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Europe

Brexit in History Sovereignty or a European Union?

Heuser Beatrice

ISBN: HB: 9781787381261, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Are Europeans hard-wired for conflict? Given the enmities that wracked the Greek city-states, or the Valois, Bourbons and Habsburgs, it seems undeniable. The Holy Roman Empire promised peace, but collapsed before it could deliv...

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History of Finland Directions, Structures, Turning-Points

Meinander Henrik

ISBN: PB: 9781787380301, ISBN: HB: 9781849040907, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Henrik Meinander paints a brisk and bold picture of the history of Finland from integrated part of the Swedish kingdom to autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian empire, gradually transformed and maturing into a conscious nat...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Cnut the Great

Bolton Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300243185, ISBN: HB: 9780300208337, Yale University Press, February 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire. Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of th...

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America

Hot Protestants A History of Puritanism in England and America

Winship Michael P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300126280, Yale University Press, February 2019
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world....

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Europe

Education

Oxford Freemasons A Social History of Apollo University Lodge

Mordaunt Crook Joe, Daniel James

ISBN: HB: 9781851244676, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2019
240 pp., 27.8x22.6 cm, 74 colour illus.

Over the past 200 years, many thousands of undergraduates have been initiated into membership of Apollo – the Masonic Lodge of the University of Oxford. These have included such diverse figures as Oscar Wilde, Osbert Lancaster, Samuel Reynolds Hole,...

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Political Science

Europe

Britain and Europe A Short History

Black Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9781787381186, Hurst Publishers, February 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious history is presented to argue for either the closeness or distance of our politic...

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Europe

Siberia A History of the People

Hartley Janet M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246421, Yale University Press, January 2019
322 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives its population has led over the course of four centuries. Janet M. Hartley explores t...

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Military

Europe

Vyborg 1944 The Last Soviet-Finnish Campaign on the Eastern Front

Irincheev Bair

ISBN: HB: 9781912390274, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
176 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 75 black&white photos, colour maps

The war between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1941-44 is much less known in the West and in Russia than the Winter War 1939-40. For Finland the Continuation War is one of cornerstones of national identity. The Vyborg offensive, the battle that ende...

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Christianity

Europe

Atlas of Religions in Czechia

Havlicek Tomas, Klingorova Kamila, Lysak Jakub

ISBN: HB: 9788024637945, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2018
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 116 maps, 4 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Atlas of Religions in Czechia" represents the first comprehensive geographical analysis of the religious landscape of Czechia and its transformation since the fall of communism in 198...

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Europe

Marketable Values Inventing the Property Market in Modern Britain

Fitz-Gibbon Desmond

ISBN: PB: 9780226584331, ISBN: HB: 9780226584164, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The idea that land should be – or even could be – treated like any other commodity has not always been a given. For much of British history, land was bought and sold in ways that emphasized its role in complex networks of social obligation and politi...

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