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An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938 by Peter Paret 9780521035705
RRP: £28.99£22.85The conflict between National Socialism and Ernst Barlach, one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century, is an unusual episode in the history of Hitler's efforts to rid Germany of 'international modernism'. Barlach did not passively... -
Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe by Alessandro Testa 9780367617233
RRP: £39.99£35.06Carnival has been described as one of the foundational elements of European culture, bearing an emblematic and iconic status as the festive phenomenon par excellence. Its origins are partly obscure, but its stratified and complex history, rich symbolic... -
Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment by Michael R. Lynn
RRP: £36.99£32.53Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth century.Although the hunt for witches in Europe declined precipitously after 1650, and the intellectual... -
Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589 by Donald Ostrowski 9780521894104
RRP: £39.99£33.26The importance of the Mongols' impact on the Rus lands has been recognised by many scholars, but its precise nature and extent is very contentious. While diverse opinions exist on the origins and development of Muscovy, the author argues that no society... -
Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its Others by Silvia Federici 9780275954000
£39.49What do we mean by Western Civilization? When did the expression originate and why? At a time when there is a widespread perception that Western Civilization is undergoing a historic crisis, and when postmodernism, feminist theory, afrocentrism,... -
Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World: Optics, Theology and Religious Life by Dallas G. Denery 9780521108935
RRP: £30.99£22.85During the later Middle Ages people became increasingly obsessed with vision, visual analogies and the possibility of visual error. In this book Dallas Denery addresses the question of what medieval men and women thought it meant to see themselves and... -
The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany by Jeffrey Verhey 9780521026369
RRP: £48.99£41.07This book, first published in 2000, is a systematic analysis of German public opinion at the outbreak of the Great War and the first treatment of the myth of the 'spirit of 1914', which stated that in August 1914 all Germans felt 'war enthusiasm' and... -
Cyprus under British Colonial Rule: Culture, Politics, and the Movement toward Union with Greece, 1878-1954 by Christos P Ioannides 9781498582049
RRP: £40.00£35.22This is a unique book that combines a political narrative with poetry to examine the role of culture and the fusion of religion and politics during the struggle against colonialism. The context is Britain's geopolitical interests in the Middle East. The... -
For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back into the History of Our Desires by Wolfgang Sachs
RRP: £53.00£41.79In his cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany, Wolfgang Sachs starts from the assumption that the automobile is more than a means of transportation and that its history cannot be understood merely as a triumphant march of technological innovation... -
Canon Law, Careers and Conquest: Episcopal Elections in Normandy and Greater Anjou, c.1140-c.1230 by Jorg Peltzer 9780521880626
RRP: £66.00£59.44This book is a study of the politics of episcopal elections in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Normandy and Greater Anjou. This was a crucial period in the development of canon law and Joerg Peltzer offers the first analysis to bring together legal... -
Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Christian Identity: Writings of an Unexpected Emperor by Meredith L. D. Riedel
RRP: £30.99£22.85The Byzantine emperor Leo VI (886-912), was not a general or even a soldier, like his predecessors, but a scholar, and it was the religious education he gained under the tutelage of the patriarch Photios that was to distinguish him as an unusual ruler... -
A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730: Chapters from The Cambridge History of Islam and The New Cambridge Modern History by V.J. Parry 9780521099912
RRP: £30.99£21.89From the historian's perspective, the Ottomans in their heyday could claim a more absolute monarchy than any of the truly European empires, a more successful record in quelling rebellion and the rise of national settlement, and the development and... -
The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536-1820: A Documentary History by John F. Chuchiak 9781421403861
RRP: £33.00£29.92The Inquisition! Just the word itself evokes, to the modern reader, endless images of torment, violence, corruption, and intolerance committed in the name of Catholic orthodoxy and societal conformity. But what do most people actually know about the... -
Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe by Richard Ivan Jobs
RRP: £31.00£30.59Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In Backpack Ambassadors, Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the... -
1815: The Roads to Waterloo by Gregor Dallas 9780712667852
RRP: £17.99£13.35The seventeen months from April 1814 to August 1815 were an extraordinary period in European history; a period which saw two sieges of Paris, a complete revision of Europe's political frontiers, an international Congress set up in Vienna, civil war in... -
The Carolingian Economy by Adriaan Verhulst 9780521004749
RRP: £26.99£23.44This book is about the economy of the Carolingian empire (753-877), which extended from the Pyrenees and the northern shores of the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and from the Atlantic coast to the Elbe and Saale rivers. It is the first comprehensive... -
Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siecle Europe by Alexander C. T. Geppert 9781137358325
RRP: £89.99£70.17Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siecle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created... -
Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understanding by William M. Reddy 9780521315098
RRP: £30.99£23.80The concept of class, along with its correlates -m class interest, class conflict, class consciousness - ramain indispensable tools of historical explanation. Yet research over the last twenty-five years, especially on the histories of England, France,... -
William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England by Sidney Painter
RRP: £39.00£34.68Originally published in 1933. As mediaeval society was dominated by the feudal caste, a biography that depicts the position, activities, manners, and thoughts of a member of that class might do much to elucidate the history of the period. This is what... -
The Nobility of Holland: From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650 by H. F. K. van Nierop 9780521103329
RRP: £32.99£27.40This book is the first full-scale analysis of the social and political transformation of the nobility of Holland during the revolt against Spain. In the late medieval county of Holland the nobility played a significant role, but in the seventeenth... -
Monarchies, States Generals and Parliaments: The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries by H. G. Koenigsberger 9780521044370
RRP: £26.99£24.48This 2001 book charts the history of the States General - the parliament - of the Netherlands and its relations with two phases of monarchical rule in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Unlike the English parliament, the States General was a... -
The Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War by Rex A. Wade 9780313299742
£54.86The Bolshevik Revolution remains one of the most important events of modern history. It reshaped the political, social, and economic structure of one of the world's great powers and had enormous international impact. This work brings together a rich,... -
The Orthodox Church and Independent Greece 1821-1852 by Charles A. Frazee 9780521115896
RRP: £37.99£31.31Tracing the political history of the Greek Orthodox Church as it emerged from the Ottoman period in a newly independent Greece, the author of this 1969 edition focuses on the period of revolution from 1821 to 1852. It was during this era that the... -
The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society by Ian Dowbiggin 9780521688680
RRP: £22.99£19.56This 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... -
Caesarius of Arles: The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul by William E. Klingshirn 9780521528528
RRP: £39.99£33.26This book studies the processes by which the pagan Roman empire was transformed into the Christian middle ages. Drawing on the perspectives of social history, archaeology and anthropology, it focuses on the strategies of Bishop Caesarius of Arles (AD... -
Emigration from Europe 1815-1930 by Dudley Baines 9780521557832
RRP: £23.99£20.37Why did 60 million people leave Europe for overseas destinations in the hundred years after the Napoleonic Wars? What were the social and economic causes and effects of this mass migration? Why did some people emigrate and not others, and why did so many... -
Julius II: The Warrior Pope by Christine Shaw 9780631202820
RRP: £44.95£39.66Christine 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... -
Witch Hunts in Europe and America: An Encyclopedia by William E. Burns 9780313321429
£93.60From early sorcery trials of the 14th century-associated primarily with French and Papal courts-to the witch executions of the late 18th century, this book's entries cover witch-hunting in individual countries, major witch trials from Chelmsford,... -
Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330 by Dimiter Angelov 9780521294386
RRP: £50.99£43.42This study is the first to systematically investigate Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204 - in the Nicaean state (1204-61) and during the early period of the restored empire... -
Never Sang for Hitler: The Life and Times of Lotte Lehmann, 1888-1976 by Michael H. Kater 9780521873925
RRP: £38.99£32.69Lotte Lehmann ranks among the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. She was a favorite of Richard Strauss, and also had a famous encounter with Hermann Goering, in which he claimed to want to make her the foremost singer in Nazi Germany. By... -
Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650-1815 by Derek Beales 9780521590907
RRP: £105.00£83.01In the Catholic countries of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe, communities of monks and nuns were growing in number and wealth. By 1750 there were at least 25,000 communities containing at least 350,000 inmates. They constructed vast... -
Early Modern Streets: A European Perspective by Danielle van den Heuvel
RRP: £33.99£30.00For the first time, Early Modern Streets unites the diverse strands of scholarship on urban streets between circa 1450 and 1800 and tackles key questions on how early modern urban society was shaped and how this changed over time.Much of the lives of... -
The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the Century by David Ellwood 9780198228790
RRP: £70.00£55.25The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred over the last 100 years or more, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to... -
Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I by Maureen Healy
RRP: £44.99£40.58Maureen Healy examines the collapse of the Habsburg Empire from the perspective of everyday life in the capital city. She argues that a striking feature of 'total war' on the home front was the spread of a war mentality to the mundane sites of everyday... -
In Quest of History: On Czech Statehood and Identity by Jiri Priban
RRP: £15.00£13.05In honor of the 2018 centennial of Czech independence, philosopher of law Jir Prib n and award-winning Czech journalist Karel Hv zdala took the opportunity to examine key moments in Czech history from the ninth century to the twenty-first. Covering such... -
Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 by Iain Boyd Whyte 9780520270374
RRP: £71.00£56.05"Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940" reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are... -
Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris by Sarah Maza
RRP: £50.00£39.52On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced 'medication', which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of... -
The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan by Gerald Schwab 9780275935764
£83.64On November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year old Polish-German Jew, walked into the German Embassy in Paris and shot Third Secretary, Ernst vom Rath, who died shortly after. Vom Rath's death triggered the destruction and mahem which became known as... -
Modernism and Nihilism by S. Weller 9780230231047
RRP: £49.99£44.97Focusing on a wide range of philosophers and writers, from Nietzsche to Derrida and Flaubert to Borges, this book charts the history of the deployment of the concept of nihilism within the discourses of philosophical and aesthetic modernism and considers... -
The Wandering Heretics of Languedoc by Caterina Bruschi 9780521873598
RRP: £90.00£67.25How should historians read sources which record inquisitorial trials in the Middle Ages? How can we understand the fears felt by those on trial? By analysing six volumes of depositions in the trial of Cathar and Waldensian heretics in Languedoc between...