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  • Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

    Receiving Strangers in Northeastern Europe

    Edited by Sari Nauman, Wojtek Jezierski, Christina Reimann, Leif Runefelt ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Reflecting debate around hospitality and the Baltic Sea region, this open access book taps into wider discussions about reception, securitization and xenophobic attitudes towards migrants and strangers. Focusing on coastal and urban areas, the collection presents an overview of the responses of host communities to guests and strangers in the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, from the early ... Read more

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  • Iron Kingdom

    The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

    by Christopher Clark ...
    Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe's fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world.Prussia began as a medieval backwater, but transformed itself into a major European power and the force behind the creation of the German empire, until it was finally ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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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

  • A Concise History of Sweden

    by Neil Kent ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    Neil Kent's book sweeps through Sweden's history from the Stone Age to the present day. Early coverage includes Viking hegemony, the Scandinavian Union, the Reformation and Sweden's political zenith as Europe's greatest superpower in the seventeenth century, while later chapters explore the Swedish Enlightenment, royal absolutism, the commitment to military neutrality and Pan-Scandinavianism. The ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • German : Biography of a Language

    Biography of a Language

    by Ruth H. Sanders ...
    Thousands of years ago seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language--the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language. Blending linguistic anthropological and historical research Sanders presents a brilliant biography of the language as it evolved across the millennia. She sheds light on the influence ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Middle Kingdoms

    A New History of Central Europe

    by Martyn Rady ...
    An essential new history of Central Europe that “deftly unravels the strands of a long and complex past” (Wall Street Journal)Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history of the region, demonstrating that Central Europe has always been more than merely the fault ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Habsburgs

    Dynasty, Culture and Politics

    by Paula Sutter Fichtner ...
    On 28 June 1914, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg-Lorraine-Este was shot dead. Known as the moment that sparked off the First World War, this incident also initiated another, lesser-known story: the beginning of the end of Habsburg rule, which came four years later. In this comprehensive account of the longest-lived European empire, Paula Sutter Fichtner ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • The Emergence of Rus 750-1200

    by Simon Franklin, Jonathan Shepard ...
    Series series Longman History of Russia
    This eagerly awaited volume, the first of its kind by western scholars, describes the development amongst the diverse inhabitants of the immense landmass between the Carpathians and Urals of a political, economic and social nexus (underpinned by a common culture and, eventually, a common faith), out of which would emerge the future Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The authors explore every aspect of ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities

    From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

    Edited by Klaus J. Bade, Pieter C. Emmer, Leo Lucassen, Jochen Oltmer ...
    Although migration and integration have become important concepts today as a result of globalization, migration movements, integration, and multiculturalism have always been part of the history of Europe. Few people realize how many ethnic groups participated in migration within Europe or into Europe and this ignorance has grave consequences for the social and political status of immigrants. Newly ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • The Limits of Loyalty

    Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

    Edited by Laurence Cole, Daniel Unowsky ...
    Series Book 9 - Austrian and Habsburg Studies
    The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempts by the imperial government to generate a dynastic-oriented state patriotism in the multinational ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600

    Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy

    Edited by Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom, Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz ...
    Series series Routledge History Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 exploresthe links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the North and Baltic Seas. Maritime trade routes connected diverse geographical and cultural spheres, contributing to a more integrated Europe in both cultural and material terms. This volume explores networks’ economic ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • The History of the Idea of Europe

    Edited by Jan van der Dussen, Kevin Wilson ...
    Series series What is Europe?
    An ideal text-book for students of European Studies, this collection of essays puts the idea of Europe in its historical context to provide a context for the understanding of contemporary developments. ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD