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Forbidden: The Female Pope by Judith Slater 9780578603865
RRP: $35.00$24.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578603865Author Judith SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Judith SlaterPublisher Judith SlaterWeight(grams) 240g -
A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary by Jeremy Rich 9780803210912
$83.66In Libreville, the capital of the African nation of Gabon, the colonial past has evolved into a present indelibly marked by colonial rule and ongoing French influence. This is especially evident in areas as essential to life as food. In this complex,... -
Shouldering the Burdens of Defeat: West Germany and the Reconstruction of Social Justice by Michael L. Hughes 9780807871614
RRP: $91.55$86.95World War II and its aftermath brought devastating material losses to millions of West Germans. Military action destroyed homes, businesses, and personal possessions; East European governments expelled 15 million ethnic Germans from their ancestral... -
A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary by Jeremy Rich 9780803224971
$46.82In Libreville, the capital of the African nation of Gabon, the colonial past has evolved into a present indelibly marked by colonial rule and ongoing French influence. This is especially evident in areas as essential to life as food. In this complex,... -
France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 by William I. Hitchcock 9780807847473
RRP: $83.75$79.01Historians of the Cold War, argues the author of this book, have too often overlooked the part that European nations played in shaping the post-World War II international system. In particular, he contends that France has been given short shrift. Drawing... -
Flax to Freedom by Barbara Knickerbocker 9780981776835
RRP: $25.25$18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981776835Author Barbara KnickerbockerFormat PaperbackImprint Bkb PressPublisher Bkb PressWeight(grams) 163g -
The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Rupert Christiansen 9780802139337
RRP: $25.33$24.63Like present-day New York, early-nineteenth-century London was an extraordinarily vibrant and creative metropolis to which visitors -- from scholars to social climbers -- went in search of wealth and fame. The Victorian Visitors lucidly captures the... -
Medical Histories of Belgium: New Narratives on Health, Care and Citizenship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Joris Vandendriessche 9781526151087
RRP: $175.50$126.40Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars. Going beyond a chronological narrative, the book offers new insights by questioning classic themes of the history of medicine:... -
Later Stuart Queens, 1660–1735: Religion, Political Culture, and Patronage by Eilish Gregory 9783031388125
RRP: $214.48$193.30This book gathers contributions on the later Stuart queens and queen consorts. It seeks to re-insert Henrietta Maria, Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena, Mary II, Anne, and Maria Clementina Sobieska into the mainstream of Stuart and early Georgian... -
Harfleur to Hamburg: Five Centuries of English and British Violence in Europe by D. J. B. Trim 9781911723172
RRP: $87.75$76.25Britain has historically been seen as an upholder of international norms, at least in its relations with western powers. This has often been contrasted with the violence perpetrated in colonial contexts on other continents. What is often missed, however,... -
French Revolutions for Beginners by Michael Lamonica 9781934389911
RRP: $25.33$21.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389911Author Michael LamonicaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Which Socialism, Whose Detente?: West European Communism and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968 by Maud Anne Bracke 9789637326943
RRP: $175.50$159.16This study analyzes the impact of the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968-1969 on the two major communist parties in the West: the Italian and French ones. Discusses the central strategic and ideological tensions which these parties needed to deal with: domestic... -
Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies: A Transimperial History of Military Labour, 1848-1914 by Philipp Krauer 9789087284145
RRP: $187.20$178.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284145Author Philipp KrauerFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press -
Affluence and Inequality in the Low Countries: The City of 's-Hertogenbosch in the Long Sixteenth Century, 1500-1650 by J. Hanus 9789042931466
RRP: $163.80$161.01Did the inhabitants of `s-Hertogenbosch benefit from the economic ebb and flow of the long sixteenth century (1500-1650)? Through this central question, Affluence and Inequality addresses wider issues of economic growth and decline... -
Cultures of the West: A History, Volume 2: Since 1350 by Clifford Backman 9780197668528
RRP: $152.08$144.83Cultures of the West: A History, Fourth Edition, focuses on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally, and how they interacted with the broader world--for good and for ill. The development of such key ideas... -
Land Productivity by Thoen 9782503509624
RRP: $82.88$78.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503509624Author ThoenPage Count 382Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 655g -
Drama and Community by Hindley 9782503507675
$113.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503507675Author HindleyPage Count 305Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 701g -
Stratford: Another East End by John M. Gorman 9781907869068
RRP: $4.39$4.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907869068Author John M. GormanPage Count 23Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
The Ukrainian-Polish Defensive Alliance, 1919-1921: An Aspect of the Ukrainian Revolution by Michael Palij 9781895571059
RRP: $76.03$61.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895571059Author Michael PalijFormat HardbackPage Count 391Imprint Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher Canadian Institute of Ukrainian... -
The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France by Sandrine Parageau 9781503632561
RRP: $157.95$134.96In the early modern period, ignorance was commonly perceived as a sin, a flaw, a defect, and even a threat to religion and the social order. Yet praises of ignorance were also expressed in the same context. Reclaiming the long-lasting legacy of medieval... -
The Everyday Nationalism of Workers: A Social History of Modern Belgium by Maarten Van Ginderachter 9781503609051
RRP: $226.20$192.15The Everyday Nationalism of Workers upends common notions about how European nationalism is lived and experienced by ordinary people-and the bottom-up impact these everyday expressions of nationalism exert on institutionalized nationalism writ large... -
Not Our War: Writings Against the First World War by A. W. Zurbrugg 9780850366143
RRP: $25.25$22.72This anthology presents voices of people who opposed the First World War: men and women, liberals, radicals and pacifists, anarchists, socialists, soldiers and non-combatants, they were few in number at first, but their influence increased. They asked... -
History in Dutch Studies by Robert Howell 9780761825678
$150.97History in Dutch Studies re-considers the central role of history within the discipline of Dutch Studies as viewed from a range of specializations within the field. Contributions by scholars of Dutch history, art history, literature and linguistics all... -
Reflections on De Gaulle: Political Founding in Modernity by Will Morrisey 9780761822172
$180.92The "battle of the books" between ancient and modern continues to have decidedly un-bookish consequences. The French Statesman Charles de Gaulle fought an incident in this war, founding a political regime in modernity whose principles transcended modern... -
Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries by Mark Stephen Jendrysik 9780739121818
RRP: $81.90$75.35As we search for greater understanding of the origins of liberalism, religious toleration, and modern democratic thought, Mark Jendrysik's timely work examines the political and religious ideals that buttressed the first 'modern' revolution. Explaining... -
From Royal to National: The Louvre Museum and the Bibliotheque Nationale by Bette W. Oliver 9780739114223
RRP: $144.30$130.69Bette Oliver's book From Royal to National offers a comprehensive and innovative look into the effects of the French Revolution on the nation's culture and identity. As a direct result of the Revolution of 1789, institutions previously under the crown's... -
Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries by Mark Stephen Jendrysik 9780739103623
RRP: $171.60$154.93As we search for greater understanding of the origins of liberalism, religious toleration, and modern democratic thought, Mark Jendrysik's timely work examines the political and religious ideals that buttressed the first 'modern' revolution. Explaining... -
War and Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries by Myron P. Gutmann 9780691643397
RRP: $230.10$176.57In addition to famine and disease, war had a considerable impact on rural society in early modern Europe. Myron Gutmann studies this impact through a systematic analysis of military, economic, and demographic variables as they affected the Basse-Meuse... -
Treason in the Northern Quarter: War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt by Professor Henk van Nierop 9780691135649
RRP: $117.00$90.23In the spring of 1575, Holland's Northern Quarter--the waterlogged peninsula stretching from Amsterdam to the North Sea--was threatened with imminent invasion by the Spanish army. Since the outbreak of the Dutch Revolt a few years earlier, the Spanish... -
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto 9780307743756
RRP: $39.00$16.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307743756Author Russell ShortoFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Case of Galileo: A Closed Question? by Annibale Fantoli 9780268206987
RRP: $175.50$149.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268206987Author Annibale FantoliFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame PressWeight(grams)... -
The Memory Work of Jewish Spain by Daniela Flesler 9780253050106
RRP: $175.50$150.44The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the "re-discovery" of its Jewish heritage. In The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, Daniela Flesler... -
The Jewish Economic Elite: Making Modern Europe by Cornelia Aust 9780253032157
RRP: $140.40$118.79In this rich transnational history, Cornelia Aust traces Jewish Ashkenazi families as they moved across Europe and established new commercial and entrepreneurial networks as they went. Aust balances economic history with elaborate discussions of Jewish... -
Opening NATO's Door: How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era by Ronald D. Asmus 9780231127776
RRP: $62.40$47.33How and why did NATO, a Cold War military alliance created in 1949 to counter Stalin's USSR, become the cornerstone of new security order for post-Cold War Europe? Why, instead of retreating from Europe after communism's collapse, did the U.S. launch the... -
Peaceful Kings: Peace, Power and the Early Medieval Political Imagination by Paul Kershaw 9780198208709
$231.86In Rome on Christmas Day 800 Charlemagne, the Frankish king, was acclaimed 'most August, crowned by God, great and peacemaking emperor'. This event transformed the nature of his rule, marked the re-emergence of the ideas of empire in the early medieval... -
Marriage & Rural Economy by Devos 9782503509631
$75.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503509631Author DevosPage Count 304Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 650g -
Soldier, the Builder & the Diplomat: Custer, the Titanic & World War One by Steven Schlesser 9781885942067
RRP: $37.03$22.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885942067Author Steven SchlesserFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Cune Press,USPublisher Cune Press,USWeight(grams) 321g -
Credit and the Rural Economy in North-Western Europe, C.1200-C.1850 by Thijs Lambrecht 9782503519845
$119.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503519845Author Thijs LambrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V. -
Japan and Belgium: An Itinery of Mutual Inspiration by Walle,,Wille Vande 9789401438421
RRP: $97.40$67.72150 years ago, Belgium and Japan signed their first treaty. They have been important economic partners for each other ever since. As a result, the reciprocal exchange of artistic influence between these countries flourished: Belgian artists were ... -
Escape from Culloden by James Johnstone 9780956774576
RRP: $19.48$15.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956774576Author James JohnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint The House of EmsliePublisher The House of Emslie