History 2013 - Cambridge University Press India

20C European history / Russian, East European history 19
The Struggle
for the Files
The Western Allies and the
Return of German Archives after
the Second World War
Astrid M. Eckert
Emory University, Atlanta
When American and British troops swept
through the German Reich in the spring
of 1945, they confiscated government
papers and archives, records which were
subsequently used in war crimes trials. In
1949, the West Germans asked for their
return, and this book traces the tangled
history of the captured German records.
‘Eckert’s book does far more than
trace the wartime and postwar
fate of German archival records. It
manages to incorporate a detailed and
impeccably researched treatment of
‘ownership’ with a broader discussion
of the international debate about
the path of German history and the
future of Germany. This issue interests
a much wider audience within the
field of German history and within the
discipline of history as a whole. The
other characteristic of this work that
deserves emphasis is its transnational
character. Eckert is so well versed in
the history of Germany, Britain, and
the United States that she can carry
off a narrative of their interaction in
the postwar period with success and
with verve.’
Richard Breitman, Distinguished Professor,
American University
Publications of the German Historical
Institute
2012 228 x 152 mm 444pp
978-0-521-88018-3 Hardback £60.00
www.cambridge.org/9780521880183
Behind the Front
British Troops and French
Civilians, 1914–1918
Craig Gibson
The dominant impression of the British
soldier’s experience on the Western
Front is of life in a trench. However Craig
Gibson reveals how the relationship
of troops with local inhabitants is key
to an understanding of fighting on the
Western Front and the eventual success
of British arms in 1918.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of
Modern Warfare
2013 228 x 152 mm 336pp
13 b/w illus. 1 map
978-0-521-83761-3 Hardback c. £45.00
Publication August 2013
www.cambridge.org/9780521837613
Russian, East
European
history
Military Saints in
Byzantium and
Rus, 900–1200
Monica White
University of Nottingham
The transformation of Saints George,
Demetrios, Theodore and others into the
patrons of Byzantine armies was one of
the defining developments of religious
life under the Macedonian emperors.
This book provides a comprehensive
study of military sainthood and its roots
in late antiquity, and its subsequent
development in early Rus.
2013 228 x 152 mm 272pp
19 b/w illus. 1 map
978-0-521-19564-5 Hardback c. £55.00
Publication February 2013
www.cambridge.org/9780521195645
The Bolsheviks and
the Russian Empire
Liliana Riga
University of Edinburgh
This book offers a new interpretation of
the leadership of one of the twentieth
century’s most important events, the
Russian Revolution. It offers a collective
biography of the Bolsheviks, finding that
nearly two-thirds were ethnic minorities
from across the multiethnic Russian
Empire.
2012 234 x 156 mm 328pp 3 tables
978-1-107-01422-0 Hardback £60.00
Publication December 2012
www.cambridge.org/9781107014220
Russia and the West
from Alexander
to Putin
Honor in International Relations
Andrei P. Tsygankov
San Francisco State University
Andrei Tsygankov proposes a novel
interpretation of Russian foreign
policy which emphasizes the role of
conceptions of honor. He identifies
patterns in Russia’s international
behavior from the early nineteenth
century to the present, drawing on
ten historical episodes from across the
period, from the Holy Alliance to the
Russia-Georgia war.
‘An original analysis of the long
sweep of Russian foreign policy over
the last two centuries, examined
through the prism of the concept
of ‘honour’. The work provides a
convincing framework for analysis
based on three modes of Russian
behaviour, cooperation, defensiveness
and assertiveness. The notion is then
applied in ten cases studies, ranging
from the Holy Alliance of 1814–53 to
the Russo–Georgian war of 2008, in
which honour is seen to have played
a central role in shaping policy and
perceptions. Tsygankov offers a
compelling and original analysis of
Russian foreign policy that will be
essential reading for historians and
political scientists, and above all for
scholars of international relations.’
Professor Richard Sakwa, University of Kent
2012 228 x 152 mm 325pp
6 b/w illus. 17 tables
978-1-107-02552-3 Hardback £60.00
eBook available
www.cambridge.org/9781107025523
Oil Resources in
Eastern Europe and
the Caucasus
British Documents 1886–1978
Compiled by Anita L. P. Burdett
The greatest currently anticipated
source of petroleum is said to be in the
Caspian Sea off Baku, but the Caucasus
region has been exploited for oil for
centuries, as have other smaller, but
key fields in Roumania. Now that so
many former Soviet satellite states,
Azerbaijan and Roumania included,
are independent territories, there is
global involvement and interest in their
development. Through these documents
the history of the industry and business
itself is depicted, but the involvement
of European and overseas companies
and governments in this field will serve
also as a lens through which to focus
on political relations with Russia, her
successor state the USSR, and annexed
territories.
Cambridge Archive Editions
2012 245 x 160 mm 6000pp 20 maps
978-1-84097-315-0 9 Volume Set
£2995.00
www.cambridge.org/9781840973150
The Cambridge
Companion to Modern
Russian Culture
Second edition
Edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky
State University of New York, Stony Brook
This highly successful Companion has
now been updated to include post-
Soviet trends and new developments
in Russian culture of the twenty-first
century in this second edition. Each
chapter has been revised or rewritten to
take account of current conditions and
the further reading brought up to date.
eBooks available at www.cambridge.org/ebookstore