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  • The Last Days of Mankind

    The Complete Text

    by Karl Kraus ...
    Translated by Fred Bridgham, Edward Timms ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The Last Days of Mankind remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. Kraus’s play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World War, when mankind raced toward self-destruction by methods of modern warfare while extolling the glory and ignoring the horror of an allegedly “defensive” ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Question of German Unification

    1806-1996

    by Imanuel Geiss ...
    Translated by University of Leeds Fred Bridgham ...
    The course of recent German history has been volatile. Events in Eastern Europe, the collapse of European Communism and German Re-Unification has brought issues of Germany's status into the arena of world politics. The Question of German Unification presents an introduction to the last two hundred years of German history and addresses questions raised by the status of Germany as a single or split ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Third Walpurgis Night

    The Complete Text

    by Karl Kraus ...
    Translated by Fred Bridgham, Edward Timms ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    The first complete English translation of a far-seeing polemic, written in 1933 by the preeminent German-language satirist, unmasking the Nazi seizure of powerNow available in English for the first time, Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus’s Third Walpurgis Night was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of reprisals ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Orderly and Humane

    The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War

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  • Heart of Europe:The Past in Poland's Present

    The Past in Poland's Present

    by Norman Davies ...
    The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945, he travels back in time to highlight the long-term themes and traditions which have influenced present attitudes.His evocative account reveals ... Read more

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  • The German Empire

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  • Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991

    A History

    by Orlando Figes ...
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  • The Habsburg Empire

    A New History

    by Pieter M. Judson ...
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  • A Concise History of the Russian Revolution

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  • The Russian Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

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    This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another. The book registers the primacy of ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern Germany

    1800 to the Present

    by Martin Kitchen ...
    Featuring revised and extended coverage, the second edition of A History of Modern Germany offers an accessible and engagingly written account of German history from 1800 to the present.Provides readers with a long view of modern German history, revealing its continuities and changesFeatures updated and extended coverage of German social change and modernization, class, religion, and ... Read more

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