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  • The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire

    by A. Wess Mitchell ...
    The Habsburg Empire’s grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical worldThe Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful empires. Its army was not renowned for offensive prowess, its finances were often shaky, and its ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Great Power Diplomacy

    The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger

    by A. Wess Mitchell ...
    A captivating history of diplomacy—and an urgent reminder of why we need to revive its lost arts to survive in a dangerous era of great power competitionFrom the beginning of time, human societies have found themselves confronted by enemies too numerous or ferocious to defeat solely by force of arms. In these dramatic moments, wise leaders have turned to diplomacy to rearrange the gameboard in ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Godfather Doctrine

    A Foreign Policy Parable

    by John C. Hulsman, A. Wess Mitchell ...
    The Godfather Doctrine draws clear and essential lessons from perhaps the greatest Hollywood movie ever made to illustrate America's changing geopolitical place in the world and how our country can best meet the momentous strategic challenges it faces.In the movie The Godfather, Don Corleone, head of New York's most powerful organized-crime family, is shockingly gunned down in broad daylight, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unquiet Frontier

    Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power

    by Jakub J. Grygiel, A. Wess Mitchell ...
    How America's vulnerable frontier allies—and American power—are being targeted by rival nationsFrom the Baltic to the South China Sea, newly assertive authoritarian states sense an opportunity to resurrect old empires or build new ones at America's expense. Hoping that U.S. decline is real, nations such as Russia, Iran, and China are testing Washington's resolve by targeting vulnerable allies at ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mike Rapport ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they provided the stimulus for radical social and political change - particularly in Spain, Germany, and Italy - and are frequently viewed in these places as the starting point of their modern histories. In this Very Short ... Read more

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  • The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815

    by Hamish Scott ...
    Series series The Modern European State System
    The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815 examines a key development in modern European history: the origins and emergence of a competitive state system.H.M. Scott demonstrates how the well-known and dramatic events of these decades - the emergence of Russia and Prussia; the three partitions of Poland; the continuing retreat of the Ottoman Empire; the unprecedented territorial expansion of ... Read more

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  • The Great Class War 1914-1918

    by Jacques R. Pauwels ...
    Historian Jacques Pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the First World War, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinking. As Pauwels sees it, war offered benefits to everyone, across class and national borders.For European statesmen, a large-scale war could give their countries new colonial territories, important to growing capitalist economies. For the ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of Germany

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    by Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, politics, unification, and war.In A Brief History of Germany, Jeremy Black questions how the Germany we know today came to be, chronicling the events that shaped its past, present and future in a fascinating new way.From the fall of Rome in the 1500s to ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The Habsburg Monarchy 1815–1918

    by Steven Beller ...
    Series Book 55 - New Approaches to European History
    This clear and compelling account of the Habsburg Monarchy in its last century explains why, a century after its disappearance, it has never been more relevant. With extensive discussion of recent historiographic controversies about the Monarchy's character and viability, Steven Beller presents a detailed account of the main strands of the Monarchy's political history and how its economic, social ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The War That Ended Peace

    The Road To 1914

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress, and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict that killed millions, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe’s dominance of the world. It was a war that could have been avoided up to the last ... Read more

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  • A People's History of Modern Europe

    by William A. Pelz ...
    Series series People's History
    From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the twenty-first century, A People's History of Modern Europe tells the history of the continent through the deeds of those whom mainstream history tries to forget.Europe provided the perfect conditions for a great number of political revolutions from below. The German peasant wars of Thomas Müntzer, the bourgeois revolutions ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Europe

    From Pericles to Putin. Discover the perfect gift for readers of European history!

    by Simon Jenkins ...
    Discover the history of Europe - from the Dark Ages to present day - by the author of the bestselling A Short History of EnglandEurope is an astonishingly successful place. But it would take volumes to tell its story, right? Wrong. From warring peoples to peace, wealth and freedom, Andrew Jenkins distils its evolution into this short, single-volume history.From Greece and Rome, through the French ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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