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The Red Vienna Sourcebook [Hardback]
Ingo Zechner(Editor); Georg Spitaler(Editor); Rob McFarland(Editor)
$120.00ISBN: 9781571133557
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 204
Immediately after World War I, in 1919, the Austrian capital Vienna elected a Social Democratic majority that persisted until 1934. The city's leaders, together with its intellectuals, boldly imagined a new society that would be economically just,... .... Learn More -
The Red Vienna Sourcebook [Paperback]
Ingo Zechner(Editor); Georg Spitaler(Editor); Rob McFarland(Editor)
$49.95ISBN: 9781640140677
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 204
The current blockbuster German TV series Babylon Berlin introduces viewers to the tumultuous period in German history known as the Weimar Republic. Critics have praised the series for its relevance to the present: it shows dark populist for... .... Learn More -
Imperialism and Development: The East African Groundnut Scheme and its Legacy [Hardback]
Nicholas Westcott(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012593
Published by : James Currey
Series: Eastern Africa Series
As colonial development took off after the Second World War, in the context of national food shortages, Britain's Labour Government initiated the Groundnut Scheme, an extraordinarily ambitious project to convert 3 million acres of bush in Tanganyi... .... Learn More -
Americans and Queen Marie of Romania: A Selection of Documents [Hardback]
Diana Fotescu(Editor)
$49.99ISBN: 9789739839105
Published by : Center for Romanian Studies
Granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England and Tsar Alexander II of Russia, Marie (1875-1938) became princess of Romania through her marriage to Ferdinand of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, crown prince of Romania on 29 December 1892. She became queen o... .... Learn More -
The Russian Civil War, 1918–1921: An Operational-Strategic Sketch of the Red Army’s Combat Operations [Hardback]
A S Bubnov(Editor); S S Kamenev(Editor); M N Tukhachevskii(Editor); R P Eideman(Editor); Richard W Harrison(Translator)
$65.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781952715044
Published by : Casemate Academic
The Russian Civil War was one of the most fateful of the 20th century's military conflicts, a bloody three-year struggle whose outcome saw the establishment of a totalitarian communist regime within the former Russian Empire. As such, it commands ... .... Learn More -
Framing the World: Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought [Hardback]
Margaret Small(Author)
$115.00ISBN: 9781783275205
Published by : Boydell Press
The long sixteenth century saw a major shift in European geographical understanding: in the space of little more than a hundred years Western Europeans moved to see the world as a place in which all parts of the sphere were made by God for human e... .... Learn More -
Places of Contested Power: Conflict and Rebellion in England and France, 830-1150 [Hardback]
Ryan Lavelle(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783273737
Published by : Boydell Press
The direct contestation of power played a crucial role in early medieval politics. Such actions, often expressed through violence, reveal much about established authorities, power and lordship.
Here the hitherto neglected role of place and lan... .... Learn More -
Fractured Frontiers: The Exile Writing of Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain [Hardback]
Monica Jato(Author); John Klapper(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140516
Published by : Camden House
Writers opposed to National Socialism or Francoism have been considered either territorial exiles, who left their country, or "inner exiles," who did not. Those who stayed were initially accorded greater status, while those who left were... .... Learn More -
The Fabric Accounts of St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, 1292-1396 [Hardback]
Tim Ayers(Editor); Maureen Jurkowski(Editor)
$220.00ISBN: 9781783274444
Published by : Boydell Press
Begun by Edward I in 1292 and finished by Edward III, the rebuilding and decoration of St Stephen's chapel took three reigns and over 60 years to complete (accommodation for the associated college of secular clergy was still under construction in ... .... Learn More -
Globalized Peripheries: Central Europe and the Atlantic World, 1680-1860 [Paperback]
Jutta Wimmler(Editor); Klaus Weber(Editor)
$34.95ISBN: 9781783274758
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History
Volume: Volume 16
The early modern Atlantic world, with its flows of bullion, of free and unfree labourers, of colonial produce and of manufactures from Europe and Asia, with mercantile networks and rent-seeking capital, has to date been described almost entirely a... .... Learn More
