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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240928941Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240907052Author James SimsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. This comparative drama study examines a variety of international plays - some quite well-known, others more obscure - that focus on collective or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241366384Author William WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241088163Author Theophilus SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781115480666Author James O'LearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research)Publisher BCR (Bibliographical Center for...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933316645Author Werner PoscharniggFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Xenophon Press LLCPublisher Xenophon Press LLCWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)...

Civilization and madness; community and class; bureaucracy, corruption, and revolution—these essays range from social history to political history and the history of ideas. All take a strong interpretive stand in the manner of the man to whom they are...

In the 1980s and 1990s, Nicolas Jabko suggests, the character of European integration altered radically, from slow growth to what he terms a "quiet revolution." In this book he traces the political strategy that underlay the move from the Single Market...

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A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way to Defoe contends that Robinson Crusoe contains a secret satire, written against one person, that has gone undetected...

Bringing together an international group of literary scholars, intellectual historians, and cultural historians, this book discusses history in its various forms, either as texts or images in the early modern period (1500–1800).Early Modern Genres of...

A revelatory new account of the magus—the learned magician—and his place in the intellectual, social, and cultural world of Renaissance Europe.In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical...

Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World,...

In recent years, the mask of tolerant, secular, multicultural Europe has been shattered by new forms of antisemitic crime. Though many of the perpetrators do not profess Christianity, antisemitism has flourished in Christian Europe. In this book,...

Jehan Creton accompanied Richard II on his expedition to Ireland in 1399 and witnessed his capture by Henry Lancaster, who usurped the throne to reign as Henry IV. Creton's account is of crucial importance for historians of the period, as he contradicts...

Sixty years after the end of World War II, the political and social fallout from the War is alive and divisive, as scholars in this volume show. One example is how former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine prevented...

The eleventh and early twelfth centuries were a period of intense debate over ecclesiastical reform in western Europe. This book examines the debates from a new perspective, exploring the ways in which contemporary political writers conveyed messages...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957647220Author Sir JensFormat PaperbackPage Count 686Imprint First Break PublishingPublisher First Break PublishingWeight(grams) 903gDimensions(mm)...

This study offers a complete picture of planned social housing in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. In each of these countries, vigorous efforts are being made to achieve a more satisfying life for all groups of society. Based on the intelligent...

The debut publication in a new Series devoted to the body as an object of historical study, Sight Correction provides an expansive analysis of blindness in eighteenth-century Britain, developing a new methodology for conceptualizing sight impairment...

Syphilis was a prevalent affliction in the era of the Americas' colonization, creating widespread anxiety that is indicated in the period's literature across numerous fields. Reflecting Spaniards' political prejudices of the period, it was alternately...

A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe contends that Robinson Crusoe contains a secret satire, written against one person, that has gone undetected...

The 1648 Treaty of Westphalia marked the emergence of the nation-state as the dominant political entity in Europe. This book traces the development of the nation-state from its infancy as a virtual dynastic possession, through its incarnation as the...

In 1685, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes made Catholicism the only recognized religion in France and criminalized the practice of Calvinism, throwing the minority Protestant population into crisis. A Peddler's Tale personifies these events in the...

This lively new book examines the origins of modern intimacy and domestic life. Focusing on Paris in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author explores the emergence and development of ideas such as 'sociability', 'comfort' and 'the home. On...

Andras Gero examines how Hungarian nationalists and communists used illusionism and the impact of this trend on Hungarian literature, politics, and culture. The author finds that illusionism has its roots in both realism and utopianism.Book...

The first monograph on English medieval county courts, this book provides a major revision of traditional conceptions of the character of these courts and the organization of English society from the twelfth to the fourteenth century. THe county courts...

Taddeo Alderotti was the most celebrated professor of medicine at Bologna in the late thirteenth century. His teaching involved close attention not merely to medicine itself but to all the scientific and philosophical learning of the time. His pupils, in...