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Botticelli and Renaissance Florence

Botticelli and Renaissance Florence

Masterworks from the Uffizi

By Cecilia Frosinini, Rachel Mcgarry

This sumptuously illustrated book presents the most recent scholarship in English on Botticelli and Renaissance Florence, featuring essays and entries written by an international team of scholars and experts in the field.
The authors examine both...

ISBN: 9780998587226

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Communist Pigs

Communist Pigs

An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall

By Thomas Fleischman. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita than West...

ISBN: 9780295750699

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Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx

Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx

The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights

By Jonathan I. Israel

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world’s most resolute, intellectually driven, and philosophical revolutionaries, among them the pre-Marxist Karl Marx. Yet the roots...

ISBN: 9780295748665

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Constructing Revolution

Constructing Revolution

Soviet Propaganda Posters, 1917-1947

By Kristina A. Toland

The eruption of the First World War, the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, and the subsequent civil war broke down established political and social structures and brought an end to the Tsarist Empire. Russia...

ISBN: 9781735441634

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Cultivating Nature

Cultivating Nature

The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape

By Sarah R. Hamilton. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

Winner of the 2019 Turku Book Award from the European Society for Environmental History

The Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace of paella, has long...

ISBN: 9780295748092

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Lotty

Lotty's Bench

The Persecution of the Jews of Amsterdam Remembered

By Gerben Post

August 26, 1945: Lotty Veffer arrived in Amsterdam. She was the only member of her family to have survived the war. Her parents and younger sister Carla had been gassed in Sobibor. There was no...

ISBN: 9789460224997

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Days of Defeat and Victory

Days of Defeat and Victory

By Yegor Gaidar. Translated by Jane Ann Miller. Foreword by Michael McFaul

Yegor Gaidar, the first post-Soviet prime minister of Russia and one of the principal architects of its historic transformation to a market economy, here presents his lively account of governing in the tumultuous early 1990s....

ISBN: 9780295995359

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Church Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945

Church Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945

By Arne Hassing

Church Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945 examines the evolution of the Lutheran state Church of Norway in response to the German occupation. While German Protestant churches generally accepted Nazism and state incorporation, Norway’s churches...

ISBN: 9780295994543

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Letters from Vladivostock, 1894-1930

Letters from Vladivostock, 1894-1930

By Eleanor L. Pray. Edited by Birgitta Ingemanson. With Patricia D. Silver

In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Over the next thirty-six years — from the time of Tsar Alexander...

ISBN: 9780295994536

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The Power of Song

The Power of Song

Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution

By Guntis Smidchens

The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic “Singing Revolution.” When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent...

ISBN: 9780295994529

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East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500

East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500

By Jean W. Sedlar

Although the Middle Ages saw brilliant achievements in the diverse nations of East Central Europe, this period has been almost totally neglected in Western historical scholarship. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages provides a...

ISBN: 9780295972916

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Red Autobiographies

Red Autobiographies

Initiating the Bolshevik Self

By Igal Halfin

In Red Autobiographies, Igal Halfin reads admission records of the Soviet Communist Party cells in the 1920s for what they reveal about the politics of self-representation in Bolshevik political culture. He identifies ways of speaking...

ISBN: 9780295991122

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Carl Hagenbeck

Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments

By Eric Ames

The name of Carl Hagenbeck is as evocative in Europe as that of P. T. Barnum or Walt Disney in North America. Hagenbeck was the nineteenth century's foremost animal trader and ethnographic showman, known for...

ISBN: 9780295988337

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The Legacy of Tolstoy

The Legacy of Tolstoy

Alexandra Tolstoy and the Soviet Regime in the 1920s

By Robert Croskey

Drawing on extensive research in Russian archives, Robert Croskey examines how Alexandra Tolstoy, the youngest daughter of Russian writer Lev (Leo) Tolstoy, sought to preserve the work of her father after the Bolshevik Revolution in...

ISBN: 9780295988771

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Money Matters

Money Matters

Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850

By Richard T. Gray

In Money Matters, Richard Gray investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. The transition in Germany from an agrarian or proto-industrial economy to a...

ISBN: 9780295988375

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Nature Protests

Nature Protests

The End of Ecology in Slovakia

By Edward K. Snajdr. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, policy makers, and environmental practitioners to understand the dynamic relationship between environmental movements and...

ISBN: 9780295988566

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Munch

Munch's Ibsen

A Painter's Visions of a Playwright

By Joan Templeton

Drawing on printed and archival sources, including Munch's extensive unpublished writings, Munch's Ibsen provides a comprehensive account of the connection between the two great Norwegian modernists. Situating the interlocking careers of Edvard Munch and Henrik...

ISBN: 9780295987767

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War in a European Borderland

War in a European Borderland

Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914-1918

By Mark L von Hagen

War in a European Borderland examines the many regime changes that took place in occupied Ukraine during World War I. The decimation of people living between Austria-Hungary and the Russian empire – specifically Poles, Jews,...

ISBN: 9780295987538

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Ukraine

Ukraine

An Illustrated History

By Paul Robert Magocsi

Ukraine is Europe’s second-largest state. Roughly the size of Germany and Great Britain or the states of Arizona and New Mexico combined, it shares borders with seven countries and in 2001 had a population of...

ISBN: 9780295987231

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Serbia Since 1989

Serbia Since 1989

Politics and Society under Milosevic and After

By Sabrina P. Ramet, Vjeran I. Pavlakovic, James B. Lyon

During their thirteen years in power, Slobodan Milosevic and his cohorts plunged Yugoslavia into wars of ethnic cleansing, leading to the murder of thousands of civilians. The Milosevic regime also subverted the nation's culture, twisted...

ISBN: 9780295986500

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