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Sources of the Holocaust by Steve Hochstadt 9781350328044
RRP: €34.50€33.08The Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century. How do we begin to understand the Nazi drive to murder millions of people, or the determination of concentration camp prisoners to survive? This new and improved edition of Sources of the... -
Pasic and Trumbic: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by Dejan Djokic 9781905791781
RRP: €15.46€10.98"Nicola Pasic and Ante Trumbic: The book" will provide the first parallel biographies of two key Yugoslav politicians of the early 20th century: Nikola Pasic, a Serb, and Ante Trumbic, a Croat. It will also offer a brief history of the creation of... -
The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History by Dan Stone 9780198729174
€50.28The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent... -
Eastern Question 1774-1923, The: Revised Edition by Alexander Lyon Macfie 9780582291959
RRP: €44.02€42.53A clear and concise guide to the Eastern Question - the problem facing the European states of how to react to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. A L MacFie's study shows how the question was a major factor in shaping the policies of all the major powers... -
The Holy Greyhound: Guinefort, Healer of Children since the Thirteenth Century by Jean-Claude Schmidtt 9780521108805
RRP: €27.36€22.47The legend of a dog which is unjustly killed by its master in error, after it has defended his child from attack by a snake or wolf, appears in several popular cultures of Indo-European origin. This book concentrates on one local manifestation of the... -
African Women And Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood by Oyeronke Oyewumi 9780865436282
RRP: €35.64€23.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865436282Author Oyeronke OyewumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 459g -
The Reformation of the Twelfth Century by Giles Constable 9780521638715
RRP: €53.54€45.86Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
No Place for Russia: European Security Institutions Since 1989 by William Hill 9780231704588
€49.54The optimistic vision of a "Europe whole and free" after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has given way to disillusionment, bitterness, and renewed hostility between Russia and the West. In No Place for Russia, William H. Hill traces the development... -
Hippodrome of Constantinople by Engin Akyurek
RRP: €20.23€17.52The Hippodrome of Constantinople was constructed in the fourth century AD, by the Roman Emperor Constantine I, in his new capital. Throughout Byzantine history the Hippodrome served as a ceremonial, sportive and recreational center of the city; in the... -
Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe by John A. Lynn 9780521722377
RRP: €29.74€23.72Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe examines the important roles of women who campaigned with armies from 1500 to 1815. This included those notable female individuals who assumed male identities to serve in the ranks, but far more numerous... -
Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe by Richard Bradley
RRP: €45.21€39.72This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. Richard Bradley contends that for much of the prehistoric period, ritual was not a distinct sphere of activity. Rather it was the... -
Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain by Dr Arunima Datta 9780192848239
RRP: €41.65€38.12The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants... -
A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland by Kate Brown
RRP: €32.07€25.87This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three decades, this mosaic of cultures was modernized and... -
A Year of Glory and Gold: 1932 – Ireland’s Jazz Age by Kevin C. Kearns 9780717195619
RRP: €28.55€20.48The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a 'new era', was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key events including... -
Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture by Elizabeth Buettner 9780521131889
RRP: €36.88€30.76Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as... -
The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials: Northern Europe Liv Helene Willumsen 9781032186177
RRP: €54.73€48.12Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women's voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway,... -
Twenty Five Days : the Rescue of the Bef, Dunkirk 10 May-3rd June 1940 by John Masefield 9781844150373 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.74€3.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany by Abigail Green 9780521616232
RRP: €53.54€48.77Fatherlands is an original study of the nature of identity in nineteenth-century Germany, which has crucial implications for the understanding of nationalism, German unification and the German nation state in the modern era. The book approaches these... -
Julius II: The Warrior Pope Christine Shaw (University of Warwick) 9780631202820
RRP: €53.49€47.55Christine Shaw's new biography uses a wealth of archival sources to paint a vivid portrait of one of the most remarkable and colourful men ever to sit on the papal throne. Admired and hated, his actions were always controversial and made him one of the... -
Thurcroft: A Village and the Miners' Strike: An Oral History by the People of Thurcroft by Peter Gibbon 9780851248363
€13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248363Author Peter GibbonFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
Eurofighter Typhoon by Salvador Mafe Huertas
RRP: €29.16€26.58The Eurofighter program is the most important military and industrial collaboration project that has ever been carried out in the Old Continent. Originally born as an air superiority fighter, intended to counteract the numerical superiority of the Warsaw... -
Tolkien and the Peril of War by Robert S. Blackham 9780752457802
€18.28J.R.R. Tolkien's experiences of the Battle of the Somme forever imprinted on his mind, and became a dramatic source of inspiration for The Lord of the Rings. This absorbing book charts Tolkien's life from 1914 to 1918, using old postcards, maps and... -
The De Re Militari of Vegetius: The Reception, Transmission and Legacy of a Roman Text in the Middle Ages by Christopher Allmand
RRP: €45.21€41.45Vegetius' late Roman text became a well-known and highly respected 'classic' in the Middle Ages, transformed by its readers into the authority on the waging of war. Christopher Allmand analyses the medieval afterlife of the De Re Militari, tracing the... -
Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo by Nigel Rothfels
€30.88To 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... -
From the Treaty of Versailles to the Treaty of Maastricht: Conflict, Carnage And Cooperation In Europe, 1918 - 1993 Martin Holmes 9781032198149
RRP: €44.02€39.01This book examines European history and politics between two very well-known but flawed treaties: The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Maastricht.Taking the Treaty of Versailles, signed following World War I, as a starting point, the volume argues... -
St Petersburg: a Cultural History by Solomon Volkov 9780684832968
€35.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832968Author Solomon VolkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 938gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium by Veronica Della Dora
RRP: €36.88€30.76Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are... -
A History of Poland by Anita J. Prazmowska
€34.59Anita Prazmowska provides a wide-ranging survey of Poland's history; from early settlements, through the establishment of the Kingdom of Poland, to the present day modern state. This expanded second edition has been revised throughout in the light of the... -
Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century by Marina Montesano
RRP: €44.02€38.71This 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... -
The Course of German Nationalism: From Frederick the Great to Bismarck 1763-1867 by Hagen Schulze 9780521377591
RRP: €23.79€20.38The arduous path from the colourful diversity of the Holy Roman Empire to the Prussian-dominated German nation-state, Bismarck's German Empire of 1871, led through revolutions, wars and economic upheavals, but also through the cultural splendour of... -
Late Imperial Russia: Problems and Prospects by Ian D. Thatcher 9780719067877
RRP: €23.79€21.54This volume offers a detailed examination of the stability of the late imperial regime in Russia. Students and scholars will appreciate the lively summaries of the latest scholarship in political, economic, social, cultural, and international history... -
The Last Deposit: Swiss Banks and Holocaust Victims' Accounts by Natasha Dornberg 9780275965204
RRP: €51.17€48.78The injustices committed against millions of Europe's Jews did not end with the fall of the Third Reich. Long after the Nazis had seized the belongings of Holocaust victims, Swiss banks concealed and appropriated their assets, demanding that their... -
Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes: Fascism, Nazism, Communism by Paul Corner 9780198810759
€44.91Fascism, Nazism, and Communism dominated the history of much of the twentieth century, yet comparatively little attention has focused on popular reactions to the regimes that sprang from these ideologies. Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes is the... -
Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade by Gary Kates
€34.26Born in 1728, French aristocrat Charles d'Eon de Beaumont had served his country as a diplomat, soldier, and spy for fifteen years when rumors that he was a woman began to circulate in the courts of Europe. D'Eon denied nothing and was finally compelled... -
Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth by Magda Teter 9780674240933
RRP: €42.78€35.93A landmark history of the antisemitic blood libel myth-how it took root in Europe, spread with the invention of the printing press, and persists today. Accusations that Jews ritually killed Christian children emerged in the mid-twelfth century,... -
Medieval Canon Law by James Brundage
RRP: €44.02€38.71It is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned and, in turn, influenced the lay world within its care without understanding "canon law". This book examines its development from its beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages, updating its... -
The European Colonial Empires: 1815-1919 by H. L. Wesseling 9780582095519
RRP: €57.11€54.72The nineteenth century was Europe's colonial century. At the beginning of the period, the only colonial empire that existed was the British Empire. By the end of the century the situation was completely different and Europe's colonial possessions had... -
The Crusades, c.1071-c.1291 by Jean Richard 9780521625661
RRP: €48.78€42.91A concise history of the crusades - whose chief goal was the liberation and preservation of the 'holy places' of the middle east - from the first calls to arms in the later twelfth century to the fall of the last crusader strongholds in Syria and... -
Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Roger Chickering 9780521026376
RRP: €53.54€48.77The First World War was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict in the world's history, and it gave birth to the concept of total war. The essays in this 2000 volume analyse the experience of the war in light of this concept's... -
The Serbs Sima M. Cirkovic (University of Belgrade) 9780631204718
RRP: €39.21€35.41This sweeping history of the Serbian people starts with the settlement of the Slavs on the Balkan Peninsula in the seventh century and ends with the dissolution of Yugoslavia at the end of the twentieth century. A comprehensive survey of the development...