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Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde
ISBN: HB: 9781649590183, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
760 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 colour plates, 5 halftones, 9 figures
This volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the most significant women in early modern Ireland, Elizabeth Butler, first Duchess of Ormonde. She was the wife of James Butler, twelfth Earl and first Duke of Orm...
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£93,00
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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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£45,00
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Limits of Transnationalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226608280, ISBN: HB: 9780226608143, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
208 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to crossing intellectual ones".The Limits of Transnationalism" reassesses the overly optimistic narratives often associated with this malleable term, revealing both the...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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London Cage The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre
ISBN: PB: 9780300238655, Yale University Press, August 2018
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly secret prison in 1940: the London Cage. Here recalcitrant German prisoners of war were subjected t...
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£10,99
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Less You Know, Better You Sleep Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin
ISBN: PB: 9780300230727, Yale University Press, October 2017
240 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. The Moscow Times said it was not surprising he was expelled, "it was surprising it took so long". Satter is known in Russi...
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£14,99
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Liberty or Death The French Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9780300228694, Yale University Press, July 2017
488 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 40 colour illus.
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a li...
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£14,99
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Lions and Lambs Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany
ISBN: HB: 9780300219050, Yale University Press, April 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A bold new interpretation of Germany's democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on a group of intellectuals who shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction. Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt th...
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£30,00
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Liberation of Europe 1944-1945 The Photographers who Captured History from D-Day to Berlin
ISBN: HB: 9781612004020, Casemate, September 2016
336 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 400 illus.
The Second World War presented a huge range of challenges to press photography both in terms of its execution and getting the results in print. Life on the home front was the main subject until the invasion of France changed everything in 1944. Pho...
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£25,00
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Light in Germany Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment
ISBN: PB: 9780226421834, ISBN: HB: 9780226205106, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Germany's political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In this book, Jim Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-ce...
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£20,00
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£37,50
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Latest Catastrophe History, the Present, the Contemporary
ISBN: PB: 9780226165233, ISBN: HB: 9780226165066, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today's historians can find themselves researching the same events that they th...
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£26,00
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£76,00
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