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Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France

Sewell William H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226770468, ISBN: HB: 9780226770321, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

There is little doubt that the political revolutions of the eighteenth century changed the course of Western history. But why did the idea of civic equality find such fertile ground in France? What is the relationship between political ideas and econ...

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Biography & Memoires

Curious One Peter Kropotkin's Siberian Diaries

Coquard Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781551647432, ISBN: HB: 9781551647456, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Peter Kropotkin was one of the most influential Russian thinkers and activists and, though born a prince, is considered the architect of anarcho-communism. The year 2021 will mark the centennial of Kropotkin's death, which this book commemorates thro...

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Crisis of the Danish Golden Age and Its Modern Resonance

Kramer Nathaniel, Stewart Jon

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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Compensations of Plunder How China Lost Its Treasures

Jacobs Justin M.

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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Culture in Nazi Germany

Kater Michael H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300253375, Yale University Press, March 2020
472 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 30 colour illus.

Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During...

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Cartographic Humanism The Making of Early Modern Europe

Piechocki Katharina N.

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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Croatia A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Fourth Edition)

Tanner Marcus

ISBN: PB: 9780300246575, Yale University Press, April 2019
392 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Millions of tourists visit Croatia each year. Every summer, thousands of people walk along the famously beautiful marble-tiled street in Dubrovnik, now a World Heritage site. Of the countries that have emerged since the collapse of communism and the...

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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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Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

Willes Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780300238686, Yale University Press, August 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

<p>Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times. Pepys was earthy and shrewd,...

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Christianity

Conscience and Conversion Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France

Kselman Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300226133, Yale University Press, March 2018
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Religious liberty is usually examined within a larger discussion of church-state relations, but Thomas Kselman looks at several individuals in Restoration France whose high-profile conversions fascinated their contemporaries. Exploring their reasons...

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