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The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872–1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse by Thor Rydin 9789463724593
RRP: €139.23€132.45The lifetime of Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) was marked by dramatic transformations in Europe. Cityscapes, aesthetic codes, social orders, political cultures, international travel and means of warfare developed beyond recognition; entire catalogues of... -
The Radical Left Party Family in Western Europe, 1989-2015 by Paolo Chiocchetti 9780367595968
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book provides an innovative analysis and interpretation of the overall trajectory of the Western European radical left from 1989 to 2015. After the collapse of really existing communism, this party family renewed itself and embarked on a recovery... -
The Diplomacy of Détente: Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz by Stephan Kieninger 9780367590345
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book investigates the underlying reasons for the longevity of détente and its impact on East–West relations.The volume examines the relevance of trade across the Iron Curtain as a means to facilitate mutual trust, as well as the emergence of new... -
Literary Citizenship in Scandinavia in the Long Eighteenth Century by Prof Ruth Hemstad 9781783277797
RRP: €29.75€28.49Sheds new light on European and regional book markets, the development of a public sphere and the impact of new media on intellectual, social, religious and political change. How do you become a citizen? Ever since printing was introduced, being a... -
A Commentary on the New Taxa Described in The Botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage by W.J. Hooker and G.A. Walker-Arnott by Henry J. Noltie 9781906129682
RRP: €19.04€12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906129682Author Henry J. NoltieFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Royal Botanic Garden EdinburghPublisher Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh -
The Great White Fair: The Herbert Park Exhibition of 1907 by Brian Siggins 9781845885809
RRP: €20.22€15.40The Great White FairBook InformationISBN 9781845885809Author Brian SigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310g -
The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe by Julia Adams 9780801474040
RRP: €34.50€29.70The seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe's dominant power. Eventually, though, Dutch hegemony collapsed as quickly as... -
23rd Waffen SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland by Massimiliano Afiero 9780764350733
RRP: €44.02€28.54This book is a detailed history of the 23rd Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Division "Nederland," the Dutch volunteer SS combat formation. Employed exclusively on the eastern front, except for a brief period in Croatia, the "Nederland" formations participated... -
From Revolt to Riches: Culture and History of the Low Countries, 15001700 by Theo Hermans 9781910634882
RRP: €27.36€24.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910634882Author Professor Theo HermansFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 600g -
Paul Hymans: Belgium by Sally Marks
RRP: €15.46€10.70On 4 February 1919 in the League of Nations Commission at the Paris Peace Conference, Paul Hymans resisted minimal representation of small states on the League Council by shouting at Lord Robert Cecil, What you propose is a revival of the Holy Alliance... -
Realm between Empires: The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815 by Wim Klooster
RRP: €49.98€44.09Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie present a fresh look at the Dutch Atlantic in the period following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century. This epoch (1680-1815), the authors argue, marked a distinct and significant era in which Dutch military... -
Belgium Was My Home by Leona M La Londe
RRP: €21.36€18.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014745743Author Leona M La LondeFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 177g -
Rebellions and Reformations by Andrew Pickering
RRP: €29.74€26.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514369784Author Andrew PickeringFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Operations of the Allied Army Under the Duke of Brunswick: 1757-1766 by Sir Charles Hotham-Thompson
RRP: €21.42€13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430411Author Sir Charles Hotham-ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Nafziger CollectionPublisher Nafziger CollectionWeight(grams)... -
A History of Wales, 1660-1815 by E.D. Evans
RRP: €5.94€4.81"A History of Wales 1660-1815" is the second volume of a trilogy on the history of Wales from 1485 to 1906. Beginning with the political activity of the period, the author traces developments in education, the religious explosion of the Methodist... -
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Milan Kundera 9780063272958
RRP: €29.74€16.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063272958Author Milan KunderaFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperPublisher HarperWeight(grams) 646g -
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt
RRP: €23.80€15.78The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I-this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel. September... -
Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks: The Sacramental Imagination of Engelhard of Langheim by Martha G. Newman
RRP: €64.26€55.68Around the year 1200, the Cistercian Engelhard of Langheim dedicated a collection of monastic stories to a community of religious women. Martha G. Newman explores how this largely unedited collection of tales about Cistercian monks illuminates the... -
Heaven’s Wrath: The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World by D. L. Noorlander
RRP: €36.89€32.56Heaven's Wrath explores the religious thought and religious rites of the early Dutch Atlantic world. D. L. Noorlander argues that the Reformed Church and the West India Company forged and maintained a close union, with considerable consequences across... -
A Concordance to Conrad's Nostromo by James W. Parins
RRP: €40.45€35.70Originally published in 1984, this volume follows others in the series. By looking up a word in the word frequency table, the user can find how often it occurs in the text. The verbal index indicates at what page and line the word occurs so that the user... -
The World and The Netherlands: A Global History from a Dutch Perspective by Karel Davids
RRP: €29.74€27.68This is the first book to examine the history of the country in a way that connects global processes to local developments. Taking account of social, political and economic dynamics over the last thousand years, the book addresses key questions that get... -
The Dirty Secret of Early Modern Capitalism: The Global Reach of the Dutch Arms Trade, Warfare and Mercenaries in the Seventeenth Century by Kees Boterbloem
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book shows how the Dutch accumulation of great wealth was closely linked to their involvement in warfare. By charting Dutch activity across the globe, it explores Dutch participation in the international arms trade, and in wars both at home and... -
The Problem of Foreign Policy: A Consideration of Present Dangers and the Best Methods for Meeting Them by Gilbert Murray
RRP: €23.79€21.05First published in 1921, Gilbert Murray's treatise considers a largely euro-centric foreign policy during the inter-war period. Believing passionately in the prospect of a Liberal England and the hope promised by the League of Nations, with Britain at... -
Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930: Modernity, Regionality, Mobility by Alison Martin
RRP: €54.73€47.75This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of... -
Soviet Strategy Toward Western Europe by Edwina Moreton
RRP: €40.45€35.70This book, first published in 1984, carefully examine the political debate surrounding nuclear weapons and superpower polices in Cold War Western Europe. It seeks to analyse a distinctly European view in Soviet policy, as opposed to a superpower view. It... -
The Netherlands: Globalization and National Identity by Frank J. Lechner
RRP: €44.02€38.71The Netherlands is the first concise, authored introduction available on the topic. The Netherlands has been a key entrepot in the world capitalist system for centuries, but because of relatively recent demographic changes, it has become symbolic of the... -
Pragmatic Toleration - The Politics of Religious Heterodoxy in Early Reformation Antwerp, 1515-1555 by Victoria Christman
RRP: €136.85€130.22In a modern world still struggling to achieve religious coexistence, there has been a recent burgeoning of scholarship aimed at examining the history of such coexistence. Most of these studies focus on developments in the seventeenth century and beyond... -
Survivor Transitional Narratives of Nazi-Era Destruction: The Second Liberation by Dennis B. Klein
RRP: €40.45€12.83Survivor Transitional Narratives of Nazi-Era Destruction: The Second Liberation examines the historical circumstances that gave rise in the 1960s to the first cohort of Nazi-era survivors who massed a public campaign focusing on remembrance of Nazi... -
The Consistory and Social Discipline in Calvin's Geneva by Jeffrey R. Watt
RRP: €33.31€32.58Examines the most successful institution of social discipline in Reformation Europe: the Consistory of Geneva during the time of John Calvin Created by John Calvin, the Consistory of Geneva was a quasi-tribunal entrusted with enforcing Reformed... -
Forgetting Differences: Tragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars of Religion by Andrea Frisch
RRP: €107.10€97.54This book examines the impact of the royal politics of amnesia on tragedy and national historiography in France, 1560-1630. This study argues that the political and legislative process of forgetting internal differences, undertaken in France after the... -
Degrees of Influence: A Memorial Volume for Glanmor Williams by Geraint H. Jenkins
RRP: €11.89€9.72Few Welsh scholars in the modern era have served their profession, university and country as admirably as Sir Glanmor Williams, who died, aged eighty four, on 24 February 2005. By dint of intellectual brilliance, far-sighted vision and exceptional... -
Labor Disorders in Neoliberal Italy: Mobbing, Well-Being, and the Workplace by Noelle J. Mole
RRP: €26.17€22.84Psychological harassment at work, or "mobbing," has become a significant public policy issue in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Mobbing has given rise to specialized counseling clinics, a new field of professional expertise, and new labor laws. For Noelle... -
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean by Barbara Fuchs
RRP: €66.64€58.17Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing together studies of English, Spanish, Italian, and Ottoman... -
Am I A Murderer?: Testament Of A Jewish Ghetto Policeman by Calel Perechodnik
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book presents the chronicles of the life of a young Polish Jew, Calel Perechodnik, under the Nazis, including the tragedy of his decision to become a ghetto policeman in a small town near Warsaw in the vain hope of protecting himself and his family... -
The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma by Ron Eyerman
RRP: €27.36€24.66In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to... -
Defining Germany: The 1848 Frankfurt Parliamentarians and National Identity by Brian E. Vick
RRP: €97.52€78.18In a unique blend of political, intellectual, and cultural history, Brian Vick explores the world of German nationalism during the first half of the nineteenth century. Vick first presents an original investigation of German conceptions of nationhood in... -
Union and Revolution: Scotland and Beyond, 1625-1745 by Laura Stewart
RRP: €101.15€92.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474410151Author Laura StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Sculpted Ear: Aurality and Statuary in the West by Ryan McCormack
RRP: €33.26€29.16Sound and statuary have had a complicated relationship in Western aesthetic thought since antiquity. Taking as its focus the sounding statue-a type of anthropocentric statue that invites the viewer to imagine sounds the statue might make-The Sculpted Ear... -
A Concise Survey of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities throughout History by Brian A. Pavlac
RRP: €52.36€49.17This engaging text offers a concise, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His... -
Early Modern War Narratives and the Revolt in the Low Countries by Raymond Fagel
RRP: €101.15€71.60By the end of the sixteenth century, stories about the Revolt in the Low Countries (c. 1567-1648) had begun to spread throughout Europe. These stories had very different authors with very different intentions. Over time the plethora of sources and...