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The Comedie-Francaise from Moliere to Eric Ruf (Hardcover): Simon Trowbridge The Comedie-Francaise from Moliere to Eric Ruf (Hardcover)
Simon Trowbridge
R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Greek History - A Captivating Guide to the History of Greece, from the Bronze Age through Classical Antiquity to Modern Greece... Greek History - A Captivating Guide to the History of Greece, from the Bronze Age through Classical Antiquity to Modern Greece (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R904 R793 Discovery Miles 7 930 Save R111 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Introduction to Nordic Cultures (Hardcover): Annika Lindskog, Jakob 0000-0002-7915 Stougaard-Nielsen Introduction to Nordic Cultures (Hardcover)
Annika Lindskog, Jakob 0000-0002-7915 Stougaard-Nielsen
R1,197 Discovery Miles 11 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Into Russia's Cauldron - An American Vision, Undone (Hardcover): Steven Fisher Into Russia's Cauldron - An American Vision, Undone (Hardcover)
Steven Fisher
R867 Discovery Miles 8 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Living among the Dead - My Grandmother's Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength (Hardcover): Adena Bernstein... Living among the Dead - My Grandmother's Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength (Hardcover)
Adena Bernstein Astrowsky
R648 R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From Doubt to Unbelief - Forms of Scepticism in the Iberian World (Hardcover): Stefania Pastore, Mercedes Garcia-Arenal From Doubt to Unbelief - Forms of Scepticism in the Iberian World (Hardcover)
Stefania Pastore, Mercedes Garcia-Arenal
R2,623 Discovery Miles 26 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Downfall of the Famous - New Annotated Edition of the Fates of Illustrious Men (Abridged, Hardcover, Abridged edition):... The Downfall of the Famous - New Annotated Edition of the Fates of Illustrious Men (Abridged, Hardcover, Abridged edition)
Giovanni Boccaccio; Translated by Louis Brewer Hall; Abridged by Louis Brewer Hall
R1,050 Discovery Miles 10 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820-1960 - Forgotten Livelihoods (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Jutta... Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820-1960 - Forgotten Livelihoods (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Jutta Ahlbeck, Ann-Catrin OEstman, Eija Stark
R1,671 Discovery Miles 16 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820-1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different spaces and approaches ambulatory trade as an arena of encounters by looking at everyday social practices. Petty traders often belonged to subjugated social groups, like ethnic minorities and migrants, whereas their customers belonged to the resident population. How were these mobile traders perceived and described? What goods did they peddle? How did these commodities enable and shape trading encounters? What kind of narratives can be found, and whose? These questions pertaining to daily practices on a grass-root level have not been addressed in previous research. Encounters and Practices embarks on hidden histories of survival, vulnerability, and conflict, but also discloses reciprocal relations, even friendships.

Sounds Sounds from Silence - Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor, Psychiatrist and Teacher (Hardcover): Robert Krell Sounds Sounds from Silence - Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor, Psychiatrist and Teacher (Hardcover)
Robert Krell
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History and Politics of Free Movement within the European Union - European Borders of Justice (Hardcover): Saila Heinikoski The History and Politics of Free Movement within the European Union - European Borders of Justice (Hardcover)
Saila Heinikoski
R3,552 Discovery Miles 35 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The right to free movement is the one privilege that EU citizens value the most in the Union, but one that has also created much political controversy in recent years, as the debates preceding the 2016 Brexit referendum aptly illustrate. This book examines how European politicians have justified and criticized free movement from the commencement of the first Commission of the EU-25 in November 2004 to the Brexit referendum in June 2016. The analysis takes into account the discourses of Heads of State, Governments and Ministers of the Interior (or Home Secretaries) of six major European states: the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Romania. In addition to these national leaders, the speeches of European Commissioners responsible for free movement matters are also considered. The book introduces a new conceptual framework for analysing practical reasoning in political discourses and applies it in the analysis of national free movement debates contextualised in respective migration histories. In addition to results related to political discourses, the study unearths wider problems related to free movement, including the diversified and variegated approaches towards different groups of movers as well as the exclusive attitudes apparent in both discourses and policies. The History and Politics of Free Movement within the European Union is of interest to anyone studying national and European politics and ideologies, contemporary history, migration policies and political argumentation.

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca - American Trailblazer (Hardcover): Robin Varnum Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca - American Trailblazer (Hardcover)
Robin Varnum
R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Texas. By July 1536, eight years later, alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-1559) and three other survivors had walked 2,500 miles from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora and ultimately to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vaca's account of this astonishing journey is now recognized as one of the great travel stories of all time and a touchstone of New World literature. But his career did not begin and end with his North American ordeal."" Robin Varnum's biography, the first single-volume cradle-to-grave account of the explorer's life in eighty years, tells the rest of the story.
During Cabeza de Vaca's peregrinations through the American Southwest, he lived among and interacted with various Indian groups. When he and his non-Indian companions finally reconnected with Spaniards in northern Mexico, he was horrified to learn that his compatriots were enslaving Indians there. His "Relacion" (1542) advocated using kindness and fairness rather than force in dealing with the native people of the New World. Cabeza de Vaca went on to serve as governor of Spain's province of Rio de La Plata in South America (roughly modern Paraguay). As a loyal subject of the king of Spain, he supported the colonialist enterprise and believed in Christianizing the Indians, but he always championed the rights of native peoples. In Rio de La Plata he tried to keep his men from robbing the Indians, enslaving them, or exploiting them sexually--policies that caused grumbling among the troops. When Cabeza de Vaca's men mutinied, he was sent back to Spain in chains to stand trial before the Royal Council of the Indies.
Drawing on the conquistador's own reports and on other sixteenth-century documents, both in English translation and the original Spanish, Varnum's lively narrative braids eyewitness testimony of events with historical interpretation benefiting from recent scholarship and archaeological investigation. As one of the few Spaniards of his era to explore the coasts and interiors of two continents, Cabeza de Vaca is recognized today above all for his more humane attitude toward and interactions with the Indian peoples of North America, Mexico, and South America.

Regulating the Academie - Art, Rules and Power in ancien regime France (English, French, Paperback, New ed.): Reed Benhamou Regulating the Academie - Art, Rules and Power in ancien regime France (English, French, Paperback, New ed.)
Reed Benhamou
R3,400 Discovery Miles 34 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The acclaimed Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture, the second oldest academy in France, was abolished in 1793. Whilst a number of studies have explored the drama of its dissolution, often associated with a speech by former member Jacques-Louis David, this outcome can only be fully understood in the context of the evolving governance of the institution. In this groundbreaking work, Reed Benhamou provides the first comprehensive examination of the codes and practices of the Academie, from its inception in 1648 to its abolition in 1793. As well as exploring why certain rules were adopted, how they facilitated the development of institutional power bases, and the part they played in the Academie's growing factionalism, the author uncovers changing attitudes to the guild, women, associate academicians and unaffiliated artists. This astute and comprehensive analysis is followed by nine annotated appendices of both registered and proposed statutes and of other related documents, many of which are made readily accessible for the first time. Offering new insights into the tensions between art and state throughout the ancien regime and beyond, Regulating the Academie is an invaluable reference not only for art historians, but also for those working in cultural or legal history.

Erik the Red - A Captivating Guide to the Viking Who Founded the First Norse Settlement in Greenland (Hardcover): Captivating... Erik the Red - A Captivating Guide to the Viking Who Founded the First Norse Settlement in Greenland (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R709 R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nietzsche's Orphans - Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire (Hardcover): Rebecca Mitchell Nietzsche's Orphans - Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire (Hardcover)
Rebecca Mitchell
R3,025 Discovery Miles 30 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A prevailing belief among Russia's cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social and economic divides. In this illuminating study of competing artistic and ideological visions at the close of Russia's "Silver Age," author Rebecca Mitchell interweaves cultural history, music, and philosophy to explore how "Nietzsche's orphans" strove to find in music a means to overcome the disunity of modern life in the final tumultuous years before World War I and the Communist Revolution.

Alfred the Great (Hardcover): Jacob Abbott Alfred the Great (Hardcover)
Jacob Abbott
R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940 (Hardcover): Bodleian Library the German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940 (Hardcover)
Bodleian Library the
R203 Discovery Miles 2 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"I have decided to prepare for, and if necessary to carry out, an invasion against England."--Adolph Hitler, July 16, 1940
Operation Sealion was the codename for the Nazi invasion of Britain that Hitler ordered his generals to plan after France fell in June 1940. Although the plan ultimately never came to fruition, a few sets of the Germans' detailed strategy documents are housed in the rare book rooms of libraries across Europe. But now the Bodleian Library has made documents from their set available for all to peruse in this unprecedented collection of the invasion planning materials.
The planned operation would have involved landing 160,000 German soldiers along a forty-mile stretch of coast in southeast England. Packets of reconnaissance materials were put together for the invading forces, and the most intriguing parts are now reproduced here. Each soldier was to be given maps and geographical descriptions of the British Isles that broke down the country by regions, aerial photographs pinpointing strategic targets, an extensive listing of British roads and rivers, strategic plans for launching attacks on each region, an English dictionary and phrase book, and even a brief description of Britain's social composition.
Augmenting the fascinating documents is an informative introduction that sets the materials in their historical and political context. A must-have for every military history buff, "German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940" is a remarkable revelation of the inner workings of Hitler's most famous unrealized military campaign.

Gottschalk - Servant of God: A Story of Courage, Faith, and Love for the Truth (Hardcover): Connie L Meyer Gottschalk - Servant of God: A Story of Courage, Faith, and Love for the Truth (Hardcover)
Connie L Meyer
R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Explaining the Holocaust (Hardcover): Mordecai Schreiber, Mordecai Paldiel Explaining the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Mordecai Schreiber, Mordecai Paldiel
R1,125 R948 Discovery Miles 9 480 Save R177 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Les Collectionneurs de L'ancienne Rome - Notes d'un Amateur (Hardcover): Edmond Bonnaffe Les Collectionneurs de L'ancienne Rome - Notes d'un Amateur (Hardcover)
Edmond Bonnaffe
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of Greece - A Captivating Guide to Greek History, Starting from the Bronze Age in Ancient Greece Through the Classical... History of Greece - A Captivating Guide to Greek History, Starting from the Bronze Age in Ancient Greece Through the Classical and Hellenistic Period to the Modern Era (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R691 R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Save R73 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Volomin; a Memorial to the Jewish Community of Volomin (Wolomin, Poland) (Hardcover): Shimon Kanc Volomin; a Memorial to the Jewish Community of Volomin (Wolomin, Poland) (Hardcover)
Shimon Kanc; Cover design or artwork by Rachel Kolokoff Hopper; Index compiled by Jonathan Wind
R1,366 R1,157 Discovery Miles 11 570 Save R209 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Memorial Book of Radzivilov - Translation of Radzivilov: Sefer Zikaron (Hardcover): Ya'acov Adini, Ellen Garshick Memorial Book of Radzivilov - Translation of Radzivilov: Sefer Zikaron (Hardcover)
Ya'acov Adini, Ellen Garshick
R1,228 Discovery Miles 12 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
No Neighbors' Lands in Postwar Europe - Vanishing Others (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Anna Wylegala, Sabine Rutar,... No Neighbors' Lands in Postwar Europe - Vanishing Others (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Anna Wylegala, Sabine Rutar, Malgorzata Lukianow
R3,627 Discovery Miles 36 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on the social voids that were the result of occupation, genocide, mass killings, and population movements in Europe during and after the Second World War. Historians, sociologists, and anthropologists adopt comparative perspectives on those who now lived in 'cleansed' borderlands. Its contributors explore local subjectivities of social change through the concept of 'No Neighbors' Lands': How does it feel to wear the dress of your murdered neighbor? How does one get used to friends, colleagues, and neighbors no longer being part of everyday life? How is moral, social, and legal order reinstated after one part of the community participated in the ethnic cleansing of another? How is order restored psychologically in the wake of neighbors watching others being slaughtered by external enemies? This book sheds light on how destroyed European communities, once multi-ethnic and multi-religious, experienced postwar reconstruction, attempted to come to terms with what had happened, and negotiated remembrance.

Einhard's Life of Charlemagne - the Latin Text (Hardcover): Ca 770-840 Einhard Einhard's Life of Charlemagne - the Latin Text (Hardcover)
Ca 770-840 Einhard; Heathcote William 1878-1960 Garrod
R858 Discovery Miles 8 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Irish History - A Captivating Guide to the History of Ireland (Hardcover): Captivating History Irish History - A Captivating Guide to the History of Ireland (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R719 R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Save R79 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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