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Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914 by Jeffrey T. Zalar 9781108472906
RRP: £105.00£75.52Popular conceptions of Catholic censorship, symbolized above all by the Index of Forbidden Books, figure prominently in secular definitions of freedom. To be intellectually free is to enjoy access to knowledge unimpeded by any religious authority. But... -
The Growth of Fascism in Great Britain by W. A. Rudlin 9781032676791
RRP: £86.99£75.54First published in 1935, The Growth of Fascism in Great Britain discusses how the tendencies which have produced fascism on the European continent are by no means absent in England. The growth of fascism in England’s ‘green and pleasant land’ is not only... -
Studies in the Booktrade of the European Enlightenment by Giles Barber 9780907132738
RRP: £50.00£47.21The eighteen studies reprinted in this volume have appeared in leading British and European bibliographical journals during the last thirty years. This period of time is exactly that in which Anglo-Saxon techniques in analytical bibliography have been... -
The Far Right in Europe by Fred Leplat 9780902869752
RRP: £12.00£11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869752Author Fred LeplatFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance BooksWeight(grams) 434gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbruck: Who Were They? by Judith Buber Agassi 9780896728721
£40.54Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave labour, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, medical experimentation, and gassing. In its six-year history, 132,000... -
Hungarian-Yugoslav Relations, 1918-1927 by Arpad Hornyak 9780880337014
RRP: £45.00£35.32This book examines the convoluted relations between a victor state (Yugoslavia) and a defeated one (Hungary) during the first decade after the end of World War I. The work is based mainly on archival sources and demonstrates that great power interests in... -
Essays on World War I by Peter Pastor 9780880336864
RRP: £42.00£33.04This collection of essays from military historians focus on various aspects of the eastern front during World War I.Book InformationISBN 9780880336864Author Peter PastorFormat HardbackPage Count 215Imprint East European MonographsPublisher East European... -
The Way We Lived - Memoirs from a Romanian Past, 1944-1988 by Giurescu Anca 9780880336796
£56.75This volume covers the author's life in the years 1944-1988. Born into privilege immediately before World War II, the author lived through the turbulent years of early Communism and later the Ceausescu-era dictatorship. Changes in government policy... -
The Holocaust - Essays and Documents by Wolfgang Benz 9780880336574
RRP: £50.00£39.52This volume is the twenty-sixth in the Holocaust Studies Series sponsored by the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. It contains ten seminal studies the catastrophe that befell the Jews of... -
The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Revisited by Andras Gero 9780880336505
RRP: £35.00£27.74Nine established Hungarian scholars reexamine various aspects of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.Book InformationISBN 9780880336505Author Andras GeroFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint East European MonographsPublisher East European... -
Remove the Trouble from Your Heart by Esther Pasztory 9780880336277
RRP: £35.00£27.74Esther Pasztory sought refuge in the United States after the 1956 anti-communist revolution in Hungary. Her memoir chronicles the difficulty of straddling two cultures both personally and professionally and Pasztory's escape into a third, ancient culture... -
Reflections of Twentieth-Century Hungary - A Hungarian Magnate's View by Moric Baron Kornfeld 9780880336147
£57.49Baron Moric Kornfeld was a wealthy Hungarian industrialist, philanthropist, and intellectual. These writings represents the views of the author on milestone events in Hungarian history.Book InformationISBN 9780880336147Author Moric Baron KornfeldFormat... -
How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich by Franz-Josef Brüggemeier 9780821416464
RRP: £72.00£56.93The Nazis created nature preserves, championed sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third... -
In Pursuit of German Memory: History, Television, and Politics after Auschwitz by Wulf Kansteiner 9780821416396
RRP: £27.99£24.54The collective memories of Nazism that developed in postwar Germany have helped define a new paradigm of memory politics. From Europe to South Africa and from Latin America to Iraq, scholars have studied the German case to learn how to overcome internal... -
In Pursuit of German Memory: History, Television, and Politics after Auschwitz by Wulf Kansteiner 9780821416389
RRP: £58.00£28.79The collective memories of Nazism that developed in postwar Germany have helped define a new paradigm of memory politics. From Europe to South Africa and from Latin America to Iraq, scholars have studied the German case to learn how to overcome internal... -
Control of the Imaginary: Reason and Imagination in Modern Times by Luiz Costa Lima 9780816615636
RRP: £39.00£34.12Control of the Imaginary was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In... -
The U.S. South and Europe: Transatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Cornelis A. van Minnen 9780813143088
£36.31The U.S. South is a distinctive political and cultural force -- not only in the eyes of Americans, but also in the estimation of many Europeans. The region played a distinctive role as a major agricultural center and the source of much of the wealth in... -
The Making of an American Church: Essays Commemorating the Jubilee Year of the Evangelical United Brethren Church by Robert L. Frey 9780810858091
RRP: £62.00£54.01The life of the Evangelical United Brethren Church (EUB) was short-less than 22 years-yet this relatively small German-American denomination had a significant impact on Protestant Christianity. It developed a leading role in ecumenical movements in the... -
Balkan Propaganda Wars by Calin Hentea 9780810857674
£74.37Balkan Propaganda Wars provides an historical, political, and propagandistic perspective of the volatile situation that exists in the Balkans. The book reviews the historical background of the Balkan people-especially those belonging to the former... -
Theodor Adorno and the Century of Negative Identity by Eric Oberle 9780804799249
RRP: £91.00£78.92Identity has become a central feature of national conversations: identity politics and identity crises are the order of the day. We celebrate identity when it comes to personal freedom and group membership, and we fear the power of identity when it comes... -
Men of Empire: Power and Negotiation in Venice's Maritime State by Monique O'Connell 9780801891458
£53.29The city-state of Venice, with a population of less than 100,000, dominated a fragmented and fragile empire at the boundary between East and West, between Latin Christian, Greek Orthodox, and Muslim worlds. In this institutional and administrative... -
The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge by Michael McKeon 9780801885402
£39.52Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the... -
Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America by Robert Olwell 9780801882517
RRP: £41.50£37.23Never truly a "new world"entirely detached from the home countries of its immigrants, colonial America, over the generations, became a model of transatlantic culture. Colonial society was shaped by the conflict between colonists' need to adapt to the... -
French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 by Steven Kale 9780801877292
RRP: £47.50£47.42Among the most enduring of French cultural institutions, the salon, is among the most misunderstood. Seen primarily as a venue for apolitical social gatherings, the salon's influence is generally believed to have ended during the French Revolution. In ... -
Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: The Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230 by John W. Baldwin 9780801869129
RRP: £33.00£29.52Modern historians have generally approached the study of medieval society through chronicles, charters, and other documents composed in Latin by members of the clergy. Although these records may be satisfactory for studying the affairs of ecclesiastics,... -
From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe by Jeffrey R. Watt 9780801442780
RRP: £61.00£53.10In the broadest treatment yet of suicide in Europe during the period 1500-1800, 11 authors combine elements of social, cultural, legal, and intellectual history to trace important changes in the ways Europeans experienced and understood voluntary death... -
Witness to the End: Cold War Revelations 1959-1969 by Bernard W. Poirier 9780761818458
£86.26Witness to the End describes formerly secret chapters between 1959-1969 of the Cold War when the U.S. caught up to the Soviet Union's lead in rockets and missiles. Drawing on his personal experience as the Foreign Programs Officer and Assistant to the... -
Northern Ireland: The Context for Conflict and Reconciliation by Craig Seaton 9780761810315
£61.34Designed to serve as a "primer" for those who will be examining the extensive literature dealing with Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland: The Context for Conflict and for Reconciliation describes the historical and contemporary circumstances which have... -
Transnational Moments of Change: Europe 1945, 1968, 1989 by Gerd-Rainer Horn 9780742523234
£58.42Transnational Moments of Change offers a broad introduction to the methodology and practice of transnational history. To demonstrate the value of this approach, the work focuses on Europe since World War II, a period whose study particularly benefits... -
New Perspectives on the Irish Abroad: The Silent People? by Micheal O hAodha 9780739183717
RRP: £92.00£80.93Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Solidarity with Solidarity: Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980-1982 by Idesbald Goddeeris 9780739150702
RRP: £115.00£100.74The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establishment of the Independent Trade Union Solidarnosc in the summer of 1980, the proclamation of... -
Nation States: The Cultures of Irish Nationalism by Michael Mays 9780739121177
RRP: £45.00£39.49Drawing on diverse cultural forms, and ranging across disciplinary boundaries, Nation States maps the contested cultural terrain of Irish nationalism from the Act of Union of 1800 to the present. In looking at Irish nationalism as a site of struggle,... -
Nation States: The Cultures of Irish Nationalism by Michael Mays 9780739111352
RRP: £113.00£98.62Drawing on diverse cultural forms, and ranging across disciplinary boundaries, Nation States maps the contested cultural terrain of Irish nationalism from the Act of Union of 1800 to the present. In looking at Irish nationalism as a site of struggle,... -
Political Unification Revisited: On Building Supranational Communities by Amitai Etzioni 9780739102732
RRP: £47.00£41.60Can independent nations unify politically? Amitai Etzioni raised this searching question in his seminal 1965 book, Political Unification: A Comparative Study of Leaders and Forces. In this revised edition-now with an extensive new introduction-Etzioni... -
The Twilight of Byzantium: Political, Spiritual, and Cultural Life in Byzantium during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries by Slobodan Curcic 9780691657158
RRP: £130.00£101.28The centuries-long economic and military decline of the Byznatine Empire, which culminated in its political disappearance as a state in 1459, was, paradoxically, accompanied by high levels of cultural achievement. Aimed at broadening our understanding of... -
The Twilight of Byzantium: Political, Spiritual, and Cultural Life in Byzantium during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries by Slobodan Curcic 9780691655734
RRP: £48.00£38.00The centuries-long economic and military decline of the Byznatine Empire, which culminated in its political disappearance as a state in 1459, was, paradoxically, accompanied by high levels of cultural achievement. Aimed at broadening our understanding of... -
The Baku Commune, 1917-1918: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny 9780691655611
RRP: £70.00£54.70Ronald Grigor Suny examines the Revolution in Baku, important provincial capital and oil center of the Russian empire. His study of Baku's national and class conflicts, Bolshevism as it developed in the city, and the failure of the Commune in 1918 amends... -
Humanism and Scholasticism in Late Medieval Germany by James H. Overfield 9780691655338
RRP: £55.00£42.91This analysis of the intellectual life of German universities in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries demonstrates that humanist-scholastic relations were not the titanic struggles depicted in the humanists' own arguments or the many modern... -
Gender and Power in Rural Greece by Jill Dubisch 9780691655291
RRP: £45.00£35.32Women in contemporary Greek society have been conventionally depicted as oppressed and socially inferior, circumscribed in behavior and segregated from the world of men. In 1967 Ernestine Friedl's classic article, "The Position of Women: Appearnce... -
Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1921, Volume 3: The Anglo-Soviet Accord by James Ramsey Ullman 9780691655130
RRP: £82.00£64.16In February 1920 the civil war that had ravaged Russia in the wake of the Bolshevik seizure of power was all but over, and with it the attempt of foreign governments to intervene on behlf of the anti-Communist forces. The government most deeply involved...