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Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics by Richard L. Kagan 9781421403403
RRP: $71.60$63.02On the first day of Francisco de San Antonio's trial before the Spanish Inquisition in Toledo in 1625, his interrogators asked him about his parentage. His real name, he stated, was Abram Ruben, and he had been born in Fez of Jewish parents. How then,... -
The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945 by Richard Steigmann-Gall
RRP: $34.82$28.29Analyzing the previously unexplored religious views of the Nazi elite, Richard Steigmann-Gall argues against the consensus that Nazism as a whole was either unrelated to Christianity or actively opposed to it. He demonstrates that many participants in... -
Maurice Bowra: A Life by Leslie Mitchell 9780199589333
$54.36Maurice Bowra was, according to one's point of view, either the most distinguished or the most notorious Oxford don of the early twentieth century. Classicist, poet, wit, raconteur extraordinary, and Warden of Wadham College for over thirty years, he met... -
The Holocaust Sites of Europe: An Historical Guide by Martin Winstone 9781350332027
RRP: $32.24$27.21The Holocaust - the murder of approximately six million Jewish men, women and children by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in the Second World War - was a crime of unprecedented and unparalleled proportions, perpetrated in innumerable locations across... -
The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason by Josiah Ober
RRP: $38.70$31.04Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private affairs, was an intellectual breakthrough that remains... -
Cosmopolitan Islanders: British Historians and the European Continent by Richard J. Evans 9780521199988
RRP: $103.20$88.02In Cosmopolitan Islanders one of the world's leading historians asks why it is that so many prominent and influential British historians have devoted themselves to the study of the European continent. Books on the history of France, Germany, Italy,... -
The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom by Christian Raffensperger
RRP: $32.25$23.09This is a new history of the region known as Kyivan Rus', a state in eastern and northern Europe from the late ninth to the mid-sixteenth century that encompassed a variety of polities and peoples, including Lithuanian, Polish, Ottoman and others. This... -
The European Witch-Hunt by Julian Goodare 9780415254533
RRP: $59.33$52.28The European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people, mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality during three centuries of intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North... -
A Short History of the Normans by Leonie V. Hicks
$21.97The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche. It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped... -
The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo by Ambrosio Bembo 9780520249394
RRP: $38.70$30.56In 1671, Ambrosio Bembo, a young nobleman bored with everyday life in Venice, decided to broaden his knowledge of the world through travel. That August he set off on a remarkable, occasionally hazardous, four-year voyage to Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and... -
Public Corruption: The Dark Side of Social Evolution by Robert Neild 9781843310655
RRP: $21.87$21.57'Public Corruption' is a stimulating and entertaining book about a daunting problem: the influence on public corruption of the changing nature of warfare. It will be of as much interest to the general reader and those around the seats of power as it is... -
Studying Late Medieval History: A Thematic Approach by Cindy Wood
RRP: $49.01$43.40Studying Late Medieval History is an accessible introduction for undergraduate history students wishing to understand the major topics of late medieval history. Examining the period from 1300-1550, this introductory guide offers an overview of 250 years... -
Bookham & Fetcham by Linda Heath 9780752418254
RRP: $19.34$15.12A history of Bookham & FetchamBook InformationISBN 9780752418254Author Linda HeathFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe by James J Sheehan
RRP: $21.92$15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547086330Author James J SheehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295g -
Berlin Embassy by William Russell 9781853981579
$10.90First published in 1941 to considerable acclaim, this is a classic account of the last days of peace in Europe before the outbreak of the Second World War. William Russell was a young American diplomat working at the US Embassy, in Hermann Goering... -
Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change by Stephen G. Gross
RRP: $46.43$40.40A novel exploration of the deeper political, economic, and geopolitical history behind Germany's daring campaign to restructure its energy system around green power. Since the 1990s, Germany has embarked on a daring campaign to restructure its energy... -
History of the Balkans: Volume 2 by Barbara Jelavich 9780521274593
RRP: $39.98$34.61This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, which both had their origins in the desire of nationalist circles to complete the territorial unification of their states. A substantial part of this book deals with the wartime experience,... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VI: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 1 by Andre Laks
RRP: $32.19$30.65A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide by Anthony Tommasini
RRP: $24.50$16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111085Author Anthony TommasiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Regions of France: A Reference Guide to History and Culture by M. Wayne Northcutt 9780313292231
$105.95This is the one reference work that French teachers, students and librarians need for student assignments on the regions of France. A one-stop, easy-to-use reference guide organized by region, it offers in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the cultural... -
Italo Balbo: A Fascist Life by Claudio G. Segre
RRP: $39.99$31.51Pioneering aviator, blackshirt leader, colonial governor, confidante and heir-apparent to Benito Mussolini, the dashing and charismatic Italo Balbo exemplified the ideals of Fascist Italy during the 1920s and 30s. He earned national notoriety after World... -
Dieppe Through the Lens of the German War Photographer by Hugh G. Henry 9780900913761
RRP: $16.71$14.18The 14th Canadian Army Tank Regiment was one of the first Canadian armoured regiments to be formed and was also the first to be committed to battle. The action of every one of the regiment's tanks that landed at Dieppe is described in detail by Hugh G... -
Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria: Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe by Wolfgang Behringer 9780521525107
RRP: $38.69$35.86This is a major study by a leading scholar in the field of continental witchcraft studies. Based on an intensive search through central and local legal records for south-eastern Germany, an area extending well beyond but including present-day Bavaria,... -
The World of the Paris Cafe: Sociability among the French Working Class, 1789-1914 by W. Scott Haine
RRP: $34.19$32.65"[Haine] invites the reader of The World of the Paris Cafe to step up to the serving counter of a nineteenth-century Parisian cafe to eavesdrop on the conversations and to observe the dynamics of this unique working-class establishment ...These cafes... -
Medieval Economic Thought by Diana Wood 9780521458931
RRP: $42.56$37.71Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Medieval Spains by Bernard F. Reilly 9780521397414
RRP: $37.40$33.31This book traces the political evolution of the Iberian peninsula from a group of late Roman imperial provinces to the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies of the Trastamara and Braganza dynasties of the mid-fifteenth century. The book is planned as a... -
Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941 by Sarah Davies
RRP: $29.66$25.23Between 1934 and 1941 Stalin unleashed what came to be known as the 'Great Terror' against millions of Soviet citizens. The same period also saw the 'Great Retreat', the repudiation of many of the aspirations of the Russian Revolution. The response of... -
The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the Seventeenth Century by J. R. Jones 9780582056305
RRP: $61.91$59.31This study of the Anglo--Dutch Wars (1652-54, 1665-67, 1672-74) sets them in their naval, political and economic contexts. Competing essentially over trade, both governments were crucially influenced by mercantile interests and by the representative... -
The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy 9780156027632
RRP: $20.63$15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027632Author Mary McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)... -
Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister by Marilyn B. Skinner 9780195375015
RRP: $56.10$37.53Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as described by her contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular fiction, art, and poetry. Clodia, widow of the consul... -
Founding Weimar: Violence and the German Revolution of 1918-1919 by Mark Jones
RRP: $39.98$37.00The German Revolution of 1918-1919 was a transformative moment in modern European history. It was both the end of the German Empire and the First World War, as well as the birth of the Weimar Republic, the short-lived democracy that preceded the... -
Illustrating Empire: A Visual History of British Imperialism Ashley Jackson (Professor of Imperial and Military History, King's College London) 9781851243341
RRP: $25.79$22.74Illustrating Empire tells the history of the British Empire through the ephemeral images used to promote, record, and celebrate its development. The narrative is told through more than 200 striking and original images accompanied by illuminating story... -
Political Unification Revisited: On Building Supranational Communities by Amitai Etzioni 9780739102732
RRP: $60.63$53.24Can independent nations unify politically? Amitai Etzioni raised this searching question in his seminal 1965 book, Political Unification: A Comparative Study of Leaders and Forces. In this revised edition-now with an extensive new introduction-Etzioni... -
Craeft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts by Alexander Langlands 9780393356571
RRP: $18.05$15.13Faced with an endless supply of mass-manufactured products, we find ourselves nostalgic for goods bearing the mark of authenticity-hand-made tools, local brews, and other objects produced by human hands. Archaeologist and medieval historian Alexander... -
A History of Modern Europe by John Merriman 9780393667370
$55.38Students and instructors alike praise A History of Modern Europe for its authoritative coverage from the Renaissance to the present day. Written in Merriman's signature narrative style, the book is brightened with humour and biographical sketches. The... -
Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe by Stuart Carroll 9781009287326
RRP: $38.70$34.25In this original study Stuart Carroll transforms our understanding of Europe between 1500 and 1800 by exploring how ordinary people felt about their enemies and the violence it engendered. Enmity, a state or feeling of mutual opposition or hostility,... -
Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950-1200 by Bjoern Weiler
RRP: $45.14$39.63Medieval Europe was a world of kings, but what did this mean to those who did not themselves wear a crown? How could they prevent corrupt and evil men from seizing the throne? How could they ensure that rulers would not turn into tyrants? Drawing on a... -
Operation Millennium: 'Bomber' Harris's Raid on Cologne, May 1942 by Eric Taylor 9781862272309 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80$3.42Operation Millennium was an extraordinary feat of organization involving 1,048 bombers, over 6,000 aircrew, and 53 British airfields. To ensure the success of this first strike of the Allied blitz, maximum effort was the order and the Royal Air Force... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe by T. C. W. Blanning 9780192854261
RRP: $30.30$23.40Written by eleven contributors of international standing, this book covers Europe's turbulent history from the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the present day. Attractively illustrated with over 200 pictures in colour and black and... -
Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century Kim Sloan 9780714150208
RRP: $32.25$23.52The Enlightenment was a period of intense activity devoted to discovery and learning about the natural world, the past and other civilisations. Classification, collecting and deciphering were all important stages on the way to understanding of the world...