republic by Klaus Larres 9780333919996
€44.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Population and Nutrition: An Essay on European Demographic History by Massimo Livi Bacci 9780521368711
RRP: €36.88€27.19From the time of Malthus, the insufficient supply of food resources has been considered the main constraint of population growth and the main factor in the high mortality prevailing in pre-industrial times. In this essay, the mechanisms of biological,... -
A Cross Too Heavy: Pope Pius XII and the Jews of Europe by P. O'Shea 9780230110809
RRP: €118.99€106.95The papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958) has been a source of near-constant criticism and debate since his death, particularly because of his alleged silence during the Holocaust. Paul O'Shea examines his little-studied pre-papal life to demonstrate that Pius... -
The Politics of Privilege: Old Regime and Revolution in Lille by Gail Bossenga 9780521893725
RRP: €36.88€28.32This study analyzes the political and fiscal origins of the French Revolution by looking at the relationship between the royal government and privileged, corporate bodies at local level. Utilizing a neo-Tocquevillian approach, it argues that the monarchy... -
Politics in the Rural Society: The Southern Massif Central c.1750-1880 by P. M. Jones 9780521522588
RRP: €44.02€34.25This is a study of rural society, with particular reference to the peasantry. It focuses on an area of France which is defined as the southern Massif Central, the four departments forming the southern perimeter of the highland plateau of central France,... -
Justus Moeser and the German Enlightenment by Jonathan B. Knudsen 9780521522526
RRP: €36.88€28.32Justus Moeser was a pivotal figure in the age of the German Enlightenment. Administrator, journalist, historian, man of letters, Moeser is renowned as one of Germany's finest prose stylists and as one of its most articulate political writers. Known... -
The Genesis of the French Revolution: A Global Historical Interpretation by Bailey S. Stone 9780521445566
RRP: €89.25€66.31The Genesis of the French Revolution, first published in 1994, offers an interesting synthesis of the long- and short-term causes of the French Revolution. Instead of focusing exclusively upon developments within France, the book immediately places the... -
The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union by Mr. Anthony Pagden 9780521791717
RRP: €124.95€92.21The creation of the European Union and the progressive integration of the European states has raised serious questions about the existence of a distinctive European identity. Do the British share much in common with the French, or the French with the... -
Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 by David Warren Sabean 9780521586573
RRP: €55.92€43.54This work analyses shifts in the relations of families, households, and individuals in a single German village during the transition to a modern social structure and cultural order. The findings call into question the idea that the more modern society... -
The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815 by Jan De Vries 9780521570619
RRP: €160.65€123.37The First Modern Economy provides a comprehensive economic history of the Netherlands during its rise to European economic leadership, the 'Golden Age', and subsequent decline (1500-1815). The authors argue that it was the first modern economy, and... -
Forgotten Lives: The Role of Lenin's Sisters in the Russian Revolution, 1864-1937 by Katy Turton 9780230007628
RRP: €53.54€53.51Forgotten Lives explores the lives and work of Lenin's sisters, Anna, Ol'ga and Mariia, and the role they played in the Russian Revolution. It traces their early revolutionary careers and contributions to the underground movement, their work for the...