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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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Compensations of Plunder How China Lost Its Treasures

Jacobs Justin M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226712017, ISBN: HB: 9780226711966, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely seen as "stolen" or "plundered" from their countries of origin, and demands for their return grow loud...

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Backpack Ambassadors How Youth Travel Integrated Europe

Jobs Richard Ivan

ISBN: PB: 9780226462035, ISBN: HB: 9780226438979, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 1 line drawing

Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In "Backpack Ambassadors", Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the...

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Myth, Memory, Trauma Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70

Jones Polly

ISBN: PB: 9780300219777, ISBN: HB: 9780300185126, Yale University Press, April 2016
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities' initiation and...

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Dirty Old London The Victorian Fight Against Filth

Jackson Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780300216110, Yale University Press, October 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this inti...

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Voting for Hitler and Stalin Elections under 20th Century Dictatorships

Jessen Ralph, Richter Hedwig

ISBN: PB: 9783593394893, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
349 pp., 22x14 cm, 7 tables, 3 halftones

Dictatorships throughout the twentieth century – including Mussolini's Italy, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany – held elections. But were they more than rituals of participation without the slightest effect on the distribut...

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Serbs History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia

Judah Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780300158267, Yale University Press, November 2011
368 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 40 black&white illus

"The Serbs" was published in hardcover in 1997, and paperbacked in 1998. It was reissued as a NB paperback in 2000, and reprinted regularly since then. There is a lot to catch-up on in this second edition. It covers the Kosovo War, and the overthrow...

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Illustrating Empire A Visual History of British Imperialism

Jackson Ashley, Tomkins David

ISBN: PB: 9781851243341, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2011
224 pp., 23x21 cm, 228 colour illus.

Using fascinating printed documents that have survived by chance, a new book, released on Empire Day, vividly tells the story of the British Empire from the unusual angle of a unique collection of over 200 images of everyday life ephemera, many of wh...

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