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  • Bearslayers

    The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists

    by William D. Prigge ...
    Series Book 71 - American University Studies
    The 1959 purge of the Latvian national communists has long been cast in black-and-white terms: Russification and resistance; victimizers and victims. Conventional wisdom holds that Nikita Khrushchev was behind the purge. After all, he was the Soviet premier; he stopped in Riga just a few weeks before; even the leading victim of the purge, Eduards Berklavs, labeled Khrushchev the culprit. For the ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

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  • Story of My People

    Essays and Social Criticism on Italy's Economy

    by Edoardo Nesi ...
    Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this blend of essay, social criticism, and memoir is a striking portrait of the effects of globalization on Italy’s declining economy.Starting from his family’s textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy’s manufacturing industry. Only one generation ago, Prato was a thriving industrial center that prided itself on ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Rival Power

    Russia's Influence in Southeast Europe

    by Dimitar Bechev ...
    A nuanced and comprehensive study of the political dynamics between Russia and key countries in Southeast EuropeIs Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades’ of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West say, “yes.” With rising global anxiety over Russia’s political policies and objectives, Dimitar Bechev ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Italy and Tito’s Yugoslavia in the Age of International Détente

    Edited by Massimo Bucarelli, Luca Micheletta, Luciano Monzali, Luca Riccardi ...
    Series Book 38 - Enjeux internationaux / International Issues
    World War II and East-West confrontation redefined borders between Italy and Yugoslavia, reshaped national frontiers and adversely affected political relations. As a result, major quarrels and disputes arose over territorial claims, demarcation of State boundaries, expulsion of national minorities, and diverging visions on international and domestic politics. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s, ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Probing the Past

    Festschrift in Honor of Leo Schelbert

    Edited by Wendy Everham, Virginia Schelbert ...
    This Festschrift acknowledges the scholarly work of Leo Schelbert and his mentorship of graduate students in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago where for 33 years he taught American history. Professor Schelbert has specialized in the story of European migrations and especially of immigration to the United States. His courses offered not only pertinent data, but they ... Read more

    $118.99 CAD

  • ICP and the political crisis in Poland

    by Francesco Bonicelli Verrina ...
    The essay investigates the controversial relations between the Italian communist party, the Italian left, the Polish communist reformers, trade unions, Church, human rights activists and Solidarity, during the turbulent Polish political crisis of 1980-82, and their consequences, through unpublished archives and the articles of that time, analyzing the influence of Berlinguer and Eurocommunism on ... Read more

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  • An Artist as Soldier

    Seeking Refuge in Love and Art

    by Barbara Schmitter Heisler ...
    Series Book 114 - American University Studies
    At the center of this book are the World War II letters (Feldpostbriefe) of a German artist and art teacher to his wife. While Bernhard Epple’s letters to his wife, Gudrun, address many of the topics usually found in war letters (food, lodging conditions, the weather, problems with the mail service, requests for favors from home), they are unusual in two respects. Each letter is lovingly decorated ... Read more

    $125.99 CAD

  • Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio

    Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands

    by Benjamin Esswein ...
    Series Book 72 - Studies in Modern European History
    Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio: Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands provides a critical study of Lutheran reformers in Krain, formerly a province along what is now the Croatian/Slovenian border, and acts as a case study for the rest of the Habsburg-Ottoman borderlands. Focus is given to the Austrian Habsburgs, benefactors to the reformers, who sought to adopt Johannes Brenz’ ... Read more

    $138.99 CAD

  • Irish Education and Catholic Emancipation, 1791–1831

    The Campaigns of Bishop Doyle and Daniel O’Connell

    by Brian Fleming ...
    The restrictions applied to Catholics in the early eighteenth century to curtail their political and economic power in Ireland were gradually removed by the British government in response to changing circumstances. By 1800 the remaining restrictions related to membership of Parliament and a few senior judicial positions. The removal of these, while important symbolically, could have direct ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • American Responses to the Holocaust

    Transatlantic Perspectives

    Edited by Hans Krabbendam, Derek Rubin ...
    Series Book 12 - Interamericana
    This collection puts the topic of Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies in a new American Studies perspective. This perspective compares the similarities and differences in responses and their transatlantic interaction. As the Holocaust grew into an important factor in American culture, it also became a subject of American Studies, both as a window on American trends and as a topic to which ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Art of War

    Edited by Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Barbara McCloskey ...
    Series Book 5 - German Visual Culture
    War and trauma are fundamental human experiences and central to German history, especially in the twentieth century. This volume considers the multivalent aspects of art that responds to war, beginning with art conceived in response to the First World War and examining art and photography in the wake of the Holocaust and more recent conflicts. ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD

  • Roman Standards & Standard-Bearers (1)

    112 BC–AD 192

    by Dr Raffaele D’Amato ...
    Series Book 221 - Elite
    A fully illustrated study of the colourful standards employed by the Roman army, and the iconic standard bearers who led the legionaries into battle.Roman unit standards played a important role, both ceremonially and on the battlefield. With the armies of the late Roman Republic and early Empire continually engaged on the frontiers, the soldiers selected for the dangerous honour of carrying them ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD