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The Decline of Marriage in Namibia: Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community by Julia Pauli
RRP: $97.48$79.37In Southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common. However, over the past decades marriage rates have declined significantly. Julia Pauli explores the meaning of marriage when only few marry. Although marriage rates have dropped sharply, the... -
Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory: Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century by Marco Duranti
RRP: $79.93$66.22How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a... -
Rome Eternal: The City as Fatherland by Guy Lanoue
RRP: $165.73$144.79This book looks at Rome through its old bourgeoisie, whose relationship to the city in a very real sense embodies an important aspect of 'time-full' Rome, Rome as a local fatherland, the idealized image of Rome Eternal as a symbolic community tied to... -
Faith and Revivalism in a Nordic Romani Community: Pentecostalism Amongst the Kaale Roma of Sweden and Finland by David Thurfjell
RRP: $234.00$233.06A Pentecostal revival is sweeping the Romani communities of Europe. The dominant religious orientation of European Roma, Pentecostalism has become one of the major factors behind Romani social development, in the wake of the discrimination,... -
Making Yugoslavs: Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia by Christian Axboe Nielsen
RRP: $66.30$63.32When Yugoslavia was created in 1918, the new state was a patchwork of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and other ethnic groups. It still was in January 1929, when King Aleksandar suspended the Yugoslav constitution and began an ambitious program to impose a new... -
The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent by John Hirst
RRP: $33.05$19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615199143Author John HirstFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ExperimentPublisher ExperimentWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 15mm -
History of Civilization in Europe by Francois Guizot
RRP: $38.90$32.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865978362Author Francois GuizotFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 666g -
The Boer War, Ladysmith and Mafeking, 1900 by Tim Coates 9780117024083 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.63$4.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780117024083Author Tim CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Tim CoatesPublisher Tim CoatesWeight(grams) 221g -
A Short History Of Europe: From Charlemagne to the Treaty of Lisbon by Gordon Kerr 9781842433461
RRP: $19.48$13.26'Europe was created by history.' Margaret Thatcher What is Europe? Firstly, of course, it is a continent made up of countless disparate peoples, races and nations, and governed by different ideas, philosophies, religions and attitudes. Nonetheless, it... -
Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Renaissance by Frederic Chapin Lane
$59.16This major study by Frederic Lane tracks the rise and decline of the great shipbuilding industry of Renaissance Venice. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, Lane presents detailed descriptions of the Venetian arsenal, including the great galleys that... -
Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800 by Julius R. Ruff 9780521598941
RRP: $60.43$53.43A broad-ranging survey of violence in western Europe from the Reformation to the French Revolution. Julius Ruff summarises a huge body of research and provides readers with a clear, accessible, and engaging introduction to the topic of violence in early... -
Bonaparte and the British: prints and propaganda in the age of Napoleon by Clayton
$70.06Not only was Waterloo one of the most decisive battles ever fought, it was also a crucial event in European political and social history, ending over 20 years of conflict and bringing to his knees one of Europe's most extraordinary and challenging... -
Greece, the Decade of War by David Brewer
$97.31In this book, acclaimed history David Brewer investigates explores 1940s Greece -- one of the most tumultuous decades in Greece's modern history. Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by Germany was intensely brutal: children starved on the... -
Illustrated History of Modern Europe 1789-1984, An 7th Edition by Denis Richards
$105.14A lively account of the transformations that have taken place in politics, economics and social ideas during the past two hundred years. Book InformationISBN 9780582332041Author Denis RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint LongmanPublisher... -
The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century by Dimiter Angelov 9781108480710
RRP: $87.73$76.79This book tells the extraordinary story of Theodore II Laskaris, an emperor who ruled over the Byzantine state of Nicaea established in Asia Minor after the fall of Constantinople to the crusaders in 1204. Theodore Laskaris was a man of literary talent... -
An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000-1500 by Steven A. Epstein 9780521706537
RRP: $60.43$53.66This book examines the most important themes in European social and economic history from the beginning of growth around the year 1000 to the first wave of global exchange in the 1490s. These five hundred years witnessed the rise of economic systems, and... -
Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic by Theo Balderston
RRP: $31.18$27.11This is a succinct overview of the turbulent economic history of the Weimar Republic. Theo Balderston, an experienced teacher of economic history, summarises the wealth of recent research on the subject, and presents it in lucid, accessible form. He... -
The Culture of Consent: Mass Organisation of Leisure in Fascist Italy by Victoria De Grazia 9780521526913
RRP: $77.98$64.86The efforts of fascism to form a 'culture of consent,' or shape depoliticized activities, in Italy between the world wars, make a unique portrait of fascist political tactics. Professor de Grazia focuses on the dopolavoro or fascist leisure-time... -
The Peninsular War: Paper Soldiers for Wellington’s War in Spain by Peter Dennis 9781911628286
RRP: $33.05$29.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628286Author Peter DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century by Marina Montesano
RRP: $72.13$63.43This volume offers 18 studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, magic, and witchcraft. The chapters traverse a broad spectrum both chronologically and thematically; yet... -
Europe in 1848: Revolution and Reform by Dieter Dowe 9781571811646
RRP: $257.40$210.33The events of 1989/90 in Europe demonstrated the renewed relevance of the mid-nineteenth century uprisings: both by showing, once again, how a revolutionary initiative could quickly spread through different European countries, but also by calling into... -
German Tank Destroyers by Pierre Tiquet
RRP: $68.25$45.98From the early days of World War II, it was clear that the Wehrmacht's antitank units would need to be motorized as existing horse- or automobile-drawn units were too slow to be effective. Initially, antitank guns were mounted onto available, usually... -
The Power of Place: Rulers and Their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities, and Holy Places by David Rollason 9780691167626
RRP: $117.00$94.19The Power of Place explores the nature of power--the power of kings, emperors, and popes--through the places that these rulers created or developed, including palaces, cities, landscapes, holy places, inauguration sites, and burial places. Ranging across... -
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond 9780192806185
RRP: $82.86$82.35Wednesday 12th June 1940. The Times reported 'thousands upon thousands of Parisians leaving the capital by every possible means, preferring to abandon home and property rather than risk even temporary Nazi domination'. As Hitler's victorious armies... -
The Vistula-Oder Offensive: The Vistula–Oder Offensive, the Soviet Destruction of German Army Group a, 1945 by Ian Baxter 9781636243597
RRP: $48.65$36.56The Vistula-Oder offensive was a massive Soviet Army operation on the Eastern Front which was launched on 12 January 1945 and paved the way for the Battle of Berlin. Its main objective was a major advance from the River Vistula to the River Oder,... -
Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia by Olga Tian-Shanskaia
RRP: $25.33$23.89" . . . a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution. . . . The translation is superb." -Steven Hoch" . . . one of the best ethnographic portraits that we have of the Russian village. . . . a... -
The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe by Marie-Janine Calic
$72.93A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions.We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the... -
The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography by Gabrielle M. Spiegel
RRP: $49.73$43.76Postmodernism has challenged historians to look at historical texts in a new way and to be skeptical of the claim that one can confidently retrieve "fact" from historical writings. In The Past as Text historian Gabrielle M. Spiegel sets out to read... -
Activism across Borders since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe by Daniel Laqua 9781350262799
RRP: $48.73$45.36From the Occupy protests to the Black Lives Matter movement and school strikes for climate action, the twenty-first century has been rife with activism. Although very different from one another, each of these movements has created alliances across... -
Bohemond of Taranto: Crusader and Conqueror by Georgios Theotokis 9781526744289
RRP: $38.98$38.03Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Common Treasury by Gerrard Winstanley
$33.38At the end of the English Civil War, Gerrard Winstanley and his comrades, known as Diggers, went to St. George's Hill, to farm the common land and to distribute the food for free amongst themselves. Winstanley's extraordinary writings from this period... -
Rethinking the Weimar Republic: Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936 by Anthony McElligott 9780340731901
$74.37"McElligott's impressive mastery of an enormous body of research guides him on a distinctive path through the dense thickets of Weimar historiography to a provocative new interpretation of the nature of authority in Germany's first democracy." Sir Ian... -
The Tudor Occupation of Boulogne: Conquest, Colonisation and Imperial Monarchy, 1544-1550 by Neil Murphy 9781108472012
RRP: $175.50$158.79In 1544, Henry VIII led the largest army then ever raised by an English monarch to invade France. This book investigates the consequences of this action by examining the devastating impact of warfare on the native population, the methods the English used... -
The Revolt of the Catalans by J. H. Elliott
RRP: $68.23$59.46The revolution of Catalonia in 1640 was a signal event in seventeenth-century Europe. Its causes and antecedents - essential for an understanding of the revolution itelf - form the basis of Professor Elliott's study of the Spanish monarchy at this time... -
Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo by Nigel Rothfels
$50.60To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and... -
Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Day by Sheri Berman
RRP: $45.81$34.18A magisterial look at the development of various political regimes in Europe from the ancien regime up through the present day At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern... -
Decisions for War, 1914-1917 by Richard F. Hamilton 9780521545303
RRP: $48.73$37.64Decisions for War focuses on the choices made by small coteries in Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France, Britain and elsewhere to address a common yet perplexing question: why did World War I happen? Several of the usual causes for the war are... -
The Hunger Winter: Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944-1945 by Ingrid de Zwarte
RRP: $44.83$40.29In this pioneering study, Ingrid de Zwarte examines the causes and demographic impact of the Dutch 'Hunger Winter' that occurred in the Netherlands during the final months of German occupation in the Second World War. She offers a comprehensive and... -
The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century by Helena Rosenblatt 9780691203966
RRP: $33.13$22.95The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry-and a term of derision-in today's increasingly divided... -
Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 by Wendy Z. Goldman 9780521458160
RRP: $60.43$47.91When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they believed that under socialism the family would 'wither away.' They envisioned a society in which communal dining halls, daycare centres, and public laundries would replace the unpaid labour of women in the...