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Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady by Bonnie Wheeler 9780312295820
$116.45Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender-power relations... -
Darkest Italy: The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860-1900 by Na Na 9780312221683
RRP: $58.04$58.01Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. In Darkest Italy, John Dickie analyzes these stereotypes in the post-Unification period, when the Mezzogiorno was widely seen as barbaric, violent... -
The Politics of Cultural Policy in France by Kim Eling 9780312219741
RRP: $116.09$115.93The Politics of Cultural Policy in France offers a lively and iconoclastic account of cultural policy-making in France. Focusing on the policies of the Socialist governments of 1981-86 and 1988-93, the book suggests that policy towards the arts was... -
The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, c.1450-1700 by Craig M. Koslofsky 9780312229108
RRP: $116.09$115.93Koslofsky examines the human encounter with death in Germany from the eve of the Reformation to the rise of Pietism. The Protestant Reformation transformed the funeral more profoundly than any other ritual of the traditional church. Luther's doctrine of... -
Matheus Miller's Memoir: A Merchant's Life in the Seventeenth Century by Thomas Max Safley 9780312226466
RRP: $116.09$115.93This book reconstructs the worldview of a Lutheran merchant from the city of Augsburg in the seventeenth century. Miller's is a singular story. Though he lived through some of the great events of his age, he scarcely mentioned them. Though he was raised... -
Eldorado Or Fortress? Migration in Southern Europe by Na Na 9780312226152
$116.45Within the ever-changing global map of migrations, Southern Europe has come to occupy a pivotal place: formerly a region of mass emigration overseas and to Northern Europe; now, since the 1980s, a region of mass immigration. The migrants come from many... -
The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia by Andres Kasekamp 9780312225988
RRP: $116.09$115.93The first detailed study of Estonian politics during the 1930s, this book examines the Estonian Veterans' League which won a majority in a referendum for its constitutional amendment creating a strong presidency. The Veterans appeared set to triumph in... -
Louis XII by Frederic J. Baumgartner 9780312161736
$51.72The reign of Louis XII (1498-1515) has been much neglected by historians. Falling between the conventional end of the French middle ages and Francis I's notional ushering in of Renaissance France, Louis' rule 'belongs' neither to medievalists nor to... -
Nicholas II: The Life and Reign of Russia's Last Monarch by Robert D. Warth 9780275958329
$107.90This book is a scholarly, comprehensive, and critical biography of Nicholas II from his birth in 1868 to his execution in 1918. It features a chronological narrative emphasizing the political aspects of the Tsar's reign rather than details from his... -
Oppression and Scarcity: The History and Institutional Structure of the Marxist-Leninist Government of East Germany and Some Perspectives on Life in a Socialist System by Peter W. Sperlich 9780275975654
$107.90Imagine being forced to adopt an ideology that strips you of your political rights and plunges you into a life of despair and unending shortages. After the Second World War, the people of East Germany endured just such an appalling fate when socialism... -
Over the Top: The Great War and Juvenile Literature in Britain by Michael Paris 9780275975180
$107.38During the Great War, books and stories for young men were frequently used as unofficial propaganda for recruitment and to sell the war to British youth as a moral crusade. Until now, this literature has been neglected by academics, but the image of the... -
Parliamentary Politics of a County and Its Town: General Elections in Suffolk and Ipswich in the Eighteenth Century by Susan Mitchell Sommers 9780275975135
$107.38Based on archival sources, this study considers political activities in Suffolk's two main constituencies over the course of the 18th century. Mining the records of an unusually rich provincial press, Sommers addresses many key questions of Hanoverian... -
Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World by William E. Watson 9780275974701
$85.05For 1,400 years, France has been in contact with Islam and Muslim populations. This study explores their long relationship and history, examining in particular the expansion and contraction of France's Islamic Empire throughout the 20th century. This... -
A Great Russia: Russia and the Triple Entente, 1905 to 1914 by Fiona K. Tomaszewski 9780275973667
$127.37The Triple Entente of Great Britain, Russia, and France was the foreign policy prong of the Russian imperial government's reaction to the disastrous events of 1905, including the revolution and the near defeat in the Russo-Japanese War. This alignment... -
An Elizabethan Lawyer's Possession by the Devil: The Story of Robert Brigges by Kathleen R. Sands 9780275978372
$107.38During April 1574, an aspiring London barrister named Robert Brigges was possessed by Satan. For three weeks, Brigges shouted, raged, and sobbed; suffered from sensory deprivations; and engaged in impassioned disputes with his invisible adversary... -
White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859-1919 by Jamie H. Cockfield 9780275977788
$136.46Based on material from the newly opened Russian archives, this is the first biography of Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov (1859-1919), the only intellectual in the Russian Imperial Family. This unique study provides insight into the last six decades of... -
John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism by Anthony Page 9780275977757
$107.90A supporter of the American rebellion and advocate of radical ideas on religion, philosophy, education, law, medicine, and politics, John Jebb (1736-1786) provides an ideal case to examine the nature of radicalism in 18th-century Britain. Jebb began his... -
Destroy Warsaw!: Hitler's Punishment, Stalin's Revenge by Andrew Borowiec 9780275970055
$95.95Written by a survivor of the Warsaw Uprising, this book examines the background of the ill-fated 63-day uprising that pitted poorly armed Polish civilians and volunteers against Hitler's well-armed and veteran forces. Borowiec also examines Stalin's... -
The Poet and the Dictator: Lauro de Bosis Resists Fascism in Italy and America by Jean Mudge 9780275969646
$107.38This vivid biography is a study of the life and times of the Italian poet-activist, Lauro de Bosis. Remarkably productive as a poet, cultural diplomat, and political subversive, de Bosis founded and lead an underground resistance group, the National... -
The Stonemason: Donald Macleod's Chronicle of Scotland's Highland Clearances by Douglas MacGowan 9780275969479
$107.38Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, waves of tenant evictions swept through northern Scotland in what would become known as the Highland Clearances. Wealthy landlords, discovering hardy breeds of sheep that would flourish in the severe Highland... -
The French Overseas Empire by Frederick Quinn 9780275967994
$107.90For more than five centuries France has been both a European and a global power. French explorers, traders, settlers, soldiers and missionaries journeyed to the world's farthest reaches establishing colonies, bringing millions of people under French... -
Gorbachev's Reforms: De-Stalinization through Demilitarization by Susanne Sternthal 9780275954192
$72.19Gorbachev's reforms in domestic and foreign policy were motivated by the overriding objective of making Soviet socialism a legitimate and viable alternative among the world community of nations. Drawing on recently opened archives, this study examines... -
Science, Technology, and Ecopolitics in the USSR by Miron Rezun 9780275953836
$107.38Although enormous industrial advances were made in the USSR, the country still lagged behind the West in the post-industrial age. What the Soviets could not build or manufacture, they had to get from the West. The final outcome was a culture developed in... -
A Man for All Connections: Raoul Wallenberg and the Hungarian State Apparatus, 1944-1945 by Andrew Handler 9780275952143
$107.38This chronicle of Raoul Wallenberg's sojourn to Budapest documents his activities at the Swedish Legation and his rescue efforts on behalf of the Jews of Budapest. It is a matter of record that Wallenberg's mission was designed by compassionate and... -
Jerusalem Recovered: Victorian Intellectuals and the Birth of Modern Zionism by Michael Polowetzky 9780275952136
$84.53This book demonstrates that the Balfour Declaration-the British decision to establish a Jewish homeland in postwar Palestine made on November 2, 1917 - was the culmination of over 60 years of active preoccupation with Jewish culture and history among the... -
Politics in a Museum: Governing Post-War Florence by James Miller 9780275972318
$107.90How and why has the city of Florence, one of the great treasure houses of western civilization, been reduced to little more than a Renaissance Disneyland for tourists? Florence, once a center of national intellectual creativity, has become a city with... -
Liberal Diplomacy and German Unification: The Early Career of Robert Morier by Scott W. Murray 9780275967307
$107.90This work explores the early diplomatic career of Robert Morier, the British Foreign Office's foremost expert on German affairs in the period leading up to German unification in 1871. As the subject of an intellectual biography, Morier provides valuable... -
Forced to Choose: France, the Atlantic Alliance, and NATO -- Then and Now by Charles G. Cogan 9780275957049
$84.53Cogan examines the France-NATO problem, going back to its origins in 1945-1952, when a weak France, obsessed by the threat of Germany and jealous of the ascendancy gained by the British during the war, sought security guarantees and assistance from the... -
The Collapse of the Soviet Empire: A View from Riga by George J. Neimanis 9780275957131
$84.53An American academic describes the breakup of the Soviet Union and the formation of an independent Latvia from the vantage point of Riga, where he was acting as an advisor to the Latvian Parliament and was a visiting faculty member at the time of the... -
From the Berlin Museum to the Berlin Wall: Essays on the Cultural and Political History of Modern Germany by David Wetzel 9780275954451
$107.38These essays by nine distinguished historians deal with prominent personalities in German history over the last two centuries; and they are dominated by two themes. First, they trace the growth and flowering of German culture in areas like print and... -
Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its Others by Silvia Federici 9780275951542
$107.38What do we mean by Western Civilization? When did the expression originate and why? At a time when there is a widespread perception that Western Civilization is undergoing a historic crisis, and when postmodernism, feminist theory, afrocentrism,... -
Hitler as Philosophe: Remnants of the Enlightenment in National Socialism by Lawrence Birken 9780275950651
$123.09Birken challenges the conventional wisdom that Hitlerism was a revolt against Western values. Utilizing Adolph Hitler's major writings, speeches, and recorded conversations, this path-breaking study in intellectual history delineates the relationship of... -
Francois Mitterrand: The Making of a Socialist Prince in Republican France by Sally Baumann-Reynolds 9780275948870
$107.38This book traces the prepresidential career of the Socialist French president, covering his early years, his participation in the Vichy government, the Resistance and the governments of the Fourth Republic, and his 23 year march to the pinnacle of... -
The Last Years of the Soviet Empire: Snapshots from 1985-1991 by Neil F. O'Donnell 9780275944407
$107.38Between 1985 and 1991, the Soviet Union was shaken to its core by a series of remarkable social and political developments. Throughout the period, the eminent Sovietologist Vladimir Shlapentokh monitored the revolution and recorded his impressions in a... -
Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in Service to the Third Reich by John Carver Edwards 9780275939052
$107.90Expatriates posing as detached yet patriotic American commentators, and using the news-of-the-day voice of the stereotypical radio announcer, sought to turn U.S. opinion against the British and achieve the political objectives of their media-savvy... -
The Victors: The Men of WWII by Stephen E. Ambrose 9780743263665 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50$2.95THE VICTORS is a breathtaking new work from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose. It follows the momentous events of the war from D-Day, 6 June 1944, through to the final days when the Allied soldiers pushed the German troops out of France, chased... -
Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe by S. Jansen 9780230605527
RRP: $58.04$58.01The sixteenth century was an age of politically powerful women. Queens, acting in their own right, and female regents, acting on behalf of their male relatives, governed much of Western Europe. Yet even as women ruled - and ruled effectively - their... -
Italy and 1968: Youthful Unrest and Democratic Culture by Stuart J. Hilwig 9780230575684
RRP: $58.04$58.01A comprehensive look at how the 'establishment' responded to the Italian student revolt of 1968. Using oral interviews, media analysis and archival evidence, the book explores the reactions of those who became the frequent targets of student protests -... -
Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives by Olaf Jensen 9780230552029
RRP: $58.04$58.01Since the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and diverse picture of perpetrators. This book provides a unique overview of the current state of research on perpetrators. The overall focus... -
Women and Nationalism in the Making of Modern Greece: The Founding of the Kingdom to the Greco-Turkish War by Demetra Tzanaki 9780230545465
RRP: $58.04$58.01This pioneering book reveals how nationalism in Ninteenth-century Greece helped women to develop an alternative vision of female politics, history, and citizenship. Shedding new light on women's ideas and beliefs the author brings to life the story of...