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Late Stalinism The Aesthetics of Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780300198478, Yale University Press, August 2020
576 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 5 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Russia! In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period – beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953 – Evgeny Dobrenk...
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From Old Regime to Industrial State A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I
ISBN: HB: 9780226725437, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 23 line drawings, 66 tables
In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany's industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead co...
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£60,00
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Mussolini and Hitler The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
ISBN: PB: 9780300254730, ISBN: HB: 9780300178838, Yale University Press, July 2020
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has und...
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£11,99
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Crisis of the Danish Golden Age and Its Modern Resonance
ISBN: HB: 9788763546706, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, July 2020
279 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Danish Golden Age was marked by several key events: the Napoleonic Wars, the bombardment of Copenhagen, the state bankruptcy in 1814 and the ensuing financial crisis, the revolution of 1848, and the establishment of a parliamentary democracy in 1...
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£40,00
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Compensations of Plunder How China Lost Its Treasures
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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£66,00
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Archipelago of Justice Law in France's Early Modern Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300244007, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 14 black&white illus.
This book is a groundbreaking evaluation of the interwoven trajectories of the people, such as itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates, who built France's first empire between 1680 and 1780 in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. These imperial su...
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Field of Cloth of Gold
ISBN: PB: 9780300248029, ISBN: HB: 9780300148862, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy and mystery. Throughout most of the late...
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£12,99
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£35,00
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Henry III 1207-1258
ISBN: HB: 9780300238358, Yale University Press, May 2020
576 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Nine years of age when he came to the throne in 1216, Henry III had to rule within the limits set by the establishment of Magna Carta and the emergence of parliament. Pacific, conciliatory, and deeply religious, Henry brought many years of peace to E...
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Time Travelers Victorian Encounters with Time and History
ISBN: PB: 9780226676791, ISBN: HB: 9780226676654, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of la...
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£66,00
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Sons of the Waves The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail
ISBN: HB: 9780300245714, Yale University Press, April 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 20 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 1 map
British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including co...
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