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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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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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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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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Emancipation
The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom
ISBN: HB: 9780300273663,
Yale University Press,
November 2024
568 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
568 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
In this sequel to his landmark study, historian Peter Kolchin compares the transition to freedom after American emancipation with the Russian Great Reforms.
The two largest transitions from unfree to free labor of the many that occurred in Europe a...
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Why I Became an X Troop Commando
A Life of Colin Anson, the German who Fought for Churchill
ISBN: PB: 9780300279511,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
240 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 16 black&white illlus., 1 map
240 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 16 black&white illlus., 1 map
A fascinating and moving biography of Colin Anson, the German refugee who became an elite British commando.
Born in Germany in 1922, Colin Anson's (Claus Ascher) childhood was marked by the trials of Nazism. His father was arrested by the Gestapo i...
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Henry III
Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1259-1272
ISBN: PB: 9780300279337,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
736 pp., 20,3x13,3 cm, 22 colour illus.
736 pp., 20,3x13,3 cm, 22 colour illus.
The second volume in the definitive history of Henry III's rule, covering the revolutionary events between 1258 and the king's death in 1272.
After coming to the throne aged just nine, Henry III spent much of his reign peaceably. Conciliatory and d...
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Battleground Ukraine
From Independence to the War with Russia
ISBN: HB: 9780300269468,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion.
In 1991, after seventy years of imperial Soviet rule, Ukraine became an independent country. Since 202...
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