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BOOKS IN ENGLISH
Asprey, Robert. Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma. NY; Ticknor & Fields, 1986. 715 pp. With extensive notes & bibliography. hardcover, good w/good dj in plastic cover. OP; $18.00
Bernard, Paul P. From the Enlightenment to the Police State: The Public Life of Johann Anton Pergen. Illinois, 1991. 252 pp. A political study of the Austrian administrator and diplomat (1724-1814). Hardcover, new. In print at $35.95; $12.00
Blackbourn, David and Eley, Geoff. The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Oxford UP, 1984. PB, like new. $15.00
Boswell, James; Frederick A. Pottle, ed. Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764. NY; Yale UP/McGraw-Hill, 1952. 433 pp. Part of the Yale UP series "The Private Papers of James Boswell." Explanatory footnotes. Hardcover, very good w/shabby dj. OP; $15.00
Clapham, J.H. The Economic Development of France and Germany, 1815-1914. 4th edn. Cambridge UP, 1955. HC, very good, no dj. $8.00
De Vries, Jan. The Dutch Rural Economy in the Golden Age. Yale UP, 1974. HC. Like new book with shabby dj. $40.00
Deutsch, Karl W., & Lewis J. Edinger et al. France, Germany and the Western Alliance: A study of elite attitudes on European integration and world politics. NY; Scribners, 1967. 324 pp. Trade paperback, good. OP; $15.00
Dill, Marshall jr. Germany: A Modern History. Michigan, 1961. 467 pp. Extensive bibliography. Hardcover, ex-library copy w/usual markings & pocket; small amount of pencil underlining, else good w/dj. OP; $10.00
Gershoy, Leo. From Despotism to Revolution, 1763-1789. NY; Harper Torch, 1963. "Rise of Modern Europe" series. 355 pp. Extensive notes & bibliography. Paperback, very good. OP; $6.00
Heer, Friedrich. Europe, Mother of Revolutions. NY; Praeger, 1972. 369 pp. Hardcover, light wear to edges and corners, else good, no dj, text clean. OP; $8.00
Kessler, Harry; Charles Kessler, trans. In the Twenties: The Diaries of Harry Kessler. NY; HRW, 1971. 535 pp. "The diaries of Harry Kessler . . . reveal a remarkable personality whose life, from the Berlin uprising in 1918 to his death in 1937, mirrors in a strangely fascinating way what was happening to Europe during the twenties and thirties. Kessler, the son of a German banker and an Irish beauty, was equally at home in the worlds of art, society, and politics. . . . Kessler has given us a brilliant full-length portrait of Germany and Europe between the two world wars." With extensive explanatory notes & index. Hardcover, name inked on flyleaf, else very good w/good dj. OP; $15.00
Link, Edith Murr. The Emancipation of the Austrian Peasant, 1740-1798. Columbia UP, 1949. HC, good, no dj. $20.00
Pross, Christian. Paying For the Past: The Struggle Over Reparations For Surviving Victims of the Nazi Terror. Johns Hopkins, 1998. 264 pp. Translated from German by Belinda Cooper. "Physician and historian Pross untangles the complicated history of reparations in West Germany, from 1947 into the 1970s. . . . [and] uncovers the inconsistencies, distortions, and veiled anti-Semitic attitudes in West Germany's official version of its reparations history." Extensive notes. Hardcover, new w/dj. In print at $34.95; $12.00
Purdy, Daniel L. The Tyranny of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Goethe. Johns Hopkins, 1998. 301 pp. Examines the coming of bourgeois fashion and luxury consumerism to 18th-century Germany. Extensive notes & bibliography. Hardcover, new w/dj. In print at $51.95; $15.00
Roberts, J.M. Europe 1880-1945. London & NY; Longman, 1989, 2nd ed. 631 pp. Part of "A General History of Europe" series from Longman. Extensive bibliography. Trade paperback, near mint. $14.00
Sagarra, Eda. Tradition and Revolution: German Literature and Society, 1830-1890. NY; Basic, 1971. 348 pp. Extensive notes & bibliography. Hardcover, near mint w/vg dj. OP; $20.00
Thornton, Percy M. The Brunswick Accession. 1971 reprint of 1887 original. Hardcover, very good, no dj. $10.00
Wangermann, Ernst. From Joseph II to the Jacobin Trials: Government Policy and Public Opinion in the Habsburg Dominions in the Period of the French Revolution. Oxford UP, 1959. With extensive notes & bibliography. Hbk, very good, no dj. OP; $15.00
BOOKS NOT IN ENGLISH
Geyl, Pieter. La Revolution batave (1783-1798). Societe des etudes robespierristes, broche, 1971. Very scarce. Light shelfwear to wraps, else very good, uncut pages. $75.00
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