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  • Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500

    by Wim Blockmans, Peter Hoppenbrouwers ...
    Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a global context, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the growth of cities, the Crusades, the effects of plague and ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Volume II: Practices of Representation

    Edited by István M. Szijártó, Wim Blockmans, László Kontler ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    This volume investigates the history of the parliamentary assemblies of Sweden, Poland and Hungary in the final period of the ancien régime, offering an analysis of these three representative assemblies in a systematic comparative framework for the first time.The book studies the Polish sejm, the Swedish riksdag and the Hungarian diaeta, focusing on the eighteenth century with retrospective ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Voice of the People?

    Political Participation before the Revolutions

    by Wim Blockmans ...
    Over the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from which democratic parliamentary systems gradually emerged. This book unravels the conditions, scale and impact under which political participation of common burghers and peasants emerged.Political participation in Europe before the Revolutions moved away from the traditional focus on ‘Three Estates’ ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Volume I: Representative Institutions and Political Motivation

    Edited by István M. Szijártó, Wim Blockmans, László Kontler ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    This volume investigates the history of the representative assemblies of Sweden (the riksdag), Poland (the sejm) and Hungary (the diaeta) in the final period of the ancien régime. It concentrates on the practices and ideas of parliamentarism and constitutionalism, and examines the ideologies that motivated the members of these parliaments. Attempts at the suppression as well as the restoration of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Empowering Interactions

    Political Cultures and the Emergence of the State in Europe 1300–1900

    by Wim Blockmans, Daniel Schläppi ...
    The emergence of the state in Europe is a topic that has engaged historians since the establishment of the discipline of history. Yet the primary focus of has nearly always been to take a top-down approach, whereby the formation and consolidation of public institutions is viewed as the outcome of activities by princes and other social elites. Yet, as the essays in this collection show, such an ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600

    Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy

    Edited by Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom, Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz ...
    Series series Routledge History Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 exploresthe links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the North and Baltic Seas. Maritime trade routes connected diverse geographical and cultural spheres, contributing to a more integrated Europe in both cultural and material terms. This volume explores networks’ economic ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    Edited by Peter H. Wilson ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to European History
    A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE“This is an impressive volume, with leading experts providing a wide-ranging coverage that should satisfy most requirements for effective and thoughtful introductory surveys… All specialists on this period will find much of value in this excellent volume.”History, The Journal of the Historical AssociationThis Companion contains 31 essays by leading ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • The Rise of Modern Diplomacy 1450 - 1919

    by M.S. Anderson ...
    Though international relations and the rise and fall of European states are widely studied, little is available to students and non-specialists on the origins, development and operation of the diplomatic system through which these relations were conducted and regulated. Similarly neglected are the larger ideas and aspirations of international diplomacy that gradually emerged from its immediate ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Birth of the Leviathan

    Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    by Thomas Ertman ...
    For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while others remained dependent upon patrimonial practices? This book presents a new theory of state ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

    A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

    by Peter Heather ...
    The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Rome generated its own nemesis. Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors it called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling the Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. Heather is a leading authority on the late ... Read more

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  • Imperialism

    Part Two of The Origins of Totalitarianism

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Series Book 2 - The Origins of Totalitarianism
    In the second volume of The Origins of Totalitarianism, the political theorist traces the decline of European colonialism and the outbreak of WWI.Since it was first published in 1951, The Origins of Totalitarianism has been recognized as the definitive philosophical account of the totalitarian mindset. A probing analysis of Nazism, Stalinism, and the "banality of evil", it remains one of the most ... Read more

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  • The Fall of Rome:And the End of Civilization

    And the End of Civilization

    by Bryan Ward-Perkins ...
    Why did Rome fall?Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples. Or did it? The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall of Rome' was a largely peaceful transition to Germanic rule, and the start of a positive cultural transformation.Bryan Ward-Perkins encourages ... Read more

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