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Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siecle Europe by Alexander C. T. Geppert 9781137358325
RRP: $116.09$91.23Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siecle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created... -
Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 1: The Challenge by R. R. Palmer
RRP: $58.05$46.44For 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... -
The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany by Jeffrey Verhey 9780521771375
RRP: $116.10$105.04This book, first published in 2000, is a systematic analysis of German public opinion at the outbreak of the Great War and the first treatment of the myth of the 'spirit of 1914', which stated that in August 1914 all Germans felt 'war enthusiasm' and... -
The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: Volume 3, The City of Jerusalem: A Corpus by Denys Pringle 9780521172837
RRP: $72.23$61.82This is the third in a series of four volumes that are intended to present a complete Corpus of all the church buildings, of both the Western and the Oriental rites, built, rebuilt or simply in use in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem between the capture... -
A History of the Balkans 1804-1945 by Stevan K. Pavlowitch 9780582045842
RRP: $70.94$68.99The Balkans have often been a flashpoint of conflict in European history. The recent civil war has torn the country apart and the region faces an uncertain future. This authoritative study provides an account of the history of the whole area from the... -
The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France by Sean Takats
RRP: $69.66$61.35In the eighteenth-century French household, the servant cook held a special place of importance, providing daily meals and managing the kitchen and its finances. In this scrupulously researched and witty history, Sean Takats examines the lives of these... -
The Revolutions in Europe, 1848-1849: From Reform to Reaction by Robert Evans 9780199249978
$86.57These essays arose out of lectures given in Oxford to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1848 revolutions in Europe. Authoritative, yet readable and colourful, they comprise judicicious summaries of the existing stte of knowledge, as well as new... -
The European Union: An Introduction by Mark Corner 9781780766850
$32.44The EU is one of the most notoriously complex international organisations. It is the only supranational organisation where nation-states agree to share sovereignty in some areas but not in others. At the heart of the EU debate across Europe are two... -
The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 by Professor Mack P. Holt 9780521838726
RRP: $92.87$81.66This book is a 2005 edition of Mack P. Holt's classic study of the French religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on the scholarship of social and cultural historians of the Reformation, it shows how religion infused both... -
Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean Economy by Joshua Holo
RRP: $39.98$29.48Using primary sources, Joshua Holo uncovers the day-to-day workings of the Byzantine-Jewish economy in the middle Byzantine period. Built on a web of exchange systems both exclusive to the Jewish community and integrated in society at large, this economy... -
The Kingdom of Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy in the Sixteenth Century by Geza Palffy 9780880336338
RRP: $64.50$50.98Geza Palffy traces the complex relations between Hungary and the Habsburgs, including the integration of the country into a conglomerate central European state ruled from Vienna and Prague. Focusing on institutions and symbols of sovereignty, Palffy... -
This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace by Swanee Hunt 9780822333555
RRP: $50.31$44.53"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 Thought of Gregory the Great by G. R. Evans 9780521368261
RRP: $49.01$40.39Gregory the Great was, after Augustine of Hippo, perhaps the most influential of the Fathers in the Latin West during the Middle Ages. He put Augustine's thought into a form which proved accessible and acceptable to mediaeval readers, and he added much... -
Government and Society in Louis XIV's France by R. Mettam 9780333214305
RRP: $59.34$58.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333214305Author R. MettamFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 374g -
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust: Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred Professor Beth A. Griech-Polelle (Pacific Lutheran University, USA) 9781350158610
RRP: $28.37$26.56Appreciating the power of language, and how discriminatory words can have deadly consequences, is pivotal to our understanding of the Holocaust. Engaging with a wealth of primary sources and significant Holocaust scholarship, Anti-Semitism and the... -
Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century by Jonathan Sheehan
RRP: $36.12$35.33A synthesis of eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural developments that offers an original explanation of how Enlightenment thought grappled with the problem of divine agency. Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human... -
Catherine the Great by Henri Troyat 9780452011205
RRP: $30.96$22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452011205Author Henri TroyatFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 428gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm -
The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter by Deborah R. Coen
RRP: $30.96$29.71Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteenth... -
The Creation of the British Atlantic World by Elizabeth Mancke
RRP: $34.19$31.04Was the British Atlantic shaped more by imperial rivalries or by the actions of subnational groups with a variety of economic, social, and religious agendas? The Creation of the British Atlantic World analyzes the inter-relationship between these... -
The Baltic Nations and Europe: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century John Hiden 9780582256507
RRP: $92.87$89.66Of all the Soviet Union's subject nationalities, the three Baltic republics, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, were the most determined and best organised in seizing the opportunities created by glasnost and perestroika to win freedom from Moscow's grip.At... -
Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I by Maureen Healy 9780521831246
RRP: $135.45$99.96Maureen Healy examines the collapse of the Habsburg Empire from the perspective of everyday life in the capital city. She argues that a striking feature of 'total war' on the home front was the spread of a war mentality to the mundane sites of everyday... -
The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States by David Vogel 9780691163369
RRP: $32.25$25.67The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently... -
William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England by Sidney Painter
RRP: $50.31$44.39Originally published in 1933. As mediaeval society was dominated by the feudal caste, a biography that depicts the position, activities, manners, and thoughts of a member of that class might do much to elucidate the history of the period. This is what... -
Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884-1911 by Frank M. Snowden 9780521893862
RRP: $64.49$54.75This 1995 book is a medical and social history of Italy's largest city during the cholera epidemics of 1884 and 1910-11. It explores the factors that exposed Naples to risk; it examines such popular responses as social hysteria, riots and religiosity;... -
A Renaissance of Violence: Homicide in Early Modern Italy by Colin Rose
RRP: $39.98$29.48Based on a close examination of more than 700 homicide trials, A Renaissance of Violence exposes the deep social instability at the core of the early modern states of North Italy. Following a series of crises in the early seventeenth century,... -
The Global Condition: Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community by William Hardy McNeill
RRP: $25.80$20.50William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. The Global Condition is a classic work for understanding the grand sweep of world history in brief compass. Now with a new foreword by J. R. McNeill, this book brings... -
The Return of Hans Staden: A Go-between in the Atlantic World by Eve M. Duffy
RRP: $32.25$28.42Hans Staden's sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinamba Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor's eyewitness account known as The True History shows both why it was so popular at... -
The Latin Church in Norman Italy by Professor G. A. Loud 9780521181488
RRP: $60.62$47.20First published in 2007, this was the first significant study of the incorporation of the Church in southern Italy into the mainstream of Latin Christianity during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Professor G. A. Loud examines the relationship between... -
Love between Enemies: Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II by Raffael Scheck
RRP: $45.14$39.33Love between Enemies explores the forbidden relationships which formed between foreign prisoners of war and German women during the Second World War. From the desire to have fun to deep love commitments, this study examines the range of motivations which... -
5 Steps to a 5: AP European History 2024 by Beth Bartolini-Salimbeni 9781265313517
RRP: $23.21$17.22AP Teachers' #1 Choice!Ready to succeed in your AP course and ace your exam? Our 5 Steps to a 5 guides explain the tough stuff, offer tons of practice and explanations, and help you make the most efficient use of your study time. 5 Steps to a 5: European... -
The Limits of Transnationalism Nancy L Green 9780226608280
RRP: $30.96$29.71Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to intellectual ones. The Limits of Transnationalism reassesses the overly optimistic narratives often associated with this malleable term, revealing both the metaphorical... -
Three Against the Third Republic: Sorel, Barres and Maurras by Michael Curtis 9780691626222
RRP: $54.18$42.62This volume is a comparative study of the political thought of three writers who, between 1885 and 1914, were leaders in the counterrevolutionary movement in France. Maurice Barres was a nationalistic conservative; Charles Maurras, a classic reactionary;... -
Regionalism and Modern Europe: Identity Construction and Movements from 1890 to the Present Day by Xose M. Nunez Seixas
$41.67Providing a valuable overview of regionalism throughout the entire continent, Regionalism in Modern Europe combines both geographical and thematic approaches to examine the origins and development of regional movements and identities in Europe from 1890... -
Spain, Europe and the Atlantic: Essays in Honour of John H. Elliott by Richard L. Kagan 9780521525114
RRP: $56.75$47.94The idea of a dialogue - sometimes harmonious, sometimes divisive - between the centre and periphery of the early modern European state stands at the heart of much of John Elliott's historical writing. It is the fulcrum around which his Imperial Spain... -
Early Modern Streets: A European Perspective Danielle van den Heuvel (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 9781138599840
RRP: $43.85$39.01For the first time, Early Modern Streets unites the diverse strands of scholarship on urban streets between circa 1450 and 1800 and tackles key questions on how early modern urban society was shaped and how this changed over time.Much of the lives of... -
Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender by Jack Jacobs 9781107047860
RRP: $144.48$130.17The relationships, past and present, between Jews and the political left remain of abiding interest to both the academic community and the public. Jews and Leftist Politics contains new and insightful chapters from world-renowned scholars and considers... -
The Stasi: The East German Intelligence and Security Service by David Childs 9780333630945
RRP: $58.04$58.01The Stasi were among the most successful security and intelligence services in the Cold War. Behind the Berlin Wall, colleagues, friends, husbands and wives, informed on each other. Stasi chief, General Mielke, prided himself on this situation. Under... -
Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal by Christoph Kalter
RRP: $116.10$105.04Having built much of their wealth, power, and identities on imperial expansion, how did the Portuguese and, by extension, Europeans deal with the end of empire? Postcolonial People explores the processes and consequences of decolonization through the... -
A Concise History of the Third Reich by Wolfgang Benz 9780520253834
RRP: $32.25$25.27This well-illustrated, highly accessible book at last gives general readers and students a compact, yet comprehensive and authoritative history of the twelve years of the Third Reich - from political takeover of January 30, 1933 to the German... -
The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism After 1945 by Alexander Stephan 9781845454869
RRP: $41.22$34.57"A welcome and timely addition to college and public library international studies shelves." * The Midwest Book Review Recent tensions between the U.S. and Europe seem to have opened up an insuperable rift, while Americanization, deplored by...