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Edward II

Phillips Seymour

ISBN: PB: 9780300178029, Yale University Press, October 2011
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Edward II (1284-1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as worthless, incapable of sustained policy, and significant only for his spora...

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Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800

McNeill William H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561523, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In "Europe's Steppe Frontier", acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill b...

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English Aristocracy, 1070-1272 A Social Transformation

Crouch David

ISBN: HB: 9780300114553, Yale University Press, March 2011
384 pp., 23.6x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

William the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. In this groundbreaking book, David Crouch examines for the first time the fate of the English aristocracy between the reig...

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Euphoria and Exhaustion Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society

Katzer Nikolaus, Budy Sandra, Kohring Alexandra, Zeller Manfred

ISBN: PB: 9783593392905, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
320 pp., 21.1x14.2 cm

The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society – they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. As "Euphoria and Exhaustion" shows, the Sovie...

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Enlightenment A Genealogy

Edelstein Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226184494, ISBN: HB: 9780226184470, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
184 pp., 21.5x13 cm

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of "the Enlightenment" first em...

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Enlightenment and the Book Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America

Sher Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752532, ISBN: HB: 9780226752525, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
848 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 45 halftones, 16 line illus.

The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these semina...

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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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Elusive Compromise A History of Interwar Yugoslavia

Djokic Dejan

ISBN: PB: 9781850658641, ISBN: HB: 9781850658511, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
310 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Before Tito's Yugoslavia, which disintegrated violently in the 1990s, there was another Yugoslav state. This book is about the original, interwar Yugoslavia (1918-41), and is based on the author's research in Croatian, Serbian,...

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Etruscans Outside Etruria

Camporeale Giovannangelo

ISBN: HB: 9780892367672, Getty Publications, March 2006
314 pp., 26.4x21.7 cm, illus.

During the last millennium BC, before the coming of the Romans, the Etruscans built a thriving civilization in the western Mediterranean basin, which was rich in natural resources. From the eighth century BC, Etruria became a destination on the Itali...

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