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  • The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

    History, Memory, Legacy

    Edited by Andrzej Chwalba, Krzysztof Zamorski ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    This volume provides a fresh perspective of the history and legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the often-disputed memory of it in contemporary Europe.The unions between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania have fascinated many readers particularly because many solutions that have been implemented in the European Union have been adopted from its ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The People of Poland at War: 1914-1918

    Second revised edition

    by Andrzej Chwalba ...
    Series Book 55 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    A pioneering synthesis of the history of Poland, 1914-1918, summing up 100 years of the work of historians on the period and outlining new research aims. An integrated approach to the story of the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian zones of partitioned Poland, culminating in the restoration of the country’s independence and its accommodation to the new political configuration in Europe after ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD

  • Solidarity with Solidarity

    Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980–1982

    by Nino De Amicis, Stefan Berger, Bent Boel, Friedhelm Boll, Sandra Cavallucci, Kim Christiaens, Andrzej Chwalba, José M. Faraldo, Frank Georgi, Norman LaPorte, Klaus Misgeld, Oliver Rathkolb, Malgorzata Swider ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establishment of the Independent Trade Union Solidarnosc in the summer of 1980, the proclamation of martial law in December 1981, and Solidarnosc's underground activity in the subsequent years. In many countries, campaigns were set up in order to ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The People of Poland at War: 1914-1918

    by Andrzej Chwalba, Marcin Pędich, Jarosław Fazan ...
    Translated by Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa ...
    Series Book 39 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This book is a pioneering synthesis of the history of Poland, 1914–1918, summing up 100 years of the work of historians on the period and outlining new research aims. It is an integrated approach to the story of the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian zones of partitioned Poland, culminating in the restoration of the country’s independence and its accommodation to the new political configuration ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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    The Road To 1914

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
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  • The Russian Revolution: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.In 1917 the world changed forever. One of the most influential and contentious events in recent history, the Russian Revolution unleashed the greatest political experiment ever conducted, one which continues to influence both Eastern and Western politics today.The Russian Revolution: History in an Hour neatly covers all the major facts and ... Read more

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  • A People's Tragedy

    The Russian Revolution - the definitive history

    by Orlando Figes ...
    The most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is widely hailed as the definitive account of the Russian Revolution.Orlando Figes weaves scholarship and storytelling to capture both the epic scale and personal cost of 1917. Gripping and compassionate, he draws on the diaries and ... Read more

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  • The Russian Revolution

    A New History

    by Sean McMeekin ...
    From an award-winning scholar, this definitive history reveals the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution.“McMeekin writes muscular history. His Russian Revolution grips the reader.” —Niall FergusonIn The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolskeviks into power, and introduced communism to the world.... ... Read more

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    by Richard Pipes ...
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  • Europe's Last Summer

    Who Started the Great War in 1914?

    by David Fromkin ...
    When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded it was unavoidable.In Europe’s Last Summer, David Fromkin provides a different answer: hostilities were commenced ... Read more

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  • The Baltic

    by Alan Palmer ...
    Alan Palmer traces the history of the Baltic region from its early Viking days and its time under the Byzantine Empire through its medieval prime when the Baltic Sea served as one of Europe’s central trading grounds. Palmer addresses both the strong nationalist sentiments that have driven Baltic culture and the early attempts at Baltic unification by Sweden and Russia. The Baltic also dissects the ... Read more

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  • The German Empire

    A Short History

    by Michael Sturmer ...
    Series Book 4 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In The German Empire, one of Europe's great historians and men of letters chronicles one of history's most fateful transformations--Germany's rise from new nation to prime mover in the chain of events that sent it hurtling into two world wars.In 1871, Otto von Bismarck fused with "blood and iron" a motley collection of principalities, Free Cities, and bishoprics into one Reich. In England, ... Read more

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