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Author:William Reuben George
The Junior Republic: Its History and Ideals
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Author:Michael L. Miller
Quotas: The "Jewish Question" and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945
In 1920, the Hungarian parliament introduced a Jewish quota for university admissions, making Hungary the first country in Europe to pass antisemitic legislation following World War I. Quotas explores the ideologies and practices of quota regimes and the ways quotas have been justified, implemented,...- $145.00
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Author:Alexander Fraser Tytler
Elements of General History
An in-depth exploration of the principles and practices of general history, including topics such as historiography, methodology, and the interpretation of historical data.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we...- $31.95
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Author:Edgar Holmes McNeal
Minores and Mediocres in the Germanic Tribal Laws
A study of the social rankings in ancient Germanic tribes, particularly the differences between 'minores' and 'mediocres'. McNeal examines the legal implications of these distinctions and how they affected tribal society.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part...- $17.95
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Author:Eyal Rubinson
Growing Strong, Growing Apart: The Erosion of Democracy as a Core Pillar of NATO Enlargement, 1949-2023
Eyal Rubinson is Lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science, Ariel University, Israel, and Visiting Scholar at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain.Author: Eyal RubinsonISBN-10: 1438497318ISBN-13: 9781438497310Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2024Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h...- $99.00
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Author:Thomas Frost
The Secret Societies of the European Revolution, 1776-1876
Thomas Frost's groundbreaking study of the secret societies that played a key role in European politics and culture from 1776 to 1876 remains a classic of historical scholarship. Drawing on extensive research and detailed analysis, Frost provides an illuminating account of these elusive organizations...- $23.95
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Author:Dieter Gessner
People's Community 1933 - 1945: On the Emergence and Meaning of a Political Buzzword
The author of this volume examines the historical development and popularization of the ideological concept of the Volksgemeinschaft. This is a process of scientification, which the author describes using the examples of sociology, history, economics, demography, psychology, and geography. Its result is an ideologically...- $69.99
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Author:Maarten Couttenier
Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922)
This books examines the history of Belgian physical anthropology in the long nineteenth century and discusses how the notion of 'race' structured Belgian pasts and presents as well as relations between metropole and empire. In a context of competing European nationalisms, Belgian anthropologists mainly...- $170.00
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Author:William Carrigan
The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory; Volume 3
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Some of the First Settlers of "the Forks of the Delaware" and Their Descendants; Being a Translation From the German of the Record Books of the First
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Author:Thomas Dudley Fosbroke
Berkeley Manuscripts: Abstracts and Extracts of Smyth's Lives of the Berkeleys, Illustrative of Ancient Manners and the Constitution; Includ
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Author:Hilary Jenkinson
Palaeography and the Practical Study of Court Hand
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Author:Johannes Rehmke
Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie: Zum Selbststudium und f? Vorlesungen
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Author:Snorri Sturluson
Edda Snorra Sturlusonar
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Author:William Caxton
The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. A Facsimile Reproduction of the First Book Printed in England by William Caxton in 1477
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Author:J. a. 1826-1907 Kappey
Songs of Scandinavia and Northern Europe. A Collection of 83 National and Popular Songs of Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark
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Author:Jon Arnason
Icelandic Legends; Volume 1
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Author:William Carrigan
The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory; Volume 2
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Author:L. Whaley
Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800
Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and...- $129.99
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Author:Kieko Matteson
Forests in Revolutionary France: Conservation, Community, and Conflict, 1669-1848
This book investigates the economic, strategic, and political importance of forests in early modern and modern Europe and shows how struggles over this vital natural resource both shaped and reflected the ideologies and outcomes of France's long revolutionary period. Until the mid-nineteenth century, wood...- $41.99
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Author:William S. Brockington
Monro, His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys
The most complete memoir or primary account in English of two of the most important phases of the Thirty Years' War, Monro's Expedition is a regimental history, a guide to would-be mercenary officers, a social history, and a window into an earlier era. Although...- $95.00
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Author:Nigel McGilchrist
Kos with Nisyros & Pserimos
The titles in this series are about the diverse world of the Aegean Islands. They document the remarkable range of art, archaeology, history, and natural phenomena of this island world.Author: Nigel McGilchristISBN-10: 1907859012ISBN-13: 9781907859014Publisher: Genius Loci PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2011Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 6.60h x...- $15.00
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Author:Patrick Crowhurst
Hitler and Czechoslovakia in World War II: Domination and Retaliation
The invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany in March 1939 helped to precipitate Europe's descent into World War II sis months later. The move, supposedly to protect the Sudeten Germans, shocked many in Europe, who saw it as a clear statement of intent by...- $175.00
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Author:Ivan A. Backer
My Train to Freedom: A Jewish Boy's Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism
The breathtaking memoir by a member of "Nicky's family," a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton's Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest, Ivan Backer. As...- $22.99
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Author:Monica White
Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200
The rulers of the Byzantine Empire and its commonwealth were protected both by their own soldiers and by a heavenly army: the military saints. The transformation of Saints George, Demetrios, Theodore and others into the patrons of imperial armies was one of the defining...- $41.99
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Author:Julia Barrow
The Clergy in the Medieval World: Secular Clerics, Their Families and Careers in North-Western Europe, C.800-C.1200
Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important role in medieval society. This first broad-ranging study in English of the secular clergy examines how ordination provided a framework for clerical life cycles...- $39.99
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Author:Jeffrey Watt
From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe
In the broadest treatment yet of suicide in Europe during the period 1500-1800, 11 authors combine elements of social, cultural, legal, and intellectual history to trace important changes in the ways Europeans experienced and understood voluntary death. Well into the seventeenth century, Europeans viewed...- $73.95
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Author:Markus Jaugitz
German Remote-Control Tank Units 1940-1943
Covered are the radio and wire controlled vehicles as used by the Wehrmacht in 1940-1943.Author: Markus JaugitzISBN-10: 0764301780ISBN-13: 9780764301780Publisher: Schiffer PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/1997Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.30w x 0.20d- $9.95
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Author:Alison M. Moore
Sexual Myths of Modernity: Sadism, Masochism, and Historical Teleology
The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social progress, so that perversions were always related either to degeneration or decadence. These...- $136.00
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Author:John F. Pollard
Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850 1950
John Pollard, a leading historian of the papacy, explores the transformation of the Vatican into a major financial power and the part money played in the development of the modern papacy. Using hitherto unexplored sources, he sheds new light on tensions between the Vatican's...- $120.00
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Author:Julius R. Ruff
Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800
This book offers a broad-ranging survey of violence in western Europe from the Reformation to the French Revolution. Julius Ruff summarizes a huge body of research and provides readers with a clear, accessible, and engaging introduction to the topic of violence in early modern...- $126.00
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Author:Wendy Davies
The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages
This pioneering volume illuminates the practice of giving, endowing and exchanging gifts in the early Middle Ages, from Anglo-Saxon England to the Islamic world. Focusing especially on the language associated with medieval gift giving, this important new work examines how people visualized and thought...- $120.00
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Author:Jonathan Dewald
The European Nobility, 1400-1800
This book is the first comprehensive history of the European nobility between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. Designed to introduce students and nonspecialists to the subject, it explains all the principal themes in an authoritative and accessible manner. Challenging the conventional point of...- $45.99
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Author:Walter E. Kaegi
Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa
Who 'lost' Christian North Africa? Who won it and how? Walter Kaegi takes a fresh look at these perennial questions, with maps and on-site observations, in this exciting new book. Persisting clouds of suspicion and blame overshadowed many Byzantine attempts to defend North Africa,...- $95.99
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Author:Klaus-Michael Bogdal
Europe and the Roma: A History of Fascination and Fear
This remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their initial arrival in the late Middle Ages to the present day. To Europeans, the Roma appeared to be in complete contradiction with their own culture, because of...- $65.00
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Author:Julie B. Deluty
Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari
In Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari, Julie B. Deluty investigates the mediation of prophecy for kings in biblical narratives and the Old Babylonian corpus from Mari. In many cases, the prophet's message is delivered...- $151.00
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Author:Ivan G. Marcus
How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800-1500
An examination of how the Jews--real and imagined--so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways In medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often...- $39.95
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Author:Martin Dean
Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933-1945
Robbing the Jews reveals the mechanisms by which the Nazis and their allies confiscated Jewish property, demonstrating the close relationship between robbery and the Holocaust. The spoliation evolved in intensifying steps. The Anschluss and Kristallnacht in 1938 reveal a dynamic tension between pressure from...- $110.00
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Author:Maksim 1868-1936 Gorky
Days With Lenin
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Author:Antonio Calcara
European Defence Decision-Making: Dilemmas of Collaborative Arms Procurement
This book comparatively examines the preferences of four key arms-producing states towards European joint armaments programmes.The European defence market is characterised by a mixture of inter-state competition and European cooperation, and this work assesses why countries sometimes decide to cooperate with their partners, while...- $52.95
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Author:Ciro Paoletti
Italy, Piedmont and the War of Spanish Succession 1701-1712
The War of Spanish Succession is well known in English concerning Flanders and Germany, not that much concerning Spain, not at all about Italy. The Italian front was so important that the French considered it as important as the German one, and committed there...- $69.95
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Author:John Marsden
Napoleon's Stolen Army: How the Royal Navy Rescued a Spanish Army in the Baltic
This is the story of a Spanish army, commanded by the Marqu s de La Romana, which was sent to Denmark by Napoleon in 1807, while France and Spain were allies bound by the Treaty of San Ildefonso, signed in 1796. When relations between...- $44.95
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Author:Matteo Valleriani
de Sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries
This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco...- $59.99
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Author:Kavita Mudan Finn
The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens
Of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. This collection gives these characters their due as powerful early modern women and agents of change, bringing together new perspectives from scholars of literature, history, theater, and the fine arts. Essays span Shakespeare's career and cover a...- $329.99
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Author:Henning Holmberg
A Historical Guide to Prague
Frantisek Palacky, the most famous Czech historian, paints a vivid portrait of the history of Prague. You'll meet Libuse, the legendary foundress of the city, kings and queens, princes and bishops, merchants and soldiers. Palacky, one of the leading figures of the Czech National...- $6.99
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Author:John Gilmary Shea
The Life of Pope Pius Ix: And the Great Events in the History of the Church During His Pontificate
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Author:Henry Thomas Ellacombe
History of the Parish of Bitton, in the County of Gloucester; Volume 2
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Author:Francis Edward Jackson Valpy
The Etymology Of The Words Of The Greek Language In Alphabetical Order: With The Omissions Generally Of Plants And Sometimes Of The More Uncommon Anim
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Author:Joseph R. Waller
German-English Medical Dictionary
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Author:Alexander Gordon
The Lives of Pope Alexander VI and His Son C誑ar Borgia
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