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European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 1914-1918 by Aviel Roshwald 9780521013246
RRP: £44.99£38.54It is commonplace to refer to the First World War as an historical watershed, but the nature of that great cataclysm's impact upon European society and culture remains a hotly debated topic. Many recent works have dealt with the Great War's role in... -
Spain Transformed: The Franco Dictatorship, 1959-1975 by Nigel Townson 9780230004559
RRP: £44.99£44.97Spain Transformed addresses the sweeping social and cultural changes that characterized the late Franco regime. This wide-ranging collection reassesses the dictatorship's latter years by drawing on a wealth of new material and ideas, using an... -
From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology II by Carmen Lavin 9780719066733 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99£2.25Key text for OU course: From Enlightenment to Romanticism. Provides primary and secondary sources on industry and changing landscapes, new forms of knowledge, new conceptions of art and the artist, and the exotic and the Oriental. Each selection is... -
From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology II by Carmen Lavin 9780719066733
£29.27Key text for OU course: From Enlightenment to Romanticism. Provides primary and secondary sources on industry and changing landscapes, new forms of knowledge, new conceptions of art and the artist, and the exotic and the Oriental. Each selection is... -
European Empires and the People: Popular Responses to Imperialism in France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy by John M. MacKenzie 9780719079955
RRP: £19.99£17.82This 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... -
Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus' c.900-1200 by Nora Berend
RRP: £47.99£42.44This 2007 text is a comparative, analysis of one of the most fundamental stages in the formation of Europe. Leading scholars explore the role of the spread of Christianity and the formation of new principalities in the birth of Denmark, Norway, Sweden,... -
Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society by Stanley Chojnacki
£25.95In Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Stanley Chojnacki explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the areas in which women interacted dynamically with men... -
Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Empire by Vesna Drapac
£28.01This new study provides a concise, accessible introduction to occupied Europe. It gives a clear overview of the history and historiography of resistance and collaboration. It explores how these terms cannot be examined separately, but are always... -
Throne in Brussels: Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs and the Belgianisation of Europe by Paul Belien 9781845400651
RRP: £14.95£14.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400651Author Paul BelienFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 550g -
Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century by Susan Strasser 9780521626941
RRP: £41.99£25.85The developing history of consumption is not so much a separate field, as a prism through which many aspects of social and political life may be viewed. The essays in this collection represent a variety of approaches in Europe and America; yet their... -
Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism 1753-1780 by Franz A. J. Szabo 9780521466905
RRP: £44.99£38.54This is the first major archivally based study of the political career of Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, State Chancellor of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1753 to 1792. Author of the diplomatic revolution of 1756 and brilliant foreign minister of the Austrian... -
Urban Europe 1100-1700 by David Nicholas
£41.96Reflecting the vigour of both urban and medieval history, this timely textbook by a leading scholar of urban studies is a broadly interdisciplinary work that breaks new ground by emphasising the links between the late medieval and early modern cities... -
Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe: Selections from Quaderni Storici by Edward Muir
£28.39"An excellent introduction to and sampling of the developing genre of microhistory...In essence these historians begin their analysis `from below,' viewing the ordinary peoples ignored in the annals of European history."--'Catholic Historical Review.'... -
Forging Democracy: The Left and the Struggle for Democracy in Europe, 1850-2000 by Geoff Eley 9780195044799
RRP: £89.00£69.85Democracy in Europe has been a recent phenomenon. Only in the wake of World War II were democratic frameworks secured, and, even then, it was decades before democracy truly blanketed the continent. Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict,... -
The New History Of The Italian South: The Mezzogiorno Revisited by Robert Lumley 9780859895064
RRP: £17.50£15.54This collection of essays brings together the work of a new generation of revisionist historians who argue that the true history of Southern Italy has been reduced to that of a 'Southern problem' viewed through a Northern prism. These scholars suggest... -
The King's Army: Warfare, Soldiers and Society during the Wars of Religion in France, 1562-76 by James B. Wood 9780521525138
RRP: £50.99£43.02Historians have long ignored the military aspect of the wars of religion which raged in France during the late sixteenth century, dismissing the conflicts as aimless or hopelessly confused. In contrast, this meticulously researched analysis of the royal... -
A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca by David Abulafia 9780521894050
RRP: £39.99£33.26Situated astride the trade routes of the western Mediterranean, the Catalan kingdom of Majorca has long deserved attention. It was established under the will of King James I of Aragon, who conquered Majorca in 1229, but was ruled from 1276 to 1343 by a... -
Artisans in Europe, 1300-1914 by James R. Farr
RRP: £28.99£25.82This book is a survey of the history of work in general and of European urban artisans in particular, from the late middle ages to the era of industrialization. Unlike traditional histories of work and craftsmen, this book offers a multi-faceted... -
Quisling: A Study in Treachery by Hans Fredrik Dahl 9780521041157
RRP: £50.99£43.42The word 'Quisling' is used all over the world as a synonym for 'traitor' or 'treachery'. The original Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945) was a gifted Norwegian army officer who earned notoriety when he sided with the Nazis on the first day of Norway's entry... -
The Damascus Affair: 'Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840 by Jonathan Frankel 9780521483964
RRP: £50.99£43.42In February 1840, an Italian monk and his servant disappeared in Damascus. Many Jews in that city were charged with ritual murder and tortured until they confessed. The case turned into a cause celebre across much of the western world, even becoming a... -
Unity and Diversity in European Culture c.1800 by Tim Blanning 9780197263822
£46.28Two of the most popular, innovative and controversial fields of historical study are cultural history and the history of nationalism. This volume brings these two areas together by addressing a central concern of recent research on the cultural history... -
Religious Tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment: Atheist's Progress by Eric MacPhail
RRP: £39.99£35.06This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the... -
From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union: The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973 by Ivan T. Berend 9780521729505
RRP: £26.99£23.20The Soviet Union's dramatic collapse in 1989 was a pivotal moment in the complex history of Central and Eastern Europe, and Ivan Berend here offers a magisterial new account of the dramatic transformation that culminated in ten former Soviet Bloc... -
The Protestant Reformation: The Best One-Hour History by Robert Freeman 9780989250252
RRP: £5.38£4.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989250252Author Robert FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Kendall Lane PublishersPublisher Kendall Lane PublishersWeight(grams) 68g -
The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire by Jan Ruger 9780521114615
RRP: £44.99£37.16This book is about the theatre of power and identity that unfolded in and between Britain and Germany in the decades before the First World War. It explores what contemporaries described as the cult of the navy: the many ways in which the navy and the... -
A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the "Kon-Tiki" Expedition by Axel Andersson 9781906165314
RRP: £32.50£29.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906165314Author Axel AnderssonFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Peter Lang LtdPublisher Peter Lang LtdWeight(grams) 650g -
Megalithic Tombs in Western Iberia: Excavations at the Anta da Lajinha by Chris Scarre 9781785709807
£57.64Western Iberia has one of the richest inventories of Neolithic chambered tombs in Atlantic Europe, with particular concentrations in Galicia, northern Portugal and the Alentejo. Less well known is the major concentration of tombs along the Tagus valley,... -
Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice by Thomas F. Madden 9780801885396
RRP: £28.00£24.54Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, Venice transformed itself from a struggling merchant commune to a powerful maritime empire that would shape events in the Mediterranean for the next four hundred years. In this magisterial new book on... -
Europe: A Cultural History by Peter Rietbergen
RRP: £45.99£40.53Fully revised, updated and extended to include the momentous developments of 2020, this fourth edition of Peter Rietbergen's highly acclaimed Europe: A Cultural History is a major and original contribution to the study of Europe.The book examines the... -
The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority by Benjamin Pinkus 9780521389266
RRP: £30.99£28.68This is a comprehensive and topical history of the Jews in the Soviet Union and is based on firsthand documentary evidence and the application of a pioneering research method into the fate of national minorities. Within a four-part chronological... -
Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians by Julia M. H. Smith 9780521030304
RRP: £44.99£38.14This book offers ideas about the processes of political and cultural change in the early Middle Ages. The main focus is on relations between the centre and periphery of the Carolingian empire, in particular on the development of Brittany as a territorial... -
Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical Warcrimes to Informed Consent by Paul Julian Weindling 9780230507005
RRP: £99.99£90.27This book offers a radically new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of informed consent. It places the victims and Allied Medical Intelligence officers at centre stage, while providing a full... -
Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler between East and West by Hubert Houben 9780521652087
RRP: £71.99£63.30Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic by Brian Jeffrey Maxson 9781788314886
RRP: £45.00£44.98The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is... -
Europe Since 1980 by Ivan T. Berend 9780521129176 [USED COPY]
RRP: £26.99£2.54This book tells the dramatic story of the economic, social, political, and cultural transformation of Europe during the transition from the Cold War to the European Union. Ivan Berend charts, in particular, the overwhelming impact of the collapse of... -
Europe Since 1980 by Ivan T. Berend 9780521129176
RRP: £26.99£22.80This book tells the dramatic story of the economic, social, political, and cultural transformation of Europe during the transition from the Cold War to the European Union. Ivan Berend charts, in particular, the overwhelming impact of the collapse of... -
Sicily and the Enlightenment: The World of Domenico Caracciolo, Thinker and Reformer by Angus Campbell 9781784535759
RRP: £45.00£44.98Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the 18th-century European stage, holding high office as a diplomat in London, Turin and Paris, and as viceroy and prime minister in the Two Sicilies. He was an inveterate letter-writer and his huge... -
The Growth of the Italian Economy, 1820-1960 by Jon Cohen 9780521666923
RRP: £23.99£17.13This volume in the New Studies in Economic and Social History series examines Italy's transformation from a largely rural state in the nineteenth century to today's industrial powerhouse. At the time of unification in 1861, much of the country was... -
The Spanish Republic and Civil War by Julian Casanova 9780521737807
RRP: £30.99£24.28The Spanish Civil War has gone down in history for the horrific violence that it generated. The climate of euphoria and hope that greeted the overthrow of the Spanish monarchy was utterly transformed just five years later by a cruel and destructive civil... -
From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Carlos M. N. Eire 9780521529426
RRP: £37.99£34.83This book reveals the workings of a culture that cherished death, and invested its resources in the pursuit of heaven. In sixteenth-century Spain, the social and economic debts of the living were extended to the dead, and society's central paradigms...