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Economic Rise of the Czech Lands I From the 1750s to the End of World War I

Jindra Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024638065, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
500 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 85 graphs and charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This first of a two-part examination of the economic development of the Czech lands deals with the period from the mid-eighteenth century (the accession of Maria Theresa to the Austrian th...

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Medieval

Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega

Purdy Moudarres Christiana, Chiodo Carol

ISBN: PB: 9780866986359, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, January 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars to explore the poet's encyclopedic impulse in light of our own frenzied information age. This comprehensive collection of essays, coedited by Car...

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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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She Being Dead Yet Speaketh The Franklin Family Papers

Franklin Mary, Burton Hannah

ISBN: PB: 9780866986236, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
349 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 33 halftones, 40 figures

On Black Bartholomew's Day – August 24, 1662 – nearly two thousand ministers denied the authority of the Church of England and were subsequently removed from their posts. Mary Franklin was the wife of Presbyterian minister Robert Franklin, one of the...

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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Light and Flame

Butterwick Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300252200, Yale University Press, November 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 8 maps

Richard Butterwick tells the compelling story of the last decades of one of Europe's largest and least understood polities: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Drawing on the latest research, Butterwick vividly portrays the turbulence the Commonwealt...

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Dead of the Irish Revolution

O'Halpin Eunan, Corrain Daithi O.

ISBN: HB: 9780300123821, Yale University Press, November 2020
704 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

This account covers the turbulent period from the 1916 Rising to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 – a period which saw the achievement of independence for most of nationalist Ireland and the establishment of Northern Ireland as a self-governin...

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Biography & Memoires

Curious One Peter Kropotkin's Siberian Diaries

Coquard Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781551647432, ISBN: HB: 9781551647456, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Peter Kropotkin was one of the most influential Russian thinkers and activists and, though born a prince, is considered the architect of anarcho-communism. The year 2021 will mark the centennial of Kropotkin's death, which this book commemorates thro...

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Europe

Political Orchestra The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich

Trumpi Fritz

ISBN: PB: 9780226760261, ISBN: HB: 9780226251394, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 17 line drawings, 5 tables

This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the first time, Fritz Trumpi offers new insight into the orchestras...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Emperor A New Life of Charles V

Parker Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300254860, ISBN: HB: 9780300196528, Yale University Press, October 2020
400 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 40 colour illus., 5 maps

The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relen...

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Philosophy

Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry

Marshall David L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226722214, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the Weimar origins of rhetorical inquiry. Marshall focuse...

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