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Extremely Violent Societies
Investigation of the causes of twentieth-century mass violence worldwide beyond terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing'.
- $29.99 (Z)
The Spanish Republic and Civil War
A magisterial new account of this passionately debated period in Spanish history, by one of the nation's leading experts.
- $33.99 (Z)
The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages
A pioneering 2010 volume on the culture of gift in the medieval period from Anglo-Saxon England to the Islamic world.
- $99.00 (Z)
The Chinese People at War
Diana Lary, one of the foremost historians of the period, tells the tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. Using archival evidence only recently made available, interviews with survivors, and extracts from literature, she creates a vivid and highly disturbing picture of the havoc created by the war, the destruction of towns and villages, the displacement of peoples, and the accompanying economic and social disintegration. As the author suggests in a new interpretation of modern Chinese history, far from stemming the spread of communism from the USSR, which was the Japanese pretext for invasion, the horrors of the war, and the damage it created, nurtured the Chinese Communist Party and helped it to win power in 1949.
- $29.99 (Z)
