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Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation
Fragile Loyalties in World War II
Inbunden, 2018
1677 kr
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In this compelling account of life and death in a Russian province under Nazi occupation, Johannes Due Enstad challenges received wisdom about Russian patriotism during World War II. With the benefit of hindsight, we know how hopelessly destructive Germany's war against the Soviet Union was. Yet …
Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation
Fragile Loyalties in World War II
Häftad, 2019
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586 kr
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In this compelling account of life and death in a Russian province under Nazi occupation, Johannes Due Enstad challenges received wisdom about Russian patriotism during World War II. With the benefit of hindsight, we know how hopelessly destructive Germany's war against the Soviet Union was. Yet …
The Politics of Nature in Nazi Germany
Environmental Ideals and the Myth of Blood and Soil
Inbunden, 2026
1502 kr
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For some Germans, Nazism represented an ecological outlook and a return to a simpler, healthier, more natural way of life founded on environmental harmony. That image fundamentally conflicts with the astonishing destructiveness of the Nazi military machine and its legacy of concentration camps, …
Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War
Av Annika Mombauer, Peter Baldwin m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
838 kr
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This book explores the influence of Helmuth von Moltke, Germany's Chief of the General Staff between 1906 and 1914. Based largely on previously unknown primary sources, it analyses the General Staff's role in military decision-making and Moltke's relationship with Kaiser Wilhelm II, as well as the …
Peter the Great
The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725
Häftad, 2007
918 kr
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A narrative of the fifty years of political struggles at the Russian court, 1671-1725. This book shows how Peter the Great was not the all-powerful tsar working alone to reform Russia, but that he colluded with powerful and contentious aristocrats in order to achieve his goals. After the early …
The French Second Empire
An Anatomy of Political Power
Av Roger Price
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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This book is about a major historical figure, Napoleon III, and a political regime. It examines how Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (nephew of the first Napoleon) was able to secure election as President of the Republic and subsequently to launch a coup d'état to establish a Second Empire. It then …
Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy
The Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790
Av Julian Swann
Häftad, 2007
921 kr
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This is the first book in English to study the history of the Estates General of Burgundy during the classic period of absolute monarchy. Although not a representative institution in any modern sense, the Estates were constantly engaged in a process of bargaining with the French crown, and this …
Catholic Revival in the Age of the Baroque
Religious Identity in Southwest Germany, 1550-1750
Häftad, 2007
902 kr
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This book is a study of Catholic reform, popular Catholicism and the development of confessional identity in southwest Germany. Based on extensive archival study, it argues that Catholic confessional identity developed primarily from the identification of villagers and townspeople with the …
Ordinary Prussians
Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840
Häftad, 2007
838 kr
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This book gives voice, in unusual depth and immediacy, to ordinary villagers and landlords (Junkers) in the Prussian-German countryside, from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. The trials and fortunes of everyday life come into view - in the family, the workplace, in the private lives …
Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France
Six Villages Compared, 1760-1820
Av Peter Jones
Häftad, 2007
902 kr
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This book examines the interface between the old and the new France in the period 1760-1820. It adopts an unusual 'comparative micro-historical' approach in order to illuminate the manner in which country dwellers cut themselves loose from the congeries of local societies that made up the Ancien …
Royalty and Diplomacy in Europe, 1890-1914
Häftad, 2007
838 kr
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This 2001 book examines the diplomatic role of royal families in the era before the outbreak of the First World War. It argues that previous historians have neglected for political reasons the important political and diplomatic role of monarchs during the period. Particular attention is given to …
Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition
Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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This book examines the politics of the French Revolutionary tradition during the Bourbon Restoration and early July Monarchy. Robert Alexander argues that political change was achieved by legal grassroots organization and persuasion - rather than by the revolutionary tradition of conspiracy and …
From Reich to State
The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830
Av Michael Rowe
Häftad, 2007
838 kr
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Napoleon's contribution to Germany's development was immense. Under his hegemony, the millennium-old Holy Roman Empire dissolved, paving the way for a new order. Nowhere was the transformation more profound than in the Rhineland. Based upon an extensive range of German and French archival sources, …
The Russian Roots of Nazism
White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945
Häftad, 2008
737 kr
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This book examines the overlooked topic of the influence of anti-Bolshevik, anti-Semitic Russian exiles on Nazism. White émigrés contributed politically, financially, militarily, and ideologically to National Socialism. This work refutes the notion that Nazism developed as a peculiarly German …
Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945
Häftad, 2009
754 kr
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This book examines the obsession for new technology that swept through Britain and Germany between 1890 and 1945. Drawing on a wide range of popular contemporary writings and pictorial material, it explains how, despite frequently feeling overwhelmed by innovations, Germans and Britons nurtured a …
People and Politics in France, 1848-1870
Av Roger Price
Häftad, 2009
938 kr
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This 2004 book is about politicisation and political choice in the aftermath of the February Revolution of 1848, and the emergence of democracy in France. The introduction of male suffrage both encouraged expectations of social transformation and aroused intense fear. In these circumstances the …
Family and Community in Early Modern Spain
The Citizens of Granada, 1570-1739
Av James Casey
Häftad, 2009
737 kr
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James Casey offers an innovative study of prestige, power and the role of the family in a Mediterranean city during the early modern period. He focuses on the structure and values of the ruling class of Granada, where a new elite consolidated its authority. The study suggests that their power was …
Inventing a Socialist Nation
Heimat and the Politics of Everyday Life in the GDR, 1945-90
Inbunden, 2009
1928 kr
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Twenty years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, historians still struggle to explain how an apparently stable state imploded with such vehemence. This book shows how 'national' identity was invented in the GDR and how citizens engaged with it. Jan Palmowski argues that it was …
The Rise of Heritage
Preserving the Past in France, Germany and England, 1789-1914
Inbunden, 2013
1928 kr
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Where does our fascination for 'heritage' originate? This groundbreaking comparative study of preservation in France, Germany and England looks beyond national borders to reveal how the idea of heritage emerged from intense competition and collaboration in a global context. Astrid Swenson follows …
Nobles and Nation in Central Europe
Free Imperial Knights in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850
Häftad, 2009
720 kr
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This is a study of Central European nobles in revolution. As one of Germany's richest, most insular and most autonomous nobilities, the Free Knights in Electoral Mainz represented the early modern noble ideal of pure bloodlines and cosmopolitan loyalties in the old society of orders. But this world …
Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe
A Bavarian Beacon
Häftad, 2009
838 kr
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From the ideological crucible of the Reformation emerged an embittered contest for the human soul. In the care of souls, the clergy zealously dispensed spiritual physic; for countless early modern Europeans, the first echelon of mental health care. During its heyday, spiritual physic touched the …
Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850
Häftad, 2009
737 kr
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The age of revolution challenged the ancien régime's political world, introducing Europeans to fresh ideals of citizenship. German society was no less affected. Following the Napoleonic era, a political culture of partisan choice undermined the official restoration of absolutism. Bourgeois and …
Russia on the Eve of Modernity
Popular Religion and Traditional Culture under the Last Tsars
Häftad, 2010
636 kr
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Russia on the Eve of Modernity is a pioneering exploration of a world that has been largely destroyed by revolutionary upheavals and obscured in historical memory by scholarly focus on elites. Drawing on traditional religious texts, ethnographic materials and contemporary accounts, this book brings …
Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union
Häftad, 2011
754 kr
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Major study of the role of European Christian democratic parties in the making of the European Union. It radically re-conceptualises European integration in long-term historical perspective as the outcome of partisan competition of political ideologies and parties and their guiding ideas for the …
Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany
Häftad, 2010
552 kr
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The process of globalisation in the late nineteenth century had a profound effect on the trajectories of German nationalism. While the existing literature on the subject has largely remained within the confines of national history, Sebastian Conrad uses the example of mobility and labour migration …
Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia
A Provincial History
Häftad, 2011
636 kr
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After the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in February 1917, Russia was subject to an eight month experiment in democracy. Sarah Badcock studies its failure through an exploration of the experiences and motivations of ordinary men and women, urban and rural, military and civilian. Using previously …
Imperial Boundaries
Cossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great
Inbunden, 2009
1677 kr
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Imperial Boundaries is a study of imperial expansion and local transformation on Russia's Don Steppe frontier during the age of Peter the Great. Brian Boeck connects the rivalry of the Russian and Ottoman empires in the northern Black Sea basin to the social history of the Don Cossacks, who were …
Royalty and Diplomacy in Europe, 1890-1914
Inbunden, 2001
1794 kr
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This 2001 book examines the diplomatic role of royal families in the era before the outbreak of the First World War. It argues that previous historians have neglected for political reasons the important political and diplomatic role of monarchs during the period. Particular attention is given to …
Fatherlands
State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Av Abigail Green, Peter Baldwin m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
820 kr
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Fatherlands is an original study of the nature of identity in nineteenth-century Germany, which has crucial implications for the understanding of nationalism, German unification and the German nation state in the modern era. The book approaches these questions from a new and important angle, that …
Origins of the French Welfare State
The Struggle for Social Reform in France, 1914-1947
Av Paul V. Dutton, Peter Baldwin m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
921 kr
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This is the first comprehensive analysis of public and private welfare in France available in English, or French, which offers a deeply-researched explanation of how France's welfare state came to be and why the French are so attached to it. The author argues that France simultaneously pursued two …
