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Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe: A Thousand Year History by Jonathan R. Lyon
RRP: $38.69$33.98What was an "advocate" (Latin: advocatus; German: Vogt) in the Middle Ages? What responsibilities came with the position and how did they change over time? With this groundbreaking study, Jonathan R. Lyon challenges the standard narrative of a "medieval"... -
Europe's 1968: Voices of Revolt by Robert Gildea 9780198801023
$49.85By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves. This new and exciting study... -
Beyond Deviant Damsels: Re-evaluating Female Criminality in the Nineteenth Century by Anne-Marie Kilday
RRP: $126.42$114.44Using detailed case studies, Beyond Deviant Damsels undermines many of the conventional assumptions about how women committed crime in the nineteenth century. Previous historical accounts generally constructed gendered stereotypes of women acting in... -
Theatre, Performance and the Historical Avant-Garde by G. Berghaus 9780230617520
RRP: $58.04$44.08This study traces the origins of European modernism in Nineteenth-century Paris, examining every major avant-garde movement that sprung from this epicentre in the early Twentieth century: Expressionism, Dadaism, etc. In this wide-ranging overview... -
The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940 by Stefan Goebel 9780521123068
RRP: $50.30$40.39A genuinely comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies in the first half of the twentieth century. Taking public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical... -
The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500 by Donald M. Nicol
RRP: $28.37$24.19What kind of lives did women in the Byzantine empire lead? Just how subservient were they in so male-dominated a society? In this collection of biographies Donald M. Nicol uncovers the unexpected fact that in the later years of the empire, at least, some... -
The Executioner's Journal: Meister Frantz Schmidt of the Imperial City of Nuremberg by Joel F. Harrington 9780813938707
$28.19During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more. The remarkable number of victims, as well as the officially sanctioned context... -
The Environment and the Classical World by Patrica Jeskins 9781853995477
RRP: $29.66$29.48For the people of antiquity, the dominant force in shaping their life, economy and culture was the natural environment. This is an exploration of the direct influence of the geography, climate and resources of the Mediterranean world upon the Greeks and... -
Medieval Studies: An Introduction by James M. Powell 9780815625568
$32.99In addition to sections devoted to Latin paleography, diplomatics, computer-assisted research, numismatics, archaeology, problems in chronology, and prospography, this text describes state-of-the-art research methodology and critical approaches to... -
Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture by Joanna Hubbs
RRP: $33.53$29.01A ground-breaking interpretation of Russian culture from prehistory to the present, dealing with the feminine myth as a central cultural forceA ground-breaking interpretation of Russian culture from prehistory to the present, dealing with the feminine... -
Europe: A Cosmic Picture by Maria Schindler 9781855845695
RRP: $21.92$18.19European thought and culture has had an enduring impact worldwide - but Europe has also been a focus of conflict and war on a global scale. With its international influence, Europe bears a responsibility, in example and practise, for humanity's further... -
Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire by Bernard Lewis
$36.57On Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the young Sultan Mehemmed, known to history as -the Conqueror, - launched the final assault against the walls of Constantinople and added that imperial capital, as coping stone; to the Empire that his fathers had conquered. As... -
Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy: Benefactors and their Motives in Turin, 1541-1789 by Sandra Cavallo 9780521483339
RRP: $39.98$30.70Through its examination of a city marginal to the Italian tradition of communes and city-states during the post-Renaissance period, the book offers an extended reassessment of what has been regarded as the typical Italian model of welfare. Acts of... -
The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940 by Mark S. Micale 9780804747974
RRP: $38.69$38.51This vanguard collection of original and in-depth essays explores the intricate interplay of the aesthetic and psychological domains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers the reasons why a common Modernist project took... -
The Stasi: The East German Intelligence and Security Service by David Childs 9780333772072
RRP: $64.49$58.01The Stasi were among the most successful security and intelligence services in the Cold War. Behind the Berlin Wall, colleagues, friends, husbands and wives, informed on each other. Stasi chief, General Mielke, prided himself on this situation. Under... -
Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940-1943 by MacGregor Knox 9780521790475 [USED COPY]
RRP: $96.75$12.16Fascist Italy's ultimate defeat was foreordained. It was a pygmy among giants, and Hitler's failure to destroy the Soviet Union in 1941 doomed all three Axis powers. But Italy's defeat was unique; the only asset that it conquered - briefly - with its own... -
Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940-1943 by MacGregor Knox 9780521790475
RRP: $96.75$63.04Fascist Italy's ultimate defeat was foreordained. It was a pygmy among giants, and Hitler's failure to destroy the Soviet Union in 1941 doomed all three Axis powers. But Italy's defeat was unique; the only asset that it conquered - briefly - with its own... -
The Enlightenment by David Williams 9780521564908
RRP: $49.01$44.51Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Brandenburg-Prussia, 1466-1806: The Rise of a Composite State by Karin Friedrich 9780230535657
$36.61Karin Friedrich locates the composite state of Brandenburg-Prussia in its historical, political, religious and economic context, from the demise of the Teutonic Knights in the fifteenth century to the Napoleonic crisis. Synthesising debates in German,... -
Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery by Bernard Lewis 9780195102833
RRP: $18.05$13.52Bernard Lewis uses the year 1492, a year laden with epic events and riven by political debate, to explore the clash between the Jews, Christendom, and Islam, as well as that between the New World and the Old.Book InformationISBN 9780195102833Author... -
The "Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui": v.6 by Bertolt Brecht
$14.99Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade... -
Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Javier Rodrigo 9780367762377
RRP: $49.01$43.06In this highly important book, Javier Rodrigo examines the role of Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939.Fascist Italy's intervention in the Spanish Civil War to provide material, strategic, and diplomatic assistance led to Italy... -
'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany by Kara L. Ritzheimer
RRP: $39.98$29.48Convinced that sexual immorality and unstable gender norms were endangering national recovery after World War One, German lawmakers drafted a constitution in 1919 legalizing the censorship of movies and pulp fiction, and prioritizing social rights over... -
The Making of a Court Society: Kings and Nobles in Late Medieval Portugal by Rita Costa Gomes 9780521036955
RRP: $65.78$56.01This 2003 book is an important full-length study of the Portuguese royal court in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It describes the fundamental importance of the court in defining the social position of kings, and shows how kings and nobles... -
Medieval Religious Rationalities: A Weberian Analysis by David D'Avray 9780521767071
RRP: $78.69$70.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Jew Accused: Three Anti-Semitic Affairs (Dreyfus, Beilis, Frank) 1894-1915 by Albert S. Lindemann 9780521447614
RRP: $34.82$30.70Three Jews, Alfred Dreyfus, Mendel Beilis, and Leo Frank, were charged with heinous crimes in the generation before World War I, Dreyfus of treason in France, Beilis of ritual murder in Russia, and Frank of the murder of a young girl in the United States... -
The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean: Climate Change and the Decline of the East, 950-1072 by Ronnie Ellenblum
RRP: $47.72$41.64As a 'Medieval Warm Period' prevailed in Western Europe during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the eastern Mediterranean region, from the Nile to the Oxus, was suffering from a series of climatic disasters which led to the decline of some of the most... -
The Emergence of a Hero: A Tale of Romantic Love in Russia around 1800 by Andrei Zorin
RRP: $107.07$97.19The Emergence of a Hero is dedicated to the history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the epoch when the court Masonic lodges and literature were competing for the monopoly on the 'symbolic images of... -
The Upheaval of War: Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918 by Richard Wall 9780521525152
RRP: $54.17$44.67In a fully comparative, European context, this book offers a unique examination of the effects of the First World War on family life. The contributory essays, written by sixteen scholars in the field, focus primarily on the social, economic and... -
A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples by Fred Singleton 9780521274852
RRP: $34.82$29.41There are few countries in Europe which contain within an area as small as the British Isles such a variety of natural environments and cultures as Yugoslavia. This book provides a survey of the history of the South Slav peoples who came together at the... -
From Muslim to Christian Granada: Inventing a City's Past in Early Modern Spain by A. Katie Harris 9780801885235
$67.35In 1492, Granada, the last independent Muslim city on the Iberian Peninsula, fell to the Catholic forces of Ferdinand and Isabella. A century later, in 1595, treasure hunters unearthed some curious lead tablets inscribed in Arabic. The tablets documented... -
Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War by Julie Mertus
RRP: $34.83$27.68Julie Mertus provides one of the first comprehensive looks at the explosive situation in Kosovo, where years of simmering tensions between Serbs and Albanians erupted in armed conflict in 1998. In a profound and detailed study of national identity and... -
The Renaissance in Rome by Charles L. Stinger
RRP: $34.82$30.60" . . . comprehensive, readable, beautifully documented . . . I cannot imagine a library or a person seriously interested in Renaissance Rome without it." -Manuscripta"Brilliant synthesis. A must." -Bibliotheque L'Humanisme et Renaissance" . . . no book... -
The British Settlement of Natal: A Study in Imperial Migration by Alan F. Hattersley 9780521109437
RRP: $47.72$36.61Celebrations held in the main towns of Natal on the centenary of the first organised emigration from Great Britain inspired the writing of this book, first published in 1950. The author, Alan F. Hattersley was Professor of History at Pietermariitzberg... -
Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV's France: The Trial of Nicolas Fouquet by Vincent J. Pitts 9781421418247
RRP: $50.31$44.74From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country's superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself... -
A Companion to Russian History Abbott Gleason (Brown University, USA) 9781118730003
RRP: $50.25$44.97This companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day. * Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia,... -
The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815 by Tim Blanning
RRP: $32.25$21.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113898Author Tim BlanningFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 663gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 142mm *... -
Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR by Jeremy Smith 9780521128704
RRP: $39.98$33.35Red Nations offers an illuminating and informative overview of how the non-Russian republics of the Soviet Union experienced communist rule. It surveys the series of historical events that contributed to the break-up of the Soviet Union and evaluates... -
Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 by Iain Boyd Whyte 9780520270374
RRP: $91.59$72.30"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... -
Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War by Elizabeth Greenhalgh 9780521096294
RRP: $50.30$41.64Germany's invasion of France in August 1914 represented a threat to the great power status of both Britain and France. The countries had no history of co-operation, yet the entente they had created in 1904 proceeded by trial and error, via...