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Converting Bohemia
Prior to the Thirty Years’ War, almost all of Bohemia’s population lay outside the Catholic fold, yet by the beginning of the eighteenth century...
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Music and the Myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy
The idea that there was a time when men and women lived in perfect harmony with nature and with themselves, though rooted in classical antiquity, was...
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The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
This definitive 8-volume reference is a comprehensive print and electronic resource covering the history of protest and revolution over the past 500...
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The Writer in Petrograd and the House of Arts
Founded by Maksim Gorky and Kornei Chukovsky in 1919 and disbanded in 1922, the Petrograd House of Arts occupied a crucial moment in Russia’s...
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A Companion to Russian History
This Companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest...
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The Cambridge History of Turkey
This volume examines the rise of Turkish power in Anatolia from the arrival of the first Turks at the end of the eleventh century to the fall of...
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The Hamburger
Colorful reading... This is a country that needed something to united it, and, however improbably, Ozersky convinces us that the hamburger has done...
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Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil concerns what is entailed by pledging allegiance to a constitutional text and tradition saturated...
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The Returns of Zionism
In this original and wide-ranging study, Gabriel Piterberg examines the ideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the late...
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Moskva 1941: En by i krig
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Slaget om Moskva i 1941 var det største slaget under annen verdenskrig. Kampene strakte seg over et område på størrelse med Frankrike, og varte i...
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A History of Modern Iran
In a reappraisal of Iran’s modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of...
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Inventing Vietnam
This book considers the Vietnam war in light of U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam, concluding that the war was a direct result of failed state-building...
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Climate Change in Prehistory
How did humankind deal with the extreme challenges of the last Ice Age? How have the relatively benign post-Ice Age conditions affected the evolution...
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Plague and the End of Antiquity
Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. In this volume, the first on the subject, twelve scholars...
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A Concise History of Sweden
A comprehensive history of Sweden is much needed. Neil Kent's book sweeps through Sweden's history from the Stone Age to the present day. Early...
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The Chinese Cultural Revolution
A groundbreaking study of cultural life during a turbulent and formative decade in contemporary China, this book seeks to explode several myths about...
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The Continuities of German History
This book opens the debate about German history in the long term – about how ideas and political forms are traceable across what historians have...
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Hitler’s African Victims
During its campaign against France in 1940, the German army massacred several thousand black POWs belonging to units drafted in France's West African...
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The U.S.-U.S.S.R. Grain Agreement
This study of the 1975 US-USSR Grain Agreement negotiations illuminates the parameters and constraints faced by policy makers in a democratic,...
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The Conquests of Alexander the Great
Waldemar Heckel provides a revisionist overview of the conquests of Alexander the Great. Emphasising the aims and impact of his military expeditions,...
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Ancient Greek Divination
The first English-language survey of ancient Greek divinatory methods, Ancient Greek Divination offers a broad yet detailed treatment of the earliest...
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Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe
This major new history of European women's professional activities and organizational roles during the ‘long’ nineteenth century examines what...
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne is often claimed as the greatest ruler in Europe before Napoleon. In this magisterial new study, Rosamond McKitterick re-examines...
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Making a New Deal
This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political...
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