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The German Worker

By: N/A

Price: $6.95

Publisher: University of California Press: November 1987

Seller ID: 301942

ISBN: 0520061241

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the two generations before World War I, Germany emerged as Europe's foremost industrial power. The basic facts of increasing industrial output, lengthening railroad lines, urbanization, and rising exports are well known. Behind those facts, in the historical shadows, stand millions of anonymous men and women: the workers who actually put down the railroad ties, hacked out the coal, sewed the shirt collars, printed the books, or carried the bricks that made Germany a great nation. This book contains translated selections from the autobiographies of nineteen of those now-forgotten millions. T...
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Inside the Third Reich

By: albert speer

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Avon: January 1971

Seller ID: 358130

ISBN: 0380000717

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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HISTORY OF 19TH CENTURY RUSSIA

By: Alexander Kornilov

Price: $4.95

Publisher: NEW YORK: CAPRICORN, 1966: January 1966

Seller ID: 283009

ISBN: B0011V20IW

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, The Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter, Peter the Great's Blackamoor (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Alexander Pushkin

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: March 2009

Seller ID: 348886

ISBN: 0199538654

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close...
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Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance: A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy

By: Alexandra Parma Cook,Noble David Cook

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: December 1991

Seller ID: 289397

ISBN: 0822312220

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike most other rich conquistadores who returned to the land of their birth, Francisco was not allowed to settle into a life of leisure. Instead, he was charged with bigamy and illegal shipment of silver, was arrested and imprisoned. Francisco's first wife (thought long dead) had filed sui...
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Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 (Social Science Classics Series)

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Transaction Publishers: January 1987

Seller ID: 295432

ISBN: 088738658X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Tocqueville was not only an active participant in the French Revolution of 1848, he was also a deeply perceptive observer with a detached attitude of mind. He saw the pitfalls of the course his country was taking more clearly than any of his contemporaries, including Karl Marx. Recollections was first written for self-clarification. It is both an exciting, candid, behind-the-scenes account of what actually happened during those tumultuous months and a remarkably shrewd analysis that has become an accurate forecast of future societies wrestling with the dilemma of synthesizing equal...
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Imperial Legend : The Disappearance of Czar Alexander I

By: Alexis S Troubetzkoy

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Arcade Publishing: February 2002

Seller ID: 195061

ISBN: 1559706082

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

One of Russia's greatest emperors, beloved of his subjects for his many liberalizing works domestically and for his victory over the great Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander I presumably died in 1825, at the age of 48. Ever since then, rumors have swirled that the young and vigorous Czar, who carried within him a terrible secret, really staged his death to expiate that sin, and spent the next forty years as a starets, one of those holy men who in the nineteenth century wandered through Russia doing good works. The starets, brilliant and uncommonly erudite, was one Feodor Kuzmich. The author, who ha...
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Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough

By: Anders Aslund, Michael Mcfaul

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Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace: March 2006

Seller ID: 368361

ISBN: 0870032216

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The dramatic series of protests and political events that unfolded in Ukraine in the fall of 2004 --the "Orange Revolution" --were seminal both for Ukrainian history and the history of democratization. Pro-Western presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin, an industrial pollutant that left him weakened and horribly disfigured. When this assassination attempt failed, the Kremlin-backed ruling party resorted to voter intimidation and massive electoral fraud to win the runoff election. Supporters of Yushchenko responded with a series of strikes, sit-ins, and marches thr...
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

By: Anna Funder

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: September 2011

Seller ID: 361747

ISBN: 0062077325

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. Aclassic." --Claire Tomalin, Guardian "Books ofthe Year"

AnnaFunder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of theresistance against East Germany's communist dictatorship in these harrowing, personal tales of life behind the Iron Curtain--and, especially, of life underthe iron fist of the Stasi, East Germany's brutal state security force. In thetradition of Frederick Taylor's The Berlin Wall andPhilip Gourevitch's WeWish to...
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History of Private Life, Volume V: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times

By: Antoine Prost

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Belknap Press: October 1991

Seller ID: 333612

ISBN: 067439979X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This fifth and final volume in an award-winning series charts the inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s.
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King

By: Antonia Fraser

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Nan A. Talese: October 2006

Seller ID: 335681

ISBN: 0385509847

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis's accomplishments and follies, exploring in riveting detail his intimate relationships with women.
The king's mother, Anne of Austria, had been in a childless marriage for twenty-two years before she gave birth to Louis XIV. A devout Catholic, she instilled in her son a strong sense of piety and fought successfully for his right to absolute power. In 1660, Louis married his first cousin, Marie-Therese, in a p...
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Breaking with Moscow

By: Arkady N. Shevchenko

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Knopf: January 1985

Seller ID: 341162

ISBN: 0394520556

Binding: Hardcover

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The Reign of Chivalry

By: Barber, Richard

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Boydell Press: October 2005

Seller ID: 393462

ISBN: 1843831821

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Profusely illustrated and redesigned for a new generation of readers, Richard Barber's classic The Reign of Chivalry presents a broad picture of the chivalric world, and shows how chivalry affected or was affected by great social movements, great writers and great events, and analyses the legacy it passed down to later ages. The opening chapter looks at the central figure of the whole chivalric world, the knight, and asks why he is such a different figure from other fighting men. Following sections deal with chivalry in relation to the main themes of medieval literature, especially the vast cy...
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The Viking: The Settlers, Ships, Swords, and Sagas of the Nordic Age

By: Bertil Almgren

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Barnes and Noble Books: January 1995

Seller ID: 357944

ISBN: 076070371X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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It Happened in Italy: Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust

By: Bettina, Elizabeth

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Thomas Nelson: January 2011

Seller ID: 394617

ISBN: 1595553215

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

IMAGINE ELIZABETH BETTINA'S SURPRISE when she discovered that her grandmother's village had a secret: over a half century ago, many of Campagna's residents defied the Nazis and risked their lives to shelter and save hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. What followed her discovery became an adventure as she uncovered fascinating untold stories of Jews in Italy during World War II and the many Italians who risked everything to save them.
"Finally, somebody made known the courage and the empathy of the majority of the Italian people toward us Jews at a time of great ...
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Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture

By: Carl E. Schorske

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Vintage: December 1980

Seller ID: 367164

ISBN: 0394744780

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born.
"Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion ...
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

By: Carlo Ginzburg

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press: March 1992

Seller ID: 185330

ISBN: 0801843871

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

A survey of popular culture in 16th century Italy.
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Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust

By: Carol Rittner

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Paragon House: April 1998

Seller ID: 350573

ISBN: 155778504X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Different Voices is the most thoroughgoing examination of women's experiences of the Holocaust ever compiled. It gathers together-for the first time in a single volume-the latest insights of scholars, the powerful testimony of survivors, and the eloquent reflections of writers, theologians, and philosophers.

Part One, "Voices of Experience," recounts the painful and poignant stories of survivors, stories of resistance, compliance, medical experiments, all kinds of horror, and total vulnerability. Part Two, "Voices of Interpretation," offers the new insights of women scholars of the H...
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

By: Caroline Weber

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Picador: October 2007

Seller ID: 219829

ISBN: 0312427344

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year
When her carriage first crossed over from her native Austria into France, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette was taken out, stripped naked before an entourage, and dressed in French attire to please the court of her new king. For a short while, the young girl played the part.
But by the time she took the throne, everything had changed. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber tells of the radical restyling that transformed the young queen into an icon and shaped the future of the nation. With her riding gear, he...
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The Voice of the Middle Ages: In Personal Letters 1100-1500

By: Catherine Moriarty

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Peter Bedrick Books: November 1991

Seller ID: 348045

ISBN: 0872262529

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: European History