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Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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Myth, Memory, Trauma Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70

Jones Polly

ISBN: PB: 9780300219777, ISBN: HB: 9780300185126, Yale University Press, April 2016
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities' initiation and...

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Culture Studies

European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche

Turner Frank M., Lofthouse Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219487, Yale University Press, April 2016
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures – lucid, accessi...

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Pocket Magna Carta 1217 Text and Translation

ISBN: HB: 9781851244522, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2016
64 pp., 15.5x10 cm,

"No freeman is to be taken or imprisoned, or dispossessed... except through the lawful judgment of his peers or through the law of the land". "To no one shall we sell, to no one shall we deny or delay right or justice" "Magna Carta" (or "Great Char...

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Habitual Offenders A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Monson Craig A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226335339, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones

In April 1644, two nuns fled Bologna's convent for reformed prostitutes. A perfunctory archiepiscopal investigation went nowhere, and the nuns were quickly forgotten. By June of the next year, however, an overwhelming stench drew a woman to the wine...

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Hitler's Geographies The Spatialities of the Third Reich

Giaccaria Paolo, Minca Claudio

ISBN: HB: 9780226274423, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

"Lebensraum": the entitlement of "legitimate" Germans to living space. "Entfernung": the expulsion of "undesirables" to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number...

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England's Great Transformation Law, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution

Steinberg Marc W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226329956, ISBN: HB: 9780226329819, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 tables

With "England's Great Transformation", Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial Revolution, largely revising the thesis at heart of Karl Polanyi's landmark "The Great Transformation". The conventional wisdom...

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Crimea A History

Kent Neil

ISBN: HB: 9781849044639, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 2014 Crimea shapes the headlines much as it did some 160 years ago, when the Crimean War pitted Britain, France and Turkey against Russia. Yet few books have been published on the history of the peninsula. For many readers,...

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Military

Europe

For God and Kaiser The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918

Bassett Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300219678, Yale University Press, March 2016
592 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus., 7 maps

Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military history, Richard Bassett's "For God and Kaiser" is a major account of the Habsburg army told for the first time in English. Bassett shows how the Imperial Austrian Army, t...

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Europe

Massacre The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871

Merriman John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219449, Yale University Press, March 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18 March and 28 May. Its brief rule ended in "Bloody Week"...

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