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The collective work deals with the problems of if, how, and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism should and could be situated within one coherent narrative. As historical phenomena, can Communism and Nazism fruitfully be compared to...

Originally published in 1975. This book fills a gap in the historical knowledge of wartime Yugoslavia. Focusing on the Chetnik movement provides a better understanding of the various ways that important segments of the population, including members of...

Originally published in 1976. This book is a study of the charitable institutions of one French town, Aix-en-Provence. It begins with their foundation during the Counter-Reformation and ends with their dissolution during the Revolution. It details the...

Originally published in 1996. Historical writing on the Renaissance has usually focused on the social extremes that co-existed in the great metropolitan centers-on either elites or the underclass. As a result, the world of the middling families and...

A nation usually overhauls its financial regulations after a stock market crash or the collapse of its banking system. In 1967, France did something rare. Out of pure political expediency, Gaullist leaders and senior civil servants seized the opportunity...

The ancient Greek philosophy of Pyrrhonian skepticism spread across a wide spectrum of disciplines in the 1600s, casting a shadow over the European learned world. The early modern skeptics expressed doubt concerning the existence of an objective reality...

The US was a dominant actor in the European integration game in the 1950s, although not normally a formal participant at the negotiation table. The Americans promoted integration based on Franco-German reconciliation and sought to prevent the emergence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349192885Author A. D. HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 291g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771241280Author Helge Vidar HolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503579597Author T KnightonFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1538gDimensions(mm) 287mm * 188mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970519Author H B ActonFormat PaperbackPage Count 716Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1233g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847109419Author Efi AvdelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 53Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 77g

On the morning of November 7, 1938, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, walked into the German embassy in Paris and in an act of desperation assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a low-level Nazi diplomat. He did it, he said, out "of love for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393664775Author David A BellPage Count 672Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 1338g

This book describes the status of women in the former German Democratic Republic, and their transition from a socialist (communist) economy to the capitalist free market system of united Germany. Women After Communism outlines the provisions which East...

The culture of burial and mourning is presently in a state of flux. The idea of using the cremated remains of loved ones to form jewelry no longer belongs to the realm of science fiction but has become a fact of modern life. Today, many countries are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447105538Author Martin MlinaricFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 803g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447105644Author Iryna KashtalianFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 839g

In Quest of Pentecost is the first english biography of a leading Dutch reformed pietist during the two-century Dutch Second Reformation period (1600-1800) in the Netherlands. Carl J. Schroeder uses the life and place of Jodocus van Lodenstein to discuss...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447109369Author Volker BauerFormat HardbackPage Count 452Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher Harrassowitz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503532271Author Rosa CongostFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503581033Author Carlo BeltrameFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1542g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848734528Author Elena CalandriFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832977603Author Jan-Otmar HesseFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 453g

This is the third of three volumes from the project 'Authority and Persuasion: the Role of Commonplaces in Western Europe (c.1450-c.1800)'. The project was launched by the universities of Copenhagen, Durham and Groningen and involved scholars from a...

This is the second of three volumes from the project 'Authority and Persuasion: the Role of Commonplaces in Western Europe (c.1450-c.1800)'. The project was launched by the universities of Copenhagen, Durham and Groningen and involved scholars from a...

It is often thought that the French Reformer John Calvin (1509-1564) had a negative attitude towards the arts, particularly visual art. However, in Calvinism and the Arts: A Re-assessment, Dr. Joby argues that in Calvin's writings and in the development...

Power in the early modern age, as in the present age, is an important subject for debate. What is power? Who has it or should have it? What are the underlying reasons for this? And especially, how is this power exercised, legitimised, and accepted? The...

New means of transport and communication allowed unprecedented mobility of people, goods and ideas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, which contributed to far-reaching economic, social and political changes in a first wave of...

Within women's history the symbolic importance of the vote to generations of feminists has meant the relative absence of historical investigation into the nature of power of women within political elites. However, from ancient times onwards, women have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848708550Author Martin SchiefelbuschFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406082521Author Manuel Herrero SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 581g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700176381Author Michael GehlerFormat HardbackPage Count 705Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909446366Author Edson BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bristol Books CICPublisher Bristol Books CIC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515096492Author Jan-Henrik MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 361Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

The compulsory service for young men in the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) created bonds across ethnic, religious, and social lines. These bonds persisted even after the horrific violence of the 1990s, in which many of these men found themselves on...

The compulsory service for young men in the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) created bonds across ethnic, religious, and social lines. These bonds persisted even after the horrific violence of the 1990s, in which many of these men found themselves on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847112839Author Ingrid BauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R Unipress

From 1929 to 1958, hundreds of thousands of prisoners and exiles from across the Soviet Union were sent to the harsh yet resource-rich Komi Republic in Russia's Far North. When the Soviet Union collapsed, former prisoners sent their autobiographies to...

Drawing 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...