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From Valmy to Waterloo: France at War, 1792-1815 by Marie-Cecile Thoral 9780230252875
RRP: €53.54€53.51Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book investigates the everyday human experience of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars by French military and civilians, the impact of these wars on the French nation and society, and the rise of a new... -
Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe by Leighton James 9780230249172
RRP: €53.54€53.51Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this volume argues that although the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are often understood as laying the foundations for total war, many eyewitnesses continued to draw upon older interpretative frameworks to... -
European Union History: Themes and Debates by Wolfram Kaiser 9780230232693
RRP: €53.54€53.51An accessible yet thorough look at how historians and social scientists have thought and written about the history of the present-day European Union, and the main themes of their research and debates. Essential reading for historians of Europe and social... -
Modernism and Nihilism by S. Weller 9780230231030
RRP: €53.54€53.51Focusing on a wide range of philosophers and writers, from Nietzsche to Derrida and Flaubert to Borges, this book charts the history of the deployment of the concept of nihilism within the discourses of philosophical and aesthetic modernism and considers... -
Modernism and Style by B. Hutchinson 9780230230972
RRP: €53.54€53.51Modernism is fundamentally determined by its relationship to its own notions of style: oscillating between the poles of 'pure' style and 'purely' style, this traces the stylistic self-conceptualization of modernism from Schopenhauer and Flaubert in the... -
A Hero's Many Faces: Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments by Tanja Schult 9780230222380
€107.42Raoul Wallenberg is remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II, and as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. This book examines how thirty-one Wallenberg monuments, in... -
The Children's War: Britain, 1914-1918 by R. Kennedy 9780230221758
RRP: €53.54€53.51British children were mobilised for total war in 1914-18. It dominated their school experience and they enjoyed it as a source of entertainment. Their support was believed to be vital for Britain's present and future but their participation was motivated... -
Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade: European Consumption Cultures and Practices, 1700-1900 by Dr. Jon Stobart 9780230229464
RRP: €53.54€53.51Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this book offers fresh insights into the buying and selling of used goods in western-Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and seeks to... -
German Thought and International Relations: The Rise and Fall of a Liberal Project by Robbie Shilliam 9780230224223
RRP: €53.54€53.51A fundamental question for IR is whether the value system of liberalism can be universalized, or if, in fact, the illiberal reality of international politics systematically rules out such a universalisation. The book addresses this issue by focusing on... -
Franco and the Axis Stigma by David Wingeate Pike 9780230202894
RRP: €53.54€53.51Examines Franco's relations with Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War, this book makes use of two major sources: the German Admiralty's archives, stunning in their evidence of Franco's support; and the Spanish press, operating under a... -
A Political Romance: Leon Gambetta, Leonie Leon and the Making of the French Republic, 1872-82 by Susan K. Foley 9780230206861
RRP: €53.54€53.51Leon Gambetta is renowned as a founder of the French Third Republic. This unique study of his correspondence with his lover, Leonie Leon, provides a fascinating insight into their intimate and political partnership. It brings to life Gambetta as lover... -
Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress by Richard Weikart 9780230112735
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 German Wall: Fallout in Europe by Marc Silberman 9780230112162
RRP: €53.54€53.51This interdisciplinary volume addresses the consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the revitalizing effect it had on Germany to the new challenges of integrating socially and politically old and new minorities, and forming a new European... -
German Unification: Expectations and Outcomes by Peter C. Caldwell 9780230120754
RRP: €53.54€53.51This wide-ranging collection brings together contributions from historians, political scientists, policymakers, and others to provide much-needed perspective on the unification of Germany as it actually played out in real historical time.Book... -
Reinstating the Ottomans: Alternative Balkan Modernities, 1800-1912 by Isa Blumi 9780230110182
RRP: €107.09€106.95This book focuses on the western Balkans in the period 1820-1912, in particular on the peoples and social groups that the later national history would claim to have been Albanians, providing a revisionist exploration of national identity prior to the... -
Different Paths to the Nation: Regional and National Identities in Central Europe and Italy, 1830-70 by Laurence A. Cole 9780230000360
RRP: €53.54€53.51The essays in this volume analyse issues of national and regional identity during a key phase of nation-state formation in mid-nineteenth century Europe. By asking how contemporaries articulated regional and national identities, the book offers a fresh... -
The Making of Italy, 1796-1866 by Denis Mack Smith 9780333438077
€107.42First published in 1968, this standard text on Italian nineteenth-century history is reissued, with a new preface, in hardcover and paperback, to meet a continuing demand.Book InformationISBN 9780333438077Author Denis Mack SmithFormat HardbackPage Count... -
The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union by William E. Watson 9780313301629
€65.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Diana, Self-Interest, and British National Identity by John A. Taylor 9780275968267
€77.98The public display of grief that accompanied the funeral of the late Princess of Wales drew attention to the many Britons who had found an affinity with Diana. Seeking an explanation for this affinity, Taylor argues that, during Diana's brief time in the... -
The Soviet Legacy by Roy D. Laird 9780275945589
€99.06Laird accomplishes two major goals: he provides an analytical, blow-by-blow description of the collapse of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership, and he explores the legacy left by the experiment in communism by the Soviet Union. Laird... -
The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I by Charles Beem 9780230112148
RRP: €53.54€53.51This edited volume brings together a collection of provocative essays examining a number of different facets of Elizabethan foreign affairs, encompassing England and The British Isles, Europe, and the dynamic civilization of Islam. As an entirely... -
A Summer in Europe. by Mary H Wills 9781241494728
RRP: €19.03€17.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Annexation of Eupen-Malmedy: Becoming Belgian, 1919-1929 by Vincent O'Connell 9781349958702
RRP: €118.99€117.70Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Parricide and Violence Against Parents throughout History: (De)Constructing Family and Authority? by Marianna Muravyeva 9781349957002
RRP: €118.99€117.70Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Het Patriotisme Te Alkmaar. 1781-1791. by Cornelis Bruinvis 9781241462857
RRP: €19.03€17.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray 9780674297456
RRP: €38.02€27.20How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today.The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in... -
The Holocaust and Collective Memory by Peter Novick 9780747552550 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€2.73How and when did the Holocaust come to loom so large in postwar Jewish and American and international life? Peter Novick's controversial new book sets out to answer this question. In the first decades after World War II, the Holocaust was little talked... -
Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century by Yda Schreuder 9783319970608
RRP: €118.99€106.95This book surveys the role of Amsterdam's Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a... -
World War II by Sean Callery 9781407136523 [USED COPY]
€2.73DISCOVER MORE: WORLD WAR II charts the course of the war, from the rise of Nazism to Hitler's suicide in April 1945. Nearly 70 years since World War II ended, the after effects are still shaping our world. Featuring moving first-hard accounts that bring... -
The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles 350-650: Vol. 1: Roman Britain and the Empire of Arthur by John Morris 9780850332896 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.12€7.57Roman Britain and the Empire of ArthurBook InformationISBN 9780850332896Author John MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Phillimore & Co LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 290g -
Stoke Newington: Pocket Images by Gavin Smith 9781845883232 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€3.02Stoke Newington in the early nineteenth century was notable as an 'old'world' suburb possessing great charm. Many of its interesting old houses, inns and chapels were recorded in the sketches and paintings of Thomas Hosmer Shepherd and his son. Also at... -
Germany and the Union of South Africa in the Nazi Period by Robert M. Citino 9780313277894
RRP: €88.06€81.82This is the first study to examine Nazi German foreign policy towards the Union of South Africa from 1933-1939. Making extensive use of unpublished primary source German documents, Robert Citino focuses on the activities of the German embassy and... -
Reinventing French Aid: The Politics of Humanitarian Relief in French-Occupied Germany, 1945-1952 by Laure Humbert 9781108831352
RRP: €107.10€94.72Laure Humbert explores how humanitarian aid in occupied Germany was influenced by French politics of national recovery and Cold War rivalries. She examines the everyday encounters between French officials, members of new international organizations,... -
Hit and Run: Daring Air Attacks in World War Ii by Robert Jackson 9781844151622 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.79€3.02The book describes some of the most daring air attacks of World War II. Some were outstanding successes and some were unmitigated disasters. North Sea Battle: In the early weeks of World War II, Britain and Germany were determined to attack one another's... -
Voices From the Great War by Peter Vansittart 9781844134151 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.49Bringing together Sigmund Freud, Osip Mandelstam, Lloyd George, Bertrand Russell, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain - voices famous and unknown - Peter Vansittart takes us through the course of the Great War, juxtaposing letters from the... -
Knights and Castles by Philip Ardagh 9781407107226 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€2.23Meet Henry, an ordinary boy in an extraordinary house... Step inside Henry's House and join Henry, his dog Mothball and a quirky cast of characters as they find out everything there is to know about knights and castles. Fact-packed, fun-packed, get... -
Two Antiquaries: A Selection from the Correspondence of John Aubrey and Anthony Wood by Maurice Balme 9781900838115 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.79€3.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900838115Author Maurice BalmeFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint The Pentland PressPublisher The Pentland Press -
Medicine Transformed: Health, Disease and Society in Europe 1800-1930 by Deborah Brunton 9780719067358 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.74€3.33During the nineteenth century medicine underwent a radical transformation. In 1800, the body was still understood in terms of humors and fluids, and a wide range of individuals provided medical care. Institutions were marginal to the medical enterprise,... -
Napoleon's Grande Armee by Scott Bowden 9780962665516 [USED COPY]
RRP: €35.70€23.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962665516Author Scott BowdenFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Emperor's PressPublisher Emperor's Press -
Snowdon by Brian Hoey 9780750938679 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€2.74Created the first Earl of Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones was the first Royal rebel. In this biography Brian Hoey has talked to Snowdon's son, David, the actor Graham Stark, the late Sir Harry Secombe, Sir Anthony Hopkins and journalist Quentin Crewe to...