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The Rome of Pope Paschal I: Papal Power, Urban Renovation, Church Rebuilding and Relic Translation, 817-824 by Caroline J. Goodson 9780521768191
RRP: $135.45$93.62In the early ninth century, a critical time in Rome's transformation from ancient capital to powerful bishopric to new state capital, Pope Paschal I undertook a building campaign to communicate his authority and Rome's importance as an ancient and... -
A Concise History of Finland by David Kirby 9780521832250
RRP: $109.65$79.94Few countries in Europe have undergone such rapid social, political and economic changes as Finland has during the last fifty years. David Kirby here sets out the fascinating history of this northern country, for centuries on the east-west divide of... -
Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West by James D. Tracy 9780521828253
RRP: $135.45$93.62How did state power impinge on the religion of the ordinary person? This perennial issue has been sharpened as historians uncover the process of 'confessionalization' or 'acculturation', by which officials of state and Church collaborated in ambitious... -
German Industry and Global Enterprise: BASF: The History of a Company by Werner Abelshauser 9780521827263
RRP: $167.70$121.04The corporate history of BASF spans an era of German and international economic history that began with the rise of the 'new industries' as of the late nineteenth century and continues today in their confrontation with the new economy. This book examines... -
The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146-1246 by Martin Dimnik 9780521824422
RRP: $134.16$113.92Historians 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 French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power by Roger Price 9780521808309
RRP: $154.80$113.92This book is about a major historical figure, Napoleon III, and a political regime. It examines how Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (nephew of the first Napoleon) was able to secure election as President of the Republic and subsequently to launch a coup d'etat... -
Italy: A Short History by Harry Hearder 9780521806138
RRP: $96.75$74.91Italy: A Short History is a concise but comprehensive account of Italian history from the Ice Age to the present day. It is intended for both students of Italian history and culture and the general reader, whether tourist, business-person or traveller,... -
The Making of a Court Society: Kings and Nobles in Late Medieval Portugal by Rita Costa Gomes 9780521800112
RRP: $154.80$120.27This 2003 book is an important full-length study of the Portuguese royal court in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It describes the fundamental importance of the court in defining the social position of kings, and shows how kings and nobles... -
The Corporation under Russian Law, 1800-1917: A Study in Tsarist Economic Policy by Thomas C. Owen 9780521529440
RRP: $39.98$30.70This study analyses the legal framework imposed on corporations by the imperial Russian Government. It stresses the dual nature of the bureaucracy's policy toward modern capitalist enterprise: encouragement for the sake of economic development, and... -
Urbanization and Crime: Germany 1871-1914 by Eric A. Johnson 9780521527002
RRP: $39.98$30.70This 1995 book contributes to both modern German history and to the sociological understanding of crime in modern industrial and urban societies. Its central argument is that cities, in themselves, do not cause crime. It focuses on the problems of crime... -
Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of H. G. Koenigsberger by Phyllis Mack 9780521527026
RRP: $39.98$30.70This volume of essays reflects the interests and expertise of H. G. Koenigsberger, Professor of History at King's College London, who has written and taught widely on early modern Europe, from Sicily and Spain to Germany, France and the Netherlands. The... -
A Concise History of Hungary by Miklos Molnar 9780521661423
RRP: $109.65$84.71This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the elections of 1988. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people which became... -
The Development of the SA in Nurnberg, 1922-1934 by Eric G. Reiche 9780521524315
RRP: $39.98$30.70In Nurnberg, as in other German cities, the SA (or stormtroopers) was the most visible Nazi organisation prior to the seizure of power by Hitler in 1933. This book looks in close detail at the development of the SA from its inception in 1922 until its... -
The Politics of French Business 1936-1945 by Richard Vinen 9780521522403
RRP: $39.98$30.70It has long been assumed that large-scale industry was one of the pillars of support for the Vichy regime which ruled France - under the German aegis - from 1940 to 1944. In particular it has been assumed that business used Vichy to reverse the... -
The Cost of Empire: The Finances of the Kingdom of Naples in the Time of Spanish Rule by Antonio Calabria 9780521522281
RRP: $39.98$30.70This is a study of early modern government finance in the kingdom of Naples, one of the most important European dominions of the Spanish Empire. Professor Calabria focuses on the period from the mid-sixteenth century to the time of the Thirty Years' War... -
Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany by Norbert Schindler 9780521650106
RRP: $116.10$88.53When this volume first appeared in German it inspired a whole generation of young scholars. Schindler recreates the lives of both the poor and excluded; the milieu of the burghers; and the rumbustuous lifestyles of the Counts von Zimmern. A true... -
Civil War in Siberia: The Anti-Bolshevik Government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918-1920 by Jonathan D. Smele 9780521573351
RRP: $174.15$133.73The Russian Civil War of 1917-1921, a cataclysmic series of overlapping conflicts, was a pivotal event in modern history. It was the Bolshevik victory in this bloody struggle, not the skirmishes on the streets of Petrograd and Moscow in October 1917,... -
The Popular Front and Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence 1918-1940 by Nicole Jordan 9780521522427
RRP: $47.72$36.61Between 1936 and 1938, the French alliance system in East Central Europe collapsed. The resulting dramatic expansion of German power led directly to the Second World War. This illuminating study investigates the implications of French military, economic... -
The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared by E.P. Hennock 9780521592123
RRP: $109.65$77.43This book is a comparative study of the origin of the welfare state in England and Germany, from 1850 to 1914. It presents original conclusions about the differences between British and German approaches. Peter Hennock analyses policies on social... -
Catholic Royalism in the Department of the Gard 1814-1852 by Brian Fitzpatrick 9780521522304
RRP: $39.98$30.70The Gard in southern France was the scene of extensive bloodshed in 1790, when opponents of the Revolution tried unsuccessfully to prevent change, and again in 1815, when they sought revenge through a carefully prepared White Terror. The revolutions of... -
The Religion of the Poor: Rural Missions in Europe and the Formation of Modern Catholicism, c.1500-c.1800 by Louis Chatellier 9780521562010
RRP: $116.10$71.88The Religion of the Poor is an ambitious survey of Catholic missions into the European countryside from 1500 to 1800. The acclaimed French historian Louis Chatellier analyses the impulses to missionary activity at the end of the Middle Ages, and the... -
Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Thomas Ertman 9780521482226
RRP: $135.45$99.96For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to... -
A Concise History of Austria by Steven Beller 9780521473057
RRP: $109.65$73.63For a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders. Today's Austrians have a problematic relationship with that history, whether with the multi-national... -
Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy by Michael R. Ebner 9780521762137
RRP: $116.10$86.75Between 1926 and 1943, the Fascist regime arrested thousands of Italians and deported them to island internment colonies and small villages in southern Italy. Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy analyses this system of political confinement and, more... -
An Interrupted Past: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 by Hartmut Lehmann 9780521558334
RRP: $39.98$30.70The essays in An Interrupted Past describe the fate of those German-speaking historians who fled from Nazi Europe to the United States. Their story is set into several contexts: the traditional relationship between German and American historiography, the... -
Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884-1911 by Frank M. Snowden 9780521483100
RRP: $154.80$120.27This 1995 book is a medical and social history of Italy's largest city during the cholera epidemics of 1884 and 1910-11. It explores the factors that exposed Naples to risk; it examines such popular responses as social hysteria, riots and religiosity;... -
Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class by Timothy W. Mason 9780521432122
RRP: $109.65$72.39This collection of essays, four of which are published in English for the first time, represents the life's work of the historian Tim Mason, one of the most original and perceptive scholars of National Socialism, who pioneered its social and labour... -
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807 by Professor A. R. Disney 9780521409087
RRP: $122.55$94.87The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'etre and no obvious roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's... -
Britain and Poland 1939-1943: The Betrayed Ally by Anita J. Prazmowska 9780521403092
RRP: $116.10$86.75Poland was a problematic issue for the Big Powers throughout the Second World War. For Britain, Poland was a major stumbling block in British-Soviet relations as Polish-Soviet territorial disputes clashed with the needs of the British-Soviet-United... -
Finance and Financiers in European History 1880-1960 by Youssef Cassis 9780521400244
RRP: $154.80$120.27In this major 'state of the art' survey, a highly distinguished team of contributors addresses the complex and crucial role of finance in European history during the period 1880-1960. Throughout the volume a comparative, global perspective is used in the... -
Marxism at Work: Ideology, Class and French Socialism during the Third Republic by Robert Stuart 9780521415262
RRP: $154.80$120.27Despite a century of debate and criticism, Marxism as a mass ideological practice has remained an elusive topic. This book examines Marxist socialism as a mode of understanding and self-understanding treasured and transmitted by thousands of anonymous... -
Money and Security: Troops, Monetary Policy, and West Germany's Relations with the United States and Britain, 1950-1971 by Hubert Zimmermann 9780521399180
RRP: $39.98$28.24This study links two fundamental political structures of the Cold War era, the transatlantic security system and the international monetary system. Central to this issue is a problem which soured relations between the Federal Republic and its allies from... -
Stalin's Successors: Leadership, Stability and Change in the Soviet Union by Seweryn Bialer 9780521289061
RRP: $39.98$30.70This book provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the structure and process of Soviet politics have been transformed since Stalin's death, and particularly during the years of the Brezhnev regime. In explaining the Soviet Union's political... -
Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Regime to the Third Republic by Colin Heywood 9780521123112
RRP: $39.98$30.70How did French people write about their own childhood and youth between the 1760s and the 1930s? Colin Heywood argues that this was a critical period in the history of young people, as successive generations moved from the relatively stable and... -
The Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries by Leopold H. Haimson 9780521263252
RRP: $154.80$120.27This book presents the life histories, drawn from a series of interviews conducted in the 1960s, of three prominent survivors of the Menshevik party: Lydia Dan, Boris Nicolaevsky, and George Denike. Each of these figures played an important role in the... -
Mafia, Peasants and Great Estates: Society in Traditional Calabria by Pino Arlacchi 9780521272193
RRP: $39.98$30.70The nature of traditional societies in Mediterranean countries and the effect on those societies brought about in the twentieth century, have long been debated; but in general these debates has started from an assumption of the relatively homogenous... -
A History of the Colonization of Africa by Alien Races by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston 9780521231282
RRP: $54.17$42.16Sir Harry Johnston (1858-1927) is remembered as a key figure in the New Colonial period of the late nineteenth century. This volume forms part of the Cambridge Historical Series and expresses Johnston's perspective on the process of African colonization... -
Town and Country in Pre-Industrial Spain: Cuenca, 1540-1870 by David Reher 9780521201322
RRP: $47.72$30.70Originally published in 1990, this is an in-depth study of Cuenca, a hilltop town on the Castilian Meseta, from the middle of the 16th to the end of the 19th centuries. Dr Reher analyses its socio-economic structures in the context of the urbanisation of... -
Italy in the Making 1815 to 1846 by G. F.-H. Berkeley 9780521159159
RRP: $39.98$23.34Mr Berkeley spent much of his time in Italy and made a life study of the whole Risorgimento. He was in touch with some of the best living authorities on the subject: 'In the course of thirty years I have met men of all parties - old Garibaldians,... -
The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany by Lars Fischer 9780521153249
RRP: $39.98$30.70What set antisemites apart from anti-antisemites in Imperial Germany was not so much what they thought about 'the Jews', but what they thought should be done about them. Like most anti-antisemites, German Social Democrats felt that the antisemites had a...