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  • Comrade Huppert

    A Poet in Stalin's World

    by George Huppert ...
    This biography of a twentieth-century poet "deftly trac[es] Hugo Huppert's improbable path from Jewish Galicia to Soviet Moscow to postwar Vienna" ( Choice).After discovering the autobiography of the Austrian communist and writer Hugo Huppert (1902–1982), historian George Huppert became absorbed in the life and work of this man, a Jew, perhaps a relative, who was born a few months after George's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After the Black Death, Second Edition

    A Social History of Early Modern Europe

    by George Huppert ...
    Praise for the first edition:"To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." —History"Huppert's book is a little masterpiece every teacher should welcome." —Renaissance QuarterlyA work of genuine social history, After the Black Death leads the reader into the real villages and cities of European society. For this second edition, George ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Style of Paris

    Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment

    by George Huppert ...
    This portrait of the forerunners of the famed philosophes is an "impressive and challenging reevaluation of the 16th-century origins of the Enlightenment" ( Sixteenth Century Journal).In this book, George Huppert introduces a group of talented young men, some of them teenagers, who were the talk of the town in Renaissance Paris. They called themselves philosophes, they wrote poetry, they studied ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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