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International Summitry and Global Governance: The rise of the G7 and the European Council, 1974-1991 by Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol
RRP: £47.99£41.81This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. Summit meetings of heads of government have become 'banal' in today's... -
The Serbs and their Leaders in the Twentieth Century by Aleksandar Pavkovic
RRP: £32.99£29.16First 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... -
Daily Life in Elizabethan England, 2nd Edition by Jeffrey L. Forgeng
£60.75This book offers an experiential perspective on the lives of Elizabethans-how they worked, ate, and played-with hands-on examples that include authentic music, recipes, and games of the period. Daily Life in Elizabethan England: Second Edition offers a... -
The Enigma of Modern Italy by Avis Pightling
£12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528996396Author Avis PightlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Gender in Transnationalism: Home, Longing and Belonging Among Moroccan Migrant Women by Ruba Salih
RRP: £47.99£41.81A fascinating ethnographic journey into migrant women's lives across two countries, Gender in Transnationalism highlights women's construction of 'home' between Morocco and Italy as a significant site whereby broader feelings and narratives of... -
Swiss Banks and Jewish Souls by Gregg Rickman
RRP: £43.99£38.84With the release of hundreds of damaging documents, a dark side of Switzerland's democracy has been unveiled. Switzerland is now seen as a nation of greedy bankers, collaborators with the Nazis, and robbers of the wealth of the victims of the Holocaust... -
Papal Jurisprudence c. 400: Sources of the Canon Law Tradition by David L. d'Avray
RRP: £90.00£81.43In the late fourth century, in the absence of formal church councils, bishops from all over the Western Empire wrote to the Pope asking for advice on issues including celibacy, marriage law, penance and heresy, with papal responses to these questions... -
This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace by Swanee Hunt
RRP: £20.99£18.77"Replacing tyranny with justice, healing deep scars, exchanging hatred for hope . . . the women in This Was Not Our War teach us how."-William Jefferson ClintonThis Was Not Our War shares amazing first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are... -
The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy by M. B. B. Biskupski
RRP: £68.00£59.01The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish thought and practice. It begins with the transformative events of the mid-nineteenth century, which witnessed revolutionary... -
An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World: The Travels of Muhammad ibn 'Uthman al-Miknasi, 1779-1788 by Nabil Matar
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book provides translated selections from the writings of Muhammad Ibn Othman al-Miknasi (d. 1799). The only writings by an Arab-Muslim in the pre-modern period that present a comparative perspective, his travelogues provide unique insight with in to... -
Medieval Marriage: Two Models from Twelfth-Century France by Georges Duby
£28.39Eminent French social historian Georges Duby identifies the twelfth century as a crucial turning point in the development of the institution of marriage in Western civilization. His study of medieval marriage is a worthy successor to the exploration of... -
Jagdgeschwader 3 "Udet" in World War II: II./JG 3 in Action with the Messerschmitt Bf 109 by Jochen Prien
RRP: £63.99£42.50Jochen Prien, author of the definitive Messerschmitt Bf 109 F/G/K Series, and the extensive three volume study of JG 53, presents JG 3 in its complete history from formation to the end of World War II. This second volume presents the unit history of the... -
European Peasants and Their Markets: Essays in Agrarian Economic History by William Nelson Parker
RRP: £52.00£41.03These essays discuss principal and much-debated issues in European agrarian history within the context of the general economic history of northwestern Europe. The authors endeavor to explain the phenomena with explicit use of economic reasoning, and... -
The End of the Russian Imperial Army, Volume II: The Road to Soviet Power and Peace by Allan K. Wildman
RRP: £72.00£56.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780691205519Author Allan K. WildmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher Princeton University Press -
Luther on Women: A Sourcebook by Susan C. Karant-Nunn
RRP: £32.99£27.40Martin Luther contributed extensively to the sixteenth century 'debate about women' with his writings on women and related subjects such as marriage, the family and sexuality. In this volume, Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Susan Karant-Nunn bring together a... -
Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives by Adam Michnik
RRP: £29.00£22.94A hero to many, Polish writer Adam Michnik ranks among today's most fearless and persuasive public figures. His imprisonment by Poland's military regime in the 1980s did nothing to quench his outpouring of writings, many of which were published in... -
Inheriting Madness: Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century France by Ian Dowbiggin
RRP: £53.00£41.39Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness, Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity of hereditarianism in France during the second half of the... -
Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History by Anat Rosenberg
RRP: £43.99£38.44In Liberalizing Contracts Anat Rosenberg examines nineteenth-century liberal thought in England, as developed through, and as it developed, the concept of contract, understood as the formal legal category of binding agreement, and the relations and human... -
Catholic Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment by Marc Forster
£36.98This is one of the first book length studies available in English of the development of Catholic identity and a specific German Catholic culture in the 300 years after the Reformation. The book emphasizes the particular nature of Church institutions in... -
Russia, 1762-1825: Military Power, the State, and the People by Janet M. Hartley
RRP: £70.00£65.44A study of the Russian Empire at the peak of its military power and success (1762-1825), this important book examines how a country with none of the obvious trappings of modernization was able to significantly expand its territory. Russia's military and... -
The Enterprisers: The Politics of School in Early Modern Russia by Igor Fedyukin
RRP: £68.00£54.15The Enterprisers traces the emergence of the "modern" school in Russia during the reigns of Peter I and his immediate successors, up to the accession of Catherine II. Creation of the new, secular, technically-oriented schools based on the... -
Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento 1790 - 1870 by Harry Hearder
RRP: £135.00£117.68Established as a standard work - covers the whole of Italy not just the Risorgimento itself.Book InformationISBN 9781138150300Author Harry HearderFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g -
The Longman Companion to the French Revolution by Colin Jones
RRP: £135.00£117.68Provides clear and comprehensive factual information across the full range of the Revolutionary period (1787-99).Book InformationISBN 9781138176362Author Colin JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis... -
Southern Europe?: Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece from the 1950s Until the Present Day by Martin Baumeister
RRP: £39.00£37.63According to mainstream discourse of the Cold War, post-1945 Western Europe was essentially a homogeneous historical space fully integrated into modern industrial society. But as Southern Europe? makes clear, Western European societies were in fact... -
A History of the County of Stafford - IX: Burton-upon-Trent by Nigel J. Tringham
RRP: £95.00£91.68This volume covers the town of Burton-upon-Trent on the county's eastern boundary, along with its suburbs and satellite villages on either side of the river, including Stapenhill which was formerly in a separate parish in Derbyshire. Best known as a... -
Scotland in Revolution, 1685 1690 by Alasdair Raffe
RRP: £90.00£81.97Explores the transformative reign of the Catholic King James VII and the revolution that brought about his fallThis illuminating book looks beyond the capital and political elites to examine religious and political change in communities across Scotland... -
Leopold III and the Belgian Royal Question by E. Ramon Arango
RRP: £39.00£34.68Originally published in 1963. Between 1945 and 1951, Belgium faced a crisis in political leadership when its ruling monarch, King Leopold III, was accused of violating the Belgian Constitution during World War II. The "question" at hand refers to the... -
Domestic Enemies: Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France by Cissie Fairchilds
RRP: £39.00£34.68Originally published in 1983. This book cuts across the class boundaries of traditionally separate fields of social history. It investigates the social origins of servants, their incomes, their marriage and family patterns, their career patterns, their... -
Students and Society in Early Modern Spain by Richard L. Kagan
RRP: £39.00£34.68Originally published in 1974. The close connection between universities and bureaucratic institutions such as church and state was perhaps first noticed by Max Weber. Such institutions, he observed, require a dependable source of cadres to run them... -
The Men of the First French Republic: Political Alignments in the National Convention of 1792 by Alison Patrick
RRP: £43.00£38.12Originally published in 1972. Alison Patrick analyzes some of the well-established evidence concerning deputies of the French National Convention of 1792. It was assumed that this evidence supported accepted generalizations about the convention's... -
British Pan-Arab Policy, 1915-1922 by Isaiah Friedman
RRP: £135.00£117.68In this myth-shattering study Isaiah Friedman provides a new perspective on events in the Middle East during World War I and its aftermath. He shows that British officials in Cairo mistakenly assumed that the Arabs would rebel against Turkey and welcome... -
Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge in Transition, 1500-1700 by Peter Dear
£98.86This heavily revised third edition of an award-winning text offers a keen insight into the development of scientific thought in early modern Europe. Including coverage of the central scientific figures of the time, including Copernicus, Kelper, Galileo,... -
Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391-1392 by Benjamin R. Gampel
RRP: £36.99£23.25The most devastating attacks against the Jews of medieval Christian Europe took place during the riots that erupted, in 1391 and 1392, in the lands of Castile and Aragon. For ten horrific months, hundreds if not thousands of Jews were killed, numerous... -
Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm: Patrons, Politics and Saints by Oscar Prieto Dominguez
RRP: £46.99£30.73Iconoclasm was the name given to the stance of that portion of Eastern Christianity that rejected worshipping God through images (eikones) representing Christ, the Virgin or the saints and was the official doctrine of the Byzantine Empire for most of the... -
The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c.400-1000: Hymns, Homilies and Hagiography by Mary B. Cunningham
RRP: £19.99£18.09The Virgin Mary assumed a position of central importance in Byzantium. This major and authoritative study examines her portrayal in liturgical texts during the first six centuries of Byzantine history. Focusing on three main literary genres that... -
The Eighteenth-Century Composite State: Representative Institutions in Ireland and Europe, 1689-1800 by D. W. Hayton
£47.37A pioneering exploration of the phenomenon of the composite state in Eighteenth-century Europe. Employing a comparative approach, it combines the findings of new research on Ireland with broader syntheses of major composite states in Europe - those of... -
Performing the Nation in Interwar Germany: Sport, Spectacle and Political Symbolism, 1926-36 by Nadine Rossol
£47.25Performing the Nation in Interwar Germany argues that political aesthetics and mass spectacles were no invention of the Nazis but characterized the period from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. In so doing, it re-examines the role of state representation... -
Saving Nature Under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968 - 1990 by Julia E. Ault
RRP: £75.00£67.74When East Germany collapsed in 1989-1990, outside observers were shocked to learn the extent of environmental devastation that existed there. The communist dictatorship, however, had sought to confront environmental issues since at least the 1960s... -
Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation by Anselm Heinrich
RRP: £35.99£32.09The Second World War went beyond previous military conflicts. It was not only about specific geographical gains or economic goals, but also about the brutal and lasting reshaping of Europe as a whole. Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation explores... -
Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe by Liesbeth Van De Grift
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book examines how rural Europe as a hybrid social and natural environment emerged as a key site of local, national and international governance in the interwar years. The post-war need to secure and intensify food production, to protect contested...