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Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France
ISBN: PB: 9780226770468, ISBN: HB: 9780226770321, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
There is little doubt that the political revolutions of the eighteenth century changed the course of Western history. But why did the idea of civic equality find such fertile ground in France? What is the relationship between political ideas and econ...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Total Mobilization World War II and American Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226637310, ISBN: HB: 9780226637280, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero – the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence – has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political h...
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£22,00
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£62,00
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Right to Difference French Universalism and the Jews
ISBN: PB: 9780226677323, ISBN: HB: 9780226397054, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country's Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious...
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£28,00
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£36,00
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Stormtroopers A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts
ISBN: PB: 9780300246599, Yale University Press, July 2019
504 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.
<p>Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s. Known also as the SA or Brownshirts, these "ordinary" men waged a loosely structured campaign of intimidatio...
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£12,99
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Rotten Bodies Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780300233520, Yale University Press, July 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Britain had no idea that it would not see another plague after the horrors of 1666, and for a century and a half the fear of epidemic disease gripped and shaped British society. Plague doctors had long asserted that the bodies of the poor were especi...
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£30,00
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Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye Keeping Spain out of World War II
ISBN: HB: 9781612006857, Casemate, September 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 22 black&white photos, 6 maps
Fascinating account of how intelligence and espionage were enacted to stop Spain from joining the Axis during World War II A highly readable account describing the colourful characters and unbelieveable schemes involved This book will appeal to those...
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£19,00
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First Bridge Too Far The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943
ISBN: HB: 9781612006895, Casemate, July 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15 cm
The full story of the British airborne forces attempt to take the strategically important Primosole Bridge, published for the 75th anniversary of the battle Shows how this battle was a precursor to the Battle of Arnhem – and the lessons that were and...
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£22,00
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Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France
ISBN: HB: 9780226499574, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as "terroristic". But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In "A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France", Ronald Schechter tells the sto...
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£34,00
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Exile in London The Experience of Czechoslovakia and the Other Occupied Nations, 1939-1945
ISBN: PB: 9788024637013, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! During World War II, London experienced not just the Blitz and the arrival of continental refugees, but also an influx of displaced foreign governments. Drawing together renowned historian...
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£20,00
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Demos Assembled Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840-1880
ISBN: HB: 9780226544465, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democrati...
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