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Trade Paperback : $59.95 Buy	Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921 Edited by Edward Acton, Vladimir Cherniaev, and William Rosenberg Bloomsbury USA "[This] truly impressive work is an invaluable addition to studies of the Russian Revolution, a book one hopes will find its way into all college and university libraries as well as into public libraries and personal collections."—Slavic Review

Trade Paperback : $53.00 Buy	The German Question and Europe A History Peter Alter Bloomsbury USA "An intelligent and readable guide to the question which caused most trouble in Europe from the Congress of Vienna to German unification in 1990. The book is...

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Nobilities in Transition 1550-1700

Courtiers and Rebels in Britain and Europe

Reconstructions in Early Modern History]

Ronald Asch Bloomsbury USA

Nobilities in Transition 1550-1700 explores the transformation of the nobility in the late 16th and 17th centuries in Europe, examining political and social changes, the impact princely courts had on noblemen and women and their way of life and analyzes issues such as the "refeudalization" of state and society in southern Europe or the increasing urbanization of noble elites in this time period. While paying due attention to the great heterogeneity of the nobility in Europe it nevertheless shows how the adherence to common values and ideals nevertheless gave noble elites coherence and a shared sense of identity.

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	Stone Voices The Search for Scotland Neal Ascherson Hill and Wang The rediscovery of Scotland’s past and a wake-up call about its future, from a leading scholar-journalist Scotland has a new Parliament and it has...

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The Cold War

An International History 1947-1991

S.J. Ball Bloomsbury USA

"The author displays extensive knowledge and sound judgment of the policies of nations whose histories are so rich and complex that many historians could spend a lifetime of study before uttering the kind of sensible pronouncements that Ball repeatedly makes . . . [A] valuable contribution to the Cold War corpus, as a reference text, as a possible course textbook, and as a model for all bold enough to write about international history."—Canadian Journal of History

Trade Paperback : $29.95 Buy	France Inventing the Nation Tim Baycroft Bloomsbury USA "A variable volume in an important new series...this effective book considers the way in which constructions of French identity have interacted with political contention. The result is a valuable reading of French history from the Revolutionary period on."—Jeremy Black, The Historical Association

Trade Paperback : $29.95 Buy	Twentieth-Century Europe P. M. H. Bell Bloomsbury USA This insightful study explores the proposition that the idea of European unity makes sense when there is more that unites Europe than divides it, and then asks when that has been true during the past hundred years and provides the historical context necessary to fully understand the complexity surrounding the European Union.

Trade Paperback : $45.00 Buy	Affluence and Authority A Social History of Twentieth-Century Britain John Benson Bloomsbury USA Affluence and Authority provides a wide-ranging, well-informed, and accessible interpretation of British social history during a century of profound and unprecedented, economic, political, cultural, demographic and ideological upheaval.

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Germany

Inventing the Nation

Stefan Berger Bloomsbury USA

German national identity has been constructed over the course of more than three centuries. This book examines the diverse and contested definitions of "Germaness" and covers the struggles between the democratic and non-democratic divisions, the role of foreigners and the impact of war on national identity. This comprehensive resource is a fundamental reappraisal of Germany's history from the fresh perspective of the post-Communist, reunified Germany.

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Nineteenth-Century Germany

Politics, Culture, and Society 1780-1918

Edited by John Breuilly Bloomsbury USA

"The collection is a satisfying introduction to the area. The essays are comprehensive without becoming superficial and balance the need for factual information with the requirement that students are provided with quite sophisticated discussions of tricky historiographical disputes."—History

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The Stone Fields

Love and Death in the Balkans

Courtney Angela Brkic Picador

"Harrowing . . . The Stone Fields is more than a memoir of the latest Balkan bloodletting. It is also an intimate history of the Balkans since the end of World War I. In sections entitled 'Herzegovina 1918-1931,' 'Sarajevo 1933-1945,' and 'Liberation 1945-1959,' Brkic re-creates the battered lives of her father's parents and sisters under the succession of regimes and circumstances that followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire with an almost folkloric intensity . . . Brkic establishes character and complexity, including her own, with the authority of an experienced novelist."—Elinor Langer, The Oregonian

Trade Paperback : $49.50 Buy	A History of Germany 1815-1990 William Carr Bloomsbury USA "This book remains the best single-volume history of modern Germany."—*Teaching History*

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The End of the Cold War Era

The Transformation of the Global Security Order

Historical Endings

Saki Dockrill Bloomsbury USA

Between 1989 and 1991 the world witnessed a series of dramatic changes: the end of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, the end of the superpower nuclear arms race, the demise of East-West rivalries in the Third World, and, finally, the break-up of the Soviet Union, all of which effectively ended the Cold War. End of the Cold War Era investigates the many unanswered questions posed by sudden end of the Cold War and extracts essential lessons from our recent past in three major areas: Europe, superpower relations, and the Third World.

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Nazi Germany 1933-1945

Faith and Annihilation

Jost Dülffer Bloomsbury USA

Nazi Germany 1933-1945 provides ready access to the insights of recent research, combining analysis with a narrative account of the period. It covers the rise of the Nazi Party, the consolidation of power in 1933-38, preparations for war, and the nature of the Nazi State. The war itself is a particular focus of attention and is considered in relation to the military engagements, the persecution of the regime's victims, the extermination and terror program, and the policies of occupation in the Nazi-occupied parts of Europe.

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Natasha's Dance

A Cultural History of Russia

Orlando Figes Picador

“Absolutely brimming with ideas, full of unforgettable stories and characters, Natasha's Dance tells a most remarkable story: How a backward country, obsessed with its backwardness, managed in a single century to produce the most passionate, innovative, searching art and literature of any Western society, in the process transforming Western culture as a whole. In the telling, Orlando Figes displays his gift for narrative power, his love of telling detail, and his great compassion for the lunatics and geniuses who fill his pages. Extraordinary.”—Michael Ignatieff

Lukas Prize Project - Finalist - Lynton History Prize

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Trade Paperback : $45.00 Buy	Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution Alan Forrest Bloomsbury USA Tensions between Paris and the provinces have played a significant role in French history. This book examines the effect of the French Revolution in the...

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The Birth of Biopolitics

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979

Lectures at the Collège de France

Michel Foucault Picador

This course thus raises questions of political philosophy and social policy that are at the heart of current debates about the role and status of neo-liberalism in twentieth century politics. A remarkable feature of these lectures is their discussion of contemporary economic theory and practice, culminating in an analysis of the model of Homo oeconomicus.

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Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	The Courage of Truth Lectures at the Collège de France Michel Foucault; Edited by Arnold I. Davidson; Translated by Graham Burchell Palgrave Macmillan “[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions . . . [He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture.”—The New York Review of Books

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German History since 1800

Edited by Mary Fulbrook Bloomsbury USA

This collection brings together an international team of distinguished scholars to produce an innovative and accessible guide to the controversial course of modern German history. Exploring the main issues in social, economic, cultural, and political history, the book reflects the diversity and liveliness of the field. Using a wealth of tables, maps and illustrations, it provides points of entry to key issues for students and scholars alike.

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Twentieth-Century Germany

Politics, Culture, and Society 1918-1990

Edited by Mary Fulbrook Bloomsbury USA

This clear and accessible guide to the controversial course of modern German history offers a series of intellectually innovative and stimulating essays that address key issues and debates, providing both chronological coverage and a thematic approach to modern German politics, economy, society, and culture.

Trade Paperback : $49.95 Buy	Modern Greece Brief Histories Thomas Gallant Bloomsbury USA A concise history of the rich and varied experience of Greece and the Greeks over the past two centuries, this book focuses on the forces and events that have...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Churchill A Life Martin Gilbert Holt Paperbacks Distilled from years of meticulous research and documentation, filled with material unavailable when the earliest books of the official biography's eight...

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Medieval England

A Social History 1250-1550

P.J.P. Goldberg Bloomsbury USA

All too often the social history of the Middle Ages has been explored as an adjunct to high politics. This new study focuses on the medieval era’s often overlooked ordinary men and women, for whom the politics of the manor, the vill, or the borough were often far more real and pressing. Medieval England explores the various structures of society—household, family, parish or manor—and considers the ways in which ages, gender, and maritial status shaped everday life.

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Rulers and Subjects

Government and People in Russia 1801-1991

John Gooding Bloomsbury USA

Rulers and Subjects studies the roles of governors and the governed, from 1801 until the end of the Soviet state. In charting the rocky course of that relationship, it devotes considerable attention to the two occasions when rebellion did succeed, placing them firmly in the context of 200 years of Russian history.