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  • Patterns of Violence Behind the Lines in Europe’s Civil Wars

    Edited by Francisco J. Leira-Castiñeira, John Sakkas ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited collection examines the violence experienced by non-combatants during the civil wars which took place in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The determinants of violence in civil wars are highly complex and variable. By focusing on both the victims and perpetrators of violence in eight European countries, including Russia, Ireland, France and Spain, the book explores ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • The Spanish Civil War

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Helen Graham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction offers a powerfully-written explanation of the war's complex origins and course, and explores its impact on a personal and international scale. It also provides an ethical reflection on the war in the context of Europe's tumultuous twentieth century, highlighting why it has inspired some of the greatest writers of our time, and how it continues to resonate today in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Abyss

    World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization--A Selection from The War of the World (Penguin Tracks)

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    Excerpted from Niall Ferguson’s sprawling bestseller The War of the World, The Abyss now stands on its own as one of the most thrilling short histories of World War I ever written. This is not a conventional military history about battles and generals. Rather, The Abyss examines how World War I saw the birth of total war—fought between societies as much as armies—and must therefore be understood ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR — OBJECTIVITY AND LIBERAL SCHOLARSHIP

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Anarchist Noam Chomsky’s 1969 clinical dissection of historian Gabriel Jackson’s The Spanish Republic and the Civil War:1931-1939 (in American Power and the New Mandarins) which, to quote editor Barry Pateman in his Chomsky on Anarchism, “he links to the liberal ideology prevalent in America in the 1960s, an ideology that reflects ‘an antagonism to mass movements and to social change that escapes ... Read more

    $4.03 USD

  • Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe

    Edited by Donald Bloxham, Robert Gerwarth ...
    This is a comprehensive history of political violence during Europe's incredibly violent twentieth century. Leading scholars examine the causes and dynamics of war, revolution, counterrevolution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and state repression. They locate these manifestations of political violence within their full transnational and comparative contexts and within broader trends in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A SHORT HISTORY OF ANARCHISM

    by Max Nettlau ...
    Max Nettlau, born in Austria in 1865 and died in 1944 in Amsterdam, was the most important chronicler and guide to anarchism prior to 1930. This 400-page introduction to the history of anarchist ideas and early movements, summarises the author's monumental 9-volume history and several biographies. Its 18 chapters cover the precursors of anarchism, the history of ideas like individualist anarchism, ... Read more

    $6.71 USD

  • Civil War in Europe, 1905–1949

    by Stanley G. Payne ...
    This is the first account in any language of the civil wars in Europe during the era of the world wars, from 1905 to 1949. It treats the initial confrontations in the decade before World War I, the confusing concept of 'European civil war,' the impact of the world wars, the relation between revolution and civil war and all the individual cases of civil war, with special attention to Russia and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 3, Civil Society

    Edited by Jay Winter ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the First World War
    Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war effort was waged. Drawing on 25 years of historical scholarship, it sheds new light on culturally significant issues such as how families ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 2, Politics and Ideology

    Edited by Richard Bosworth, Joseph Maiolo ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the Second World War
    War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War examines the relationship between ideology and politics in the war's origins, dynamics and consequences. Part I examines the ideologies of the combatants and shows how the war can be understood as a struggle of words ... Read more

    $53.29 USD

  • The Roma Cafe

    Human Rights and the Plight of the Romani People

    by Istvan Pogany ...
    The plight of Eastern Europe's Roma is one of the greatest challenges facing the continent. Largely hidden, this book offers an eye-opening, poignant and intriguing analysis of the diverse problems facing Central and Eastern Europe's gypsy populations, including the largely unacknowledged legacy of the Roma Holocaust.Engaging with a broad range of issues including racism, stereotyping, and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nationalism in Modern Europe

    Politics, Identity, and Belonging since the French Revolution

    by Professor Derek Hastings ...
    Nationalism has been, without question, one of the most potent political and cultural forces within Europe since the late-18th century. Placing particular emphasis on transnational and comparative links, Nationalism in Modern Europe provides a clear and accessible history of the development of nationalism in Europe from the French Revolution to the present.The book situates nationalist ideas and ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions

    1917 and its Aftermath from a Global Perspective

    by Stefan Rinke, Michael Wildt, Birgit Aschmann, Jan Claas Behrends, Dietrich Beyrau, Robert Gerwarth, David Hopkins, Patrick J. Houlihan, Tomio Izao0, Abdulhamit Kirmizi1, Jörn Leonhard2, Ricardo Pérez Montfort3, Jan Schmidt4, María Inés Tato5, Adam Tooze6, Enric Ucelay-Da Cal7, Klaus Weinhauer8, Guoqi Xu9 ...
    Series Book 34 - Eigene und Fremde Welten
    1917 was an important year in world history and not just because of the United States' entry into the First World War and the Russian Revolution. It is rightly considered the turning point of the war and the foundational moment for determining structures of the short 20th century. Contemporaries realized these global connections yet in a historiography limited to the nation-state they did not gain ... Read more

    $42.99 USD