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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Light and Flame
ISBN: HB: 9780300252200, Yale University Press, November 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 8 maps
Richard Butterwick tells the compelling story of the last decades of one of Europe's largest and least understood polities: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Drawing on the latest research, Butterwick vividly portrays the turbulence the Commonwealt...
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£30,00
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Political Orchestra The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich
ISBN: PB: 9780226760261, ISBN: HB: 9780226251394, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 17 line drawings, 5 tables
This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the first time, Fritz Trumpi offers new insight into the orchestras...
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£33,00
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£37,50
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Provincializing Global History Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830
ISBN: HB: 9780300237160, Yale University Press, February 2020
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
"Provincializing Global History" explores the subtle transformation of the coastal province of the Languedoc in the eighteenth century. Mining a wealth of archival sources, James Livesey unveils how provincial elites and peasant households unwittingl...
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£35,00
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Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain's Imperial State
ISBN: HB: 9780300208269, Yale University Press, April 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded "in a fit of absence of mind". He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and the largest empire of the mod...
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£40,00
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Postwar Moment Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II
ISBN: HB: 9780300124354, Yale University Press, March 2019
560 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 29 black&white illus.
After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the United States were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original...
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£30,00
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Peace at Last A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918
ISBN: HB: 9780300233384, Yale University Press, October 2018
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 24 black&white illus.
November 11, 2018, marks the centenary of the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany ending World War I. While the events of the war and its legacy are much discussed, this is the first book to focus solely on the day itself, examining how t...
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£18,99
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Portrait of a Woman in Silk Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World
ISBN: PB: 9780300234237, Yale University Press, March 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 43 black&white illus.
Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarshi...
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£18,99
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Petrograd, 1917 Witnesses to the Russian Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9781851244607, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2017
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.
"It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a bullet!" The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution have been studied and written about extensively for the last hundred years, by historians and journalists alike....
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£25,00
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Prague A City and Its River
ISBN: PB: 9788024632926, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River Vltava. The flow of the river enabled the settlement of the Prague basin, the creation of...
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£20,00
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Prague of Charles IV, 1316-1378
ISBN: PB: 9788024631325, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2016
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In "The Prague of Charles IV, 1316-1378", Czech professor of art history Jan Royt renders a vivid image of the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom during the High Gothic period, presenting the...
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£20,00
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