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Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews Jonathan Frankel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 9780521513647
RRP: €69.02€62.37This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. The focal point is the Russian revolution of 1905, when the political mobilization of the Jewish youth took... -
The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe by Govind P. Sreenivasan 9780521044585
RRP: €36.88€34.13The Peasants of Ottobeuren offers an interesting perspective on one of the enduring problems of early modern European history: the possibilities for economic growth and social change in rural society. Based on the voluminous records of the Swabian... -
Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe by Professor Gabor Klaniczay 9780521038997
RRP: €36.88€34.13Medieval dynasties frequently relied upon the cult of royal saints for legitimacy. After the early medieval emergence of this type of sainthood, in the central Middle Ages most royal dynasties had saints in their family: Edward the Confessor, Olaf,... -
The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy by Nicholas Terpstra 9780521038003
RRP: €27.36€24.59Confraternities were the most common form of organized religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. They were at once the lay face of the church, the spiritual heart of civic government, and the social kin who claimed the allegiance of peers and... -
The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218 by Laurence W. Marvin 9780521872409
RRP: €83.30€75.81In 1209 Simon of Montfort led a war against the Cathars of Languedoc after Pope Innocent III preached a crusade condemning them as heretics. The suppression of heresy became a pretext for a vicious war that remains largely unstudied as a military... -
The Early Humiliati by Frances Andrews 9780521027144
RRP: €32.12€28.66This book is the first major study in English of a group of late twelfth-century religious enthusiasts, the early Humiliati, who were condemned by the Church as heretics in 1184. However, in a remarkable transition, they were reconciled seventeen years... -
The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany by Lars Fischer 9780521875523
RRP: €69.02€61.89What 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... -
Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850 by James M. Brophy 9780521847698
RRP: €78.54€70.73The age of revolution challenged the ancien regime's political world, introducing Europeans to fresh ideals of citizenship. German society was no less affected. Following the Napoleonic era, a political culture of partisan choice undermined the official... -
Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation Shulamit Volkov (Tel-Aviv University) 9780521846882
RRP: €48.79€44.13The ferocity of the Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise. Volkov argues that a new look at both the nature of antisemitism and at the complexity of modern Jewish life in Germany is required in order to provide an explanation. While... -
Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon: Studies in Urban History Richard J. Goy 9780521302753
RRP: €83.30€75.81This 1985 book is the study of the history of a group of villages, and one large town, that lie in the lagoons that surround Venice. Although written by an architect, it is not concerned solely with architecture, but with the whole history of the... -
The Briennes: The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, c. 950-1356 Guy Perry (Middlebury College, Vermont) 9781107196902
€142.80The Briennes were a highly important aristocratic family who hailed from the Champagne region of north-eastern France, but whose reach and impact extended across Europe and into the Crusader States in the Middle East. It is a highly dramatic and... -
The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965 by Pieter Lagrou 9780521041478
RRP: €27.36€24.59This volume, in Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare series, examines how France, Belgium and the Netherlands emerged from the military collapse and humiliating Nazi occupation they suffered during the Second World War. Rather... -
Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000-1200 by Adam J. Kosto 9780521037853
RRP: €32.12€29.13This study examines the role of written agreements in eleventh- and twelfth-century Catalonia, and how they determined the social and political order. By tracing the fate of these agreements - or convenientiae - from their first appearance to the late... -
The Danish Revolution, 1500-1800: An Ecohistorical Interpretation by Thorkild Kjargaard 9780521030434
RRP: €27.36€24.59This book tells the story of a fertile European country that, as a result of over population and military armament, over exploited its fields and forests in a non-sustainable fashion. By the eighteenth century Denmark, along with other European... -
At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, c.1000 - c.1300 by Nora Berend 9780521027205
RRP: €32.12€29.13Modern life in increasingly heterogeneous societies has directed attention to patterns of interaction, often using a framework of persecution and tolerance. This study of the economic, social, legal and religious position of three minorities (Jews,... -
Imperial Russia's Jewish Question, 1855-1881 by John Doyle Klier 9780521023818
RRP: €45.21€41.45The reform era in Russia (1855-1881) witnessed the emancipation of the serfs, economic and social change, the reform of all imperial institutions, and the growth of national identity among Russians and the Empire's expanding Jewish population... -
The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris by Bronislaw Geremek 9780521026123
RRP: €27.36€24.59This book discusses the 'marginal' people of late medieval Paris, the large and shifting group of men and women who existed on the margins of conventional organized society. Professor Geremek examines the various groups which made up the marginal world -... -
Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orleans, 800-1200 Thomas Head (Yale University, Connecticut) 9780521023429
RRP: €32.12€28.66This is a study of the place of patron saints in Frankish society during the Carolingian and early Capetian periods. The book focuses on the composition of works in praise of dead holy people - hagiography - and the veneration of their physical remains -... -
Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670 by Benjamin Schmidt 9780521024556
RRP: €36.88€34.13Innocence Abroad explores the process of encounter that took place between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The 'discovery' of America coincided with the foundation of the Dutch Republic, a correspondence of... -
Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914 by Manfred F. Boemeke 9780521026321
RRP: €36.88€34.13These 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... -
Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933-1945 by Gerald D. Feldman 9780521026680
RRP: €45.21€41.45This history of the internationally prominent insurance corporation Allianz AG in the Nazi era is based largely on new or previously unavailable archival sources. Feldman takes the reader through varied cases of collaboration and conflict with the Nazi... -
State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Wurttemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797 by Sheilagh C. Ogilvie 9780521025843
RRP: €45.21€41.45State Corporatism and Proto-Industry focuses on an industrial countryside in south-west Germany, where a dense worsted industry dominated the rural economy from 1580 to 1800. This is an example of 'proto-industry', the dense, export-oriented rural... -
Italy the Least of the Great Powers: Italian Foreign Policy Before the First World War by R. J. B. Bosworth 9780521019897
RRP: €36.88€34.13In the heart of Rome beside the Capitol, confronting the Piazza Venezia, stands the Victor Emmanuel monument. In Rome, which until 1945 was so often accorded the adjectives 'eternal' or 'imperial', the monumentissimo (as sardonic socialists labelled it)... -
John of Brienne: King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople, c.1175-1237 Guy Perry (University of Leeds) 9781107043107
€142.80John of Brienne's progress, from mid-ranking knightly status to king of Jerusalem and, later, Latin emperor of Constantinople, traces one of the most remarkable careers in the entire medieval period. But how and why did he achieve such heights? This... -
Between Court and Confessional: The Politics of Spanish Inquisitors by Kimberly Lynn 9781107031166
RRP: €83.30€75.81Between Court and Confessional explores the lives of Spanish inquisitors, closely examining the careers and writings of five sixteenth- and seventeenth-century inquisitors. Kimberly Lynn considers what shaped particular inquisitors, what kinds of... -
The Fascists and the Jews of Italy: Mussolini's Race Laws, 1938-1943 Michael A. Livingston 9781107027565
€142.80From 1938 until 1943 - before the German occupation and accompanying Holocaust - Fascist Italy drafted and enforced a comprehensive set of anti-Semitic laws. Notwithstanding later rationalizations, the laws were administered with a high degree of... -
Vesalius: The China Root Epistle: A New Translation and Critical Edition by Andreas Vesalius 9781107026353
RRP: €57.11€51.90This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius' China Root Epistle. Ostensibly his appraisal of a fashionable herbal remedy, the China Root Epistle concentrates on Vesalius' skeptical appraisal of... -
The Struggle for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War by Astrid M. Eckert 9780521880183
RRP: €71.40€64.46When American and British troops swept through the German Reich in the spring of 1945, they confiscated a broad range of government papers and archives. These records were subsequently used in war crimes trials and published under Allied auspices to... -
Civic Ceremony and Religion in Medieval Bruges c.1300-1520 by Andrew Brown 9780521764452
RRP: €83.30€75.81Public religious practice lay at the heart of civic society in late medieval Europe. In this illuminating study, Andrew Brown draws on the rich and previously little-researched archives of Bruges, one of medieval Europe's wealthiest and most important... -
The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century: Competition and Convergence by Christof Mauch 9780521197816
RRP: €55.93€50.40The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The two countries - the world's leading 'rising powers' of the time - were both more... -
The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century: Competition and Convergence by Christof Mauch 9780521145619
RRP: €28.55€24.24The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The two countries - the world's leading 'rising powers' of the time - were both more... -
Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945 by Kiran Klaus Patel 9780521834162
RRP: €69.02€62.37Originally published in 2005, Soldiers of Labor is a systematic comparison between the labor policies of the Nazi dictatorship and New Deal America. The main subject of the book is the Nazi Labor Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst), a public work scheme that... -
History Society Church by Derek Beales 9780521021890
RRP: €36.88€33.65This book contains essays within a common theme by a group of distinguished historians (some of them acknowledged world leaders in their fields) in honour of the just-retired Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, whose... -
The Republic in Danger: General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933-1940 by Martin S. Alexander 9780521372343
RRP: €103.53€94.45This is the first full-length study in English of the career of one of France's most controversial military leaders, General Maurice Gamelin (1872-1958). Gamelin was reviled by many of his contemporaries and denigrated by historians as 'the man who lost... -
The Peasantry in the French Revolution by P. M. Jones 9780521330701
RRP: €60.69€55.05This book fills a gap in the literature on the French Revolution, and offers a synthesis which brings together the fruits of two generations' research in the field of French rural and agrarian history. The contention of Georges Lefebvre (the greatest... -
German History Unbound: From 1750 to the Present by H. Glenn Penny 9781316510414
RRP: €83.29€75.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781316510414Author H. Glenn PennyFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe by Govind P. Sreenivasan 9780521834704
RRP: €88.06€80.04The Peasants of Ottobeuren offers an interesting perspective on one of the enduring problems of early modern European history: the possibilities for economic growth and social change in rural society. Based on the voluminous records of the Swabian... -
The Crusades, c.1071-c.1291 by Jean Richard 9780521623698
RRP: €118.99€104.49A concise history of the crusades - whose chief goal was the liberation and preservation of the 'holy places' of the middle east - from the first calls to arms in the later twelfth century to the fall of the last crusader strongholds in Syria and... -
Italian Industrialists from Liberalism to Fascism: The Political Development of the Industrial Bourgeoisie, 1906-34 by Franklin Hugh Adler 9780521434065
RRP: €94.01€85.30The Croix de Feu and its successor the Parti Social Francais stood at the centre of political conflict in the turbulent final years of the French Third Republic. Membership peaked at 750,000 in 1937, and at the time the movement was widely regarded as... -
Science, Technology, and National Socialism by Monika Renneberg 9780521403740
RRP: €83.30€75.81This 1993 book provides a survey of the development of scientific disciplines and technical projects under National Socialism in Germany. Each contribution addresses a different aspect which is important for judging the interaction between science,...