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The Participants: The Men of the Wannsee Conference by Christoph Kreutzmuller
RRP: €23.94Booksplease Price: €20.90On January 20, 1942, fifteen senior German government officials attended a short meeting in Berlin to discuss the deportation and murder of the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite lasting only a... -
Avant-garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties by Jonathan L. Owen 9780857459015
RRP: €19.14Booksplease Price: €17.06The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use... -
Submerged on the Surface: The Not-So-Hidden Jews of Nazi Berlin, 1941-1945 Richard N. Lutjens, Jr. 9781800736511
RRP: €19.14Booksplease Price: €17.06Between 1941 and 1945, thousands of German Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in the shadows of the Nazi capital. Drawing on a... -
The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914 Allan Mitchell 9781845451363
RRP: €33.54Booksplease Price: €29.23"The breadth of [this] comparative study of French and German railroad development - the largest and most important railway systems on the continent - is a signal achievement...A brief sketch of the... -
Witches and Demons: A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism by Jean La Fontaine 9781785331527
RRP: €28.74Booksplease Price: €25.12Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. In this volume, Jean La Fontaine explores the intersection of expert and lay... -
Max Liebermann and International Modernism: An Artist's Career from Empire to Third Reich Marion Deshmukh 9781845456627
RRP: €67.14Booksplease Price: €57.06Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. and the Centre Allemand d'histoire de l'art/Deutsches Forum fur Kunstgeschichte, Paris Although Max Liebermann... -
Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History by A. Dirk Moses 9781845457198
RRP: €28.74Booksplease Price: €25.94In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds... -
Courage and Compassion: A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece by Tony Molho 9781805394846
RRP: €28.74Booksplease Price: €25.39In this extraordinary personal account of childhood and survival during the Holocaust, Professor Tony (Antony) Molho recounts his adventures in 1940s Greece from ages four to six, as his parents... -
The Social Life of Achievement Nicholas J. Long 9781785332159
RRP: €33.54Booksplease Price: €29.23What happens when people "achieve"? Why do reactions to "achievement" vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced... -
Magical House Protection: The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft by Brian Hoggard
RRP: €23.94Booksplease Price: €21.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800730212Author Brian HoggardFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: The Machtergreifung in a New Light Hermann Beck 9781845456801
RRP: €28.74Booksplease Price: €25.75On 30 January 1933, Alfred Hugenberg's conservative German National People's Party (DNVP) formed a coalition government with the Nazi Party, thus enabling Hitler to accede to the chancellorship. This... -
The Return of Polyandry: Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet Heidi E. Fjeld 9781805397199
RRP: €19.14Booksplease Price: €17.06Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one wife. With economic development and massive Chinese social and political... -
DEFA: East German Cinema 1946-1992 by Sean Allan 9781571817532
RRP: €19.14Booksplease Price: €17.78"...the lucid style of all contributions ...makes this volume an accessible read to students ...this volume has also the bonus of offering an excellent appendix on sources for future research ...this... -
Journey Through America by Wolfgang Koeppen 9780857452313
RRP: €124.80Booksplease Price: €102.19Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States. A major twentieth-century German writer, Koeppen presents a vivid... -
Polish Cinema: A History: Second Edition by Marek Haltof 9781785339745
RRP: €28.74Booksplease Price: €25.94First published in 2002, Marek Haltof's seminal volume was the first comprehensive English-language study of Polish cinema, providing a much-needed survey of one of Europe's most distinguished-yet... -
Preventing Dementia?: Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age by Annette Leibing 9781800739376
RRP: €19.14Booksplease Price: €17.06The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible... -
Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure by Anna Backman Rogers
RRP: €19.14Booksplease Price: €17.04All too often, the movies of Sofia Coppola have been dismissed as "all style, no substance." But such an easy caricature, as this engaging and accessible survey of Coppola's oeuvre demonstrates,... -
The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908 Edvard Hviding 9781785333392
RRP: €33.54Booksplease Price: €29.23In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of... -
Shakespeare and Money Graham Holderness 9781789206722
RRP: €23.94Booksplease Price: €20.90Though better known for his literary merits, Shakespeare made money, wrote about money and enabled money-making by countless others in his name. With chapters by leading scholars on the economic,... -
Hitler's Plans for Global Domination: Nazi Architecture and Ultimate War Aims by Jochen Thies 9781782384632
RRP: €23.94Booksplease Price: €20.90What did Hitler really want to achieve: world domination. In the early twenties, Hitler was working on this plan and from 1933 on, was working to make it a reality. During 1940 and 1941, he believed... -
German Railroads, Jewish Souls: The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution by Christopher R. Browning 9781789202762
RRP: €23.94Booksplease Price: €20.90Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg considered the railroads that delivered European Jews into forced labor and... -
The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 by Jens Gieseke
RRP: €23.94Booksplease Price: €20.90The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The "shield and sword of the party," it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more... -
Vanished History: The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture by Tomas Sniegon
RRP: €28.74Booksplease Price: €25.39Bohemia and Moravia, today part of the Czech Republic, was the first territory with a majority of non-German speakers occupied by Hitler's Third Reich on the eve of the World War II. Tens of... -
An Improbable War?: The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914 by Holger Afflerbach
RRP: €28.74Booksplease Price: €25.75...outstanding scholarly analyses...These essays comprise a valuable addition to the never-ending debate on the causes of the Great War. Stand To! The Journal of the Western Front Association ..... -
Transgressive Sex: Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters Hastings Donnan 9780857456373
RRP: €33.54Booksplease Price: €29.23Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan have compiled a series of chapters on the cutting edge of sexuality and gender studies...All of the authors presented here are quite honest in narrating the... -
The Germans and the Holocaust: Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews Susanna Schrafstetter 9781785337369
RRP: €23.94Booksplease Price: €20.90For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. How much did "ordinary" Germans know about the... -
The Law in Nazi Germany: Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice by Alan E. Steinweis 9781782389217
RRP: €28.74Booksplease Price: €25.58While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges,... -
Alfred Cort Haddon: A Very English Savage by Ciarán Walsh 9781800739840
RRP: €23.94Booksplease Price: €20.90An innovative account of one of the least-understood characters in the history of anthropology. Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ciarán Walsh argues that Haddon, the grandson of... -
East German Film and the Holocaust Elizabeth Ward 9781805391456
RRP: €33.54Booksplease Price: €29.23East Germany’s ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany’s name during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast communists as both victims of and victors... -
In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century by Omer Bartov 9781571813022
RRP: €38.34Booksplease Price: €33.32Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have... -
Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange Between Greece and Turkey by Renee Hirschon 9781571815620
RRP: €28.74Booksplease Price: €25.39"This volume is a long overdue endeavour to tackle the thorny and delicate issue of the compulsory population exchange ...The argumentative force of the volume lies in the careful analysis of the... -
The Interfaith Movement: Mobilising Religious Diversity in the 21st Century by John Fahy 9780367726744
RRP: €56.39Booksplease Price: €52.73Although its beginnings can be traced back to the late 19th century, the interfaith movement has only recently begun to attract mainstream attention, with governments, religious leaders and... -
Politics of Dialogue: Non-consensual Democracy and Critical Community by Leszek Koczanowicz 9781399565929
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €21.59Contemporary democracy is in crisis. People believe less and less in a system of democratic institutions that can cope with today's social problems. Leszek Koczanowicz sheds new light on this... -
Paternity and Fatherhood: Myths and Realities by Lieve Spaas 9781349138180
Booksplease Price: €108.67What kind of connotation does the word 'father' have in everyday language? How have states and governments defined and manipulated the paternal role? What is a 'father-figure'? What can literature... -
Planning Law and Practice in Northern Ireland by Stephen McKay 9781032110738
RRP: €46.79Booksplease Price: €44.57Each of the jurisdictions within the United Kingdom is constantly refining the operational characteristics of its planning system and while there are some common practices, there are also substantive... -
Produced by Irving Thalberg: Theory of Studio-Era Filmmaking by Ana Salzberg 9781474451048
RRP: €120.00Booksplease Price: €113.82Explores Irving Thalberg's importance as not only a producer, but also a theorist of studio-era filmmaking Offers a critical reappraisal of Thalberg's legacyProvides in-depth analyses of Thalberg's... -
Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan by Jason Danely 9780813565163
RRP: €38.40Booksplease Price: €32.52By 2030, over 30% of the Japanese population will be 65 or older, foreshadowing the demographic changes occurring elsewhere in Asia and around the world. What can we learn from a study of the aging... -
The Vel d'Hiv Raid: The French Police at the Service of the Gestapo by Maurice Rajsfus 9780997818468
Booksplease Price: €14.06Beginning in the early morning hours of July 16, 1942, and lasting for two days, the French police went beyond Nazi ordinances and took it upon themselves to arrest and imprison more than 13,000 Jews... -
My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century by Alisse Waterston 9781032525273
RRP: €32.39Booksplease Price: €32.32* Winner: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Outstanding Book Award 2016 *"My father was born into war," begins this remarkable saga in Alisse Waterston's intimate ethnography, a story...