Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamie......more

In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to sha......more

Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine. Th......more

The intertwined histories of Paris and of the River Seine are interesting but complicated. It is the Seine, however with......more

This book tells the story of an epochal change in the human condition that was part of what is often thought of as ’mode......more

The essays in this volume show that Versailles was not the static creation of one man, but a hugely complex cultural spa......more

"So infectious is R. Howard Bloch’s passion for his subject that even those unable to do the traveling required will fin......more

A revolutionary study of nineteenth-century Parisian cartography and its role in shaping a modern conception of space Ma......more

The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contai......more

The fall of France in June 1940, La Débâcle, posed a challenge to France’s understanding of itself. Could the existing "......more

The Russian Workers’ Republic (1921) is a result of the author’s two-month travels through Soviet Russia. Moving freely ......more

Soviet Succession Struggles (1988) is a key study of the history, nature and development of Soviet politics and politici......more

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’Like Crécy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life.’ BERNARD CORNWELL, bestsel......more

The Slavonic and East European Review, the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, is published......more

How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socio......more

How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socio......more

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. In French literature, newspapers ......more

This is the first book on the Wagner Group, the shadowy Russian paramilitary organisation that fought in Ukraine and sta......more

From Then to Table, Culinary Time Travels - Discover Food Through the Lens of History! Discover the mouth-watering legac......more

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A captivating story of love and heroism set against the Allied invasion of Europe. Based on historical research and inte......more

This new monograph devoted to a detailed exploration of the ways in which the medieval past has been wielded to propagan......more

This book explores imperial entanglements to reassess the Napoleonic Empire as a missing link--or at least an important ......more

On the Threshold of the Apocalypse: 1913-1915 is the seventh volume from Léon Bloyʼs personal journal begun in 1892. Thi......more

This volume provides a collection of ’imagined lives’-individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy,......more

This volume provides a collection of ’imagined lives’-individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy,......more

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In socialist Eastern Europe, radio simultaneously produced state power and created the conditions for it to be challenge......more

A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential "Sho......more

A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag--showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling co......more

One war: three collisions--in this vividly written, narrative history of the war in Ukraine, Michael Kimmage puts togeth......more

A Motor-Flight Through France, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human h......more

This book examines the Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, and its role in Russian culture. The co......more

A searing historical account of a tragic episode of the Stalinist terror During the spring of 1933, Stalin’s police roun......more

This book provides a systematic analysis of the Russian-Ukraine war, using the concept of resilient fighting power to as......more

This book provides a systematic analysis of the Russian-Ukraine war, using the concept of resilient fighting power to as......more

This book considers competing memory politics in European border towns after the First and Second World Wars. In the twe......more

Grand, extravagant, magnificent, scandalous, corrupt, political, personal, fractious; these are terms often associated w......more

The more one studies the history of the French Revolution, the more one comes up against enigmas. First of all, the writ......more

The book tells about people who lived in an era of historical cataclysms, wars and revolutions, changes in political for......more

This is the third installment in a series of JSPPS discussions on the conceptualization of the ideology of the Organizat......more

"Every so often a voice emerges from the archive so vivid that it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgott......more

Today, fallen soldiers of the Second World War find their resting places across the globe. While many nations openly hon......more

A deep look into Charles de Gaulle’s personality and upbringing and how these factors influenced the creation of the Fif......more

The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as t......more

A Russian Gentleman, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, an......more

Russia in the Shadows, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, ......more

The Russian Turmoil; Memoirs: Military, Social, and Political, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered ......more

Russia, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important thro......more

Russia in 1919, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so ......more

The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throu......more

Russia: Its People and Its Literature, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the......more

Russian Memories, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and s......more

Russia in 1916, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so ......more

This book explores Eastern European consumer cultures in the twentieth century, taking a comparative perspective and con......more

Covers the full scope of the French East India Company’s military prowess and colonial influence, from its global trade ......more

This study describes and analyses the Swedish campaign in Muscovy of 1609-1610 and the Ingrian War of 1610-1617 between ......more

This book explores the postcolonial discourse and decolonization processes in modern Kazakhstan and beyond. It pays part......more

This book covers the various designs of tanks and armored fighting vehicles in current use in the war in Ukraine. These ......more

This edited volume offers the first overview on human-animal history in the Baltics. Investigating historical entangleme......more

Thirty Days in Lithuania in 1919, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the huma......more

An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly a......more

A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist So......more

Dr. Benken’s book is a case study of the life and death of Jan Rodowicz, nom-de-guerre Anoda, who served as a combatant ......more

First published in 1975, The Economic Modernisation of France presents the study of economic developments in France betw......more

First published in 1987, A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France argues that the social impact of the French Revol......more

This volume aims to newly evaluate the Soviet war crimes trials of Holocaust perpetrators, their representation through ......more

This volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered ......more

The Russian Intelligentsia is the first single-volume history of a small but tremendously influential group of Russian i......more

The Battle of Kursk was one of the defining moments of World War II. In July 1943, German forces launched a massive atta......more

This book focuses on the tension between the modernising thrust that places France on a trajectory of convergence with c......more

A panoramic, "persuasive and inspiring" (New Yorker) new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, fro......more