IPG Fall 2014 European History Titles · Kristina Jennbert is a professor and head of the dept of archaeology and ancient history at Lund University. Author Bio She is the author

European History Titles Fall 2014

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Sussex Academic Press 9781845195014 Pub Date: 2/1/12 $79.95/$99.95 Can. Discount Code: SHO Hardcover

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¡Salud! British Volunteers in the Republican Medical Service During the Spanish Civil War, 1936?1939 Linda Palfreeman

In this response to the lack of accessible literature on what was surely one of the most important aspects of the conflict-health care and medical assistance during wartime-this book reviews the enormously valuable contribution of the volunteers who left Britain to serve with the Republican Medical Services during the Spanish Civil War. Acknowledgement is also given to the immense effort and self-sacrifice made by men and women from all walks of life who, working ceaselessly at home, made it possible for the medical teams to function in Spain. The first British Medical Unit in Spain had immense political significance for the Spanish Republic, and this work shows how, barely a month into the start of the civil war, this small group was the first visible sign of international support. This work details how volunteers not only helped to create and to maintain an emergency medical service, but how some of the individuals involved were also responsible for important developments that were of relevance to later military-medical practice and also to the history of medicine in general. Medic...

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Linda Palfreeman is lecturer in journalism at the University of Cardenal Herrera in Elche, Spain. She has researched local aspects of the Spanish Civil War and the International Brigades' Medical Service.

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Michael O'Mara 9781843178804 Pub Date: 5/1/13 Ship Date: 5/1/13 $15.95/$17.95 Can. Hardcover

192 pages Carton Qty: 32 History / Ancient HIS002000

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A Classical Primer Ancient Knowledge for Modern Minds Dan Crompton

A basic but enjoyable introduction to the study of the culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans, from the languages to literature, philosophy, art, and much more

For those who didn't take Classics at school, or who have forgotten most of what they knew, this primer is a look back at classical civilization-how they lived, and how many aspects of our own daily lives have been directly influenced by theirs, from roads and concrete, to central heating, the 12-month calendar, cranes, and even pizza. It covers Greek and Latin languages; offers Greek and Roman history in a nutshell from the Bronze Age

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through the fall of the Roman empire; provides an introduction to Greek literature including The Iliad, The

Odyssey, and the Greek tragedies; and covers the basics of Latin literature. It also provides basic background on philosophy, including Socrates and Plato; ancient architecture including the Parthenon and the Colosseum; and science and technology, including such inventions as the alarm clock, the vending machine, flushing toilets, and glass. This handy book shows that even a basic knowle...

Dan Crompton is the author of The World's Oldest Joke Book: Hundreds of Hilariously Terrible Ancient Jokes.

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Oldcastle Books 9781842433461 Pub Date: 7/30/10 $14.95 Trade Paperback

160 pages Carton Qty: 68 History / Europe HIS010000 Series: Short History

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A Short History of Europe From Charlemagne to the Treaty of Lisbon Gordon Kerr

From the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 to the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007, an accessible history of the people, ideas, institutions, and events that have shaped Europe during the last 1,200 years This fascinating history for beginners provides a coherent map of the jumbled history of Europe and the European idea that has led up to this point. A continent of countless disparate peoples, races, and nations, governed by different ideas, philosophies, religions, and attitudes, Europe nonetheless has a common thread of history running through it, stitching the lands and peoples of its past and present into one fabric and held together by the continent's great institutions: the Church of Rome, the Holy Roman Empire, the European Union, individual monarchies, trade organizations, and social movements. However, people have always harbored aspirations to make this vast territory one. The Romans came close and a few centuries later, the foundations for a great European state were laid with the creation of the Holy Roman Empire. Napoleon overreached himself in attempting to cr...

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Gordon Kerr is the author of Goners, Houses of Death, and Timeline: History of the World.

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All Power to the Councils! A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918?1919 Gabriel Kuhn Voices of dissent prior to the founding of the Weimar Republic

"Gabriel Kuhn's excellent volume illuminates a profound global revolutionary moment, in which brilliant ideas and debates lit the sky." -Marcus Rediker, author of Villains of all Nations and The Slave Ship "This remarkable collection, skillfully edited by Gabriel Kuhn, brings to life that most pivotal of revolutions, crackling with the acrid odor of street fighting, insurgent hopes, and ultimately defeat… In an era brimming with anticapitalist aspirations, these pages ring with that still unmet revolutionary promise of a better world: I was, I am, I shall be." -Sasha Lilley, author of Capital and Its Discontents and coauthor of Catastrophism The German Revolution erupted out of the ashes of World War I, triggered by mutinying sailors refusing to be sacrificed in the final carnage of the war. While the Social Democrats grabbed power, radicals across the country rallied to establish a communist society under the slogan "All Power to the Councils!" The Spartacus League launched an uprising in Berlin, council republics were proclaimed in Bremen and Bavaria, and workers' revolts shook...

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Author BioGabriel Kuhn is the founder of the Alpine Anarchist Productions publishing company. He is the author of Life

Under the Jolly Roger, the editor of Living for the Revolution, and the editor and translator of Gustav Landauer:

Revolution and Other Writings.


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Oldcastle Books 9781842432457 Pub Date: 4/28/08 $17.95 Hardcover

160 pages Carton Qty: 32 History / Ancient HIS002010 Series: Pocket Essential series


Ancient Greece Mike Paine

Western civilization began with the Greeks. From the highpoint of the 5th century BC through the cultural triumphs of the Alexandrian era to their impact on the developing Roman empire, the Greeks shaped the philosophy, art, architecture, and literature of the Mediterranean world. Beginning with the Homeric period, once believed to be a realm of myth, Paine takes the reader on a journey through more than 12 centuries of Greek culture. He shows what archaeologists have revealed of the Trojan Wars and Mycenae, outlines the glories of Athens at its height, and provides a gripping narrative of the struggle between the Greeks and the mighty Persian empire. The guide also highlights the careers of great political and military leaders, such as Pericles and Alexander the Great, and explores the importance of great philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle. Dramatists and demagogues, stoics and epicureans, aristocrats and helots all take their place in the unfolding story of Greek achievement.

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Mike Paine is the author of the Pocket Essential The Crusades.

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Nordic Academic Press 9789185509379 Pub Date: 7/1/11 $52.95/$58.95 Can. Hardcover


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Animals and Humans Recurrent Symbiosis in Archaeology and Old Norse Religion Kristina Jennbert

Exploring the relationship between animals and humans in Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the Viking Period, this book interprets Old Norse mythology-in which imaginary creatures with strong characters were invented-and examines the importance of animals in the human world. According to Old Norse perceptions, real and fantasy animals in Midgard became mouthpieces for human characteristics and reflections of people's social position. With the aid of animals, humans could also show who they really were as well as control higher powers. Combining results from archaeology and Old Norse texts, this account discusses the functional, symbolic, and cognitive meanings of animals and the implications of animal rights.

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Kristina Jennbert is a professor and head of the dept of archaeology and ancient history at Lund University.

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She is the author of Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perpectives: Origins, Changes & Interactions and On the

Road: Studies in Honor of Lars Larsson.


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Birlinn Ltd 9781780270494 Pub Date: 10/1/12 $10.00/$11.00 Can. Trade Paperback


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Auld Enemies The Scots and the English David Ross, Rupert Besley

This unique work stands as a record of the long contest of verbal warfare shared between the neighboring nations of Scotland and England. Documenting the many battles between the two countries, this book illustrates how a war of words and propaganda often accompanied the fighting, and how, even as Scotland and England eventually became allies, the verbal barbs continued, becoming sharper, more wide-ranging, and funnier.

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Author BioDavid Ross is the author of numerous books on Scottish history and culture, including Chronology of Scottish

History, The Killing Time, and Xenophobe's Guide to the Scots. Rupert Besley is a freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including Country Life, Private Eye, Punch, and The Oldie magazines. He is the author and illustrator of Scotland for Beginners.

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Barbary Pirate The Life and Crimes of John Ward, the Most Infamous Privateer of His Time Greg Bak

In 1603 John Ward, a sailor in James VI & I's navy, led a mass desertion, stole a civilian vessel from Portsmouth, and defected to the Ottoman Empire at Tunis. From there, his unbridled and brutal piracy saw him become the most infamous and feared privateer of his time, revelling in ill-gotten wealth ashore and finally-in the ultimate rejection of his native land-embracing Islam. Seen as a Judas bent on undermining all Christendom, he became a prize with a price on his head and was pursued by pirate-hunters across the Mediterranean. While to his contemporaries Ward was the blackest of villains, to later generations his exploits are the stuff of legend. Greg Bak uncovers the truth and tells the compelling story of a man who rose from nothing to become a brilliant naval commander and a spectacularly successful, if amoral, entrepreneur.

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Greg Bak is an historian and archivist. He lives in Canada.

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Michael Imhof Verlag 9783865686091 Pub Date: 9/1/11 $24.95/$27.95 Can. Hardcover


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Berlin Yesterday and Today Michael Imhof

Reliving the momentous events in the German capital's history, this volume contends that no other city has changed its face so rapidly in the past century as Berlin. The pre-World War I era is covered before moving onto the 1930s megalomania of Hitler and the overwhelming damage of World War II. Chronicling the city's rebirth, the study depicts its exhaustive reconstruction along with the constitution of the Berlin Wall. The city center's evolution from the 18th to the 21st centuries is also detailed, comparing historical material with current photographs. This bilingual edition includes English and German.

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Michael Imhof is the author of Berlin: Art and Architecture and Berlin New Architecture.

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University Of Hertfordshire Press 9781907396632 Pub Date: 9/1/12 $37.95/$41.95 Can. Trade Paperback

240 pages Carton Qty: 20 History / Medieval HIS037010 Series: Studies in Regional and Local History

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Bread and Ale for the Brethren The Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, 1260-1536 Philip Slavin

Despite increased commercialization and an efficient network of local markets in 1300s Europe-as well as significant costs and risks associated with the production, transportation, and storage of food-some landed lords, monasteries, and convents continued to rely on the produce of their own estates. This detailed study sets out to account for the puzzling situation, covering the period between 1260 and 1536 with an in-depth analysis of the changing patterns and fortunes of the provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory. As it examines the entire process of food delivery from field to table, the record explores the question of food security within the context of the various crises in the 14th century, and also illustrates the aftereffects of the Black Death. While providing unparalleled insight into Norwich Priory, the book also serves as an important resource for understanding the Late Middle Ages economy and society of England during a time of upheaval.

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Philip Slavin is a Mellon Fellow and a lecturer in the department of economics at McGill University. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

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The History Press 9780752466286 Pub Date: 12/1/14 Ship Date: 12/1/14 $19.95/$23.95 Can. Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback

192 pages Carton Qty: 32 History / Europe HIS015000 Series: Folk Tales: United Kingdom

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Cambridgeshire Folk Tales Maureen James

Sussex Academic Press 9781845196646 Pub Date: 9/1/14 Ship Date: 9/1/14 $34.95/$41.99 Can. Discount Code: SHO Trade Paperback

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Catalonia Since the Spanish Civil War Reconstructing the Nation Andrew Dowling

Catalonia Since the Spanish Civil War examines the transformation of the Catalan nation in socioeconomic, political, and historical terms, and offers an innovative interpretation of the determinants of its nationalist mobilization. With Franco's and Spanish nationalism's victory in 1939, and the consolidation of a long-lasting dictatorship, it appeared certain that the Catalan national movement would be crushed. Yet, this did not happen and Catalan nationalism and identity reemerged at the end of Franco's dictatorship in 1975 more firmly rooted than before. The 21st century has been marked by an ever-growing independence movement, culminating in the vast demonstration in the city of Barcelona in July 2010. Andrew Dowling provides multifaceted viewpoints in historic perspective and reflects on possible steps and outcomes for this new pro-independence turn in Catalan nationalism. The themes treated in the book-Franco's Spain, nationalism, anarchism, Catholicism, communism, and the Catalan role in Spain's transition to democracy-make this work an essential point of reference for student...

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Andrew Dowling is a lecturer in Catalan and Spanish history at Cardiff University. He researches on the

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contemporary history of Catalonia and has published in journals including the Catalan Review, the International

Journal of Iberian Studies, and the Journal of Contemporary History.


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Catholicism, War and the Foundation of Francoism The Juventud de Acción Popular in Spain, 1931?1939 Sid Lowe

Spain's first democracy was announced to popular jubilation in April 1931, a new dawn ushered in without a single shot being fired. Yet just over five years later the country was plunged into a brutal civil war that bequeathed hundreds of thousands of deaths and an authoritarian dictatorship under General Francisco Franco that lasted almost forty years. Catholicism, War and the Foundation of Francoism analyses Spain's dramatic political shift, reassessing the role of the right as it mobilised against the Second Republic, swinging from ostensibly -moderate- Catholic conservatism to fascist violence. By providing the first detailed study of the uniformed, paramilitary Juventud de Acci-n Popular (JAP), Sid Lowe challenges the historiographical orthodoxy on Spanish fascism and assumptions about the role of the hegemonic right-wing party during the Republican years, Jos- Mar-a Gil Robles's CEDA. Drawing on a wide range of previously uncovered primary material, he demonstrates that much of the parliamentary right, its leadership included, abandoned the legal road to power when it could no ...

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Sid Lowe is a Madrid-based journalist who writes regularly for The Guardian and contributes to other broadcast and print media in Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. He completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield and has studied at the University of Oviedo. He has lived in Madrid for almost a decade.

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336 pages Carton Qty: 28 History / Eastern Europe HIS010010

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Cultural Transformations After Communism Central and Eastern Europe in Focus Barbara Tornquist-Plewa, Krzysztof Stala

Focusing on the profound transformation in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain, this record analyzes complex cultural dimensions, such as lifestyles, habits, value markers, and identity. Written by a group of experts, it presents case studies from the former communist countries that are members of the European Union today and attempts to answer crucial questions about the constructions of a new identity in the

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region: Have the processes of democratization and opening the borders produced mentality changes and new

value systems? Is there a convergence of values and cultures between the new and old EU-members? Have

there been backlashes in the processes of reconstructing national identities? This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in European integration, issues of national identity, and the politics and culture of the post-Communist countries.

Barbara Törnquist-Plewa is a professor of Eastern and Central European studies and the director of the Center for European Studies at Lund University. Krzysztof Stala is an associate professor and the head of Polish studies at the University of Copenhagen.

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Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire Terry Deary

The author of children's series Horrible Histories presents the first book in his new offbeat popular history series for adults-Bill Bryson meets Blackadder

With his trademark crisp, wry writing style and dark sense of humor, Terry Deary begins with the Roman Empire, in the first in a new series offering concise, informative histories that delve into myths and traditions surrounding its subjects and attempts to extract cohesion-and possibly even some truth. The Romans have long been held up as one of the first "civilized" societies, and yet in fact they were capable of immense cruelty. Not only that, but they made the killing of humans into a sport. The spoiled emperors were the perpetrators (and sometimes the victims) of some imaginative murders. This book includes some of the violent ways to visit the Elysian Fields (i.e. death), including by animal attack in the Coliseum; by being thrown from the Tarpeian Rock-the fate of 370 deserters in 214 AD alone (could also occur if the emperor didn't like your poetry); by volcanic eruption from Vesuvius; by kicking (Nero's fatal quarrel wit...

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Terry Deary is the author of more than 200 books, including the Fire Thief Trilogy and the Horrible Histories series, and was voted Outstanding Children's Non-Fiction Author of the 20th century by Books for Keeps magazine.

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Phoenix 9780753820445 Pub Date: 5/1/05 $15.95 Trade Paperback



Dead Reckoning The Dunedin Star Disaster Jeff Dawson

In November 1942, the Dunedin Star, a ship of Britain's Blue Star Line, was bound for the Middle East, her consignment of munitions for the 8th Army supplemented by 21 civilians escaping the Blitz. Three weeks into her voyage, her hull mysteriously holed, the Dunedin Star ran aground off Namibia's infamous Skeleton Coast-the most violent and desolate shore on earth. Sixty-three passengers were to defy unfathomable odds to reach land-but their struggle for survival had only just begun.

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Hoover Institution Press 9780817989828 Pub Date: 3/1/91 $10.98/$12.95 Can. Trade Paperback


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Dear Comrades Menshevik Reports on the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War Vladimir N. Brovkin

Vivid reports of the struggle of two parties vying for supremacy in postczarist Russia.

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Vladimir N. Brovkin is an associate professor of history at Harvard University. He emigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1975 and received his M.A. from Georgetown University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University.

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Discovering the Hidden Listener An Empirical Assessment of Radio Liberty and Western Broadcasting to the USSR during the Cold War R. Eugene Parta This overview of the impact of Western radio and Radio Liberty-from the listeners' perspective-addresses questions of audience size and listening trends over time, listeners' demographic traits and attitudes, and more. Based on more than 50,000 interviews with Soviet citizens, the book sheds light ...

This overview of the impact of Western radio and Radio Liberty-from the listeners' perspective-addresses questions of audience size and listening trends over time, listeners' demographic traits and attitudes, and more. Based on more than 50,000 interviews with Soviet citizens, the book sheds light on what these broadcasts meant to listeners as the USSR moved toward a freer society.

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R. Eugene Parta is the retired director of Audience Research and Program Evaluation for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague. He has worked in the field of international broadcasting audience research since 1969; in Munich he was director of Media Opinion Research of the RFE/RL Research Institute. Parta has written extensively on media use, communications, and public opinion in Central and Eastern Europe and been a frequent speaker and participant in international academic and professional conferences.

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Estonia and the Estonians Second Edition, Updated Toivo U. Raun A comprehensive survey of Estonian history.

A comprehensive survey of Estonian history, placing recent events into historical perspective. The author analyzes the country's post-communist transition, its strategic geopolitical location, and the role of ethnic Estonians in shaping the history of the area.

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Toivo U. Raun was born in Tartu, Estonia, and educated in the United States, receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is currently a professor of Central Eurasian studies and adjunct professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington, and past president of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.

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Sussex Academic Press 9781845194000 Pub Date: 3/1/10 $34.95/$43.95 Can. Discount Code: SHO Trade Paperback



Europe and Its Muslim Minorities Aspects of Conflict, Attempts at Accord Amikam Nachmani

The presence of Muslim communities in Europe is a politically charged issue. Sporadic attacks by radical Muslims have further highlighted the problem of a deep cultural divide between the Muslims and their host countries. There is, however, no one "Islamic Nation", and a distinction must be made between the radical Muslim minority and secular or practicing Muslims who subscribe neither to the theology nor politics of the radicals. The influx of Muslim immigrants into Europe is rooted in the common human aspiration for a better life. But to date there is no European consensus about how to deal with the political, social, religious, and economic problems associated with their absorption. … This book presents a comprehensive picture of the causes and effects of Muslim immigration to the West. It discusses the population explosion in the sending countries, with their declining availability of jobs and increasing desperation. The author highlights the situation of Western countries with their shrinking families and growing workforce shortages, and considers the readiness of the Continent ...

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Amikam Nachmani completed his doctoral studies at Oxford. He teaches at the Department for Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and specializes in East Mediterranean studies, notably Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. His interests extend from civil war, gender and nationalism, to ethnicity, and natural resources.

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Fawley's Front Line A Century of Fire-fighting and Rescue Roger Hansford



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Fire and Flames A History of the German Autonomist Movement Geronimo, George Katsiaficas, Gabriel Kuhn

Translated for the first time into English, the history of the German autonomous anticapitalist movement is traced back to the 1970s in this firsthand account. Battling police in riot gear, the early members of the autonomous movement used military tactics that included barricading and hurling Molotov cocktails in protest. Dubbed the "Black Bloc" by the German media, those tactics were soon adopted by scores of anticapitalist groups across the globe. The dawn of the autonomous faction spawned a movement in which average citizens can reclaim their lives from governmental control. Political activists and anticapitalists will find updated historical context to the movement and the current state of the German autonomous movement in this updated chronicle.

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Geronimo is the pen name of an activist for the German autonomous movement. George Katsiaficas is a

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visiting professor of sociology at Chonnam National University and a Fullbright Fellow. He is the author of The

Imagination of the New Left and The Subversion of Politics. Gabriel Kuhn is a translator and the author of Life

Under the Jolly Roger.


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Flight of the Titan The Story of the R34 George Rosie

In the early hours of Thursday, July 10, 1919 hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers rushed out onto the streets and rooftops and gaped up into the sky as a great silver ship, hundreds of feet long, rolled slowly across the city. Restaurants, hotels, theatres and bars emptied as people took to the street to gaze upwards. The ship seemed to hover over the New York Times building in 42nd street before turning its bow to the east and heading off towards the Atlantic. New Yorkers had never seen anything like it. They were left to wonder as the thrum of the engines died away. But it was no alien visitation. The huge silver craft, bearing a lion rampant across its bow, was the Scottish-built airship R34 manned by a 30-strong crew of World War I veterans (and a stowaway cat). A few days earlier the R34 had made the first-ever east-west flight across the Atlantic against powerful head winds and electrical storms. The flight of the R34 was one of the great feats of British aviation and it has been shamefully forgotten - but there is a wealth of information out there. Some of it is in the diary ...

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Born in Edinburgh in 1941, George Rosie has had a prolific media career. He has worked as a television reporter, producer and writer for Channel Four, ITV and STV and has worked as a journalist for a number of newspapers, including the Sunday Times, the Herald, Sunday Herald, The Guardian, The Scotsman, The Independent and was the founding editor of Observer Scotland. He is also the author of numerous stage and radio plays and of seventeen other books. He is married with three children and lives in Edinburgh.

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France Divided The French and the Civil War in Spain David Wingeate Pike

This book sets out to analyze the schism in French public opinion during the Spanish Civil War that was to end in the tragic collapse of French national unity. It examines how the French people viewed their position in the international imbroglio swirling around the Spanish question, and how news was manipulated as never before. Mainstream historical fact is presented as the skeleton on which French press reportage is grafted and included in the historical material is the author's research in the archives of all five of the French départements bordering on Spain. The work is divided into two parts, the chronological hiatus coming in December 1936. This division is explained by the policy formulated by the democracies that went through no appreciable change; a policy sufficiently strong, perhaps, to deter the Axis powers from all-out intervention in Spain, but weak enough to allow them to pursue with impunity a victory by attrition. The periodic opening and closing of the French frontier played no decisive part in the outcome, since French aid to the Spanish Republic never came close ...

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David Wingeate Pike received doctorates from Toulouse and Stanford, where he taught Latin American political culture. He is Sociétaire des Gens de Lettres and distinguished professor emeritus at the American University of Paris.

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Little, Brown Book Group 9780349118895 Pub Date: 10/1/08 $19.95 Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback



Germany: Jekyll and Hyde An Eyewitness Analysis of Nazi Germany

Sebastian Haffner

After he moved to Britain from Germany in the 1930s Sebastian Haffner became so shocked about the situation in his native country that he wrote this book in an effort to help people understand the danger Hitler presented to the world. Incredibly accessible, it is packed with acute analysis of both Hitler and the German people-from the Nazi leaders all the way down to those who opposed them-and is a must-read for anyone interested in the literature of World War II.

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Sebastian Haffner was a German journalist and the author of several historical bestsellers, as well as his bestselling memoir Defying Hitler, which was published posthumously.

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The History Press 9780752470252 Pub Date: 5/1/13 Ship Date: 5/1/13 $19.95/$21.95 Can. Trade Paperback


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Glastonbury, the Templars, and the Sovran Shroud A New Perspective on the Grail Legends

Juliet Faith

A convincing new study of the Glastonbury legends which suggests that the Shroud may have come to

England as the "Grail"

Shedding new light on the Grail stories and the arrival of Christianity to Somerset, this book illustrates important links between Glastonbury and the Celtic settlement at Old Lammana in Cornwall; and examines old tales of an object of great importance-known as "the Sovran cloth"-secretly hidden at both places. The author reveals that Henri de Blois, Abbot of Glastonbury, assisted in the transmission of the Grail stories, and that his family line were in possession of the Shroud and first exhibited it at Lirey in France in 1356. She also examines why there was such great importance placed on oral traditions in ancient times, and what importance these traditions hold for present-day historians. Finally, recent examination of the Templecombe panel reveals why it is believed the Templars may have brought the Shroud to England for safekeeping in 1307. Richly illustrated and compiled using original research, this book is sure to appeal to everyone interested in the Knig...

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Juliet Faith is the author of The Knights Templar in Somerset.

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Scribe Publications Pty Ltd. 9781921640742 Pub Date: 6/1/11 $24.95/$27.95 Can. Trade Paperback



Greek Pilgrimage In Search of the Foundations of the West

John Carroll

A meditation on classical Greece, this chronicle journeys through the country's great sites, monuments, and cultural works. As it explores the ruins that remain today-in Delphi, at Olympia, and on the Acropolis-this account discusses the pivotal role Greece played in the foundation of the modern world, from science and philosophy to drama and sport and much more. With two recommended itineraries, maps, and illustrations, this record will interest both history buffs and modern travelers.

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John Carroll is a professor of sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He is the author of numerous books, including The Existential Jesus and The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited.

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Independent Institute 9781598131611 Pub Date: 11/1/13 $27.95/$29.95 Can. Hardcover



Gun Control in the Third Reich Disarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State"

Stephen P. Halbrook

Based on newly-discovered, secret documents from German archives, diaries and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the definitive, yet hidden history of how the Nazi regime made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate power. The countless books on the Third Reich and the Holocaust fail even to mention the laws restricting firearms ownership, which rendered political opponents and Jews defenseless. A skeptic could surmise that a better-armed populace might have made no difference, but the National Socialist regime certainly did not think so-it ruthlessly suppressed firearm ownership by disfavored groups.

Gun Control in the Third Reich spans the two decades from the birth of the Weimar Republic in 1918 through Kristallnacht in 1938. The book then presents a panorama of pertinent events during World War II regarding the effects of the disarming policies. And even though in the occupied countries the Nazis decreed the death penalty for possession of a firearm, there developed instances of heroic armed resistance by Jews, particularl...

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Stephen P. Halbrook is a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute who has argued and won three constitutional law cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Dr. Halbrook is the author of eight books including The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms; Securing Civil Rights: Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right To Bear Arms; That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right; A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees; Target Switzerland (also in German, French, Italian, and Polish editions); and The Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Florida State University and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. His popular articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, San Antonio Express-News, Environmental Forum, USA Today, and Washington Times, and he has appeared on numerous national TV/radio programs such as "The Phil Donahue Show" and programs on Fox Business Network, Court TV, Voice of America, CNN,...

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Gun Control in the Third Reich Disarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State"

Stephen P. Halbrook

Based on newly-discovered, secret documents from German archives, diaries and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the definitive, yet hidden history of how the Nazi regime made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate power. The countless books on the Third Reich and the Holocaust fail even to mention the laws restricting firearms ownership, which rendered political opponents and Jews defenseless. A skeptic could surmise that a better-armed populace might have made no difference, but the National Socialist regime certainly did not think so-it ruthlessly suppressed firearm ownership by disfavored groups.

Gun Control in the Third Reich spans the two decades from the birth of the Weimar Republic in 1918 through Kristallnacht in 1938. The book then presents a panorama of pertinent events during World War II regarding the effects of the disarming policies. And even though in the occupied countries the Nazis decreed the death penalty for possession of a firearm, there developed instances of heroic armed resistance by Jews, particularl...

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Stephen P. Halbrook is a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute who has argued and won three constitutional law cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Dr. Halbrook is the author of eight books including The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms; Securing Civil Rights: Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right To Bear Arms; That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right; A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees; Target Switzerland (also in German, French, Italian, and Polish editions); and The Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Florida State University and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. His popular articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, San Antonio Express-News, Environmental Forum, USA Today, and Washington Times, and he has appeared on numerous national TV/radio programs such as "The Phil Donahue Show" and programs on Fox Business Network, Court TV, Voice of America, CNN,...

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Michael Imhof Verlag 9783865683533 Pub Date: 9/30/08 $14.95/$16.95 Can. Hardcover



Historic Berlin Paul Wietzorek

This collection of historic images conducts a tour through old Berlin and its famous landmarks, from the former Stadtschloss to Schloss Charlottenburg, with an historic overview providing an introduction to the now unified city. Focusing on the Imperial Period, this document ranges from the formation of the German Empire in 1871 until the end of World War I in 1918.

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Homer's Secret Odyssey Florence Wood, Kenneth Wood

The extraordinary story of the breaking of an Ancient Greek code

Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2,500 years, there have been persistent folk memories that his genius extended far beyond literature and that scientific knowledge was hidden in his stories of heroes, villains, gods, ghosts, monsters, and witches. Research now reveals that at a time when the Greeks did not have a written script, Homer concealed an astonishing range of learning about calendar making and cycles of the sun, moon, and planet Venus in the Odyssey, his epic of the Fall of Troy and the adventures of the warrior-king Odysseus.

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Florence Wood and Kenneth Wood have coauthored four books with historical themes, including Homer's Secret Iliad: The Epic of the Night Skies Decoded.

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Merlin Press 9780850364750 Pub Date: 11/1/98 $29.95 Trade Paperback



Images of Chartism Stephen Roberts, Dorothy Thompson

This is a pictorial record of the Chartist Movement. Photography was in its infancy in those years and the only photographic record of a Chartist gathering is of the last of the great meetings in April 1848. Pictures of the Chartists themselves as they appeared in those years are all from wood or metal engravings mostly published by Chartist newspapers. An introduction provides a background to the pictures and their captions.

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Infrastructure and the Political Economy of Nation Building in Spain, 1720?2010 Germà Bel

This book sets out to explain the very particular characteristics of Spanish infrastructure policy. The capital city of Madrid plays a central role. It not only achieved the status of economic capital of Spain in recent decades but together with its status as administrative and political capital Madrid endowed itself as absolute capital. The challenge is to understand why such development has taken place. … First: radial policies in transport infrastructure, which were primarily subordinate to political and administrative objectives, could not be supported by the dynamics of economic activity. For that reason these policies demanded the use of extensive budgetary resources in the form of subsidies and grants that made possible what legislation alone could not achieve. Second: these policies respond to a regular and continuing historical pattern in Spanish politics, which began with the accession to the Spanish Crown of the Bourbon dynasty in the early eighteenth century. The new dynasty tried hard to translate into practice the vision of building a Nation like France, with a Capital ...

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Germà Bel is professor of Economics at Universitat de Barcelona, and guest professor at Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Has been visiting professor at Cornell University, and visiting researcher at Harvard and at European University Institute; and has published several books and more than fifty international academic articles on public sector reform.

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Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives Paul R. Gregory

An enlightening look into the once-secret Soviet state and party archives that Western scholars first gained access to in the early 1990s. Paul Gregory breaks down a decades-old wall of secrecy to reveal intriguing new information on such subjects as Stalin's Great Terror, the day-to-day life of Gulag guards, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the scientific study of Lenin's brain, and other fascinating tales.

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Paul R. Gregory, a Hoover Institution research fellow, holds an endowed professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, Texas, and is a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. The holder of a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, he is the author or coauthor of twelve books and many articles on economic history, the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparative economics, and economic demography including Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives (Hoover Institution Press, 2008), The Political Economy of Stalinism (2004), Before Command: The Russian Economy from Emancipation to Stalin (1994), Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy (1990, reissued 2006), and Russian National Income, 1885-1913 (1982, reissued 2005). He has edited Behind the Façade of Stalin's Command Economy (2001) and The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag (2003), both published by Hoover Institution Press and summarizing his research group's work on the Soviet state and party archives. His publications based o...

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Los cataros Carter Scott

A passionate journey through the greatest enigmas of the past, this series seeks the answers to questions that are shrouded in mystery. The explanation of the universe has fascinated humans since the beginning of time, and in their attempts at discovery, they have developed science, worshipped gods, invented myths, and revealed miracles. Un recorrido apasionante por los grandes enigmas del pasado, esta serie busca respuestas a aquellas preguntas imposibles y llenas de misterio. La explicación del universo ha fascinado al hombre desde sus orígenes, y para ello ha desarrollado la ciencia, adorado a los dioses, recreado e inventado mitos y también se le han revelado los milagros.

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Carter Scott is the author of several books on ancient civilizations.

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Lost Dundee Dundee's Lost Architectural Heritage

Charles McKean, Patricia Whatley

Reviving the second city of renaissance Scotland, this book shows, through previously undiscovered photographs and drawings, the life and the maritime quarter of this great port. As it illustrates Dundee's transformation into a major Georgian town at the center of the flax trade between St. Petersburg and the United States, this account examines the changes wrought by the production and sale of the jute, by the arrival of railways, and by the advent of tertiary education. Drawing particularly upon the rich visual history sources of the Charles Lawson's drawing of old Dundee in the Central Library, the DC Thomson photographic collection, and the University of Dundee Archives, this is a in-depth look into this constantly regenerating city.

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Charles McKean is a professor of Scottish architectural history at the University of Dundee and is one of

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Scotland's foremost authorities on Scotland's built environment. He is author of Battle for the North: The

Scottish Thirties, Edinburgh: Portrait of a City, and The Scottish Chateau, and is founding editor of the RIAS/Landmark Trust Illustrated Architectural Guides to Scotland. Patricia Whatley is the university archivist and head of Archive, Records Management, and Museum Services, and the director of the Center for Archive and Information Studies at the University of Dundee.


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Macedonia and the Macedonians A History

Andrew Rossos This detailed volume surveys the history of Macedonia from 600 BC to the present day, with an emphasis on the past two centuries.

This detailed volume surveys the history of Macedonia from 600 BC to the present day, with an emphasis on the past two centuries. It reveals how the so-called Macedonian question has long dominated Balkan politics, and how for well over a century and a half, it was the central issue dividing Balkan peoples, as neighboring Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia struggled for possession of Macedonia-and denied any distinct Macedonian identity.

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Andrew Rossos was born in Greek (Aegean) Macedonia. He was educated in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), Canada, and the United States, receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is currently professor of history at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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Macedonia and the Macedonians A History

Andrew Rossos

This detailed volume surveys the history of Macedonia from 600 BC to the present day, with an emphasis on the past two centuries. It reveals how the so-called Macedonian question has long dominated Balkan politics, and how for well over a century and a half, it was the central issue dividing Balkan peoples, as neighboring Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia struggled for possession of Macedonia-and denied any distinct Macedonian identity.

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Andrew Rossos was born in Greek (Aegean) Macedonia. He was educated in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), Canada, and the United States, receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is currently professor of history at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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Medieval Literacy A Compendium of Medieval Knowledge with the Guidance of C. S. Lewis

James Grote

Taking a medieval approach in content as well as in form-a compilation of lists-this volume creates a foundation for the study of the medieval mindset by establishing the terms and concepts that scholars would have had in a common at the time: an invaluable lingua franca. With a pedagogical appeal, this interdisciplinary book is a combination text, reference, and popular work that provides a fascinating intellectual history of the Middle Ages while complimenting the study of other works from that period.

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James Grote is a development officer, an award-winning financial journalist, and periodically an adjunct professor of philosophy for several universities in the Louisville, Kentucky, area as well as for the Abbey of

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Gethsemani. He is the coauthor of Clever as Serpents: Business Ethics and Office Politics and Theology and

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National Relations Public Diplomacy, National Identity and the Swedish Institute 1945-1970

Nikolas Glover

In Stockholm in January of 1945, an assembly of Swedish diplomats and businessmen initiated an organization that was to improve the country's reputation abroad. The new, semi-governmental Swedish Institute was charged with explaining Sweden's policy of neutrality during the war, with encouraging peace-building, and with promoting foreign trade in the new international world order. Original and insightful, this account analyzes the policies, funding, and national narratives of the Swedish Institute. Providing a historical perspective on the politics of Swedish propaganda and explaining how ideas of communication shaped the Institute's work and its representations of Sweden, this record also offers a comparative perspective on American national identity and its inherent notions of national exceptionalism.

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Nikolas Glover is a lecturer of history and the history of popular culture at Stockholm University and the coeditor of a Swedish anthology on historical approaches to popular music.

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Nazis in Pre-War London, 1930?1939 The Fate and Role of German Party Members and British Sympathizers

James J. Barnes, Patience P. Barnes

The first book to study the history of the Nazis in Britain, this work details how in September 1930 the Nazi Party newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, sent its first representative to London and soon after, German residents in London established a local Nazi group, which provided party members with a place to congregate and support the new movement. By 1933, more than 100 members belonged to the London group and the book goes on to discuss how the Nazis in pre-war London created a dilemma for the British foreign and home offices, who were divided as to how best to treat residents whose allegiance was to the German Reich as some felt that all Nazi organizations should be banned while others, including MI5, argued that it would be easier to keep track of Nazis if they were in-country. Calling on previously unpublished German documents, this study reveals the fate of German diplomats, journalists, and professionals, many of whom were interned in Britain or deported to Nazi Germany once war broke out in September 1939. An appendix listing the details concerning the nearly 400 German Party...

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James J. Barnes is a professor of history at Wabash College. Patience P. Barnes is a research associate at Wabash College. They are the coauthors of several books, including The American Civil War through British Eyes and Nazi Refugee Turned Gestapo Spy: The Life of Hans Wesemann, 1895-1971.

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Not Our War Writings Against the First World War

A. W. Zurbrugg

Some of the voices in this book came to oppose World War I after reflecting on experience, others opposed it on principle before a shot was fired-they may have been few in number, but gradually their influence rose. This anthology presents diverse voices of men and women who questioned and opposed the war: liberals, radicals and pacifists, anarchists and socialists, soldiers and noncombatants. Featured writers include: James Connolly, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Keir Hardie, Jean Jaurès, Louis Lecoin, V. I. Lenin, John Maclean, Errico Malatesta, Sylvia Pankhurst, Siegfried Sassoon. They are American, Asian, British, French, German, Irish, Italian, and Russian. Some of the texts are newly translated or appear in English the first time.

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A. W. Zurbrugg is the editor of The ABC of Communism.

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Merlin Press 9780850365405 Pub Date: 10/28/05 $32.95 Trade Paperback

256 pages Carton Qty: 99 History / Europe HIS015000 Series: Chartist Studies series


Papers for the People A Study of the Chartist Press

Joan Allen, Owen R. Ashton

Revisionist perspectives on the role of Chartist presses throughout the United Kingdom and Australia (1838 to the late 1850s) in the campaign for democracy in Victorian Britain and overseas are surveyed in this anthology of essays from noted specialists in the history of Chartism.

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Joan Allen has published essays on Chartism and the Co-operative Movement and lectures on modern British history at the University of Newcastle. Owen R. Ashton is the coauthor of Friends of the People and editor of The Chartist Legacy. He is a professor of modern British social history at the Staffordshire University.

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Passenger Steamers of the River Conwy Serving the Famous Trefriw Spa

Richard Clammer



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Physical and Cultural Space in Pre-Industrial Europe Methodological Approaches to Spatiality

Marko Lamberg, Marko Hakanen, Janne Haikari

Written by 19 scholars of history, archaeology, and ethnology, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach to European spaces of the past and the human agents within them. Prior to the Industrial Era, the geography of Europe posed problems but also offered possibilities for its people. Distances created obstacles to communication and state formation, but at the same time, inhabitants and officials in peripheral areas gained room to pursue more independent action, allowing unique customs to flourish. Focusing on northern Europe, this history answers how early modern Europeans-rulers, officials, aristocrats, scholars, priests, and commoners-perceived, utilized, and organized the space around them.

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Marko Lamberg is the author of Shaping Ethnic Identities. He is currently leading a project that visualizes, by means of 3D technology, changes in rural environment ca. 1400-2000. Marko Hakanen and Janne Haikari are history professors at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.

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Pirates A History

Tim Travers

Most histories of piracy start with swashbuckling adventures in the Caribbean in the 1500s and move on to the Golden Age of piracy from the 1660s to the 1720s. These areas cannot be overlooked, but in fact, piracy has a much longer and broader history to its name. This comprehensive history starts with piracy in the ancient and classical periods, and then shifts to piracy in the Middle Ages and the Mediterranean, before treating treating in fine detail the era of the Caribbean and the Golden Age. Also included are chapters on the Barbary corsairs, Chinese piracy, and a look at modern piracy.

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Tim Travers has taught the history of piracy at University of Calgary for more than 20 years. His other titles include Gallipoli 1915, How the War Was Won, and The Killing Ground. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Portugal (2nd Edition) The Impossible Revolution?

Phil Mailer, Maurice Brinton An in-depth leftist history of the Portuguese revolution

This is the story of the political revolution in Portugal between April 25, 1974, and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant. After the military coup in Portugal on April 25, 1974, the overthrow of almost 50 years of fascist rule, and the end of three colonial wars, there followed a year and a half of intense, democratic social transformation that challenged every aspect of Portuguese society. What started as a military coup turned into a profound attempt at social change from the bottom up and became headlines on a daily basis in the world media. This personal history depicts the hopes, the tremendous enthusiasm, boundless energy, total commitment, released power, and revolutionary innocence of thousands of ordinary people taking a hand in the remolding of their lives. It does so against the background of an economic and social reality that placed limits on what could be done.

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Phil Mailer is a political activist and the former editor of Combate. He lives in Lisbon, Portugal. Maurice Brinton was the pen name under which Chris Pallis wrote and translated for the British libertarian socialist group, Solidarity.

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Reaching a State of Hope Refugees, Immigrants and the Swedish Welfare State, 1930-2000 Mikael Bystrom, Par Frohnert

Shedding new light on the issues concerning refugees and immigration in 20th-century Sweden, this analysis Summary

examines the implications of its immigration policies. On what grounds were refugees admitted? Where did they

come from? How did the Swedish state aid its new citizens? What differences were there between refugees and

the "imported labor" that was essential to Swedish industry? A group of established Swedish and international historians answer these questions against the background of the eras passed: the Second World War, the Cold War, and the labor movement that shaped the national characteristic of Sweden so deeply. Reaching a State of

Hope contributes to the wider field of research on political and administrative practices around refugees historically and places the Swedish refugee and immigration experience in a European perspective.

Mikael Byström is an associate professor of history at Uppsala University in Sweden. He has published extensively on the subject of the debate regarding refugees and migration during World War II. Pär Frohnert is an associate professor of history at Stockholm University in Sweden. He has published extensively on the impact of the Holocaust in European culture and the aid to refugees during the 1930s and the Second World War.

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Seren 9781854115263 Pub Date: 4/1/13 $18.95/$20.95 Can. Trade Paperback

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Real Bloomsbury Nicholas Murray

The birthplace of Christian socialism and site of the British Museum, University College, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the Friends House, and Great Ormond Street Hospital, Bloomsbury is crammed with history and contemporary decision making. This entertaining and informative book is accompanied by oblique images that present Bloomsbury as it's never been portrayed before: intimate, contemporary, exploratory, and, occasionally, downright strange.

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Nicholas Murray is a biographer, a poet, a novelist, and a critic. He is the author of biographies of Matthew Arnold, Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka, and Andrew Marvell, and A Short Book About Love. He is also the Royal Literary Fund Writer for Queen Mary College, University of London.

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Reconstructing Spain Cultural Heritage and Memory After Civil War Dacia Viejo-Rose

Exploring the role of cultural heritage in postconflict reconstruction-whether as a motor for the prolongation of violence or as a resource for building reconciliation-this book centers on the material practices and rhetorical strategies developed around cultural heritage in post-civil war Spain and the victorious Franco regime's reconstruction. The analysis seeks to capture a discursively complex set of practices that made up the reconstruction and in which a variety of Spanish heritage sites were claimed, rebuilt or restored, and represented in various ways as signs of historical narratives, political legitimacy, and group identity. To ascertain the possible impact of post-civil war reconstruction in the medium term, the book examines two time frames: the period of political transition that followed General Franco's death in 1975; and the period 2004-2008, when Rodríguez Zapatero's government undertook initiatives to "recover the historic memory" of the war and dictatorship. The observations made of the Spanish reconstruction are analyzed in terms of how they might reveal general t...

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Dacia Viejo-Rose is a college research associate at Jesus College at Cambridge. She is the founder of Cambridge Post-Conflict and Post-Crisis Group.

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Russia Forward to the Past Marika Pruska-Carroll

Capturing the country's new face and vision under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, this examination documents Russia as it enters the 21st century. Providing a closer look at the key elements of Russian society-as well as its underbelly-this overview demonstrates an intimacy not accessible to most observers. Resounding with an in-depth knowledge of the country, this analysis presents a unique report on the issues of Russia's generation gap, the search for a new identity amidst the old icons, and the new paths the country is taking.

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Marika Pruska-Carroll teaches Russian and Eastern European politics at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of Russia Between Yesterday and Tomorrow. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.

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Russia Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (2nd Edition) Russians Speak Out on Politics, Religion, Sex and America Marika Pruska-Carroll

Russia's transformation from a Communist society to a free-market system is exposed through the eyes of ordinary Russians-young, old, urban, rural, workers, professionals, artists, businesspeople, soldiers, the Mafia, scientists, students, and dropouts. Captured here are the changes that Russia experienced as it entered a stage of radical transformation in the early 1990s, as well as the frustration, apathy, and cynicism that a new generation still feels 10 years later. This new edition includes comments on the concerns of Russia's youth, the Internet, and Russia's adaptation to the free-market economy. This replaces 1550650610.

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Marika Pruska-Carroll teaches Russian and Eastern European politics at Concordia University in Montreal. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.

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Scandinavia in the First World War Studies in the War Experience of the Northern Neutrals Claes Ahlund

Denmark, Norway, and Sweden all managed to stay out of World War I, but all three countries were deeply affected by it. Opening with a systematically comparative introduction to the history of the Scandinavian countries during that time period, this account then presents 13 case studies examining the impact of the war on these neutral entities. From inflation and the shortage of consumer goods to widespread poverty and political unrest-not to mention the thousands of Scandinavian soldiers who participated in the war-this unique compilation analyzes the military and economic consequences as well as the vital political and social issues raised by the conflict.

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Claes Ahlund is a professor of comparative literature at Åbo Akademi University in Finland and a former professor at both Mid-Sweden University and Uppsala University.

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Scraps The Wit of the Victorians E. C. Coleman

An "official beggar" has been established in the Hungarian village of Szent-Marton, in order to keep off vagrants and gypsies. At Sheffield the other day, at an inquest on the body of a crippled dwarf, who while drunk had received fatal injuries by falling down stairs, it was stated that he had been in the infirmary with broken limbs no fewer than 33 times. These and other interesting snippets are contained within the pages of this irreverent look at Victorian life from the newspapers of the day.

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Sennen Cove Lifeboats An Illustrated History Nicholas Leach

Considered one of the most treacherous areas of Britain's coastline, Land's End has seen many shipwrecks over the past 2,000 years. Where the waters of the Atlantic meet those of the English Channel, storms are frequent and violent and have caught out many a ship. Thousands have been dashed against the rocky granite coast. In 1853, the RNLI established a lifeboat station at nearby Sennen Cove, and the people of this small Cornish village have been saving lives ever since. The crews of Sennen have saved many lives in the past 160 years, helping those in distress from sailing dinghies to the largest of cargo ships. Nicholas Leach tells the story of Sennen's lifeboats and the volunteer lifeboat crews who have manned them in this fully revised and updated history of the lifeboat and wrecks off the tip of Cornwall.

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Author BioNicholas Leach has written a number of books on lifeboats and lighthouses around the UK, including Cromer

Lifeboats, Hunstanton Lifeboats, Never Turn Back: A History of Caister Lifeboats, and Padstow Lifeboats. He is the editor of Ships Monthly.


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Skeletons in the Closet, Skeletons in the Ground Repression, Victimization and Humiliation in a Small Andalusian Town Richard Barker

This book examines the human consequences (individual, social, cultural, and economic) of civil war and political repression in Castilleja del Campo, a town in southern Spain with barely more than 600 inhabitants today. The narrow geographical focus allows for a coherent chronological narrative with relevance to current public issues such as the unequal distribution of wealth, political polarization, the violation of human rights, government surveillance of civilian populations, and extra-legal detentions, torture and executions. … The declarations of eyewitnesses are complemented by personal documents, contemporary newspaper accounts, and documents from the town's municipal archive and other archives in the province of Seville. The work presents the events from the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 onward from multiple points of view and analyzes the interactions among a gallery of characters: Republican and pro Franco mayors and councilmen; union leaders and affiliates; members of the fascist inspired Spanish Falange; the schoolteacher; the priest; widows an...

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Richard Barker is Spanish Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Skeletons in the Closet is an adaptation in English of his book El largo trauma de un pueblo andaluz (Castilleja del Campo, Sevilla: Ayuntamiento, 2007). He has also published Fugitive from Spanish Fascism: A Memoir by Miguel Domínguez Soler (Stevens Point, WI: Cornerstone Press, 2010), a translation.

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Stalin's Loyal Executioner People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940 Marc Jansen, Nikita Petrov Stalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin.

Stalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin.

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Marc Jansen teaches at Amsterdam University's Institute of Russian and East European Studies and has written numerous books and articles on Russian and Soviet history. Nikita Vasil'evich Petrov, author of several books and numerous articles and an expert in Soviet terror history, is vice-chairman of Moscow's Memorial Scientific Research Center.

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Swedish and German Liberalism From Factions to Parties 1860-1920 Martin Aberg

An in-depth analysis of political organization and democratization during the crucial 1860-1920 period in Sweden and Germany, this book centers on the formation of liberalism. It argues that despite ideology's individualistic traits-which made liberals less susceptible to political organization on a mass basis-its followers chose to compromise between individual and collective action. Revealing how Swedish liberalism made way for peaceful democratization and collective modes of societal organization while German liberalism turned conservative and prepared for Nazism and extremist nationalism, this record explores the mobilization, formation, and subsequent development of liberalism in these regions.

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Author BioMartin Åberg is professor of history at Karlstad University and the author of Baltic Cities: Perspectives on Urban

and Regional change in the Baltic Sea Area.

BBC Books 9780563539162 Pub Date: 7/17/07 On Sale Date: 7/17/07 $19.99 Can. Trade Paperback



Terry Jones’ Barbarians Terry Jones, Alan Ereira

An Alternative Roman History An entertaining rewriting of Roman history from the perspective of the "Barbarians" - who weren't really barbaric at all! In this completely fresh approach to Roman history, Terry Jones offers us not only the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, he also reveals that most of those peoples written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric, were in fact organized, motivated and intelligent groups of people, with no intentions of overthrowing Rome and plundering the Empire. This original and fascinating study does away with the propaganda and opens our eyes to who really established the civilized world. Delving deep into history, Terry Jones and Alan Ereira uncover the impressive cultural and technological achievements of the Celts, Goths, Persians and Vandals. In this new paperback edition, Terry and Alan travel through 700 years of history on three continents, bringing wit, irreverence, passion and the very latest scholarship to transform our view of the legacy of the Roman Empire and the creation of the modern world.

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Terry Jones is best-known as a member of Monty Python. He has also written four books on Medieval England and is the author of several children's books. Alan Ereira has worked as an award-winning producer and writer of history programs on radio and television for over 40 years, and has collaborated with Terry for ten years on a number of historical films. His previous books include The People's England, The Invergordon Mutiny, The Heart of the World and (with Terry Jones) Crusades and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives.

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The 43 Group Battling with Mosley's Blackshirts Morris Beckman, Vidal Sassoon, David Cesarani

Written by a founding member, the remarkable history of an incredibly effective anti-fascist action group that shut down thousands of fascist meetings and rallies

Oswald Mosley decided he could carry on where Hitler and Mussolini had left off, and on street corners his fascist speakers would proclaim "not enough Jews were burned at Belsen." Enter the 43 Group. In a ferocious, bloody, and brilliantly covert five-year campaign, they destroyed the Mosleyites. The membership of the Group was almost entirely made up of British servicemen, the original 43 members quickly swelling to more than 300 and including a Battle of Britain ace, a VC winner-and Vidal Sassoon. The Group's philosophy of the "3 D's"-Discuss, Decide and Do it-was quickly manifested on the streets of London, with literally thousands of fascist meetings and rallies sent packing. Quickly gaining a reputation, the 43 Group was organized in "wedges" of a dozen or so. These wedges would attend a British Union of Fascists rally and at a given signal would storm the speaker's platform, attacking BUF stewards and speaker. The Gro...

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Morris Beckman was a founding member of the 43 Group. He is the author of The Jewish Brigade. Vidal Sassoon (1928-2012) was an internationally famous hairdresser, businessman, and philanthropist, and the author of Vidal. He was the youngest member of the 43 Group. David Cesarani is a historian who specializes in Jewish history and the author of Becoming Eichmann.

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The Agrarian History of Sweden From 4000 BC to AD 2000 Janken Myrdal, Mats Morell

Comprehensive and concise, this account details the agrarian history of Sweden-as it is defined by its present national borders-from the Neolithic times to present day. Key historical concepts and events are discussed, including the introduction of planned agriculture alongside the domestication of animals; the feudal relationships and interactions between men and women, various age groups, and different social classes during the Middle Ages; the changes brought about by industrialism and the development of political democracy; the effects of World Wars I and II; and Sweden's inclusion in the European Union in 1995. This study also examines the interdependence between agriculture and other industries as well as the relationship between agriculture and politics on a local, regional, national, and international level.

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Janken Myrdal is a professor of agrarian history at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science in Uppsala, Sweden. Mats Morell is a professor of economic history at Stockholm University.

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The A-Z of Curious County Durham Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics Martin Dufferwiel

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The Berlin Wall and Inner-German Border Wiedland Fuehr

Contemplating the division of Germany between the two rival power blocs following World War II, this history follows the establishment of the two German states in 1949 that resulted in the inner-German border and, eventually, the Berlin Wall. The study provides an introduction into the history, background, and outward appearance of this interface between two competing military, political, and economic systems. Highlighting the constant exodus of its own citizens and the resulting threatened economic collapse of East Germany, this account relates how the country forced its leadership to hermetically seal off what it called the "western border of the state" on August 13th, 1961. The sophisticated system of its border technology is also examined, from the protective strips and barbed wire fences to the alarm signals, mines, and walls that were intended to prevent any escape from the German Democratic Republic-also known as the "workers' and peasants' state."

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The Best of Shropshire David Trumper

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The Borgias The Rise and Fall of the Most Infamous Family in History Michael Mallett

Fact is deftly sorted from fiction in this description of the incredible rise of the Borgias from obscurity to the very center of the Renaissance.

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The Brussels Reader Eric Corijn, Jessica van de Ven

Gathering texts written by the best experts on Brussels who are affiliated with the Brussels for Europe Masterclasses, this book is based on a five-year teaching experience to expats. Besides chapters on various aspects ranging from the history, geography, culture, and politics to migration and institutional organization of Brussels, the book comprises walks and visits to different parts of the city and some of its most important

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institutions. This is the first reader offering an in-depth understanding of Brussels' urban dynamics in English. The

Brussels Reader is a must for anyone intrigued, involved, or interested in the city becoming the capital of Europe.

Eric Corijn is a cultural philosopher and is professor of social and cultural (urban) geography at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He is the founder of the interdisciplinary research team COSMOPOLIS City, Culture & Society (VUB), vice president of the Brussels Studies Institute and initiator of the Brussels for Europe Masterclasses and the Brussels Academy. He is the author of more than 250 publications. Jessica van de Ven works on the COSMOPOLIS City, Culture & Society (VUB) research team, the Urban Studies Network (VUB and the Erasmushogeschool Brussel) and the Brussels Studies Institute (VUB, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université Saint Louis). She is a member of the editorial committee of the series Urban Notebooks.

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The Cathars The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages Sean Martin

The gripping, tragic true story of a peaceful sect that was wiped out in Europe's first genocide

Flourishing principally in the Languedoc and Italy, the Cathars taught that the world is evil and must be transcended through a simple life of prayer, work, fasting, and non-violence. They believed themselves to be the heirs of the true heritage of Christianity going back to apostolic times, and completely rejected the Catholic Church, regarding it as the Church of Satan; Cathar services and ceremonies, by contrast, were held in fields, barns, and people's homes. Finding support from the nobility in the fractious political situation in southern France, the Cathars also found widespread popularity among peasants and artisans. And again unlike the Church, the Cathars respected women, and women played a major role in the movement. Alarmed at the success of Catharism, the Church founded the Inquisition and launched the Albigensian Crusade to exterminate the heresy. The Crusade was the first to be directed against fellow Christians, and was also the first European genocide. With the fall of th...

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Sean Martin is the author of numerous books, including The Knights Templar and The Gnostics. Author Bio


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The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton Victorian England's "Scandal of the Century" and the Fallen Socialite Who Changed Women's Lives Forever Diane Atkinson

Westminster, London, June 22, 1836. Crowds are gathering at the Court of Common Pleas. On trial is Caroline Sheridan Norton, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been maneuvered into marrying the Honorable George Norton when she was just nineteen. Ten years older, he is a dull, violent, and controlling lawyer, but Caroline is determined not to be a traditional wife. By her early twenties, Caroline has become a respected poet and songwriter, clever mimic, and outrageous flirt. Her beauty and wit attract many male admirers, including the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. After years of simmering jealousy, George Norton accuses Caroline and the Prime Minister of "criminal conversation" (adultery) precipitating Victorian England's "scandal of the century."

In Westminster Hall that day is a young Charles Dickens, who would, just a few months later, fictionalize events as Bardell v. Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers. After a trial lasting twelve hours, the jury's not guilty verdict is immediate, unanimous, and sensational. George is a laughingstock. Angry and humiliated he cuts Caroline...

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Diane Atkinson holds a Ph.D. in the politics of women's labor and has worked as a lecturer and curator Author Bio

specializing in women's history at the Museum of London. She is the author of Elsie and Mairi Go to War, Funny

Girls, Love and Dirt, and Suffragettes in Pictures.




The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown Hugh Agnew

In this first up-do-date, single volume history of the Czechs, Agnew provides an introduction to the major themes and contours of Czech history for the general reader-from prehistory and the first Slavs to the Czech Republic's entry into the European Union.

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Hugh Agnew is an associate professor of history and international affairs and associate dean of Academic Programs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Recognized as an expert in Eastern European history, he has appeared on C-SPAN, Voice of America's Czech service, and Radio Prague.

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The Economics of Forced Labor The Soviet Gulag Paul R. Gregory, Valery Lazarev Until now, there has been little scholarly analysis of the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and political institution, primarily owing to a lack of data. This collection presents the results of years of research by Western and Russian scholars.

Until now, there has been little scholarly analysis of the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and political institution, primarily owing to a lack of data. This collection presents the results of years of research by Western and Russian scholars. The authors provide both broad overviews and specific case studies.

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Paul R. Gregory, a Hoover Institution research fellow, holds an endowed professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, Texas, and is a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. The holder of a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, he is the author or coauthor of twelve books and many articles on economic history, the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparative economics, and economic demography including Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives (Hoover Institution Press, 2008), The Political Economy of Stalinism (2004), Before Command: The Russian Economy from Emancipation to Stalin (1994), Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy (1990, reissued 2006), and Russian National Income, 1885-1913 (1982, reissued 2005). He has edited Behind the Façade of Stalin's Command Economy (2001) and The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag (2003), both published by Hoover Institution Press and summarizing his research group's work on the Soviet state and party archives. His publications based o...

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The Families Who Made Rome A History and a Guide Anthony Majanlahti

Both history and guide, this fascinating book tells the stories of the noble clans who built the piazzas, palazzos and fountains we see today. Famous sites take on a new significance as the author tells the family histories with all the scandals, intrigues and power grabs. From the Hardcover edition.

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Anthony Majanlahti is an urban historian and was a researcher at the British School at Rome. Author Bio


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The French Explorers and Sydney Colin Dyer

Featuring previously unpublished translations, this insightful volume of journals and records from seven expeditions of French exploration between 1788 and 1831 documents the early years of Sydney. These revealing accounts present intimate details of the everyday lives at all levels of society, from governors' parties to convict labor. The cultural observations and outsider perspectives on the new British colony and its leading citizens is surprising and engaging, simultaneously painting a vivid picture of early Australia, British colonial history, and the interests of pivotal French explorers such as Freycinet, Laperouse, and Bouganville.

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Colin Dyer is a research advisor in the School of Language and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of

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Queensland. He is the author of The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians and A Frenchman's Walk

Across the Nullabor.




The Huguenots France, Exile & Diaspora Jane McKee, Randolph Vigne

Scholars from France and from countries of the Huguenot Refuge examine the situation of French Protestants before and after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in France and in the countries to which many of them fled during the great exodus which followed the Edict of Fontainebleau. Covering a period from the end of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century, the volume examines aspects of life in France, from the debate on church unity to funeral customs, but its primary focus is on departure from France and its consequences - both before and after the Revocation. It offers insights into individuals and groups, from grandees such as Henri de Ruvigny, député général and later Earl of Galway, to converted Catholic priests and from businessmen and communities choosing their destination for economic as well as religious reasons, to women and children moving across European frontiers or groups seeking refuge in the islands of the Indian Ocean. … The information-gathering activities of the French authorities and the reception of problematic groups such as the Camisard pr...

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Jane McKee is president of the Irish Section of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland. She is a former lecturer in French at the University of Ulster. Randolph Vigne is the author of From Strangers to Citizens, Liberals Against Apartheid, and Thomas Pringle: South African Pioneer, Poet and Abolitionist.

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The Illustrated Guide to Viking Martial Arts Antony Cummins

A comprehensive guide to hand-to-hand combat that re-creates strategies used by the Vikings

The Viking shield wall is a famed battle strategy, tens or hundreds of men interlocked, reliant on their neighbors for survival. What are less well known are the actual techniques used in solo hand-to-hand combat, duels, and other forms of close-quarter engagements. Based on a comprehensive analysis of Viking sagas and other period sources, this is the first book to present a step-by-step martial system. It reveals the hitherto hidden world of Viking combat, ranging from the techniques involved in thrust, block, and cut, to the weapons used, the limitations of period armor, and the range of wounds suffered by combatants. Based on the sagas and writings of the Vikings themselves, this book represents one of the earliest fighting manuals in the world, and a fascinating insight into the warriors who were the scourge of Dark Age Europe.

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Author BioAntony Cummins is a ninja historian and a regular contributor to magazines such as Combat and Military Arms

and Regalia. He runs the Historical Ninjutsu Research Team with the goal of translating historical ninja manuals, and is the author of True Ninja Traditions: The Ninpiden and The Unknown Ninja Scroll and True Path of the

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The Kazakhs Second Edition Martha Brill Olcott

This compete history of one of the largest non-Slavic ethnic groups charts it from its emergence in the mid-fifteenth century to the present. Olcott details the major events that have shaped the character of the Islamic nation of Kazakhstan, discussing the rise and fall of the Kazakh Khanate, the Kazakhs in imperial Russia, revolutionary and Soviet Kazakhstan, and the struggle for autonomy under Soviet rule.

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Martha Brill Olcott is professor of political science at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institution in Philadelphia.

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The King in the North The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria Max Adams



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The Last Legionary Life as a Roman Soldier in Britain AD400 Paul Elliott

A meticulously detailed account of life as a Roman legionary in the last days of the Roman Empire—from battle to rations, camp duties to clothing

In 400 AD, Roman rule in Britain was collapsing as the thinly stretched empire was besieged on all sides. This guide explores all aspects of Late Roman military life, from recruitment to weaponry, marriage to wages, warfare to religion. It explores the world of the Roman soldier through the eyes of one man, posted to a British garrison at the edge of the empire, and follows the soldier's life through training, battle, marriage, and business dealings, finally following him south as he leaves Britain for good in defense of Rome. When the legionary finally escapes the worst posting in the Roman Empire, it is only to join what effectively became a death march over the Alps, without food or shelter. Readers of this mesmerizing account will know what it was like to face the chanted battle cry and the charge and slashing axes of the Goths, and why the order "March out!" was so terrifying.

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Paul Elliott is the author of Brotherhoods of Fear: A History of Violent Organizations and Warrior Cults: A History of Magical, Mystical and Murderous Organizations.

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The Latvians A Short History Andrejs Plakans This is the first English-language volume that brings the history of Latvia to the threshold of the twenty-first century. Until the re-establishment of Latvian independence in 1991, Soviet dominance served for nearly fifty years to hinder publication of any complete and objective historical record ...

This is the first English-language volume that brings the history of Latvia to the threshold of the twenty-first century. Until the re-establishment of Latvian independence in 1991, Soviet dominance served for nearly fifty years to hinder publication of any complete and objective historical record of the region. Plakans now places the evolution and formation of the Latvian nation in a balanced, historical framework that stretches from the early medieval period to the present.

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Andrejs Plakans is professor of European history in the Department of History at Iowa State University. He is the author of numerous articles on Latvian and Baltic history.

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The Lighthouse The Mystery of the Eliean Mor Lighthouse Keepers Keith McCloskey

SummaryWhat really happened to the mysteriously vanished lighthouse keepers-a true story, evocative of The Shining

On December 26, 1900, the vessel Hesperus arrived at Eilean Mor in the remote Outer Hebrides with relief lighthouse men and fresh provisions. Staffed by three keepers, the lighthouse had been in operation for a year, but no light had been seen from Eilean Mor for 10 days. Upon arrival, the superintendent, Robert Muirhead, found the lighthouse to be completely deserted, and a subsequent search of the surrounding island failed to show any sign of what happened to the keepers. The last entry in the lighthouse logbook had been made on December 15, and contained a number of strange and distressing entries that offered clues as to the mental state of the men. One was reported to have been crying, while another had become "very quiet." When it was revealed that the men's oilskin coats were missing and the clock in the lighthouse had stopped, inevitable theories surrounding the keepers' fates were soon put forward. These included a giant wave washing them away, murder and suicide by th...

Keith McCloskey is the author of Airwork: A History and Mountain of the Dead.

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The Little Book of Ballsbridge Hugh Oram

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The Little Book of Crime & Punishment Stephen Halliday

This book is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange, and entertaining facts and trivia about the history of the British criminal justice system. Armed with this fascinating tome, the reader will have such knowledge of the days when noses, hands, and heads were cut off, heretics burned at the stake, and rebels were hung, drawn, and quartered. They will be entertained and enthralled, and never short of some frivolous fact to enhance conversation or quiz! A reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and time again to reveal something new about the various forms of punishments inflicted on criminals; from ducking scolds, imposing curfews, tagging persistent offenders, and, where necessary, locking them up. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for all historians interested in the macabre side of British history.

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Stephen Halliday is a writer, lecturer, and broadcaster. He has written for Financial Times, the Guardian, and the Observer, and has made several radio and television programs based on his popular books. He also writes and reviews regularly for BBC History, the Daily Telegraph, the Literary Review, and the Times. He is the author of From 221B Baker Street to The Old Curiosity Shop and The Great Stink of London.

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The Medieval Christmas Sophie Jackson

Medieval Christmas-roaring fires, Yule logs, boar's head on a platter, and carols. So many of our best-loved traditions have their origins in the medieval period that it would be impossible to imagine the season without holly and ivy, carol singers calling from door to door, and a general sense of celebration in the face of the harshest season. Sophie Jackson investigates the roots of the Christmas celebration, offering guidance for recreating elements of the medieval Christmas at home, tips on decorations, instructions for playing medieval games, and recipes for seasonal dishes. Fascinating facts about some of our most cherished customs, such as the nativity crib, are unearthed, as are some that are less well known-wassailing the apple trees, the ritual beating of children on December 28, and the appointment of a Lord of Misrule and a boy bishop.

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Author BioSophie Jackson is a freelance writer. She is the author of The Curse of Dasenin, and several articles in Medieval

History magazine.

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The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History Volume 2: Dancing with Imperialism J. Smith, André Moncourt, Ward Churchill

The long-awaited second volume of the first-ever English-language study of the Red Army Faction (RAF)-West Germany's most notorious urban guerillas-covers the period immediately following the organization's near total decimation in 1977. During this period, the RAF was in a state of regrouping and attempting to renew its ties to the radical left in response to the emergence of a new radical youth movement in the Federal Republic, the Autonomen. This reorganization was evidenced by the shifting of focus from freeing prisoners to fighting NATO. By examining communiqués and texts from 1978 up until the 1982 May Paper, the broader movement is examined and the possibilities and perils of an armed underground organization are contrasted to the more fluid and flexible practice of the revolutionary cells at that time. The history of the 2nd of June Movement (2JM), an eclectic guerilla group with its roots in West Berlin, is also evaluated, especially in light of the split that led to some 2JM members officially disbanding the organization and rallying to the RAF. Finally, the RAF's relations...

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André Moncourt is the pseudonym of a writer with his political roots in the movements of the 1970s and 1980s.

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Along with J. Smith, he coedited The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History, Volume I: Projectiles for the

People, and coauthored Daring to Struggle, Failing to Win. J. Smith is the pseudonym of an activist who has been involved in the radical left for more than 20 years. They both live in Montreal. Ward Churchill is a prolific writer and lecturer, having authored, coauthored, or edited more than 20 books. He is a member of the leadership council of Colorado American Indian Movement (AIM). He lives in Boulder, Colorado.


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The Rosary, the Republic, and the Right Spain and the Vatican Hierarchy, 1931?1939 Karl J. Trybus

The birth of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 ushered in a period of possible secularization to Spain. Liberals welcomed legal changes, while conservatives feared the special "privileges" they enjoyed would end. The Catholic Church remained a central focus of left-wing antagonism and right-wing allegiances, and conflicts surrounding the future of religion grew severe. While members of the Spanish Catholic hierarchy had clearly supported the right and disdained the left, the actions and opinions of the Vatican and its hierarchy stationed in Spain were much more nuanced. Similarly, when conservative military action plunged Spain into a Civil War in July 1936, the majority of the Spanish Catholic hierarchy openly supported their victory, but the highest levels of the Vatican remained silent. This book explores the unique position and specialized reactions of the Vatican concerning the Second Republic and Civil War. For the Holy See, the conflict in Spain was not an isolated event at the edge of the continent, but part of a larger narrative of ideological and political tension s...

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Karl J. Trybus is assistant professor of history at Limestone College in South Carolina. His research interests focus on the intersections between Vatican diplomacy and Spanish politics during the 1930s. He lives in Gaffney, South Carolina.

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The Soap Man Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme Roger Hutchinson

In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought-lock, stock and barrel-the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionize the lives and environments of its 30,000 people, and those of neighboring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate. For the next five years a state of conflict reigned in the Hebrides. Island seamen and servicemen returned from the war to discover a new landlord whose declared aim was to uproot their identity as independent crofter/fishermen and turn them into tenured wage-owners. They fought back, and this is the story of that fight. The confrontation resulted in riot and land seizure and imprisonment for the islanders and the ultimate defeat for one of the most powerful men of his day. The Soap Man paints a beguiling portrait of the driven figure of Lord Leverhulme, but also looks for the first time at the infantry of his opposition: the men and women of Lewis and Harris who for long hard years fought the law, their landowner, local business opinion and the entire media, to preserve...

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Roger Hutchinson is an award-winning author and journalist. After working as an editor in London, in 1977 he

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joined the West Highland Free Press in Skye. Since then he has published thirteen books, including Polly: The

True Story Behind Whisky Galore; an acclaimed literary biography of James Boswell; a definitive history of the 1966 World Cup; and a life of Aleister Crowley. He is still attached to the WHFP as editor and columnist, and has written for BBC Radio, The Scotsman, the Guardian, The Herald and the Literary Review. He lives on the Hebridean island of Raasay.


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The Templar Treasure An Investigation Tobias Daniel Wabbel

A fact-based treasure hunt through time… The year 1120 A.D.: Hugues de Payns and eight other men of French high nobility gather in Jerusalem. Their pretense: Guarding the pilgrimage routes after the conquest of Jerusalem by the crusaders. Their real mission: Digging and searching beneath the Temple Mount for a mysterious object. When they return to France in 1128, they own the most dangerous artifact in European Christendom. Suddenly, the Order of the Knights Templar - as they now call themselves - becomes incredibly wealthy. Suddenly, huge Gothic cathedrals rise from the soil of Northern France - and with them a secret architectural code left by the Knights Templar that up to the present day marks the way to the hiding-place of the most important archeological relic in human history. Following author Tobias Daniel Wabbel's research and investigation throughout Europe, this book finally solves the mystery of the legendary treasure of the Knights Templar. Both a travel guide to the secrets of the treasure of the Knights Templar and an enthralling tale, The Templar Treasure will ...

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Tobias Daniel Wabbel has published six nonfiction books in his native German on subjects that range from the search for radio signals of extraterrestrial intelligences and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) to the science-theology debate and a new theology after the Holocaust.

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Tracing Old Norse Cosmology The World Tree, Middle Earth and the Sun in Archeaological Perspectives Anders AndrTn, Anders Andrén

The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail relying mainly on Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages. Here, Anders Andrén offers a long-term perspective on Old Norse cosmology and argues that the fundamental ideas of an ordered universe, time, and space in Old Norse religion can be studied in a dialogue between archaeology and the Icelandic narrative tradition. Ideas about the world tree, middle earth, and the sun can be traced in images and material culture from Scandinavian prehistory. By combining the prehistoric representations with the later written record the author presents a fresh and nuanced study of the fascinating Old Norse world.

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Anders Andrén is professor of archaeology at Stockholm University. He was formerly professor of medieval archaeology at Lund University, and has also been a visiting scholar in Athens, Cambridge, Copenhagen, Heidelberg, Sydney, and Uppsala.

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Turning Money into Rebellion The Unlikely Story of Denmark's Revolutionary Bank Robbers Gabriel Kuhn

In May of 1989, on a quiet street in Copenhagen, police discovered an apartment that had served for years as a hideaway for Denmark's most notorious 20th-century bank robbers. The members, who belonged to a communist organization and lived modest lives in the Danish capital, had, over a period of almost two decades, sent millions in stolen dollars acquired in spectacular heists to Third World liberation movements, in particular the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. One of the most puzzling and captivating chapters from the European anti-imperialist milieu of the 1970s and 1980s, Turning Money into Rebellion is the first-ever account of the story in English, covering the events from Middle Eastern capitals and African refugee camps to the group's fateful last robbery that earned them a record haul and left a police officer dead. The book includes historical documents, illustrations, and an exclusive interview with Torkil Lauesen and Jan Weimann, two of the group's longest-standing members. It is a compelling tale of turning radical theory into action and concerns analysis...

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Author BioGabriel Kuhn is a Stockholm, Sweden-based author and translator. He is the author of All Power to the Councils!

A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918-1919 and Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore

Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics.



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Waterways of the West Midlands Robert Davies


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Wearmouth & Jarrow Northumbrian Monasteries in an Historic Landscape Sam Turner

Presenting the results of new research on the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow—among the most sophisticated centers of learning and artistic culture in 7th- and 8th-century Europe, and the home of Bede—and their churches, this study examines the long-lasting effect of their buildings and estates on the surrounding region from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The authors trace these relationships through time with new studies of the changing landscape, the monastery precincts, and the surviving structures themselves, detailing how the historical archaeology of the sites reveals how the churches and their communities were rooted in the landscapes of Northumbria but flourished through their links with other parts of Britain and Europe. Researchers from many different backgrounds contributed to the project, using aerial, geophysical, geoarchaeological, and palaeoenvironmental surveys and digital mapping to examine the monasteries and surrounding lands. This book reveals not only the link between the churches and the region’s political and economic history, but also demonstra...

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Sam Turner is a professor of archaeology in the school of history, classics, and archaeology at Newcastle University in England. He researches the historic landscapes and early medieval architecture of Britain, Europe, and the Mediterranean. Sarah Semple is a reader in archaeology in the department of archaeology at Durham University in England. Her work focuses on religion and belief in early medieval Europe, with particular reference to the role of landscapes and the ideological use of ancient remains. Alex Turner is a research associate in archaeology in the school of history, classics, and archaeology at Newcastle University. He has more than 30 years of experience in archaeological survey, with a particular focus on the development of a holistic method using techniques such as GIS, laser scanning, and geophysical prospection to enable better understanding of historic buildings.

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When I Heard the Bell The Loss of the Iolaire John MacLeod

On 31 December 1918, hours from the first New Year of peace, hundreds of Royal Naval Reservists from the Isle of Lewis poured off successive trains onto the quayside at Kyle of Lochalsh. A chaotic Admiralty had made no adequate arrangements for their safe journey home. Corners were cut, an elderly and recently requisitioned steam-yacht was sent from Stornoway, and that evening HMY Iolaire sailed from Kyle of Lochalsh, grossly overloaded and with life-belts for less than a third of all on board. The Iolaire never made it. At two in the morning, in pitch-black and stormy conditions, she piled onto rocks only yards from the harbour entrance and just half a mile from Stornoway pier, where thronged friends and relatives eagerly awaited the return of their heroes. 205 men drowned, 188 of them natives of Lewis and Harris-men who had come through all the alarms and dangers of the First World War only to die on their own doorstep, at the mouth of a harbour many could themselves have navigated with ease, on a day precious to Highlanders for family, celebration and togetherness. The loss of the...

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John MacLeod was born in Lochaber in 1966. After graduating from Edinburgh University, he began his career at BBC Highland in Inverness and quickly established himself as a freelance writer. He won Scottish Journalist of the Year in 1991 and contributed regularly to The Scotsman and The Herald. He is presently a columnist with the Scottish Daily Mail and is the author of several books. He lives on a croft on the west side of Lewis with a small, elderly dog, two melodeons, a 4-oven Aga and far too many chickens. He is the author of Banner in the West, also published by Birlinn.

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Wigtown Ploughman Part of His Life John McNeillie

In following the growth into manhood of young Andy Walker, this novel provides a realistic depiction of the lives and living conditions of the rural laboring poor in Scotland in the 1930s. The son of an abusive father, Andy leaves school at age 13 and works for a succession of corrupt and cruel landowners. Driven from one estate for refusing to marry the mother of his illegitimate child, Andy drifts into a life of petty crime, all the time sinking further into a continuing cycle of violence and poverty. A chance encounter leads to the prospect of a professional boxing career, but realizing himself to be a true son of the soil, Andy returns to farm work, accepting his destiny with elegiac resignation. An uncompromisingly gritty tale filled with relentless violence and unrelieved squalor, its impact upon publication in 1938 was widespread and extraordinary as public reaction was sharply divided between those who loathed it and those who thought it true.

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Author BioJohn McNeillie was the author of dozens of books, mostly under the pen name Ian Niall, including No Resting

Place and The Poacher's Handbook.

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Women of the Gulag Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives Paul R. Gregory Paul Gregory's collection of stories brings to life the true-life stories of five women victimized by Stalin's Gulag-often in their own words-and adds to the literature a long-missing perspective: what women endured during this tragic era of Soviet history. Gregory introduces these stories with decr...

During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin's Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, author Paul R. Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short supply. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin's Great Terror, Gregory relates the stories of five women from different social strata and regions in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the Gulag. These firsthand accounts illustrate how even the wrong word could become a crime against the state. The book begins with a synopsis of Stalin's rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the scheming and plott...

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Paul R. Gregory is the director of the Workshop on Totalitarian Regimes at the Hoover Institution, where he is a research fellow. He is also the Cullen Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Houston and a

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research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. He is the author of Before

Command: The Russian Economy from Emancipation to Stalin; Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret

Soviet Archives; The Political Economy of Stalinism; Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin; and Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy, among other books. His publications based on work in the Hoover Institution Archives have been awarded the Hewett Book Prize and the J. M. Montias Prize for the best article in the Journal of Comparative Economics. He lives in Houston.


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World Heritage Hildesheim Cathedral and Its Treasures Claudia Hohl, Michael Brandt, Karl Bernhard Kruse,...

This elegantly illustrated volume provides insights into Hildesheim Cathedral's eventful 1,200-year history, documenting and elucidating its architecture as well as the building's unique decorations. The consideration ranges from the legend of the Hildesheim Rosebush during the early ninth century to Bishop Bernward's monumental 11th century creations. Recalling the destruction and reconstruction of the cathedral during the mid-20th century, this chronicle provides a striking reflection of unbroken vitality, recapturing the ecclesiastical and artistic traditions on the cathedral hill in Hildesheim.

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IPG Fall 2014 European History Titles · Kristina Jennbert is a professor and head of the dept of archaeology and ancient history at Lund University. Author Bio She is the author