Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
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... -
Action and Conviction in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of E.H. Harbison by Theodore K. Rabb 9780691622101
RRP: £60.00£47.10The essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics in the history of Europe from the later Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. They are concerned with the relations between outer morality and inner conviction. Originally published in 1969. ... -
Peasant Classes: The Bureaucratization of Property and Family Relations Under Early Habsburg Absolutism, 1511-1636 by Hermann Rebel 9780691613727
RRP: £52.00£40.63Focusing on peasant family life in Upper Austria, this study moves beyond generalizations about the growth of the modern state to ask what social relations existed in the early modern period and how they worked. Originally published in 1983. The... -
The Cercle Social, the Girondins, and the French Revolution by Gary Kates 9780691611716
RRP: £48.00£37.60Gary Kates reconstructs the history of the Cercle Social, a group of writers and politicians who wielded considerable influence during the French Revolution and whose pioneering interest in women's rights and land reform made their club one of the most... -
Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism by Carl E. Schorske 9780691606675
RRP: £35.00£31.73In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siecle Vienna--draws together a series of essays that reveal the changing place of history in nineteenth-and twentieth-century cultures. In most... -
The End of the Russian Imperial Army, Volume II: The Road to Soviet Power and Peace by Allan K. Wildman 9780691205502
RRP: £142.00£110.46Allan Wildman presents the first detailed study of the Army's collapse under the strains of war and of the front soldiers' efforts to participate in the Revolution. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
The Europeanization of the World: On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy by John M. Headley 9780691171487
RRP: £25.00£19.59The Europeanization of the World puts forward a defense of Western civilization and the unique gifts it has bequeathed to the world-in particular, human rights and constitutional democracy-at a time when many around the globe equate the West with hubris... -
Cultural Exchange: Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace by Joseph Shatzmiller 9780691156996
RRP: £45.00£35.32Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture... -
The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe by David Marquand 9780691156088
RRP: £28.00£21.80Has Europe's extraordinary postwar recovery limped to an end? It would seem so. The United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Italy, and former Soviet Bloc countries have experienced ethnic or religious disturbances, sometimes violent. Greece, Ireland, and Spain... -
Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810 by Carla Hesse 9780520356672
RRP: £80.00£61.89In 1789, French revolutionaries initiated a cultural experiment that radically transformed the three basic elements of French literary civilization-authorship, printing, and publishing. In a panoramic analysis, Carla Hesse tells how the Revolution shook... -
Courtier and the King: Ruy Gomez de Silva, Philip II, and the Court of Spain by James M. Boyden 9780520301788
RRP: £34.00£26.97Ruy Gomez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, social grace, and an uncanny knack for anticipating and catering to the desires of his prince, he... -
Crescendo of the Virtuoso: Spectacle, Skill, and Self-Promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution by Paul Metzner 9780520301191
RRP: £42.00£33.04During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting... -
Mediterranean Encounters: Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata by Fariba Zarinebaf 9780520289932
RRP: £34.00£27.37Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galata-a Mediterranean and Black Sea port-to the Ottoman conquest, and its transformation into a hub of European trade and diplomacy as well as a pluralist society of the early modern period. Framing... -
In Search of Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe by Adam Michnik 9780520269231
RRP: £31.00£24.03In this new collection of essays, Adam Michnik - one of Europe's leading dissidents - traces the post-cold-war transformation of Eastern Europe. He writes again in opposition, this time to post-communist elites and European Union bureaucrats. Composed of... -
Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic by James H. Johnson 9780520267718
RRP: £71.00£55.45'The entire town is disguised', declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks - nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men - could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a... -
The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality by Michael Berkowitz 9780520251144
RRP: £30.00£23.29"The Crime of My Very Existence" investigates a rarely considered yet critical dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. Drawing from a rich body of... -
The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France by Suzanne Desan 9780520248168
RRP: £30.00£23.69In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how... -
The New World of the Gothic Fox: Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America by Claudio Veliz 9780520083165
RRP: £53.00£41.39Claudio Veliz adopts the provocative metaphor of foxes and hedgehogs that Isaiah Berlin used to describe opposite types of thinkers. Applying this metaphor to modern culture, economic systems, and the history of the New World, Veliz provides an original... -
The West: A New History by David A Bell 9780393664751
RRP: £139.50£97.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393664751Author David A BellPage Count 1056Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 2059g -
The West: A New History by David A. Bell 9780393640823
£74.01This beautifully written history recentres the West and rekindles the past in a vivid narrative crafted for beginning students. Grafton and Bell tell the epic story of a West engaged in a continuing search for order across politics, society and culture,... -
From Napoleon to Stalin and Other Essays by Edward Hallett Carr 9780333994016
RRP: £34.00£31.86These essays now reprinted and prefaced by Jonathan Haslam, E.H. Carr's biographer, give the reader a representative sample of Carr's interests over several decades. They include fascinating picture portraits of figures, both major and minor, from the... -
The Division of Europe after World War II: 1946 by W. W. Rostow 9780292703599
RRP: £21.99£17.54Should the negotiation of the post-World War II peace treaties in Europe have been pursued separately or should they have been approached within the framework of a general European settlement? The debate on this fundamental foreign policy issue, which... -
Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures by Jeremy M. Black 9780253016973
RRP: £70.00£60.71What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the South had won the American Civil War? The... -
Between Fear and Hope: Jewish Youth in the Third Reich by Werner Angress 9780231065986
RRP: £84.00£65.69Describes the effect on young Jews of Hitler's rise to power and recounts the experiences of those who attended an agricultural emigration training farm.Book InformationISBN 9780231065986Author Werner AngressFormat HardbackPage Count 187Imprint Columbia... -
Prison Notebooks: Volume 1 by Antonio Gramsci 9780231060820
RRP: £88.00£69.75Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism and an all-around outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully... -
Ships on Maps: Pictures of Power in Renaissance Europe by Richard W. Unger 9780230231641
£93.14Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of... -
Social Movements and Europeanization by Donatella Della Porta 9780199557783
£37.23Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place pressure on? Do they provide a critical capital, necessary for the political structuring of the EU, or... -
Androtion and the Atthis by Phillip Harding 9780198721499
£36.66Though there were at least seven men who wrote Atthides, none of their works has survived intact. This volume presents in translation for the first time all the fragments of the tthis, or local history, of the fourth-century Athenian politican and... -
Germany and Europe in Transition by Adam Daniel Rotfeld 9780198291466
£26.93The subject of this book is Europe after the cold war. The European security landscape has changed considerably. The period from November 1989 to November 1990 can be compared with such decisive dates in twentieth-century European history as 1918 and... -
Hat in the Ring Gang: The Combat History of the 94th Aero Squadron in World War I by Charles Woolley 9780764314278
RRP: £45.99£30.72The names Raoul Lufbery, Doug Campbell, Reed Chambers, Ham Coolidge, and the greatest American fighter ace of World War I, Eddie Rickenbacker, are those most closely associated with Uncle Sam's "Hat in the Ring" squadron, the 94th Aero Squadron, U.S. Air... -
79th Fighter Group: Over Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy in World War II by Don Woerpel 9780764313226
RRP: £40.99£27.67This book is about the men of the 79th Fighter Group on the "forgotten" Mediterranean front in World War II. It tells who they were, what they did, and because it is set in the broader context of the entire conflict in that theater is shows how the war... -
Post Communist Capitalism & Capital Foreign Investors in Transitional Economies by Tauno Tiusanen 9781560723011
RRP: £106.99£86.37In this book Foreign Direct Investments are defined as strategic investments by foreign economic agents who enter the transitional economy market by acquiring (partially or wholly) local enterprises. There is also the possibility of making a 'greenfield... -
Beyond Scylla & Charybdis: European Courts & Court Residences Outside Habsburg & Valois / Bourbon Territories 1500-1700 by Birgitte Boggild Johannsen 9788776023225
RRP: £24.00£21.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788776023225Author Birgitte Boggild JohannsenFormat HardbackPage Count 358Imprint NationalmuseetPublisher NationalmuseetWeight(grams) 1696g -
Conflict & Continuity at Om Abbey by Brian Patrick McGuire 9788772892269
RRP: £5.99£5.20The book presents a Cistersian Experience in Medieval Denmark.Book InformationISBN 9788772892269Author Brian Patrick McGuireFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 290g -
Good Governance Based on a Common Bedrock of Values - Providing Stability in Times of Crisis?: Proceedings of the Conference on European Democracy 2015 (Eudem 2015) 27 and 28 April 2015 (Vienna) by Nomos 9783848731145
RRP: £53.00£49.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848731145Author NomosFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 290g -
Airy Curtains in the European Ether: Broadcasting and the Cold War by Alexander Badenoch 9783832972257
RRP: £69.00£65.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832972257Author Alexander BadenochFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 562g -
Jahrbuch Fur Europaische Uberseegeschichte 15 (2015) by Uberseegeschichte Gesellschaft Fur Uberseegeschichte Und Der Forschungsstiftung Fur Europaische 9783447104111
RRP: £61.00£59.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447104111Author Uberseegeschichte Gesellschaft Fur Uberseegeschichte Und Der Forschungsstiftung Fur EuropaischeFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint... -
Bordering Early Modern Europe by Maria Baramova 9783447104029
RRP: £87.00£84.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447104029Author Maria BaramovaFormat HardbackPage Count 285Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 699g -
Streetcar Parishes: Slovask Immigrants Build Their Nonlocal Communities, 1890-1945 by Robert M. Zecker 9781575911359
£119.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781575911359Author Robert M. ZeckerFormat HardbackPage Count 329Imprint Susquehanna University PressPublisher Associated University Presses -
Fama and Her Sisters: Gossip and Rumour in Early Modern Europe by Claire Walker 9782503541846
£105.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503541846Author Claire WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.