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Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800-1950 by Adam T. Rosenbaum 9781107111950
RRP: €107.10€96.43During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the tourism industry of Bavaria consistently promoted an image of 'grounded modernity'. This romanticized version of the present reconciled continuity with change, tradition with progress, and nature... -
Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy by Paul Garfinkel 9781107108912
RRP: €105.91€95.84By extending the chronological parameters of existing scholarship, and by focusing on legal experts' overriding and enduring concern with 'dangerous' forms of common crime, this study offers a major reinterpretation of criminal-law reform and legal... -
Print Culture in Early Modern France: Abraham Bosse and the Purposes of Print by Carl Goldstein 9781107429444
RRP: €49.97€45.62In this book, Carl Goldstein examines the print culture of seventeenth-century France through a study of the career of Abraham Bosse, a well-known printmaker, book illustrator, and author of books and pamphlets on a variety of technical subjects. The... -
Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium by Brooke Shilling 9781107105997
RRP: €124.95€112.70This book restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and sights of past water cultures. Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, is surrounded on... -
Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy, 1300-1600 by Thomas Kuehn 9781107401327
RRP: €35.69€30.87This book studies family life and gender broadly within Italy, not just one region or city, from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Paternal control of the household was paramount in Italian life at this time, with control of property and... -
The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism: Visual Theology and Artistic Invention by Jack M. Greenstein 9781107103245
RRP: €111.85€101.10Depicting the Creation of Woman presented a special problem for Renaissance artists. The medieval iconography of Eve rising half-formed from Adam's side was hardly compatible with their commitment to the naturalistic representation of the human figure... -
To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire by Lorelle Semley 9781107101142
RRP: €105.90€95.83The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and... -
Germany's Empire in the East: Germans and Romania in an Era of Globalization and Total War by David Hamlin 9781107198197
RRP: €127.33€114.81This book puts German policy toward Romania and the German East into a global context. One of the signal events of the twentieth century was Germany's effort to construct an empire in Europe modeled on the European experience outside Europe. The turn to... -
Dancing in the Blood: Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War by Edward Ross Dickinson 9781107196223
RRP: €89.25€81.09This is a remarkable account of the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European cultural life in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis, sufficiently... -
Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the Global Humanitarian Regime Young-sun Hong (State University of New York, Stony Brook) 9781107095571
RRP: €83.30€75.81This book examines competition and collaboration among Western powers, the socialist bloc, and the Third World for control over humanitarian aid programs during the Cold War. Young-sun Hong's analysis reevaluates the established parameters of German... -
The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980 by Mark Edward Ruff 9781107190665
RRP: €53.54€46.15Were Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church in Germany unduly singled out after 1945 for their conduct during the National Socialist era? Mark Edward Ruff explores the bitter controversies that broke out in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 to... -
Mussolini in Ethiopia, 1919-1935: The Origins of Fascist Italy's African War Robert Mallett 9781107090439
RRP: €98.77€89.05Mussolini in Ethiopia, 1919-1935 looks in detail at the evolution of the Italian Fascist regime's colonial policy within the context of European politics and the rise to power of German National Socialism. It delves into the tortuous nature of relations... -
Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967-1989 by Jeffrey Herf 9781107089860
RRP: €72.59€65.50Undeclared Wars with Israel examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations - ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel's Arab armed adversaries - from 1967... -
Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Equality Motti Inbari (University of North Carolina, Pembroke) 9781107088108
RRP: €72.59€65.02In Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Equality, Motti Inbari undertakes a study of the culture and leadership of Jewish radical ultra-Orthodoxy in Hungary, Jerusalem and New York. He reviews the history, ideology and... -
Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000 by Corinna Treitel 9781107188020
RRP: €127.33€114.81Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and the Dachau concentration camp had an organic herb garden. Vegetarianism, organic farming, and other such practices have enticed a wide variety of Germans, from socialists, liberals, and radical anti-Semites in the... -
Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Rise of the Fourth Confession by Todd H. Weir 9781107041561
RRP: €113.04€102.15Negotiating the boundaries of the secular and of the religious is a core aspect of modern experience. In mid-nineteenth-century Germany, secularism emerged to oppose church establishment, conservative orthodoxy, and national division between Catholics,... -
French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater by Laura Weigert 9781107040472
RRP: €111.85€101.10This book revives what was unique, strange and exciting about the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes. Laura Weigert brings together a wealth of visual artifacts and practices to explore this... -
Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250-1400 by Justine Firnhaber-Baker 9781107039551
RRP: €107.10€96.43Although it is often assumed that resurgent royal government eliminated so-called 'private warfare', the French judicial archives reveal nearly one hundred such wars waged in Languedoc and the Auvergne between the mid-thirteenth and the end of the... -
Reformation Europe by Ulinka Rublack 9781107018426
RRP: €89.24€81.07How could the Protestant Reformation take off from Wittenberg, a tiny town in Saxony, which contemporaries regarded as a mud hole? And how could a man of humble origins, deeply scared by the devil, become a charismatic leader and convince others that the... -
Niemandsland: A History of Unoccupied Germany, 1944-1945 by Gareth Pritchard 9781107013506
RRP: €107.10€96.90Niemandsland is the untold story of the largest and most enduring of the unoccupied enclaves that survived after Germany's invasion and occupation by Allied forces in 1945. Sandwiched between American and Red Army lines, the 500,000 inhabitants were cut... -
Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice by Jonathan Seitz 9781107011298
RRP: €111.85€100.63In early modern Europe, ideas about nature, God, demons and occult forces were inextricably connected and much ink and blood was spilled in arguments over the characteristics and boundaries of nature and the supernatural. Seitz uses records of... -
Group Identity in the Renaissance World by Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski 9781107003606
RRP: €63.07€57.14This book argues that the Renaissance, long associated with the historical development of individualism, in fact witnessed the emergence of radically new concepts of group identity. From the end of the fifteenth century, rapidly accelerating... -
The Young Leonardo: Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Larry J. Feinberg 9781107002395
RRP: €86.87€78.98Leonardo da Vinci is often presented as the 'transcendent genius', removed from or ahead of his time. This book, however, attempts to understand him in the context of Renaissance Florence. Larry J. Feinberg explores Leonardo's origins and the beginning... -
Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism: Louis XIV and the Port-Royal Nuns by Daniella Kostroun 9781107000452
RRP: €107.10€96.43Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism chronicles seventy years of Jansenist conflict and its complex intersection with power struggles between gallican bishops, Parlementaires, the Crown and the Pope. Daniella Kostroun focuses on the nuns of... -
Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200 by Paul Oldfield 9781107000285
RRP: €107.10€96.90Southern Italy's strategic location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean gave it a unique position as a frontier for the major religious faiths of the medieval world, where Latin Christian, Greek Christian and Muslim communities coexisted. In this... -
The Holocaust and the Revival of Psychological History by Judith M. Hughes 9781107690448
RRP: €27.36€23.28Why 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... -
From Exodus to Freedom: The History of the Soviet Jewry Movement by Stuart Altshuler 9780742549364
RRP: €45.22€37.13Between 1967 and 1991, almost half of the entire Jewish population of the Soviet Union left for freedom to Israel, America, and other western countries. From Exodus to Freedom: The History of the Soviet Jewry Movement tells the story of the American... -
European Empires and the People: Popular Responses to Imperialism in France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy by John M. MacKenzie 9780719079948
RRP: €101.15€71.60This is the first book to survey in comparative form the transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chapters, focusing on France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and... -
Europe Transformed: 1878-1919 by Norman Stone 9780631215073
RRP: €155.83€138.97This book provides readers with an introduction to the complex era from 1878 to the end of World War I.About the Author Norman Stone is currently Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara, TUrkey, where he is Director of the... -
Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Jewish Family's Untold Story by Rebecca L. Boehling 9780521899918
RRP: €35.69€31.34A family's recently discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this fascinating and deeply moving account of Jewish family life before, during and after the Holocaust. Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey reveal how the Kaufmann-Steinberg family... -
British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945-1973 by Neil Rollings 9780521888110
RRP: €63.06€56.66This book questions conventional accounts of the history of European integration and British business. Integration accounts normally focus on the nation-state, while Neil Rollings focuses on business and its role in the development of European... -
The Socialism of Fools?: Leftist Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism by William I. Brustein 9780521870856
RRP: €107.10€96.43Anti-Semitism, as it has existed historically in Europe, is generally thought of as having been a phenomenon of the political right. To the extent that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century leftist movements have been found to manifest anti-Semitism,... -
The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society by Ian Dowbiggin 9780521868679
RRP: €49.98€45.17This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being. From its origins in the eighteenth century to its wide scope in the early twenty-first, this search for emotional health and welfare has cost... -
Eichmann's Men Hans Safrian (Universitat Wien, Austria) 9780521851565
RRP: €82.10€66.84More than sixty years after the advent of the National Socialist genocides, the question still remains: how could a state-sponsored terror that took the lives of millions of men, women, and children, persecuted as Jews or Gypsies, happen? Now available... -
The Origins of Nationalism: An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany by Caspar Hirschi 9780521764117
RRP: €89.25€80.61In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author... -
The French Economy in the Twentieth Century by Jean-Pierre Dormois 9780521667876
RRP: €28.55€24.24This new textbook examines the spectacular transformation that the French economy has undergone over the past century. Jean-Pierre Dormois offers a general introduction to the major trends as well as recent transformations of French society, and an... -
Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Linda L. Clark 9780521650984
RRP: €74.96€65.75This major new history of European women's professional activities and organizational roles during the 'long' nineteenth century examines what women could and could not do if they sought activity, purpose, or recognition beyond their own homes. Linda L... -
Cities at War in Early Modern Europe by Martha D. Pollak 9780521113441
RRP: €124.95€113.42Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its regular bastions, redefined the identity... -
West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands by Astrid M. Eckert 9780190690052
RRP: €133.88€95.58West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945. These... -
From the Werner Plan to the EMU: In Search of a Political Economy for Europe by Lars Magnusson 9789052019994
RRP: €61.17€53.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052019994Author Lars MagnussonFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint European Interuniversity PressPublisher European Interuniversity PressWeight(grams)...