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  • af H. B. Callaway
    342,95 kr.

    Officially, revolutionary France granted all citizens a right to property. In practice, however, there was significant continuity with the Old Regime. H. B. Callaway argues that the state's fraught attempts to confiscate property from Parisian émigrés reveal contradictions in ideas of ownership considered foundational to modern property rights.

  • - German Schoolteachers under Two Dictatorships
    af Charles B. Lansing
    816,95 kr.

    Tracing teachers' experiences in the Third Reich and East Germany, this title analyzes developments in education of crucial importance to both dictatorships.

  • - Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company
    af Rupali Mishra
    324,95 kr.

    Around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world's trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers. Yet the story of its 17th-century beginnings has remained largely untold. Rupali Mishra's account of the Company's formative years sheds light on one of the most powerful corporations in the history of the world.

  • - The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945
    af Heidi J. S. Tworek
    243,95 kr.

    Heidi Tworek's innovative history reveals how, across two devastating wars, Germany attempted to build a powerful communication empire-and how the Nazis manipulated the news to rise to dominance in Europe and further their global agenda. When the news became a form of international power, it changed the course of history.

  • - The Catholic Struggle for Inclusion after Unification
    af Rebecca Ayako Bennette
    482,95 kr.

    Historians have long believed that Catholics were late and ambivalent supporters of the German nation. Rebecca Ayako Bennette's bold new interpretation demonstrates definitively that from the beginning in 1871, when Wilhelm I was proclaimed Kaiser of a unified Germany, Catholics were actively promoting a German national identity for the new Reich.

  • - Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas
    af Sally E. Hadden
    406,95 kr.

    This book completes the grim picture of slavery by showing us the origins, nature, and extent of slave patrols in Virginia and the Carolinas from the late 17th century through the end of the Civil War. Here we see how the patrols, formed by county courts and state militias, were the closest enforcers of codes governing slaves throughout the South.

  • - Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain
    af Catherine Molineux
    493,95 kr.

    Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. In her exploration of this emerging black presence, Molineux assembles evidence ranging from shop signs, tea trays, trading cards, board games, and playing cards to song ballads and William Hogarth's graphic satires.

  • af Robert M. Kingdon
    263,95 kr.

    In Calvin's Geneva, the changes associated with the Reformation were particularly abrupt and far-reaching, in large part owing to John Calvin himself. This book makes two major contributions to our understanding of this time: the first is to the history of divorce itself; the second is in illustrating the operations of the Consistory of Geneva.

  • - From Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville
    af Matthew W. Maguire
    992,95 kr.

    Maguire uncovers a history of French thought that casts the imagination as a dominant faculty in our experience of the world. Original and thought-provoking, this book will interest a range of readers across intellectual history, political theory, literary and cultural studies, and the history of religious thought.

  • - Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order
    af Denise Z. Davidson
    948,95 kr.

    Davidson provides a reevaluation of prevailing views on the effects of the French Revolution, and particularly on the role of women. Arguing against the idea that women were forced from the public realm of political discussion, Davidson demonstrates how women remained highly visible and active.

  • - Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia
    af Alison Fleig Frank
    284,95 kr.

    How and why did the promise of oil fail Galicia and the Austrian Empire, which at the beginning of the 20th century ranked third among the world's oil-producing states? Alison Frank traces the interaction of technology, nationalist rhetoric, social tensions, provincial politics, and entrepreneurial vision in shaping the Galician oil industry.

  • - Culture, Diplomacy, and War Propaganda
    af Daniela Rossini
    579,95 kr.

    In 1918, Wilson's image as leader of the free world and the image of America as dispenser of democracy spread through Italy, filling an ideological void. Rossini sets the Italian-American political confrontation in the context of the countries' cultural perceptions of each other, different war experiences, and ideas about participatory democracy.

  • - Yugoslav Unity and Communist Revolution, 1919-1953
    af Aleksa Djilas
    449,95 kr.

    Published amid the unraveling of the second Yugoslavia, The Contested Country lays bare the roots of the idea of Yugoslav unity--its conflict with the Croatian and Serbian national ideologies and its peculiar alliance with liberal and progressive, especially Communist, ideologies.

  • - The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-Century France
    af Christine Haynes
    509,95 kr.

    Linking the study of business and politics, Haynes reconstructs the passionate and protracted debate over the development of the book trade in nineteenth-century France. In tracing the contest over literary production in France, Haynes emphasizes the role of the Second Empire in enacting-but also in limiting-press freedom and literary property.

  • - Globalization and the French Monarchy
    af Paul Cheney
    816,95 kr.

    Combining the history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, this title explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. It presents an interpretation of the relationship between capitalism and the French Revolution.

  • - War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914-1918
    af Andrew Donson
    752,95 kr.

    Presenting the history of German youth in the First World War, this book investigates the dawn of the era of mobilizing teenagers and schoolchildren for experiments in state building and the political movements like fascism and communism. It explores how German teachers could be legendary for their sarcasm and harsh methods.

  • - Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe
    af Brad S. Gregory
    458,95 kr.

    Thousands were executed for incompatible religious views in 16th-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comparatively, providing an argument for the importance of martyrdom as a window onto religious sensibilities and a crucial component in the formation of divergent Christian traditions and identities.

  • - The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de' Medici to Marie-Antoinette
    af Meredith Martin
    491,95 kr.

    Explores how French queens and noblewomen of early modern France, used pleasure dairies to naturalize their status, display their cultivated tastes, and proclaim their virtue as nurturing mothers and capable estate managers. This title sheds light on architecture, self, and society in the ancient regime.

  • - Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany
    af David Ciarlo
    561,95 kr.

    Tracing commercial imagery across different products and media, this title shows how and why the 'African native' had emerged by 1900 to become a familiar figure in the German landscape, selling everything from soap to shirts to coffee.

  • - The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhone
    af Sara B. Pritchard
    518,95 kr.

    Sara B. Pritchard traces the Rhone's remaking since 1945, showing how state officials, technical elites, and citizens connected the environment and technology to political identities and state-building, and demonstrating the importance of environmental management and technological development to the culture and politics of modern France.

  • - Captivity in French Guiana
    af Miranda Frances Spieler
    474,95 kr.

    The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but it also invented the noncitizen-the person whose rights were nonexistent. The South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for these outcasts of the new French citizenry, and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups.

  • - Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836
    af Lisa Ford
    233,95 kr.

    In a comparative study of law and imperialism, Ford argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime. Ford traces the emergence of modern settler sovereignty in contests between settlers and indigenous people in Georgia and the colony of New South Wales.

  • - The Politics of Diaspora
    af Sana Aiyar
    468,95 kr.

    Sana Aiyar chronicles the strategies by which Indians sought a political voice in Kenya, from the beginning of colonial rule to independence. She examines how the strands of Indians' diasporic identity influenced Kenya's leadership-from partnering with Europeans to colonize East Africa, to collaborating with Africans to battle racial inequality.

  • - Kievan Rus' in the Medieval World
    af Christian Raffensperger
    553,95 kr.

    An overriding assumption has directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus' was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Raffensperger refutes this, and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, in which Rus' is understood as part of medieval Europe, and East is not so neatly divided from West.

  • - The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany
    af Mark Landsman
    561,95 kr.

    An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial battleground in the larger Cold War struggle.

  • - A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World
    af Matthew Lundin
    482,95 kr.

    Paper Memory tells of one man's mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher, Hermann Weinsberg, whose early-modern writings sought to make sense of changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world.

  • - Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts
    af M. Michelle Jarrett Morris
    482,95 kr.

    The Puritans were not as busy policing their neighbors' behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many early American historians would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals that family members took on the role of watchdogs in matters of sexual indiscretion.

  • - How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe
    af Michael Creswell
    992,95 kr.

    Challenging standard interpretations of American dominance and French weakness in postwar Western Europe, Creswell argues that France played a key role in shaping the cold war order. He sketches the successful French challenge to the U.S. that ultimately resulted in security arrangements preferred by the French but acceptable to the Americans.

  • - National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s
    af Barbara J. Keys
    272,95 - 614,95 kr.

    Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the 1930s. Focusing on the U.S., Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympics and the World Cup from small-scale events to the expensive, political, global extravaganzas of today.

  • - Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy
    af Samantha Kahn Herrick
    913,95 kr.

    Innovative in its historical use of hagiographical literature, this work advances our understanding of early Normandy and the Vikings' transformation from pagan raiders to Christian princes, shedding light on the intersection of religious tradition, identity, and power.