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Age of Catastrophe A History of the West 1914-1945

Winkler Heinrich August

ISBN: HB: 9780300204896, Yale University Press, September 2015
1016 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and...

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Culture Studies

Androids in the Enlightenment Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self

Voskuhl Adelheid

ISBN: PB: 9780226034164, ISBN: HB: 9780226034027, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line illus.

The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the Ger...

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Artists Under Hitler Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

Petropoulos Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300197471, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime? Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third...

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Biography & Memoires

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Auschwitz and After

Delbo Charlotte, Lamont Rosette C., Langer Lawrence L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190779, Yale University Press, November 2014
384 pp., 21x14 cm

Written by a mamber of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies clas...

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Athene Palace Hitler's "New Order" Comes to Rumania

Waldeck R. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226086330, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
368 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 map

On the day that Paris fell to the Nazis, R. G. Waldeck was checking into the swankiest hotel in Bucharest, the Athene Palace. A cosmopolitan center during the war, the hotel was populated by Italian and German oilmen hoping to secure new business opp...

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General

Aristocratic Vice The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Gambling, and Adultery in Eighteenth-century England

Andrew Donna T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300184334, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

"Attack on Aristocratic Vice" examines the outrage against – and attempts to end – the four vices associated with the aristocracy in 18th century in England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. All four, it was commonly believed, owed their or...

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Biography & Memoires

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Arch Conjuror of England John Dee

Parry Glyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300194098, Yale University Press, April 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with angels, John Dee (1527-1609) was one of the most colourful and controversial figures of the Tudor world. In this fascinating book – the first full-l...

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Ambition, a History From Vice to Virtue

King William

ISBN: HB: 9780300182804, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

From log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to office of the CEO, ambition drives the American Dream. Americans are a nation of people driven by ambition. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous v...

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Christianity

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Atheist's Bible The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

Minois Georges

ISBN: HB: 9780226530291, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
264 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line illus.

Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous...

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Biography & Memoires

Athelstan The First King of England

Foot Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780300187717, Yale University Press, August 2012
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 3 maps, 16-pages of black&white illus.

The powerful and innovative King Athelstan reigned only briefly (924-939), yet his achievements during those eventful twelve years changed the course of English history. He won spectacular military victories (most notably at Brunanburh), forged unpre...

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