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Third Walpurgis Night The Complete Text
ISBN: HB: 9780300236002, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Now available in English for the first time, Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus's "Third Walpurgis Night" was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews...
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£25,00
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Crisis of the Danish Golden Age and Its Modern Resonance
ISBN: HB: 9788763546706, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, July 2020
279 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Danish Golden Age was marked by several key events: the Napoleonic Wars, the bombardment of Copenhagen, the state bankruptcy in 1814 and the ensuing financial crisis, the revolution of 1848, and the establishment of a parliamentary democracy in 1...
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£40,00
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Culture in Nazi Germany
ISBN: PB: 9780300253375, Yale University Press, March 2020
472 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 30 colour illus.
Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During...
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£11,99
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Iceland's 1100 Years History of a Marginal Society
ISBN: PB: 9781849049115, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
432 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Iceland's 1100 Years" recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among the European societies in being founded as lat...
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£20,00
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Hitler's Monsters A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
ISBN: PB: 9780300234541, Yale University Press, May 2018
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power. The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is ofte...
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£12,99
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Great Cat and Dog Massacre The Real Story of World War Two's Unknown Tragedy
ISBN: PB: 9780226573946, ISBN: HB: 9780226318325, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
The tragedies of World War II are well known. But at least one has been forgotten: in September 1939, four hundred thousand cats and dogs were massacred in Britain. The government, vets, and animal charities all advised against this killing. So why w...
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£12,95
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£28,00
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Conscience and Conversion Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France
ISBN: HB: 9780300226133, Yale University Press, March 2018
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Religious liberty is usually examined within a larger discussion of church-state relations, but Thomas Kselman looks at several individuals in Restoration France whose high-profile conversions fascinated their contemporaries. Exploring their reasons...
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£70,00
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Small Towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries Heritage and Development Strategies
ISBN: PB: 9788024636450, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Always in the shadow of their more famous urban neighbors, small towns are consistently overlooked in historical research, especially in Europe. This book investigates the ramifications of...
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£15,00
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Catholics on the Barricades Poland, France, and "Revolution", 1939-1956
ISBN: HB: 9780300225518, Yale University Press, February 2018
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojty³a, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle...
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£37,00
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Minorities and Law in Czechoslovakia
ISBN: PB: 9788024635835, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2017
302 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic Across the whole of modern Czech history – from 1918, through World War II, and into the postwar years – ethnic and minority issues have been of the utmost prominence. Moreover, Czechoslova...
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£19,00
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