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New World Gold Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain

Vilches Elvira

ISBN: HB: 9780226856186, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
368 pp., 21.5x14 cm

The discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spani...

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Hakluyt's Promise An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America

Mancall Peter C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164220, ISBN: HB: 9780300110548, Yale University Press, April 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 44 black&white illus.

Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of...

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Enlightened Pleasures Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism

Kavanagh Thomas M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140941, Yale University Press, April 2010
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue – a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly...

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Engineering the Revolution Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

Alder Ken

ISBN: PB: 9780226012643, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
496 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 32 halftones

"Engineering the Revolution" documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the "technological life". Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of...

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Shameful Peace How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation

Spotts Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9780300163995, Yale University Press, March 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation's artists and intellectuals. Some were able to flee the country; those who remained, including Gide and Celine, Picasso and Matisse, Cortot and Messiaen,...

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Growing Up in England The Experience of Childhood, 1600-1914

Fletcher Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780300163964, Yale University Press, March 2010
456 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book presents an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children in upper and professional class families over three centuries. Drawing on direct testimony from contemporary diaries and letters, the book revises previous understandings...

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Gender Studies

Hellfire Clubs Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies

Lord Evelyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300164022, Yale University Press, March 2010
250 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumours of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive libraries of erotica, extreme rituals, and initiation ceremonies circulated widely at the time, only to become more sen...

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Road to Terror Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

Getty J. Arch, Naumov Oleg V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300104073, Yale University Press, March 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Now updated with new facts, and abridged for use in Soviet history courses, this gripping book assembles top secret Soviet documents, translated into English, from the era of Stalin's purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret tran...

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Molotov Stalin's Cold Warrior

Roberts Geoffrey

ISBN: HB: 9781574889451, Casemate, Potomac Books, December 2009
254 pp., 23x15 cm

The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalin's faithful servant; a dogmatic conservative communist of little or no imagination. Molotov was, indeed, Stalin's right-hand man while from the 1920s the two men presided over...

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Jewish Studies

Utopia or Auschwitz Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust

Kundnani Hans

ISBN: PB: 9781849040242, ISBN: HB: 9781849040211, Hurst Publishers, November 2009
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! One thing above all separated the radical students who demonstrated on the streets of West Berlin and Frankfurt in 1968 from their counterparts elsewhere around the world. The young Germans who became known as the 1968 generati...

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