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The Balkan Wars - A Captivating Guide to the First and Second Balkan War and Their Impact on World War I (Hardcover):... The Balkan Wars - A Captivating Guide to the First and Second Balkan War and Their Impact on World War I (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R660 R592 Discovery Miles 5 920 Save R68 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Forced War - When Peaceful Revision Failed (Hardcover): David Hoggan The Forced War - When Peaceful Revision Failed (Hardcover)
David Hoggan; Edited by William von Peters
R1,646 Discovery Miles 16 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Turobin Book - In Memory of the Jewish community: Translation of Sefer Turobin; pinkas zikaron (Hardcover): Meir Shimon... The Turobin Book - In Memory of the Jewish community: Translation of Sefer Turobin; pinkas zikaron (Hardcover)
Meir Shimon Geshuri, Dan Feder
R1,326 Discovery Miles 13 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
New Left Tyranny (Hardcover): Hanne Herland New Left Tyranny (Hardcover)
Hanne Herland
R627 R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies - Semantics and Lexical Fields (Hardcover): Jeannine Bischoff,... Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies - Semantics and Lexical Fields (Hardcover)
Jeannine Bischoff, Stephan Conermann
R2,304 Discovery Miles 23 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this volume, we approach the phenomenon of slavery and other types of strong asymmetrical dependencies from two methodologically and theoretically distinct perspectives: semantics and lexical fields. Detailed analyses of key terms that are associated with the conceptualization of strong asymmetrical dependencies promise to provide new insights into the self-concept and knowledge of pre-modern societies. The majority of these key terms have not been studied from a semantic or terminological perspective so far. Our understanding of lexical fields is based on an onomasiological approach - which linguistic items are used to refer to a concept? Which words are used to express a concept? This means that the concept is a semantic unit which is not directly accessible but may be manifested in different ways on the linguistic level. We are interested in single concepts such as 'wisdom' or 'fear', but also in more complex semantic units like 'strong asymmetrical dependencies'. In our volume, we bring together and compare case studies from very different social orders and normative perspectives. Our examples range from Ancient China and Egypt over Greek and Maya societies to Early Modern Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Islamic and Roman law.

History of France - A Captivating Guide to French History (Hardcover): Captivating History History of France - A Captivating Guide to French History (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R757 R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Interpreting the Ancien Regime (Paperback): David Bien Interpreting the Ancien Regime (Paperback)
David Bien; Edited by Rafe Blaufarb, Michael S. Christofferson, Darrin M. McMahon
R3,401 Discovery Miles 34 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The work of David Bien, one of America's foremost historians of eighteenth-century France, transformed our understanding of the ancien regime and the origins of the French Revolution. The editors bring together for the first time his most important articles, other previously unpublished essays and an interview transcript. Bien's empirically-grounded approach made him a central figure in the 'revisionist' debates on the origins of the French Revolution. His re-reading of the Calas affair as an anomaly in a growing trend of tolerance (rather than a sign of widespread bigotry among an entire class of magistrates) opened up significant new insights into the history of religious persecution, long influenced by Voltaire. Bien's ground-breaking research on the army and the sale of offices revealed the surprising extent of social mobility at the time and challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that it was frustration of the bourgeoisie which contributed to the outbreak of the Revolution. With a preface by Keith Baker and an introduction by Michael Christofferson, Interpreting the 'ancien regime'underlines the seminal importance of David Bien's work for contemporary debates about the social and political history of late-eighteenth-century France. It will be an indispensible resource for historians and historiographers alike.

Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz. Containing the Particulars of his own Life, With the Most Secret Transactions at the French... Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz. Containing the Particulars of his own Life, With the Most Secret Transactions at the French Court During the Administration of Cardinal Mazarin of 4; Volume 4 (Hardcover)
Jean Francois Paul De Gondi De Retz
R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From Cyprus to Lepanto - History of the Events, Which Occurred from the Beginning of the War Brought against the Venetians by... From Cyprus to Lepanto - History of the Events, Which Occurred from the Beginning of the War Brought against the Venetians by Selim the Ottoman, to the Day of the Great and Victorious Battle against the Turks (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Giovanni Pietro Contarini; Edited by Kiril Petkov; Translated by Kiril Petkov
R919 Discovery Miles 9 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In the Wake of the Plague - The Black Death and the World It Made (Paperback): Norman F. Cantor In the Wake of the Plague - The Black Death and the World It Made (Paperback)
Norman F. Cantor
R496 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R71 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Memorial Book of Krynki (Krynki, Poland) (Hardcover): D. Rabin Memorial Book of Krynki (Krynki, Poland) (Hardcover)
D. Rabin; Index compiled by Jonathan Wind; Edited by Michael Palmer
R1,517 R1,281 Discovery Miles 12 810 Save R236 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Seedtime in Kashmir - A Memoir of William Jackson Elmslie (Hardcover): William Jackson Elmslie Seedtime in Kashmir - A Memoir of William Jackson Elmslie (Hardcover)
William Jackson Elmslie
R917 Discovery Miles 9 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Friday Night Drinks at Home - Surviving Lockdown One Cocktail at a Time (Hardcover): Evanthia Dragatogiannis Friday Night Drinks at Home - Surviving Lockdown One Cocktail at a Time (Hardcover)
Evanthia Dragatogiannis
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
We Will Not Die Here (Hardcover): Zack Redman We Will Not Die Here (Hardcover)
Zack Redman
R831 R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Napoleon's Last Campaign in Germany, 1813; with seventeen maps and plans (Hardcover): Francis Loraine Petre Napoleon's Last Campaign in Germany, 1813; with seventeen maps and plans (Hardcover)
Francis Loraine Petre
R1,075 R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Save R103 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Endgame 1944 - How Stalin Won The War (Paperback): Jonathan Dimbleby Endgame 1944 - How Stalin Won The War (Paperback)
Jonathan Dimbleby
R505 R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Save R55 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A gripping account of the Soviet victories of 1944.

The year 1944 was the turning point of World War Two, and nowhere was this more evident than on the Eastern Front. For three years, following the onslaught of the German Army during Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Red Army had retreated and then eventually held, fighting to a stalemate while the Germans occupied and ravaged large parts of the Soviet Union and its republics. Finally, following the breaking of the German siege of Leningrad in January 1944, Stalin and his generals were able to consider striking back. In June, they launched Operation Bagration, during which more than two million Red Army soldiers began an offensive, pushing west. The results were almost immediate and devastating. Within three weeks, Army Group Centre, the core of the German Army, had lost 28 of its 32 divisions. The ending had begun.

Drawing on new sources-some previously untranslated-including accounts from ordinary soldiers and witnesses, Jonathan Dimbleby chronicles this decisive year in what was arguably the most crucial front in the war against Nazi Germany, a front extending 1200 miles. He covers the military, political, and diplomatic aspects in his trademark accessible and evocative style, illuminating the major conflicts as well as the roles played by deception, Partisan fighting, and the war within a war in Ukraine.

Endgame 1944 reveals how the Soviet victories enabled Stalin to dictate the terms of the post-war settlement, laying the foundations for the Cold War.

The Last King of Poland - and His Contemporaries (Hardcover): R Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) 1854 Bain The Last King of Poland - and His Contemporaries (Hardcover)
R Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) 1854 Bain
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Broken Memories (Hardcover): Yosef Kutner Broken Memories (Hardcover)
Yosef Kutner; Cover design or artwork by Rachel Kolokoff Hopper
R1,144 R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Save R171 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Folk Who Live In The West - Tales from the West Coast (Hardcover): Kathleen MacPhee The Folk Who Live In The West - Tales from the West Coast (Hardcover)
Kathleen MacPhee
R949 Discovery Miles 9 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pathos and Anti-Pathos - Ruptured Affections in the Writing of the Shoah (Hardcover): Tom Vanassche Pathos and Anti-Pathos - Ruptured Affections in the Writing of the Shoah (Hardcover)
Tom Vanassche
R3,200 Discovery Miles 32 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Scholarship often presumes that texts written about the Shoah, either by those directly involved in it or those writing its history, must always bear witness to the affective aftermath of the event, the lingering emotional effects of suffering. Drawing on the History of Emotions and on trauma theory, this monograph offers a critical study of the ambivalent attributions and expressions of emotion and "emotionlessness" in the literature and historiography of the Shoah. It addresses three phenomena: the metaphorical discourses by which emotionality and the purported lack thereof are attributed to victims and to perpetrators; the rhetoric of affective self-control and of affective distancing in fiction, testimony and historiography; and the poetics of empathy and the status of emotionality in discourses on the Shoah. Through a close analysis of a broad corpus centred around the work of W. G. Sebald, Dieter Schlesak, Ruth Kluger and Raul Hilberg, the book critically contextualises emotionality and its attributions in the post-war era, when a scepticism of pathos coincided with demands for factual rigidity. Ultimately, it invites the reader to reflect on their own affective stances towards history and its commemoration in the twenty-first century.

The Daughter of Peter the Great - a History of Russian Diplomacy, and of the Russian Court Under the Empress Elizabeth... The Daughter of Peter the Great - a History of Russian Diplomacy, and of the Russian Court Under the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, 1741-1762 (Hardcover)
R Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) 1854 Bain
R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Johann Bernhard Basedow and the Transformation of Modern Education - Educational Reform in the German Enlightenment... Johann Bernhard Basedow and the Transformation of Modern Education - Educational Reform in the German Enlightenment (Hardcover)
Robert B. Louden
R3,380 Discovery Miles 33 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Best known for the progressive school he founded in Dessau during the 18th century, Johann Bernhard Basedow was a central thinker in the German Enlightenment. Since his death in 1790 a substantial body of German-language literature about his life, work, and school (the Philanthropin) has developed. In the first English intellectual biography of this influential figure, Robert B. Louden answers questions that continue to surround Basedow and provides a much-needed examination of Basedow's intellectual legacy. Assessing the impact of his ideas and theories on subsequent educational movements, Louden argues that Basedow is the unacknowledged father of the progressive education movement. He unravels several paradoxes surrounding the Philanthropin to help understand why it was described by Immanuel Kant as "the greatest phenomenon which has appeared in this century for the perfection of humanity", despite its brief and stormy existence, its low enrollment and insufficient funding. Among the many neglected stories Louden tells is the enormous and unacknowledged debt that Kant owes to Basedow in his philosophy of education, history, and religion. This is a positive reassessment of Basedow and his difficult personality that leads to a reevaluation of the originality of major figures as well as a reconsideration of the significance of allegedly minor authors who have been eclipsed by the politics of historiography. For anyone looking to gain a deeper understanding of the history of German philosophy, Louden's book is essential reading.

Battle for Sitka,1802 -1804, Alaskan Tlingits, Russians and Native Allies in Russian America (Hardcover): Alexander V Zorin Battle for Sitka,1802 -1804, Alaskan Tlingits, Russians and Native Allies in Russian America (Hardcover)
Alexander V Zorin
R966 R875 Discovery Miles 8 750 Save R91 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wild Norway / With Chapters on Spitsbergen, Denmark, Etc (Hardcover): Abel 1851-1929 Chapman Wild Norway / With Chapters on Spitsbergen, Denmark, Etc (Hardcover)
Abel 1851-1929 Chapman
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Harmon Genealogy, Comprising All Branches in New England (Hardcover): Artemas Canfield Harmon The Harmon Genealogy, Comprising All Branches in New England (Hardcover)
Artemas Canfield Harmon
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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