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  • Germany: A Nation in Its Time

    Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

    by Helmut Walser Smith ...
    The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past.For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history—the first comprehensive volume ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Butcher's Tale

    Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

    by Helmut Walser Smith ...
    One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written.In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the town quickly rose up in violent riots to accuse the Jews of ritual murder—the infamous blood-libel charge that has haunted Jews for centuries. In an ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Germany

    A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

    by Helmut Walser Smith ...
    Narrated by Paul Woodson ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 23 min

    For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than twentieth-century historians have imagined.Contrary to widespread perception, the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exclusionary Violence

    Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History

    Edited by Christhard Hoffmann, Werner Bergmann, Helmut Walser Smith ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Whereas a large body of scholarly literature exists on German antisemitism in general, pre-Nazi histories of violence against Jews in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been widely neglected. This coherent and well-focused collection of essays is the first comprehensive work in any language dealing with antisemitic pogroms in modern German history from the Hep Hep riots of 1819 to the ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

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    by Johannes Friedrich ...
    A noted linguist examines extinct languages, from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the mysteries of as-yet undeciphered writings, in this scholarly work.While certain ancient languages were passed down continuously through the ages, many others were ignored for centuries. When scholars began to decipher these extinct languages in the early nineteenth century, they uncovered previously inaccessible riches ... Read more

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  • The Western Front

    A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

    by Nick Lloyd ...
    Series Book 1 - The Great War Trilogy
    **"A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration.…Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War." —Lawrence James, TimesThe Telegraph • Best Books of the YearThe Times of London • Best Books of the YearA panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare.**The Western Front evokes images of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

    Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World

    by Linda Colley ...
    Longlisted for the Cundill History PrizeProfiled in The New YorkerNew York Times Book Review • Editors’ ChoiceVivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions.A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutio... ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • A History of the Jews

    The Indestructible Jews, The Jews in America, and Appointment in Jerusalem

    by Max I. Dimont ...
    Three books on Jewish heritage from the author of Jews, God, and History, "the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language" ( Los Angeles Times).With over a million and a half copies sold, Jews, God and History introduced readers to "the fascinating reasoning" of acclaimed scholar Max I. Dimont's "bright and unorthodox mind" ( San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle). In ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret World

    A History of Intelligence

    by Christopher Andrew ...
    Series series The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series
    "A comprehensive exploration of spying in its myriad forms from the Bible to the present day . . . Easy to dip into, and surprisingly funny." —Ben Macintyre in The New York Times Book ReviewThe history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful WWII intelligence agency, were completely unaware ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pogrom

    Kishinev and the Tilt of History

    by Steven J. Zipperstein ...
    Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (History)Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the East Hampton StarShortlisted for the Mark Lynton History PrizeSeparating historical fact from fantasy, an acclaimed historian retells the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century Jewish history.So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Emperor

    A New Life of Charles V

    by Geoffrey Parker ...
    This "elegant and engaging" biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: "a masterpiece" (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times).The life of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But capturing the nature of this elusive man has ... Read more

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  • The Gulf

    The Making of An American Sea

    by Jack E. Davis ...
    Winner • Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWinner • Kirkus Prize for NonfictionFinalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)A New York Times Notable Book of the YearNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptainBooklist Editors’ Choice (History)Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceIn this “cri de coeur abou... ... Read more

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