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The Tents of Michael: The Life and Times of Colonel Albert Williamson Goldsmid by Emil Lehman
$129.58Until now, the life story of Albert Williamson Goldsmid, an extraordinary Victorian figure, has been known to comparatively few. Although born a Christian, he belonged to one of the oldest Jewish families in England. His parents left the fold of their... -
John Gower: Recent Readings by R F Yeager
$35.26In recent years, Gower's reputation has begun to evolve. Scholars and critics have opened his books once more to discover there a talent worthy of respect, rather than something to be viewed as tedious or dull. Recently it has seemed easier to understand... -
Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar by Stephen V. Bittner
RRP: $127.71$115.60Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar tells the story of Russia's encounter with viniculture and winemaking. Rooted in the early-seventeenth century, embraced by Peter the Great, and then magnified many times over by the... -
Networks, Narratives and Nations: Transcultural Approaches to Cultural Nationalism in Modern Europe and Beyond by Marjet Brolsma
RRP: $42.51$41.27Do narratives make nations, and if so, did networks make this happen? The notion that national and other group identities are constructed and sustained by narratives and images has been widely postulated for several decades now. This volume contributes... -
Worst Blunders of All Time: Shocking Tales from Pandora's Box to Putin's Invasion by David P. Barash
RRP: $34.82$21.34Travel through history and around the world to learn about the greatest mistakes, blunders, and bloopers of all time! Everyone makes mistakes and nearly everyone likes to know about them, especially when made by someone else! The Worst Blunders of All... -
The Saga of Leon Trotsky: His Clandestine Operations and His Assassination by Harry Thayer Mahoney
$125.93This historical and organizational study focuses on Leon Trotsky's efforts to create a military intelligence operation of global significance and his subsequent efforts in the 4th International to recreate an earlier success. New material from Mexican... -
Potsdam Conference 1945: Shaping the World by Jurgen Luh
$52.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783954985470Author Jurgen LuhFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Sandstein Kommunikation GmbHPublisher Sandstein Kommunikation GmbHWeight(grams) 254g -
Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government by Dr. Larry Arnn
RRP: $16.76$15.40"A masterpiece of political philosophy and practical statesmanship...the one book on Winston Churchill that every undergraduate, every graduate student, every professional historian, and every member of the literate general public should read...... -
The Ambivalence of Good: Human Rights in International Politics since the 1940s by Jan Eckel
RRP: $141.90$115.04The Ambivalence of Good examines the genesis and evolution of international human rights politics since the 1940s. Focusing on key developments such as the shaping of the UN human rights system, decolonization, the rise of Amnesty International, the... -
Napoleon's Wars: An International History by Charles Esdaile
RRP: $38.70$28.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116288Author Charles EsdaileFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 590g -
Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany: Extrajudicial Detention in the Name of Denazification, 1945-1950 Andrew H. Beattie (University of New South Wales, Sydney) 9781108487634
RRP: $116.10$104.53Between 1945 and 1950, approximately 130,000 Germans were interned in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including in former Nazi concentration camps. One third of detainees died, prompting comparisons with Nazi terror. But what about the western... -
Women In Dark Age And Early Medieval Europe c.500-1200 by Helen M. Jewell
$47.94The period 1200-1550 opened in a time of population expansion but went on to suffer the demographically cataclysmic effects of the plague, beginning with the Black Death of 1347-51. The period dawned with a confident papacy and the Albigensian crusade... -
Prison Notebooks: Volume 2 by Antonio Gramsci
$134.39Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism and an all-around outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully... -
Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution by Michael Meranze
RRP: $68.37$59.78Between 1750 and 1820, tides of revolution swept the Atlantic world. From the new industrial towns of Great Britain to the plantations of Haiti, they heralded both the rise of democratic nationalism and the subsequent surge of imperial reaction. In... -
Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France: Felix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870-1914 by William G. Pooley
RRP: $104.49$87.38The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of open moors, they were transformed in one generation into the largest man-made forest in Europe... -
Crossing Central Europe: Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000 by Helga Mitterbauer
RRP: $65.79$57.61Crossing Central Europe is a pioneering volume that focuses on the complex networks of transcultural interrelations in Central Europe from 1900 to 2000. Scholars from Canada, the United States, and Europe identify the motifs, topics, and ways of artistic... -
Sources for Europe in the Modern World: With Guided Exercises by Scardino Belzer
$51.30Extensively revised by new coeditor Allison Scardino Belzer, Sources for Europe in the Modern World with Guided Writing Exercises, Second Edition, includes more than 100 primary sources. Expertly edited for clarity and pedagogical utility, the sources... -
The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe by Mark Kramer
RRP: $58.05$51.06The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe examines how the neutral European countries and the Soviet Union interacted after World War II. Amid the Cold War division of Europe into Western and Eastern blocs, several long-time... -
The King's Trial: Louis XVI vs. the French Revolution by David Peter Jordan
RRP: $38.70$30.04On August 10, 1792, Louis XVI of France abandoned his Paris chateau, walked across the Tuileries gardens, and surrendered his crown. In the tumultuous months that followed, he was tried, found guilty, and sent to the guillotine. When originally... -
Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees by Peter Sahlins
RRP: $39.99$31.00'Brilliant...This fascinating exploration through three centuries of the frontier is rounded off with a perceptive and balanced appraisal of the nature of national identity within the context of the Pyrenees...A study which is exciting, learned, and... -
Rediscovering History: Culture, Politics, and the Psyche by Michael S. Roth
RRP: $107.07$93.54This book, offering the state-of-the-art in cultural/intellectual history today, examines some of the major problems and themes critical to the historical study of European culture. It explores the limits and capacities of historical consciousness in... -
Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea by Claudio Magris
RRP: $28.38$17.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374522452Author Claudio MagrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology: Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti by Martin McLaughlin
RRP: $96.75$95.78This book, a collection of essays to honour Hilary Gatti, reflects her interest in the principles of cultural freedom and independent thinking. The essays focus on literature and epistemology and provide analyses of authority, innovation and epistemology... -
The Cold War in Europe: Era of a Divided Continent by Charles S. Maier
RRP: $46.38$27.76An analysis and summary of the events of the Cold War. It discusses the different interpretations and provides a selection of essays on the origins of the Cold War by well-known politicians and scholars, including Averell Harriman, John Gaddis, Thomas... -
Sixties Europe by Timothy Scott Brown
RRP: $96.75$87.38Sixties Europe examines the border-crossing uprisings of the 1960s in Europe on both sides of the Cold War divide. Placing European developments within a global context formed by Third World liberation struggles and Cold War geopolitics, Timothy Scott... -
Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond: Redefining the Universe through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging by Lindsay Starkey
RRP: $145.77$138.74Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle’s works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth,... -
Student Revolt in 1968: France, Italy and West Germany by Ben Mercer
RRP: $116.10$105.04Student Revolt in 1968 examines the origins, course and dissolution of student protest at three universities in the 1960s - the Freie Universitat Berlin in West Germany, the campus of Nanterre in France, and the Faculty of Sociology at Trento in Italy. ... -
Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe by Mary Baine Campbell
RRP: $36.11$31.66During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds-geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible... -
The Decline of Marriage in Namibia - Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community Julia Pauli 9783837643039
RRP: $64.49$52.50In 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: $52.88$43.81How 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: $109.64$95.78This 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: $154.80$154.18A 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: $41.28$39.35When 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: $21.87$13.22Apologies 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: $25.74$21.67Apologies 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 -
New Forest Voices by Mike Turner 9780752416250
RRP: $16.76$12.73This book is part of a series, which combines the reminiscences of local people with old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN... -
The Boer War, Ladysmith and Mafeking, 1900 by Tim Coates 9780117024083 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.02$2.92Apologies 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 History of Private Life, Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World by Philippe Aries
RRP: $59.28$48.98The second volume of A History of Private Life is a treasure-trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing "secret epic" constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in the eleventh to... -
Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800 by Julius R. Ruff 9780521598941
RRP: $39.98$35.35A 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... -
Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War by Penny Summerfield 9780719062025
RRP: $25.79$7.37Contesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of...