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Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944 A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives
ISBN: PB: 9780300198164, Yale University Press, December 2013
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 74 black&white illus.
<p>Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941-1944 siege o...
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£45,00
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Economy of Glory From Ancien Regime France to the Fall of Napoleon
ISBN: HB: 9780226924588, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
From the outset of Napoleon's career, the charismatic Corsican was compared to mythic heroes of antiquity like Achilles, and even today he remains the apotheosis of French glory, a value deeply embedded in the country's history. From this angle, the...
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£39,00
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Holocaust Mothers and Daughters Family, History, and Trauma
ISBN: PB: 9781611684766, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted in six works by women who experienced the Holocaust, sometimes with their mothers, sometimes not. The daughters' memoirs, which record the "all-too-hum...
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£30,00
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Making England Western Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226923147, ISBN: HB: 9780226923130, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
The central argument of Edward Said's "Orientalism" is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that pr...
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£26,00
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£78,00
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Memorandum for the President of the Royal Audiencia and Chancery Court of the City and Kingdom of Granada
ISBN: PB: 9780226103037, ISBN: HB: 9780226547268, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 halftones, 2 maps
Conquered in 1492 and colonized by invading Castilians, the city and kingdom of Granada faced radical changes imposed by its occupiers throughout the first half of the sixteenth century – including the forced conversion of its native Muslim populatio...
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£15,00
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£34,00
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Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors
ISBN: PB: 9780226104324, ISBN: HB: 9780226781679, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
312 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm
There have been numerous studies in recent decades of the medieval inquisitions, most emphasizing larger social and political circumstances and neglecting the role of the inquisitors themselves. In this volume, Karen Sullivan sheds much-needed light...
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£24,00
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£43,50
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Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800 A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes
ISBN: PB: 9780226111513, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 1 map
The city of Florence has long been admired as the home of the brilliant artistic and literary achievement of the early Renaissance. But most histories of Florence go no further than the first decades of the sixteenth century. They thus give the impre...
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£31,00
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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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Sandzak A History
ISBN: HB: 9781849042451, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
356 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! One of the few remaining unexamined pieces of the Balkan jigsaw, the Sandzak – a multi-ethnic region straddling the border between Serbia and Montenegro – is heir to a complex and contested history. From the emergence and colla...
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£50,00
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Black Oxford The Untold Stories of Oxford University's Black Scholars
ISBN: PB: 9781908493835, Signal Books, October 2013
104 pp., 21.4x14.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! Oxford University has attracted and produced many of the world's most original thinkers over the centuries. It boasts heads of states, academics, writers, actors, scientists, philosophers and many other luminaries among its alu...
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£7,99
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