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Henry V The Conscience of a King

Vale Malcolm

ISBN: HB: 9780300148732, Yale University Press, September 2016
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare Shakespeare's centuries-old portrayal of Henry V established the king's reputa...

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Rise of Thomas Cromwell Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, 1485-1534

Everett Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300223514, ISBN: HB: 9780300207422, Yale University Press, September 2016
376 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm, 16 black&white illus.

How much does the Thomas Cromwell of popular novels and television series resemble the real Cromwell? This meticulous study of Cromwell's early political career expands and revises what has been understood concerning the life and talents of Henry VII...

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Military

Hitler's Compromises Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany

Stoltzfus Nathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300217506, Yale University Press, September 2016
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A comprehensive and eye-opening examination of Hitler's regime, revealing the numerous strategic compromises he made in order to manage dissent History has focused on Hitler's use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessio...

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First Circumnavigators Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery

Kelsey Harry

ISBN: HB: 9780300217780, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the fi...

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Russia's Path Toward Enlightenment Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500-1801

Hamburg Gary M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300113136, Yale University Press, July 2016
864 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This book, focusing on the history of religious and political thinking in early modern Russia, demonstrates that Russia's path toward enlightenment began long before Peter the Great's opening to the West. Examining a broad range of writings, G. M. Ha...

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Medieval

Frederick Barbarossa The Prince and the Myth

Freed John B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300122763, Yale University Press, June 2016
704 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Frederick Barbarossa, born of two of Germany's most powerful families, swept to the imperial throne in a coup d'etat in 1152. A leading monarch of the Middle Ages, he legalized the dualism between the crown and the princes that endured until the end...

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Hitler's Berlin Abused City

Friedrich Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300219739, ISBN: HB: 9780300166705, Yale University Press, June 2016
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated by Germany's great capital city. In this vivid and entirely new account of Hitler's relationship with Berlin, Thomas Friedrich explores how Hitler identified with the city,...

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John Knox

Dawson Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780300219708, Yale University Press, May 2016
384 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 11 black&white illus.

Jane Dawson has written the definitive life of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland. Based in large part on previously unavailable sources, including the recently discovered papers of Knox's close friend and...

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Hope Springs Eternal French Bondholders and the Repudiation of Russian Sovereign Debt

Oosterlinck Kim, Bulger Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300190915, Yale University Press, May 2016
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In 1918, the Soviet revolutionary government repudiated the Tsarist regime's sovereign debt, triggering one of the biggest sovereign defaults ever. Yet the price of Russian bonds remained high for years. Combing French archival records, Kim Oosterlin...

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General

Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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