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China in the German Enlightenment by Bettina Brandt 9781487545550
RRP: $29.66$25.81Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and... -
Fascination with the Persecutor: George L. Mosse and the Catastrophe of Modern Man by Emilio Gentile 9780299334307
$103.25In 1933, George L. Mosse fled Berlin and settled in the United States, where he went on to become a renowned historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Through rigorous and innovative scholarship, Mosse uncovered the forces that spurred... -
Historical Dictionary of Cyprus by Farid Mirbagheri 9781538111574
RRP: $166.41$146.66As a major tourist destination and the most eastern member of the European Union, housing two British Sovereign Bases and sitting at the intersection of three continents, Cyprus attracts international attention in more ways than one; hence the complex... -
Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History by Darrin M. McMahon 9780199769230
$153.45In relative terms, intellectual history is currently enjoying a moment of prominence and self-confidence greater than it has known in decades. Yet surprisingly for a field whose practitioners pride themselves on intellectual self-awareness, its star may... -
Marginal Europe: The Contribution of Marginal Lands since the Middle Ages by Sidney Pollard 9780198206385
RRP: $74.82$69.85The momentum of the British industrial revolution arose mostly in regions poorly endowed by nature, badly located and considered backward and poor by contemporaries. Sidney Pollard examines the initially surprising contribution made by the population of... -
Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe by Katharina N Piechocki 9780226816814
RRP: $39.99$38.95What is "Europe," and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. ... -
The Western Mediterranean and the World: 400 CE to the Present by Teofilo F. Ruiz 9781405188166
RRP: $38.64$34.84From the Straits of Gibraltar to Sicily, the European northern Mediterranean nations to the shores of North Africa, the western Mediterranean is a unique cultural and sociopolitical entity which has had a singular role in shaping today's global society... -
A Renaissance of Violence: Homicide in Early Modern Italy by Colin Rose 9781108498067
RRP: $108.35$97.65Based 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,... -
Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia by Matthew P. Romaniello 9781108497572
RRP: $116.10$105.04Commercial competition between Britain and Russia became entangled during the eighteenth century in Iran, the Middle East, and China, and disputes emerged over control of the North Pacific. Focusing on the British Russia Company, Matthew P. Romaniello... -
The German Right, 1918-1930: Political Parties, Organized Interests, and Patriotic Associations in the Struggle against Weimar Democracy by Larry Eugene Jones 9781108494076
RRP: $166.41$151.56The failure of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism remains one of the most challenging problems of twentieth-century European history. The German Right, 1918-1930 sheds new light on this problem by examining the role that the non-Nazi... -
Princely Power in Late Medieval France: Jeanne de Penthievre and the War for Brittany by Erika Graham-Goering 9781108489096
RRP: $116.10$105.04Jeanne de Penthievre (c.1326-1384), duchess of Brittany, was an active and determined ruler who maintained her claim to the duchy throughout a war of succession and even after her eventual defeat. This in-depth study examines Jeanne's administrative and... -
A People's Music: Jazz in East Germany, 1945-1990 by Helma Kaldewey 9781108486187
RRP: $116.10$105.04A People's Music presents the first full history of jazz in East Germany, drawing on new and previously unexamined sources and vivid eyewitness accounts. Helma Kaldewey chronicles the experiences of jazz musicians, fans, and advocates, and charts the... -
Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France Virginia Reinburg (Boston College, Massachusetts) 9781108483117
RRP: $116.10$104.53Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth in early modern France. By analyzing the creation of these pilgrim shrines as natural, legendary, and historic places whose authority provided a new foundation for post-Reformation Catholic... -
Socialism across the Iron Curtain: Socialist Parties in East and West and the Reconstruction of Europe after 1945 by Jan De Graaf 9781108425087
RRP: $116.10$105.04This innovative pan-European history of post-war socialism challenges the East-West paradigm that still dominates accounts of post-war Europe. Jan De Graaf offers a comparative study of the ways in which the French, Italian and Polish socialist parties... -
Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium by Roland Betancourt 9781108424745
RRP: $136.74$123.32Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how various spheres of the Byzantine world categorized and comprehended sensation and... -
The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany by Ned Richardson-Little 9781108424677
RRP: $107.06$96.50Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist... -
Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art: The Vicissitudes of Contact between Human and Divine by Rico Franses 9781108418591
RRP: $116.10$105.04This book explores the range of images in Byzantine art known as donor portraits. It concentrates on the distinctive, supplicatory contact shown between ordinary, mortal figures and their holy, supernatural interlocutors. The topic is approached from a... -
Citizenship and Antisemitism in French Colonial Algeria, 1870-1962 by Sophie B. Roberts 9781107188150
RRP: $135.45$122.18Professor Roberts examines the relationship between antisemitism and the practices of citizenship in a colonial context. She focuses on the experience of Algerian Jews and their evolving identity as citizens as they competed with the other populations in... -
The Origins of the First World War William Mulligan (University College Dublin) 9781107159594
RRP: $90.29$78.47A second edition of this leading introduction to the origins of the First World War and the pre-war international system. William Mulligan shows how the war was a far from inevitable outcome of international politics in the early twentieth century and... -
The Discovery of the Third World: Decolonization and the Rise of the New Left in France, c.1950-1976 by Christoph Kalter 9781107074514
RRP: $154.80$139.31An innovative account of how the concept of the 'Third World' emerged in France from the mid-1950s through to the mid-1970s alongside a new leftist movement. The book reveals how, in an age of Cold War, decolonization and development thinking, French... -
Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France by Virginia Krause 9781107074408
RRP: $123.83$111.37Denounced by neighbors and scrutinized by demonologists, the early modern French witch also confessed, self-identified as a witch and as the author of horrific deeds. What led her to this point? Despair, solitude, perhaps even physical pain, but most... -
Performing Orthodox Ritual in Byzantium by Andrew Walker White 9781107073852
RRP: $116.10$105.04In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study, Andrew Walker White explores the origins of Byzantine ritual - the rites of the early Greek Orthodox Church - and its unique relationship with traditional theatre. Tracing the secularization of pagan... -
Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France: Global Economic Crisis and the Racialization of French Citizenship, 1870-1910 by Elizabeth Heath 9781107070585
RRP: $116.10$105.04This is an innovative study of how race and empire transformed French republican citizenship in the early Third Republic. Elizabeth Heath integrates the histories of the wine-producing department of Aude and the sugar-producing colony of Guadeloupe to... -
Political Economies of Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Decline of Venice and the Rise of England, 1450-1700 by Maria Fusaro 9781107060524
RRP: $135.45$122.18Against the backdrop of England's emergence as a major economic power, the development of early modern capitalism in general and the transformation of the Mediterranean, Maria Fusaro presents a new perspective on the onset of Venetian decline. Examining... -
The Holocaust and the Revival of Psychological History by Judith M. Hughes 9781107056824
RRP: $58.04$52.35Why did men and women in one of the best educated countries in the Western world set out to get rid of Jews? In this book, Judith M. Hughes focuses on how historians' efforts to grapple anew with matters of actors' meanings, intentions, and purposes have... -
French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II by Raffael Scheck 9781107056817
RRP: $116.10$105.04This book discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Raffael Scheck shows that the German treatment of French colonial soldiers improved dramatically after initial abuses,... -
Angels and the Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance Italy by Meredith J. Gill 9781107027954
RRP: $154.80$139.31From earliest times, angels have been seen as instruments of salvation and retribution, agents of revelation, and harbingers of hope. In effect, angels are situated at the intersections of diverse belief structures and philosophical systems. In this... -
The Medieval Discovery of Nature by Steven A. Epstein 9781107026452
RRP: $134.16$121.03This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, people lived in nature and discovered things about it. Ancient societies bequeathed to the Middle Ages both... -
The World of Kosmas: Illustrated Byzantine Codices of the Christian Topography by Maja Kominko 9781107020887
RRP: $138.03$125.23The Christian Topography is the only extant Greek treatise both written and illustrated in the sixth century, although known only through later copies. Taking inspiration from East Syrian exegesis, the treatise transforms the heritage of classical... -
Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II by Mirna Zakic 9781107171848
RRP: $77.40$69.36This is an in-depth study of the ethnic German minority in the Serbian Banat (Southeast Europe) and its experiences under German occupation in World War II. Mirna Zakic argues that the Banat Germans exercised great agency within the constraints imposed... -
Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain by Marta V. Vicente 9781107159556
RRP: $116.10$104.53Eighteenth-century debates continue to set the terms of modern day discussions on how 'nature and nurture' shape sex and gender. Current dialogues - from the tension between 'real' and 'ideal' bodies, to how nature and society shape sexual difference -... -
Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour by Paola Bianchi 9781107147706
RRP: $167.70$152.72The Duchy of Savoy first claimed royal status in the seventeenth century, but only in 1713 was Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy (1666-1732), crowned King of Sicily. The events of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) sanctioned the decades-long project, the Duchy... -
The Canons of the Third Lateran Council of 1179: Their Origins and Reception by Danica Summerlin 9781107145825
RRP: $116.10$105.04Alexander III's 1179 Lateran Council, was, for medieval contemporaries, the first of the great papal councils of the central Middle Ages. Gathered to demonstrate the renewed unity of the Latin Church, it brought together hundreds of bishops and other... -
Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France: The Business of Salvation Tyler Lange (University of California, Berkeley) 9781107145795
RRP: $116.10$105.04Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange analyzes over 11,000 excommunications between 1380 and 1530 in order to explore the forms, rhythms, and cultural significance of the practice... -
Judging Faith, Punishing Sin: Inquisitions and Consistories in the Early Modern World Charles H. Parker (St Louis University, Missouri) 9781107140240
RRP: $144.48$130.17Judging Faith, Punishing Sin breaks new ground by offering the first comparative treatment of Catholic inquisitions and Calvinist consistories, offering scholars a new framework for analysing religious reform and social discipline in the great Christian... -
Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium: The Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist by Sarah Gador-Whyte 9781107140134
RRP: $119.96$108.45Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium examines the kontakia and thought-world of Romanos the Melodist, the sixth-century hymnographer whose vibrant and engaging compositions had a far-reaching influence in the history of Byzantine liturgy. His... -
Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium: The Fate of the Soul in Theology, Liturgy, and Art by Vasileios Marinis 9781107139442
RRP: $121.25$109.60For all their reputed and professed preoccupation with the afterlife, the Byzantines had no systematic conception of the fate of the soul between death and the Last Judgement. Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium marries for the first time liturgical,... -
Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1968-1983 by Stephen Milder 9781107135109
RRP: $119.96$108.45Greening Democracy explains how nuclear energy became a seminal political issue and motivated new democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s. Using interviews, as well as the archives of environmental organizations and the Green party, the... -
The Eucharist in Medieval Canon Law by Dr. Thomas M. Izbicki 9781107124417
RRP: $116.10$104.53Thomas Izbicki presents a new examination of the relationship between the adoration of the sacrament and canon law from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. The medieval Church believed Christ's glorified body was present in the Eucharist, the most... -
European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 Dina Gusejnova (University of Sheffield) 9781107120624
RRP: $135.45$122.18Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the...