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Dead of the Irish Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300123821, Yale University Press, November 2020
704 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
This account covers the turbulent period from the 1916 Rising to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 – a period which saw the achievement of independence for most of nationalist Ireland and the establishment of Northern Ireland as a self-governin...
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£50,00
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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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Odessa 1941-44 Defense, Occupation, Resistance and Liberation
ISBN: HB: 9781912390144, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
196 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 16 black&white photos, maps
After a brief overview of the origins and development of the city of Odessa on the Black Sea Coast, author Nikolai Ovcharenko turns to its citizens' ordeal during the Second World War. In the process, he describes the heroism of the city's defenders...
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£25,00
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Claiming Crimea A History of Catherine the Great's Southern Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300218299, Yale University Press, February 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 29 black&white illus.
Russia's long-standing claims to Crimea date back to the eighteenth-century reign of Catherine II. Historian Kelly O'Neill has written the first archive-based, multi-dimensional study of the initial "quiet conquest" of a region that has once again mo...
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£60,00
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Sins of the Fathers Germany, Memory, Method
ISBN: HB: 9780226386492, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 2 tables
National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over – the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed...
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£40,00
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Hope Springs Eternal French Bondholders and the Repudiation of Russian Sovereign Debt
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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£70,00
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Forging the Past Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain
ISBN: HB: 9780300185225, Yale University Press, August 2015
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Spain's infamous "false chronicles" were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jeronimo Roman de la Higuera. Though rife with an...
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£56,00
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Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
ISBN: HB: 9780226114521, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
"The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France" examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was i...
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£44,00
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In the House of the Hangman The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949
ISBN: PB: 9780226103341, ISBN: HB: 9780226626383, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones
The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. Political leaders and intellectuals on both sides of the conflict debated whether support for National Soci...
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£20,00
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£24,00
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Edward III
ISBN: PB: 9780300194081, Yale University Press, April 2013
752 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
Edward III (1312-1377) was the most successful European ruler of his age. Reigning for over fifty years, he achieved spectacular military triumphs and overcame grave threats to his authority, from parliamentary revolt to the Black Death. Revered by h...
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£20,00
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