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Apologies 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

In 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,...

World 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...

In 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,...

Historians 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...

Apologies 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

Like 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 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:...

This 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...

Britain 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,...

Apologies 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

This 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...

Apologies 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

Did 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, 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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...

In 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 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...

This 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 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...

The "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...

As 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...

Bette 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...

As 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...

In 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...

In 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...

Apologies 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 *...

Apologies 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 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...

In 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...

How 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...

In 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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.

150 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 ...

Apologies 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