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Protest Beyond Borders: Contentious Politics in Europe since 1945 by Hara Kouki 9781782381174
RRP: £27.95£22.58The protest movements that followed the Second World War have recently become the object of study for various disciplines; however, the exchange of ideas between research fields, and comparative research in general, is lacking. An international and... -
The Legacies of Two World Wars: European Societies in the Twentieth Century by Lothar Kettenacker 9781782381150
RRP: £27.95£22.58The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was done mainly, if one is to believe US policy at the time, to liberate the people of Iraq from an oppressive dictator. However, the many protests in London, New York, and other cities imply that the policy of... -
Sibling Relations and the Transformations of European Kinship, 1300-1900 by Christopher H. Johnson 9781782380870
RRP: £27.95£22.58Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the long-term development of European history. From the late middle ages to the dawn of the twentieth century,... -
Experience and Memory: The Second World War in Europe by Jorg Echternkamp 9781782380931
RRP: £27.95£22.58Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. New questions and methods are focusing on aspects of war and violence that have long been... -
Western Europe, Eastern Europe And World Development 13th-18th Centuries: Collection Of Essays Of Marian: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 16 by Jean Batou 9781608462001
RRP: £35.00£23.44The main articles of Marian Malowist are collected together for the first time. Malowist, who is one of the major economic historians of the twentieth century, is also a much neglected one. So most scholars have been missing out on one of the most... -
Europe and the Faith by Hilaire Belloc 9781609421922
£10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609421922Author Hilaire BellocFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint International Alliance Pro-PublishingPublisher International Alliance... -
German Minorities in Europe: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Belonging by Stefan Wolff 9781571815040
RRP: £27.95£22.58The study of ethnic minorities and their role in the domestic politics of their host states has long attracted scholars from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. By contrast, national (or external) minorities, have been... -
Challenging Modernity: Dada between Modern and Postmodern by Mark Pegrum 9781571811301
RRP: £99.00£79.83When Dada burst onto the European stage in 1916, it shocked and scandalized the public of its day with art forms, ideas, and attitudes which were so revolutionary that it is only in recent decades that they have begun to find recognition within the broad... -
The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 by Paolo Bernardini 9781571814302
RRP: £31.95£26.80"This impressive volume shows that the history of minorities - specifically that of a diaspora - can open up completely new perspectives on the 'great' questions and developments of general history." * Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft... -
Orthodox Cyprus under the Latins, 1191-1571: Society, Spirituality, and Identities by Chrysovalantis Kyriacou 9781498551151
RRP: £109.00£95.57Medieval and Renaissance Cyprus was a fascinating place of ethnic, cultural, and religious encounters. Following almost nine centuries of Byzantine rule, Cyprus was conquered by the Crusaders in 1191, becoming (until 1571) the most important stronghold... -
European Integration: A Political History by Mark Gilbert 9781538106808
RRP: £80.00£74.00Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this book remains the standard for concise histories of the European Union. Mark Gilbert offers a clear and balanced narrative of European integration since its inception to the present, set in the wider... -
The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution: The Making of Humanitarianism by Dr David de Boer 9780198876809
RRP: £70.00£63.74This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. For victims of persecution... -
Resisting Persecution: Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust by Thomas Pegelow Kaplan 9781805391234
RRP: £27.95£22.58Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or protection. Such petitioning took on particular significance in modern dictatorships, often as the only tool left for... -
The Meanings of a Disaster: Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France by Karena Kalmbach 9781789207026
RRP: £99.00£79.83The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was an event of obviously transnational significance—not only in the airborne particulates it deposited across the Northern hemisphere, but in the political and social repercussions it set off well... -
The Trial of Giordano Bruno by Germano Maifreda 9781032286792
RRP: £39.99£35.06In 1600, Giordano Bruno, one of the leading intellectuals of the Renaissance, was burned at the stake on the charge of heresy by the Roman Inquisition. He is remembered primarily for his cosmological theories, particularly that the universe was infinite... -
Diplomacy in Japan-EU Relations: From the Cold War to the Post-Bipolar Era by Oliviero Frattolillo 9781138658028
RRP: £49.99£43.50Since the 1950s, Japan-Europe relations have been characterised by a mutual coldness in terms of diplomatic dialogue, punctuated by a number of trade disputes. This book analyses the development of the political and diplomatic relationship between Japan... -
Sociability and Cosmopolitanism: Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment by David Burrow 9781138661783
RRP: £47.99£41.81This collection of essays expands the focus of Enlightenment studies to include countries outside the core nations of France, Germany and Britain. Notions of sociability and cosmopolitanism are explored as ways in which people sought to improve society... -
Government Debts and Financial Markets in Europe by Fausto Piola Caselli 9781138663718
RRP: £53.99£47.27Contains essays by historians of economic and financial history. It illuminates the relationships between government indebtedness and the development of financial markets in Europe from the late Middle Ages to the late twentieth century.Book... -
Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination by Jana Byars 9781138610897
RRP: £135.00£117.28This edited collection explores the axis where monstrosity and borderlands meet to reflect the tensions, apprehensions, and excitement over the radical changes of the early modern era. The book investigates the monstrous as it acts in liminal spaces in... -
The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands: Literary and Historical Imaginaries by Katie Ritson 9781138591103
RRP: £135.00£117.28Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of... -
Military and Society in 21st Century Europe: A Comparative Analysis by Jurgen Kuhlmann 9781138528093
RRP: £135.00£117.68This compendium on Europe's military situation is written by leading analysts of military studies representing every major nation of Europe. Also included are three overview chapters that set the tone for this volume. These chapters - Martin Shaw on the... -
Poland's Transformation: A Work in Progress by Bjorn Kurten 9781138529991
RRP: £135.00£117.68Poland has carried out two peaceful revolutions in the span of one generation: first, the self-limiting movement of Solidarity, which undermined the legitimacy of Communism and then a negotiated transfer of power from Communism to free market democracy... -
New Perspectives on Austrians and World War II by Fritz Plasser 9781138528840
RRP: £135.00£117.68For more than a generation after World War II, offi cial government doctrine and many Austrians insisted they had been victims of Nazi aggression in 1938 and, therefore, bore no responsibility for German war crimes. During the past twenty years this myth... -
De Gaulle, Israel and the Jews by Raymond Aron 9781138521995
RRP: £135.00£117.28The lives of Raymond Aron and Charles de Gaulle intersected at significant moments in twentieth-century history, though they differed on many issues during World War II and over the subsequent decades. Aron, for example, distinguished between the... -
Energy Security Logics in Europe: Threat, Risk or Emancipation? by Izabela Surwillo 9781138387683
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book analyzes energy security dynamics in Europe through the prism of security logics. Drawing on the literature on securitization, security logics and security contexts, it scrutinizes energy security debates and policy developments in Germany,... -
Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity by Gunter Bischof 9781138519091
RRP: £135.00£117.68When the Hapsburg monarchy disintegrated after World War I, Austria was not considered to be a viable entity. In a vacuum of national identity the hapless country drifted toward a larger Germany. After World War II, Austrian elites constructed a new... -
European Strategy in the 21st Century: New Future for Old Power by Sven Biscop 9781138384712
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book argues that Europe, through the European Union (EU), should act as a great power in the 21st century. The course of world politics is determined by the interaction between great powers. Those powers are the US, the established power; Russia,... -
The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939: A Study of Literature and Social Psychology by David Aberbach 9781138380332
RRP: £49.99£43.90The fragility of the liberal democratic state after 1789 is illustrated in the history of the European Jews from the French Revolution to the Holocaust. Emancipation and hope of emancipation amongst the European Jewish population created a plethora of... -
Gender in Urban Europe: Sites of Political Activity and Citizenship, 1750-1900 by Krista Cowman 9781138377943
RRP: £47.99£41.81This volume offers an integrated set of local studies exploring the gendering of political activities across a variety of sites ranging from print culture, courts, government and philanthropic bodies and public spaces, outlining how a particular activity... -
The Serbs and their Leaders in the Twentieth Century by Aleksandar Pavkovic 9781138366411
RRP: £105.00£91.26First published in 1997, this volume aims to present a new perspective on the history of the Serbs in the twentieth century, viewing this period through the lives of its most significant Serb participants. Its contributors represent a diverse variety of... -
End Game: The 1989 Revolution in East Germany by Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk 9781800736214
RRP: £132.00£106.00The fall of the Berlin Wall, and the chain of events leading up to it, arguably constitute one of the most thoroughly documented episodes in recent history. Nonetheless, most accounts have focused predominantly on high-level politics and diplomacy along... -
Authoritarian Regimes in the Long Twentieth Century: Preconditions, Structures, Continuities - Contributions to European Historical Dictatorship and Transformation Research by Florian Kuhrer-Wielach 9783847115021
RRP: £33.99£28.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847115021Author Florian Kuhrer-WielachFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 324g -
Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief by Catharina Raudvere 9783030489212
RRP: £89.99£40.09This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief. What began as observations of some startling narratives preserved in folklore archives where sex, violence and curses are recurring themes gradually led to... -
Reason and Religion in Late Seventeenth-Century England: The Politics and Theology of Radical Dissent by Christopher J. Walker 9781780762920
RRP: £120.00£119.52Reason has always held an uncertain position within Christianity. 'I believe because it is absurd',wrote Tertullian in the third century as he dismissed rational thought. For Augustine of Hippo, reason had some merit as a route to faith but otherwise was... -
The Balkan Wars: British Consular Reports from Macedonia in the Final Years of the Ottoman Empire by Bejtullah D. Destani 9781780760766
RRP: £120.00£119.52The Ottoman Empire - the great power which had ruled much of southeastern Europe and the Middle East for over five centuries - was manifestly in decline by 1912. Its decline had been gradual, but by the early years of the twentieth century, the... -
Air and Sea Power in World War I: Combat and Experience in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy by Maryam Philpott 9781780761510
RRP: £120.00£119.52The Great War tore the fabric of Europe apart, killing over 35 million men and challenging the notion of heroism in war, Air and Sea Power in World War I focuses on the experience of World War I from the perspective of British pilots and sailors... -
Baden, Kostolac, Vucedol and Vinkovci: The Late Eneolithic, Transition Period, and Early Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin and the Western Balkans by Želimir Brnic 9788024651781
RRP: £28.00£27.79An archeological history of the indigenous cultures of the Carpathian Basin.Baden, Kostolac, Vucedol and Vinkovci uses archaeology and genetics to create a novel cultural and historical interpretation of the Carpathian Basin during the Late Eneolithic... -
Transcending the Nostalgic: Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe beyond Representation by George Jaramillo 9781800732216
RRP: £99.00£79.83Even as the global economy of the twenty-first century continues its dramatic and unpredictable transformations, the landscapes it leaves in its wake bear the indelible marks of their industrial past. Whether in the form of abandoned physical structures,... -
Crusade: The Uses of a Word from the Middle Ages to the Present by Benjamin Weber 9781032442358
RRP: £135.00£117.28The word ‘crusade’ covers today a wide variety of meanings in most European languages. The link between these uses and the historical phenomenon labelled as ‘crusade’ by historians is often very narrow and particularly changing. Understanding the real... -
Thinking Europe: A History of the European Idea Since 1800 by Mats Andren 9781800735699
RRP: £107.00£86.17Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity Thinking Europe: A History of the European Idea Since 1800 examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in a dynamic and dramatic tension between calls for unity and...