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The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke by Timothy Snyder
$35.08Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every so often, a dress. He could handle a saber, a pistol, a... -
Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration by Todd Samuel Presner
RRP: $56.75$49.59Providing valuable insights into an element of European nationalism and modernist culture, this book explores the development of the 'Zionist body' as opposed to the traditional stereotype of the physically weak, intellectual Jew. It charts the cultural... -
Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe: States, media and markets 1950-2010 by Alan Tomlinson
RRP: $129.00$111.73In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globalization. In this fascinating, inter-disciplinary study, leading international scholars explore the making of... -
CasaPound Italia: Contemporary Extreme-Right Politics by Caterina Froio
RRP: $54.17$47.41In 2003, the occupation of a state-owned building in Rome led to the emergence of a new extreme-right youth movement: CasaPound Italia (CPI). Its members described themselves as 'Fascists of the Third Millennium', and were unabashed about their... -
Nineteenth-Century Europe Michael Rapport 9780333652459
$143.13A core introductory textbook that provides students with an overview of the key issues in Europe's 'long nineteenth century', from the French Revolution in 1789 until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Telling the story of how Europeans entered... -
Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa by Seloua Luste Boulbina
RRP: $45.15$39.65Even though many of France's former colonies became independent over fifty years ago, the concept of "colony" and who was affected by colonialism remain problematic in French culture today. Seloua Luste Boulbina, an Algerian-French philosopher and... -
Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity by Alice Kessler-Harris
RRP: $38.70$30.04After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater... -
The Holocaust: Essays and Documents by Wolfgang Benz
RRP: $118.68$92.63The history of the Holocaust keeps being written and rewritten in ever greater detail, but almost always by Jews. Wolgang Benz's book makes an important contribution by bringing the German perspective to this horrific event. A masterpiece of compression,... -
Rome: The Autobiography Jon E. Lewis 9781849010832
RRP: $11.60$8.24The history of Ancient Rome has been passed down to us through official accounts, personal letters, annotated words of great orators and the considered histories of powerful men. It is found on inscriptions, in private memoirs and official reports from... -
Crowns and Colonies: European Monarchies and Overseas Empires Robert Aldrich 9781784993153
RRP: $116.10$82.96Queen Victoria, who also bore the title of Empress of India, had a real and abiding interest in the British Empire, but other European monarchs also ruled over possessions 'beyond the seas'. This collection of original essays explores the connections... -
Hospitaller Malta and the Mediterranean Economy in the Sixteenth Century by Joan Abela
RRP: $122.55$117.49Demonstrates that Malta was much more than a military strongpoint in the Christian-Muslim divide but rather a major centre of international exchange. Malta in the sixteenth century is usually viewed in military terms: the great bulwark of Christendom... -
The Nature of Cities - Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space by Andrew C. Isenberg
RRP: $103.20$98.83Essays that investigate issues of race, class, consumption, and the body in an array of urban places, across a broad period from the late Renaissance to the present. This volume explores the intersection of cities and the natural environment in an... -
Nobles in Nineteenth-Century France: The Practice of Inegalitarianism by David Higgs
RRP: $50.31$44.74Originally published in 1987. David Higgs's Nobles in Nineteenth-Century France: The Practice of Inegalitarianism provides a history of the nobility against the backdrop of changing French political conditions following the French Revolution. Since Jean... -
The Reign of King John by Sidney Painter
RRP: $55.47$49.17Originally published in 1949. Lacking the warlike bluntness of his predecessor, Richard the Lionheart, John came to the throne of England at a time when economic forces in the realm were threatening to undermine the very basis of feudal power. The Reign... -
Military and Society in 21st Century Europe: A Comparative Analysis by Jurgen Kuhlmann
RRP: $56.75$49.59This 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... -
New Perspectives on Austrians and World War II Fritz Plasser 9781412808835
RRP: $56.75$49.59For 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... -
Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945–1950 by Devin O. Pendas
RRP: $116.10$96.90Post-war Germany has been seen as a model of 'transitional justice' in action, where the prosecution of Nazis, most prominently in the Nuremberg Trials, helped promote a transition to democracy. However, this view forgets that Nazis were also prosecuted... -
Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination by Jana Byars
$54.23This 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... -
Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton's Paradise Lost by Björn Quiring
RRP: $174.15$151.29Focusing on John Milton’s Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law – an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. In... -
Transnational Modernity in Southern Europe: Women's Periodicals and Salon Culture (1860-1920) by Christina Bezari
RRP: $46.43$40.88This book explores women's editorial and salon activities in Southern Europe and provides a comparative view of their practices. It argues that women in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece used their double role as editors and salonnieres to engage with... -
Families and States in Western Europe by Quentin Skinner
RRP: $78.69$70.49This collection of essays traces the relationship between families and states in the major countries of Western Europe since 1945, examining the power of states to shape family life and the capacity of families to influence states. Written by an... -
Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies: Contested Trade-offs Dorota Mokrosinska (Leiden University, Netherlands) 9780367620318
RRP: $49.01$43.06This edited volume offers a critical discussion of the trade-offs between transparency and secrecy in the actual political practice of democratic states in Europe. As such, it answers to a growing need to systematically analyse the problem of secrecy in... -
Trading Power: West Germany's Rise to Global Influence, 1963-1975 by William Glenn Gray
RRP: $45.14$39.33Trading Power traces the successes and failures of a generation of German political leaders as the Bonn Republic emerged as a substantial force in European, Atlantic, and world affairs. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, West Germans relinquished... -
Commercial Networks and European Cities, 1400-1800 by Andrea Caracausi
RRP: $61.91$54.45Merchant networks generated trade and the exchange of goods between the cities of early modern Europe. This collection of essays analyses these commercial networks, focusing on the roles of kinship, origin, religion and business in creating and... -
Pierre Legendre Lessons III God in the Mirror: A Study of the Institution of Images Pierre Legendre 9781138233270
RRP: $61.91$53.93In the context of our increasingly global legal order, Pierre Legendre's God in the Mirror reconsiders the place of law within the division of existing bodies of knowledge. Navigating the texts of Ovid, Augustine, Roman jurists, medieval canon lawyers,... -
The Early Modern Papacy: From the Council of Trent to the French Revolution 1564-1789 by A.D. Wright
RRP: $174.15$151.81A history of the Papacy covering the vital period from the Renaissance through the Counter Reformation to the period of the French Revolution. Its a broad survey analysing the influence of Papal power not only across Europe but the wider world also.Book... -
Germany since 1789: A Nation Forged and Renewed Dr David G. Williamson 9781137350053
RRP: $43.85$42.00This essential text provides a clear and engaging introduction to the history of modern Germany. The updated and expanded new edition now takes the story back to 1789 and brings it right up to the present day, adopting a controversy-led approach... -
Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe by Miri Rubin
RRP: $78.69$70.49Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 and 1500. Some city-states enjoyed considerable autonomy which allowed them to legislate on how... -
Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond by Teresa Shawcross
RRP: $67.07$53.01Offering a comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Byzantine Empire and its sphere of influence, this volume addresses a paradox. Advanced literacy was rare among imperial citizens, being restricted by gender and... -
To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire by Lorelle Semley
RRP: $37.40$32.02The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and... -
Living with the Enemy: German Occupation, Collaboration and Justice in the Western Pyrenees, 1940-1948 by Sandra Ott
RRP: $109.65$99.33In post-liberation France, the French courts judged the cases of more than one hundred thousand people accused of aiding and abetting the enemy during the Second World War. In this fascinating book, Sandra Ott uncovers the hidden history of collaboration... -
A Concise History of France Roger Price (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) 9781107017825
RRP: $91.59$82.68This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of French history available ranging from the early middle ages to the present. Amongst its central themes are the relationships between state and society, the impact of war, competition for power, and... -
Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe by Eileen Reeves
RRP: $90.30$78.32Eileen Reeves examines a web of connections between journalism, optics, and astronomy in early modern Europe, devoting particular attention to the ways in which a long-standing association of reportage with covert surveillance and astrological prediction... -
The Politics of Dreaming in the Carolingian Empire by Paul Edward Dutton
RRP: $69.66$60.88Between the reigns of Charlemagne and Charles the Fat, Europe underwent a series of alarming and unsettling changes. Civil war broke out, royal authority was divided, and the brightest of men and women began to entertain nightmarish thoughts of the... -
War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450-1620 J. R. Hale 9780801831966
$33.73This book examines the developments in military technique and technology which both fueled and resulted from the changing nature of warfare.About the AuthorJ.R. Hale is professor of Italian history at University College, London, and a fellow of the... -
Japanese Higher Education as Myth by Brian J. McVeigh
RRP: $49.01$43.06In this dismantling of the myth of Japanese "quality education", McVeigh investigates the consequences of what happens when statistical and corporatist forces monopolize the purpose of schooling and the boundary between education and employment... -
The Russians: The People of Europe Robin Milner-Gulland (University of Sussex) 9780631188056
RRP: $114.75$99.61This book examines the history of the Russian peoples from the time of the first inhabitants of "Old Russia", or "Rus", up to the present day.About the AuthorRobin Milner-Gulland is Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of... -
Resilient Europe: A Study of the Years 1870-2000 by Peter Calvocoressi
$62.23Studying the period 1870 to 1990 and offering an opinion on future developments, this book examines threats to European stability from such countries as Germany and Russia. Topics covered range from Bismarck, Hitler and Stalin to the growth of the... -
Italy Since 1800: A Nation in the Balance? Roger Absalom 9780582027718
RRP: $69.65$67.03Since unification, Italy has grown from a backward agrarian society into one of the world's leading industrial powers. Yet her history exhibits spectacular disunities, inconsistencies and paradoxes. Dominated by political Catholicism, she has also been... -
Forced Migration and Scientific Change: Emigre German-Speaking Scientists and Scholars after 1933 Mitchell G. Ash (University of Iowa) 9780521497411
RRP: $162.54$147.34The dismissal of civil servants on racist or political grounds in April 1933 marked the beginning of a massive, forced exodus of mainly Jewish scholars and scientists from Nazi Germany - a phenomenon unprecedented in the modern history of academic life...