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Dusseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1995. German Text.384pp.. ISBN: 377005184X. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. GERMANY POLITICS HISTORY. more information

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Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1993. This book aims to give a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the development of Germany in the twentieth century, a country whose history has decisively shaped the map and the politics of modern Europe and the world in which we live. Professor Berghahn is not concerned merely with politics and diplomacy, but also with social change, economic performance and industrial relations. His appendix contains fifty tables of invaluable statistical information including industrial and agricultural production, employment, voting patterns and education. 341pp.. ISBN: 0521347483. Second Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HISTORY EUROPE GERMANY 20TH CENTURY. more information

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Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Focusses attention on community politics in pre-revolutionary France,showing how during a period of political and economic crisis,rioters formulated and satisfied their demand for food at fair prices.Known as the Flour War,or the guerre des farines,building upon George Rude's pioneering work,Bouton identifies communities of participants and victims in the Flour War ,analyzing them according to class,occupation,gender and location,and speculates why women of the menu people were heavily represented in the riots.307pp.. ISBN: 027101055X. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CROWDS COMMUNITY POLITICS FRANCE ANCIEN REGIME HISTORY. more information

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London: Atlantic Books, 2006. It was the emblematic crime of our moment: on a cold November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Moslem man, Mohammed Bouyeri shot and killed the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker, Theo van Gogh, for making with the vocally anti-Islamic Somali-born Dutch politician, Ayaan Hersi Ali, a movie that 'blasphemed' Islam. After Bouyeri shot van Gogh, he calmly stood over the body and cut his throat with a curved machete, as if performing a ritual sacrifice. The murder horrified quiet, complacent, prosperous Holland, a country that prides itself on being a bastion of tolerance, and sent shockwaves across Europe and around the world. Shortly thereafter, Ian Buruma returned to his native country to try to make sense of it all, and to see what larger meaning should and shouldn't be drawn from this story. The result is "Murder in Amsterdam", a masterpiece.278pp.. ISBN: 1843543192. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. EUROPE_ETHNIC RELATIONS ISLAM_EUROPE ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM. more information

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Australia: Paratus Press, 2008. This is the modern traveller's bible. Travellers and pilgrims seeking a unique experience can now uncover the ancient secrets of convents and monasteries around Europe. We reveal these atmospheric and affordable places that accommodate tourists or those pursuing a pilgrimage or spiritual retreat. Convents, monasteries and abbeys have always been places which generously welcome weary travellers. That tradition continues today and "Goodnight & God Bless" takes you on a tour of religious hideaways offering tourist and pilgrimage accommodation throughout Europe. Suitable for the traveller, the pious and the curious alike, this user-friendly travel guide provides invaluable information, travel tit-bits and anecdotes against a fascinating backdrop of history and religion.242pp.. ISBN: 9780646485201. First Edition. Paperback. New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. EUROPE CONVENT MONASTERY TRAVEL ACCOMMODATION. more information

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Huntington, NY, U.S.A.: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2002. Collection of essays exploring issues concerning the internal and external changes that challenge Europe as it tries to regroup, reform and refocus. Topics include: Nordic studies of power and democracy; rent-seeking activity levels; constituionalisation of social norms; EU critical infrastructure and security policy; economic principles for local govt; trend in EU trade and military readiness. 159pp. Illustrated with occasional maps, charts and diagrams.. ISBN: 1590334043. First Edition. Cloth/Laminated Boards. As New/No d/j as Published. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. EUROPE EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS BUSINESS COMMERCE TRADE MILITARY MEDICINE SOCIOLOGY. more information

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Huntington, NY, U.S.A.: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2002. 195pp.. ISBN: 1590333225. Cloth/Laminated Boards. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. EUROPE ECONOMICS POLITICS. more information

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Warsaw: Scholar Press, 1999. This unique book about Mazovia and Mazowieckie Voivodeship presents the complex problems and enormous development potential of the largest and most prosperous voivodeship in Poland, its civilisational achievements and economy, as well as natural and tourist merits. The authors also depict the complicated and colourful history of Mazovia, from the onset of Polish statehood to the present day. In doing so, they oppose stereotypes which reduce the significance of the region to Warsaw and its close environs. The exceptional qualities of the book include numerous statistical data concerning prominent domains of economic and social life, a presentation of poviats (counties), an extensive discussion of the cultural institutions and historical monuments of Mazovia, a portrait of the local landscape, and an expanded list of addresses, particularly those of the offices if gminas, starostys and the most important institutions at voivodeship level. 216pp.Map. ISBN: 8387367834. Cloth/Laminated Boards. As New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. MAZOVIA POLITICS EUROPE POLAND. more information

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Poland: Scholar Publishing House,Poland, 1996. Contents include: Dream of purity; Presence of Eastern and Central Europe in the culture and politics of contemporary Israel; Post-communist parties and nationalism; Barriers and obstacles on Poland's road to the European Union; Power -- Politics -- Individuality; Democratic rule of law; State and the great transformation; Society and the individual; Structure of partisan conflicts in Poland; Voter absence; Debate between right and left; Need for a new left; Communist experience and the social democratic reality; Civil-military relations in Central-Eastern Europe; Military regimes' extrication from politics; Comparative development of local political systems; Role of local autonomy in democratic and democratising societies; Local politics and the comparative study of political systems. TEXT IN ENGLISH AND POLISH.503pp.. ISBN: 8385838759. Cloth. As New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. POLITICAL SCIENCES SCIENCE POLAND. more information

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Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997. Expanding Class is the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundred-year period. In examining the lives of workers in one of Europe's more idiosyncratic industrial regions, Don Kalb affirms the utility of class analysis while responding to the cultural critics who have encouraged a movement away from this focus in labor history. In so doing, Expanding Class advances an interdisciplinary historical anthropology of working-class formation. Basing his analysis on oral as well as archival sources, Kalb reveals a dynamic relationship between capitalist industrialization, locality, and cultural class identities. Expanding Class compares Brabant's quaint central shoemaking district to its electrical boomtown Eindhoven, home of the enormous Philips Corporation. It introduces the concept of "flexible familism," a sociological phenomenon manipulated and fostered by industrialists in order to facilitate cheap and ample labor, one that employed the family daughters in order to ensure the discipline and loyalty of the working-class community. By using the industrial Netherlands as a paradigm, Kalb reveals new and productive ways to examine class construction and the development of labor history in other countries over the past thirty years, steering a path between the two schools of thought - cultural and economic - that have dominated labor history discussions in recent years. .337pp.. ISBN: 0822320223. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. As New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. POLITICS NETHERLANDS INDUSTRIALIZATION HISTORY. more information

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London: Hutchinson University Library, 1974. Slight fading to covers.151pp.. ISBN: 0090534441. Reprint. Paperback. Good/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. NATIONALISM POLITICS HISTORY. more information

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Athens: Ekdotike Athenon, 2006. GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Land, People, Mountains-Plateaux, Ravines, Plains, Rivers and Lakes, Coastline, Communications, Climate, Cultivation and Production, Geological Past, Flora, Fauna.CRETAN MYTHS,Gods and Heroes, Birth of Zeus, Zeus and Europa, Kingdom of Minos, Talos, Art during the Minoan Period, Pasiphae and the Minotaur, Ariadne and Theseus, Daidalos and Ikaros. HISTORICAL REVIEW. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS - HISTORY: Neolithic Period (6000-2600 B.C.), Pre-Palace Period (2600-2000 B.C.), Old Palace Period (1900-1700 B.C.), New Palace Period (1700-1450 B.C.), Post-Palace Period (1450-110 B.C.), Proto-Geometric Period (1100-900 B.C.), Geometric and Orientalizing Periods (900-650 B.C.), Archaic Period (650-500 B.C.), Classical and Hellenistic Periods (500-67 B.C.), Roman Period (67 B.C.-A.D. 330), First Byzantine Period (330-824), Arab Occupation (824-961), Second Byzantine Period (961-1204/10), Venetian Occupation (1204-1669), Turkish Occupation (1669-1898), Modern Times. TOURING HERAKLEION: History of the Town, Tour of the Town, THE MUSEUMS - Archaeological Museum , Historical Museum of Crete, Church of Saint Catherine -Collection of Byzantine Icons, EXCURSIONS: Archaeological Site of Knossos, Archaeological Site of Archanes, Archaeological Site of Phaistos, Archaeological Site of Aghia Triada, Archaeological Site of Tylissos, Sedoni Cave, Idaian Cave, Kastelli Pediados (Venetian fortress), Eileithyia Cave, Archaeological Site of Malia, Milatos Cave, Diktaian Cave. AGHIOS NIKOLAOS: History of the Town, Archaeological Museum, Connections for Spinalonga, Church of Panaghia Kera at Kritsa, Archaeological Site of Gournia, Chamezi Folk Museum. SITEIA: Archaeological Museum, Archaeological Site of Zakros, Toplou Monastery,Kapsa Monastery, Melidoni Cave. RETHYMNON: History of the Town, Archaeological Museum, Arkadi Monastery, Amari Valley, Preveli Monastery, Kourna Lake. CHANIA: History of the Town, Tour of the Town, Archaeological Museum, Gouverneto Cave, Chrysopigi Monastery, Askyphou Plateau, Samaria Ravine, Graeco-Roman town of Elyros, Kasteli (Kisamos), Chrysoskalitissa Monastery, Kastelli Selino. 302pp.Slight crease on front and back cover.. ISBN: 9602134267. Paperback. Very Good/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. GREECE CRETE TRAVEL HISTORY. more information

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Dusseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1994. German Text.331pp.. ISBN: 3770051793. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. GERMAN POLITICS HISTORY. more information

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London: Richard Bentley, 1854. Volume II ONLY.Lacks ffep.Bookplate to front pastedown.Six lithographs,35 wood engravings.Contents good but inner hinge weakening,one and half inch tear to tail of spine,some rubbing and staining to boards,some spotting to endpapers.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Poor/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. SCANDINAVIA HUNTING WILD SPORTS FAUNA LYNX ELK FOX DUCKS LEMMING GUSTAVUS HISTORY NORDIC BIRDS. more information

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London: Atlantic Books, 2008. The European Union is perhaps the least well understood political system in the world today. Europe: The State of the Union cuts through the jargon to offer a clear and concise assessment of this unique institution. This pioneering account explains not only what the EU is, what it does and how well it does it, but also why politicians have so little interest in explaining its workings to the public. Anand Menon avoids the excesses of both ardent Europhiles and sworn enemies of European integration, whose respective dreams of a federalist future and nightmares of a European superstate have so subverted public discussion. While pointing out the Union's shortcomings, he argues that the EU is an ingenious and necessary tool of its member states, helping them address myriad complex policy problems they would not be able to handle alone. Europe: The State of the Union is an urgent and rigorous evaluation of the great strengths - and profound weaknesses - of European integration.290pp.. ISBN: 9781843544791. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS EUROPE. more information

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Sofia: Kibea Publishing House, 2009. Prehistoric tribes, among them the Indo-Europeans, laid the foundations for the new continent of Europe that was born as a child of the more highly developed Asia. Trade connections with the Levant brought impulses leading to the birth of a unique new culture about 4,000 years ago on the island of Crete. This European culture is a project directed at the development of a free personality and a personal intelligence capable of self-reflection and moral judgement. It is an educational project of global significance as it creates a new consciousness that is not the exclusive property of Europeans, but represents a new quality of the consciousness of humanity. European culture became adult when it received the unifying impulse of Christianity, which formed the soul of Europe. It brought the notion of a brotherhood comprising the whole of humanity and it opened a path to our higher Self. Tribes began to create nations and new educational programmes spread over Europe. After the mystery schools of the prehistoric communities and the philosophical academies of Greece, new centres of learning were established: monastic and cathedral schools, medieval universities, spiritual circles and brotherhoods, Renaissance academies, and modern schools and universities. Initiating the changes of consciousness of European man, they have offered ever new ways to realise the full potential of his intelligence. From the end of the Middle Ages, European countries have shaped the modern world, but in the 20th century, the United States has become the leading global power. For Europe this was the century of a deep crisis, a 'midlife crisis', which put European culture on a so-called 'journey to the Underworld', known from mythology. In the language of psychology we can speak of a descent into the unconscious, which revealed the dark aspects of European culture. At the same time, Europe gave birth to a new spiritual consciousness, in which mind and heart are brought into harmony, as manifested in the work of scholars such as C G Jung, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Ivan Illich, politicians such as Dag Hammarskjold and Mikhail Gorbachev, and spiritual teachers such as Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian inaugurator of Anthroposophy, and Peter Deunov, the Bulgarian founder of the White Brotherhood. If their visions can break through, the role of Europe in the world will become a very different one. This would indeed be the beginning of the most important chapter in the biography of Europe.348pp.. ISBN: 9789544744632. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. SPIRITUAL HISTORY EUROPE. more information

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Pamplona: Gobierno De Navarra, 1994. 301pp.. ISBN: 8423512916. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HISTORY. more information

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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. 248pp.. ISBN: 0297790722. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. EUROPE_HISTORY VIENNA. more information

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Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2009. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies. The 'problem' of Gibraltar has been a constant source of diplomatic tension between Britain and Spain for over three hundred years. Franco himself described the Rock as a 'dagger in the spine of Spain', and it was during his dictatorship that Spain's diplomatic campaign to recover Gibraltar reached its height with the closing of the frontier in 1969. Given this background, it has long been assumed by historians and commentators that relations between Gibraltar and its Spanish neighbour have also been strained. Gareth Stockey rejects this assumption, and demonstrates that relations across the frontier had in fact been cordial for most of the period of British occupation of the Rock. The focus of this study is the Gibraltar-Spanish frontier. Rather than seeing the frontier as a physical entity - separating Gibraltar from its Spanish neighbour - the frontier is viewed as a process, through which the communities on either side of it fostered intimate social, cultural, political and economic links. Instead of creating a distinct and definable Gibraltarian 'identity' in this period - an identity which has since become a key argument in Gibraltar's calls for self-determination - the frontier instead served to blur this identity, and infuse the Gibraltarians with an array of Spanish cultural influences. Ironically, given his stated desire to see the Rock returned to Spain, it was Franco's policy of closing the Gibraltar frontier which hardened attitudes on both sides and made a solution to the Gibraltar 'problem' unlikely in the extreme. This book, the first in any language to provide an in-depth local study of Gibraltar-Spanish relations and constitutes a major critique of accepted wisdom on the so-called Gibraltar 'problem'. It also sheds light on a tempestuous period of Spanish history, and the early foreign policy of the Franco regime. It is published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies. 304pp.. ISBN: 9781845193010. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SPAIN ANGLO-SPANISH RELATIONS FRANCO THE ROCK. more information

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