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The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany by Annika Mombauer 9780521824088
RRP: €107.10€86.36This collection of innovative essays examining the role of Wilhelm II in Imperial Germany was first published in 2003, particularly on the later years of the monarch's reign. The essays highlight the Kaiser's relationship with statesmen and rulers; his... -
Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867-1056 by Zachary Chitwood
RRP: €36.88€27.19This social history of Byzantine law offers an introduction to one of the world's richest yet hitherto understudied legal traditions. In the first study of its kind, Chitwood explores and reinterprets the seminal legal-historical events of the Byzantine... -
A Short History of the Crimean War by Trudi Tate 9781848858619
RRP: €17.84€17.26The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war... -
Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe Glanville Price (Emeritus, University of Wales Aberystwyth) 9780631220398
RRP: €66.58€58.68This is an authoritative reference guide to all the languages of Europe, covering nearly three hundred languages and language families.About the AuthorGlanville Price is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His previous... -
After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present by Hope M. Harrison 9781009013581
RRP: €27.36€23.75The history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on an extensive range of archival sources and interviews, this book profiles key memory activists who have fought to commemorate the history of... -
Perilous Futures: On Carl Schmitt's Late Writings by Peter Uwe Hohendahl
RRP: €26.17€23.19Since his death, the writings of Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) have been debated, cited, and adopted by political and legal thinkers on both the left and right with increasing frequency, though not without controversy given Schmitt's unwavering support for... -
Against War and Empire: Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century by Richard Whatmore 9780300175578
€77.14As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. Furthermore, many Genevans felt that they were being drawn into a corrupt... -
Europe in 1848: Revolution and Reform by Dieter Dowe 9781571811646
RRP: €157.08€129.36The 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... -
Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic by Theo Balderston 9780521583756
RRP: €41.65€37.85This 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... -
Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust: Challenging Histories by Dan Stone
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book contains essays on Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust by distinguished scholar Professor Dan Stone.It examines issues such as race science and the racial state, Nazi race ideology, slave labour, concentration camps, British reaction to the rise... -
Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious by Gustave de Beaumont 9780674025394
€35.05Paralleling his friend Alexis de Tocqueville's visit to America, Gustave de Beaumont traveled through Ireland in the mid-1830s to observe its people and society. In Ireland, he chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the... -
Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France by Graeme Murdock 9780199654963
RRP: €14.28€12.70This collection of essays, edited by Graeme Murdock, Penny Roberts, and Andrew Spicer, developed from a one-day conference 'Religion and Violence in Early Modern France: The Work of Natalie Zemon Davis' which was held in June 2008 at the Shakespeare... -
Eichmann's Men by Hans Safrian 9780521617260
RRP: €29.74€24.92More 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 Atheist's Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed by Georges Minois 9780226821061
RRP: €28.56€27.41A comprehensive biography of the Treatise of the Three Impostors, a controversial nonexistent medieval book. Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy... -
The Dutch in the Early Modern World: A History of a Global Power by David Onnekink
RRP: €29.74€25.20Emerging at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic rose to become a powerhouse of economic growth, artistic creativity, military innovation, religious tolerance and intellectual development. This is the first textbook to present this... -
A History of Islamic Spain by Pierre Cachia 9780202309361
RRP: €54.73€47.75The period of Muslim occupation in Spain represents the only significant contact Islam and Europe was ever to have on European soil. In this important as well as fascinating study, Watt traces Islam's influence upon Spain and European civilization - from... -
Hindenburg: The Wooden Titan by Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett 9780333082690
€53.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333082690Author Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 507Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 696g -
Origins of the Second World War: The Instant Guide by Instant Guides
RRP: €2.98€2.59Instant Guides are packed with essential information and useful facts covering a wide variety of subjects from survival skills to stargazing. Portable, easy to use and durable they contain all the basics whether you're studying the subject or just... -
100 Belgian Icons by Derek Blyth
RRP: €22.55€15.36This affectionate cultural guide celebrates 100 icons that make Belgium different from any other country. In 100 short, informative texts, the author talks about food, people, places, traditions, inventions, buildings, and even expressions, that have... -
Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge by J. Adam Tooze
RRP: €53.54€48.29Tooze provides an interpretation of the dramatic period of statistical innovation between 1900 and the end of World War II. At the turn of the century, virtually none of the economic statistics that we take for granted today were available. By 1944, the... -
Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1500 by Olivia Remie Constable 9780521565035
RRP: €47.59€39.58This volume surveys Iberian international trade from the tenth to the fifteenth century, with particular emphasis on commerce in the Muslim period and on changes brought by Christian conquest of much of Muslim Spain in the thirteenth century. From the... -
The Reformation in National Context by Robert Scribner 9780521409605
RRP: €47.59€39.58This collection of essays by prominent historians of the Reformation explores the experience of religious reform in 'national context', discussing similarities and differences between the reform movements in a dozen different countries of... -
The French Overseas Empire by Frederick Quinn 9780275975432
€46.99For more than five centuries France has been both a European and a global power. French explorers, traders, settlers, soldiers and missionaries journeyed to the world's farthest reaches establishing colonies, bringing millions of people under French... -
The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple by Malcolm Barber 9780521420419
RRP: €142.80€116.79The Order of the Temple, founded in 1119 to protect pilgrims around Jerusalem, developed into one of the most influential corporations in the medieval world. It has retained its hold on the modern imagination thanks to the dramatic events of the... -
The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c.500-700 by Florin Curta 9780521036153
RRP: €55.92€45.86Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Prison Notebooks: Volume 1 by Antonio Gramsci
RRP: €35.70€28.63Antonio 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... -
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe by Francisco Bethencourt 9780521845489
RRP: €124.95€98.07First published in 2007, this volume explores the importance of correspondence and communication to cultural exchanges in early modern Europe. Leading historians examine the correspondence of scholars, scientists, spies, merchants, politicians, artists,... -
A real case against the jews by Marcus Eli Ravage
RRP: €14.28€9.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645509301Author Marcus Eli RavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Vettaz Edition LimitedPublisher Vettaz Edition LimitedWeight(grams)... -
Fascism and Communism by Francois Furet
RRP: €19.03€17.86In his major work on communism, the international bestseller The Passing of an Illusion, the eminent French historian Francois Furet devoted a lengthy footnote to German historian Ernst Nolte's interpretation of fascism. Nolte responded, a correspondence... -
Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice: Volume I: Coins and Moneys of Account by Frederic Chapin Lane
€61.56Originally published in 1985. Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller, in the first volume of Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, discuss Venice's economic achievement in terms of the complex system the city's inhabitants developed to... -
The Germanic Isle: Nazi Perceptions of Britain by Gerwin Strobl 9780521782654
RRP: €107.10€86.36This book explains Hitler's view of Britain as both Nordic ally and role model. Gerwin Strobl shows that there was a surprising level of affection for Britain and British culture among ordinary Germans, from the discourses of the 1920s to the vigorous... -
Fighting On All Fronts: Popular Resistance in the Second World War by Donny Gluckstein 9781909026926
RRP: €16.65€11.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909026926Author Donny GlucksteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint BookmarksPublisher BookmarksWeight(grams) 486g -
Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Olivia Remie Constable 9780521109765
RRP: €45.21€41.45The Greek pandocheion, Arabic funduq, and Latin fundicum (fondaco) were ubiquitous in the Mediterranean sphere for nearly two millennia. These institutions were not only hostelries for traders and travelers, but also taverns, markets, warehouses, and... -
Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis by Professor Nathan Stoltzfus
RRP: €28.55€25.32This timely volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to explore the ways that women responded to situations of immense deprivation, need, and victimization under Hitler's dictatorship. Paying acute attention to the differences... -
The People's Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany by Alan McDougall
RRP: €124.95€99.23Sport in East Germany is commonly associated with the systematic doping that helped to make the country an Olympic superpower. Football played little part in this controversial story. Yet, as a hugely popular activity that was deeply entwined in the... -
The Age of Liberty: Sweden 1719-1772 by Michael Roberts 9780521527071
RRP: €47.59€39.58After three-quarters of a century in which Sweden had been reckoned as one of the great powers of Europe, it fell almost overnight into the position of being one of the weakest. But if in international affairs this was a period of decrepitude, in... -
Scandinavia and the Great Powers 1890-1940 by Patrick Salmon 9780521891028
RRP: €53.54€45.86At the beginning of the twentieth century Scandinavia lay on the margin of European power politics, but with the polarisation of international relations in the era of the two world wars, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden became the point where the... -
Revisiting Prussia's Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory by Karen Hagemann 9780521152303
RRP: €36.88€32.33In 2013, Germany celebrated the bicentennial of the so-called Wars of Liberation (1813-15). These wars were the culmination of the Prussian struggle against Napoleon between 1806 and 1815, which occupied a key position in German national historiography... -
Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France by Andrea A. Rusnock 9780521101233
RRP: €36.88€30.29Why did Europeans begin to count births and deaths? How did they collect the numbers and what did they do with them? Through a compelling comparative analysis, Vital Accounts charts the work of the physicians, clergymen and government officials who... -
Welsh Poetry of the French Revolution, 1789-1805 by Cathryn A. Charnell-White 9780708325285
RRP: €8.32€7.19This anthology presents a selection of the poems with which Welsh writers living in Wales and London participated, through the medium of Welsh, to the controversy in Britain surrounding the French Revolution. These Welsh poems have been edited and...