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It Was a Long Time Ago, and it Never Happened Anyway Russia and the Communist Past

Satter David

ISBN: PB: 9780300192377, Yale University Press, March 2013
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Russia today is haunted by deeds that have been unexamined and words that have been left unsaid. A serious attempt to understand the meaning of the communist experience has not been undertaken and millions of victims of Soviet communism are all but f...

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Petersburg Fin De Siecle

Steinberg Mark D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300191981, Yale University Press, March 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

<p>The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers in St. Petersburg described...

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Rebranding Rule The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714

Sharpe Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780300162011, Yale University Press, January 2013
512 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 90 black&white illus.

In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well as politic...

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Voice of the People Letters from the Soviet Village, 1918-1932

Sokolov A. K., Storella C. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300112337, Yale University Press, January 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book presents the first comprehensive collection in English of peasant writings during the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Drawn entirely from Russian archival sources, it presents more than 150 previously unpublished letters addressed to n...

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History of Art

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English Prize The Capture of the Westmorland, an Episode of the Grand Tour

Sanchez-Jauregu Alpanes Maria Dolores, Wilcox Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780300176056, Yale University Press, May 2012
400 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

Laden with works of art acquired by young British travellers on the Grand Tour in Italy, the British merchant ship Westmorland sailed from the Italian port of Livorno before being captured by French naval vessels and escorted to Malaga in southern Sp...

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Empire's Children Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies

Saada Emmanuelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226733081, ISBN: HB: 9780226733074, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. When Emmanuelle Saada discove...

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Medieval

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Memory's Library Medieval Books in Early Modern England

Summit Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226781709, ISBN: HB: 9780226781716, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
354 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 8 halftones

In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, wh...

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Travel

At the Kremlin Gates A Historical Portrait of Moscow

Skinner Gerald R.

ISBN: PB: 9781904955818, Signal Books, March 2011
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm

For sale in CIS only! By tradition, Moscow is the easternmost bastion of western civilisation. Moscow has stood against invasion and war, pestilence and fire. It has been rejected by its own rulers, and its destruction has been planned by its dreame...

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Enlightenment and the Book Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America

Sher Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752532, ISBN: HB: 9780226752525, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
848 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 45 halftones, 16 line illus.

The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these semina...

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Shameful Peace How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation

Spotts Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9780300163995, Yale University Press, March 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation's artists and intellectuals. Some were able to flee the country; those who remained, including Gide and Celine, Picasso and Matisse, Cortot and Messiaen,...

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