Europa: History, Identity, and Politics. New Books

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1 ASHTON, Nigel, and Duco Hellema (Editors). Unspoken Allies: Anglo-Dutch Relations Since 1780. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. 292. Notes, index. Wrappers.

- - First edition. Surveys the development of political and economic relations between Britain and the Netherlands from the Napoleonic era to the present day. ISBN:#9053564713 ISBN:#90 5356 471 3
€ 30 --



2 AUSTIN, Richard Cartwright. Building Utopia: Erecting Russia’s First Modern City, 1930. Kent, Kent State University Press, 2004.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Square royal octavo. Pp. xii, 224. Numerous photographs throughout. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, red cloth with dust-jacket.

- - First edition. ISBN:#0873387309
€ 19 --



3 BARRAN, Thomas. Russia Reads Rousseau, 1762-1825. Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 2002.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xxvi, 404. Four appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, brown cloth lettered in gilt, without dust-jacket as issued.

First edition. Whether seen as a genius or a lunatic, Jean-Jacques Rousseau left a bewildering pattern on the Russian intellectual landscape. This book reveals the nature and extent of Rousseau initial influence in Russia, as well as the social, cultural, and political contexts in which he was understood. A volume in the Studies in Russian Literature and Theory Series. ISBN:#0810118440 ISBN:#0 8101 1844 0
€ 85 --



4 BERGLUND, Sten, Joakim Ekman, and Frank H. Aarebrot (Editors). The Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe. Second Edition. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2004.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xvii, 626. Notes, indices. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.

Thoroughly revised and updated second edition. ISBN:#1840648546
€ 130 --



5 BUSSIÈRE, Eric, Michel Dumoulin, and Gilbert Trausch (Editors). Europa: The European Idea and Identity, from Ancient Greece to the 21st Century. Antwerp, Mercatorfonds, 2001.

Virgin copy, not yet traded. New. 4to. Pp. xii, 400. With 300 illustrations of which 250 are in colour, numerous full-page plates; bibliography, index. Printed on fine paper. Hardcover, blue cloth, spine lettered in light blue, with dust-jacket of strong, heavy paper with flaps.

First edition. This handsome book aims to chart the development of the “European Idea” and its transformation into reality. It exposes Europe’s foundations, and guides the reader through altering views of Europe from the Renaissance to the First World War, and ends with the present time. A special series of illustrations accompanies each of the fifteen chapters. Beautifully, richly illustrated.
€ 85 --



6 CALTEUX, Georges. D’Lëtzebuerger Bauerenhaus. Ein Querschnitt durch das Wohnen und Leben im Großherzogtum Luxemburg, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Esch-Alzette, PHI & Kremer-Muller, (1997).

Two volumes. Large quarto. Pp. 252; 294. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous plates (some folding) and text illustrations in colour and b&w, architectural drawings, detail studies, maps, etc. Illustrated glossary. Pictorial endpapers. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s cloth, with matching pictorial dust-jackets. A most beautiful NEW set in mint condition.

- - First edition. A most remarkable production. ISBN 2919978128 ISBN 2919978136
€ 220 --



7 CLAUSSEN, M. A. The Reform of the Frankish Church: Chrodegang of Metz and the Regula canonicorum in the Eighth Century. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal octavo. Pp. xiv, 342. Frontispiece, maps. Notes, bibliography, indices. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.

- - First edition. A volume in the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series. ISBN:#0521839313
€ 75 --



8 CRUEL, Rudolf. Geschichte der deutschen Predigt im Mittelalter. Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1966.

Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 663. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, spine gilt. In a very fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - Facsimile reprint of the 1879 edition.
€ 220 --



9 DALY, Jonathan, W. The Watchful State: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1906-1917. DeKalb, Northern Illinois University Press, 2004.

BRAND NEW. Royal octavo. Pp. xiv, 320. Photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, cloth with dust-jacket. Small review copy stamp.

- - First edition. ISBN:#0875803318
€ 22 --



10 DIWALD, Helmut, Ernst Walter Zeeden, Robert Mandrou, Eberhard Weis, Theodor Schieder, Karl Dietrich Bracher. Propyläen Geschichte Europas. Volume I-VI. I. Anspruch auf Mündigkeit. II. Hegemonialkriege und Glaubenskämpfe. III. Staatsräson und Vernunft. IV. Der Durchbruch des Bürgertums. V. Staatensystem als Vormacht der Welt. VI. Die Krise Europas. [6 BÄNDE]. Frankfurt am Main & Berlin, Propyläen, 1992.

BRAND NEW. A very fine set of 6 volumes. Octavo. Profusely illustrated throughout with excellent visual material; colour plates, maps, tables. Bibliographies, indices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in original pale grey cloth, spine lettered in blue, with matching dust-jackets. In a fresh-new condition. Excellent set.

- - Reprint. FULL TITLE LIST: Propyläen Geschichte Europas. Volume I-VI. I. Anspruch auf Mündigkeit, um 1400-1555. II. Hegemonialkriege und Glaubenskämpfe, 1556-1648. III. Staatsräson und Vernunft, 1649-1775. IV. Der Durchbruch des Bürgertums, 1776-1847. V. Staatensystem als Vormacht der Welt, 1848-1918. VI. Die Krise Europas, Seit 1917. ISBN:#3549052200 ISBN:#3549053126 ISBN:#3549053134 ISBN:#3549053142 ISBN:#3549053150 ISBN:#3549053169 ISBN:#3549053177
€ 120 --



11 FEDORAK, Charles John. Henry Addington, Prime Minister, 1801-1804: Peace, War, and Parliamentary Politics. Akron, University of Akron Press, 2002.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xvii, 268. With 4 photographic plates. Chronological list, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, scarlet cloth lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.

First edition. “Unquestionably the best account yet of the premiership of Henry Addington during crucial times in British history at the height of the threat from Napoleonic France.” - Michael Duffy, University of Exeter.
€ 35 --



12 GISPEN, Kees. Poems in Steel: National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn. New York, Berghahn, 2002.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xvi, 357. With 6 tables and text figures; notes, list of works cited, index. Hardcover, green cloth lettered in silver, without dust-jacket as issued.

First edition. Examines the relationship between technology and society in Nazi Germany. The role of National Socialism in the development of German society remains a central question of historical inquiry. This study presents original answers by examining the politics of inventing, a crucial but long ignored problem at the intersection of the history of technology, legal, political, and business history. The analysis of conflicts over the rights of inventors and the meaning of inventing from the 1920s to the 1950s reveals a deep chasm, reaching back to the late nineteenth century, between the forces of capital and big business on one hand and the exponents of intellectual capital - inventors, engineers, industrial scientists - on the other. A volume in the Monographs in German History Series. ISBN:#1571812423 ISBN:#1 57181 242 3
€ 75 --



13 GÖTHEL, Thomas. Demokratie und Volkstum: Die Politik gegenüber den nationalen Minderheiten in der Weimarer Republik. Köln, SH-Verlag, 2002.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Crown 4to. Pp. 448. Notes, tables, bibliography. Hardcover, without dust-jacket as issued.

First edition. A volume in the Kölner Beiträge zur Nationsforschung Series. ISBN:#3894981091 ISBN:#3 89498 109 1
€ 46 --



14 HAM, Peter van, and Sergei Medvedev (Editors). Mapping European Security after Kosovo. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. x, 198. With 5 text illustrations; notes. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in silver, with dust-jacket.

First edition. Provides new horizons on how Kosovo has shaped the new Europe. Challenging traditional definitions of the Kosovo conflict, the contributors to this volume adopt a critical approach in their examination of orthodox assumptions about the nature of European and global security. ISBN:#0719062403 ISBN:#0 7190 6240 3
€ 64 --



15 HELLEMA, Duco, Cees Wiebes, and Toby Witte. The Netherlands and the Oil Crisis: Business as Usual. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2004.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal octavo. Pp. 320. Notes, references, bibliography, indices. Stiff wrappers.

- - First edition. ISBN:#9053564853
€ 39 --



16 HILTON, Christopher. The Wall: The People’s Story. Stroud, Sutton, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xvi, 392. Plus 16 unnumbered pages of illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in the text. With numerous halftone photographic illustrations, 12 maps and charts (some full-page); notes, bibliography, list of fatalities in the Death Strip, index. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.

First edition. Over the last decade Hilton, a journalist and writer who has now had over thirty books published, translated into eleven languages, conducted hundreds of interviews since the Wall came down, with leading world politicians as well as the American and British military, East German border guards, and ordinary people. Their memories are expertly interwoven here into a remarkable, seamless narrative. A fascinating document. ISBN:#0750927569 ISBN:#0 7509 2756 9
€ 20 --



17 HITCHCOCK, William I. The Struggle for Europe: The History of the Continent Since 1945. London, Profile, 2003.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. x, 513. Map, tables. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.

First edition. “... Written with a wit and vigour that makes it a real joy to read. It deserves to be the standard work on the subject for many years to come.” - Sir Michael Howard. ISBN:#1861972334
€ 25 --



18 HUIJSEN, Coos. De Oranjemythe: Een postmodern fenomeen. Zaltbommel, Europese Bibliotheek, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. 200. With numerous halftone illustrations (many full-page) throughout; notes. Hardcover, without dust-jacket as issued.

First edition. Well researched and illustrated study of the Dutch Royal House. ISBN:#9028826912 ISBN:#90 288 2691 2
€ 15 --



19 KAPS, Sebastian; Wolfgang Boeckh. Die Straße der Romanik. Bilder aus Sachsen-Anhalt. Halle, Mitteldeutschen Verlags; Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1992.

Quarto. Pp. 127. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous colour plates. Frontispiece. Endpaper maps. Hardcover, original cloth, with pictorial dust-jacket. In NEW condition. Mint copy.

- - First edition.
€ 20 --



20 KUPPER, Jean-Louis; Françoise Pirenne; Philippe George. Liège. Autour de l’an mil, la naissance d’une principauté (Xe-XIIe siècle). N.p., Perron, 2000.

Large quarto. Pp. 207. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous plates and text illustrations in colour and b&w. Bound in the original pictorial stiff wrappers, with flaps. Beautiful NEW copy in mint condition.

- - First edition. Beautifully illustrated. - - Présentation de l’éditeur: “Cet ouvrage ressuscite le passé roman du Pays de Liège, du Xe au XIIe siècle, à travers l’histoire, l’art, la culture et la civilisation, et procure l’indispensable vade-mecum de ce que tout Liégeois désire connaître et assimiler pour le faire partager à l’extérieur. Il est le fruit d’une collaboration intense et assidue entre le Trésor de la Cathédrale de Liège, l’Université de Liège et leurs contacts extérieurs. Depuis 1991, la publication de la série des Feuillets de la Cathédrale de Liège multiplie les études spécialisées en liaison avec le patrimoine artistique de la cathédrale. Par ce volume, aujourd’hui, le Trésor s’engage dans une orientation plus marquée encore à la découverte de la Principauté de Liège, soutenu par la Province de Liège, son héritière. Rénové à l’initiative du Chapitre cathédral pour commémorer le treizième centenaire de la mort de saint Lambert (1996), en collaboration avec la Région wallonne et la Commission Royale des Monuments & Sites, le Trésor de la Cathédrale de Liège présente au public depuis septembre 1998 un parcours muséal d’art et d’histoire de l’ancienne Principauté de Liège. Conservation, restauration et exposition des oeuvres d’art marchent de concert avec recherche scientifique.”
€ 60 --



21 LANDSBERGIS, Vytautas. Translated and edited by Anthony Packer and Eimutis Sova. Lithuania Independent Again: The Autobiography of Vytautas Landsbergis. Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2000.

Virgin copy, not yet traded. New. 8vo. Pp. xii, 388. Plus 16 unnumbered pages of illustrations, bound in the text. With 31 halftone illustrations, one map; appendix, index. Hardcover, red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket (slightly rubbed at extremities).

First English edition. Landsbergis, former President of Lithuania, discusses here the influence of German and Soviet occupations, mass deportations, censorship, and daily struggle under foreign rule. He describes in detail the events of the night of 12-13 January 1991, when Lithuanians citizens took to the streets in fight for independence.
€ 46 --



22 LEVY, Robert. Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xii, 408. Plus 16 unnumbered pages of illustrations, bound in the text. With halftone frontispiece, map, 19 halftone illustrations (many full-page); appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, half cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.

- - First edition. Once described as “the most powerful woman alive,” Pauker was the daughter of poor Orthodox Jewish parents, spending her youth in an increasingly anti-Semitic environment. She later became the Romanian Communist leader, and a foreign minister. In that position she restricted emigration of Romanian Jews to Israel. Provides an interesting look inside the workings of Soviet communism in East Central Europe. ISBN:#0520223950 ISBN:#0 520 22395 0
€ 20 --



23 LUH, Jürgen, Vinzenz Czech, and Bert Becker (Editors). Preussen [Preußen], Deutschland und Europa 1701-2001. Groningen, INOS, 2003.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Crown 4to. Pp. viii, 570. Footnotes, index. Hardcover, cloth with dust-jacket.

First edition. A volume in the Baltic Studies Series. ISBN:#9073432081
€ 49 --



24 MARCUS, Leah S., Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose (Editors). Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2000.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xxiv, 446. With 18 halftone illustrations and facsimiles (some full-page); notes, list of works, index. Hardcover, crimson cloth, embossed, spine lettered in gilt, with decorated dust-jacket. Red ribbon marker.

First edition. Elizabeth Tudor (1533-1903) not only ruled the British Empire for 45 years, she also wrote prolifically and was one of the first people to receive a humanist education. This book presents all of her known letters, speeches, prayers, and poems both public and private. Among them are her song commemorating England’s victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588, and the Golden Speech she gave at the end of her reign. ISBN:#0226504646 ISBN:#0 226 50464 6
€ 43 --



25 MARGUE, Michel; Jean Schroeder (Editors). Un itinéraire européen. Jean l’Aveugle, Comte de Luxembourg et Roi de Bohême, 1296-1346. Bruxelles, Cludem, 1996.

Large quarto. Pp. 219. Frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous plates and text illustrations in colour and b&w. Bound in the original pictorial stiff wrappers, with full-size flaps. Beautiful NEW copy in mint condition.

- - First edition.
€ 60 --



26 MCALLISTER, James. No Exit: America and the German Problem, 1943-1954. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2002.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. viii, 283. With list of sources, index. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in silver, with dust-jacket.

First edition. McAllister outlines a new account of early Cold War history, and argues that America’s central objective from the Second World War to the mid-1950s was to create a European order that could be peaceful and stable without requiring that American ground forces remain on the continent. Contains the chapters: America, the German Problem, and the Bipolar Revolution; Wartime Diplomacy and Postwar Plans; One German Problem or Two?; Years of Danger and Opportunity: The Restoration of a European Balance of Power; Temporary and Permanent Solutions: German Rearmament and the European Defence community; No Exit: America and the Future of Europe. A volume in the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series. ISBN:#0801438764 ISBN:#0 471 09570 2
€ 43 --



27 MCGIFFEN, Steven P. The European Union: A Critical Guide. London, Pluto Press, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xviii, 182. Tables, boxes, notes, recommended reading, index. Wrappers.

First edition. Critical examination of the origins, development, and current direction of the European Union. ISBN:#0745316956 ISBN:#0 7453 1695 6
€ 28 --



28 MOIA, Nelly. Für die Katz’. [TWO VOLUMES]. N.p., For the Author, Imprimerie Centrale S.A., 1999.

Two volumes. I. Text Volume. Crown quarto. Pp. 533, b&w illustrations; II. Plate Volume. Tall quarto. Unpaginated. A photographic album, lavishly illustrated in colour. Both volumes bound in pictorial stiff wrappers and placed in the original hardcover portfolio, with a matching image on cover. In new condition. Excellent set, practically unused.

- - First edition. ‘...Im Gegensatz zum Titel haben wir es hier nicht mit einem “Katzenbuch” zu tun, sondern mit einem luxemburger Naturführer besonderer Art. Wenn der Titel sich durch eine eher realistisch-pessimistische Atmosphäre des Textbandes erklären lässt, so zeugt der Bildband davon, dass die Autorin doch selber nicht so recht glaubt, dass alles “für die Katz” gewesen war. Der Textband veranschaulicht anhand von Pressenotizen (Leserbriefen, oft von der Autorin selbst) mehrere Jahrzehnte Tauziehen zwischen Natur- und Umweltschutzbegeisterten und den übrigen politischen und gesellschaftlichen Strukturen. Er erörtert verpasste (und in Zukunft noch zu verpassende) Gelegenheiten, das Spiessbürgertum und sonstiges materialistisches Denken in punkto hautnaher Umwelt etwas zu dämpfen. Für die an diesem Geschehen unfreiwillig beteiligten Militanten ein Denkstein, für andere (hoffentlich) ein Denkanstoss ... Der Bildband, in der Form eines gedruckten Fotoalbums, zeigt Natur, vor allem in der Escher Gegend und im “Minett”. Interessant sind vergleichende Aufnahmen von Tagebaugebieten in bis zu 20-jährigem Intervall, welche den Verbuschungsprozess dokumentieren.’ - Haus vun der Natur, Kockelscheuer.
€ 220 --



29 MOIA, Nelly. Mascarons de Luxembourg. Esch-sur-Alzette, For the Author, Polyprint, 1995.

Square quarto. Pp. 206. A photographic album, lavishly illustrated throughout with numerous colour plates. Bound in the original pictorial stiff wrappers, with flaps. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.

- - First edition. A DEDICATION COPY, dedicated and signed by the author, November 1995. - - “For generations they observe us, these fantastic faces of stone, speechless witnesses of our daily life through the streets of the town. Rarely are those among us who catch their eyes, sometimes strict or smiling - sometimes completely indifferent. Incidentally, no eye contact is possible with certain faces, because these ones are placed high above us, looking dreamily in the distance, or observing stoical the opposite façades...” - Nelly Moia.
€ 110 --



30 MÜLLER, Jan-Werner (Editor). Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Virgin copy, not yet traded. New. Royal 8vo. Pp. xii, 288. Notes, index. Wrappers.

- - First edition. Examines how has memory, collective and individual, influenced European politics after the Second World War, and how the political uses of the past have shaped, and continue to shape, the contemporary Europe.
€ 28 --



31 MURPHY, James H. Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria. Cork, Cork University Press, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xxxiv, 360. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.

First edition. The first study to examine Irish perceptions of the British monarchy in 19th century Ireland. The book traces Ireland’s interaction with the British monarchy from King George III to Queen Elizabeth II, but focuses on the reign of Queen Victoria. It explores Queen Victoria’s interaction with Ireland and her influence on British policy towards Ireland, and it examines how Queen Victoria and monarchy were perceived in Ireland. The author argues that, contrary to popular belief, Queen Victoria was greeted with enthusiasm during royal visits and was a popular institution in Ireland during this period. ISBN:#1859183344 ISBN:#1 85918 334 4
€ 64 --



32 NEWTON, Gerald (Editor). Luxembourg and Lëtzebuergesch: Language and Communication at the Crossroads of Europe. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996.

Octavo. Pp. xviii, 286. With 8 text figures, 10 maps, and numerous tables. Appendices, bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original cloth, with dust-jacket. In NEW condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.

- - First edition. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg sits at the heart of the European Union, yet it forms a very private and close-knit community. This book addresses that apparent paradox, and shows how it is reflected in and sustained by the linguistic practices of the people who live there, both native and foreign. Letzebuergesch, the country’s national language, is most closely related to the German dialects of the western Rhineland and the Moselle river valley, but the country’s historical and cultural links with Belgium, the Netherlands, and France are much closer than with Germany. Since the demise of Latin in the late Middle Ages as the language of administration, that role has been filled at various times by the standard varieties of French and German. Declared a protected neutral country in 1867, Luxembourg has been twice invaded by Germany in twentieth century. But since 1945 French and Letzebuergesch have come to predominate and the use of German has once again receded. It is the unwritten social code governing the use of these languages (and latterly also of English) which gives this volume of specially commissioned papers its focus: the purpose is to provide an insider’s view of the community, and of its little-known language. The book contains the most detailed linguistic description of Letzebuergesch so far available in English.
€ 320 --



33 PAYNE, Matthew J. Stalin’s Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xvi, 384. With 8 halftone illustrations (some full-page), map, figures, tables; notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Hardcover, green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.

First edition. Tells the story of one of the great projects of the Soviet Union’s First Five-Year Plan, the Turkestanno-Siberian Railroad. Examines the role it played in transforming the country into the first socialist society on earth. The author links the construction of the railroad, known as Turksib, to the political, economic, and social conditions during the building of socialism in Stalin’s Soviet Union. “A unique study, with intriguing and provocative qualities”.
€ 35 --



34 POWER, Daniel. The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal octavo. Pp. xxiii, 634. Maps, tables. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.

- - First edition. A volume in the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series. ISBN:#0521571723
€ 95 --



35 RALEIGH, Donald J. (Editor). Provincial Landscapes: Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917-1953. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xiv, 408. With halftone frontispiece, 4 halftone illustrations, 11 maps, 5 tables; notes, index. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in silver, with dust-jacket.

First edition. Focusing on the years between the Revolution and Stalin’s death. Address a variety of topics, including how political events and social engineering played themselves out at the local level; the construction of Bolshevik identities, including class, gender, ethnicity, and place; the Soviet cultural project. In showing how the local is related to the larger society, these essays provide a context for the socio-political and cultural roles individual Russian provinces began to play after the breakup of the Soviet Union. A volume in the Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. ISBN:#0822941643 ISBN:#0 8229 4164 3
€ 36 --



36 RAUTHE, Simone. Public History in den USA und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Essen, Klartext, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. 292. Notes, bibliography. Wrappers.

First edition. ISBN:#3898610373 ISBN:#3 89861 037 3
€ 46 --



37 REDDAWAY, Peter, and Dmitri Glinski. The Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms: Market Bolshevism against Democracy. Washington, US Institute of Peace, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xvi, 745, (4). Notes, index. Wrappers.

A critical analysis of the Yeltsin years in power, arguing that what came to power in Russia after August 1991 was not democracy but a new kind of tyranny. ISBN:#1929223064
€ 28 --



38 REE, Erik van. The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: A Study in Twentieth-Century Revolutionary Patriotism. London, Routledge Curzon, 2002.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. x, 366. With 14 halftone illustrations; notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, without dust-jacket as issued.

First edition. Presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin, making use of the documentation that has recently become available, including Stalin’s private library with his handwritten marginal notes. Provides many insights into Western and Russian Marxist intellectual traditions. “Well written, clearly thought out and comprehensively researched.” - Evan Mawdsley, University of Glasgow. 0700717498 ISBN:#0 7007 1749 8
€ 90 --



39 ROCK, David, and Stefan Wolff (Editors). Coming Home to Germany?: The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic. New York, Berghahn, 2002.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. (Still with partly unopened leaves.) 8vo. Pp. xviii, 238. Tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Wrappers.

First edition. A volume in the Culture and Society in Germany Series. Examines the massive population transfer of over 16 million ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe to Germany. 1571817298 ISBN:#1 57181 729 8
€ 28 --



40 SCHUMANN, Dirk. Politische Gewalt in der Weimarer Republik, 1918-1933: Kampf um die Straße [Strasse] und Furcht vor dem Bürgerkrieg. Essen, Klartext, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. 400. Notes, sources, bibliography, place- name- and general indices. Hardcover, without dust-jacket as issued.

First edition. ISBN:#3884749153 ISBN:#3 88474 915 3
€ 46 --



41 SWIFT, Roger (Editor). Irish Migrants in Britain, 1815-1914: A Documentary History. Cork, Cork University Press, 2002.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xxiii, 248. With pictorial frontispiece, 8 full-page illustrations (one at the beginning of each part of the book), maps, tables; notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, brown cloth, spine lettered in silver, with dust-jacket.

First edition. This documentary history of Irish migration and settlement in 19th century Britain uses a range of contemporary documents, including extracts from parliamentary papers, social surveys, newspapers, letters and reminiscences, to explore the experiences of Irish people in urban and rural Britain between 1815 and 1914. By reference to themes of migration, settlement, employment, social conditions, religion and politics, the sources contained in this collection not only provide insights into the causes, features and consequences of Irish migration, but also demonstrate that while the experiences of Irish migrants were complex and diverse, varying in time and place, so too were contemporary attitudes towards them. Each chapter comprises a contextual commentary, a selection of primary sources and notes pointing to further reading. ISBN:#1859182364 ISBN:#1 85918 236 4
€ 64 --



42 TAYLOR, A. J. P. The Last of Old Europe: A Grand Tour. Photographic Panorama from the 1850s to 1914. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976.

Crown 4to. Pp. 222, (3). Frontispiece. Photographic album with nearly 300 halftone illustrations, many of which full- or double-page. Pictorial endpapers. Hardcover, original brown cloth, spine gilt, with illustrated dust-jacket (this near fine). Book is in a fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy.

First edition. A visual record of history in the making, bringing mostly previously unpublished photographs.
€ 40 --



43 THOMÉ, Angelika. Rob Kieffer (Editor). Monographies du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. I. Luxembourg. Le capitale; Die Haupstadt; The Capital. II. Minette. Le sud du Luxembourg; Der Süden Luxemburgs; The South of Luxembourg. III. Le Moselle luxembourgeoise et son arrière-pays; Die Luxemburger Mosel und ihr Hinterland; The Luxembourg Moselle and its Back Country. IV. Echternach & Mullerthal. La Petite Suisee luxembourgeoisem et la Basse-Sûre; Die Kleine Luxemburger Schweiz und die Untere Sauer; Luxembourg’s Little Switzerland and the Lower Sûre. V. Oesling. Les Ardennes luxembourgeoises; Die Luxemburger Ardennen; The Luxembourg Ardennes. [FIVE VOLUMES IN ONE. DELUXE EDITION]. Luxembourg, Binsfeld, N.d.

Five volumes in one. Crown quarto. Pp. 320. Lavishly illustrated throughout with numerous colour plates. Printed on thick, fine paper. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s handsome full navy-blue cloth, gilt decorated and lettered. A most beautiful, BRAND NEW copy in pristine condition.

- - First edition. Deluxe Edition. Text in English, French, German. Complete title: Monographies du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. I. Luxembourg: Le capitale; Die Haupstadt; The Capital. II. Minette: Le sud du Luxembourg; Der Süden Luxemburgs; The South of Luxembourg. III. Le Moselle luxembourgeoise et son arrière-pays; Die Luxemburger Mosel und ihr Hinterland; The Luxembourg Moselle and its Back Country. IV. Echternach & Mullerthal: La Petite Suisee luxembourgeoisem et la Basse-Sûre; Die Kleine Luxemburger Schweiz und die Untere Sauer; Luxembourg’s Little Switzerland and the Lower Sûre. V. Oesling: Les Ardennes luxembourgeoises; Die Luxemburger Ardennen; The Luxembourg Ardennes. ISBN 2879540283 ISBN 2879540313 ISBN 2879540305 ISBN 2879540291 ISBN 2879540321
€ 120 --



44 THUMFART, Alexander. Die politische Integration Ostdeutschlands. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 2002.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 12mo. Pp. 1024. Notes, bibliography. Wrappers.

First edition. ISBN:#3518122282 ISBN:#3 518 12228 2
€ 18 --



45 TUMPEL-GUGERELL, Gertrude, and Peter Mooslechner (Editors). Structural Challenges for Europe. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2003.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xviii, 490. Notes, index. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.

First edition. ISBN:#1843764741
€ 90 --



46 VANDEN HEUVEL, Jon. Foreword by Henry Kissinger. A German Life in the Age of Revolution: Joseph Görres, 1776-1848. Washington, Catholic University of America, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xviii, 410. With portrait frontispiece, 11 halftone illustrations (some full-page); notes, bibliography, index. With errata slip laid in. Hardcover, green cloth, lettered in gilt, without dust-jacket as issued.

First edition. The story of Joseph Görres’s life is in many ways the story of German political culture in the revolutionary epoch. His dates, 1776-1848, frame the “Age of Revolution” and, like the age in which he lived, Görres’s life was marked by great upheavals. One of the most prominent German journalists of his age, Görres pioneered political journalism, or what was called Publizistik in Germany. He was a founder of political Catholicism, and was in no small part responsible for the fact that Germany eventually developed a party based on the Catholic confession. Görres was also an extraordinarily prolific scholar with an almost dizzying range of interests. His life provides a window into an incredibly prolific era in European history, into the political implications of the Enlightenment, the wide-reaching intellectual movement of German romanticism, the roots of German nationalism, and the origins of German political party formation. “Vanden Heuvel’s study fills an important gap in the historical literature on the development of modern Germany’s political culture. This is a study of one of the revolutionary epoch’s most fascinating characters, Joseph Görres, but beyond that it is a portrait of a seminally important and understudied and inadequately understood period of modern history: that of Germany during the two or three generations prior to the country’s unification under Bismarck.” - From the Foreword by Dr. Henry A. Kissinger. ISBN:#081320948X ISBN:#0 8132 0948 X
€ 80 --



47 WARD, Barry J. (Editor). Rediscovering the British Empire. Malbar, Krieger, 2002.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. x, 164. Notes, bibliography, index. Wrappers.

First edition. A volume in The Open Forum Series. Examines Britain’s past through three perspectives: the imperialistic viewpoint; the revisionist approach; the postcolonial criticism. 1575241242 ISBN:#1 57524 124 2
€ 25 --



48 WIELENGA, Friso. Vom Feind zum Partner: die Niederlande und Deutschland seit 1945. Münster, Agenda, 2000.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. 522, (3) publisher’s ads. Appendix, notes, tables, bibliography, indices. Wrappers.

First edition. ISBN:#3896880721
€ 29 --



49 WIESEN, S. Jonathan. West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1995. Chapel Hill, University Of North Carolina Press, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xviii, 330. With 16 halftone illustrations (some full-page); glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in silver, with dust-jacket.

First edition. Explores how West German industrialists remade and marketed their public image in the aftermath of World war II and the Holocaust, trying hard to free themselves of responsibility for Nazi crimes. ISBN:#0807826340 ISBN:#0 8078 2634 0
€ 43 --



50 WITT, Mary Ann Frese. The Search for Modern Tragedy: Aesthetic Fascism in Italy and France. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xii, 260. With halftone illustrations; notes, index. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in silver, with dust-jacket.

First edition. Fascism, in the minds of many of its supporters, was an aesthetic or spiritual movement. This book explores the work of a group of a European writers and artists who came to fascism by way of aesthetics. It is not concerned with drama written as a means of conveying propaganda, but with the influence of aesthetic fascism on the theory and practice of modern tragedy. ISBN:#0801438373 ISBN:#0 8014 3837 3
€ 46 --



51 WOROBEC, Christine D. Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia. DeKalb, Northern Illinois University Press, 2001.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xvi, 288. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.

First edition. The first book to examine the phenomenon of demon possession in rural Russia. Engaging broad issues in Russian history, women’s history, and popular religious culture, the book draws from a wide range of sources - religious, psychiatric, ethnographic, and literary.
€ 36 --



52 ZINN, Holger. Zwischen Republik und Diktatur: Die Studentenschaft der Philipps-Universität Marburg in den Jahren von 1925 bis 1945. Köln, SH-Verlag, 2002.

BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Crown 4to. Pp. 560. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, without dust-jacket as issued.

First edition. A volume in the Abhandlungen zum Studenten- und Hochschulwesen Seies. ISBN:#3894981105 ISBN:#3 89498 110 5
€ 46 --

 

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