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Russ-Ukraine-Russia Scenes from the Cultural History of Russian Religiosity
ISBN: PB: 9788024635804, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2021
350 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 20 halftones, 3 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! An outspoken opponent of pro-Russian, authoritarian, and far-right streams in contemporary Czech society, Martin C. Putna received a great deal of media attention when he ironically dedica...
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£18,00
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Goering's Man in Paris The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World
ISBN: HB: 9780300251920, Yale University Press, January 2021
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.
Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Goring to Hitler's special art looting agency, he went on to supervise the systematic theft and distribution of over 22,000 artworks, largely from F...
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£25,00
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Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega
ISBN: PB: 9780866986359, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, January 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars to explore the poet's encyclopedic impulse in light of our own frenzied information age. This comprehensive collection of essays, coedited by Car...
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£77,00
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Emperor A New Life of Charles V
ISBN: PB: 9780300254860, ISBN: HB: 9780300196528, Yale University Press, October 2020
400 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 40 colour illus., 5 maps
The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relen...
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£14,99
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£25,00
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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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£12,99
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Security Empire The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780300242577, Yale University Press, August 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differi...
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£45,00
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Migrant City A New History of London
ISBN: HB: 9780300210972, Yale University Press, February 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.
London is now a global financial and multicultural hub in which over three hundred languages are spoken. But the history of London has always been a history of immigration. Panikos Panayi explores the rich and vibrant story of London– from its found...
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£20,00
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Spartakiads The Politics and Aesthetics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia
ISBN: PB: 9788024638515, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
350 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 35 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia. Featuring hu...
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£19,00
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T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question
ISBN: PB: 9788024638799, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Miloڑ Pojar traces the development and transformation of the opinions about Jews and Judaism of the first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk. Pojar describes the key event...
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£17,00
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Cartographic Humanism The Making of Early Modern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780226641188, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
What is "Europe", and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries....
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£34,00
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