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Originally published in 1974. Focusing on a set of Jewish communities, Robert Chazan tells how, by the eleventh century, French Jews had created for themselves a role as local merchants and moneylenders in adapting to the political, economic, and social...

Originally published in 1984. In The Working People of Paris, 1871-1914, Lenard Berlanstein examines how technological advances, expanding industrialization, bureaucratization, and urban growth affected the lives of the working poor and near poor of one...

This text focuses on the history of the Prussian army from the Thirty Years War to the unification of Germany in the Franco-Prussian War. The author uses an entertaining, readable format to describe the rise of militarism in Prussia. The book focuses on...

First published in 1991, The Noble, the Serf and the Revizor is a historical and sociological study of the Polish nobility of the Western Ukraine between the two great uprisings that shook Poland in the 19th century is based almost entirely on original,...

This book includes every Supreme Court case relevant to elections and political representation from the Court's beginnings to 2001, including the 2001 decision in Cook v. Gralike that limited citizens' rights to instruct Federal representatives. It is a...

This is a cultural and intellectual biography of a neglected but important figure, Thomas Morgan (1671/2-1743). Educated at Bridgewater Academy, he was active as Presbyterian preacher, medical practitioner, and one of the first who called himself a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438465371Author Axel Fair-SchulzFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847114109Author Petra MayrhoferFormat PaperbackImprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 155g

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Guild and State examines the values of social solidarity and fraternity that emerged from medieval guilds and city-communes, and the effect of traditional corporate organization of labor on socioeconomic attitudes and theories of the state. What ordinary...

These fourteen essays by leading Austrian historians and political scientists serve as a basic introduction to a small but sometimes trend-setting European country. They provide a basic up-to-date outline of Austria's political history, shedding light on...

In little more than two centuries Prussia rose from medieval obscurity and the devastation of the Thirty Years War to become the dominant power of continental Europe. Her rulers rose from Electors to Kings, and from Kings to Emperors. It is a dramatic...

The easy accessibility of political fiction in the long eighteenth century made it possible for any reader or listener to enter into the intellectual debates of the time, as much of the core of modern political and economic theory was to be found first...

"Techno-globalism" is the term used by policymakers to describe the process of opening government and Research and Development programs to foreign participation. This book focuses on Japan's approach to techno-globalism, in particular the...

The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens people and that can marginalize newcomers. Living in the City tries to understand what pulls people to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197582312Author Associate Professor of History Astrid M EckertFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford...

Hans Rogger's study of Russia under the last two Tsars takes as its starting point what the Russians themselves saw as the central issue confronting their nation: the relationship between state and society, and its effects on politics, economics and...

Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called "the Jews" conspired to dominate the globe through control of...

Originally published in 1962. This book is a study of relations between Britain and China. The first section surveys historical relations between the two nations and culminates with the Second World War. The second part examines British policy during the...

Originally published in 1980. A social historian of modern France, Robert Forster discovered a series of father-to-son letters that presented an unusual opportunity to trace in human terms the impact of institutions and cultural norms on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492701091Author W J Op 't HofFormat HardbackPage Count 442Imprint Summum AcademicPublisher Summum AcademicWeight(grams) 181g

Wolfgang Borchert was born in Germany in 1921 and died in Basel, Switzerland in 1947. His life effectively paralleled the rise to power of the Nazi regime of the Third Reich in Germany. Borchert wrote directly and indirectly of his experiences during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575207Author Christopher ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 896Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

This volume offers a fresh and original collection of primary sources on interwar European fascist movements. These sources reflect new approaches to fascism that emphasise the practical, transnational experience of fascism as a social movement,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847113362Author Jerzy KochanowskiFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R Unipress

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780415684439Author Deborah SimontonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314585759Author VoltaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781314585643Author VoltaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783205212911Author Martin LohnigFormat HardbackImprint Bohlau VerlagPublisher Bohlau VerlagWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781797884Author David Govantes-EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)Publisher Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)

This major new text offers a clearly structured introduction to the economic and social development of Western Europe since the Second World War. A team of experts explore key aspects of postwar Europe's economy and society in a number of thematic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474242639Author Patricia LorcinFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 169g

Originally published in 1986. Martin A. Miller, author of the definitive biography of the exiled revolutionary Peter Kropotkin, traces the history of the first generations of Russians who went to Western Europe to devote their lives to anti-tsarist...

Originally published in 1975. The French Revolution generated a wave of popular piety and religious excitement in both France and England, where millenarians-prophets of the millennium-attempted to interpret the Revolution as the fulfillment of the...

Originally published in 1967. With the waning of the Middle Ages, the life of the Italian polis underwent a gradual but unmistakable transformation. The leisurely decentralization of the medieval commune, which had its roots in feudalism, the code of...

During the Second World War and the subsequent Cold War, foreign agents conducted intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and subversive operations inside neutral countries aimed at damaging their opponents' interests. The essays contained in this collection...