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Deciphering the New Antisemitism by Alvin H. Rosenfeld
RRP: £27.99£24.54Deciphering the New Antisemitism addresses the increasing prevalence of antisemitism on a global scale. Antisemitism takes on various forms in all parts of the world, and the essays in this wide-ranging volume deal with many of them: European... -
The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought by Brian Reilly
RRP: £100.00£79.53With more than two hundred entries by leading intellectuals in the French- and English-speaking world, this new volume presents the authoritative guide to twentieth-century French thought. Unrivaled in its scope and depth, The Columbia History of... -
Ideas of Monarchical Reform: FeNelon, Jacobitism, and the Political Works of the Chevalier Ramsay by Andrew Mansfield
RRP: £30.00£21.31This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683-1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought. In the first monograph on Ramsay in English for over sixty years, the author uses Ramsay to... -
The Origin of Forced Labor in the Soviet State, 1917-1921: Documents and Materials by James Bunyan
RRP: £39.00£34.68Originallly published in 1967. Many documents essential for understanding the development of Soviet labor policies from 1917 to 1921 have been selected, translated, and presented in this volume. It starts with the early months of the revolution, when the... -
The Origins of Agnosticism: Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge by Bernard Lightman
RRP: £39.00£34.68Originally published in 1987. The Origins of Agnosticism provides a reinterpretation of agnosticism and its relationship to science. Professor Lightman examines the epistemological basis of agnostics' learned ignorance, studying their core claim that... -
The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages by Walter Ullmann
RRP: £26.50£23.29Originally published in 1966. The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages, based on three guest lectures given at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, explores the place of the individual in medieval European society. Looking at legal sources and... -
The Shaping of Tuscany: Landscape and Society between Tradition and Modernity by Dario Gaggio
RRP: £97.99£84.37To its many tourists and visitors, the Tuscan landscape evokes a sense of timelessness and harmony. Yet, the upheavals of the twentieth century profoundly reshaped rural Tuscany. Uncovering the experiences of ordinary people, Professor Gaggio traces the... -
Times of Upheaval: Four Medievalists in Twentieth-Century Central Europe. Conversations with Jerzy Kloczowski, Janos M. Bak, Frantisek Smahel, and Herwig Wolfram by Pavlina Rychterova
RRP: £32.95£30.65The volume unites conversations with four masters of Medieval Studies from east-central Europe: Janos Bak from Hungary, Jerzy Kloczowski from Poland, Frantisek Smahel from the Czech Republic, and Herwig Wolfram from Austria. The interviews, made by... -
Travelling Notions of Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe by Hannu Salmi
RRP: £125.00£112.12The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, conversely, what kind of spatial ramifications... -
Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe: Economies in the Era of Early Globalization, c. 1450 - c. 1820 by Robert S. DuPlessis
RRP: £85.00£77.00Between the end of the Middle Ages and the early nineteenth century, the long-established structures and practices of European trade, agriculture, and industry were disparately but profoundly transformed. Revised, updated, and expanded, this second... -
Pythagoras and Renaissance Europe: Finding Heaven by Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier
RRP: £41.99£36.59Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier offers the first systematic study of Pythagoras and his influence on mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, religion, medicine, music, the occult, and social life - as well as on architecture and art - in the late medieval and... -
Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800-1050 by Anna Lisa Taylor
RRP: £93.99£84.96This is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints' lives in their medieval historical contexts. Anna Taylor examines how these works promoted bonds of friendship and expressed rivalries among writers, monasteries, saints, earthly patrons,... -
Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands by Jennifer L. Foray
RRP: £105.00£83.39This book explores how the experiences of World War II shaped and transformed Dutch perceptions of their centuries-old empire. Focusing on the work of leading anti-Nazi resisters, Jennifer L. Foray examines how the war forced a rethinking of colonial... -
Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France by Rebecca J. Pulju
RRP: £90.00£73.15Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France examines the emergence of a citizen consumer role for women during postwar modernization and reconstruction in France, integrating the history of economic modernization with that of women and the family... -
The Index of Middle English Prose - Handlist XIII: Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library, including those formerly in Sion College by O.S. Pickering
RRP: £80.00£76.61Lambeth Palace Library, which dates from a bequest by Archbishop Bancroft in 1610, is one of England's major repositories of medieval manuscripts. More than half of the ninety-six manuscripts and documents containing items of Middle English prose were... -
A Genealogy of Public Security: The Theory and History of Modern Police Powers by Giuseppe Campesi
RRP: £47.99£41.81There are many histories of the police as a law-enforcement institution, but no genealogy of the police as a form of power. This book provides a genealogy of modern police by tracing the evolution of "police science" and of police institutions in Europe,... -
Rites of Power: Symbolism, Ritual, and Politics since the Middle Ages by Sean Wilentz
RRP: £27.99£24.14Rites of Power provides a sweeping overview of the symbolism of power from tenth-century France to modern Britain. Approaching their topic from an eclectic range of intellectual traditions, the authors turn the study of politics, social relations, and... -
God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650 by Sara T. Nalle
£30.83This title is the winner of the Roland H. Bainton Prize, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.Even as the Protestant Reformation became a permanent feature of European culture, a Catholic reformation was under way in Spain. In this acclaimed social... -
Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe by Stanley J. Stein
£31.23The 250 years covered by Silver, Trade, and War marked the era of commercial capitalism, that bridge between late medieval and modern times. Spain, peripheral to western Europe in 1500, produced American treasure in silver, which Spanish convoys bore... -
Cultural Exchange: Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace by Joseph Shatzmiller
RRP: £20.00£15.89Demonstrating 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... -
Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 2: The Struggle by R. R. Palmer
RRP: £58.00£45.58For the Western world as a whole, the period from about 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. It is the thesis of this major work that the American, French, and Polish... -
European Integration, 1950-2003: Superstate or New Market Economy? by John Gillingham
RRP: £68.00£61.19Integration is the most significant European historical development in the past fifty years, eclipsing in importance even the collapse of the USSR. Yet, until now, no satisfactory explanation is to be found in any single book as to why integration is... -
Canon Law and the Letters of Ivo of Chartres by Christof Rolker
RRP: £105.00£73.55Ivo of Chartres was one of the most learned scholars of his time, a powerful bishop and a major figure in the so-called 'Investiture Contest'. Christof Rolker here offers a major new study of Ivo, his works and the role he played in the intellectual,... -
Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation by Shulamit Volkov
RRP: £24.99£20.94The ferocity of the Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise. Volkov argues that a new look at both the nature of antisemitism and at the complexity of modern Jewish life in Germany is required in order to provide an explanation. While... -
The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe by Professor James van Horn Melton
RRP: £84.99£74.90James Melton's lucid and accessible 2001 study examines the rise of 'the public' in eighteenth-century Europe. A work of comparative synthesis focusing on England, France and the German-speaking territories, this was the first book-length, critical... -
The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France by Carolyn J. Dean
RRP: £49.00£38.35Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, cultural critics there - journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, among others - worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. Carolyn J. Dean... -
An Historical Essay on Modern Spain by Richard Herr
RRP: £29.00£22.54"More political than cultural in its emphasis, this enormously detailed, scholarly yet thoroughly readable book about modern Spain under Franco should fascinate any reader curious to know what changes have been wrought in that country in the past 30... -
Energy Security Logics in Europe: Threat, Risk or Emancipation? by Izabela Surwillo
RRP: £39.99£35.06This 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,... -
The Habsburg Monarchy, 1490-1848: Attributes of Empire by Paula Sutter Fichtner
£36.98The Habsburg monarchy was a singular experiment in diversity within the European continent. By the eighteenth century it stretched from the Austrian Netherlands to the Balkans and southern Poland, and south into Italy. Its subjects spoke a number of... -
After the Black Death, Second Edition: A Social History of Early Modern Europe by George Huppert
RRP: £16.99£15.07Praise for the first edition: "To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." -History "Huppert's book is a little masterpiece every teacher should welcome." -Renaissance... -
Stalinism Reloaded: Everyday Life in Stalin-City, Hungary by Sandor Horvath
RRP: £66.00£57.33The Hungarian city of Sztalinvaros, or "Stalin-City," was intended to be the paradigmatic urban community of the new communist society in the 1950s. In Stalinism Reloaded, Sandor Horvath explores how Stalin-City and the socialist regime were... -
Defending Nazis in Postwar Czechoslovakia: Life of K. Resler, Defense Councel Ex Officio of K. H. Frank by Jakub Drapal
RRP: £19.00£18.50In this book, Czech lawyer and scholar Jakub Drapal tells the story of the life of Kamill Resler, an attorney who defended the most prominent Nazi tried in postwar Czechoslovakia: Karl Hermann Frank, who would go on to be executed for his role in... -
The Irish Franciscans in Prague 1629-1786 by Jan Parez
RRP: £22.50£21.68At the end of the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I forced the Irish Franciscans into exile. Of the four continental provinces to which the Irish Franciscans fled, the Prague Franciscan College of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary was the... -
The English Landed Estate in the Nineteeth Century: Its Administration by David Spring
RRP: £26.50£23.29Originally published in 1963. The English Landed Estate in the Nineteeth Century: Its Administration deals principally with the administration of large landed estates during the years from 1830 to 1870. The book also throws new light on the work of the... -
Lady Rachel Russell: "One of the Best of Women" by Lois G. Schwoerer
RRP: £39.00£34.68Originally published in 1987. Lady Rachel Russell (1637-1723) was regarded as "one of the best women" by many of the most powerful people of her time. Wife of Lord William Russell, the prominent Whig opponent of King Charles II who was executed for... -
Germany's Drive to the West (Drang Nach Westen): A Study of Germany's Western War Aims during the First World War by Hans W. Gatzke
RRP: £39.00£34.68Originally published in 1950. Hans Gatzke analyzes Germany's ambitions to expand westward during World War I. Germany's wartime plans for expansion to the west had important repercussions at home and abroad. Gatzke proceeds chronologically, starting with... -
Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America by Robert Olwell
RRP: £26.50£23.29Never 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... -
Mediating Power-Sharing: Devolution and Consociationalism in Deeply Divided Societies by Feargal Cochrane
RRP: £21.99£19.34This book focuses on the design and operation of power-sharing in deeply divided societies. Beyond this starting point, it seeks to examine the different ways in which consociational institutions emerge from negotiations and peace settlements across... -
Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World by Sjoerd Levelt
RRP: £125.00£108.26This ground-breaking collection reveals the networks of interrelation between Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic. As people, ideas and goods moved back and forth across the North Sea - or spread further afield in the vanguard of globalisation... -
Encyclopaedia of Soviet Life by Ilya Zemtsov
RRP: £43.99£38.84A by-product of the amazing changes now taking place within the Soviet Union is a change in rhetoric no less than reality. Under Gorbachev, the Russian language has been changing parallel with novoe politichaskoe myshenie - new political thinking - with...