History Books
Manchester University Press Working Towards the Führer
Book SynopsisWorking towards the Führer is a remarkable collection of essays by some of the most prominent historians writing on the history of the Third Reich, covering the legacy of the World Wars in Germany, the female Nazi voter, Nazi Propaganda, occupied territories, resistance and public opinion in Germany. -- .Table of ContentsNotes on ContributorsEditors’ introduction1. Catastrophe and Democracy. The Legacy of the World Wars in Germany - Richard Bessel2. Hitler - Goebbels – Straßer. A war of deputies, as seen through the Goebbels diaries, 1926/27 - Elke Fröhlich3. Mobilising Women for Hitler: the female Nazi voter - Helen Boak4. ‘Working Towards the Führer’. Charismatic Leadership and the Image of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Propaganda - David Welch5. 'Viceroys of the Reich? Gauleiters 1925-1945 - Jeremy Noakes6. 'Sentencing Towards the Führer'?: The Judiciary in the Third Reich - Anthony McElligott7. Nazi Master and Accommodating Dutch Bureaucrats: Working Towards the Führer in the occupied Netherlands, 1940-1945 - Bob Moore8. Working towards the Reich: the reception of German cultural politics in south-eastern Europe - Tim Kirk9. The Political Warfare Executive and Resistance and Public Opinion in Germany, 1943-1945 - Pauline Elkes10. Beyond the nation-state: the German Resistance Against Hitler and the Future of Europe - Hans MommsenPersonal reflections on Ian Kershaw - John BreuillyIan Kershaw Bibliography - Nadine Rossol
£18.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Frozen in Time The Fate of the Franklin
Book SynopsisThe Franklin expedition was not alone in suffering early and unexplained deaths. This title makes the case that this illness was due to the crews' overwhelming reliance on a new technology, namely tinned foods.Trade Review'A remarkable piece of forensic deduction' Margaret Atwood 'Simply compelling' Mordecai Richler 'A cautionary tale of scholarly merit' William S. Borroughs 'Galvanizing ... in one stroke it elicited a new flurry of Franklin mania in documentary film, childrens' books, adult non-fiction, fiction, painting, and newspaper accounts around the world' Sherrill E. Grace, author of Canada and the Idea of the North
£13.49
Random House USA Inc Spice
Book SynopsisIn this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era—from ancient times through the Renaissance—when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood.Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globe—and even to savagery.Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire.Includes eight pages of color photographs.One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle
£16.00
Simon & Schuster The Story of World War II
Book SynopsisA comprehensive history of World War II draws on previously unavailable resources to incorporate new information on the contributions of African Americans and other minorities, the war in the Pacific, and the liberation of the death camps.
£22.49
Harvard University Press Papers of John Adams
Book SynopsisNo family in three generations has contributed so much to American history as the Adamses. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Charles Francis Adams, despite periods of doubt, knew that history, if not their contemporaries, would recognize their accomplishments. When the Adams Papers series is complete, the writings of these three statesmen will have been examined thoroughly. Aside from the Legal Papers of John Adams, published in 1965, these two volumes are the first in Series III: General Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen. Volumes 1 and 2 of the Papers of John Adams include letters to and from friends and colleagues, reports of committees on which he served, his polemical writings, published and unpublished, and state papers to which he made a contribution. All of Adams's newspaper writings, including A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law, are in these two volumes. In addition to being a condemnation of the Stamp Act, the Dissertation is shown to be one of the building blocks of the theory of a commonwealth of independent states under the king, which reaches complete statement in the Novanglus letters. For the first time, all thirteen of these letters appear in full with annotation. The period September 1755 to April 1775 covers Adams's public service in Braintree and Boston town meetings, the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the First Continental Congress, and the First Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. During this time his political future was being shaped by circumstances not always of his choosing. He hesitated at first at the threshold of a public career, political ambition in conflict with concern for his family's well-being. But as the confrontation with Great Britain sharpened, the crisis became acute; no choice remained. For Adams there was no shirking the path of duty.Trade ReviewTaken together with the celebrated Diary and Autobiography, the Earliest Diary, the Adams Family Correspondence, and the Legal Papers of John Adams, [the Papers of John Adams] constitute as revealing and complete a documentation of the development, both personal and public, of a successful revolutionist as modern history affords… In [these documents] the writer bequeathed to posterity a means of sensing some of the excitement, the importance, the fears, the apprehensions of the decade in which ‘the real American revolution’ was taking place—in short, the flavor of the times. -- Carl Bridenbaugh * Times Literary Supplement *The great theme…is that of independence; all else is subordinate to it. The reader may trace here the evolution of John Adams’ thought during this crucial year… His Plan of Treaties became a model in use down to World War II and his Thoughts on Government was designed to unite north and south on basic principles. No matter, it seems, was too small for his attention nor too large to attempt solution. A colossus indeed! The editing of this work is admirable in every way. The footnotes are exhaustive but never excessive or boring. The introductory essays are illuminating. This is an elegant and inspiring work. -- Robert C. Gilmore * Historical New Hampshire *Table of ContentsDescriptive List of Illustrations Introduction 1. An Overview of the General Correspondence and Other Papers of John Adams 2. John Adams as Public Servant 3. John Adams as Revolutionist 4. The Editorial Method 5. A Note on the Status of The Adams Paper Acknowledgments Guide to Editorial Apparatus 1. Textual Devices 2. Adams Family Code Names 3. Descriptive Symbols 4. Location Symbols 5. Other Abbreviations and Conventional Terms 6. Short Titles of Works Frequently Cited Papers of John Adams, September 1755-- October 1773
£208.76
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran
Book SynopsisOne of the Ancient Near East’s most important inscriptions is the Bisotun inscription of the Achaemenid king Darius I (6th century BCE), which reports on a suspicious fratricide and coup. Shayegan shows how the Bisotun’s narrative influenced the Iranian epic, epigraphic, and historiographical traditions into the Sasanian and early Islamic periods.
£18.86
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Low Life Lures and Snares of Old New York
Book SynopsisA cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves. ?John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewLucy Sante''s Low Life is a portrait of America''s greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city''s slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape.Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era''s opportunities for vice and entertainment--theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn''t work to contain the illegalities; Part Four count
£17.00
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Virtual JFK Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived
Book SynopsisThe Virtual JFK DVD is now available! For more information on the film companion to the book, visit http://www.virtualjfk.com/ It Matters Who Is PresidentThen and Now At the heart of this provocative book lies the fundamental question: Does it matter who is president on issues of war and peace? The Vietnam War was one of the most catastrophic and bloody in living memory, and its lessons take on resonance in light of America''s current devastating involvement in Iraq. Tackling head-on the most controversial and debated what if in U.S. foreign policy, this unique work explores what President John F. Kennedy would have done in Vietnam if he had not been assassinated in 1963. Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified documents, frank oral testimony of White House officials from both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the analysis of top historians, this book presents compelling evidence that JFK was ready to end U.S. involvement well before the conflict escalated. With vivid immediacy, readers will feel they are in the president''s war room as the debates raged that forever changed the course of American historyand continue to affect us profoundly today as the shadows of Vietnam stretch into Iraq.Trade ReviewJohn F. Kennedy's unrealized Vietnam strategy gets a comprehensive workout in this volume. . . . The book offers other new insights (PBS broadcaster and former LBJ advisor Bill Moyers, a possible Kennedy-McNamara 'back-channel'). * Publishers Weekly *Informative and at times exhilarating; recommended for academic collections. * Library Journal *The authors . . . make a fair case that . . . 'virtual history' is a much more serious exercise than counterfactual history. . . . The liveliness of the exchanges and the enthusiasm of the participants do illuminate this critical period in U.S. history. * Foreign Affairs *I urge everyone interested in Kennedy, Johnson, and Vietnam, and everyone concerned about the kind of leadership we need to keep our nation out of war, to read this book. It is far and away the best book on these subjects I have ever read—lucid, rich, and balanced, with all sides getting a fair, but critical, hearing. -- Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (1960–1968)The authors deftly analyze all sides in the debate. They also draw lessons from the Kennedy presidency that can now be useful as the nation moves to rescue U.S. foreign policy from the morass into which it has fallen during the presidency of George W. Bush. JFK has never looked more persuasive or more relevant than he does here. -- Wayne S. Smith, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, former chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana (1979–1982)As an exercise in virtual history, this book is impeccable. The authors have brought together the relevant policy makers, scholars, and newly released documents to examine the major question of the Vietnam War. Their conclusion—that Kennedy would not have Americanized the war—is reasonable and significant, as is their methodology. This is must reading for any student of American foreign relations. -- Robert K. Brigham, Vassar College; author of Guerrilla DiplomacyA fascinating and important book that uses innovative research to explain how America got into the Vietnam quagmire. It is deeply relevant to today's debates about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the danger of war with Iran with timely lessons on presidential leadership. -- Bruce Riedel, Director of the Intelligence Project at the Brookings InstitutionIn this carefully documented but very readable account, Blight, Lang, and Welch provide a ringside seat on an important debate that is more than a historical curiosity. They show how a change of leaders can make a profound difference in the unfolding of historical events—then and now. Anyone interested in America's role in the world should read this absorbing book. -- Joseph S. Nye Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard UniversityOn the two most treacherous issues Kennedy left unresolved, the jury will always be out. Mindful of the southern segregationists in his own party, he moved timidly in advancing civil rights for African-Americans. We'll never know whether his powerful Oval Office addresses, promoted by the National Guard-enforced admission of black students into the University of Alabama in June 1963, was the harbinger of a greater commitment to civil rights activism or not. Nor, of course, will we ever know whether Kennedy would have followed Johnson's disastrous course in Vietnam. The closest we have to an answer can be found in Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived. * The New York Review Of Books *Table of ContentsNew Preface to the Paperback Edition: Virtual JFK to President Barack Obama: Is the Game in Afghanistan Worth the Candle? Prologue: Whither Vietnam, If Kennedy Had Lived? Chapter 1: Why Kennedy, Johnson, and Vietnam? Why Now? Chapter 2: Who's Who at the Musgrove Conference Chapter 3: What JFK Decided: November 1961 Chapter 4: What JFK Decided: October–November 1963 Chapter 5: What LBJ Decided: The "Long 1964" Chapter 6: Virtual JFK, Not Counterfactual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived Epilogue: Does it Matter Who Is President in Matters of War and Peace?: A Tale of Three Choices Appendix A: Excerpts From Declassified Documents and Secret Audio Tapes Appendix B: JFK What If Questionnaire for Musgrove Participants
£27.00
Vintage Publishing The Untold History of the Potato
Book SynopsisWhere does our food come from? The story of one of the world''s most important crops From the gold potatoes at the Sun Temple in Cuzco, Peru, the muddy ones in Ireland and those grown in China for McDonald''s chips, the story of the spud is both satisfying and fascinating. John Reader follows the thread of the potato''s story through the tapestry of human history, from its origins and evolution to its mysterious arrival in Europe, where it became a crucial part of gastronomic and social fabric. As global population swells and environmental sustainability becomes ever more crucial, Reader asks what role the potato still has to play - in this lively, readable study of our most humble foodstuff. Each chapter is discrete in content and manner, yet densely connected to the rest. Wonderful: to understand the whole world through a single crisp' GuardianTrade ReviewAs a staple of the global diet the potato is worth this digestible book devoted to its biology, history and social influence * The Times *The most nourishing book of the month * Guardian *Traversing imperialism, politics, technology and diet, Reader's elegantly written, discursive book weaves the progress of centuries and continents together in the story of the potato's ascendancy * Daily Telegraph *This accessible account embraces the latest scholarship and addresses the failings of previous works on the subject. Indeed the book, like the tuber it describes, fills a void: the spud now has the biography it deserves * Economist *Superb * Sunday Times *
£12.99
Cornerstone The Sign And The Seal
Book SynopsisGraham Hancock is the author of the major international bestsellers The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods and Heaven's Mirror. His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. He is an extremely successful investigative journalist, having been Editor of Condé Nast's Traveller magazine and East Africa Correspondent for the Economist. His public lectures and TV appearances, including the three-hour series Quest for the Lost Civilization, have put his religious and historical theories before audiences of tens of millions. He has become recognized as an unconventional thinker who raises legitimate questions about humanity's history, religion and prehistory and offers an increasingly popular challenge to the entrenched views of orthodox scholars.Trade ReviewHighly readable * Times *Hancock's book will probably be as popular as the Raider's film. Added to the Holy Grail excitement of his quest, he has invented a new genre: an intellectual whodunnit by a do-it-yourself sleuth * Guardian *It should cause widespread discussion and it deserves to * Daily Telegraph *
£10.44
Little, Brown Book Group The Last Crusaders
Book Synopsis* Timely history of the battle for the Mediterranean in the 15th and 16th centuries by the forces of Islam and Christendom, out now in paperback
£13.49
Little, Brown Book Group United States
Book SynopsisGore Vidal''s reputation as America''s finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art covers literature, including novelists and critics, bestsellers, pieces on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Suetonius, Nabakov and Montaigne (a previosly uncollected essay from 1992). State of the union deals with politics and public life: sex, drugs, money, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, The Holy Family (his essay on the Kennedys), Nixon, and finally Monotheism and its Discontents , a scathing critique of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In state of being, we are given personal responses to people and events: recollections of his childhood, E. Nesbit, Tarzan, Tennessee Williams and Anais Nin.Trade ReviewMagnificent...irresistable from beginning to end. * THE TIMES *All the Vidals are on display in this glittering showcase... Long may he continue to nip and bite at the flanks of the corrupt, the powerful, the moronic and the self-serving. * GUARDIAN *The arc and span of Vidal's erudition and intelligence are prodigious... for forty years it has been Vidal's vocation to restore a witty and classically literate sense of memory and historical continuity to a country he calls "Amnesia" * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *Vidal is the outstanding literary radical of America. * Melvyn Bragg *
£16.14
Little, Brown Book Group The Paying Guests
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZEThis novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Little Stranger, is a brilliant ''page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London of the verge of great change'' (Guardian)It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.For with the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the ''clerk class'', the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. And as passions mount and frustration gathers, no one can foresee just how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be.This is vintage Sarah Waters: beautiTrade ReviewAbsolutely brilliant * Sunday Times *Another wild ride of a novel . . . magnetic storytelling * Observer *A page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London on the verge of great change * Guardian *This novel magnificently confirms Sarah Waters's status as an unsurpassed fictional recorder of vanished eras and hidden lives * Sunday Times, Fiction Book of the Year *I raced through it, breathing fast and when I had finished had to reread parts of the wonderful early chapters. I don't like historical novels but this is the exception. I shall let a few months go by and then read it all over again with, I'm sure, undiminished pleasure * Guardian *You know you are in the hands of a skilful, confident writer when you read a Sarah Waters book. She slowly reels you in. She weaves plots and themes that creep up and entangle you while you are innocently following her characters. They go about their shadowy business and by the time you raise your head from the page to take a breath, you're hooked * Telegraph *The Paying Guests demonstrates the writerly qualities for which Waters is esteemed, proving as 'fantastically moody and resonant', in terms of the rendering of domestic space, as a novel the author herself described as such and which she once said she would like to have written: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca * Literary Review *Sickeningly tense - and thumpingly good * Daily Mail *You will be hooked within a page . . . At her greatest, Waters transcends genre: the delusions in Affinity (1999), the vulnerability in Fingersmith (2002), the undercurrents of social injustice and the unexplained that underlie all her work, take her, in my view, well beyond the capabilities of her more seriously regarded Booker-winning peers. But The Paying Guests is the apotheosis of her talent; at least for now. I have tried and failed to find a single negative thing to say about it. Her next will probably be even better. Until then, read it, Flaubert, Zola, and weep * Financial Times *A nod towards Little Dorrit also seems perceptible in the book's quiet ending amid the bustle and clamour of London. Unillusioned but tentatively hopeful, it is a beautifully gauged conclusion to a novel of ambitious reach and triumphant accomplishment * Sunday Times *A masterpiece of social unease . . . It isn't so much the plot that makes you read on - the novel's armature is a comparatively uncomplicated suspense narrative but barnacled to it is an astonishing accretion of detail . . . A virtuoso feet of storytelling * Evening Standard *A seductive thriller * Vanity Fair *The Paying Guests is so evocative and compelling that all the time I was reading, I had a feeling it was me who had done something terrible, instead of her characters * Observer, Books of the Year *Brilliantly involving . . . juicy, beautifully observed and not afraid to be explicit * Metro *Waters's page-turning prose conceals great subtlety. Acutely sensitive to social nuance, she keeps us constantly alert . . . From a novelist who has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, this is a winner * The Economist (Intelligent Life) *An uninterruptable joy of a novel . . . Sarah Waters at her tip-top best * Evening Standard, Books of the Year *Sumptuous... The writing is impeccable... A joy in every respect * New Statesman, Books of the Year *A triumph: spellbinding, profound and almost problematically addictive... Waters is so powerful a narrator, so in command of her material as she twists, defies and confronts without using cheap tricks, that she could make us believe anything... Morally complex, atmospheric, romantic and psychologically deep, The Paying Guests is an astonishing achievement... a beautiful and brilliant work by a consummate storyteller * Sunday Express *A sumptuously subdued story of making do and getting by after the great war * Guardian *The Paying Guests reminded me just how clever it is to create characters that captivate through their adventures in a world so well-realised that you can almost reach out and touch it * Sunday Herald *Super gripping... There is a huge momentum to this story * Evening Standard *Waters is acutely alive to the way domestic interiors can mirror psychological ones... I read the topsy turvey courtroom denouement with genuine wonder at the virtuosity of its unravelling, the emotional subtlety of its implications about how people linger in others. Such intelligence is indeed thrilling * Telegraph *She gives us a poignant love story which symbolically sees in the death of the old order, the death of the old fashioned husband and maybe the birth of an era of love without secrets * Independent *The novel's remarkable depth of field - from its class-ridden background to its individuals' peccadilloes - is sharply portrayed by an author writing at her best. Waters's 20-20 vision perceives the interior world of her characters with rare acuity in a prose style so smooth it pours down the page in a book to be prized * Scotland on Sunday *Waters is an absolute master of pulse-pounding historical fiction * Entertainment Weekly *Waters has always been attracted to sensationalist plots, and this novel progresses through at least two: a secret love affair between two women and a murder trial. But the novel is really about tiny changes in feeling, often evoked in gorgeous simile * New Yorker *You open The Paying Guests and immediately surrender to the smooth assuredness of Sarah Waters's silken prose... A novel that initially seems as if it might have been written by E.M. Forster darkens into something by Dostoevsky or Patricia Highsmith. It also becomes unputdownable... a seriously heart-pounding roller-coaster ride * Washington Post *A tour de force of precisely observed period detail and hidden passions * Wall Street Journal *Waters masterfully weaves true crime, domestic life and romantic passion into one of the best novels of suspense since Rebecca... diabolically clever... with one of the hottest sex scenes ever to be set in a scullery * Los Angeles Times *Weaves her characteristic threads of historical melodrama, lesbian romance, class tension, and sinister doings into a fabric of fictional delight that alternately has the reader flipping pages as quickly as possible, to find out what happens next, and hesitating to turn the page, for fear of what will happen next * Boston Globe *A gold mine of period detail, from class snobbery to sex - but with timeless urgency when it comes to love * Vogue *An exquisitely tuned exploration of class in post-Edwardian Britain - with really hot sex... Waters is a master of pacing, and her metaphor-laced prose is a delight... until the last page, the reader will have no idea what's going to happen * Kirkus (starred review) *An absorbing character study [and] expertly paced and gripping psychological narrative... Waters brings historical eras to life with consummate skill, rendering authentic details into layered portraits of particular times and places * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Raunchy, romantic and thoroughly entertaining... Another triumph for Sarah Waters * Express *A pulse-pounder of a novel that feels personal and raw even while it delivers the genre goods... Waters remains a master of her genre, the historical novel rewritten as a dissection of the individual conscience... undeniably fascinating * Chicago Tribune *A beautifully observed tale of murder, suspense, crumbling class distinctions and steamy lesbian love in post-Edwardian London * People *A delicious hothouse of a novel... There's palpable tension from page one, so buckle up and prepare for a wild ride... channels the past via E.M. Forster, Dickens and Tolstoy, quickened with a dollop of contemporary Dennis Lehane noir * USA Today *Pitch perfect... powered by queer longing, defiant identity politics, and lusty, occasionally downright kinky sex * Slate *Three novels for the price of one... a meticulously observed comedy of awkward manners, a story of torrid, forbidden trysts conducted behind a façade of conventional feminine respectability, and a tense tale of crime, mystery and suspense that culminates in a nail-biting courtroom drama * Salon *Moody and atmospheric... keeps you guessing until the very end * Library Journal *Waters is a gifted storyteller with a way of bringing historical eras to life... With the swiftly shifting mores of post-war British society as a backdrop, she once again provides a singular novel of psychological tension, emotional depth and historical detail * BookPage *Gripping... Sarah Waters is, quite simply, a marvelous writer... with complete mastery over her material * Globe and Mail *It has the pacing of a thriller, and the atmosphere, period setting and class-consciousness of truly informed historical fiction * Bay Area Reporter *With the intricate plotting of Dickens and the gothic textures of the novels of the Bronte sisters, Waters blurs the lines of Victorian fiction by bringing the hidden sexual world into the light, reframing erotic secrets in marvels of pseudo-Victorian crafting... exquisite * Australian *A heart-crushing... utterly engrossing tale * Toronto Star *Waters is an author to cherish * Guardian *Masterly... delightful... tremendously vivid... Waters is a cracking storyteller * Tatler *Waters is not simply one of our best historical novelists, but one of our best novelists . . . sooner or later, she's going to be given the Booker. If you haven't already, start reading her now, and be one step ahead of the crowd * Independent on Sunday *
£10.44
Pan Macmillan Zulu Rising
Book SynopsisIan Knight is the leading authority on the Anglo-Zulu War and has written over thirty highly regarded publications on Zulu history, including the award-winning National Army Museum Book of the Zulu War. He has appeared in and written many television documentaries on the Zulus, and in 2008 was awarded the Anglo-Zulu War Historical Society's Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi Award for a lifetime's contribution to the field.
£14.44
The University of Chicago Press Shadow of the Hunter
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£25.65
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Discovering Our Past A History of the WorldEarly
Book SynopsisConnect to core World History content with an accessible, student-friendly text built on the principles of Understanding by Design.
£83.53
Random House USA Inc Jewels
Book SynopsisThroughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth.With the same intense curiosity and narrative flair she displayed in her widely-praised book Color, Finlay journeys from the underground opal churches of outback Australia to the once pearl-rich rivers of Scotland; from the peridot mines on an Apache reservation in Arizona to the remote ruby mines in the mountains of northern Burma. She risks confronting scorpions to crawl through Cleopatra’s long-deserted emerald mines, tries her hand at gem cutting in the dusty Sri Lankan city where Marco Polo bartered for sapphires, and investigates a rumor that fifty years ago most of the world’s amber was mined by prisoners in a Soviet gulag.Jewels is a unique and often exhilarating voyage through history, across cultures, deep into the earth’s mantle, and up to the glittering heights of fame, power, and wealth. From the fabled curse of the Hope Diamond, to the disturbing truths about how pearls are cultured, to the peasants who were once executed for carrying amber to the centuries-old quest by magicians and scientists to make a perfect diamond, Jewels tells dazzling stories with a wonderment and brilliance truly worthy of its subjects.
£16.00
Random House USA Inc Europes Last Summer
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£15.26
OUP USA The Peoples Republic of Amnesia
Book SynopsisOne of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989. --The New York Times Book ReviewOn June 4, 1989, People''s Liberation Army soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians in Beijing, killing untold hundreds of people. A quarter-century later, this defining event remains buried in China''s modern history, successfully expunged from collective memory. In The People''s Republic of Amnesia, NPR correspondent Louisa Lim offers a much-needed response to the silence surrounding the events of June 4th, charting how deeply they affected China at the time and in the 25 years since.
£12.59
Random House USA Inc The French Revolution
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£16.62
WW Norton & Co These United States A Nation in the Making 1945
Book SynopsisFrom two major scholars, a powerful narrative that explores the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power in the twentieth century.Trade Review"[A] timely, remarkable new survey of America since 1890 [...] required reading." -- Eric Herschthal - Slate "A terrifically accessible, up-to-date educational tool." -- Kirkus Reviews
£52.72
University of Texas Press Murder Was Not a Crime Homicide and Power in the
Book SynopsisThis pathfinding study looks at how homicide was treated in Roman law from the Roman monarchy through the dictatorship of Sulla (ca. 753–79 BC) to show how criminal law can reveal important aspects of the nature and evolution of political power.Trade ReviewOverall, this is an enjoyable and well-researched work, which offers an interesting hypothesis that I hope will be a useful addition to the wider debate on Roman law. As stated above, however, one of its greatest strengths is its consideration of the wider implications of homicide in Roman society. Accordingly, it sheds a fascinating new light on the wider issues of power in the republican period and beyond. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of Contents Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Killing and the King Chapter Two: Power of Life and Death: Pater and Res Publica Chapter Three: Killing and the Law, 509-450 B.C.E. Chapter Four: Murder Was Not a Crime, 449-81 B.C.E. Chapter Five: Capital Jurisdiction, 449-81 B.C.E. Chapter Six: License to Kill Chapter Seven: Centralization of Power and Sullan Ambiguity Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Heimskringla
Book SynopsisBeginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Heimskringla recounts the history of the kings of Norway through the reign of Olaf Haraldsson, who became Norway's patron saint.Trade Review[Snorri Sturluson] speaks—as almost no other historian ever has spoken—with the authority of a man whose masterful skills would have made him one of the formidable, foremost in any of the events he records. So he saturates even remotely past happenings with a gripping first-hand quality...Hollander's translation is very good, fresh on every page ...Wherever you open the book, the life grips you and you read on.... -- Ted Hughes * New York Review of Books *Among the many contibutions to world literature that ancient Iceland has given us, Heimskringla stands out as one of the truly monumental works. Among medieval European histories in the vernacular it has no equal. * Modern Philology *Table of Contents Introduction Snorri's Foreword The Saga of the Ynglings/Ynglinga saga The Saga of Hálfdan the Black/Hálfdanar saga Svarta The Saga of Harald Fairhair/Haralds saga Hárfagra The Saga of Hikon the Good/Hákonar saga Góða The Saga of Harald Graycloak/Haralds saga Gráfeldar The Saga of Óláf Tryggvason/Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar Saint Óláf's Saga/Óláfs saga Helga The Saga of Magnús the Good/Magnús saga ins Góða The Saga of Harald Sigurtharson (Hardruler)/Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar The Saga of Óláf the Gentle/Óláfs saga Kyrra The Saga of Magnús Barelegs/Magnúss saga Berfoetts The Saga of the Sons of Magnús/Magnússona saga The Saga of Magnús the Blind and Harald Gilli/Magnúss saga Blinda ok Harald Gilla The Saga of the Sons of Harald/Haraldssona saga The Saga of Hákon the Broadshouldered/Hákønar saga Herthibreiths The Saga of Magnús Erlingsson/Magnús saga Erlingssonar Index
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WW Norton & Co Midnight at the Pera Palace
Book SynopsisCharles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world and reshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism.Trade Review"Intrigue, violence, sex and espionage, all set against the slow dimming of Ottoman magnificence. I loved this book." -- Simon Winchester"Mr King has found a winning formula for depicting the micro- and macro-history of one of the world’s most seductive places." -- The Economist"King’s wonderful book, as rich in historic moments as it is in squalor, may have got closer to Istanbul’s enduring spirit than any other." -- The Sunday Telegraph"Charles King’s lively and intelligent book…" -- The Times"Charles King has combed out the threads of this complex and highly nuanced story in a hugely enjoyable, magnificently researched and deeply absorbing book." -- The New York Times"The excellent and timely Midnight at the Pera Palace, by Charles King, goes for a wider view, offering a fascinating take on the period and the characters that passed through the city." -- Cornucopia"A superb portrait of interwar Istanbul... It [Midnight at the Pera Palace] succeeds brilliantly in portraying the eclipsed city in the Twenties and Thirties, when bars, jazz clubs, beauty contests and brothels all proliferated." -- The Sunday Telegraph
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WW Norton & Co The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression
Book SynopsisHow the smile and fortitude of a child actress revived a nation.Trade Review"Fascinating biography..." -- The Bookseller"Compelling... This isn't a traditional biography; Kasson is more interested in the context in which Temple became such an icon..." -- The Boston Globe"Kasson's fascinating biography…" -- The Sunday Herald
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WW Norton & Co Mermaid A Memoir of Resilience
Book SynopsisA gorgeously crafted memoir about resilience, family, and forging your own way, by a woman born without legs.Trade Review"Extraordinarily courageous; [Cronin] chronicles her journey to fit in and thrive with bravery and wit." -- O, The Oprah Magazine"Compelling... [Cronin’s] grit, grace, and optimism are a lesson to anyone confronted by a severe challenge..." -- The Washington Post"Mermaid is studded with searing moments…" -- The Boston Globe
£11.99
University of Texas Press Lowrider Space Aesthetics and Politics of
Book SynopsisThe first ethnographic book devoted to lowrider custom car culture puts a new spin on an aesthetic and mechanical achievement through which Mexican Americans alter the urban landscape and make a place for themselves in an often segregated society.Trade ReviewThe book is thus an example of a good, systematic analysis of spatial phenomena. The book ultimately explores the myriad ways that these cars can be experienced as spatial phenomena, and how such realities create a compelling visual culture. * American Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Cruising Spaces Chapter Two. Inside Out: The Ambivalent Aesthetics of Lowrider Interiors Chapter Three. Auto Bodies Chapter Four. Work: The Producer as Author Chapter Five. Neither Gangsters nor Santitos Conclusion Notes Reference List Index
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Random House USA Inc Stalin and His Hangmen
Book SynopsisStalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin’s dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and thugs. At the top of this pyramid of terror sat five indispensable hangmen who presided over the various incarnations of Stalin’s secret police. Now, in his harrowing new book, Donald Rayfield probes the lives, the minds, the twisted careers, and the unpunished crimes of Stalin’s loyal assassins.Founded by Feliks Dzierzynski, the Cheka-the Extraordinary Commission-came to life in the first years of the Russian Revolution. Spreading fear in a time of chaos, the Cheka proved a perfect instrument for Stalin’s ruthless consolidation of power. But brutal as it was, the Cheka under Dzierzynski was amateurish compared to the well-oiled killing machines that succeeded it.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Native American History for Dummies
Book SynopsisGet an authentic perspective on Native peoples past, present and future Understand key historical events as they actually happened Want to know more about America's indigenous peoples? This straightforward guide breaks down their thousand-year-plus history and explains their influence on European settlement of the continent.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: America Before It Was “America” 7 Chapter 1: The Rich, Troubled Past of the American Indian 9 Chapter 2: The Great Migrations 27 Chapter 3: The Development of the Ancient Cultures 41 Chapter 4: Hardly a Vast Wasteland: America before 1492 57 Chapter 5: Settling Down: Tribal Settlements after the Great Migrations 67 Chapter 6: The Five Civilized Tribes 91 Chapter 7: A Tally of Important Tribes 107 Part II: Interacting with Others 125 Chapter 8: “Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue” 127 Chapter 9: The Spanish and French Stake Their Claims 137 Chapter 10: Native American Chiefs and Notable Women 159 Chapter 11: Battle Cries and Peace Pipes 179 Chapter 12: Delving into the Details of U.S.-Indian Relations 203 Part III: Working for a Living 215 Chapter 13: Mother Love 217 Chapter 14: Dressing for Purpose and Pride 229 Chapter 15: Home, Native Home 243 Chapter 16: Tools and Transportation 253 Part IV: All in the (Native American) Family 267 Chapter 17: Tribes, Clans, and Bands 269 Chapter 18: Native Languages 279 Chapter 19: The Faith of Their Fathers And How Native Americans Worship Today 287 Part V: In a Modern World Not of Their Making 297 Chapter 20: The Slow Dwindling of Native Americans 299 Chapter 21: What’s a Tribe, Who’s an Indian, and What’s the BIA Got to Do With It 309 Chapter 22: Native Americans: Today and Tomorrow 317 Part VI: The Part of Tens 333 Chapter 23: Ten Native American Museums and Cultural Centers 335 Chapter 24: Ten (Plus) Worthy Movies and Documentaries about Native Americans and Their History 339 Index 347
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University of California Press City and School in Late Antique Athens and
Book SynopsisA lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education, this book explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities Athens and Alexandria from the second to the sixth century to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural legacy and Christianity.Trade Review“What impresses . . . most is Watts' seemingly complete mastering of the rich and variegated literary sources of the history he tells.” * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *“An important book . . . carefully edited.” * Classical Bulletin *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Academic Life in the Roman Empire: Libanius to Aristaenetus 2. Athenian Education in the Second through Fourth Centuries 3. Prohaeresius and the Later Fourth Century 4. Athens and Its Philosophical Schools in the Fifth Century 5. The Closing of the Athenian Schools 6. Alexandrian Intellectual Life in the Roman Imperial Period 7. The Shifting Sands of Fourth-Century Alexandrian Cultural Life 8. Alexandrian Schools of the Fifth Century 9. The Coming Revolution Conclusion Bibliography Index
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The Perseus Books Group Harlem Nocturne Women Artists and Progressive
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Little, Brown Book Group Plain Tales from the Raj
Book SynopsisThe Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called ''benign autocracy'' - the government of many by few, with the active collaboration of most Indians in recognition of a desire for the advancement of their country.Charles Allen''s classic oral history of the period that marked the end of British rule was first published a generation ago. Now reissued as the imperial century closes, this brilliantly insightful and bestselling collection of reminiscences illustrates the unique experience of British India: the sadness and luxury for some; the joy and deprivation for others.Trade ReviewIf you read one book about the empire, let this be it -- Michael WoodOne of the most enjoyable books I have read ... It is an authentic record of the survivors of British India ... a book which takes on where Kipling left off * ANTONIA FRASER *Both a guide and an entertaining companion ... Humour, drama and regret fill its pages * MAIL ON SUNDAY *A lovely and compelling account of what India meant to the British between 1900 and 1947 ... One of the best * THE TIMES *
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Soldat
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Nature of Fascism
Book SynopsisThe Nature of Fascism draws on the history of ideas as well as on political, social and psychological theory to produce a synthesis of ideas and approaches that will be invaluable for students. Roger Griffin locates the driving force of fascism in a distinctive form of utopian myth, that of the regenerated national community, destined to rise up from the ashes of a decadent society. He lays bare the structural affinity that relates fascism not only to Nazism, but to the many failed fascist movements that surfaced in inter-war Europe and elsewhere, and traces the unabated proliferation of virulent (but thus far successfully marginalized) fascist activism since 1945.Trade Review'This is an excellent book. Ambitious in scope, though the author is commendably modest in his pretensions, it sets out to provide a new definition of fascism as a generic term... A short review cannot do justice to the subtlety of arguments employed...[those] arguments are invariably stimulating, the insights perceptive. Griffin has an enviable grasp of the literature and discusses all the major issues of fascist historiography in the light of his own theory. Last but not least, he writes with admirable lucidity and lightness of touch. His book succeeds in its aim of being of use to the specialist and student/general reader alike.' - Jeremy Noakes, Political StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowldgements 1. The 'Nature' of Generic Facsism 2. A New Ideal Type of Generic Facsism 3. Italisan Fascism 4. German Fascism 5. Abortive Fascist Movements in Inter-war Europe 6. Non-European and Post-war Fascisms 7. The Psycho-historical Bases of Generic Fascism 8. Socio-political Determinants of Fascism's Success Postscript Index Glossary
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Taylor & Francis Museum and Gallery Studies
Book SynopsisMuseum and Gallery Studies: The Basics is an accessible guide for the student approaching Museum and Gallery Studies for the first time. Taking a global view, it covers the key ideas, approaches and contentious issues in the field. Balancing theory and practice, the book address important questions such as: What are museums and galleries? Who decides which kinds of objects are worthy of collection? How are museums and galleries funded? What ethical concerns do practitioners need to consider? How is the field of Museum and Gallery Studies developing? This user-friendly text is an essential read for anyone wishing to work within museums and galleries, or seeking to understand academic debates in the field.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. First principles; 2. Collecting and collections; 3.Display, interpretation, learning; 4. Economics: The Business of Culture; 5. Politics and Society: Power and authority; 6. Identity and Representation; 7. Continuing Controversies and Conflicts; 8. Current Debates and Future Prospects
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Oxford University Press Origins Of The French Revolution
Book SynopsisThis revised and updated edition of the standard introduction to the origins of the greatest of all revolutions incorporates and critically appraises the results of a new generation of research and interpretation. It thus remains the essential starting point for study of the subject.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; PART I: WRITINGS ON REVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS SINCE 1939 ; 1. The Classic Interpretation ; PART II: THE BREAKDOWN OF THE OLD REGIME ; 4. The Financial Crisis ; 5. The System of Government ; 6. Opposition ; 7. Public Opinion ; 8. Reform and its Failure 1787-88 ; PART III: THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER ; 9. The Nobility ; 10. The Bourgeoisie ; 11. The Election Campaign September 1788- to May 1789 ; 12. The Economic Crisis ; 13. The Estates-General, May and June 1789 ; 14. The People of Paris ; 15. The Peasantry ; 16. Conclusion: The New Regime and its Principles ; Abbreviations, Notes, Further Reading, Index of Authors Cited, General Index
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Taylor & Francis Feminist History Reader Routledge Readers in
Book SynopsisThe Feminist History Reader gathers together key articles, from some of the very best writers in the field, that have shaped the dynamic historiography of the past thirty years, and introduces students to the major shifts and turning points in this dialogue.The Reader is divided into four sections: early feminist historians' writings following the move from reclaiming women's past through to the development of gender history the interaction of feminist history with âthe linguistic turnâ and the challenges made by post-structuralism and the responses it provoked the work of lesbian historians and queer theorists in their challenge of the heterosexism of feminist history writing the work of black feminists and postcolonial critics/Third World scholars and how they have laid bare the ethnocentric and imperialist tendencies of feminist theory. Each reading has a comprehensive and clearly structured introduction with a guide to further reading, this wide-ranging guide to developments in feminist history is essential reading for all students of history.Trade Review"a stylish set of readings which will enable important issues about feminist historical theorizing to be addressed and debated in the classroom"Liz Stanley, Feminist Review‘Advanced readers are likely to find much of interest in the Feminist History Reader … Morgan’s was a difficult editorial task and the result is a stylish set of readings which will enable important issues about feminist historical theorizing to be addressed and debated in the classroom, particularly given that Morgan’s editorial viewpoint on the field is discussed in such an interesting and in-depth way.’ – Feminist ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Bringing the Female Subject into View 1. The Trouble With Patriarchy 2. Feminism and History 3. Golden Age to Separate Spheres? A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women's History 4. Politics and Culture in Women's History: A Symposium 5. Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate 6. History and the Challenge of Gender History Part 2: Deconstructing the Female Subject: Feminist History and 'The Linguistic Turn' 7. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis 8. Does Sex Have a History? 9. Gender History/Women's History: Is Feminist Scholarship Losing its Critical Edge? 10. Gender as a Postmodern Category of Paralysis 11. Postmodern Blackness 12. Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of 'Postmodernism' Part 3: Searching for the Subject: Lesbian History 13. Who Hid Lesbian History? 14. Does it Matter if They Did it? 15. Lesbian History: All Theory and No Facts or All Facts and No Theory? 16. Queer: Theorizing Politics and History 17. 'Lesbian-Like' and the Social History of Lesbianisms 18. Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality Part 4: Centres of Difference: Decolonising Subjects: Rethinking Boundaries 19. Gender and Race: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought 20. Challenging Imperial Feminism 21. An Open Letter to Mary Daly 22. 'What Has Happened Here?': The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics 23. Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Postcolonial Writings on Widow Immolation in India 24. Gender and Nation 25. 'Introduction' to Civilizing Subjects 26. Rethinking Boundaries: Feminism and (Inter)Nationalism in Early-Twentieth-Century India 27. Actions Louder than Words: The Historical Task of Defining Feminist Consciousness in Colonial West Africa 28. 'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity Through Anticapitalist Struggles 29. Feminism's History
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Taylor & Francis History of Madness
Book SynopsisWhen it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et DÃraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'Ãge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world. This translation is the first English edition of the complete French texts of the first and second edition, including all prefaces and appendices, some of them unavailable in the existing French edition. History of Madness begins in the Middle Ages with vivid descriptions of the exclusion and confinement of lepers. Why, Foucault asks, when the leper houses were emptied at the end of the Middle Ages, were they turned into places of confinement for the mad? Why, within the space of several months in 1656, was one out of every hundred people in Paris confined?Shifting brilliantly from Descartes and early EnlighTrade Review'One of the major works of the twentieth century is finally available in English. This comprehensive translation finally overcomes one of the great divisions within the world of reason; an occasion to revisit Madness and Civilization as it was written.’ – Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley, USA‘Now, at last, English speaking readers can have access to the depth of scholarship that underpins Foucault’s analysis: I have no doubt that this long awaited translation will have a transformative effect on a new generation of readers.’ - Nikolas Rose, London School of Economics, UK'…we are in the presence of a principal thesis that is truly original, by a man whose personality, whose intellectual "dynamism", whose talent for exposition all qualify him for high education' - Henri Gouhier, Principal Examiner of Foucault's Thesis' ... it returns a fragment of 'nature' to history and transforms madness, something we take to be a medieval phenomenon, into a phenomenon of civilization.' - Roland Barthes'Without a shadow of a doubt, the most original, influential and controversial text in this field during the last forty years. It remains as challenging now as on first publication. Its insights have still not been fully appreciated and absorbed.' - Roy Porter'This is quite an exceptional book of very high calibre - brilliantly written, intellectually rigorous, and with a thesis that thoroughly shakes the assumptions of traditional psychiatry.' - R.D. Laing'Extraordinary…rich and insistent, and almost unreasonable in its necessary repetitions.' - Maurice Blanchot'This magnificent book…requires a mind that is capable of being in turn a historian, a philosopher, a psychologist, and a sociologist-never simply one of these…This is not a method that could be offered as an example; it is not within the reach of just anybody. Something more than talent is necessary.' - Fernand Braudel, Annales'I have just finished reading your great book…You are a real explorer.' - Gaston Bachelard, in a letter to Michel Foucault'Scarcely any philosopher working on the history of philosophy, or historian working on the history of institutions, social science or sexuality can avoid confronting the challenge of Foucault's books.' - Michael Ignatieff, Times Literary Supplement'Scarcely any philosopher working on the history of philosophy, or historian working on the history of institutions, social science or sexuality can avoid confronting the challenge of Foucault's books.' - Michael Ignatieff, Times Literary Supplement'Without a shadow of a doubt, the most original, influential and controversial text in this field during the last forty years. It remains as challenging now as on first publication. Its insights have still not been fully appreciated and absorbed.' – Roy Porter'Extraordinary…rich and insistent, and almost unreasonable in its necessary repetitions.' – Maurice BlanchotTable of ContentsForeword: History and Significance of Foucault’s History of Madness Prefaces 1. 1961 Edition 2. 1972 Edition Part 1 1. Stultifera Navis 2. The Great Confinement 3. The Correctional World 4. Experiences of Madness 5. The Insane Part 2 1. The Madman in the Garden of Species 2. The Transcendence of Delirium 3. Figures of Madness 4. Doctors and Patients Part 3 1. The Great Fear 2. The New Division 3. The Proper Use of Liberty 4. Birth of the Asylum 5. The Anthropological Circle Appendices 1. Réponse à Derrida (Michel Foucault Derrida e no kaino Paideia (Tokyo) February 1972) 2. La Folie, l'absence d'oeuvre Appendix 1 of 1972 Edition 3. Mon corps, ce papier, ce feu Appendix 2 of 1972 Edition Notes Bibliography Critical Bibliography on Foucault’s History of Madness
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The University of Chicago Press The Chicago Companion to Tocquevilles Democracy
Book SynopsisOne of the greatest books ever to be written on the United States, "Democracy in America" continues to find new readers who marvel at the lasting insights Alexis de Tocqueville had into our nation and its political culture. This book is written expressly to help general readers and students alike get the most out of this seminal work.Trade Review"James T. Schleifer includes so many excellent quotations to illustrate his points that it's conceivable that this book might be read tout seul, as a substitute for the real thing! I hope not. But virtually everything one needs to know about Democracy, including a taste for Tocqueville's prose, is included in this fine companion." -Michael Kammen, Cornell University"
£42.75
Yale University Press Henry II
Book SynopsisThis biography provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Henry II, the man and king. W.L. Warren explores a whole range of contemporary sources to illuminate the king's policy and personality, as well as the events of his reign.Trade ReviewWinner of the Wolfson History Award
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Yale University Press The Serbs
Book SynopsisCovers the Kosovo War, and the overthrow of Milosevic, with close-up accounts of his trial at the Hague, and subsequent death. This book looks at the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindic in 2003, and its consequences.Trade Review"Two fine and well-written works. . . . The authors, British journalists who covered the Yugoslav wars, are well worth reading. Their respective accounts give insights into the historical baggage the Yugoslav ethnic groups brought to their latest convulsions."—Dusko Doder, Boston Globe"Tim Judah has written a lively and balanced history of the Serbs that begins with their successful medieval efforts to establish a state and ends with their failed attempt in the 1990s to create Greater Serbia."—Aleksa Djilas, New York Times Book Review"A very good book...Judah cleverly interprets Serbia's sad present in the light of its past."—Sunday Times"[Tanner and Judah] bring to bear wide knowledge of Yugoslavia and shared experience of Europe's worst war since 1945. Each gives a good historical survey and an account of the war's causes."—The Economist"Readable and stimulating. . . . Judah's book is a polemical attempt to counter the 'demonisation' of the Serbs. But it is far from being a whitewash: with very few exceptions, he successfully walks the tightrope between 'balance' and relativisation."—Brendan Simms, Times Higher Education Supplement"An eloquent plea for the centrality of the past in any explanation of the catastrophic present. . . . A remarkable book about Croatia."—David Rieff, Globe & Mail "The book's scope and quality recommend it."—Zachary T. Irwin, Library Journal"Judah's book is probably the best attempt to date to explain the calamitous situation of the Serbs today through a meticulous consideration of the Serb past."—David Rieff, Toronto Globe and Mail"[Judah] set out to make a complex phenomenon comprehensible to the non-academic reader and has done so with great clarity and skill. For anyone who has served in the Balkans or who is due to do so, this book should be seen as indispensable reading."—Peter Williams, British Army Review"Tim Judah's book is an ambitious and valiant attempt to bring together the real history of the Serbs and the myths and theories in which that history was handed down."—Melanie McDonagh, Evening Standard"Judah has written a readable and intelligent volume, carefully researched and judiciously constructed . . . about the unsuccessful attempts of the Serbs to re-create a greater Serbia."—William Peter Kaldis, History: Reviews of New Books"In addition to being a work of real quality. . . . [it] fills an important gap. . . . A mix of on-the-spot reportage, history and analysis, well-researched and proof-read and conveying a sense both of immediacy and of a wider perspective."—Christopoher Cviic, International Affairs"[This book] is well paced, reasonably succinct and very readable; [it] very properly and interestingly uses broad sweeps of history to help explain recent developments and present circumstances."—George Bull, International Minds"A stunning new history."—Robert Fisk, Irish Times"I found Judah's work to be highly original, providing new insight into our reading of the collapse of Yugoslavia and the rise of Serbian nationalism. In addition, his treatment of Serbian history was also thorough and clever. . . . [It] is extremely well written and interesting. Judah weaves together a rich tapestry of historical Serbian myths, and demonstrates their current applicability in Serbian national thought, and as motivating factors in the Yugoslav crisis."—David B. MacDonald, Millennium, Journal of International Studies"This book is much better than any comparable volume. . . . The entire book is very readable and tells a compelling story."—South Slav Journal"Judah . . . offers a highly readable history of the Serbs from medieval times to the present, with judicious comments on the rise of the Kosovo Liberation Army and Nato’s bombing campaign. It is one of the best attempts to explain a situation which has baffled the West throughout history."—The Herald (Glasgow)“It remains a definitive, and relevant, text for students, lay readers and even scholars. As an introductory work to the background and causes of the disintegration of the Yugoslav state and the subsequent events it has few rivals.”—Kenneth Morrison, Slavonic & East European Review, Vol. 89, No. 3"The aim of this book is to trace the history of the Serbs and to explain how they came to be where they are, and in the case of Croatia were until 1995. It is to trace the way that the centre of Serbian life migrated with its people from south to north and to explain how the idea of 'Serbdom,' as the Serbs call it, was kept alive during the centuries of Ottoman rule. It is also to explore why, with the fall of communism, they enthusiastically acclaimed Slobodan Milosevic, an opportunistic and cynical leader who was interested only in power."—From the preface
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Cambridge University Press Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity
Book SynopsisMacIntyre explores the central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. This significant book by a distinguished philosopher will interest a wide readership in moral and political philosophy.Trade Review'For readers of Alasdair MacIntyre who have wondered how the views of his After Virtue, Whose Justice? Which Rationality? and Dependent Rational Animals hang together, this book is as good a response as we could have hoped for. In Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity, we see the fundamental continuity of the ideas that MacIntyre has developed and defended over the past forty years. It is a canonical statement of MacIntyre's mature views in moral, political, and social philosophy.' Mark Murphy, Georgetown University, Washington DC'Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the greatest living philosophers and any new book by him is bound to raise the highest expectations. Readers will not be disappointed by a book that represents the culmination of MacIntyre's life long project to situate ethical thought in its historical and political context. Beginning with academic discussions in meta-ethics, the work develops into a general theory of modernity from MacIntyre's Thomistic perspective. The range of reference is remarkable: from the work of Oscar Wilde and D. H. Lawrence to that of Aquinas and Marx. MacIntyre's scholarship and insight are evident on every page. Everyone – from moral and political philosophers to the reflective general reader – will greatly benefit from reading it.' Alan Thomas, Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands'It's as important a work of philosophy as there has been in some time and a must-read for MacIntyre's followers, detractors, and everyone in between.' Christian Century'… astonishingly wide-ranging work …' Marx and Philosophy Review of Books'… especially where the misdeeds of the powerful are at issue, MacIntyre writes with great trenchancy; and one detects, underneath a cool and measured argumentative surface, the heart of an Amos or Isaiah, burning with righteous anger.' Commonweal'Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity is an essential addition to MacIntyre's distinguished body of work.' Richard Kraut, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews'[Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity] is a rich and nuanced text that provides a foundational restatement of Thomistic practical philosophy for the 21st Century. It links moral philosophy, business ethics, and political philosophy in a way that contrasts with standard academic practice.' Caleb Bernacchio, Acta Philosophica'For over three decades, Alasdair MacIntyre has been arguing that Thomistic Aristotelianism offers the best path forward for contemporary politics and ethics. While his philosophical career began in the 1950s, it has been this project … that has established his reputation as one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century.' Jennifer A. Herdt, Studies in Christian EthicsTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Desires, goods, and 'good', the philosophical issues; 2. Theory, practice, and their social contexts; 3. Morality and modernity; 4. Neo-Aristotelian ethics and politics developed in contemporary Thomistic terms: issues of relevance and rational justification; 5. Four narratives; Index.
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WW Norton & Co The History of the Ancient World
Book SynopsisA lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own.Trade Review"Bauer guides readers on a fast-paced yet thorough tour…a wonderful starting point for the study of the ancient world." -- Publishers Weekly"[A]n attractive introduction to a subject vast in time and geography.…Bauer's survey will spark the imagination." -- Booklist
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WW Norton & Co Impounded
Book Synopsis"Unflinchingly illustrates the reality of life during this extraordinary moment in American history."—Dinitia Smith, The New York TimesTrade Review"In these days of fear of the terrorist 'other', reading this measured, intelligent introduction to a time that is all-too possible to imagine recurring, and looking at Lange's photos... may be one of the most useful things one can do this Christmas." "[The] images show Americans of Japanese extraction being relocated to 'assembly centers', labeled and processed like cattle and closeted away in dismal shacks for the duration of the war... No wonder her pictures were never used and disappeared for half a century." "Through her discerning and sensitive eye, Lange's observations of the situation were too real and too critical for the government, and were consequently confiscated." "[T]he bulk of the book is given over to Lange's photographs. Several of these are as powerful as her most stirring work, and the final image-of a grandfather in the desolate Manzanar Center looking down in anguish at the grandson between his knees-is worth the price of the book alone."
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WW Norton & Co Paris to the Past Traveling through French
Book Synopsis“I’d rather go to France with Ina Caro than with Henry Adams or Henry James.”—NewsweekTrade Review"[Caro] is an unabashedly enthusiastic guide. Her love for the places she visits is contagious." "A keen, if sometimes breathless guide to monarchical France and its architecture." "Ina Caro ... has spent her life studying and writing about France, and she has crammed all of her knowledge into this delightful travel guide."
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Random House USA Inc Nothing to Envy
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W. W. Norton & Company War in the Ancient World A Social History
Book SynopsisHere is a much needed study of war as a social phenomenon, written by an expert on Greek fortifications and siege warfare.
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WW Norton & Co Dealmaking
Book Synopsis“Packed with transformative insights, Dealmaking will help a new generation of business leaders get to yes.”—William Ury, coauthor of Getting to YesTrade Review"This brilliant book exposes the connections between negotiations and auctions, and will be indispensable for every professional involved in dealmaking." -- Robert Mnookin, author of Beyond Winning
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