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Forgotten Revolution The 1919 Hungarian Republic of Councils

Gollner Andras

ISBN: PB: 9781551647159, ISBN: HB: 9781551647173, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
225 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

After the ravages of World War I and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Budapest was engulfed by revolution and marauding foreign armies in 1919. Factory workers, disillusioned ex-soldiers, landless peasants, artists, and intellectuals bega...

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Substate Dictatorship Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union

Gorlizki Yoram, Khlevniuk Oleg

ISBN: HB: 9780300230819, Yale University Press, September 2020
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

How do local leaders govern in a large dictatorship? What resources do they draw on? Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk examine these questions by looking at one of the most important authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Starting in the ear...

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Mussolini and Hitler The Forging of the Fascist Alliance

Goeschel Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780300254730, ISBN: HB: 9780300178838, Yale University Press, July 2020
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has und...

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Women Studies

Europe

Bread Winner An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy

Griffin Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300230062, Yale University Press, April 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.

The Victorian era saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation's prosperity. Many families continued to live in grinding poverty with women and children usually faring worst. In this incisive account...

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Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000

Gibney John

ISBN: PB: 9780300244366, Yale University Press, May 2019
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland's modern period and continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the isla...

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Political Science

Limits of Transnationalism

Green Nancy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608280, ISBN: HB: 9780226608143, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
208 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to crossing intellectual ones".The Limits of Transnationalism" reassesses the overly optimistic narratives often associated with this malleable term, revealing both the...

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Criminology

Vory Russia's Super Mafia

Galeotti Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300243208, ISBN: HB: 9780300186826, Yale University Press, April 2019
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the change...

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Reims on Fire War and Reconciliation between France and Germany

Gaehtgens Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9781606065709, Getty Publications, May 2018
296 pp., 22.2x15.9 cm, 35 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.

As the site of royal coronations, Reims cathedral was a monument to French national history and identity. But after German troops bombed the cathedral during World War I, it took on new meaning. The French reimagined it as a martyr of civilisation, a...

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Townshend Moment The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century

Griffin Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300218978, Yale University Press, February 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the heady days after Britain's mythic victory over France in the mid-eighteenth century, and the historic and unintended consequences...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Henry IV

Given-Wilson Chris

ISBN: PB: 9780300229714, Yale University Press, August 2017
608 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 pp. black&white illus.

<p>Henry IV (1399-1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged forty-five, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry V. This comprehe...

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