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ACCIDENTAL CONSTITUTION
: The Making of Europe’s Constitutional Treaty, Second Edition
[Peter Norman]
Peter Norman’s ‘Accidental Constitution’ occupies a unique position in recent writings about the European Union. Fluent, witty and accessible, this highly acclaimed book, published by EuroComment of Brussels, remains the only authoritative account of the European Convention and the controversial draft Constitution that it produced. Peter Norman has now taken the story of the EU’s ‘Accidental Constitution’ further. Subtitled, 'The Making of Europe’s Constitutional Treaty’, the new edition explains the text that must now be ratified by all the Union’s 25 member states. It sheds light on the complex political and constitutional issues that the EU’s leaders set out to solve and explains why the subsequent negotiations among the member states came close to disaster before ending in agreement. Knowing how the European Union’s constitution came about is crucial to understanding a text that could have a profound effect on the lives of 500 million European citizens for decades to come. This book, written by a former bureau chief of the Financial Times in Brussels, draws on a wealth of documentary evidence, the insights gained from talking to key participants in the creation of the EU’s constitutional treaty and the author’s expert knowledge of EU affairs. Aimed at the lay reader as well as the specialist, the book is essential reading for all who want to understand the European Union of today. It is a tale of people and politics. It is also a tale of the unexpected. That is why the book is called the "Accidental Constitution".
REVIEW: "Mr Norman's [book] is that rare thing, an objective account of the problems facing the European Union. Despite the no votes, his book has by no means been overtaken by events, and should be carefully consulted by those seeking to recover something from the wreck." -- The Economist, June 2, 2005
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332pp,
160x240mm,
May 2005;
PB,
£19.95,
9077110089:9789077110089
, EuroComment
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AGRICOLA, GERMANY, & THE DIALOGUE OF ORATORS
[Tacitus; Translated by Herbert W Benario]
A reprint of the University of Oklahoma Press edition of 1991. Eminent scholar and translator, Herbert W Benario, provides a faithful, readable translation of these works, introductory essays, chapter summaries, and notes. A bibliography, maps, and an index are included.
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136pp,
155x230mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£7.95,
0872208117:9780872208117
, Hackett Publishing
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CHIVALRY & THE PERFECT PRINCE
: Tournaments, Art, & Armor at the Spanish Habsburg Court
[Braden K Frieder]
This is a survey of the ceremonial armour crafted for the Spanish Habsburg monarchs of the sixteenth century. It examines notable tournaments and pageantry held at the courts of Charles V and Philip II, and the artworks associated with them. Braden Frieder guides the reader through these tournaments, jousting, and other knightly exercises as part of a larger aristocratic culture that included arms and armour, paintings, tapestries, medals, and sculptures with chivalric themes. Frieder presents Habsburg tournaments in their proper historical context as an extension of imperial politics, drawing comparisons with popular chivalric literature of the period. Frieder’s study utilises extensive primary source material and contemporary documents, many appearing for the first time in English.
{
300pp,
180x255mm,
January 2008;
HB,
£36.99,
193111269X:9781931112697
, Truman State University Press
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CHRISTIAN VIII & THE NATIONAL MUSEUM
: Antiquities, Coins, Medals
[Jørgen Steen Jensen, John Lund & Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen (eds)]
Prince Christian Frederik (1786-1848) became King Christian VIII of Denmark in 1839. His accession to the throne took place at the end of Denmark's 'Golden Age' -- a period haunted by national bankruptcy but, notably, due to a few men of vision also a period in which painting, poetry and science developed intensively. Because of his intelligence, energy and patronage of the arts, King Christian VIII became one of the entrepreneurs of Danish cultural life. After his death in 1848, the King's collection became state property and was transferred to the National Museum. In 1998, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the King's death, the National Museum arranged a symposium where a series of papers were presented about the King as a collector and about the importance of the collections. This book, lavishly illustrated with photographs of the collection and other artefacts, contains the symposium papers, which have been revised and expanded.
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180pp,
185x220mm,
December 2006;
PB,
£13.99,
8789438051:9788789438054
, Aarhus University Press
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CITIES & NETWORKS IN EUROPE
: A Critical Approach of Polycentrism
[Nadine Cattan (ed)]
This aim of this book is to look at the dominant representation that at present underpin the issues of territorial organisation and planning in Europe. Cities and networks are often envisaged as inevitably driving territorial development. However, the conceptualisation of European territorial integration has often been reduced to two conventional models: the centre-periphery model and the hierarchical model of urban networks. Limiting territorial integration to these two schema means that integration is limited. Today, reference to polycentric territorial development has to some extent changed the picture. Rather than being viewed in a polarised, pyramidal manner, spatial dynamics are being read in terms of interconnection and reticulation. In addition, reflection on the subject of polycentric territorial strategies has encouraged politicians and spatial planners to include the principle of "territorial cohesion" in the priorities of European public policies. From considerations which associate conceptual approaches and analytical studies, this book makes it possible to understand in what manner polycentrism, viewed as an alternative to metropolisation, could sow the seeds for new readings, at various scales, of the organisation of European territory. The main challenge of this book is to explain why it is worthwhile revisiting some rather too static representations of territorial systems in Europe. The aim is to promote the emergence and the consolidation of new, critical ways of looking at the issues of territorial dynamics.
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207pp,
180x260mm,
July 2007;
PB,
£29.50,
274200677X:9782742006779
, John Libbey Eurotext
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COLD WAR & SOVIET MISTRUST OF CHURCHILL’S PURSUIT OF DÉTENTE, 1951-1955
[Uri Bar-Noi]
The release of previously unavailable Soviet archives has allowed a re-examination of Anglo-Soviet relations during Churchill's peacetime administration, with special emphasis on the Kremlin's motivation for resisting the Prime Minister's attempts to end the Cold War. Throughout 1951-55, the time was not yet ripe for détente: the USSR and Western powers were less than willing to accommodate each other. Instead they engaged in the consolidation of their own blocs and the build-up of their defensive potential. With Winston Churchill becoming the most outspoken advocate of détente, the Kremlin greeted the return to power of the Conservative Party under his leadership with a general mistrust. After Josef Stalin's death in March 1953, détente remained a distant reality. The collective leadership was keen to reduce international tensions without modifying its predecessor's foreign policy, or abandoning Soviet strongholds of central and eastern Europe. As part of its peace offensive, the Kremlin was prepared to improve the atmosphere in relations with Britain and increase the volume of Anglo-Soviet trade. However, the British remained mistrustful of the intentions of Stalin's successors, and refrained from initiatives leading to a relaxation of export controls independent from American embargo policy. The author demonstrates that Stalin's heirs suspected that Churchill's pursuit of détente was designed to secure far-reaching concessions. Moscow also felt that as a junior partner acting in full dependence on and in co-operation with US policy, Churchill was in no position to conciliate between the USSR and the USA. Engaged in a domestic struggle for power, members of the collective leadership were reluctant to allow their opponent, Georgi Malenkov, to negotiate single-handedly with western statesmen. It was only after Nikita Khrushchev's ascendance to power and Churchill's resignation from office that the Kremlin was prepared to participate in summit talks with the western heads of government.
REVIEW: "Dr Bar-Noi has produced an interesting perspective on Churchill's attempt to reach a peaceful settlement of the Cold War, which is enriched by his use of Soviet primary sources." -- Professor Alan P Dobson, The Institute for Transatlantic European and American Studies, Dundee University. "Based on diligent research and a confident grasp of its subject matter, Uri Bar-Noi's fascinating book is particularly to be welcomed for the light it sheds on the inner workings of Soviet policy at the dawn of détente." -- Professor John Young, University of Nottingham, author of Winston Churchill's Last Campaign: Britain and the Cold War, 1951-55.
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237pp,
152x229mm,
December 2007;
HB,
£55.00,
1845191765:9781845191764
, Sussex Academic Press
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CONSTITUTION OF ENGLAND
: Or, An Account of the English Government
[Jean Louis De Lolme]
'The Constitution of England' is one of the most distinguished 18th-century treatises on English political liberty. In the vein of Charles Louis Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (1748) and William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769), Jean Louis De Lolme's account of the English system of government exercised an extensive influence on political debate in Britain, on constitutional design in the US during the Founding era, and on the growth of liberal political thought throughout the 19th century. Originally published in French in Amsterdam in 1771, 'The Constitution of England' was the first book-length analysis of the 'separation of powers' proposed in Book XI of Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws", which sketched an institutional distinction between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. De Lolme was concerned to show the manner in which the English political system provided an alternative to the republican form of government, one which supplied both a more stable and a more extensive system of political freedom than that enjoyed in republican states. In addition, and as part of this critique, De Lolme examined the political teaching of his fellow Genevan, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and repudiated Rousseau's republican attack on England's form of representative government. This edition takes advantage of the work of nineteenth-century editors of De Lolme's text but provides new annotations to elucidate his numerous references to classical, medieval, and early-modern political practices, along with translations of De Lolme's citations from sources in Latin and French.
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CULTURE & CHANGE IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN PREHISTORY
: 6th to 1st millennium BC
[Helle Vandkilde]
This book is a cohesive overview of Central European prehistory from the introduction of agriculture around 6000 BC to the state-forming processes that began to emerge during the first millennium BC. A complex mosaic of culture, society and processes is mirrored in the material world and in certain periods involves a large part of the Eurasian continent. Culture and change must be understood as both localised and macro-regional: the book is a cultural-historical tale -- inspired by, for example, the attempts of French historians to integrate different levels of history. Emphasis is laid on the eventful boom periods where innovations and cross-cultural interaction intensified in such a way that history's mainly reproductive pattern was broken. Important turning points are attached, among other things, to the first production of food, copper- and bronze metallurgy, and the sword as a weapon and symbol. These technical innovations were part of a complicated interaction with social and cultural processes, which in many cases are connected in a pattern that can be followed in time and space.
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240pp,
175x250mm,
October 2007;
HB,
£18.95,
8779342450:9788779342453
, Aarhus University Press
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DEALING WITH TURKEY
: The European Council of 16-17 December 2004
[Peter Ludlow]
The December European Council was about Turkey or, more specifically still, about whether and on what terms the EU should open accession negotiations with the Turkish goverment. The final decision was positive. It was only arrived at however after lengthy and at times painful negotiations inside Coreper and the European Council and between the Presidency and Turkey. In his latest Briefing Note, Peter Ludlow provides a detailed analysis of how the decision was reached and what it is likely to mean for both the Union and Turkey. Based as usual on confidential oral and written sources, it throws entirely new light on one of the most complex and important European Councils of recent years.
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48pp,
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February 2005;
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, EuroComment
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DEFENCE OF MADRID
: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
[Geoffrey Cox]
Goodies and baddies take some sorting out in this tale of the siege of Madrid by Franco's right-wing forces supported by the Nazis and the fascist regime of Mussolini (the 'rebels'), against the civilian population and its government representatives, just elected, who happened to be left-wing. Once sorted, Cox's account of the city under attack, in one of the twentieth century's first urban wars, has all too many echoes today. This new edition, with an introduction and selection of historical photographs, as well as samples of Cox's journalism from the front, will confirm its position as one of the classics of twentieth-century reportage. It is being published for the 70th anniversary of the event.
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213pp,
155x230mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£16.99,
1877372382:9781877372384
, University of Otago Press
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DEMAGOGY OR SOUND MANAGEMENT?
: Alternative Profiles of the UK Presidency of the European Union
[Peter Ludlow]
The six monthly presidencies of the European Union are increasingly important players in the politics of the Union. The UK Presidency in the second half of 2005 is nevertheless of special interest. Called upon to lead the Union only two weeks after the British government figured as a major protagonist in the breakdown of the EU budget negotiations, the Presidency will have to try to broker an agreement which is acceptable to the great majority of member states who believed a deal was possible in June, but which satisfies a domestic audience whose appetite for far reaching change has been aroused by the government’s rhetoric. Peter Ludlow attempts as always to place the challenges of the next six months in perspective. Most of what the UK Presidency will have to do arises from an agenda which it did not determine and much of which it cannot hope to finish in the short time it has at its disposal. With one of the better European civil services, the British will doubtless perform most of their tasks competently and unostentatiously. The juxtaposition of a relatively low-key agenda and the twin crises sparked by the breakdown over the budget and the negative referendum results in France and the Netherlands means however that there is an unusually high risk of demagogy. Objectively, the budgetary crisis could be settled with relative ease. Given the megaphone debate before and since the June European Council, however, low-key management of this particular problem is highly improbable. All the more so, because the UK Presidency has called at the same time for a ‘great debate’ about the future of Europe. While acknowledging the brilliance of Tony Blair’s speech to the European Parliament at the end of June, Peter Ludlow is nevertheless profoundly pessimistic about both the likely tone and the relevance of the great debate for which the British prime minister has called. Only a few months after the European Council signed off on a major overhaul of the Lisbon agenda, it is difficult to see what concretely can or should be done to enhance the Union’s main reform programme. It is also quite clear that even if the Tony Blair who spoke to the European Parliament is the ‘real’ Tony Blair, his underlying convictions are poles apart from those of Gordon Brown, his successor in waiting. Finally, despite the prospect of a new government in Germany, the chances of building a new consensus of the kind that re launched the European Community in 1984-1985 before a change of government in France are exceedingly slim. It would be splendid if after eight disappointing years, New Labour could begin to play a serious role at the heart of Europe. The prospects for a happy ending in December are however slight while the dangers of a serious and acrimonious rift between the UK and its EU partners are considerable.
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40pp,
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July 2005;
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9077110119:9789077110119
, EuroComment
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ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
: The Spring European Council of 2005
[Peter Ludlow]
Like all European Councils in the post-Seville era, the Spring European Council of 2005 began long before the heads of government and state assembled in Brussels on 22 March. A substantial part of Peter Ludlow’s paper is therefore devoted to the preliminaries. The four major themes of the meeting were: reform of the stability and growth pact: the overhaul of the Lisbon strategy, sustainable development and climate change. Drawing on sources beyond as well as in the public domain, Ludlow analyses the making of the Conclusions against the background of lively and at times heated debate in the Council and noisy protests on the streets. Its principal focus is as usual on the Presidency, currently held by Luxembourg. In an opening section, Ludlow places the events of the past few months in a broad historical and conceptual framework. The agreements that were eventually arrived at in Ecofin and the European Council are undoubtedly flawed. This is not however particularly surprising, given the complex balance between centralised and decentralised decision-making required by the treaties. The shrill, tabloid-style articles that appeared in supposedly serious newspapers proclaiming the death of both the stability and growth pact and the Lisbon strategy are therefore entirely inappropriate. The changes to both the pact and the strategy that were agreed by the Spring Council improved both. In a system in which the pace of all is heavily conditioned by the speed of the larger states, there can however be no major advance until the governments of Germany and France are willing and able to carry out the economic reforms that both so obviously need. The EU, working through the revamped Lisbon process and by other means, can apply pressure. The vital decisions can only however be taken in Berlin and Paris.
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44pp,
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May 2005;
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, EuroComment
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EUROPEAN UNION
: Expand, Shrink or Status Quo
[Bianca C Hostetler (ed)]
The primary focus of the chapters presented in this book is the European Union. The EU is a treaty-based, institutional framework that defines and manages economic and political co-operation among its 25 member states (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom). The Union represents the latest stage in a process of European integration begun after World War II to promote peace and economic prosperity in Europe. This European integration project has evolved from encompassing primarily economic sectors to include developing a common foreign policy and closer police and judicial co-operation. With the end of the Cold War, the Union has also sought to extend the political and economic benefits of membership, especially to central and eastern Europe. This book examines the Union’s expectations of the future, and the relationships that it has with countries in other parts of the world.
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173pp,
180x260mm,
September 2006;
HB,
£52.99,
1600211631:9781600211638
, Nova Science Publishers
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EXPLOSION
: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
[John P C Matthews]
In late October, 50 years ago, the world witnessed one of the largest leaderless spontaneous revolutions. Triggered by a confluence of fateful events, Hungarian students led hundreds of thousands of their countrymen in an open revolt against the Soviet-sponsored government. Matthews, a journalist at Radio Free Europe, realised he had a ringside seat and saved every scrap of news. Here, at long last, from those journalist reports and memoirs, he recreates a picture of what it was like to live through that exhilirating time.
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691pp,
155x230mm,
December 2007;
HB,
£19.99,
0781811740:9780781811743
, Hippocrene Books
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FASCIST ITALY
: A Concise Historical Narrative
[Cristogianni Borsella]
An informative work which analyses and brings together the two fundamental aspects of the Fascist Italian experience: its history and its ideology. The author superbly explains the background of the Fascist movement, revealing in detail its corresponding political nature; this was possible because Borsella has made Benito Mussolini part of the narrative. The reader quickly becomes aware that Fascism is the logical but chaotic brainchild of Mussolini himself a restless man in search of messianic visions to allay his own insecurities and of those of his nation. Borsella exposes other individuals who were instrumental in forming the ideological foundations of Fascism, namely Sorel, Vilfredo and Gentile. Groups like the syndicalists, interventionists, and neoconservatives influenced Italian politics long before there were American counterparts. The book's greatest strength may show how the extreme Left played vital roles in shaping Fascism, as Mussolini himself had been a devout Socialist for many years before attaining power. Vividly trumpeted as a progressive state ideology, Fascism left in its wake a destructive, repressive legacy of a dictatorship. In the final chapters, Borsella compares the modern political climate in the United States to that existing in Italy under Fascism. In his final pages, right or wrong, Borsella draws parallels that should force one to reassess the meaning of what it means to be free in today's America.
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158pp,
155x230mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£12.99,
0828321558:9780828321556
, Branden Publishing
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FEUD IN MEDIEVAL & EARLY MODERN EUROPE
[Bjørn Poulsen & Jeppe B Netterström (eds)]
We tend to think of a feud as being a long established state of hostilities, especially between families or clans, which normally manifests itself in revengeful violence. One of the articles in this volume thus states: "What began as a dispute over the property rights of a woman to whom both parties were related quickly mutated into a violent clash between men, in which honour and reputation were at stake -- and from here to a full-blown feud the distance was rather short". However, the studies of feuds presented in this publication leave no doubt that they were very different in different societies. The phenomenon of feud turns out to be intimately connected with developments in society and state. Consequently, in recent years a growing interest has been aroused in further researching the topic and the aim of this book is therefore to present some of the principal positions of this new research. Contributions by leading scholars in the field cover a large span of years, from the classic Icelandic feuds of the Sagas to more recent Early-Modern incidents. One contribution even takes us back to the roots of mankind, but the focus of the book is mainly on the Medieval and Early-Modern period. The volume is opened with a comprehensive introduction to the field, followed by a chapter that seeks general definitions. Hereafter, we are presented with specific cases of Icelandic women from the Sagas who promote feuds, studies of feuds in 14th century Marseilles, Italian Medieval vendettas, and feuding in Medieval Germany and Denmark.
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206pp,
155x240mm,
November 2007;
HB,
£17.30,
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, Aarhus University Press
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HERESY, CULTURE, & RELIGION IN EARLY MODERN ITALY
: Contexts & Contestations
[Ronald K Delph, Michelle M Fontaine & John Jeffries Martin]
The study of the Italian reform movements challenges the traditional framework of Reformation and Counter Reformation that many scholars had previously used to approach the religious culture of Italy in the 16th and 17th century. This book offers an overview of some of the best work being done by scholars in both Italy and the US on this subject.
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265pp,
155x230mm,
September 2006;
PB,
£33.50,
1931112584:9781931112581
, Truman State University Press
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HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT
: From the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the Revolution in 1688 in Four Volumes
[John Millar; Edited by Mark Salber Phillips & Dale R Smith]
Consists of three parts, concerned with the most substantive revolutions in English government and manners: from the Saxon settlement to the Norman Conquest, from the Norman Conquest to the accession of James I, and from James I to the Glorious Revolution. Through these three phases Millar traces the development of the 'great outlines of the English constitution' -- the history of institutions of English liberty from Saxon antiquity to the revolution settlement of 1689.
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889pp,
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HB,
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, Liberty Fund
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HISTORY OF HOW THE SPANIARDS ARRIVED IN PERU (RELASÇION DE COMO LOS ESPAÑOLES ENTRARON EN EL PERU)
: Dual-Language Edition
[Catherine Julien (ed) & Translator]
Text in English and Spanish. Catherine Julien's new translation of Titu Cusi Yupangui's Instruçion -- an account of the Conquest by the last indigenous ruler of the Inca empire -- features student-oriented annotation, facing-page Spanish, and an Introduction that sets this remarkably rich source in its cultural, historical, and literary contexts.
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180pp,
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October 2006;
PB,
£12.95,
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, Hackett Publishing
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HISTORY OF ROME, BOOKS 1-5
[Livy; Translated by Valerie M Warrior]
This edition features Valerie Warrior’s crisp, fluent translation of the first five books of Livy’s History; a general introduction to Livy and his work; extensive foot-of-the-page notes offering essential contextual information; a chronology of events; and three appendices offering additional insight into Livy and the History -- genealogies of the most prominent political figures in the early Republic, Livy’s relationship with Augustus, and Livy’s treatment of religion.
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452pp,
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October 2006;
HB,
£29.95,
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, Hackett Publishing
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HISTORY OF RUSSIA
: From the Earliest Times to 1709
[Alfred Rambaud]
Russian history has entranced scholars and historians for centuries. The reason may reside in the vivid nature of the events themselves which seem to be so volatile and exotic at the same time. Or perhaps it is because of Russia's power as either an empire or lately as a major energy supplier and therefore superpower. This book is a completely retyped and indexed version of a superb book under the same title published in 1886.
{
235pp,
180x260mm,
August 2007;
HB,
£45.99,
1600212514:9781600212512
, Nova Science Publishers
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HUGUENOT SOLDIERS OF WILLIAM OF ORANGE & THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION OF 1688
: The Lions of Judah
[Matthew Glozier]
This book provides the first full-scale, scholarly analysis of the political, religious and social rationale which underlay Huguenot support for William of Orange in 1688. In the context of the Huguenot exodus from France and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the role of the Huguenot soldiers within an international Protestant political context is explained through the use of rich biographical and historical detail. Special attention is given to the role played by the most prominent Protestant soldiers of William's army, the Huguenot refugees and the British soldiers of the Anglo-Dutch Brigade. The importance of issues of loyalty and conscience amongst Europe's professional international officer corps is addressed, thereby placing the valuable service rendered to William III by his Huguenot soldiers in an international context encompassing political, religious and social aspects. This book will be a rich source of biographical information about hundreds of Huguenot soldiers in British, Dutch and Brandenburg service in the period 1670 to 1700.
REVIEW: "Glozier's study is most impressive in its reconstruction of the Huguenot community. His book has a prosopographical approach and contains a treasury of biographical information, based upon which the author analyses the social and religious background of the soldiers... an important and innovative contribution to Dutch military historiography as well as Huguenot studies and may prove an important incentive to study this topic in more depth." -- H-Albion. "This book’s particular merit lies in its international scope and its focus on Huguenot officers serving William in the Netherlands and Ireland... Discusses a worthwhile and neglected subject." -- Albion. "An important and innovative contribution to Dutch military historiography as well as Huguenot studies and may prove an important incentive to study this topic in more depth." -- H-Albion. "The book’s correction of previous historians and assemblage of useful data in one place make it a valuable starting point for early-modern French, British, Dutch and military historians." -- 17th-Century Military News.
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228pp,
152x229mm,
April 2008;
PB,
£17.95,
1845191455:9781845191450
, Sussex Academic Press
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IMPACT OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR ON BRITAIN
: War, Loss & Memory
[Tom Buchanan]
The Spanish Civil War has had a profound and lasting impact on Britain. At least 2400 Britons volunteered to fight for the Spanish Republic (of whom more than 500 died), while others provided medical assistance, visited Spain in delegations, or covered the Civil War as journalists. In this collection of three of his published articles and seven new essays, all based on primary research, Tom Buchanan sheds light on many facets of this complex relationship. The book's central themes are the impact of loss on families and communities, and the importance of Spain itself -- its history and culture -- in the way that the Civil War was understood in Britain. Some of the chapters deal with individuals involved in the Civil War, such as the writer John Langdon-Davies, the artist Felicia Browne and the journalist GL Steer. Others pursue somewhat neglected themes, such as the response of British artists to the war or the role played by British medical personnel. The final two chapters focus on the long-term impact of the conflict on British politics and on Britain's relations with Spain since 1939.
REVIEW: "...a rich survey of the war's lessons and legacy..." -- Sasha Pack, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Journal of British Studies.
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267pp,
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November 2006;
HB,
£49.95,
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£16.95,
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, Sussex Academic Press
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IN THE WAKE OF COLUMBUS, 2ND EDITION
: The Impact of the New World on Europe, 1492-1650
[Roger Schlesinger]
Any attempt to assess the impact of the exploration and conquest of America on early modern Europe must consider several different subjects, because the existence of America influenced the development of European civilisation in a variety of ways. Updated and expanded, new illustrations and bibliographic essay.
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172pp,
140x215mm,
January 2007;
PB,
£9.99,
0882952498:9780882952499
, Harlan Davidson
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L'ESPAGNE REPUBLICAINE
: French Policy & Spanish Republicanism in Liberated France
[David A Messenger]
This work examines the Spanish question in the context of post-war French politics and foreign policy, in particular during the period 1943-1946. The war had been fought against authoritarian fascism, yet Francisco Franco and his regime remained in power. Spanish Republican refugees in France were heralded as model democrats awaiting liberation, a liberation that France could best provide through pursuit of an antagonistic policy toward Franco. But in reality, members of Charles de Gaulle's government-in-exile had developed ties to Spain during the war in conjunction with the United States and Great Britain. France was in the midst of renewal and redefinition, a process with both national and international aspects. The importance of the Spanish case in that process has been neglected by historians. With significant differences, there was an important parallel to the debates that engaged France during the Spanish Civil War. Different visions of France and its role in Europe competed with one another as Spanish policy was debated. Based on research from unpublished sources from state and private archives in Paris, Madrid, Toulouse, London and Washington, this book is essential reading for Spanish and French History scholars.
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195pp,
152x229mm,
June 2008;
HB,
£55.00,
1845192591:9781845192594
, Sussex Academic Press
} |
 |
LABOR MARKET FLEXIBILITY, FLEXICURITY & EMPLOYMENT
: Lessons of the Baltic States
[Tiiu Paas & Raul Eamets (eds)]
This book aims to throw light upon the main changes in the Baltic states’ labour markets, laying emphasis on the labour market flexibility, flexicurity and employment issues in the context of the EU eastward enlargement. The European labour markets of both old (EU-15) and new (EU-10) member states are facing big challenges in their current development. There are high expectations connected with improvement of competitiveness of European economy and enlargement of Euro area. Flexible labour markets help to maintain the expected quick economic growth and to adjust to possible asymmetric shocks of Euro area development. The particular significance of the labour market flexibility is also outlined by the Optimal Currency Area Theory (Mundell, 1961), which forms the theoretical framework for the EMU. At the same time a significant increase of labour market flexibility may due to possible increased employment and consequently also income insecurity causing weakening cohesion of a society. European citizens, particularly the citizens of the EU-15 countries, are used to rely on the European social model which stresses the importance of high social security, including also employment security. For improvement of economic growth and competitiveness, the new concept called flexicurity has been introduced. Flexicurity as a policy option in general meaning several ways of social protection for a flexible workforce, which may support social cohesion and sustainable economic growth in the long run perspective. This book brings together new research in this exciting field of economical studies.
{
198pp,
180x260mm,
December 2006;
HB,
£59.50,
1600214169:9781600214165
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
LABOUR PARTY & BRITISH SOCIETY, 1880-2005
[David Rubinstein]
This history of the Labour Party since its inception emphasises the economic and social factors in its evolution -- a focus that provides a framework for assessing the elections, personalities and main events in the party’s history. "The Labour Party and Social Change, 1880-2005" covers the entire history of the Labour Party. It analyses the reasons for the party’s development and depicts its history as the product of economic and social factors. The argument that is developed does not deny the importance of individuals in the party’s growth, but rather emphasises that individuals -- leaders and players -- have had relatively little room for manoeuvre, particularly after 1918 when the party suddenly and unexpectedly became a major party of state. But within the framework of prevailing economic and social conditions in Britain, and the desire of the party to be returned to elected office, individuals have had an important impact on how the party perceived and projected itself: the significant roles these individuals played are examined against the background of social change in Britain, up to and including the General Election of May 2005.
{
228pp,
152x229mm,
September 2005;
PB,
£15.95,
1845190564:9781845190569
/
HB,
£47.50,
1845190556:9781845190552
, Sussex Academic Press
} |
 |
LEADERSHIP IN AN ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION
: The European Council, the Presidency & the Commission
[Peter Ludlow]
Peter Ludlow’s latest Briefing Note is concerned with the structure of leadership in the European Union. As Jean Monnet observed, ‘nothing is possible without men, nothing is lasting without institutions’. During the past thirty or forty years, the EU has developed a remarkably effective system of collective leadership in and through the European Council which has continued to facilitate the integration process, despite radical changes in the size and character of the EU itself and the emergence of a generation of leaders whose most prominent figures bear little comparison with their predecessors. The first two sections of the paper analyse how and why the system emerged and flourished. The Dutch and French referenda must however be seen in part at least as a protest against this system. Representing as its members do both the peoples and states of the European Union, the European Council’s legitimacy is not in question. To be as effective in the future as it has been in the past, it must however become more accountable to those in a position to scrutinise and if necessary discipline its members. This means in the first instance national parliaments and citizens rather than the European Parliament. The constitutional treaty, which must now be presumed dead, had remarkably little of use to say on these matters, largely because MEPs and national parliamentarians in the Convention, either would not or did not acknowledge the European Council’s status as ‘the highest authority in the Union’. One of the positive features of the present crisis is therefore that it offers a fresh opportunity to find pragmatic, but at the same time radical solutions to fundamental problems which EU orthodoxy has obscured for far too long.
{
44pp,
210x300mm,
May 2005;
PB,
£6.50,
9077110097:9789077110096
, EuroComment
} |
 |
LONG-FORGOTTEN EVENTS FROM IMPERIAL AUSTRIA
[Jakob Ludwig Heller; Edited by Antonie Neumann]
The time for autobiographies has arrived. Interest in authentic life stories seems greater than ever, even greater than well written works of fiction, because readers begin to recognise that nothing is more fantastic than the complicated reality through which we are forced to make our way. Accounts of everyday life have long since become a source of historic insight, and even historians are beginning to admit that concrete vignettes of an autobiographer's life are often better able to portray what the past was really like. All of this holds true for the memoirs of Jakob Ludwig Heller, who lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the 19th and 20th centuries. The records that he left behind reveal that nostalgic individuals were not far wrong in viewing the Empire and its era as the quintessence of an intact world. Of course things were not as peaceful and happy for everyone in the Danube monarchy, but compared with today's world, Jakob Ludwig Heller's milieu was a true idyll, where marriages endured, family ties were strong, hard work was rewarded, and people rejoiced over simple social gatherings. Upbringing was strict, but caring, the children were well behaved, and earning a living was fun. Long live progress! The feeling that what he describes is lost forever is magnified further by the fact that he grew up in a Jewish, Central European milieu, where Jews perhaps did not live without tensions among neighbours of other faiths, but did live without being persecuted, robbed, and murdered. Not only Jewish readers will regret the loss of that normal way of life. Near the end of his memoirs, in retrospect the diarist complains about the inexplicable intrusions of lax morals, the disappearance of fixed norms, and the lack of the earlier, ever-present feeling of security and continuity. What would he say today? But what makes the reading of this simple story so rewarding, apart from the historic information, is the intelligent, humorous, warm-hearted man who is encountered on every page. His comments about the First World War are especially touching. Despite his extensive life experience, they betray his naïve belief in Germany and Austria, in the government and the army. He is convinced that the Central Powers fight for a just cause at a time when Karl Kraus is writing “The Last Days of Mankind”. But in those days the great satirist was still quite alone with his opinion. Most of the Jews, even most of the people, probably felt as did Jakob Ludwig Heller. And the waning of those certainties is the greatest tragedy of all, a sign of the insurmountable distance between our world and that of the past.
{
295pp,
155x230mm,
December 2005;
PB,
£21.50,
1572411449:9781572411449
, Ariadne Press
} |
 |
MEDIEVAL HISTORY WRITING & CRUSADING IDEOLOGY
[Tuomas M S Lehtonen & Kurt Villads Jensen; With Janne Malkki & Katja Ritari (eds)]
This book examines how the crusading ideology was formulated in medieval historiography and how the crusading movement affected Christianity and the world beyond. The second main theme is the spread of the crusading movement to Northern Europe, especially Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea area. Northerners not only participated in the crusades in the Holy Land, but also learned and were inspired to create and take part in a new crusading movement within the Baltic Sea region itself. The relationship between the crusades to Jerusalem and those in the North must be of fundamental importance to understanding the dynamics that created history, both locally and in a general European context, but this relation itself has seldom been the object of thoroughgoing research; on the contrary, the considerable scholarship on both the North and the South has been pursued in isolation. Divided into three parts, this volume opens with the different forms of and reactions to the crusading ideology. The importance of ideology as a driving motivation for the crusaders has again been recognised in international studies since the 1970s, and its impact is also now felt in Scandinavian research environments. The second part moves on to examine the crusading ideology and its impact upon society in a broader context – through its relation to violence, its portrayal of the enemies, and its representations in the policy and construction of the Danish crown and royal mythology. The Northern Crusades in the Baltic Sea region are discussed in the third part as seen through contemporary sources and modern historical writing. This also includes dealing with some of the impacts of the Crusades in Russia and even farther east in Mongolia. The essays in this section show how the general idea of crusading was applied to the Northern areas and frequently resembles in its details the Mediterranean crusades, as well as demonstrate how Scandinavian scholars have often neglected this aspect in modern history writing.
{
320pp,
180x260mm,
September 2005;
PB,
£24.99,
9517466625:9789517466622
, Finnish Literature Society
} |
 |
MOVING IN THE USSR
: Western Anomalies & Northern Wilderness
[Pekka Hakamies (ed)]
The central question deals with the westward interaction between Russia and Europe from a Russian perspective: How has the tradition of Russia's culture and history set the conditions for its developmental and political choices?
{
161pp,
155x230mm,
November 2005;
PB,
£22.50,
9517466951:9789517466950
, Finnish Literature Society
} |
 |
NATO
: Status, Relations & Decision-Making
[M I Clausson (ed)]
NATO is at a crucial point in its development: on the one hand, the European members are seeking to redefine its mission as the security challenges have radically changed since 1990. Another thorny issues is the security responsibilities of the member states. At the same time, there are nine central and eastern European nations which are seeking an invitation to join NATO: Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. There are general guidelines for evaluating nations seeking NATO membership; however, these guidelines are not a checklist that, when completed, would automatically guarantee membership. NATO members decide on the basis of consensus whether the admission of a state will serve the interests of the Alliance and promote European security and stability. These two issues form the primary parts of this book dealing with NATO.
{
118pp,
140x215mm,
March 2007;
PB,
£25.99,
1600210988:9781600210983
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
NOBLE STRATEGIES
: Marriage & Sexuality in the Zimmern Chronicle
[Judith J Hurwich]
Through the colourful family histories and rich detail of the Zimmern Chronicle, historian Judith Hurwich examines marriage, family, and sexuality among the early modern German nobility. She uses the house chronicles of the Zimmern family and the families of the counts and barons with whom they intermarried, to investigate marriage and non-marital sexuality in the southwest German nobility in the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Along with a deeper look at women's roles as wives, mothers, and concubines, 'Noble Strategies' shines a light on the intimate lives of the early modern German elite.
{
290pp,
155x230mm,
September 2006;
HB,
£33.50,
1931112592:9781931112598
, Truman State University Press
} |
 |
NORTHBOUND
: Travel, Encounters & Constructions, 1700-1830
[Karen Klitgaard Povlsen (ed)]
A group of 16 scholars from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, Finland, Germany and USA explore the changes that had taken place in the conception of the North during the 18th century, changes that were a symptom of an ambivalent understanding of the North vis-à-vis the South. From antiquity to Montesquieu, the North could be considered a Dystopia and a Utopia -- a barbaric margin of Europe, but also an area of freedom, natural strength, and robust women who were any man's equal. The book, drawing on travel accounts of the period, is thus historical, but it is conceived under the optics of modern multiculturalism and cultural clashes. The study encompasses areas ranging from botany and geography, to Nordic literature and language, to science and the arts. The book will appeal to students and scholars in the interdisciplinary fields of literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology, history and most European language studies.
{
411pp,
180x260mm,
December 2007;
HB,
£22.75,
8779342647:9788779342644
, Aarhus University Press
} |
 |
NORWEGIANS OF THE PRAIRIE
: Ethnicity & the Development of the Country Town
[Odd S Lovoll]
Against the broad backdrop of the expanding western frontier, noted Norwegian American scholar Odd S Lovoll explores the country town through the lens of ethnicity in this pioneering study. Benson, Madison, and Starbuck, all located on the western Minnesota prairie, were settled primarily by Norwegians and served as urban centres -- railroad hubs, destinations for trade, and social nexuses -- for the farming communities that surround them. Lovoll's meticulous research into census data, careful reading of local newspapers, and extensive interviews with the descendants of Norwegian immigrants reveals strong ties to homeland that are visible today in each town's social, political, and religious character.
{
324pp,
155x230mm,
August 2006;
HB,
£21.99,
0873515714:9780873515719
, Minnesota Historical Society Press
} |
 |
ON THE TRACK OF A PREHISTORIC ECONOMY
: Maglemosian Subsistence in Early Postglacial South Scandinavia
[Hans Peter Blankholm]
Basing this study of South Scandinavia's Maglemosian economy on a selection of the faunal assemblages of the period, this book uses spatial analysis and multivariate correspondence analysis to draw together theories on human movements of the time.
{
315pp,
180x260mm,
January 1996;
HB,
£22.95,
8772884398:9788772884394
, Aarhus University Press
} |
 |
ONE UNION, MANY VOICES
: The EU Meets the People
[Anders Samuelsen (ed)]
France and the Netherlands voted ‘no’ to the constitutional treaty. But why? And why did every other country say ‘yes’, with or without a referendum? Why didn’t all EU countries plan to hold referendums? And what of the future of the EU? The aim of this book is to answer these and other questions. Fifteen of Europe’s most competent analysts have written a chapter for Anders Samuelsen, The Danish Social Liberal member of the European Parliament, from the perspective of each their countries. They are analysts who normally write for papers such as Le Monde, The Financial Times, El País, Politiken, Corriere Della Sera, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The Guardian, just to mention a few. Based on the articles and his own experiences, Anders Samuelsen points out similarities and differences across the countries and outlines a possible way forward.
{
146pp,
160x240mm,
October 2005;
PB,
£10.50,
908101031X:9789081010313
, EuroComment
} |
 |
PASSAGES WESTWARD
[Maria Lähteenmäki & Hanna Snallman (eds)]
The West has always been a resource for the Finns. Scholars, artists and other professionals have sought contacts from Europe throughout the centuries. The Finnish experience in Western Europe and the New World is a story of migrant labourers, expatriates and specialists working abroad. But you don’t have to be born in Finland to be a Finn. The experiences of second-generation Finnish immigrants and their descendants open up new possibilities for understanding the relationship between Finland and the West. The Finnish passage westward has not always crossed national borders. Karelian evacuees headed west, as did young people from the Finnish countryside when opportunities to make a living in agriculture and forestry diminished in the post-war era. The legacy of these migrants is still visible in the suburbs of Finnish cities today. This book is a joint effort of the Department of Ethnology and the Department of History at the University of Helsinki. It was written by Ph. D. students supervised by Academy Research Fellows Maria Lähteenmäki and Hanna Snellman, in collaboration with colleagues abroad interested in current research in ethnology and history.
{
247pp,
180x260mm,
December 2006;
PB,
£23.50,
9517468946:9789517468947
, Finnish Literature Society
} |
 |
PATH TO BLITZKRIEG
: Doctrine & Training in the German Army, 1920-39
[Robert M Citino]
In the wake of World War I, the German army lay in ruins -- defeated in the war, sundered by domestic upheaval, and punished by the Treaty of Versailles. A mere twenty years later, Germany possessed one of the finest military machines in the world, capable of launching a stunning blitzkrieg attack against Poland in 1939. Well-known military historian Robert M Citino shows how Germany accomplished this astonishing reversal and developed the doctrine, tactics, and technologies that its military would use to devastating effect in World War II.
REVIEW: "A well-written, well-organised, and superbly researched work." -- Journal of Military History
{
280pp,
155x230mm,
March 2008;
PB,
£12.50,
0811734579:9780811734578
, Stackpole Books
} |
 |
PERSON-ORIENTED SERVICES & SOCIAL SERVCES PROVIDERS IN COMPARATIVE & EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
: Current Debates on Changes by Liberalisation from the Perspective of a Theory of Modernisation
[Peter Herrman]
The work presented here has the ambitious objective to analyse a highly topical issue not in the usual terms of finding an immediate answer to pressing questions of political urgency, but to find such answers notwithstanding the abstract approach of a fundamental reinterpretation of the issue in question. The topical side of the question is focussing on services of general interest, a matter that is closely linked to the European strategy of market liberalisation and to what is called the European Social Model. In this sense, the question of services of general interest, and with this the question of social services as specific form of services of general interest is path-dependent, linked to the orientation of European integration as establishing a single market, based on the four fundamental freedoms, namely the: free movement of capital; free movement of goods; freedom of movement for workers and freedom of establishment and provision of services and mutual recognition of diplomas.
{
161pp,
180x260mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£45.99,
160021004X:9781600210044
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
PIETY & PLAGUE
: From Byzantium to the Baroque
[Franco Mormando & Thomas Worcester (eds)]
Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe’s society and culture. In order to understand the changing circumstances of the political, economic, ecclesiastical, artistic, and social history of that continent, it is important to understand epidemic disease and society’s response to it. To date, the largest portion of scholarship about plague has focused on its political, economic, demographic, and medical aspects. This interdisciplinary volume offers greater coverage of the religious and the psychological dimensions of plague and of European society’s response to it through many centuries and over a wide geographical terrain, including Byzantium.
{
330pp,
185x260mm,
November 2007;
HB,
£36.99,
1931112738:9781931112734
, Truman State University Press
} |
 |
POLAND IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL CENTRE OF EUROPE
: Political, Social & Economic Consequences
[Mirosawa Czerny (ed)]
Poland is one of more than 40 European countries, but it lies at the very centre of the continent. To the south its limits are set by the Sudetic and Carpathian mountain ranges, while to the north almost the entire length of the border is constituted by the Baltic Sea coast. The remainder of the country is on the Central European Plain. These features alone predestined Poland to being, down the centuries, a conduit for numerous communication routes that brought wandering people, carried goods, but also offered easy access to armies marching in. Thus, from the geopolitical point of view, this kind of location always brought benefits to Poland, but also a great many threats. The latter resulted above all from the fact that Polish territory proved a consistently convenient arena for successive wars -- it was after all the point of contact between inputting political influences from the West (primarily Prussia and later Germany) and the East (Russia, and also Turkey). Benefits could accrue only from the transit of people, goods and ideas, with these playing different roles in the social and economic development of the country at different times. From the early 1990s on, it was possible to discern in Polish space certain processes and phenomena that were an outcome of either earlier decisions taken by the communist authorities, or else part of what the communists had inherited from earlier times but been in a position to keep the lid on, by artificial masking of them. When communism fell, there was a re-emergence, often in a kind of hybrid version of pre-War/post-War pedigree, of deep divisions in society and the economy, as well as disparities between the regions. It is to these questions that this book is primarily devoted to.
{
202pp,
180x260mm,
March 2006;
HB,
£52.99,
1594546037:9781594546037
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
POLITICAL CHANGE & THE RISE OF LABOUR IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
: Britain & Sweden, 1890-1920
[Mary Hilson]
The book presents a comparative analysis of social change, democratisation and the development of modern party politics in two European countries, Britain and Sweden during the period c1880-1930, with particular reference to the emergence of social democracy as a political current. The emphasis is on the similarities of political changes in these two countries at this time, and also in the wider European context.
{
352pp,
145x220mm,
July 2006;
HB,
£42.00,
9189116712:9789189116719
, Nordic Academic Press
} |
 |
PRESENT STATE OF GERMANY
: Or, an Account of the Extent, Rise, Form, Wealth, Strength, Weakness & Interests of That Empire
[Samuel Pufendorf; Edited by Michael J Seidler]
Although 'The Present State of Germany' was first made available in English over three centuries ago, it has been virtually unavailable in English since the period of the American Founding. By 1696, Pufendorf was well known in England as a staunch defender of the Protestant cause and as one of the renovators of natural law. His writings were familiar to such luminaries as Locke and figured prominently in James Tyrell’s 'Patriarcha non Monarcha' (1681).
{
273pp,
155x230mm,
February 2007;
PB,
£8.95,
0865974934:9780865974937
/
HB,
£13.95,
0865974926:9780865974920
, Liberty Fund
} |
 |
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CYPRUS STUDIES
: Volume 1
[Ülker Vanci Osam (ed)]
Text in English & Turkish. This is a collection of 34 papers (12 in English and 22 in Turkish) delivered at the Fifth International Congress on Cyprus Studies (held on 14-15 April 2005 by the Center for Cyprus Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University) in two volumes. Volume I consists of 20 papers related to political issues, economy, history, art, literature and education. Volume II accommodates 14 papers an architecture, archaeology and environment, folklore, and sociological matters.
{
316pp,
150x225mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£12.00,
9758401599:9789758401598
, Eastern Mediterranean University Press
} |
 |
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CYPRUS STUDIES
: Volume 2
[Ülker Vanci Osam (ed)]
Text in English & Turkish. This is a collection of 34 papers (12 in English and 22 in Turkish) delivered at the Fifth International Congress on Cyprus Studies (held on 14-15 April 2005 by the Center for Cyprus Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University) in two volumes. Volume I consists of 20 papers related to political issues, economy, history, art, literature and education. Volume II accommodates 14 papers an architecture, archaeology and environment, folklore, and sociological matters.
{
346pp,
150x225mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£13.00,
9758401580:9789758401581
, Eastern Mediterranean University Press
} |
 |
PROCEEDINGS OF THE DANISH INSTITUTE AT ATHENS, VOLUME 5
[Erik Hallager & Jesper Jensen (ed)]
{
212pp,
215x280mm,
April 2008;
PB,
£22.95,
8772887257:9788772887258
, Aarhus University Press
} |
 |
QUEST FOR SURVIVAL AFTER FRANCO
: Moderate Francoism & the Slow Journey to the Polls, 1964-1977
[Cristina Palomares]
This book engages with a central yet hitherto neglected dimension of the transition to democracy in Spain. It examines the emergence and development of Moderate Francoism from 1964, the year when the Law of Associations was introduced, until 1977, the year of the first democratic elections. The role of the reformists was one of the factors that made possible the dismantling of the dictatorship and was of crucial importance in making possible a bloodless transition to democracy. They acted as a bridge between the regime hard-liners and the democratic opposition, paving the way for King Juan Carlos to implement the 1976 Reform Law that swept away the structures of Francoism. Published in association with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.
REVIEW: "A well-researched political history of Spain’s elites in the years leading to the country’s successful transition from authoritarian Francoism to the birth of democracy. One especially pleasing feature is Palomares’s practice of including important translated terminology in the original Spanish. A major contribution of this book is how it closely traces how the seemingly moderate Manuel Fraga launched initial reforms toward liberalization but later found the conservative Alianza. Liberal reforms leading to democracy would be left up to Adolfo Suirez and King Juan Carlos I, whose contributions and relationship are also examined. Recommended..." -- Choice. "The book provides a good overview of the transition and there is an interesting analysis of major events. The author also uses good primary and secondary sources..." -- Political Studies Review.
{
288pp,
152x229mm,
September 2005;
HB,
£17.95,
1845191234:9781845191238
, Sussex Academic Press
} |
 |
REDISCOVERING THE BRITISH WORLD
[Phillip Buckner & R Douglas Francis (eds)]
The essays presented in this collection consider a wide range of cultural, social & intellectual topics specific to British History from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. The book attempts to show the centrality of the Empire in the history of various nations created by the British diaspora overseas. It examines numerous topics relating to British history, including the history of the old self-governing Dominions -- Canada, South Africa, New Zealand & Australia -- & seeks to uncover the true nature of how British Imperial history has been written. Rejecting a nostalgic point of view, these essays written by leaders in the field, are cast in a critical light asking the reader to evaluate the historiographical context of British history.
{
564pp,
152x228mm,
October 2005;
PB,
£32.50,
155238179X:9781552381793
, University of Calgary Press
} |
 |
REFORMATION & EARLY MODERN EUROPE
: A Guide to Research
[David M Whitford (ed)]
Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Each author reviews the present state of research in the field, new trends, key issues scholars are working with, and fundamental works in their subject area, including the wide range of electronic resources now available to researchers. This is a valuable resource for students and scholars of early modern Europe.
{
456pp,
155x230mm,
December 2007;
HB,
£34.99,
193111272X:9781931112727
, Truman State University Press
} |
 |
ROME & THE BLACK SEA REGION
: Domination, Romanisation, Resistance
[Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen (ed)]
In 89 BC, Roman legionaries intervened in the Black Sea region to curb the ambitions of Mithridates VI of Pontos. Over the next two centuries, the Roman presence on the Black Sea coast was slowly, but steadily increased. This volume deals with the Roman impact on the indigenous population in the Black Sea region and touches on the theme of romanisation of that area. Nine different contributors discuss several aspects of Roman identity and the cultural interaction -- one article even compares the situation to the American presence in Iraq. Though at the same time, it also looks at the resistance to the Roman Empire and the Roman problems of creating peace in the region after the colonisation. Romanisation and becoming Roman in a Greek world is a very popular field of discussion about which a lot has already has been written. This book, however, encircles three important themes -- the domination, the romanisation and the resistance. It covers two different sides of the Roman presence in the area and shows both the perspective of a Roman just arrived, Pliny the Younger, and a native seeing the Romans coming, the historian Memnon of Herakleia. Furthermore it describes how multi-identity cultures manage to live together because becoming Roman not necessarily means becoming less Greek (or less Gaulish, less Scythian, less Bosporan, etc). The diversity of the different chapters in this book creates reflection on the cultural change in the traditionalist, yet cosmopolitan environment that was the Roman Black Sea Region.
{
183pp,
170x240mm,
September 2006;
HB,
£21.95,
8779341748:9788779341746
, Aarhus University Press
} |
 |
RUNES & THEIR SECRETS
: Studies in Runology
[Gillian Fellows Jensen, Marie Stokluind, Michael Lerche Nielsen & Bente Holmberg (ed)]
This is a collection of articles written mainly in English dealing with a wide range of runological topics, all written by recognised scholars. The articles originated as papers read at an international runic symposium that was held in the year 2000. The book embraces Danish runic-inscriptions from the first to the sixteenth century, including such topics as the names of the runes, their chronology, literacy, runic coins etcetera. There are also articles on the oldest runic research and runic magic. Several of the articles present brand new knowledge, for example about runic encryption of military and erotic secrets from the middle of the sixteenth century.
{
461pp,
180x260mm,
September 2006;
HB,
£40.00,
8763504286:9788763504287
, Museum Tusculanum Press
} |
 |
SALMAKIS INSCRIPTION & HELLENISTIC HALIKARNASSOS
[Signe Isager & Poul Pedersen]
In 1995 the Turkish authorities made an important discovery on the Salmakis Promontory west of the entrance to the harbour of Bodrum -- ancient Halikarnassos. Remains of walls and mosaic floors dating to Hellenistic and Roman times were found, and on one of the walls there was a well-preserved Greek inscription, now known as The Salmakis Inscription. The inscription was found to be a previously unknown Hellenistic poem in which Aphrodite reveals what Halikarnassos has to be proud of. Her poetic account includes famous authors born in Halikarnassos. The text leaves no doubt that the location of the inscription was the famous Salmakis Fountain inseparably connected to the name of Hermaphroditos. The unparalleled inscription aroused great interest and discussion when published. An international symposium was held at the Castle of St Peter in Bodrum, where specialists representing numismatics, ancient history, literature, philology, religion, epigraphy and archaeology offered their views on the inscription and its implications for our understanding of the Hellenistic world. This book contains the contributions to that symposium. Apart from studies directly concerning the Salmakis inscription there are other articles on Hellenistic Halikarnassos, partly based on already well known evidence partly on new material.
{
237pp,
215x280mm,
January 2004;
HB,
£23.30,
8778388236:9788778388230
, University Press of Southern Denmark
} |
 |
SAXO & THE BALTIC REGION
: A Symposium
[Tore Nyberg (ed)]
Saxo's great history of the Danes also deals with their wars against peoples living on the opposite coasts of the Baltic. At a symposium organised by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Southern Denmark scholars from several countries presented the results of their research in this field. This collection of articles explores the way Saxo contrasted Danes to Wends, Prussians, Balts and Germans, and the historical background to his strongly biased viewpoints. As a literary construction, Saxo's work gives evidence of a highly sophisticated ideology of ethnic and religious balance in his treatment of these neighbours with whom the Danes lived in a state of steady confrontation.
{
172pp,
150x220mm,
January 2004;
PB,
£16.30,
8778389283:9788778389282
, University Press of Southern Denmark
} |
 |
SETTING EU PRIORITIES 2007
[Peter Ludlow (ed)]
Consists of five substantial papers based on the European Strategy Forum’s first meeting, in Ponte de Lima, Portugal. The topics covered are: The State of the Union at the beginning of 2007, EU Energy Policy, Reform of the EU Budget, European Security and Defence Policy and the Future of the Constitutional Treaty. Published on the eve of the special European Council in Berlin to celebrate the 50th anniversary and at a critical moment in the debate about the future of the Constitutional Treaty, the essay by Jacques Keller-Noellet and Guy Milton of the Council Secretariat on the prospects for constitutional reform is likely to be of particular interest. The papers are aimed in the first instance at policy makers in the EU institutions and member state governments. They should also be of considerable interest however to anybody who wishes to keep abreast of the EU policy debate.
{
116pp,
155x230mm,
April 2007;
PB,
£14.00,
9899535702:9789899535701
, Eurocomment
} |
 |
SPANISH INQUISITION, 1478-1614
: An Anthology of Sources
[Edited & Translated by Lu Ann Homza]
This collection of previously untranslated court documents, testimonials, and letters portrays the Inquisition in vivid detail, offering fresh perspectives on such topics as the Inquisition's persecution of Jews and Muslims, the role of women in Spanish religious culture, the Inquisition's construction and persecution of witchcraft, daily life inside an inquisition prison, and the relationship between the Inquisition and the Spanish Monarchy. Homza's general introduction traces the Inquisition's origins back to the Roman Empire and provides valuable historical, political, and legal context. Headnotes introduce each selection and footnotes identify unfamiliar terms, religious customs, and people.
{
272pp,
140x215mm,
April 2006;
HB,
£27.95,
0872207951:9780872207950
, Hackett Publishing
} |
 |
SPANISH RIGHT & THE JEWS, 1898-1945
: Antisemitism & Opportunism
[Isabelle Rohr]
Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.
REVIEW: "A penetrating appraisal of the specific mixture of ideological and strategic (indeed frankly opportunistic) motives driving the contradictory policies adopted by Francoists towards different groups of European Jews in the period between c1936 and 1945... The particular strength of Dr Rohr’s work is its understanding of the constant interplay between the political mythology of Spanish antisemitism and Spain’s geopolitical interests and colonial aspirations." -- Professor Helen Graham, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London. "The author has reconciled several different kinds of history -- exploring political myths, colonialism and foreign policy during wartime as well as contributing to both Spanish and Jewish history... This engaging, stimulating and original work firmly gives the issue of race in contemporary Spain the historiographical importance that it merits. Just as the Moorish 'Other' has long been recognised as a significant term of reference of Spanish identity, this books shows how the construction of 'the Jew' plays a similar role." -- Dr Michael Richards, University of the West of England. "This book debunks the so-called 'paradoxical' nature of Franco’s supposed benevolence towards the Jews, showing that any generosity on the regime’s part was both opportunistic and unreliable. Dr Rohr grounds Franco’s relationship to the Jews during World War II in the fascinating and complex history of post-Inquisitorial Spanish attitudes towards Jews, ranging from Philosephardism to various forms of antisemitism according to shifting ideological goals. Rohr’s reading of Franco’s neo-Philosephardism in the context of his colonial ambitions in Northern Africa is groundbreaking." -- Dr Soledad Fox, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Williams College.
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272pp,
152x229mm,
March 2008;
PB,
£18.95,
184519182X:9781845191825
/
HB,
£44.99,
1845191811:9781845191818
, Sussex Academic Press
} |
 |
SPARKS OF RESISTANCE
: The Illegal Press in German Occupied Denmark, April 1940 to August 1943
[Nathaniel Hong]
The illegal press in Denmark opposing German occupation grew to impressive size and influence by the end of World War II. Buts its origins were modest, springing up from the small banned Danish Community Party and informal friendship groups in 1941.
{
308pp,
155x230mm,
January 1996;
PB,
£28.00,
8778381266:9788778381262
, University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press)
} |
 |
SUFFERING SAINTS
: Jansenists & Convulsionnaires in France, 1640-1799
[Brian E Strayer]
This comprehensive survey of Jansenism and Convulsionism in France is the only work currently available in English that attempts to place the Jansenist movement in the context of French political, social, economic, religious and intellectual developments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author provides biographical sketches of its key leaders, analyzes their major writings, and highlights both the movement's internal conflicts and its struggles against Church and State persecution. From letters, diaries, books and speeches, Brian Strayer explains such important Jansenist themes as suffering, saintliness, truth, conflict, passive resistance, and their gradual embracing of toleration. He provides fresh insights into asceticism, Gallicanism, Richerism, Conciliarism, Jesuitism, and Convulsionism in their historical contexts. With gentle wit, the author exposes the contradictions and paradoxes within the movement, shares human interest stories about the Port-Royal nuns, and shows how papal bulls poisoned the religious and political life in France from 1643 to 1713 and beyond. "Suffering Saints" is the result of five years of research in primary and secondary sources from several major archives and libraries in Paris and the United States.
{
424pp,
171x246mm,
May 2008;
HB,
£65.00,
1845192451:9781845192457
, Sussex Academic Press
} |
 |
TOWARDS A WIDER EUROPE
[Peter Herrmann & Arno Tasuch (eds)]
This new book deals with the complex issue of Europe’s inevitable yet extremely controversial expansion process.
{
160pp,
180x260mm,
January 2006;
PB,
£25.99,
1594547211:9781594547218
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
TRADE RELATIONS
: in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity -- The Ceramic Evidence
[Maria Berg Briese & Leif Erik Vaag (eds)]
This book focuses on trade and cultural interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods, and discusses the extent to which these mechanisms can be traced from the ceramic evidence. Research in the Western Mediterranean has already yielded results that enable us to put forward theories of, not only trade patterns and trade mechanisms, but also more complex theories of the socio-economic realities of the Roman empire. In the West this has been made possible through the understanding of the different pottery sequences, through published kiln sites, through quantification of pottery and through revealed shipwrecks. However, things are different in the still less well-documented East, and it is of utmost importance that we now turn to this less explored part of the ancient world in order to gain a more profound understanding of the ancient trade. In the winter of 1998 junior and senior scholars of classical archaeology discussed the matter at an international seminar at Sandbjerg Manorhouse in Denmark. This book contains the contributions of this fruitful meeting.
{
256pp,
215x280mm,
January 2002;
HB,
£21.25,
8778389585:9788778389589
, University Press of Southern Denmark
} |
 |
TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE, 2ND EDITION
: A Brief History
[Michael D Richards & Paul R Waibel]
This second edition is intended as a concise yet comprehensive survey of the significant themes of European history during a century of both great achievement and unimaginable barbarism. Although the text is short enough to permit instructors to assign additional outside readings, it will nevertheless serve as a good general introduction. In its user-friendly format, the narrative is divided into four parts, two before the outbreak of World War 2 and two thereafter. Each part is introduced by an overview that summarises the main themes of the period covered. Additionally, each of the four parts is further divided into three chapters of roughly equal length. The liberal use throughout the text of maps, tables and illustrations will greatly enhance the student reader's comprehension. Each chapter is framed by a chronology of events and a suggested list of books and films. A liost of abbreviations and acronyms, a list of additional sources for European history concludes the text.
{
288pp,
145x215mm,
April 2005;
PB,
£13.50,
0882952358:9780882952352
, Harlan Davidson
} |
 |
TYING GREECE TO THE WEST
: US-West German-Greek Relations 1949-1974
[Mogens Pelt]
The author examines the reconstruction of Greece in the post war era and the role of the United States and West Germany. He deals with the Marshall Plan years, the process of Greece's association with the Common Market and the crisis periods in the Middle East; also, he focuses on the internal political development in Greece including the prelude to the military coup d'etat in 1967.
{
454pp,
170x245mm,
March 2006;
HB,
£35.00,
8772895837:9788772895833
, Museum Tusculanum Press
} |
 |
VISIONS OF PAST GLORY
: Nationalism & the Construction of Early Finnish History
[Derek Fewster]
Finland, during both prehistoric and medieval times, has been the subject of numerous studies, but none of these have previously considered the nationalist essence of the integral, underlying ‘history culture’ or ‘public archaeology’ of the nation. Even quite obvious political interpretations, visions, and imageries of an ancient Golden Age have all too easily been dismissed as the consequences of mere patriotism, ‘Kalevala enthusiasm’, or Karelianism. This study presents the case for how the conceptions of a distant, glorious past have been advanced and actively developed within the national project of constructing a modern ethnicity of Finnishness. Accordingly, a conception of an original ancient greatness was paramount for the nationalist movements in both the Grand Duchy and the early Republic of Finland, especially so when the perceived nation was considered in need of intellectually unifying defences against the many conceived threats of Russianness after ca 1890. The author traces the construction of a Finnish Great Myth of National Origins from the 16th century until the end of the Second World War, and provides richly illustrated examples of how the process of nation-building influenced and amplified the deep historical core of the emerging Finnish national consciousness.
{
555pp,
170x250mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£27.50,
9517467877:9789517467872
, Finnish Literature Society
} |
 |
WAR OF THE DOOMED
: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942-1944
[Shmuel Krakowski]
Documents the Jewish resistance to Nazi occupation in Poland outside the confines of Warsaw. It tells of armed resistance in the forests and commando units as well as in POW and extermination camps. Also included is a fresh analysis of the Warsaw rebellion concerning the resistance that was hindered by the isolation and vulnerability of the participants. Taken together, the sources and memoirs reveal the ingenuity and bravery of Jews who proved themselves capable of heroic acts despite their previous mundane lives.
{
340pp,
160x233mm,
January 1984;
HB,
£35.00,
0841908516:9780841908512
, Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
} |
 |
WITNESS
: Memory, Representation & the Media in Question
[Frederik Tygstrup & Ulrik Ekman (eds)]
This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in Western culture since the Holocaust. 'Witness' presents a new body of work in the field by an international collective of scholars concerned with resituating witnessing in its specifically contemporary problematic. This volume thus not only establishes links with existing, currently canonical contributions to witness literature -- from Primo Levi through Victor Klemperer to Imre Kertész -- it also goes on to provide a set of analyses of exemplary and very recent literary works in that area. Most significantly, Witness extends and changes the previous scholarly tendency to focus strongly on historical evidence and the witness’ vocalisation of true remembrance so as to include difficult theoretical and interpretative questions posed by studies today of traumatic experience, amnesia, visual culture, new media, and technology. Amongst others, the book includes contributions from the acclaimed Romanian-German author Herta Müller, and such an internationally recognised scholar in trauma studies as Cathy Caruth.
{
420pp,
June 2008;
PB,
£35.00,
8763504251:9788763504256
, Museum Tusculanum Press
} |
