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  1. MODERNITY AND THE SECOND-HAND TRADE

    MODERNITY AND THE SECOND-HAND TRADE
    European Consumption Cultures and Practices, 1700-1900

    Edited by JON STOBART and ILJA VAN DAMME

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    A continuing desire for the new is often seen as a core cultural value of Western society, interwoven with the fabric of modernity itself. This has led to neglect of 'alternative' consumer practices, ... Learn More
  2. THE HEROIC EARTH

    THE HEROIC EARTH
    Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933

    DAVID T MURPHY

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    Murphy challenges traditional historiography, arguing that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany in the democratic culture of the Weimar Republic (1919-33) rather than the Na... Learn More
  3. MEDIEVAL EUROPEANS

    MEDIEVAL EUROPEANS
    Studies in Ethnic Identity and National Perspective in Medieval Europe

    Edited by ALFRED P SMYTH

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    A team of scholars examines the origins of European ethnic groups that subsequently developed into the nations of Europe. The reconstruction and invention of the past by medieval writers in search of ... Learn More
  4. IN PURSUIT OF THE PEOPLE

    IN PURSUIT OF THE PEOPLE
    Political Culture in France, 1934-39

    JESSICA WARDHAUGH

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    ‘The people’ are one of the most controversial characters in modern French history: erupting into the streets in revolutions, riots and demonstrations, they have been adulated as a sovereign power... Learn More
  5. HERBERT BUTTERFIELD AND THE INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY

    HERBERT BUTTERFIELD AND THE INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY

    KEITH SEWELL

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    Successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield are examined here in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken... Learn More
  6. DEFEAT AND MEMORY

    DEFEAT AND MEMORY
    Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era

    Edited by JENNY MACLEOD

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    History may be written by the victors, but it is lived by the vanquished. These detailed case studies of the manner in which military defeat has been remembered range from the Napoleonic wars to Vietn... Learn More
  7. THE BERLIN GHETTO

    THE BERLIN GHETTO
    Herbert Baum and the Anti-Fascist Resistance

    ERIC BROTHERS

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    In May 1942, Herbert Baum and several others went into the massive anti-Soviet and anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda exhibition Das Sowjet-Paradies (Soviet Paradise) in Berlin and set off several sm... Learn More
  8. PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEMORY IN MEXICO

    PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEMORY IN MEXICO
    Icons of Revolution

    ANDREA NOBLE

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    This richly-illustrated volume traces the ‘life stories’ of some of the famous photographic images made during the 1910 Mexican revolution and repeatedly reproduced across a range of media in its ... Learn More
  9. COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY

    COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY
    The Making of Modern Gibraltar since 1704

    STEPHEN CONSTANTINE

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    This richly informed study concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a Bri... Learn More
  10. NAPOLEON’S CURSED WAR

    NAPOLEON’S CURSED WAR
    Popular Resistance in the Spanish Peninsular War, 1808-1814

    RONALD FRASER

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    In this definitive account of the Peninsular War, Napoleon’s six-year war against Spain, Fraser examines what led to the emperor's devastating defeat by the popular opposition -- the guerrillas -- a... Learn More

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