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Perestroika and the Party: National and Transnational Perspectives on European Communist Parties in the Era of Soviet Reform by Francesco Di Palma 9781805391326
RRP: €33.26€26.87Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations. This ambitious collection takes a much broader... -
Alienating Labour: Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary by Eszter Bartha 9781805391241
RRP: €18.98€15.83The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the “masses” with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy—successful at the outset—in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the... -
The Respectable Career of Fritz K.: The Making and Remaking of a Provincial Nazi Leader Hartmut Berghoff 9781789208467
RRP: €33.26€26.87Entrepreneur and Nazi functionary Fritz Kiehn lived through almost 100 years of German history, from the Bismarck era to the late Bonn Republic. A successful manufacturer, Kiehn joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and obtained a number of influential posts... -
Intervention and Disarmament: In a Culturally Diverse World by Philip Towle 9781032046129
RRP: €47.59€41.72In this book, some of Philip Towle’s major contributions are brought together to shed light on the Cold War and its aftermath. Topics include the build-up of chemical and nuclear weapons, the attack on New York’s World Trade Center in 2001, intervention... -
Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900-1980 Gijs Mom 9781789204612
RRP: €176.12€142.38Why has “car society” proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates... -
A Cultural History of Democracy in the Modern Age by Eugenio Biagini 9781350440166
€34.59This volume explores democracy in the 20th century, examining the triumph, crises, recovery, and resilience of democracy and its associated cultures in this period. From 1920 democracy became the hegemonic discourse in political cultures, to the... -
Imperialism: A Study by J. A. Hobson 9781138644861
RRP: €49.97€44.21Originally published in 1902, this study expands on the ideas of imperialism which were a key focus of many countries in the early twentieth century, particularly in Great Britain. Hobson starts by outlining the economic origins of imperialism with an... -
The Progressive Era in the USA: 1890-1921 by Kristofer Allerfeldt 9781138378407
RRP: €57.11€49.75Few periods in American history have been explored as much as the Progressive Era. It is seen as the birth-place of modern American liberalism, as well as the time in which America emerged as an imperial power. Historians and other scholars have... -
The Problem of Democracy in Postwar Europe: Political Actors and the Formation of the Postwar Model of Democracy in France, West Germany and Italy by Pepijn Corduwener 9781138329720
RRP: €52.35€45.74The current perception of democratic crisis in Western Europe gives a renewed urgency to a new perspective on the way democracy was reconstructed after World War II and the principles that underpinned its postwar transformation. This study accounts for... -
Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis by James G. Blight 9780742554993
RRP: €47.60€39.01In October 1962 school children huddled under their desks and diplomats feverishly negotiated as the world sat on the brink of nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous moment in modern history and resulted in a changed worldview for... -
The Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century by Daniel Bessner 9781800739253
RRP: €33.26€26.87In the decades following World War II, the science of decision-making moved from the periphery to the center of transatlantic thought. The Decisionist Imagination explores how “decisionism” emerged from its origins in prewar political theory to become... -
The Right to Memory: History, Media, Law, and Ethics by Noam Tirosh 9781800738577
RRP: €105.91€85.56The field of memory studies has typically focused on everyday memory and commemoration practices through which we construct meaning and identities. The Right to Memory looks beyond these everyday practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to... -
From Recovery to Catastrophe: Municipal Stabilization and Political Crisis by Ben Lieberman 9781571811042
RRP: €117.81€95.00Historians of the stabilization phase of Weimar Germany tend to identify German recovery after the First World War with the struggle to revise reparations and control hyperinflation. Focusing primarily on economic aspects is not sufficient, however, the... -
The Chameleon State: Global Culture and Policy Shifts in Britain and Germany, 1914-1933 Tien-Lung Liu 9781571811745
RRP: €117.81€95.00The role of the state in capitalist societies has been a bone of considerable contention among scholars. The two founding fathers of sociology held radically opposing views on this subject which were reflected in the numerous debates over subsequent... -
Selling the Economic Miracle: Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957 by Mark E. Spicka 9781800737327
RRP: €18.98€15.83Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to... -
Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw Joshua First (University of Mississippi, USA.) 9781780765549
RRP: €142.80€142.23Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw is the first concentrated study of Ukrainian cinema in English. In particular, historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet... -
Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918-1930 by Davide Rodogno 9781108498913
RRP: €113.05€102.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108498913Author Davide RodognoFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Dynamics of Emigration: Emigre Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the 20th Century by Stefan Berger 9781800736092
RRP: €117.81€95.00As a pioneering volume to consider the impact of exile on historical scholarship in the twentieth century in a systematic and global way, looking at Europe, North America, South America and Asia, Dynamics of Emigration asks about epistemic repercussions... -
Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus Paul Sant Cassia 9781571816467
RRP: €117.81€95.00In the course of hostilities between Greek and Turkish Cypriots between 1963 and 1974, over 2000 persons, both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, went "missing" in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean with a population distribution of 80% Greeks and... -
Nation Branding in Modern History Carolin Viktorin 9781785339233
RRP: €117.81€95.00A relatively recent coinage within international relations, "nation branding" designates the process of highlighting a country's positive characteristics for promotional purposes, using techniques similar to those employed in marketing and... -
Disasters of Ontario: 75 Stories of Courage & Chaos by Rene Biberstein 9781894864145
RRP: €17.84€11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894864145Author Rene BibersteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Folklore PublishingPublisher Folklore PublishingWeight(grams) 260g -
John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937: The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk LeMoyne Billings by Oliver Lubrich 9781805391036
RRP: €105.91€85.56Presenting the 1937 diaries of John F. Kennedy’s tour of Europe, this volume offers insights into his early experiences on a continent under the shadow of Nazism. In 1937, while still a student, John F. Kennedy undertook a grand tour of Europe with his... -
Biography: An Historiography by Melanie Nolan 9781138387249
RRP: €40.45€35.70The volume takes a historical approach to examine how biography has been used throughout history. It gives readers a real sense of the history of the relationship between history and biography. Useful for historians and students as it looks at... -
Paterson, 1913: A Labor Strike in the Progressive Era by Mary Jane Treacy 9780393533026
€24.53Paterson, 1913 is designed to be played during the time typically devoted to teaching the Progressive Era in the U.S. history survey course. Set in America’s “Silk City", Paterson, New Jersey, the game pits manufacturers, who try to keep Paterson’s key... -
Yiddish in the Cold War by Gennady Estraikh 9780367603687
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book presents a study of Yiddish in the Cold War through the ideological confrontations between Communist Yiddish literati in the Soviet Union, United States, Canada, Poland, France and Israel. It discusses the intellectual environments of the... -
Beyond Coal and Steel: A Social History of Western Europe after the Boom by Lutz Raphael 9781509554386
RRP: €22.60€20.55In the 1970s, the economic and social foundations of Western Europe underwent an unprecedented transformation. Old industries like coal and steel disappeared, millions of people lost their jobs and formerly flourishing towns and cities went into decline... -
The Republic of China: 1912 to 1949 by Xavier Paules 9781509552573
RRP: €29.75€19.97The declaration of the Republic of China in 1912 signalled an entirely new era. Not only did the revolution of 1911–12 bring about the fall of the Qing dynasty: it also brought an end to the entire series of dynasties that had marked Chinese history for... -
Contemporary America – Power, Dependency and Globalization since 1980 by MJ Heale 9781405136402
RRP: €101.09€88.33This history of America s recent past focuses on the importance of the United States interaction with the outside world and includes detailed accounts of the presidencies of Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush. * Provides a substantial account of the... -
Rebuilding the Postwar Order: Peace, Security and the UN-System by Francine McKenzie 9781472531438
RRP: €77.35€67.32Throughout the Second World War, a wide range of people, including political leaders and government officials, experts and armchair internationalists, civil society groups and private citizens talked about and formulated plans to ensure national... -
A Cultural History of Marriage in the Modern Age by Professor Emeritus Christina Simmons 9781350355668
RRP: €30.93€26.91Spanning cultures across the 20th century, this volume explores how marriage, especially in the West, was disestablished as the primary institution organizing social life. In the developing world, the economic, social, and legal foundations of... -
The Brandt Commission and the Multinationals: Planetary Perspectives Bo Strath (University of Helsinki, Finland) 9781032332338
RRP: €148.75€128.35Set against the backdrop of dramatic world order transformations across the 1970s and 1980s, this book examines the competing planetary perspectives of the Brandt Commission and the multinationals, arguing that the missed opportunities of these decades... -
Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman by Philip Nash 9780367407339
RRP: €44.02€38.71Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman is a concise and highly readable political biography that examines the life of one of the most accomplished American women of the 20th century. Wife and mother, author, editor, playwright, political... -
Building States: The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945-1965 by Eva-Maria Muschik 9780231200240
RRP: €139.23€123.75Postwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the nation-state system. However, in 1945, when the United Nations was founded, large parts of the world were still under imperial control. Building States... -
A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age by Kim Solga 9781350277779
RRP: €32.12€27.89To call something modern is to assert something fundamental about the social, cultural, economic and technical sophistication of that thing, over and against what has come before. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age provides an... -
Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Twentieth-Century Politics: Reckoning with the Past by Anatoly M. Khazanov 9780415486255
RRP: €109.47€95.44These studies examine the ways in which succeeding democratic regimes have dealt with, or have ignored (and in several cases sugar-coated) an authoritarian or totalitarian past from 1943 to the present. They treat the relationship with democratization... -
Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina by Benjamin Bryce 9781032344010
RRP: €148.75€128.83Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina tackles the meaning of "the nation" by looking to the geographical, ideological, and political peripheries of society. What it means to be Argentine has long consumed writers, political... -
Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930: In Defence of Freedom by Matteo Millan 9780367701178
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilisation, from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the... -
Contemporary China: A History since 1978 by Yongnian Zheng 9780470655801
RRP: €32.07€26.89Using new research and considering a multidisciplinary set of factors, Contemporary China offers a comprehensive exploration of the making of contemporary China. Provides a unique perspective on China, incorporating newly published materials from within... -
Photographic Subjects: Monarchy and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia by Susie Protschky 9781526156990
RRP: €29.75€25.93Winner of the ASAA mid-career book prize in Asian Studies 2020 and joint winner of the 2020 Royal Studies Journal Book Prize Photographic subjects examines photography at royal celebrations during the reign of Queens Wilhelmina (1898-1948) and Juliana... -
Remaking the Modern World 1900 - 2015: Global Connections and Comparisons C. A. Bayly 9781405187152
RRP: €80.86€70.27The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study explores global history since the First World War, offering a coherent, comparative overview of...