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Memory Battles in Postwar France Philip Nord | Princeton University, New Jersey 160,000 people, a mix of résistants and Jews, were deported from France to camps in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War. Philip Nord addresses how the Deportation, and how it was remembered, became politicized against the backdrop of changing domestic and international contexts. • Focuses on both Jews and non-Jews who were deported from France in large numbers during the Second World War • Provides a fresh perspective on source materials, using politics, films and literature as key sources • Considers the religious dimension of post-war memorialization in
France
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
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Christian Democratic Workers and the Forging of German Democracy, 1920–1980
William L. Patch | Washington and Lee University, Virginia Why has democracy flourished in the Federal Republic of Germany? This book illuminates the pivotal role played by the half million veterans of the Christian trade unions of the Weimar Republic, who sought with great success after 1945 to alleviate class conflict through welfare legislation and worker participation in management. • Painstaking archival research uncovers new evidence unknown even to specialists in the field • Integrates the analysis of party politics, labor history and labor relations, and Catholic Church history • Illuminates what German political actors truly learned from the dissolution of the Weimar Republic and the experience of the Third
Reich 341pp October 2020 9781108439367 Paperback GBP 28.99 / USD 37.99 March 2018 9781108424110 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108539753
Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945–1950
Devin O. Pendas | Boston College, Massachusetts Revising our understanding about how transitional justice works, this study analyses and compares Nazi trials in post-war East and West Germany from 1945 to 1950 to challenge assumptions about the political outcomes of prosecuting mass atrocities. • Examines the experience of transitional justice in West and East
Germany between 1945 and 1950 • Shows how ‘bad trials’ have promoted democracy in West Germany, while ‘good trials’ helped legitimate a new dictatorship in East
Germany • Shows that transitional justice trials can lead to both democracy and new dictatorships, challenging conventional wisdom 230pp September 2020 9780521871297 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139021074 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Eating Nature in Modern Germany
Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000 Corinna Treitel | Washington University, St Louis A fascinating new account of eating naturally as an aspect of German biopolitics. Corinna Treitel explores the allure of vegetarianism, organic farming, and other such practices to a wide variety of Germans, from socialists, liberals, and radical anti-Semites in the nineteenth century to fascists, communists, and Greens in the twentieth century. • Examines the complex historical roots of a contemporary trend • Shows how developments in science, medicine, agriculture, popular culture, and politics produced and sustained this historical phenomenon • Explores the connections between eating naturally and other major biopolitical projects such as eugenics, racial hygiene, and pro-natalism, broadening the discussion of biopolitics in European history 404pp 22 b/w illus. March 2020 9781316638392 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 April 2017 9781107188020 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316946312
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Enterprising Empires
Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia Matthew P. Romaniello | Weber State University, Utah Matthew P. Romaniello charts how commercial competition between Britain and Russia became entangled in a critical era of empire. He reveals how geopolitical developments affected trade more than commercial regulations, while also challenging depictions of this period as a straightforward era of Russian economic decline. • Uncovers the people and history of the British Russia Company in the eighteenth century • Highlights British trade in Asia and the North Pacific, rather than focusing on the economy of the Atlantic • Moves Russia from the global ‘semi-periphery’ to the center of the global economy 307pp 7 b/w illus. 3 maps 7 tables November 2020 9781108703086 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99 February 2019 9781108497572 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108628600
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German Soldiers and the Occupation of France, 1940–1944
Julia S. Torrie For four years, German soldiers not only stood guard over and fought in France, but also lived their lives. While the everyday experiences of the occupied French population are well-documented, we know much less about the occupiers. The lives of ordinary German soldiers offer new insights into the occupation of France and the history of Nazism. • A corrective to standard accounts of the German occupation of France that cover German policy-makers only • Argues that occupied France was integrally linked to the larger war • The book is based on a wide variety of primary sources, including soldiers’ letters, photographs and memoirs
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Germany’s Empire in the East
Germans and Romania in an Era of Globalization and Total War David Hamlin | Fordham University, New York One of the signal events of the twentieth century was Germany’s effort to construct an empire in Europe modeled on the European experience outside Europe. David Hamlin argues that this effort was a strategic choice taken to grapple with the global economic and political power of England and the US and manifested itself first in World War One. • Puts German policy toward Romania and the German East generally in a broader, global context, emphasizing the significance of global markets • Embeds occupation and war aims in economic concerns, highlighting how German domestic crisis of supply both shaped German policy and provided institutional model for occupation • Highlights how German domestic crisis of supply both shaped German policy and provided an institutional model for occupation 360pp 12 b/w illus. 1 map 3 tables May 2020 9781316648070 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2017 9781107198197 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108182218
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Helmut Schmidt and British-German Relations
A European Misunderstanding Mathias Haeussler | Universität Regensburg, Germany This major reinterpretation of British-German relations in the 1970s explores why the two countries rarely saw eye to eye over European integration. It shows how at the heart of bilateral tensions lay profoundly competing visions for postwar Europe, and reveals their surprisingly close cooperation in pursuing joint interests on the global stage. • Provides vital historical context about the deeper historical reasons behind the different British and German attitudes towards post-war
European integration, highly relevant to contemporary debates over
Brexit • Offers a fresh and stimulating perspective on one of post-war
Germany’s most prominent and well-known politicians • Uses recently declassified sources from a range of countries, as well as rare materials from Schmidt’s private archive 265pp 8 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108710800 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 March 2019 9781108482639 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108697132 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism
Shira Klein | Chapman University, California Shira Klein’s deeply researched book on Italian Jews will appeal to anyone interested in Italy, modern Jewish history, Fascism and World War II, and the Holocaust. This cultural history offers an unusually broad scope, spanning over a century and extending from Italy to Palestine and America. • Draws on previously unstudied sources on Italian
Jewry, giving voice to the stories of women and children so often lost in historical accounts • Offers a new perspective on one of modern Italy’s most enduring myths - Italian benevolence towards Jews during World War II • Expands the traditional boundaries of European Jewish history to appeal to anyone interested in both the prewar and postwar periods 379pp 13 b/w illus. January 2020 9781108439350 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 January 2018 9781108424103 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108539739
Love between Enemies
Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II Raffael Scheck | Colby College, Maine Based on thousands of court cases, this innovative study explores the love stories between enemy prisoners of war and German women during the Second World War. It portrays an intimate picture of life in wartime Nazi Germany, from an international perspective, with a particular focus on German women’s experiences. • Offers an intimate perspective on the Second World War • Exposes the human drama of love in the midst of the most destructive war in world history • Explores how both parties came to terms with their forbidden relationships in the aftermath of war 400pp November 2020 9781108841757 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108894821
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My Opposition
The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the Third Reich Friedrich Kellner A remarkable account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man’s struggle against totalitarianism. Friedrich Kellner’s diary unflinchingly charts the country’s path to dictatorship and genocide, and demonstrates just how much ordinary Germans really knew about the actions of the Nazi regime. • A remarkable first-hand account of everyday life under National
Socialism during the Second World War which documents just how widespread awareness was of the unfolding of the Holocaust • A timeless portrayal of the individual’s struggle against totalitarianism which still resonates today • Includes the dramatic story of the Kellner family and of how the diary was brought to light by Robert Scott Kellner, Friedrich’s grandson • The author’s writings are interspersed with contemporary clippings from the German press 620pp 53 b/w illus. January 2020 9781108406963 Paperback GBP 13.99 / USD 17.95 January 2018 9781108418294 Hardback GBP 27.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108289696
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Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland
Upper Silesia, 1848–1960 Brendan Karch | Louisiana State University In the borderland of Upper Silesia between 1848 and 1960, the local population resisted attempts by nationalist activists to compel them to become loyal Germans or Poles, a divide dictated by the two languages they spoke. This study of that resistance will appeal to scholars of European history and nationalism. • Recasts mid-twentieth-century national radicalism as partially motivated by local resistance to nationalization • This interdisciplinary study of nationalism will appeal to scholars of sociology and political science • Provides new insights into the relationship between Nazi Germany and international political organizations on the Jewish question
Publications of the German Historical Institute
347pp 9 b/w illus. 3 maps March 2020 9781108463980 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 October 2018 9781108487108 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108560955
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Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany
Elizabeth Harvey | University of Nottingham It is often assumed that there was no such thing as private life under Nazi rule. This volume challenges that view by showing how non-Jewish Germans asserted their privacy and asking how far the regime encouraged such aspirations. At the same time, it traces how ‘ethnic Germans’ and Jews in occupied Poland sought to defend their privacy. • Challenges assumptions that there was no such thing as private life under Nazi rule • Raises wider questions about the nature of privacy and private life in twentieth-century societies 410pp June 2020 9781108719032 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2019 9781108484985 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108754859
Project Europe
A History Kiran Klaus Patel | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen A bracing re-examination of the myths and realities of European integration which challenges conventional wisdoms of Europhiles and Eurosceptics alike. Kiran Klaus Patel explores the EU’s contribution to peace, prosperity, and democracy, its impact on peoples’ lives and the lessons of the past for its contemporary crisis. • Provides an ambitious and innovative analysis of the impact of
European integration on peoples’ lives • Assesses each of the core dimensions associated with European integration on a chapter-by-chapter basis to offer fresh insights on the
EU’s strengths and weaknesses • Discusses technical issues regarding European integration in an accessible way to make the topic more appealing to a broader audience 388pp 11 b/w illus. 4 maps 6 tables April 2020 9781108494960 Hardback GBP 19.99 / USD 26.95 eISBN 9781108848893
Remaking Ukraine after World War II
The Clash of Local and Central Soviet Power Filip Slaveski | Deakin University, Victoria Drawing on recently declassified Soviet sources, this examines Soviet Ukraine’s transition from war to ‘peace’ in the long aftermath of World War II, exploring the battle for land, resources and power among collective farmers, local and central Soviet authorities in reconstructing post-war Ukraine. The consequences of this battle resonate today. • Draws on recently declassified Soviet sources to shed new light on the post-war period • Brings to light the struggle of ordinary people against the local government that sought to destroy them • Connects the past to the present, by tracing Ukraine’s experience from the 1940s to today
New Studies in European History
200pp December 2020 9781108840255 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108879293
Sixties Europe
Timothy Scott Brown | Northeastern University, Boston A social, political and cultural history of left-wing social movements in 1960s Europe, Sixties Europe examines the border-crossing uprisings of the 1960s on both sides of the Iron Curtain, placing them in the broader context formed by Third World liberation struggles and Cold War geopolitics. • Offers a social, political and cultural history of
Europe across a transformative decade • Treats 1968 in Europe as a whole, examining 1960s social movements in both the capitalist West and the state socialist East • Places European developments within a broader global and transnational context formed by Third World liberation struggles and
Cold War geopolitics
New Approaches to European History
250pp August 2020 9781107122383 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 August 2020 9781107552906 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781316388327
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Socialism across the Iron Curtain
Socialist Parties in East and West and the Reconstruction of Europe after 1945 Jan De Graaf | Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany This innovative pan-European history of postwar socialism shows the Cold War categories of ‘East’ and ‘West’ cannot be projected back onto post-war Europe. By comparing the socialist and social democratic parties in Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, and Poland, it highlights the many similarities across and divergences within the two putative blocs. • Brings together cases from East and West to shine fresh light on both national and comparative histories • Challenges much of the current historiography of post-war European socialism and offers a new explanation for the weaknesses of post-war socialist parties • Draws on archival documents in seven different languages
New Studies in European History
332pp June 2020 9781108441179 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 January 2019 9781108425087 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108639781
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The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945–1980
Mark Edward Ruff | St Louis University, Missouri Were Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church in Germany unduly singled out for their conduct during the National Socialist era? Mark Edward Ruff explores the bitter controversies that broke out in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 to 1980 over the Catholic Church’s relationship to the Nazis. • Explains why the Catholic Church’s position during the Nazi era became a particular target of post-war criticism, as opposed to that of the Protestant churches • Explores how historical images arise out of personal experiences of persecution, and will appeal to those seeking to understand the complexities of religious identity • Historicizes war, appealing both to scholars with an interest in the cultural casualties of conflict, and to those who have experienced them 410pp 25 b/w illus. March 2020 9781316640760 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 31.99 July 2017 9781107190665 Hardback GBP 36.99 / USD 41.99 eISBN 9781108116107
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The East German Economy, 1945–2010
Falling Behind or Catching Up? Hartmut Berghoff | German Historical Institute, Washington DC This volume analyzes both the successes and failures of the East German economy. The contributors consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts, and trace the present and future of the East German economy, suggesting possible outcomes. • Analyzes the German Democratic Republic’s economic history in the context of the twentieth century, from pre-socialism to post-Unification • Brings together international scholars • Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the German Democratic
Republic’s economic history
Publications of the German Historical Institute
259pp March 2020 9781108792615 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 December 2013 9781107030138 Hardback GBP 62.99 / USD 103.00 eISBN 9781139343206 NEW IN PAPERBACK
The Emotional Politics of the Alternative Left
West Germany, 1968–1984 Joachim C. Häberlen | University of Warwick This fresh account of new-leftist politics in West Germany after 1968 emphasises how central feelings were, both for leftist critiques of modern capitalism and for their political practices. Joachim C. Häberlen’s book is based on close archival research and theoretically informed by recent approaches to the history of emotions. • Provides a new perspective on leftist politics in West Germany which will stimulate debates about the place of the alternative left in West
German history • Offers a vivid and surprising vision of emotional practices within the
Alternative Left • Combines theoretical approaches to the writing of a history of emotions with close archival research
New Studies in European History
317pp 9 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108458375 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 September 2018 9781108471749 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108559201
The German Right, 1918–1930
Political Parties, Organized Interests, and Patriotic Associations in the Struggle against Weimar Democracy Larry Eugene Jones | Canisius College, New York This important contribution to the history of Weimar Germany examines the role that the non-Nazi Right played in the destabilization and paralysis of Weimar democracy, and why it failed to achieve the unity that was essential to hold in check the more radical challenge to Weimar democracy by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party. • Makes a significant contribution to the history of Weimar Germany • Offers a comprehensive account of the non-Nazi German Right from 1918 to 1930 by placing its political fortunes within the broader context of the socio-economic developments of the post-war period • Examines the role of both human agency and long-range structural and cultural factors in the collapse of Weimar democracy 640pp 16 b/w illus. April 2020 9781108494076 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781108643450
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The Holocaust in Greece
Giorgos Antoniou | Aristotle University, Thessaloniki During the course of the Second World War, the Axis forces murdered ninety percent of the Jewish population in Greece. With cutting edge research, the authors show that the scale of this disaster could not have been achieved by the authorities alone, without the active participation of Greek Christians. • Presents a new and original interpretation of the
Holocaust in Greece • Provides focused case studies, which illuminate how the persecution of
Greek Jews - particularly their deportation and theft of their property took place in particular instances • Makes Greek scholarship on the Holocaust in Greece available to
English-speaking audiences for the first time 395pp 13 b/w illus. 2 maps March 2020 9781108465281 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 November 2018 9781108474672 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108565776
The Human Rights Dictatorship
Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany Ned Richardson-Little | Universität Erfurt, Germany By exposing the forgotten history of human rights in East Germany, this study places the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light, and demonstrates how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights. • Challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and proposes a new interpretation of the role of human rights in the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War • Debunks the myth of Western liberal democracies as the sole arbiters of human rights, and provides a unique perspective on the history of human rights by focusing on the agency of actors in East Germany and socialist Eastern Europe • Highlights the global nature of human rights politics in a field that is deeply Eurocentric by illuminating the influence of decolonization and the Third World on the Eastern bloc
Human Rights in History
284pp April 2020 9781108424677 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 April 2020 9781108440783 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108341295
The Hunger Winter
Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944–1945 Ingrid de Zwarte | Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands In this pioneering study, Ingrid de Zwarte offers a comprehensive and multifaceted view of the socio-political context and consequences of the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944–45. Based on extensive research, she examines the causes and demographic impact of the famine and how it was confronted at different societal levels. • Offers a comprehensive and multifaceted view of the socio-political context in which the Dutch famine emerged and was confronted • Situates the Dutch ‘Hunger Winter’ within a broader frame of Nazi hunger politics in occupied Europe • Examines how a modern society with a highly-developed economy such as the Netherlands coped with food shortage and famine • Critically assesses the politics and practices of Allied relief for the occupied Netherlands
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
315pp 45 b/w illus. 4 maps 12 tables July 2020 9781108836807 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108872515 NEW IN PAPERBACK
The Rights of the Roma
The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Czechoslovakia Celia Donert | University of Cambridge A new interpretation of citizenship in socialist Eastern Europe and non-Western histories of human rights, based upon the vivid social and political history of Roma in Czechoslovakia. Celia Donert rewrites Roma as agents, not victims, of social citizenship, drawing on extensive original research in Czech and Slovak archives. • Demonstrates the centrality of the Romani experience to understanding the history of citizenship, statelessness, genocide and minority rights in contemporary Europe • Contributes a new perspective to histories of citizenship and the legacies of genocide in postwar Europe • Provides a history of Roma in Czechoslovakia based on a wide range of local archives, ethnographies, memoirs and interviews
Human Rights in History
309pp 13 b/w illus. May 2020 9781316629369 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 December 2017 9781107176270 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316811641
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The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin
Politics, Consumption, and Urban Space, 1914–1945 Molly Loberg | California Polytechnic State University Molly Loberg reconstructs the vibrant, volatile, and lost topography of interwar Berlin. She charts the contests for Berlin’s streets during the Weimar Republic and Third Reich and their transformation into a means of communication, lens of perception, and stage of action for both commercial and political life. • The interdisciplinary approach draws on lively and diverse primary sources, including police reports, commercial and political advertising, artwork, film, and citizens’ letters • Through the lens of the city, it brings together political, economic, social, and cultural history, which will appeal to readers in any of these subfields • Encompasses the whole period from 1914 to 1945, crossing the typical barriers of chronology and periodization in German and interwar history 339pp 20 b/w illus. February 2020 9781108405546 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 March 2018 9781108417648 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108278058
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Transnational Nazism
Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936 Ricky W. Law | Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania This study of the 1930s German-Japanese alliance employs sources in both languages to reveal the role of mass media in shaping and promoting an ideology which, by creating a niche for Japan in the Nazi worldview, convinced German Nazis to identify with non-Aryans and non-Germans to become adherents of Hitler. • Uses both German and Japanese primary sources, many of which have been previously neglected • Explains interwar German-Japanese rapprochement from ideological and cultural perspectives, and the role of the national media of both countries • Offers an incisive look at how the seemingly narrow Nazi ideology gained broad prominence and popularity beyond its obvious core demographic
Publications of the German Historical Institute
359pp 21 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108465151 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 29.99 May 2019 9781108474634 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108565714
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Immigration, Space, and Belonging, 1961–1990 Sarah Thomsen Vierra Drawing on a diverse array of Turkish- and German-language sources, this book explores the history of Turkish immigrants and their children in West Berlin from 1961 to the early years after reunification. Sarah Thomsen Vierra sheds new light on the relationship between belonging, identity, and everyday life. • Brings the perspectives of Turkish immigrants and their children into the historical narrative by drawing on Turkish-language sources as well as German sources • Focuses on the everyday lives of first and second generation Turkish
Germans • Uses the methodological framework of space to explore issues of belonging and integration
Publications of the German Historical Institute
281pp 18 b/w illus. March 2020 9781108446051 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 October 2018 9781108427302 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108691475
European History - 1000 - 1450
Blood Royal
Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe Robert Bartlett | University of St Andrews, Scotland This engaging history of dynastic power in medieval Europe explores the role of family dynamics and family consciousness in the politics of royal and imperial dynasties. From royal marriages and the birth of sons, to female sovereigns, mistresses and wicked uncles, Robert Bartlett casts fresh light on an essential feature of the medieval world. • Demonstrates the central importance of dynastic rule in the political cultures of medieval Europe • Covers the whole of Latin Christendom and Byzantium from 500 to 1500 • Featuring lots of colourful and surprising anecdotes and examples, this is a tour de force from a master historian
The James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture
672pp 23 b/w illus. 1 map 2 tables July 2020 9781108490672 Hardback GBP 24.99 / USD 34.95 eISBN 9781108854559
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Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean Economy
Joshua Holo | Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, California Joshua Holo’s Byzantine-Jewish economic history challenges two prevailing historical claims. Byzantine Jews, leveraging exclusive trade structures to advance their integration into Byzantine markets, belie the assumption of segregation and integration as competing forces. Moreover, this mercantile success also contradicts the claim of Jewish economic decline during the Commercial Revolution. • A new approach to the integration of Byzantine Jews into regional history, with startling results • Appendix of ancient sources explores the actual primary sources and revisits these sources that have been only partially translated or that have not been recently treated • Appendix B of the images, settles important disputes about the content of the manuscripts discussed 297pp May 2020 9781108745086 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 November 2009 9780521856331 Hardback GBP 72.00 / USD 113.00 eISBN 9780511691652
Cities of Strangers
Making Lives in Medieval Europe Miri Rubin | Queen Mary University of London Examining how ‘strangers’ - settling newcomers as well as settled ethnic and religious minorities - were treated in urban communities between 1000 and 1500, Cities of Strangers explores pathways to citizenship and arrangements for those unlikely to become citizens during a period of formative urban growth and its aftermath in medieval Europe. • Offers an historical vantage point on the reception of strangers into cities, in conversation with contemporary concerns • Traces the development of urban institutions, with attention to regional differences and the diverse nature of medieval cities • Draws on a wide range of sources to create a complex picture of urban life in a period of growth as well as in one of contraction
The Wiles Lectures
204pp 5 b/w illus. 2 maps March 2020 9781108481236 Hardback GBP 57.99 / USD 74.99 March 2020 9781108740531 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108666510
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City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100–1600
Bruno Blondé | Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium Throughout the middle ages and the sixteenth century the Low Countries counted among the most urbanised societies in Europe. This comprehensive survey unravels the geographical, political, social, religious, cultural and economic entanglements and complexities that shaped a remarkably resilient urban society. • A multi-authored and accessible volume that resulted from a collaborative inter-university project on the social history of the city • Offers a balanced and up-to-date view on relevant debates • Explicitly deals with the spatial and material dimensions of urban history 321pp June 2020 9781108469548 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 October 2018 9781108474689 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108645454
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Conciliarism and Heresy in Fifteenth-Century England
Collective Authority in the Age of the General Councils Alexander Russell | University of Warwick The general councils of the fifteenth century constituted a remarkable political experiment, which used collective decision-making to tackle important problems facing the church. This book offers a fundamental reassessment of England’s relationship with these councils, revealing how political thought, heresy, and collective politics were connected. • Combines analysis of political theory, institutional developments and religious culture • Challenges older interpretations of England’s diplomatic and intellectual isolation with regard to the general councils • Provides a new context for the study of the history of medieval political thought
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
233pp March 2020 9781108813877 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 July 2017 9781107172272 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316771570
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Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France
The Business of Salvation Tyler Lange | University of California, Berkeley Using quantitative and qualitative methods to re-evaluate the role of late medieval church courts, Tyler Lange examines the relatively common occurrence of excommunicated debtors. This reveals how day-to-day credit functioned in the late Middle Ages, what debt meant to contemporaries, and how believers understood the Church. • Re-evaluates the functioning of late medieval church courts from the perspective of the litigant • Uses quantitative methods to benefit from previously neglected archival sources, including analysis of more than 11,000 sanctions • Examines legal, economic, and cultural aspects of excommunication for debt in local contexts 321pp 15 b/w illus. 1 map 17 tables June 2020 9781108814225 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 March 2016 9781107145795 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316536162 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300–c.1500
Christopher Fletcher | Université de Paris I How did the kings of England and France govern their kingdoms? This volume, the product of a ten-year collaborative project, brings together specialists in late-medieval England and France to provide a richly textured description of the social, political, economic and cultural underpinnings of royal power. • An unprecedented cooperative project co-written by specialists on the kingdoms of England and France in the later Middle Ages • Offers a genuinely comparative and in-depth perspective on complex questions of historiography and sources • Tightly focused on royal government, with analysis informed by the lessons of social, economic and cultural history c92pp April 2020 9781107461758 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 April 2015 9781107089907 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 137 eISBN 9781316106112
Hell in the Byzantine World 2 Volume Hardback Set
A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean Angeliki Lymberopoulou | The Open University, Milton Keynes The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries since the emergence of the Christian faith. These landmark volumes provide the first large-scale investigation of this imagery found across the Byzantine and postByzantine world. • Adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a cultural and religious subject of high relevance to the history of Christianity • Includes a large amount of unpublished material and material which is very difficult to access • Testifies to the richness and diversity of Byzantine art and presents new aspects of the society that commissioned and created it 936pp 119 b/w illus. 137 colour illus. 7 maps September 2020 9781108690706 2 Hardback books GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00 eISBN 9781108596831
Bernard Hamilton | University of Nottingham Monasticism was the dominant form of religious life in the medieval West and in the Byzantine world. Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States explores the parallel histories of monasteries and monasticism in western and Byzantine traditions in the Near East during the Crusader period c.1050-1300. • A rigorously researched comprehensive survey of monasteries and monasticism in the Near East during the ‘Crusader’ period • Innovative approach enabling a new understanding of indigenous religious institutions and culture in the Crusader states • Examines Latin and Greek monasticism side by side 300pp 10 b/w illus. October 2020 9780521836388 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139016230
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Learning in a Crusader City
Intellectual Activity and Intercultural Exchanges in Acre, 1191–1291 Jonathan Rubin | Bar-Ilan University, Israel Jonathan Rubin explores the intellectual activities and intercultural exchanges that occurred in the city of Acre during the Crusades, drawing on the complete body of evidence from the city. The result is an unprecedentedly rich portrait of a hitherto neglected intellectual centre on the Eastern shores of the medieval Mediterranean. • Systematically explores the complete body of intellectual production of a crusader city • Examines the work done in the city in separate fields, as well as the roles that some key figures and groups played in them • Provides a unique picture of a ‘new’ Latin-dominated centre of intellectual activity
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
234pp 1 b/w illus. March 2020 9781316637715 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 September 2018 9781107187184 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316941096
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Medieval European Coinage
Volume 12 Northern Italy William R. Day, Jr | University of Cambridge This is the first comprehensive survey of the coinage of north Italy, c.950–1500. The volume reveals for the first time the wider trends that shaped the coinages of the region, incorporating a fully illustrated catalogue of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s unrivalled collection of north Italian coins and numerous detailed appendices. • The first comprehensive survey of the medieval coinages of north Italy • Makes previously inaccessible specialist work available to an international audience • The illustrated catalogue enables easy comparison and familiarisation, including coins from the world-famous Grierson collection
Medieval European Coinage
1165pp 152 b/w illus. 6 maps 61 tables February 2020 9781107568747 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 November 2016 9780521260213 Hardback GBP 193.00 / USD 292.00 eISBN 9781139027205
Medieval Self-Coronations
The History and Symbolism of a Ritual Jaume Aurell | Universidad de Navarra, Spain This original and comprehensive study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present exposes as myth the idea that Napoleon was the first to perform the act of self-coronation, vividly demonstrating that self-coronations were not as transgressive or unconventional as has been imagined. • The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations, from
Ancient Persia to contemporary Hawaii • Blends theory and practice to unravel the symbolism of the ritual of self-coronations over the longue duree • Offers a fresh perspective on the crucial issue of the legitimation of the power 400pp June 2020 9781108840248 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108879279 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Petrarch’s War
Florence and the Black Death in Context William Caferro | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee A compelling and revisionist account of the economic, literary and social history of Florence in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death. Organised around Petrarch’s ‘war’ against the Ubaldini of 1349–1350, by connecting warfare with the plague narrative, William Caferro offers an important contribution to the history of Renaissance Florence. • Proposes a new understanding of the impact of the Black Death in
Florence • An integrated study of the impact of war on Florence, which examines its effect on public finance, the economy, and political institutions • Contextualises Florentine history and crosses disciplinary boundaries, connecting literature and history through the surprisingly neglected phenomenon of war 240pp March 2020 9781108439305 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 May 2018 9781108424011 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108539555
Princely Power in Late Medieval France
Jeanne de Penthièvre and the War for Brittany Erika Graham-Goering The first critical study of Jeanne de Penthièvre (c.1326–1384), duchess of Brittany and an important political player of the early Hundred Years’ War, sheds light on status, gender, and cooperation as crucial components of late medieval power structures. • The first critical study of Jeanne de Penthièvre (c.1326–1384), duchess of Brittany and an important political player of the early Hundred Years’
War • Sheds light on women’s rulership as a component of power structures in the early Hundred Years’ War • Will appeal to students and scholars of medieval France, social, political, and gender history
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
302pp April 2020 9781108489096 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108773904
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The Eucharist in Medieval Canon Law
Thomas M. Izbicki | Rutgers University, New Jersey Thomas Izbicki presents a new analysis of the medieval Church’s teaching about and the regulation of the practice of the Eucharist. Examining the relationship between the adoration of the sacrament and canon law, Izbicki draws on canon law collections and commentaries, synodal enactments, legal manuals and books about ecclesiastical offices. • Links the doctrine of the real presence of Christ to discipline and how it impacted local practice • Looks at the larger picture by presenting European-wide examples of local law and practice, from Germany, Cyprus, Moravia, Castile, and other places • Offers a systematic review of the sources, such as canon law collections and commentaries 288pp May 2020 9781107561809 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 October 2015 9781107124417 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316408148
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The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus
Sean Griffin | Dartmouth College, New Hampshire Original and engaging, this substantial contribution to the study of the Rus Primary Chronicle, the most important piece of evidence for the history of the Rus in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, includes the first English-language translations of key Slavonic sources. • Includes English translations of all primary sources, including many published here for the first time • Provides a major contribution to the study of the written history of East
Slavic civilization • Demonstrates how these chronicle stories were later used for political as well as religious purposes
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
285pp August 2020 9781108814843 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 August 2019 9781107156760 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316661543
Theologians on the Boundary Between Humans and Animals Ian P. Wei | University of Bristol Exploring the diverse ways in which theologians at the University of Paris in the thirteenth century understood the differences and similarities between humans and animals, this book analyses key theological works to demonstrate how thinking about animals became a crucial tool for generating knowledge of God and the whole of creation. • Resonates with current debates about what defines humanity and how humans should relate to other creatures • Presents extended close reading of key texts, including by William of
Auvergne, Bonaventure, Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas • Demonstrates the crucial importance of animals for understanding medieval attitudes towards the whole of creation and the creator 330pp August 2020 9781108830157 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108907552
European History - 450 - 1000
After Charlemagne
Carolingian Italy and its Rulers Clemens Gantner | Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Bringing together the foremost scholars of early medieval Italy, After Charlemagne offers new perspectives on the politics, culture, society and economy of ninth-century Italy and paints a vivid picture of a multifaceted peninsula with complex international relations, a fascinating but neglected period of Italian history. • Offers a comprehensive and accessible history of ninth-century Italy in
English • Brings together a wide range of international experts and presents their cutting-edge research • Emphasises the diversity of the Italian peninsula, exploring topics at a regional level as well as within the broader Italian or international context 350pp January 2021 9781108840774 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108887762 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Carolingian Catalonia
Politics, Culture, and Identity in an Imperial Province, 778–987 Cullen J. Chandler Using a range of evidence, Chandler addresses the political development of the Carolingian Spanish March as part of the Carolingian ‘experiment’. Tracing the region’s relationship with the monarchy over two centuries, he revises traditional views of ethnic motivations for action and prior interpretations of the constitutional birth of Catalonia. • Presents a general and analytical overview of the history of the
Carolingian Spanish March • Revises traditional interpretations of the early political and constitutional history of Catalonia • Explores the concept of identity in the Early Middle Ages
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
337pp 1 b/w illus. 3 maps April 2020 9781108465199 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 January 2019 9781108474641 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108565745
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Conquest and Christianization
Saxony and the Carolingian World, 772–888 Ingrid Rembold | University of Oxford The political integration and Christianization of Saxony has long been counted among Charlemagne’s failures. This accessible account of the conquest re-evaluates this view and shows how the success of this transformation has important implications for how we view governance, the institutional church, and Christian communities in the early Middle Ages. • Offers a new synthesis of the history of Saxony in the Carolingian period • Suggests a more grassroots model of Christianization • Accessible to students and non-specialist readers
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
295pp 1 b/w illus. 5 maps March 2020 9781316647202 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 December 2017 9781107196216 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108164597
Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy
Caroline Goodson | University of Cambridge Concentrating on a period of social, economic, and political change in the Italian peninsula, Caroline Goodson demonstrates the centrality of foodgrowing gardens to the cultural lives and economic realities of early medieval cities, and shows how urban gardening transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values. • Challenges conventional ideas about the Fall of Rome • Offers a new way to see and analyse urban experience in early medieval cities • Unites textual and material evidence for urban horticulture 336pp January 2021 9781108489119 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108773966
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Epitaph for an Era
Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World Mayke de Jong | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Epitaph for an Era is the first major study of the Epitaphium Arsenii, a polemical dialogue defending the courtier Wala’s revolt in 830–833 against Emperor Louis the Pious. Mayke de Jong explores the impact of these controversial rebellions on the ideals and values of the Frankish leadership in the next generation. • Challenges the divide between political and literary history • Offers an in-depth analysis of the literary representations of the text as well as the political consequences, to appeal across disciplines • Explains complex issues such as rhetorical theory and Latin political vocabulary in a way that is accessible to historians and non-specialists alike 284pp 1 map 4 tables May 2020 9781108813884 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 May 2019 9781107014312 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139013710
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Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages
The Frankish leges in the Carolingian Period Thomas Faulkner This study provides an examination of the role of the barbarian law codes in the Carolingian period. Thomas Faulkner contributes to debates about written law, dispute settlement, ethnic identities and kingship in the age of Charlemagne and his successors, and provides new interpretations of key texts, and a thorough assessment of their manuscripts. • Examines the uses of the leges barbarorum in Carolingian Europe, contributing to a long-standing debate in English and German historiography on the use of written law codes in early medieval
Europe • Contributes to the study of early medieval kingship, dispute settlement, ethnic identity and literacy • Brings German scholarship to the attention of English speakers, providing Anglophone readers with a guide to otherwise inaccessible work
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
314pp 8 b/w illus. 10 tables April 2020 9781107446892 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 February 2016 9781107084919 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316027097
Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
Patrons, Politics and Saints Óscar Prieto Domínguez | Universidad de Salamanca, Spain The first book to comprehensively examine the literature of Byzantine Iconoclasm and its aftermath not as isolated phenomena, but within their own social, cultural and political contexts. Argues for the key role played by literary circles emerging both during the persecution and immediately after the restoration of icons in 843. • Pioneering study of the literary nature of the texts produced during
Iconoclasm • Emphasises the texts’ use as ideological tools by different circles, such as ecclesiastical institutions and imperial power structures • Adopts a multidisciplinary approach combining sociology of literature, religious and cultural studies, political history and source criticism 420pp January 2021 9781108491303 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108868129
Rome and the Invention of the Papacy
The Liber Pontificalis Rosamond McKitterick | University of Cambridge The remarkable papal history known as the Liber pontificalis permanently shaped perceptions and the memory of Rome, the popes, and the many-layered past of both city and papacy within Western Europe. Rosamond McKitterick offers pioneering insights into the evolution of this extraordinary source, and its significance. • Offers a new perspective on the early medieval popes and the history of Rome • Explains how the Liber pontificalis was the fundamental building block of papal ideology rather than just an occasional source of information • Situates the theme of papal authority in a Roman context, showing how the text reflects the changing conditions of the city
The James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture
288pp June 2020 9781108836821 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108872584
Rome in the Eighth Century
A History in Art John Osborne | Carleton University, Ottawa Combines the evidence of written texts with ‘material culture’ (primarily buildings and their decoration) to present a more complete picture of a pivotal century in the city’s history that has long been viewed as a ‘dark age’. For all those interested in medieval Italy and the city of Rome. • Adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to the history of the city of Rome in the early Middle Ages, with a primary focus on ‘material culture’ • Demonstrates the persistence of Mediterranean culture in Rome even after the political ties with Constantinople had been broken • Utilizes numerous ‘case studies’ of individual monuments, which are treated as historical documents
British School at Rome Studies
312pp 52 b/w illus. 10 colour illus. July 2020 9781108834582 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108876056
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The World of Kosmas
Illustrated Byzantine Codices of the Christian Topography Maja Kominko | University of Oxford Focusing on the Christian Topography, a sixthcentury illustrated treatise, this book discusses the creation of the Christian cosmography, the reception of ancient science in late antiquity, and the ways in which Christians navigated the contradictions between ‘secular’ and ‘religious’ sources, both written and visual. • Proposes a new holistic approach to this important text, considering text and image together • Investigates in full the intellectual milieu in which it was created, and in particular its marriage of ancient science and Biblical exegesis to create a new Christian image of the universe • Examines the history of text illustration in late antiquity and of the transmission of illustrated manuscripts into the Middle Ages 423pp 201 b/w illus. 33 colour illus. 1 map 1 table May 2020 9781108816373 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 September 2013 9781107020887 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 142.00 eISBN 9781139107983
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Writing the Early Medieval West
Elina Screen | University of Oxford This innovative collection by fifteen leading scholars re-evaluates the function and significance of the written word in early medieval Europe in light of recent research, setting the field on a new footing and showcasing new directions. • Showcases the diversity of the written word in early medieval Europe over a range of genres and media • Dedicated to Rosamond McKitterick, this title brings together a diverse range of historians working across several different countries • Integrates detailed and specific study with wider conceptual framing 331pp March 2020 9781316648162 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 May 2018 9781107198395 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108182386
European History after 1450
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1789: The French Revolution Begins
Robert H. Blackman The first comprehensive and accessible study of the critical constitutional debates in the Estates General and National Assembly of 1789 through which the National Assembly became a sovereign body. Robert H. Blackman uses diverse primary sources to create a compelling, narrative-driven account of events leading up to the French Revolution. • Analyses the critical constitutional debates in the Estates General and
National Assembly of 1789 in unprecedented detail • Draws on a wide range of previously underused sources including letters, eye witness accounts and deputies’ diary entries • Demonstrates the importance of Louis XVI’s actions in driving the
Revolutionaries to take action to reform the French constitution and state
New Studies in European History
297pp August 2020 9781108716673 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99 August 2019 9781108492447 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108591447
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An Exiled Generation
German and Hungarian Refugees of Revolution, 1848–1871 Heléna Tóth | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen Focusing on émigrés from Baden, Württemberg and Hungary in four host societies (Switzerland, the Ottoman Empire, England and the United States), Tóth considers exile in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1848–9 as a European phenomenon with global dimensions, with insights into patterns of social and political interaction. • Looks at exile in a broad social context • Presents new archival material • Written in a simple and accessible manner 310pp 3 b/w illus. 3 maps 2 tables October 2020 9781107682290 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 October 2014 9781107046634 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781107110335
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Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800–1950
Adam T. Rosenbaum Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800–1950 examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and German modernity during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries using a variety of tourist propaganda. By promoting an image of ‘grounded modernity’, Bavarian tourism reconciled continuity with change, tradition with progress, and nature with science. • Defines tourism as a coping mechanism which helped modern citizens to come to terms with rapid socioeconomic changes • Demonstrates how the marketing of tourism could engage with broader discourses about history and modernity • Deemphasizes regionalism as an explanatory trope with a more nuanced way of thinking about national and sub-national identities
Publications of the German Historical Institute
296pp 14 b/w illus. March 2020 9781107530850 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 February 2016 9781107111950 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316282359
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Citizenship and Antisemitism in French Colonial Algeria, 1870–1962
Sophie B. Roberts | University of Kentucky An innovative study of antisemitic violence and hotly contested debates over the nature of French identity and rights of citizenship in French Algeria. This investigation reveals the experience of Algerian Jews and their evolving identity as citizens as they competed for control over the scarce resources of the colonial state. • Explores meanings of citizenship and identity in multicultural contexts • Raises awareness of different forms of antisemitism in the modern world • Draws attention to municipal government as a focal point of political power and patronage, highlighting the significance of local venues for the expression of major political ideas and policies 393pp 9 b/w illus. 2 maps 2 tables May 2020 9781316638446 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 December 2017 9781107188150 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316946411
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Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Marta V. Vicente | University of Kansas Vicente analyses the philosophical, medical and legal debates about sexual difference in eighteenth-century Spain to demonstrate how formal definitions of man and woman often clashed with the reality of sex and gender, utilising case studies to trace the lives of particular individuals with ambiguous sexual and gender traits. • Proposes that modern notions of sex and gender arose in the eighteenth century • Demonstrates how eighteenth-century notions of sex and gender have shaped current feminist debates • Offers important new contributions to the current discussion about transgender issues and debates over biological basis for sexual difference 230pp June 2020 9781108814218 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 October 2017 9781107159556 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316671689
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Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870–1920
Karen Offen | Stanford University, California Karen Offen offers a magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the heated debates around relations between women and men, how they are constructed, and how they should be organized or reorganized, that raged in France and its French-speaking neighbors during the French Third Republic. • Proposes an innovative, gendered, thematic view of French history during the first fifty years of the Third Republic • Provides and analyzes the actual debates on the woman question as they took place over small periods of time, with attention to defenders of the masculine-dominated status quo as well as to the challengers who contested male hegemony • Written in narrative prose, without theoretical jargon or conceit; no theoretical template has been imposed
New Studies in European History
710pp December 2020 9781316638408 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 29.99 January 2018 9781107188044 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781316946336
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Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome
The Rise of the Resident Ambassador Catherine Fletcher | University of Sheffield Renaissance Rome was the diplomatic centre of Europe, the Brussels of its day. This new study, the first comprehensive survey of its topic for sixty years, analyses the rise of modern, permanent diplomacy at the papal court, setting its structures, practices and personnel in context. • Provides a comprehensive overview of Renaissance diplomatic practice • Revisits the classic narrative of the rise of resident diplomacy in light of trends in ‘new diplomatic history’ • Focuses on historical sources and detailed primary research from
European archives 200pp 3 b/w illus. May 2020 9781107515789 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 October 2015 9781107107793 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316256541
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Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire
France in the Americas and Africa, c.1750–1802 Pernille Røge | University of Pittsburgh This history of the struggles to regenerate France’s colonial empire in the eighteenth century reveals how political economists, colonial administrators and planters shaped the recalibration of empire in the Americas and Africa, unearthing connections between Ancien Régime colonial innovation and the French Revolution’s republican imperial agenda. • Offers a fresh interpretation of the French colonial empire in the late eighteenth century • Explores continuities between France’s first and second colonial empires • Will appeal broadly to historians of economic thought, colonial policy and practice, and the Age of Revolutions
New Studies in European History
312pp 2 b/w illus. 5 maps August 2020 9781108716413 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 August 2019 9781108483131 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108672900
English Convents in Catholic Europe, c.1600–1800
James E. Kelly | University of Durham Highlighting the significance of the English convents in exile as part of, and contributors to, national and European Catholic culture, James E. Kelly situates the English Catholic experience within the wider context of the Catholic Reformation and Catholic Europe, and thus transforms our understanding of the convents. • Serves as the entry point to the world of the nuns over the two centuries of their existence in exile • Covers the full conventual movement for the whole exile period • Situates the English convents in relation to the transnational Catholic
Church, to help decentre the Catholic Reformation 232pp January 2020 9781108479967 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108846851
Exiled Among Nations
German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age John P. R. Eicher How do migrants and refugees fashion group identities in the modern world? Following two communities of German-speaking Mennonites across four continents between 1870 and 1945, this transnational study explores how religious nomads selectively engaged with nationalism to secure practical objectives and create local mythologies. • Provides a truly transnational account of German and North/South
American Mennonite relationships to twentieth-century nationalism • Illuminates how millions of overseas Germans selectively promoted and abandoned their identifications as agrarian, Christian, German, and ‘white’, to adapt to the homogenizing - though ever-shifting demands of national citizenship • Explains how and why conservative Mennonites used transnational means for their own anti-national ends, and why they chose to live as premodern, agrarian subjects rather than as modern, nationalized citizens
Publications of the German Historical Institute
356pp January 2020 9781108486118 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108626392
Fighting Terror after Napoleon
How Europe Became Secure after 1815 Beatrice de Graaf | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Europe was forged out of the ashes of the Napoleonic wars by means of a collective fight against revolutionary terror. The Allied Council created a culture of in- and exclusion, of people that were persecuted and those who were protected, using secret police, black lists, border controls and fortifications, and financed by European capital holders. • Helps us to understand how a unified Europe came to be constructed around the collective fight against terror after 1815 • Examines the Allied Council, and its history, on the basis of new archives • Uncovers the emergence of secret police, black lists, border control and fortifications, and financial securities, in and around Europe 440pp October 2020 9781108842068 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108895873
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Forests in Revolutionary France
Conservation, Community, and Conflict, 1669–1848 Kieko Matteson | University of Hawaii, Manoa This book investigates the bitterly contested development of environmental conservation in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, suggesting that conflicts over forests between the state, landowning elites, and the peasantry reflected escalating demand for this most vital of natural resources and shaped the country’s revolutionary struggles. • Integrates the history of political upheaval and far-reaching policy changes • Reinterprets one of the world’s most important historical events (the French Revolution) in light of environmental struggles that still resonate today • Appeals to readers interested in law, politics, rural society, and economics
Studies in Environment and History
325pp 3 b/w illus. 2 maps February 2020 9781107690813 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 April 2015 9781107043343 Hardback GBP 72.99 / USD 112.00 eISBN 9781107338197
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Judging Faith, Punishing Sin
Inquisitions and Consistories in the Early Modern World Charles H. Parker | St Louis University, Missouri The first comparative analysis of Catholic inquisitions and Calvinist consistories from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, both institutions with critical roles in the social upheaval of the Reformation. This volume offers a new framework for analysing religious reform and social discipline in the early modern world. • Offers the first sustained comparative study of religious discipline in the early modern period from both Catholic and Protestant dimensions • Provides a new framework for analysing religious reform and social discipline in the great Christian age of reformation • Re-evaluates historical understandings of religious discipline during the
Reformation 411pp 4 maps 2 tables June 2020 9781316505861 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 29.99 March 2017 9781107140240 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126.00 eISBN 9781316492659 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Making Archives in Early Modern Europe
Proof, Information, and Political RecordKeeping, 1400–1700 Randolph C. Head | University of California, Riverside Drawing on a wide range of archives, from Lisbon to Vienna to Berlin, this detailed comparative study shows how recorded political knowledge was understood, organised and managed in chancelleries and repositories across Western Europe from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. • The first fully comparative study of European political archives between the Middle Ages and modernity • Systematically investigates what records nascent European states kept, how they were kept, and how they became accessible (or not) • Draws extensively on the latest archival theory, incorporating an interdisciplinary perspective 366pp August 2020 9781108462525 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 June 2019 9781108473781 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108620659
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Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy
Politics, Religion, and the Power of Symbols Flora Cassen | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Beginning with a sartorial study - how the Jews were marked on their clothing and what these marks meant - the book offers an in-depth analysis of anti-Jewish discrimination across three Italian city-states: Milan, Genoa, and Piedmont. It also examines the place of Jews and Jewry law in Early Modern European politics. • The first book-length treatment of the Jewish badge in over one hundred years, appealing to readers who want to understand the history of the Jewish badge and the history of antisemitism • Studies the social, economic, and political ramifications of discriminatory policies in Renaissance Italy, and will be of interest to social and cultural history readers, and those interested in the history of Jews in Europe • The focus on the badge as a physical marker allows readers to explore the symbolism behind the marker and its implications then and through time 233pp March 2020 9781316627471 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 August 2017 9781107175433 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316798492
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Monarchy Transformed
Princes and their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe Robert von Friedeburg | Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln A decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe, Monarchy Transformed brings together twelve leading scholars from nine countries to examine the new monarchies that emerged during the course of the ‘long seventeenth century’. • Brings together leading scholars from nine countries to synthesise major developments in historiography across Western and Northern
Europe • Challenges anachronistic views of the shape of European states and the inevitability of modern maps of Europe • Offers a fresh account of the way elites articulated their understanding of royal power and its limits 405pp March 2020 9781316649633 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 August 2017 9781316510247 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126.00 eISBN 9781108225083
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Murder in Renaissance Italy
Trevor Dean | Roehampton Institute, London This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder and its cultural presences across the Italian peninsula in the Renaissance. Dealing with a range of murders and informed by the latest criminological research on homicide, the book brings together research by an international team of specialists in a traditionally understudied field. • Allows readers to see how murder permeated
Renaissance society and culture • Links the study of historical murder with contemporary attitudes to types of murder • Brings together leading experts in the field to offer a comprehensive portrait of the law, literature, and imagery of murder 325pp 23 b/w illus. March 2020 9781316501962 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2017 9781107136649 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316480045
Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy
Alison Brown | Royal Holloway, University of London This life of Lorenzo the Magnificent’s eldest son provides a portrait of an aspiring Renaissance ruler, and explains the crisis in Italy that caused his political downfall and exile. A musician, poet, sportsman, patron of the arts and exile, Piero illuminates the Renaissance at the moment of its transition from a civic to a princely culture. • An interdisciplinary examination of Renaissance Italy, combining political, social and cultural history • A biographic focus roots broader themes of the period to the lived experience and contextualises the patronage, politics and culture of the period • Provides a new perspective on a relatively understudied period of crisis in Renaissance Italy 350pp January 2020 9781108489461 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108783798
Protestant Empires
Globalizing the Reformations Ulinka Rublack | University of Cambridge Protestantism during the early modern period is predominantly presented as a European story. Through its wide geographical and chronological scope, this volume advances a new approach to understanding the Protestant Reformations, demonstrating the crucial role of global interactions, placing Protestant ideas and practices in a comparative context. • Replaces Euro-centric accounts of Protestantism for the early modern period • Connects the history of Protestant Europe with global history • Underlines the importance of the history of slavery and of the emotions for the history of Protestantism before 1800 350pp September 2020 9781108841610 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108894449
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Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770–1914
Jeffrey T. Zalar | University of Cincinnati In this panoramic study of Catholic book culture in Germany from 1770–1914, Jeffrey T. Zalar exposes the myth that the clergy defined Catholic reading habits. He shows that readers disobeyed the book rules of their church and read diverse literature, even works from the Index of Forbidden Books. • Contains lively and detailed accounts of popular rebellion at the core of the Catholic church as Catholics resisted their church’s book rules • Challenges dominant perceptions by highlighting that the most important structuring force of change in the modern church was popular literacy • Addresses the national integration of a minority group
Publications of the German Historical Institute
400pp 1 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108460743 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 29.99 November 2018 9781108472906 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108561648
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Storied Places
Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France Virginia Reinburg | Boston College, Massachusetts Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth in early modern France. By analyzing the creation of these shrines as natural, legendary, and historic places whose authority provided a new foundation for post-Reformation Catholic life, Virginia Reinburg examines the impact of the Reformation and religious wars on French society. • Combines religious and environmental history • Proposes a new approach to pilgrimage by focusing on the shrines and places, rather than the pilgrims • Provides a new angle on the religious history of France after the religious wars 273pp 47 b/w illus. 6 maps June 2020 9781108716390 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 April 2019 9781108483117 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108672795
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The Convent of Wesel
The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition Jesse Spohnholz | Washington State University The Convent of Wesel was long believed to be a foundational but clandestine assembly of Protestant leaders. Jesse Spohnholz shows that this idea was a myth perpetuated by historians and record keepers since the 1600s and then explores what this means for the study of history. • Offers a microhistory of a document produced in the sixteenth century that stands at the centre of a 450-year old mystery • Offers a macrohistory of historical thinking about a specific topic over four centuries • Provides a concrete example of historical methodology for advanced students of history, so that readers can more effectively see the practical impact of methodological choices 297pp 13 b/w illus. 1 map January 2020 9781316643549 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99 September 2017 9781107193116 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108140492
The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800
Pieter C. Emmer | Universiteit Leiden This pioneering history of the Dutch Empire provides a new comprehensive overview of Dutch colonial expansion from a comparative and global perspective. It also offers a fascinating window into the early modern societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas through their interactions. • Offers the first full survey of the Dutch overseas empire over two centuries – an important but neglected element of colonial and global history • Overturns a colonial approach by offering a comparative and indigenous perspective on Dutch overseas expansion • Uses regional histories to understand the process of Dutch overseas expansion and early modern globalisation 400pp October 2020 9781108428378 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 October 2020 9781108449519 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108647403
Humanists and Culture in the Age of Cosimo I Ann E. Moyer | University of Pennsylvania This study provides an overview of Florentine intellectual life and community in the late Renaissance. It shows how studies of language helped Florentines to develop their own story as a people distinct from ancient Greece or Rome. • Provides overview of intellectual life and community in 16th-c Florence • Shows how the studies of language, history, and art related and supported each other in later Renaissance • Helps locate the arguments about the nature of the Renaissance in the era of the Renaissance itself 350pp August 2020 9781108495479 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108849937 NEW IN PAPERBACK
The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France
Religion and Popular Culture in Burgundy, 1477–1630 Mack P. Holt | George Mason University, Virginia Focusing on the local wine industry, Mack Holt examines the relationship between the ruling and popular classes and demonstrates how ordinary Burgundians were crucial in turning back the tide of Protestantism in the sixteenth century, until the absolutist policies of Louis XIII curtailed their influence on local politics. • Shows how the popular classes participated in and affected politics in
Burgundy between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries • Explains why Burgundy remained Catholic in the Reformation • Illuminates the important role of the local wine industry in local politics and religion
New Studies in European History
368pp 26 b/w illus. 3 maps 17 tables March 2020 9781108456814 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 September 2018 9781108471886 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108620017
The Purchase of the Past
Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890 Tom Stammers | University of Durham Surveying the collecting culture from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, this study explores how material things became a central means by which the past was accessed and imagined in nineteenth-century Paris, revealing how the Revolution triggered the rise of a new market for antiques and new struggles over the custody of France’s heritage. • Offers the first broad survey of the development of the culture of collecting over the long nineteenth century, from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque • Demonstrates how the French Revolution triggered the emergence of the modern market in collecting art, books and antiques, centred in
Paris • Analyses the frictions that emerged from the parallel growth of public and private collecting over the period, which shaped the politics around cultural heritage 370pp 30 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108478847 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108781268
The Shaping of French National Identity
Narrating the Nation’s Past, 1715–1830 Matthew D’Auria | University of East Anglia Casts new light on the intellectual origins of the’official’ French nineteenth-century national narrative by examining how historians and philosophers conceived of the French past from the early eighteenth century to the Restoration, reshaping the myths, symbols, and memories of pre-modern communities. • Reveals continuities and discontinuities in French intellectual history before and after the Revolution • Explores the relationship between national narratives and definitions of race, national character, and class in early-modern and modern France • Considers the impact of changes in historical scholarship, as well as the emotive strength of nationalism, on French identity in the long eighteenth century
New Studies in European History
325pp December 2020 9781107128095 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316423189
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Thieves in Court
The Making of the German Legal System in the Nineteenth Century Rebekka Habermas | Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany Ideal for legal historians and scholars interested in the evolution of legal systems, Habermas offers a fresh look at thievery in the German countryside in the nineteenth century and shows how these instances influenced the emergence of the modern legal system and a new conception of property emerged. • Proposes a new understanding of legal systems providing readers an alternative to classic narratives of legal development, state building, and modern notions of the rule of law • Offers a transdisciplinary approach by combining legal, criminal, and media history, and history of knowledge • The focus on case-studies in nineteenth-century rural Germany gives an innovative insight into how ordinary people and events influence large scale legal structures
Publications of the German Historical Institute
361pp 3 tables March 2020 9781107624887 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 31.99 November 2016 9781107046771 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 132.00 eISBN 9781107110755
War and Citizenship
Enemy Aliens and National Belonging from the French Revolution to the First World War Daniela L. Caglioti | Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’ Daniela L. Caglioti shows how states at war, when faced with real or alleged security threats, redrew the boundaries between members and nonmembers, thus redefining belonging and the path to citizenship. A key text for those interested in questions of citizenship, human rights, immigration, national borders, international law and security. • Combines global, comparative, transnational and trans-imperial approaches to help redefine citizenship and belonging • Provides a multi-disciplinary approach, connecting history with sociology, law and international relations • Considers the impact of war on a wide range of actors, including states and armies, but also diplomats, lawyers and ordinary people caught by war or changing national boundaries
Human Rights in History
430pp October 2020 9781108489423 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108776493 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France
Global Economic Crisis and the Racialization of French Citizenship, 1870–1910 Elizabeth Heath | Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York This is an innovative study of how race and empire transformed French republican citizenship during the early Third Republic. Integrating the histories of metropolitan and colonial France, Elizabeth Heath reveals how global market integration and economic crisis redefined French republican citizenship, creating the foundations of the modern French racial state. • Places French empire within the context of nineteenth-century globalization, paving the way for rethinking the relationship between imperialism and globalization • Rethinks the role of race in the making of modern France, reframing the discussion by placing the French racial state within a global context • Offers a new interpretation of nation-building in the early Third
Republic, combining its history with that of empire-building
New Studies in European History
326pp 1 b/w illus. 2 maps 2 tables March 2020 9781107688582 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 October 2014 9781107070585 Hardback GBP 72.99 / USD 112.00 eISBN 9781107707498
Women’s Criminality in Europe, 1600–1914
Manon van der Heijden | Universiteit Leiden Placing female criminality within its everyday context, this authoritative volume brings together the most current research on the relationship between crime and gender, and examines the urban socio-economic and cultural contexts that produced and circumscribed criminal agency in the Western world between 1600 and 1914. • Treats female criminality on its own terms rather than as always exceptional • Offers a broad Western geographical scope to reveal differences and similarities across the Western world • Provides a long-term perspective, connecting scholarship on the early modern and modern periods 270pp January 2020 9781108477710 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108774543
Russian, East European History
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Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Brendan McGeever | Birkbeck College, University of London This study offers the first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution. Brendan McGeever uncovers the surprising depth of antisemitism within sections of the working class, peasantry and Red Army, and reveals the explosive overlap between revolutionary politics and antisemitism. • Introduces an overlooked chapter in the history of anti-Jewish violence in eastern Europe • Offers a new perspective on how antisemitism can overlap with class relations • Uses archival sources to challenge previously held assumptions about antisemitism and the Russian Revolution 259pp September 2020 9781316647165 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 September 2019 9781107195998 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108164498
