Lithuania
A Short History
ISBN: PB: 9781911723608,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2025
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The first popular history of a small post-Soviet state, and a very old European power.
Lithuania is often portrayed as a small nation-state that has survived against the odds of history: together with Estonia and Latvia, it won independence at the...
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18.99 GBP
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No More Napoleons
How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One
ISBN: HB: 9780300275551,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
512 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 4 maps
512 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 4 maps
How, for just over a century, Britain ensured it would not face another Napoleon Bonaparte – manipulating European powers while building a global maritime empire.
At the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, a fragile peace emerged in Europe. The cont...
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25.00 GBP
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Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
Updated Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300279597,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
304 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 1 map
304 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 1 map
Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland's modern period and continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the isla...
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12.99 GBP
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Stalin's Library
A Dictator and his Books
ISBN: PB: 9780300281132,
ISBN: HB: 9780300179040,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 14 black&white illus.
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 14 black&white illus.
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library.
In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what th...
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Josephine Baker's Secret War
The African American Star Who Fought For France And Freedom
ISBN: HB: 9780300279986,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
352 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 25 colour illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 25 colour illus.
The full story of Josephine Baker's wartime and intelligence work in France and North Africa.
Before the Second World War, Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was one of the most famous performers in the world. She made her name dancing on the Parisian sta...
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Maria Theresa: Empress
The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780300243987,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
520 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 31 black&white illus., 1 map
520 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 31 black&white illus., 1 map
A major new biography of Maria Theresa, the formidable Habsburg Empress.
Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find them conteste...
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Colonialism Devours Itself
The Waning of Francafrique
ISBN: HB: 9781911723653,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2025
264 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
264 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
A historically grounded account, from de Gaulle onwards, of how France's neocolonial influence crumbled in Africa, with devastating and unforeseen consequences.
France is the only country that never decolonised its colonies, emotionally, financial...
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18.99 GBP
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Stories Old Towns Tell
A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780300281064,
ISBN: HB: 9780300267846,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
352 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 11 black&white illus., 1 map
352 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 11 black&white illus., 1 map
A fascinating journey through Europe's old towns (Warsaw, Wurzburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Vilnius, Lublin, Prague, Frankfurt) exploring why we treasure them – but also what they hide about a continent's fraught history.
Historic quarters in cit...
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Ashes of Our Fathers
Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh
ISBN: HB: 9781911723578,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Vivid reportage from a war at the edge of Europe, between two ancient peoples caught up in great power interests and clashing narratives of home.
On 19 September 2023, war broke out once again in Nagorno-Karabakh, a tiny breakaway state nestled in...
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Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism
Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England
ISBN: HB: 9781911723585,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A hard-hitting critique of the Church of England as a social, spiritual and financial driver and beneficiary of the British Empire.
This book offers a fresh, bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are primarily English con...
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