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Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery: Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global Contexts by Tessa Hauswedell 9781787351004
RRP: $23.21$20.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351004Author Tessa HauswedellFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 440g -
Megalithic Tombs in Western Iberia: Excavations at the Anta da Lajinha by Chris Scarre 9781785709807
$73.58Western Iberia has one of the richest inventories of Neolithic chambered tombs in Atlantic Europe, with particular concentrations in Galicia, northern Portugal and the Alentejo. Less well known is the major concentration of tombs along the Tagus valley,... -
Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914 by Barbara Alpern Engel 9780521566216
RRP: $39.98$30.70This 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... -
Britain'S Lost Revolution?: Jacobite Scotland and French Grand Strategy, 1701-8 by Daniel Szechi 9780719089176
RRP: $109.65$77.62This book is a frontal attack on an entrenched orthodoxy. Our official, public vision of the early eighteenth century demonises Louis XIV and France and marginalises the Scots Jacobites. Louis is seen as an incorrigibly imperialistic monster and the... -
Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies by Inger Leemans 9780367219963
RRP: $49.01$43.58Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe. Starting with the Southern and Northern Netherlands as important early hubs for marketing knowledge, it analyses knowledge... -
Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921–1941 by Yiannis Kokosalakis 9781009218863
RRP: $109.65$99.33By 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: $47.72$39.13Numbers 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: $39.98$32.83The 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... -
Grant and Temperley's Europe in the Nineteenth Century 1789-1905 by A. Ramm 9780582490284
$63.00This seventh edition of 'Grant and Temperley' has been comprehensively revised and rewritten by the distinguished historian Agatha Ramm. Its coverage has been greatly extended , and it now appears in two volume. This, volume one, covers the nineteenth... -
Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World by Barbara H. Rosenwein 9781442636736
RRP: $68.37$60.09The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions-thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages-and adds significant new... -
Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism by Jonathan F. Beecher
RRP: $79.98$63.49Jonathan F. Beecher's accomplished study is both a lively life story of one of the most engaging figures among the French romantic intellectuals of the 1840s and a compelling chronicle of early French socialism. Victor Considerant (1808-1893), a follower... -
Winston Churchill: A Biographical Companion by Chris Wrigley 9780874369908
$75.54This 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 John Hardman 9780582437555
RRP: $76.10$72.50Robespierre 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: $64.49$2.92Written 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: $64.49$61.71Written 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... -
Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire: New Evidence, New Approaches (4th-8th centuries) by Marianne Saghy
RRP: $34.77$32.25Do the terms `pagan' and `Christian,' `transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting `pagans' and `Christians' in Late... -
Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400-1800 by S. R. Epstein 9780521153911
RRP: $56.75$47.94For 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: $154.80$120.27Cultural 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... -
The New World of the Gothic Fox: Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America by Claudio Veliz 9780520083165
RRP: $68.37$53.39Claudio Veliz adopts the provocative metaphor of foxes and hedgehogs that Isaiah Berlin used to describe opposite types of thinkers. Applying this metaphor to modern culture, economic systems, and the history of the New World, Veliz provides an original... -
Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands 1544-1569 by Phyllis Mack Crew 9780521088831
RRP: $39.98$32.83This 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: $116.09$115.93The 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 Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic by Brian Jeffrey Maxson 9781788314886
RRP: $58.05$58.02The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is... -
A Concise History of the Netherlands by James C. Kennedy 9780521875882
RRP: $121.26$108.84The 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... -
Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of Retribution by William Beik 9780521575850
RRP: $42.56$35.08This lucid and wide-ranging survey is the first study in English to identify a distinctive urban phase in the history of the early modern crowd. Through close analysis of the behaviour of protesters and authorities in more than fifteen... -
The German Reformation and the Peasants' War: A Brief History with Documents by Michael G. Baylor
$50.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312437183Author Michael G. BaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan Learning -
The Rise of Heritage: Preserving the Past in France, Germany and England, 1789-1914 by Astrid Swenson 9780521117623
RRP: $135.45$96.14Where 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... -
Clarifying the Past: Understanding Historical Commissions in Conflicted and Divided Societies by Cira Palli-Aspero
RRP: $161.25$139.66Clarifying the Past provides a comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored historical commissions operating in conflicted and divided societies, developing a theoretical and methodological framework within the historical dialogue paradigm, key to... -
The Swiss Economy in a Nutshell by Cyrill Jost
RRP: $25.79$17.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783038690962Author Cyrill JostFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Bergli Books LtdPublisher Bergli Books Ltd -
The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture by Michael Broers 9780230241312
RRP: $116.09$115.93Napoleon'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... -
Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640 by James C. Boyajian
$45.95This fascinating history reassesses the consequences of Portugal's flourishing private trade with Asia, including increased tensions between the growing urban merchant class and the still-dominant landed aristocracy. James C. Boyajian shows how... -
The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke by John Willinsky
RRP: $45.15$38.66Providing 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: $96.75$87.90How 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... -
Third in Line: The 3rd Air Division over Eure in World War II by Ron MacKay 9780764333460
RRP: $82.55$54.83What was successively titled the 4th Bomb Wing, 3rd Bomb Division and finally 3rd Air Division entered combat with the VIII Bomber Command in May 1943. Under the charismatic leadership of Gen. Curtis LeMay, the Force's crews in their B-17s forged the... -
Opposing Fascism: Community, Authority and Resistance in Europe by Tim Kirk 9780521483094
RRP: $116.09$98.16This innovative volume draws together a series of perspectives on the everyday experience of Europeans in the 'age of fascism'. The contributions go beyond the conventional stereotypes of organized resistance to examine the tensions and ambiguities... -
Guild and State: European Political Thought from the Twelfth Century to the Present Antony Black 9780765809780
RRP: $59.33$51.77Guild 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... -
Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies: The French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802 by William Cormack 9781487503956
RRP: $68.37$59.31Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies examines the complex revolutionary struggle in Martinique and Guadeloupe from 1789 to 1802. The arrival of tricolour cockades - badges showing support for the French Revolution - and news from Paris... -
Protestant Empires: Globalizing the Reformations by Ulinka Rublack
RRP: $103.19$93.60Protestantism during the early modern period is still predominantly presented as a European story. Advancing a novel framework to understand the nature and impact of the Protestant Reformations, this volume brings together leading scholars to... -
A History of Prussia by H.W. Koch 9780582481909
RRP: $92.87$89.66In 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... -
In the Kingdom of Shoes: Bata, Zlin, Globalization, 1894-1945 by Zachary Austin Doleshal
RRP: $36.11$31.14One of the world's largest sellers of footwear, the Bata Company of Zlin, Moravia has a remarkable history that touches on crucial aspects of what made the world modern. In the twilight of the Habsburg Empire, the company Americanized its production... -
Martov: A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat by Israel Getzler 9780521526029
RRP: $51.59$42.91This is the first biography of Martov, the founder and leader of Menshevism. It records his revolutionary apprenticeship in Vilno and St Petersburg in 1893-6; his early friendship and partnership with Lenin in Siberian exile and on the revolutionary...