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She Being Dead Yet Speaketh The Franklin Family Papers
ISBN: PB: 9780866986236, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
349 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 33 halftones, 40 figures
On Black Bartholomew's Day – August 24, 1662 – nearly two thousand ministers denied the authority of the Church of England and were subsequently removed from their posts. Mary Franklin was the wife of Presbyterian minister Robert Franklin, one of the...
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£48,00
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Substate Dictatorship Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union
ISBN: HB: 9780300230819, Yale University Press, September 2020
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.
How do local leaders govern in a large dictatorship? What resources do they draw on? Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk examine these questions by looking at one of the most important authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Starting in the ear...
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£50,00
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Security Empire The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780300242577, Yale University Press, August 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differi...
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Sons of the Waves The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail
ISBN: HB: 9780300245714, Yale University Press, April 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 20 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 1 map
British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including co...
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£20,00
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Scots and Catalans Union and Disunion
ISBN: PB: 9780300253382, Yale University Press, March 2020
360 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 3 maps, 2 black&white figures
A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This first sustained comparative study uncovers the similarities and the...
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Siege of Acre, 1189-1191 Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade
ISBN: PB: 9780300251494, ISBN: HB: 9780300215502, Yale University Press, February 2020
272 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.
The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was the most significant military engagement of the Third Crusade, attracting armies from across Europe, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Maghreb. Drawing on a balanced selection of Christian and Muslim s...
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Spartakiads The Politics and Aesthetics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia
ISBN: PB: 9788024638515, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
350 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 35 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia. Featuring hu...
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£19,00
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Stormtroopers A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts
ISBN: PB: 9780300246599, Yale University Press, July 2019
504 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.
<p>Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s. Known also as the SA or Brownshirts, these "ordinary" men waged a loosely structured campaign of intimidatio...
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Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
ISBN: PB: 9780300244366, Yale University Press, May 2019
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland's modern period and continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the isla...
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£10,99
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Stalin's Master Narrative A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course
ISBN: HB: 9780300155365, Yale University Press, April 2019
760 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
"The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)" defined Stalinist ideology both at home and abroad. It was quite literally the the master narrative of the USSR – a hegemonic statement on history, politics, an...
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