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Explorations in Environmental Political Theory: Thinking About What We Value: Thinking About What We Value by Joel Jay Kassiola
RRP: £39.99£35.06The contributors to this volume focus on the political and value issues that, in their shared view, underlie the global environmental crisis facing us today. They argue that only by transforming our dominant values, social institutions and way of living... -
Harry Van Arsdale, Jr.: Labor's Champion: Labor's Champion by Theodore W. Kheel
RRP: £135.00£117.68Harry Van Arsdale (1905-1986) was a towering figure in the New York labor scene. After being initiated into the Local 3 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1925 and becoming its business manager in 1933, Van Arsdale turned the then corrupt... -
The Communist Successor Parties of Central and Eastern Europe by Andras Bozoki
RRP: £135.00£117.68What has become of the Communist parties that once held monopoly power in the east bloc? A decade ago, it was assumed that they would dissolve, but many of them have enjoyed electoral success. This book systematically examines how they have evolved. In... -
Japan's Managed Globalization: Adapting to the Twenty-first Century: Adapting to the Twenty-first Century by Ulrike Schaede
RRP: £135.00£117.28As Japan moves from a "catch-up" strategy to a post-developmental stage, it is changing its actions and reactions both in terms of international political economy and domestic policy issues. The current changes in Japan can best be understood... -
American Television News: The Media Marketplace and the Public Interest: The Media Marketplace and the Public Interest by Steve M. Barkin
RRP: £135.00£117.28This concise history of the news broadcasting industry will appeal to both students and general readers. Stretching from the "radio days" of the 1920s and 1930s and the early era of television after World War II through to the present, the book... -
Desert Flyer by Martyn R.Ford- Jones
RRP: £27.99£18.62Killed in a flying accident in February 1944, Flying Officer William Marsh left behind a personal insight into the life of a desert flyer. Desert Flyer follows Bill Marsh from his early days as a schoolboy, through his RAF training in England and Canada,... -
European Decolonization by Martin Thomas
RRP: £76.99£68.05This collection brings together twenty-one key articles that explore the nature and impact of colonial withdrawal. Ranging across all the European colonial powers, the articles discuss various aspects of decolonization, including the role of political... -
Partisan Ruptures: Self-Management, Market Reform and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia by Gal Kirn
RRP: £85.00£65.36Yugoslavia's twentieth-century bore witness to civil war, sharp ideological struggles and a series of 'partisan ruptures'; revolutionary events that changed the face of Yugoslavian society, politics and culture, which were felt on a global level. This... -
ISE A History of Europe in the Modern World by Lloyd Kramer
RRP: £59.99£58.60A History of Europe in the Modern World delves into how Europe's history has contributed to the development of the modern world and an increasingly global society. The twelfth edition of this classic text links specific nations, movements, and landmark... -
The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France by Dr Constant J. Mews 9780230608139
RRP: £79.99£75.51This new edition offers fascinating insights into one of the most celebrated love affairs of the Middle Ages. A new chapter charts the debate about the letters and offers fresh evidence to attribute them to Abelard and Heloise. The complete Latin text is... -
Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust by Corry Guttstadt 9780521769914
RRP: £73.00£66.37Based on research in about fifty archives worldwide, Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust analyzes the minority politics of the Turkish republic and the country's ambivalent policies regarding Jewish refugees and Turkish Jews living abroad. Although... -
The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany by Jonathan Sperber 9780521023269
RRP: £36.99£28.78Although the German Empire of 1871-1918 was basically an authoritarian regime, its national elections were held under a democratic franchise and characterized by vigorous election campaigning and high levels of voter turnout. In The Kaiser's Voters,... -
Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118 by Rosemary Morris 9780521265584
RRP: £105.00£82.41In Byzantium monks did not form a separate caste, apart from society. They were not only loyal to their own houses or monastic leaders, but also formed part of a nexus of social, economic and spiritual relationships which bound together the 'powerful' in... -
Inessa Armand: Revolutionary and Feminist by R.C. Elwood 9780521414869
RRP: £90.00£72.57Inessa Armand was the first Director of the Women's Section of the Russian Communist Party (the Zhenotdel). She was one of the most important women in the pre-revolutionary Bolshevik Party, and second only to Aleksandra Kollontai in the ranks of early... -
Transnational Soldiers: Foreign Military Enlistment in the Modern Era by N. Arielli 9780230319684
RRP: £89.99£89.87Warfare in the modern era has often been described in terms of national armies fighting national wars. This volume challenges the view by examining transnational aspects of military mobilization from the eighteenth century to the present. Truly global in... -
Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity by Gideon Reuveni
RRP: £30.99£22.85Antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as capitalists have hindered research into the economic dimension of the Jewish past. The figure of the Jew as trader and financier dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But the economy has been central to... -
The History of Poland Since 1863 by R. F. Leslie 9780521275019
RRP: £44.99£38.78This is an account of the evolution of Poland from conditions of subjection to its reconstruction in 1918, development in the years between the two World Wars, and reorganisation after 1945. It begins at a time when Poland was still suffering from the... -
Spain Since 1939: From Margins to Centre Stage by Stanley Black
£33.26Spain since 1939 provides students with a comprehensive guide to one of the most exciting historical narratives of the twentieth century: Spain's development from poverty and isolation after the Civil War to its current role as a key player on the... -
Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition: A Comparative History by Wim Klooster
RRP: £23.99£20.84A new look at a contentious period in the history of the Atlantic world Within just a half century, the American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions transformed the Atlantic world. This book is the first to analyze these events through a... -
Soviet Propaganda by Baruch A. Hazan
RRP: £43.99£38.84This book encompasses the period since the establishment of the State of Israel (1948-75), which marked the peak of Soviet involvement in the Middle East. It introduces new concepts in the study of propaganda, and describes and analyzes Soviet propaganda... -
Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich by S. Jonathan Wiesen
RRP: £26.99£22.80When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they promised to build a vibrant consumer society. But they faced a dilemma. They recognized that consolidating support for the regime required providing Germans with the products they desired. At the same time, the... -
Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914 by Barbara Alpern Engel 9780521566216
RRP: £30.99£23.80This book charts the personal dimensions of economic social change by examining the significance and consequences of Russian peasant women's migration from the village to the factory and/or city in the years between the emancipation of the serfs in 1861... -
Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921–1941 by Yiannis Kokosalakis 9781009218863
RRP: £85.00£77.00By placing the party grassroots at the centre of its focus, Building Socialism presents an original account of the formative first two decades of the Soviet system. Assembled in a large network of primary party organisations (PPO), the Bolshevik... -
Numbers and Nationhood: Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy by Silvana Patriarca 9780521522601
RRP: £36.99£30.33Numbers and Nationhood, first published in 1996, explores the Italian inflection of a Europe-wide phenomenon in the nineteenth century: the rise of statistics as a mode of representation in society. Silvana Patriarca examines the ideologies which... -
City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100-1600 by Bruno Blonde
RRP: £30.99£25.45The Low Countries was collectively one of the earliest and most heavily urbanised societies in European history. Present-day Belgium and the Netherlands still share important common features, such as comparatively low income inequalities, high levels of... -
Bosnia-Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayed by Robert J. Donia 9781850652113 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.36This concise history of Bosnia-Hercegovina is designed for the non-specialist reader who seeks to understand the historical background of the Bosnian conflict that erupted in 1992 in the wake of Serbian and Croatian agression. It covers the principal... -
Common Destiny: Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany by MacGregor Knox 9780521582087
RRP: £41.00£36.19This book offers a genuinely comparative analysis of the dictatorships that launched the Second World War: their origins, nature, dynamics, and common ruin. It seeks to understand their similarities and differences historically, without recourse to... -
Winston Churchill: A Biographical Companion by Chris Wrigley 9780874369908
£58.56This illustrated A-Z biographical companion presents information about all aspects of Winston Churchill's remarkable career, spotlighting the events and people with whom he was most closely associated. When Winston Churchill was still in his teens, he... -
Robespierre by John Hardman 9780582437555
RRP: £58.99£56.20Robespierre was one of the most powerful and the most feared leaders of the French Revolution. John Hardman describes the career of this ruthless political manipulator, and in the process explores the dynamics of the French revolutionary movement and the... -
Industrialization in Nineteenth Century Europe by Tom Kemp 9780582493841 [USED COPY]
RRP: £49.99£2.26Written for the layman as well as the economic historian this famous and much-used book not only presents a general synthesis of the pattern of European industrialisation; it also provides material for a comparative study by illustrating, in separate... -
Industrialization in Nineteenth Century Europe by Tom Kemp 9780582493841
RRP: £49.99£47.84Written for the layman as well as the economic historian this famous and much-used book not only presents a general synthesis of the pattern of European industrialisation; it also provides material for a comparative study by illustrating, in separate... -
Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400-1800 by S. R. Epstein 9780521153911
RRP: £43.99£37.16For a long time guilds have been condemned as a major obstacle to economic progress in the pre-industrial era. This re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy challenges that view by taking into account fresh research on... -
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe by Herman Roodenburg 9780521845496
RRP: £120.00£93.23Cultural exchange, the dynamic give and take between two or more cultures, has become a distinguishing feature of modern Europe. This was already an important feature to the elites of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and it played a... -
Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands 1544-1569 by Phyllis Mack Crew 9780521088831
RRP: £30.99£25.45This book is a study of the relationship between ideology and social behaviour. Professor Crew analyses the attitudes and characters of the Calvinist ministers who preached in the Netherlands in the mid-sixteenth century and their effect on the popular... -
Anglo-Greek Attitudes: Studies in History by R. Clogg 9780333682852
RRP: £89.99£89.87The relationship between Britain and Greece, situated at the opposite ends of Europe has been close and troubled, especially since the emergence of Greece as an independent state in the 1830s. The essays in this book, some previously unpublished, focus... -
A Concise History of the Netherlands by James C. Kennedy 9780521875882
RRP: £94.00£84.37The Netherlands is known among foreigners today for its cheese and its windmills, its Golden Age paintings and its experimentation in social policies such as cannabis and euthanasia. Yet the historical background for any of these quintessentially Dutch... -
The Rise of Heritage: Preserving the Past in France, Germany and England, 1789-1914 by Astrid Swenson 9780521117623
RRP: £105.00£74.53Where does our fascination for 'heritage' originate? This groundbreaking comparative study of preservation in France, Germany and England looks beyond national borders to reveal how the idea of heritage emerged from intense competition and collaboration... -
The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture by Michael Broers 9780230241312
RRP: £89.99£89.87Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era and found that his real achievement was the creation of modern Europe as we know it.Book... -
The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke by John Willinsky
RRP: £35.00£29.97Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products of... -
The French Monarchical Commonwealth, 1356-1560 by James B. Collins
RRP: £75.00£68.14How does authority become power? How does power justify itself to achieve its ends? For over two hundred years, the Valois kings relied on a complex mixture of ideologies, ruling a monarchical commonwealth with a coherent theory of shared governance...