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Age of Reform, 1250-1550 An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780300203554, Yale University Press, August 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
The seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s were sown in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dissemination of dissenting intellectual trends through three cent...
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£19,99
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Bookshop of the World Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300254792, Yale University Press, August 2020
496 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 70 colour illus.
The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely overlooked marvel in the Dutch wo...
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Cambodia From Pol Pot to Hun Sen and Beyond
ISBN: PB: 9780300211733, Yale University Press, August 2020
344 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 33 black&white illus.
To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio,...
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£11,99
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Crusader Strategy Defending the Holy Land
ISBN: HB: 9780300253115, Yale University Press, August 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Medieval states, and particularly crusader societies, often have been considered brutish and culturally isolated. It seems unlikely that they could develop "strategy" in any meaningful sense. However, the crusaders were actually highly organized in t...
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£25,00
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Edward the Confessor Last of the Royal Blood
ISBN: HB: 9780300211542, Yale University Press, August 2020
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus., 3 maps
One of the last kings of Anglo-Saxon England, Edward the Confessor regained the throne for the House of Wessex and is the only English monarch to have been canonized. Often cast as a reluctant ruler, easily manipulated by his in-laws, he has been bla...
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Late Stalinism The Aesthetics of Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780300198478, Yale University Press, August 2020
576 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 5 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Russia! In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period – beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953 – Evgeny Dobrenk...
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£45,00
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In the Dragon's Shadow Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300234039, Yale University Press, August 2020
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 colour illus., 4 maps
Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China. Three of its nations border China and five are directly impacted by its claims over the South China Sea. All dwell in the lengthening shadow of its influence: economi...
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£20,00
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Peppermint Kings A Rural American History
ISBN: HB: 9780300236828, Yale University Press, August 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.
This unconventional history relates the engaging and unusual stories of three families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose involvement in the peppermint oil industry provides insights into the perspectives and concerns of rural...
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Year of Peril America in 1942
ISBN: HB: 9780300233780, Yale University Press, July 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 25 black&white illus.
The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on th...
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War for the Seas A Maritime History of World War II
ISBN: PB: 9780300254884, ISBN: HB: 9780300190199, Yale University Press, July 2020
632 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 59 black&white illus., 9 maps, 14 figures
Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant America prevail in what h...
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