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Economic Rise of the Czech Lands I From the 1750s to the End of World War I

Jindra Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024638065, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
500 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 85 graphs and charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This first of a two-part examination of the economic development of the Czech lands deals with the period from the mid-eighteenth century (the accession of Maria Theresa to the Austrian th...

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Biography & Memoires

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Emperor A New Life of Charles V

Parker Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300254860, ISBN: HB: 9780300196528, Yale University Press, October 2020
400 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 40 colour illus., 5 maps

The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relen...

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Edward the Confessor Last of the Royal Blood

Licence Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780300211542, Yale University Press, August 2020
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus., 3 maps

One of the last kings of Anglo-Saxon England, Edward the Confessor regained the throne for the House of Wessex and is the only English monarch to have been canonized. Often cast as a reluctant ruler, easily manipulated by his in-laws, he has been bla...

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Empires of the Atlantic World Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

Elliott J. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300253399, Yale University Press, March 2020
608 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 43 black&white illus.

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatil...

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Sign Language

Europe

Elements of French Deaf Heritage

Hedberg Ulf, Lane Harlan

ISBN: PB: 9781944838560, Gallaudet University Press, March 2020
312 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 8 tables, 2 figures, 46 photos

French Deaf culture is regarded as a major influence on the formation of other Deaf cultures around the world, notably American Deaf culture. In "Elements of French Deaf Heritage", Ulf Hedberg and Harlan Lane document the development of Deaf culture...

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Europe

European Seaborne Empires From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions

Paquette Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300205152, Yale University Press, July 2019
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the development of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He draws on recent advances in the field to re-examine their dev...

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Engineering the Eternal City Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome

Long Pamela O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226591285, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 73 halftones

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hund...

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Europe

Estonia A Modern History

Taylor Neil

ISBN: PB: 9781849049573, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe's least populous nations – yet it boasts one of the continent's fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Ne...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Ecologies of Witnessing Language, Place, and Holocaust Testimony

Pollin-Galay Hannah

ISBN: HB: 9780300226041, Yale University Press, June 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking work rethinks conventional wisdom about Holocaust testimony, focusing on the power of language and place to shape personal narrative. Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration. Comparing the...

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Political Science

Europe

English Nationalism A Short History

Black Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9781849049856, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
224 pp., 19.2x13.2 cm

For sale in CIS only! There is no English state within the UK – no English passport, Parliament or currency; nor is there any immediate prospect of one. But that does not mean that England lacks an identity. The extent to which English nationalism...

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