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This is the first English translation of two chronicles of long-acknowledged importance to European history in the period c.850-c.950. This period, which is widely taught in European and North American universities, saw the collapse of the Carolingian Empire and the rise in Germany of the 'First Reich' under the Ottonian dynasty. -- .

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This is the first English translation of two chronicles of long-acknowledged importance to European history in the period c.850-c.950. This period, which is widely taught in European and North American universities, saw the collapse of the Carolingian Empire and the rise in Germany of the 'First Reich' under the Ottonian dynasty. -- .

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This is a vivid portrait of the French historical profession in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, concluding just before the emergence of the famous Annales school of historians. It places the profession in its social, academic, and political context and shows that historians of the period have been unfairly maligned as amateurish and p

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This collection of essays by seven scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world-intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, aesthetic-creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. ...

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This volume examines the connections between technological change and its knowledge base, focusing in particular on Europe during the Industrial Revolution.

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The History of the Byzantine Jews explores the Jewish microcosmos in Byzantium. Under the Romans, Jews enjoyed the privileges of knighthood and nobility. Although these luxuries were significantly diminished under Theodosius II- whose wife, Eudoxia, was a judaizing Empress- an...

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Emilio Sereni's classic work is now available in an English language edition. History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape is a synthesis of the agricultural history of Italy in its economic, social, and ecological context, from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century. From his perspective in the Italian tradition of cultural Marxism, Sereni guides

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From the early years, when its cities and towns were self-governing, to the national rise to power of fascism, Italy has undergone many upheavals. Pinpointing the year A.D. 1000 as a time when European supremacy began to take root, the author traces Italy's progression within its European context.

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After the appalling experiences of the First World War, no one in Britain wished to be in another war. Stigmatised as 'Appeasement', this has often been held to be a bankrupt policy, epitomised by Chamberlain's Munich Agreement in 1938, handing over the Sudetenland. This title shows that many of the government's policies were reasonable.

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A vivid, page-turning account, HITLER AND HIS SECRET PARTNERS may also be one of our era's most important works of history. Pool discloses the shocking and often bizarre financial strategies and relationships that enabled Hitler to consolidate his power and perpetuate his reign of terror.

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The rudimentary facts of the Beer Hall Putsch are well known. The myth and conjecture they have generated are now replaced by detailed evidence in Harold Gordon's history, a thorough analysis of the events leading up to the Putsch, the ideologies and people struggling for power in Bavaria in 1923, the Putsch itself, and its aftermath. Originally p

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Presents an analysis of the fateful period in modern German history between 1929-1933.

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Presents an analysis of the period in modern German history between 1929-1933.

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The author focuses on the tensions between the ideological postulates of the re-agrarianizers and the expansion of the Third Reich's industrial economy. Nazi agriculture is analyzed within the context of the larger political economy of Germany and the interests of the military apparatus.

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However, by grounding German nationalism in race, Hitler sent his country on a path toward destruction in the Second World War. Speculative and far-reaching, this book will stimulate the current debate over nationalism and will be of interest to students of politics and the social sciences as well as German history buffs.

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"First edition published 2007"--Title page verso.

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"First edition published 2007"--Title page verso.